Road Tripping Across the USA Mini Reading Challenge: Oregon

After all, a fake relationship only for the summer, can’t hurt right?

When Kennedy must return home for her brother’s wedding it only makes sense to bring her best friend along. But Kennedys fears of returning home give Sienna a chance for Kennedy to see her as more—by being her fake girlfriend. After all, a fake relationship only for the summer, can’t hurt right?

Will a fake kiss for the cameras lead to real love?

When vloggers Coral and Ruby team up for a road trip along the Oregon coast, they plan to do whatever it takes to boost their channels and save their careers. So, when fans begin shipping them as a couple, they decide to play along and fake a romance for the cameras. But after their first kiss gets a little heated… can they keep their hearts from falling for real?

A warm, feel-good, enemies-to-lovers, lesbian romance about chasing your dreams—wherever they might lead.

Venture capitalist Claire buys an Oregon homestead to do up as a guesthouse. However, it turns out a local librarian had been saving to buy it too, to create an animal shelter. As the warring pair try to find a way to put up with each other, it’s hard not to notice their sizzling chemistry.

The mind has a heart of its own.

Aurora dreams of an amazing woman every single night only to learn that Leela is a real person and in a coma. Aurora goes on a mission to wake her.

Sometimes love transcends time and space.

Will two souls rediscover an epic love? Or are they destined to forever be star-crossed lovers?

How long, exactly, had June been coming to Moonie’s for the sole purpose of pining after the bartender?

Long enough to know, probably, that there was no good reason for Mal Edwards, a bastion of stability and good sense, to see any kind of future with June anyway. Was it even fair to express feelings to a woman like that when June was barely around, on the road more than she wasn’t?

But as another Pride weekend approaches, June’s fiftieth birthday and the eventual end of her long-haul trucking days loom in her mind, nestled against the memories of Moonie’s nights gone by where it felt like June and Mal came close—close to something happening, something real. Until June would inevitably chicken out, and retreat once again to life on the road.

Perfect for fans of Written in the Stars and One Day in December, Kiss Her Once for Me is the queer holiday rom-com that you’ll want to cozy up with next to the fire.

One year ago, recent Portland transplant Ellie Oliver had her dream job in animation and a Christmas Eve meet-cute with a woman at a bookstore that led her to fall in love over the course of a single night. But after a betrayal the next morning and the loss of her job soon after, she finds herself adrift, alone, and desperate for money.

A steamy gold-digging age gap romance

Kayla has arrived in Bend to find the catch of her dreams. Yet when a man almost hits her with his car, it’s his cousin Tove who has eyes for her.

But 50 year old Tove has been single forever. Can she see through Kayla’s lies… or is this love?

One lawyer. One shopkeeper.

And the one wish that brings them together.

The cozy tourist town of Cannon Beach is about to vibrate from the cosmic electricity of fate. Good thing Christmas is the season of everything sweet… with just a hint of spice.

Sometimes all it takes to find love is a little courage.

Fired and broke, Jennifer seeks solace in a cabin, only to end up stranded. Riley, a photographer living nearby, is sent to rescue her. Their chance encounter transforms their paths, leading to unexpected emotional connections that will change their lives forever.

Love comes when you least expect it

Two women from different worlds who each need something. Can the other provide it? Enjoy this stand-alone novel with a coming home plot involving an age-gap romance and a happy ending.

A new Oregon series short story that picks up right after Backwards to Oregon

Luke and Nora have survived the Oregon Trail in 1851. Winter is approaching, and they need to build a cabin and establish their new roles as life partners and parents. “A Place to Call Home” is a lesbian historical romance short story that picks up after Backwards to Oregon.

Sometimes the perfect person has been right in front of you all along.

If science teacher Regan knows one thing, it’s chemistry, and she’s sure there’s none between her and best friend Kylie. To prove it, they agree to go on three dates.

When a good night kiss turns passionate, will they risk losing their friendship for a chance at love?

Short story sequel to Under a Falling Star

When disaster strikes at work and their management styles clash, Austen and Dee are forced to figure out how to be as good together as business partners as they are lovers. It might take compromises and donut bribes, but they’re determined to find a way.

The rumors about chemistry teacher Regan and her best friend Kylie are no longer just rumors!

Chemistry teacher Regan and her childhood best friend, Kylie, often got in trouble and had to visit the principal’s office when they were growing up. But this time, their trip to the principal’s office has a very different reason: they need to tell Regan’s boss that the gossip about them is no longer just rumors.

For years, ambitious Deputy District Attorney Kade Matheson has taken case files and law books, not lovers, to bed, ignoring her personal life in favor of her career.

For years, aloof Deputy District Attorney Kade Matheson has been focused on her career, but when she finds herself with two secret admirers, she is finally forced to face her attraction to women.

Will love overcome the odds for this modern-day Romeo and Juliet?

Crab fishing is in Remy Miller’s blood. Millers have been fishing off the coast of Oregon for three generations, so she’s heartbroken when her dad refuses to give her the chance to prove she can captain her own boat.

When Julia Clayman, the beautiful daughter of a rival crabbing family, offers Remy a chance to run her own boat for the Claymans, she knows the decision could deepen the long-standing rift between their families.

Her family gone and dumped by her girlfriend, Loni moves as far from the sadness. She hopes.

Devastated by the loss of her grandparents and the desertion of her girlfriend, Lola, Loni Wagner could no longer stay in her Southern Arizona hometown. A job offer moves her to a town on the Oregon coast where she settled comfortably in her new job as police lieutenant with a crew of five detectives and a dispatcher in a coastal town. Comfortable, that is, until she recognized her first lover, Jenna Davenport, at the booking desk being arrested for murder.

A female version of Sherlock and Dr. Watson, but up to date, and in Portland, Oregon.

Shirley and Mary meet and become mystery-solving partners. This series is an homage to the original Sherlock Holmes series, and takes the titles from the original stories.

The Dark has been waiting for far too long, and it won't stay hidden any longer.

Something is wrong in Snakebite, Oregon. Teenagers are disappearing, some turning up dead, the weather isn’t normal, and all fingers seem to point to TV’s most popular ghost hunters who have just returned to town. Logan Ortiz-Woodley, daughter of TV’s ParaSpectors, has never been to Snakebite before, but the moment she and her dads arrive, she starts to get the feeling that there’s more secrets buried here than they originally let on.

Consecrated Ground is a multiracial lesbian paranormal tour de force that will leave you wary of the shadows and absolutely breathless.

Like her father before her, Joan Matthews is a witch. For generations, their family of binder witches has protected Calvert, Oregon from vampires by strengthening the land with spellcraft. Pushing back against tradition, Joan defied her father and left town to become a war witch, one who fights the monsters hand-to-hand. But when her father dies, Joan returns to find her hometown assailed by a vampire lord’s endless attacks—and the answers lie with the one woman who chose a rival over Joan.

Trailblazing pop star, actor and director, Hayley Kiyoko debuts her first novel, a coming-of-age romance based on her breakthrough hit song and viral video, GIRLS LIKE GIRLS.

It’s summertime and 17-year-old Coley has found herself alone, again. Forced to move to rural Oregon after just losing her mother, she is in no position to risk her already fragile heart. But when she meets Sonya, the attraction is immediate.

Coley worries she isn’t worthy of love. Up until now, everyone she’s loved has left her. And Sonya’s never been with a girl before. What if she’s too afraid to show up for Coley? What if by opening her heart, Coley’s risking it all?

Lucy can't hold the secret any longer. Twenty-six years ago, her sister did the unthinkable.

Portland, Oregon, 1989: Lucy Mustin, living somewhat happily, pumping out wedding cakes for starry-eyed heterosexuals while she, a lesbian, can’t legally marry, is called upon to travel to Santa Cruz to help her autistic sister, Alice, care for their Alzheimer’s- afflicted mother. She knew the call was coming sooner or later. She’d just hoped it would be later. Mother issues. The possibility that resolution might be lost to dementia is a heartbreak she doesn’t feel like feeling.

If Ginger had realized Brit's life dream would separate them for such a long time, would she have fallen for her?

Ginger and Brit no more than move into their Sequim Prairie farmhouse when Brit receives admission to vet school and leaves for Oregon. Alone with their dogs, Ginger wonders how she will keep her love alive until Brit graduates. Will nightly calls and occasional visits be enough to remain loving and loyal?

Britta Lundin's sophomore novel will give readers all the feels, and make them stand up and cheer.

“What if I played football?” I ask. As soon as it’s out of my mouth, I feel stupid. Even suggesting it feels like I’ve overstepped some kind of invisible line we’ve all agreed not to discuss. We don’t talk about how Mara is different from other girls. We don’t talk about how Mara is gay but no one says so. But when I do stuff like this, I worry it gets harder for us all to ignore what’s right in front of us. I direct my gaze to Quinn. “What do you think?”

Shay O’Hanlon and her team of friendly misfits travel from Minnesota to Portland to attend the annual Big on Beans Convention—in search of a new joe for Shay’s café.

The crew is poised to spend the weekend flying high on Voodoo Doughnuts and a surplus of caffeine. But bad java, stolen ammunition, and an overheard conversation throw all the fun right out of the Oregon Convention Center’s window.

Shay finds herself thrust into the middle of a deadly deal-gone-wrong, and soon she’s on the run through Portland’s underground Shanghai Tunnels.