"You're a headfuck, a complete headfuck." Red's back is turned as she breathes before heavy raindrops meet her face. "Where is this coming from?" Layla asks out of confusion as she attempts to pull Red by the wrist when Red pulls away quickly. "Don't- don't touch me." Red's voice comes out as a low raspy tone as she towers over Layla, brown meeting green. "Why?" Layla asks, gulping. "Because if you touch me, i'm scared i won't be able to hold back." Red hesitantly speaks as raindrops slide off her face and fall onto Layla's. "Then let me." _____ Reagan Levine and Layla Elsher are high school students in Northern England. The pair grew up with a large dislike for one another's existence purely out of spite. Reagan, also known as Red, grew up with only a father in an abusive home, having no mother or siblings makes her fend for herself in other ways.. ways you wouldn't call legal for a student. Red has despised Layla for the entirety of her being due to the sheer fact she has everything she wants, and maybe even more than that.. Layla Elsher has hated Red because she sees her as nothing but a bully. Not knowing why Red has turned out the way she is leads everyone to make their own perceptions of her intimidating manners when operating around others. Layla is popular and known to any man kind, the boys drool all over her and she loves it. It's the final year of high school for both of these girls, they're enemies since they could remember, but wait and see as Revulsion becomes Lustful throughout their last year of school..

Nach dem tragischen Verlust ihres Mannes sucht Kate Lewis gemeinsam mit ihrer Tochter Penny in Los Angeles einen Neuanfang. Sie ist gefangen zwischen ihrer fortwährenden Trauer und der Herausforderung, sich selbst zu finden. Dabei stolpert sie unerwartet in das Leben von Elena Muscal - einer erfolgreichen Geschäftsfrau, die nicht nur für ihre kühle Fassade bekannt ist, sondern auch für ihr Modeimperium Muscals. Elena, die gerade aus einer gescheiterten Ehe kommt, hält die Welt auf Abstand und ist es gewöhnt, immer die Kontrolle zu behalten. Was als flüchtige Bekanntschaft beginnt, entwickelt sich zu einer tiefgreifenden Freundschaft, die beide Frauen so nicht erwartet und gesucht haben. Inmitten von beruflichen Herausforderungen, gesellschaftlichen Erwartungen und einer wissbegierigen Öffentlichkeit, kämpfen die beiden Frauen darum, ihre Freundschaft zu definieren. Vor allem als immer mehr verwirrenden Emotionen und Gefühle ans Tageslicht kommen, müssen sie sich der Tatsache stellen, dass es vielleicht ein wenig mehr als Freundschaft ist. Doch wird Kate sich dem Unbekannten stellen, oder wir der Schmerz ihrer Vergangenheit ihre neue Zukunft verhindern? Und wie wird ihre Tochter Penny reagieren, die seit einigen Wochen ein Praktikum bei Elena Muscal absolviert? ------------------------ Ranks: #7 lgbt (14.03.2025) #2 gxg (17.01.2025) #8 lesbian (05.02.2025) #38 romance (13.02.2025) #4 wlw (17.02.2025)

Louisa, die von allen nur Lou genannt wird, könnte nicht glücklicher sein. Mit ihrem Freund Sebastian baut sie sich ein gemeinsames Leben auf, entdeckt die Arbeitswelt nach einem partyreichen Studium und plant eine Zukunft, die ihr von der Gesellschaft vorgegeben wird. Bereits in frühen Jahren musste Lou Schicksalsschlägen trotzen, lernen mit Wut und Trauer umzugehen und mit ihrer Großmutter an ihrer Seite Erwachsen werden. Ihr wird klar, dass sie einen neuen Funken in ihrem Leben braucht und entdeckt ein neues Hobby für sich. Reiten. Nie im Leben hätte sie daran geglaubt, mit über 25 Jahren noch das Reiten anzufangen, doch sie wächst mehr über sich hinaus als sie ahnt. Sie lernt das Leben so zu nehmen, wie es kommt, offen für neue Menschen und ihre Geschichten zu sein, aber vor allem lernt sie Vivien kennen, ihre Reitlehrerin. Vivien mit ihren grasgrünen Augen, dem ansteckenden Lächeln und einer Aura, die sich wie Magie anfühlt. Vivien, die kurz vor ihrer Hochzeit steht, bringt etwas mit sich, was Lou nicht einordnen kann und ihre Welt bereits nach kurzer Zeit vollkommen auf den Kopf stellt. Vivien wird für Lou die Luft zum Atmen, der Wind unter ihren Flügeln und die wärmende Sonne auf ihrer Haut. Doch kann Lou sich wirklich der Sonne entgegenstrecken, wenn ihre Wurzeln schon tief mit dem Boden verankert sind und mit viel Liebe gepflegt wurden?

Kitty Cohen and Felicity Campbell are soulmates. Fliss has been sure of this ever since they shared a room their freshman year of college, when their friendship emerged fully-formed the moment they met. They've seen it all together: disastrous house shares; shitty post-grad apartments; too many relationships to count. Now everything's about to change. Kitty is getting married and Fliss didn't think she'd be this heartbroken. Levi's a nice guy. He understands his fiancée's friendship, and he and Fliss get along just fine, but he's just a guy. He isn't special enough for Kitty. But then a shaken Kitty turns up on Fliss's doorstep a few weeks before the big day: the wedding is off. Fliss didn't think she would be so relieved to hear that. Weird. The honeymoon is all paid for, though, so Kitty has a proposition: a girls' trip to Las Vegas, just the two of them and two weeks of drinking and overheating and exploring everything Sin City has to offer. Why not, right? Fliss has barely left the east coast and it's about time she took advantage of her company's unlimited PTO. It'll be nice to have an uninterrupted vacation with her favorite person. Then they get to their all-expenses-paid honeymoon suite and the hotel thinks they're married and it's easier to go along with it than explain the situation. It's not like it matters, right? It's a bit of fun. Until, slowly but surely, Fliss realizes her feelings are more than platonic. Maybe they always have been. And now she's stuck sharing a bed with her best friend, who is pretending to be her wife. © Elle Carrigan 2023

Sunny Shelley wants a girlfriend, but she doesn't want to date. She can't bear the awkward stages of getting to know someone only to find, after investing too much time, that they won't work out. She can't bear to let herself fall for a girl only to find out she's straight. She can't bear the thought of someone getting to know her and only then realising it wasn't worth the effort. It's not easy being a lesbian in 1999. If she could just wake up one day and be in a relationship, all those stages skipped, that would be ideal . No painful first dates, just a fully-fledged relationship with someone who already loves her exactly as she is. Of course, she doesn't expect that to actually happen. But the universe works in mysterious ways. When Sunny speaks the her desire out loud one night after work, at the exact moment that she trips and loses her bus fare down the wishing well she walks past every day, she thinks nothing of it - until she wakes up in a strange flat with a woman she doesn't recognise. A woman who, according to her friends, has been her girlfriend for over a year. Only when she has everything she asked for does Sunny realise that maybe she asked the wrong question, because what is the point of waking up a year into a relationship if she has no memory of it? It isn't easy. It's pretty fucking scary, actually, and she wants more than anything to go back to the nineties. But that isn't easy. She might just have to get used to this new life. Which means doing the one thing she wanted to avoid. Sunny has a girlfriend. Now she has to get to know her. © Elle Carrigan 2023

When Charlie Miller loses her job the week before both her roommates move to California, she decides it's time to get out of Texas. But with her bank account embarrassingly empty and her newly divorced parents living thousands of miles apart, she doesn't know where to go. And then she remembers Fisher. The small lakeside town in Idaho where she spent every summer until she was eighteen at her uncle's cabin. It's the last place she was truly happy, so the day Gaby and Tay move out, Charlie packs up her car and embarks on the 1,800-mile drive. She has no idea what to expect when she gets there: her uncle sold the cabin six years ago, after all, and the last time she was there she was surrounded by her cousins. This time around she is alone, and she is lonely. When she revisits the old cabin, it's pure nostalgia. Until she is caught by the neighbor. Who just happens to be the most beautiful woman Charlie has ever seen. She is smitten, instantly, and all of a sudden her trip to Fisher has a purpose. The only problem: Lou is almost twenty years older, she has a teenage daughter, and Charlie's pretty sure she's straight. But the more time they spend together, the less sure Charlie is, and when a freak event throws them together, there's only one way to find out. After all, she's only here for two weeks and then she has to figure her life out. She has nothing left to lose. © Elle Carrigan 2023

After losing her job and her girlfriend, it's time for Annie Abraham to admit defeat and move back in with her parents. She has hardly been back to her tiny Montana hometown since the unforgettable summer before her senior year of college, when she agreed to babysit for Laurel Jacobs. Annie didn't expect to fall in love back then, and she never thought that after all this time she'd still be in love with the woman she walked away from when she was twenty-one. Laurel Jacobs has never gotten over Annie Abraham. It's been almost a decade since their fling and she can't move on. She has her kids to think about - at least, she tells herself that's why she hasn't been on a single date since Annie left. Her life was different back then: when they met, she was in the middle of a divorce with two young kids and no idea how the future looked. Now she owns a bookstore, her kids are growing up, and she's too busy for romance. Annie thought she would have more time to settle back into life in Deer Pines before being confronted by the love of her life, but she's not that lucky. After all this time, she's back for good and Laurel is the first person she sees, when she has just spent seventeen hours on a train and she's desperately in need of caffeine. It's the first time they've seen each other in eight years and it isn't long before all those old feelings come rushing back to the surface. They weren't buried as deep as they thought they were. A lot has changed since they last saw each other, more than either of them realize, but life hands out second chances for a reason. The first time they fell in love, the timing was wrong. Now's their chance to make it right. © Elle Carrigan 2023

Louise has been lying about having a girlfriend to avoid hanging out with her coworkers outside of work hours. This lie has worked flawlessly until Louise is forced to attend the company Christmas party and everyone is expecting to meet her girlfriend. The only problem is her girlfriend doesn't exist. Louise suddenly sympathizes with all of the characters in Hallmark movies and tries desperately to find a fake girlfriend for the night. She ends up with no other option and asks her best friend's sister. Get ready for 25 Days of Lesbian Christmas.

Morgan Whitley has hardly returned to her small hometown of Maple Springs for the last fifteen years. Her plans of becoming a doctor at a thriving hospital in the city and settling down with her long term girlfriend were all shattered when she was unable to find a job and her girlfriend broke up with her. Forced to move back home for the holidays, she runs into her high school nemesis, Arden Parker, who doesn't seem to have changed a bit. When Morgan finds out about her town's new tradition of hosting a Christmas Olympics competition, she's more than eager to join the competition to prove once and for all that she is undoubtedly better than Arden Parker.

It's been two years since Louise asked Thea to be her fake girlfriend for a company holiday party. Now they're engaged, planning a wedding, and figuring out life together. A slice-of-life, tongue-in-cheek comedy about planning a wedding, living with your partner, and navigating a relationship with all the banter you loved from the first book and all the other shenanigans we can expect from Louise, Thea, and Luca.