2026 I Heart SapphFic Reading Challenge Week Ten: 12 Books on Sale

Does love exist at 35,000 feet?

The challenge was simple—spill a drink on a passenger and be one task closer to winning the airline company’s secret bingo card game. Simple, that is, until flight attendant Alice Kaminski saw her intended target—the beautiful woman seated in 3B. After that, nothing was simple ever again.

Checking It Twice is a low-angst lesbian Christmas romance novella filled with ice skating, failed gingerbread cookies, and people trying their best.

Sacha Brighton is dreading her sister’s Christmas wedding and she’s braced herself for a lot of diva wedding antics. What she wasn’t prepared for was to find her sister hired an androgynous wedding planner of Sacha’s dreams and also her past.

Sometimes love at first sight takes a while.

Soraya was trying to get Angela to notice her. Angela had never noticed a woman the way she noticed Soraya.

What does it take to force an immature woman to finally grow up?

When police chief Molly Gorman pulls Amy over, more than the antics on the motorcycle catch her eye. Amy occupies her nights playing softball and drinking. After several run-ins, Molly wonders if Amy is worth the trouble. When Amy disappears, she puts her emotions aside to work the case.

In a world at war, love and freedom aren’t just fought for—they’re stolen, forged, and dared.

1943. As war demands every hand, women take to factories and fight for independence. Audrey, Ruth, and others risk everything—freedom, love, and life itself—to protect one of their own. Amid planes, danger, and a changing world, courage and desire collide in a fight they can’t afford to lose.

Can fake dating the wrong woman lead you to the right one?

Audrey’s heading home for the holidays alone. Hallie’s spending them fake dating her colleague—Audrey’s cousin. But, when they meet, there is nothing fake about the attraction between them.

Some lesbians play with curses. Some get played by them.

Exes, enemies, and a snow demon trapped in one haunted lake house. When Lark inherits half a cabin with the woman she hates most, they must survive a supernatural blizzard… or die trying. To Hex and To Hold is a chilling sapphic horror where hatred burns as hot as the hauntings.

No one knows why the queen of indie rock vanished from the Detroit scene twenty years ago. Now, her ex-girlfriend is determined to track her down—and what she uncovers will change everything.

Two decades later, Jace learns The Artemis Club is in trouble. Saving it will mean tracking down Paloma, whose early-career hit just went viral. Paloma has her reasons for not wanting to be found, and Jace isn’t eager to reopen old wounds. Still, each keeps measuring her life against the love she lost. With the Artemis Club’s fate at stake, Jace and Paloma are pulled back into the scene they once ruled . . . and back toward each other.

Bertie's playing with fire - is she about to get burned?

Cybersecurity expert Bertie is tasked with spying on William Coleman & his wife. When he disappears, she does everything possible to help the wife find answers despite growing feelings for the flirty woman. Would William be happy she’s helping Fran grieve, or upset about the way she’s going about it?

Love is what will heal a broken soul.

Aren Jacobs trusts no one. But when a severe storm traps Carol Matthews beneath the rubble, she’s the only one close enough to help in time. Sharing her home is one thing but sharing her heart means sharing the demons in her past and risking everything to keep Carol safe.

She has been sent to kill the human, not to fall in love with her

For solitary novelist Jorie Price, true love is as fictional as the shape-shifting creatures she writes about. But when her work gets too close to the truth, shape-shifter Griffin Westmore is sent in to investigate. Problem is, Griffin’s supposed to kill the human, not fall in love with her.

She ran the streets of Detroit with her brother's name—until love called her to speak her own.

Taking on her brother’s identity has given Kasia almost everything she wants: money, power, a gang to call her own in Prohibition-era Detroit. Until a new police chief threatens to destroy everything she’s worked for, and a beautiful woman tempts her to expose her secret.

What if you fell in love...with the ghost haunting your house?

When Gibson Cartwright inherits a home on Mackinac Island, she expects to become a millionaire when she sells it. Instead, she discovers a ghost haunting her home—and falls in love.

Some partnerships are carved in ice.

Grumpy ice sculptor meets sunshine hot chocolate maker at a Christmas market. They’re stuck next to each other’s booths for the month of December. Will Ivy’s sweetness (and hot chocolate!) melt Sloane’s heart?

Someone is murdering the homeless in Detroit’s Cass Corridor—by immolation.

The timing also couldn’t be worse—Charlie and Mandy are finally moving in together. This case becomes the most difficult of Charlie’s career when she transforms herself into a street person, and mixes with the corridor’s gangs, do-gooders, and the down-and-out to uncover evidence the police can’t continue to ignore.

The end of the rainbow never looked so golden as in this standalone St. Patrick’s Day themed quick and queer novella meant to leave the reader feeling so darn lucky.

Saoirse has moved to Michigan to open her bar on St. Patrick’s Day. She finds herself charmed by Nell, who believes everyone makes their own luck. They find themselves tumbling into some unlucky shenanigans.

This sequel to Red Sky at Morning is the continuing saga of Dar Roberts and Kerry Stuart.

Kerry flies to her family’s side as her father dies, putting the family in crisis. Caught up in an international problem, Dar abandons the issue to go to Michigan, determined to support Kerry in the face of grief and hatred. Dar and Kerry face down Kerry’s extended family with a little help from their own, and return home, where they decide to leave work and the world behind for a while for some time to themselves.

Kate Ryan tests her sanity when she decides to reopen her private investigation business, which she turned away from nearly six years before.

In the midst of this, Kate’s old friend and college roommate Jan Cummings dies while on a hiking trip with her sorority sisters. With unusual circumstances surrounding the accident, it becomes the first case for Ryan, Costello, and Winfield Investigations. Yes, Maggie’s adorable aunt, Hannah Winfield, is a partner—hence the test of Kate’s sanity.

Like the phoenix of legend, Ash has to burn her fears to the ground before she can be reborn.

Tragedy and loss on the job force firefighter Ash Hayes into mandatory counseling which brings up a whole host of past trauma. What the therapist uncovers threatens everything, including the budding romance between Ash and her new neighbor, Mia.

Lillian Byrd has been searching her soul after the gut-wrenching experience of killing someone in self-defense.

Scrabbling to make ends meet, she takes a job as a quasi detective, solving life’s little mysteries for a pair of eccentric women in one of Detroit’s last prestigious neighborhoods. When she spots a corpse on the next-door lawn, she jumps back into honest work as an investigative journalist.

Bound by love, separated by a tragic mistake; can two Indigenous women realize their happy ending?

A young shaman and her soulmate wish to marry, but a misunderstanding crushes their dreams of happiness. Will the spirits intervene on their behalf, or are they fated never to manifest their visions of love?

No more Little Miss Nice Ghost!

Dying was supposed to be easy, but the business of death is a train wreck. Can a ghost and an unemployed grim reaper get Afterlife Incorporated back on track?

A bear shifter reaches out for help to find her long-lost family.

Katy Hawkins grew up in the foster care system, and Dr Devin Edwards is a world-famous geneticist. Can two people half a world apart find the same resolution through entirely different means? And what will the answers mean to Katy?

Lucy’s ex-girlfriend is missing, her heart is broken, and her shoes are way too slippery when she hits her head and wakes up 500 years in the future.

Set in a climate-changed near future where parts of Vancouver have vanished into the ocean, the story follows two queer women entangled across time by a mysterious act of magic and a bit of quantum weirdness. It’s a time-travel romance with high stakes, ecological undertones, and a surprising number of goats. Sophia blends speculative science, pagan sensibility, and queer longing into a story that’s both hopeful and deeply human.

Some loves are never lost

When Polly stumbles across her husband’s infidelity, life unravels. As she searches for direction, memories of her estranged best friend haunt her. Determined to find the woman whose heart she unwittingly broke, Polly must confront past mistakes if she’s to reclaim the life and love she was meant to live.

Years after a fractured teenage romance, an up-and-coming musician and a youth counselor team up on a project that rocks everything they thought they knew about themselves and each other.

Live It Out is a second-chance romance about forgiveness and finding one’s authentic self.

Sometimes being loved by someone feels like home.

Harper wanted someone to see her for who she truly was. Delaney wanted someone who was willing to take their time falling in love. Together they are everything they didn’t know was possible.

Which mistakes are irredeemable?

Would you fight to save a five-year relationship after your lover has had a drunken one-night stand? Alex is torn by this question. Then, on a business trip to Canada, she discovers she’s drawn to another woman, shattering everything she thought she knew about herself. A lesbian romance that asks the interesting questions, not the easy ones.

Can a fragile recluse and a public figure hiding from the press find love?

Can a reclusive, church-averse butch and a lesbian bishop escaping a media storm find love?

Is a future possible when the past hasn't been healed?

Nurse Practitioner Scout Neal intentionally keeps her life uncomplicated. Then she takes the lead on a hospital initiative and starts working with Professor Kit Delaney, a trans woman. Deeply attracted to each other, they discover that until they heal their pasts, they cannot make a future together.

A summer fling turns into something more.

An overworked CEO with a secret summer project in a small town. A hot mechanic with a sunny smile and a heart of gold. What could go wrong?

A thrilling tale of two women who find each other irresistible but struggle for a second chance for love, redemption, and sanctuary when the world is against them.

Amid the majestic backdrops of Yosemite National Park and the Pacific Northwest, old passions can’t be denied, leading to dramatic confrontations and painful revelations. Jo and Lauren finally realize they must admit the truth: they are irresistibly drawn to each other. But there is no country in which they can legally live together. A Place for Us is a poignant narrative of profound emotional depth inspired by the author’s own experience immigrating to Canada.

She never thought the one that threw her away could steal her heart again twenty years later.

A lot of time has passed since Charlie Baxter has thought about Emilie Martin and everything that happened on the last day of her senior year. In fact, she thought, it would never be an issue again. How wrong she was. How different her life is about to become.

When a university student in Vancouver learns she has the ability to sense magic, she stumbles on a secret coven—and forms a forbidden romance with a witch determined to protect her from the consequences.

Step 1: Realize you have a unique ability to detect curses.
Step 2: Bring cursed objects to your local (heart-stoppingly gorgeous) witch.
Step 3: Accidentally catch the attention of a murderous family who will stop at nothing to acquire magical objects.

Magically bound to a witch... Forced to sustain her power.

When a woman accidentally breaks an ancient curse, she becomes magically bound to a powerful witch who must feed on her life force in increasingly intimate rituals. A forced-proximity, age-gap lesbian paranormal romance perfect for fans of steamy romantasy and morally gray witches.

Unraveling a wild secret.

A sapphic age-gap shifter romance about overcoming the forces that control you.

The deadliest secret isn't the Order; it's her bloodline.

The Order has attacked another Protector Coven, and Sloane West must stop their nefarious scheme to unleash banished demons from the Abyss. But preventing the release of malevolent supernaturals isn’t Sloane’s only crisis. She discovers who her father is, and it’s a secret she finds impossible to swallow.

Two hearts, one boat, and a race against time—will love or work win the day?

As workaholic Julie falls from dragon boat team captain Rae, she’s torn between a life-altering love and the job that’s consumed her.

A tentative, first-time sweet summer romance between two young women just starting out in life who aren’t looking for love until love finds them.

When Nova White, a special girl from Eve’s past returns home from university, a fire kickstarts inside Eve’s heart and suddenly, the path to her future changes.

Enemies close in, as Rose falls deeper in love with Kara.

In the third book of the Creatures of Darkness series, Rose Foster—a sassy vampire with godlike power—must protect the ones she loves from an anti-vampire organization called the Assassins of Light, while also dealing with her growing feelings for the Viking warrior, Kara Unnarsdóttir.

Will she finally show her family her true self?

Lainey’s best friend Max has been her beard for years, but with her sister’s wedding approaching, she and Max decide that she should come out to her family by bringing a date to the wedding. Will she finally pluck up the courage to tell her family the truth?

Family is precious; bound by blood or love.

Between Sarah’s sordid past and Amy’s uncertain present, the future promises to be turbulent.

Follow Amy and Sarah as they navigate life’s hurdles.

A mysterious rhyme book and a full moon bring two time-crossed couples together.

Pam only wanted to commune with the universe while reading a rhyme in the antique book she’d purchased from the local New Age shop. She did not expect guests, especially those summoned from one hundred years in the past.