2026 I Heart SapphFic Reading Challenge Week Fourteen: 24 Books on Sale

A psychological, romantic thriller that blends high tension with the pursuit of an unlikely romance.

Harper Dawkins has sealed the door to her personal attic by moving out of state to attend college and has dropped all contact with former friends and family. But Harper’s about to discover that while you may be able to divorce yourself from your past, you can’t run away from yourself.

Passion ignites and possibilities unfold. Welcome to the Windy City Romance series.

Former soldier Gabe Jackson reunites with Army friends to open a dream garage in Chicago. After visiting her injured canine companion Max at Lori Turner’s Sanctuary, attraction sparks, but Lori, nursing a broken heart, struggles with trust. As chemistry ignites, will secrets threaten their chance at love?

Would you let your mother find your next girlfriend?

Beautiful thirty-two-year old African American Aisha Watson works hard all week as a budget analyst and plays hard all weekend as a competitive longsword fighter. But her heart was recently broken, and she’s not even so sure she wants to be in love again after a series of dating disasters. Aisha’s mother decides to find her a nice girl and introduces her to Kris Donnelly.

How often does a woman get to rewrite her past and stake a claim to her future in one fell swoop?

Shondra has to decide whether she will stay safe and start up again with her long lost college love or if she will wait for Denyse to return. Shondra can’t stop thinking about Denyse, but Shondra isn’t even that sure, after only one night of passion, whether the sexy physicist will want to see her when she comes back from the ice.

All Lila wants is to land jumps, not love.

Landing Love is the sixth book in the Lesbian Light Reads series, but each book can stand alone. This lesbian contemporary love story includes graphic sex and is intended for adults only.

Parker finds herself following an oil trafficker, but the person in charge might be closer to her than she thinks.

After Parker and the Avery Detective Agency leave Kansas, they are contracted to work in conjunction with the ATF and FBI on solving the mysterious oil trafficking case that is plaguing the area.

Can two opposites truly make it work?

Ziggy Johnson has been through one of the worst years of her life, but when she is roomed with Lana Waverly, a pompous woman with no concept of empathy, things take a turn for the worst. Ziggy does her best to cope with her roommate’s undesirable behavior, and in the process, she learns that there is much more to the other woman than she thought.

Landry Donovan’s ordered world has been turned inside out.

Her best friend and fellow Pulsus employee, Foster, has gone rogue back in 2055. She’s intent on taking over Pulsus and changing the past to suit her future, and she’s proven she’ll even go through Landry to make it happen.

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?”

Can Abi's love guide Greta through the burden of being the sole survivor of a plane crash?

When Abi takes a new job as makeup artist on a TV series, she quickly falls for actress Greta, but assumes she is off-limits. Then she learns Greta shares her feelings, but before they can act, Greta survives a plane crash. Now Abi must guide her through a difficult recovery.

An unexpected event leads to a second chance romance.

When Hazel unexpectedly meets ex girlfriend, Rory, she’s stunned by her own emotions. Now married to a man, Hazel is left both shocked and confused. However, life has it’s own plans and a surprise discovery changes everything and opens the door to their incredible connection once more.

In the shadow of revenge, two women find something worth saving.

When attorney Erin Donovan takes a case for Carson Tierney, Delphi Technologies’ enigmatic CEO, she’s swept into a storm of grief, guilt, and murder. Trapped in a remote estate with a killer closing in, love becomes both weapon and weakness. Survival demands confronting the trauma that binds them.

This is a second edition and was previously published as Now You See Me.

They say you can’t go home again, but Raine St. James doesn’t know why anyone would want to.

Rory St. James was disowned after she came out at seventeen. She rebounded by moving to Chicago, changing her name to Raine and putting down her hometown to audiences around the country. Now, ten years later, too old to be considered a gay youth, broke, evicted, and fresh off a much needed break-up, Raine St. James is forced to accept a job teaching at Bramble University in Darlington, the town she’s been publicly bashing for the last decade.

No strings is fun 'til it unravels

Shay keeps things simple—no strings, no drama. Rosie, tired of searching for love, is ready for the same. Their casual fling seems perfect until emotions, family, and expectations complicate everything. In the Windy City, they’ll discover that nothing is ever as easy as it seems.

Landry Donovan’s ordered world has been turned inside out.

When the inevitable battle with Foster finally comes around, will Landry act with her heart or her head?

A chance encounter leaves her locked in love.

An afternoon of bone-melting sex and a surprisingly soulful connection with Morgan leaves Eun questioning her return to Chicago. But not everyone in Sikesville is happy Eun has returned.

How many chances will it take before they give into their feelings?

My mother is getting tired of waiting around for a grandchild, so now she’s on a matchmaking mission. But I’m not ready to settle down just yet, especially with someone my mother picks out for me. Except there’s something about Kathy…could it be that she’s my kind of girl after all?

In the waning days of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Quinn Prescott and Kirby Davis met during military training.

Despite different backgrounds, services, and plans, they fell hard and fast. However, it wasn’t long before distance and the pressures of serving in silence drove them apart.

Ten years later, Kirby literally runs into Quinn at Chicago Pride. Even in a city of three million, she continues to see Quinn everywhere. She can’t seem to ignore the pounding in her chest that isn’t always the frustration that Quinn broke her heart. Despite her best efforts to convince herself otherwise, there might still be something between them.

Letting love in means putting yourself out there.

Retired hockey legend Caro is devoted to her all-girls hockey camp—but she can’t seem to ignore her vivacious new employee! Rising star Amy is only in Chicago for the summer. Will a temporary fling be enough?

A stolen bride tempts her ruthless captor

Hell-bent on vengeance, a ruthless mercenary kidnaps an innocent young woman on her wedding day, setting off a chain of events that will forever change the balance of power in the Chicago underworld.

An assassin targets a mercenary's heart

When Lyssa, a mercenary of the Styx Syndicate, sees the gorgeous Scarlett harassed by thugs in a dive bar, she jumps straight into protective mode. But Lyssa soon discovers that not every damsel is in distress. And sometimes, wolves wear sheep’s clothing…

Sapphire wasn't ready for the world, and Madeleine wasn't ready for love.

When sheltered corporate heiress Sapphire runs away from her parents, she’s lost on her own—until a chance encounter leads Madeleine, who’s given up on real love, to put everything on the line to help her.

Will two women, seemingly so different, discover they have more in common than they think?

Brianna Goodwin left her hometown under a cloud of secrecy and shame. When she returns to settle her father’s estate, she figures it should be simple, until she inherits the Thundering Pines campground. Will the city girl find something, or possibly someone, to love in the town she left behind?

In a world full of divisiveness, what would it be like to walk in someone else’s shoes?

Two worlds collide when Rain Hargrove, a progressive lesbian, and Ivy Nash a conservative Christian find themselves in each other’s bodies. LITERALLY!

Life can change in a split second!

As police close in, tempers fray, and chaos reigns, Cassidy is forced to face who she really is, deep down. And what she stands for.

Attorney and recovering cocaine addict Sam DiCiccio didn’t think she was ever going to see her ex-wife Amy Igarashi again, much less wind up defending her against felony insider trading charges.

But Amy’s been falsely accused, and Sam, who’s still in love with her, can’t bear to watch her take the fall for a crime she didn’t commit. Amy is holding on to resentment from their broken relationship and is hesitant to let Sam back into her life. But that all changes when her assets are frozen by a judge, and Sam is the best and only lawyer she can afford.

Best-selling lesbian romance author TB Markinson has written three hilarious, touching, and quirky novellas about Americans finding love in London.

TB lived in London for six blissful years and fell madly in love with the city. She misses wandering it by foot now that she’s back in America. When the world turned upside down in 2020, she retreated to her happy place, London. While she couldn’t visit, she did the next best thing, which was writing romantic comedies about the place that always brings a smile to her face.

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

Solving mysteries is her business. Finding love is her dream. Will combining the two get her killed?

Victorian London brims with dangers as Stetson plays the detective she was born to. But will she ever find the right woman to be her co-star?

London might change everything.

When musical legend Lydia Howard Fox is at her lowest, a composer’s program in London might be the key to finding her music again. And for Ella Hendrickson, it might be the key to getting her life back.

What happens when the worst day of your life turns into the best?

Ex-dancer Gabriella’s bad day gets worse when she’s involved in a traffic accident on her way to the TV studio.

Bailey, seriously injured in the crash, somehow ends up at Gabriella’s home to recuperate forcing the two women together.

Love blossoms but soon outside forces could tear them apart.

What happens when the price of saving your job is betraying the woman you love?

An American reporter in London encounters a princess in disguise in this modern-day homage to the classic film Roman Holiday, with a sapphic twist and the happily ever after ending you always wanted.

What if the woman you loved was more than a century away?

Dara, a computer programmer from Chicago, is visiting London when she opens a door in an Edwardian house and slips into Edwardian England.

Can love bloom when trust is fragile?

After a traumatic brush with fame, journalist Mattie Elliott escapes to England’s south-west coast. Chief Inspector Nell Abraham wants peace, not complications. But a suspicious fire draws them together, sparking attraction and unearthing old wounds. Can they risk trusting again before fear pushes them apart?

‘If we lose each other, then we’ll come back to this spot, on this day, at this time, every year until we find each other.’

When a fleeting romance leaves a lasting impact on two women, they travel the globe in search of each other and emotional fulfilment, but a reconciliation in the real world doesn’t match their expectations and threatens their second chance at love.

Fussy & Quirky Meets Messy & Spunky

Two polar opposite actresses and personalities navigate the realities of love in this untraditional Opposites-Attract sapphic romance that proves that love is both messy and funny.

Originally self-published in 2024.

Love is a dance.

Once bitten, twice shy. That’s Mallory Collingswood to a tee, until she’s offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to perform alongside the Royal Ballet’s brightest star. They couldn’t be more different, but as each day draws the pair closer, Mallory begins to wonder if it’s time to risk her heart again.

True love is worth the wait.

When Nina Devereaux grabs the opportunity to stage her revolutionary ballet, she pours everything into bringing her love letter to the woman who has always held her heart to life. When Clara Martin returns to London, a different dance rekindles between them, one that Nina hopes will never end.

Enemies-to-lovers (with swords!)

Every time Serena Bowers and Rowan Alexander meet, it seems like one is always trying to stab the other. Will being forced to work together to bring an all-new ballet to stage be enough to force them to put their past behind them?

“Gothic tale, psychological study, puzzle narrative…This is gripping, astute fiction that feeds the mind and senses.”—The Seattle Times

An upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, Margaret Prior has begun visiting the women’s ward of Millbank prison, Victorian London’s grimmest jail, as part of her rehabilitative charity work. Amongst Millbank’s murderers and common thieves, Margaret finds herself increasingly fascinated by on apparently innocent inmate, the enigmatic spiritualist Selina Dawes. Selina was imprisoned after a séance she was conducting went horribly awry, leaving an elderly matron dead and a young woman deeply disturbed. Although initially skeptical of Selina’s gifts, Margaret is soon drawn into a twilight world of ghosts and shadows, unruly spirits and unseemly passions, until she is at last driven to concoct a desperate plot to secure Selina’s freedom, and her own.

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.

Her soulmate is the one woman she can't have

Footloose Nora discovers the woman she’s fallen for is from a family battling a blood feud with Nora’s own proud Irish family. Oops? A fun, sexy, reformed-player lesbian romance.

What is it they say about first impressions?

The Branded Hearts series returns with Hot off the Press. Political journalist Jenna Edwards is excited to go on the election campaign trail, until she’s assigned to cover the Green Party, where she meets the party leader’s Senior Advisor, Sarah Clarke, who doesn’t have time for unreliable journalists.

Two women team up to stop a spy ring's deadly attack during Napoleonic Wars--but don't expect to fall in love, too.

When Damaris Dunham and her modiste Annette de Morand stumble across a plot to push Britain further into the Napoleonic Wars, they team up to stop it before innocent people die. But time together also reveals other secrets–such as the feelings for one another neither know what to do with.

Love, passion and possession, captured by her lens.

Mem Swan, Hollywood’s reluctant new star, longs to be seen beyond her beauty. Thea Voronov, a renowned photographer wary of pretty faces, finds her muse in Mem. Their connection is deep, passionate and possessive, but will Thea’s past scars and Mem’s rising fame blur the lines of their intense bond.

Have you ever met someone and instantly felt like you had known them your whole life?

This is a story of two halves, of heart break and love, but inevitably one of choice and consequence.

I've been falling for her for over a year... Is it finally time for her to be mine?

They say the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else, and that’s exactly what Chloe intends to do with her witty regular customer, Radia. The only problem is Radia is already in love with Chloe and wants anything but a one-night-stand. When they both want very different things, how can their first date be anything but a disappointment?

Two divides perfectly into four, not five.

A streetwise American musician is befriended by four British friends, but only one of them thinks she is their perfect fifth. Zara Keller and Lady Jillian Stansfield have just begun to acknowledge their attraction when tragedy strikes. What happens when two people realize the goals they’ve been pursuing are not the dreams of their hearts?