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Behind every finish line lies an untold story

The Unfinished Line unravels a heartachingly beautiful story set amidst the arduous world of elite sports and the unrelenting limelight of Hollywood. Dillon and Kam’s journey explores the power of love, the sacrifices made to achieve success, and the dangers of reaching for perfection.

When all hope is lost, can music be the ultimate lifeline?

Isabel ‘Izzy’ Adler used to dominate the world’s stages with her vocal acrobatics. But since she lost her voice ten years ago, Izzy’s been to hell—and hasn’t found her way back.

When journalist Leila Zadeh is brought in to finish her biography, Izzy’s dark plans for her life are challenged by the brilliant and gorgeous new woman in her life.

Can Lizzie find her way?

Lizzie Petrie is adorably clueless as she tries to navigate life, love, and family.

One forbidden summer. Fifteen years of heartbreak. A second chance that could cost them everything.

Young and naïve, Eden Sorensen’s secret affair with a more experienced star dancer, Portia Duvall, ended in a betrayal that nearly cost her career. Fifteen years later, the former lovers are forced to confront their past. But when they uncover the truth about what really tore them apart, will they decide to save a corrupt institution or burn it all to the ground for a second chance at love?

A chance meeting, a place to hide, an incomparable love.

Movie star Jessica Lambert is in danger of burning out. Returning to London for the premiere of her latest film, she’s recognised everywhere she goes. When she runs away through the streets of London, she’s taken in by the beautiful and more mature Anna. The two hide in the sanctuary of Anna’s roof-top flat, a haven away from the crowds, but why has Anna removed herself from the world

In a world overrun by an unprecedented outbreak, two young women find themselves on opposite sides of the struggle for survival.

With both girls fighting their way to stay alive day by day, in a world where every circumstance is against them, they realize that maybe travelling together can help them both get what they need.

But Maddie doesn’t know Saff’s secret. She doesn’t know where she came from—what she was. And Saff will do anything, especially lie, to get the medication she needs.

The student coach. The team captain. They’re skating on thin ice— until one of them falls.

From Elle Sprinkle, author of bestselling lesbian romance “Puppy Love”, comes “Like a Power Play”, a sapphic college hockey rom-com about a team captain who butts heads with her new student coach, until she begins to fall for her.

Lydia wants two things in life. Good health and someone who loves her, broken parts included.

When life is a balancing act of tireless fights with her doctor and an endless search for “the one,” Lydia has all but given up on the latter. But she’s about to discover, all is not lost. This is a journey of self-discovery, resilience and the promise that true love accepts us for all that we are.

Some love stories are too big to fit into just one universe.

Ari is struggling at work but happy at home with her vibrant wife Mandira. One night she shares a secret she’s kept for years, telling Mandira that she once imagined seeing into another world where she was living a different life. Mandira’s response changes everything: “What if it was real?”

It was supposed to be just a one-night stand

After being diagnosed with MS, actress Jill takes herself off the romantic market. When she meets stunt woman Crash on set, Jill is determined to let Crash into her bed, but not her heart. Will they be able to keep things just physical?

The year is 1980, and Mount St. Helens hasn’t erupted in over one hundred years. Surely, it won’t happen now?

The year is 1980, and Mount St. Helens is showing signs of a possible eruption. Volcanologist Nova “Cano” Kane returns to Seattle where she must work with Dr. Allie Albright, the woman she’s never been able to forget. Can their relationship rise out of the ashes?

Both and Neither

Clem Dennison, a prospector and writer who’s passing for a man, and Kizzy, her spirited and impulsive wife, travel to California by covered wagon. But it’s more than a sham marriage, they’re falling in love. Will illness, rattlesnakes, claim jumpers, and a sensual shaman tear them apart?

Keeley thought Dove would never be interested in her, but she was very, very wrong.

They met at a party fourteen years ago when Keeley was very flirty, and Dove was very… straight. And now, oblivious to who the artist is, Dove is in Keeley’s tattoo studio getting the bisexual flag tattooed on her foot. But then Dove starts to feel a panic attack coming on and so she asks Keeley to climb on top of her, to be her human weighted blanket and help calm her down…

Mari Grant has avoided Amsterdam for ten years, and with good reason.

It’s where their ex lives. Or at least, it’s where they disappeared when they broke their heart out of nowhere. But Amsterdam is also the home of one of Europe’s best tattoo conventions – and QISS, a very queer s.ex club – and they no longer want Lexi Williams to stop them living their life. They want to show themself – and the world – that they have moved on, even if they do find themself scrolling Lexi’s social media and discovering Lexi’s art is in a gallery just around the corner from their hotel…

What if the line between irritation and attraction is thinner than the wall between you?

In the Lonely Hours is an emotionally intimate slow burn about two women who have spent years avoiding the very thing they are now being offered. Wry, tender, and quietly charged, it explores control and vulnerability, the wounds we carry in private, and the unexpected ways people find each other in the dark.

In a city clinging to light during an age of darkness, all healer Ophelia wants is for a Saint to finally claim her and bless her with the power to work the Mysteries.

A sapphic high fantasy for fans of The Fall That Saved Us and The Knight and the Moth, Holy Wrath is a standalone novel about the fierceness of queer love and two women who no longer want equality once they’ve tasted revenge.

Tides change, but some feelings can’t be washed away.

Thrown back into each other’s orbits, Lillian and Ivy must find a way to work together, despite the treacherous emotions threatening to drown them both.

Is love enough to protect them from reality?

How do you negotiate a relationship when one of you has depression and the other has Dissociative Identity Disorder? That’s what Cass and Felicia are about to find out. Except… their love could have disastrous consequences if it goes wrong. For both of them.

If she's the storms she paints, she can drown me.

Logan has faced many storms in her life. When Elise, one of the last people to see Logan’s brother alive, returns to town, she’s determined to learn the truth or destroy the woman she hates. When she begins to question her own feelings, a devastating diagnosis threatens to ruin everything.

She knew that coming back after eight years in a war zone wouldn’t be easy, but she’d underestimated the real difficulties of transitioning back to civilian life.

Looking for a fresh start, former Marine, Cassidy Miller, has left Minneapolis to be a police officer in northern Minnesota. It’s in the tiny town of Embarrass where she learns more about Julia Desjardin. The city prosecutor is cool, professional, and untouchable. But maybe not entirely untouchable.