Agoraphobic Gwen Murray was scarred in a freak accident in her youth that left her with burns on around twelve percent of her body and many years of ridiculing bullying from not only children, but adults alike. With a history as such, it's no surprise that she isn't very well adjusted to going outdoors. However, as fearful as she is to face the relentless torment once again, she hates feeling as if her life is on permanent standby. All she's ever desired is true happiness -- don't we all -- and with words of encouragement from not only her therapist, but her little brother as well, she is ready to take another step forward. Although, what she hadn't expected was the person who out of nowhere joined her stark journey. Bookstore and cafe owner Michal "Brook" Bluestone was raised mostly in Israel, though her parents desired a full life for her and moved them to join a bulk of their family in the US upon her coming out. Years later, she has two thriving businesses, a giant family only an hours drive away and a network of friends. There's only one thing missing from her life -- love -- and now more than ever, she is ready to find what she deems her "forever girl" with how well life is going. Still, after using dating apps and all encounters failing, she fears love may not be in the cards for her until a skittish woman walks into her cafe, forever changing her world. WC: 53,378k ⚠️Trigger Warning: This novel contains elements of agoraphobia and pervasive psychological trauma. ❤ Mature/Erotic Content ⚢ Lesbian Romance/Lit 📚 1st Draft Complete as of 07/03/2024. My novels are completely off-limits to any adaptations and if plagiarized, you will be reported!!!

Ju Garcia hasn't ever felt the need to become entangled with another romantically, much less hop into bed with them. In fact, she's never even felt attraction in the true consistence of the word her entire life and now that she is nearly thirty-two, she has even less interest, focusing on the career she loves. However, things can't always go the way they're planned and when a comic book creator, Hayden Weller, signs up with Ju's studio, things begin to stir within herself and the call to romance may just take the helm. Hayden Weller is a geek through-and-through, wearing it like a badge of honor her entire life. She also happens to be a creator herself, working with her best friend to create a highly decorated and critically acclaimed webtoon. Still, that project is over as is their previous contract, so they begin interviewing potential companies and run into a woman with whom Hayden is immediately taken. However, Hayden has a dark past filled with regret, abuse and addiction and fears her own emotions may end everything she has worked for in chaos. Fear controls many aspects of people's lives. Some defeat it, while others internal struggle is endless, but can Ju and Hayden overcome their inner demons and rise above? Better and perhaps together...? WC: 58,766k ⚠️Trigger Warning: This novel contains elements of drug & emotional abuse and Borderline Personality Disorder. ❤ Mature/Erotic Content ⚢ Lesbian Romance/Lit 📚 Complete and undergoing editing. First draft. Second coming soon. !!!My novels are completely off-limits to any adaptations and if plagiarized, you will be reported!!!

Berenice "Berry" Marino, a detective with the West Palm Beach, Florida narcotics department and member of an elite task force waging a war against organized crime and drug trade in 1994, is shot during a sting operation that also takes the lives of two of her team members and leaves her needing physical therapy. She initially can't stand her physical therapist - Kirah is just too perky and loud - but she soon realizes why she behaves as such and her walls begin to come down. However, a past foe returns to the city and the chase is on to catch her before she evades the harsh hand of law once more. Will Berry keep her head and Kirah keep their tenuous, yet budding relationship afloat, or will everything implode just the same as before? WC: 58,007k ⚠️ Trigger Warning: This novel carries mature language, adult situations, brief but intense action/violence and themes of mental illness. ❤️ Mature/Erotic Scene ⚢ Lesbian Romance/Lit 💥 Involves a narcotics detective a part of an elite task force on a manhunt, which means there will be action and crime scenes. 📚 Complete. 2nd Draft. 3rd Draft Coming Soon. !!!My novels are completely off-limits to any adaptations and if plagiarized, you will be reported!!!

Psychologist Yua Watanabe has never been the most open person but when her best friend gave up on life in Japan, Yua felt like a piece of her did as well. She packed her things as soon as she finished preliminary schooling and moved to the states where her grandparents lived. Life wasn't going to give her a break, however, and a single touch from a stranger can send her into a state from which she worries she can never return. Still, she isn't quite ready to give up on life and with the urging of her friend, she allows a detective to live in her loft. This Detective Schmidt was not who she was expecting. Sex crime detective Jamie Schmidt is tired of all the angst and stereotypical behavior of those who simply don't understand her. First, her girlfriend kicks her out and then she must live with her highly religious Catholic father and his new "ball and chain". She just wants to get this case she's been confined to taken care of and move into a nice place with her little sister. What she wasn't planning on was the woman who's loft guest room she decides to rent. The year is 1987 and Portland, Oregon is under attack by a masked man who continues to leave victims in his wake. With LGBT rights also under attack and their own personal obstacles, will this newfound...thing blossoming between Yua and Jamie become something more or simply fizzle away as many things in the world seem to be doing? WC: 57,646k ⚠️ Trigger Warning: This novella carries mature language, adult situations and themes of mental illness ❤️ Mature/Erotic Scene ⚢ Lesbian Romance/Lit 💥 Involves a detective on a manhunt, which means there will be minor action and crime scenes. 📚 Complete. 3rd Draft. Final Draft Coming Soon. !!!My novels are completely off-limits to any adaptations and if plagiarized, you will be reported!!!

In a world of the fantastical, can humans even thrive? It's a question Astrid Honeybone has thought of time and time again, though lately she finds herself contemplating it more often than not. First, people begin acting strange around her, then her boss at the Smokey Winton Academy goes missing. The next thing Astrid knows, she's the first to find two bodies on the outskirts of the woods lining the back of the library. Just what else could go wrong in her life? Has she somehow unwittingly brought this on herself? And why, just why is she being bombarded with such odd dreams? Dreams that may just hold the ultimate truth behind her life being thrust into tumult. After living for over two-thousand years, Raya is tired. Surrounding herself with books in her downtime and a duo of people she saved once upon a blue moon are her only reprieves from the curse that has plagued her life for the last six-hundred years. A curse whose caster is rearing her head for the first time in nearly four centuries. This time, there will be no reprieve and Raya knows it...But she hadn't accounted for the latest addition to her family...nor the feelings swirling within herself the longer she knows this human. This Astrid Honeybone. In a world of creatures, manfolk and even gods live in harmony, there will always be those looking to exploit others and take control of the systems. It is up to those thrown into the fight to free the world from their tyranny...but can Astrid and Raya defeat their demons? Or are they both truly destined to remain in the shadows...alone? WC: 67,094k+ ⚠️Trigger Warning: This novel contains intense action sequences, stylized fighting, and themes of death. ❤ Lesbian Romance 📚 High Fantasy/Romance/Adventure. Book One of The Five Courts Series. This is loosely based on The Beauty & The Beast, but set in the world of the fae with my own spins. Hope y'all enjoy and keep your eyes out for more stories to come.

After news of the Acciai attack against the Lis Fox rocks the nation, the wolves step in. They can no longer remain on the sidelines while their Italian kin massacre the helpless. Sent undercover to investigate two major families within the human factions, Kimiko Fujiwara is a woman with a purpose: Find what the humans are scheming. As a wolf with little love for humans, she takes the assignment, but is soon faced with the most stirring woman she's met, who also just so happens to be human. However, upon meeting this mysteriously intriguing human, she is thrust into a conspiracy, which she isn't entirely sure she can survive. WC: 52,259k ⚠️ Trigger Warning: This novella carries mature language, adult situations and themes of isolation and betrayal. ❤️ Mature/Erotic Scenes ⚢ Lesbian Romance/Lit 📚 Complete. 3rd Draft. Final Draft Coming Soon. !!!My novels are completely off-limits to any adaptations and if plagiarized, you will be reported!!!

With the country in peril, a special investigative squad is formed, divided into three groups who are sent to various parts of Houston, Texas. They must find the Smiths headquarters and stop whatever they are plotting before the country is thrown into disarray. Among the groups are leaders within the newest generation of shifters and human's alike, volunteers who have joined the ultimate battle and those thrust into the fight amidst their own chaos. Nobuko Sato has only been in the field a handful of times, and with each excursion came consequences, the latest of which have caused long lasting damage. She accompanies a team including Landry Laurens and Bastet Onai-Argyris, the former of which has much more in store for her than she could ever have realized. WC: 61,461k ⚠️ Trigger Warning: This novella carries mature language, adult situations and themes of abuse, abandonment and isolation. ❤️ Mature/Erotic Post-Scene ⚢ Lesbian Romance/Lit 📚 Complete. 3rd Draft. Final Draft Coming Soon. !!!My novels are completely off-limits to any adaptations and if plagiarized, you will be reported!!!

"I'm stupid," John says. "Why?" "Because I fell in love with you." "Yeah," Sherlock responds, "Definitely stupid." Set over the course of one school year in 2009, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits - Sherlock and John - smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. They struggle through identity crisis, drug addiction, and child abuse together, along with dealing with the pain of a highschool that labels them as freaks. When Sherlock meets John, they spark a love that will remind you of your first - and how hard it pulled you under. "STFU ITS THE BEST FANFICTION I HAVE EVER READ AND YOU CAN QUOTE ME ON THAT" - @dearwatson when I was arguing with her this one time Cover art by @meglet713 and re-edit by my dad, @dearwatson No copyright infringement intended. Story and characters belong to Rainbow Rowell and BBC Sherlock. (no reposting please)

the maze runner meets the fifth wave in this bone-chilling post-apocalyptic novel. [ #124 | science fiction ] nobody thought we'd survive -- and yet nobody thought we would die. [ full summary inside ]

Highest ranking: #26 in Science Fiction ; Felix wants to be a Guardian. A boy with a strange brain and a stranger heart, he has one week to prove himself worthy of protecting those he loves from the creatures that roam around Sector-33, all the while battling the demons inside his head and the confusion of his heart. Dear ____ , My therapist told me to start writing these letters. I don't understand the point of them, when I'm never going to put a stamp on them or write an address on them and send them off. And you're never going to read this, anyways. My life's just changed. And it's not because I've figured out that I'm gay. It's not even because my parents divorced and my Dad moved out. It's not because Sara got accepted into Uni. Tomorrow, I might never come back home. And even if my mission partner is the hottest guy in the world, I might not come back home. I don't want to die. I think my goldfish is judging me as I write this. He's always judging me. Love, Felix ________________________________________________________________________ This is my novella entry for the #BadassesMeetLGBT contest. Please vote if you liked it! ________________________________________________________________________ (c)sarahgaier2016 all graphics made by me total word count: 7,125 words