Esther Tomko is hiding a huge secret. Even from her best friend. It is an unwritten rule that siblings of your friends are off-limits. And yet she couldn't stop herself from falling for the charmingly smart volleyball captain Josephine "Josie" Bennet after meeting her at her best friend's house in freshman year of high school. Now, when their last year is just around the corner, she decides she finally needs to move on from her by spending time buried in art and looking for another girl to steal her attention away. However, her plans take a detour when she walks into a room she most definitely shouldn't be in and finds out someone else is also keeping a secret from the people in her life. Who was once unreachable moves up to the same step. Hiding Esther's secret becomes much harder when that one faithful night starts a series of events that bring them closer together. It was all supposed to be just a simple crush. - BOOK #1 in a STAND-ALONE series

- W/W Romance. COMPLETED. 29 year old Allie Stevens lives a life that most woman dream of. Married to a handsome and hardworking man, pursuing an admirable career, and living in a big house in the city she grew up in. But when she takes on a side gig to model for a local artist to pay for her university fees, her carefully constructed world begins to unravel in ways she never anticipated. Jessie Madden, a talented and adventurous 24 year old painter, is searching for a muse to complete her series of deeply personal works. The moment she lays eyes on Allie, she knows she's found the perfect centrepiece for her paintings. But as the paintings take shape, so too does something neither of them expected. Caught between the safe and predictable life she knows, and the life full of colour and adventure, Allie must decide if she dares to follow her heart and risk everything for a love that defies all expectations, even if it means leaving everything she's ever known behind.

(rivals to lovers, small town, sports) [WATTYS 2024 GRAND PRIZE WINNER] (Season 3 coming soon) After a devastating Olympic loss puts her career in a downward spiral, an aging skier returns to her laid-back mountain hometown to rediscover her love of her sport and instead finds herself falling for a rival athlete. *** A year away from what might be her last chance to win Olympic gold, twenty-seven-year-old alpine skier Juniper James shocks everyone by announcing she won't race this year. Returning to her mountain hometown hoping to rediscover the spark that once drove her to World Cup glory, she instead crosses paths with the rival who shut her out of the podium at the last Olympics. For Summer Li, nothing is more important than skiing. At twenty years old, she has already won Olympic silver, but an accident has left her desperate to get back on her skis before the world learns the extent of her injury. She came to Crystal Peaks to lay low while she recovers. The last thing she needs is the woman she once idolized hanging around asking questions. Both struggling with career lows, Juniper and Summer have more in common than they think. Even as they push each other, sparks begin to fly, but Juniper blames Summer for her slump, and Summer isn't going to let a relationship distract from her recovery. And only one of them can win the gold medal. This inconvenient attraction seems on a course for disaster from the start. But these are women who face the impossible every day, and there's a magic in the mountains that can thaw even the coldest hearts. *** Cleat Cute meets Delilah Green Doesn't Care. *** Season One complete at 90k words. Season Two complete at 90k words. Season Three coming soon!

"Whoever I was when I was with her doesn't exist any longer. That version of me is just as dead as she is." Roze Foxton's older sister Olive took her own life, leaving Roze behind devastated. Without her sister her life seems to have fallen apart, but when she meets Jade Cadwell, she finds unexpected comfort. With her help Roze slowly gets back to life again. The two girls form a friendship, until one day, Roze realises she might want it to be more than just friendship...

[Book 1 of the Mia Series] This story is about Mia and the struggles she deals with throughout her senior year in high school. Unfortunately, she has had no choice but to survive many obstacles in her life up to this point. Mia's biological parents rejected her at an early age, leading to her getting adopted by parents who alienate her. She gets continuously bullied and has a lot of inner battles within herself. As time passed, she found a best friend to help her overcome it all. In the end, this is about how one girl endeavors her way through life and, ultimately, graduation. A/N: Hello, everyone! Mia is my first book and is a fictional story, although there are many parts based on my experiences. With that in mind, please be kind. Lol. All comments and critiques are always welcome. I want to thank you ahead of time, and I hope you enjoy it! _____________________________________________ ⚠️ Warning: ⚠️ This story contains strong language, self-harming trigger moments, lesbian material, as well as mature sexual content. Be aware that homophobic comments will not be tolerated. Read at your own risk.

Phoenix LeFlore: She is alive. Her brother is dead. People are moving forward. She is standing still. He was everything. Now she has nothing. Aza Ainsworth: She is a soft girl who acts tough. She is a warm girl who was treated coldly. Someone made her heart beat faster, then broke it. Can a broken heart help a broken soul? _____ Girl meets girl. Girl doesn't like girl. Then girl likes girl. Could she like her back? Two girls. One story. _____ "I like: The soft side underneath her tough side. Her mind. Her wit. Her cute awkwardness. The way she bites her nails. The way she dresses, like a 90s character, like someone in a movie. The way she smells, like mint, spicy but sweet, like her personality. Her green, serious, sexy eyes. Her laugh. Her name. Her hand in my hand. The stars on her face. The X on the back of her neck. I want to make her laugh all day, want to say her name, whisper it, scream it. Phoenix. I want to hold her hand, want to kiss all the stars on her face, and want to cherish the X on the back of her neck. I want to cherish her. I don't like: Phoenix."

When Elle Nilsen travels to Oregon to be her best friend Morgan's Maid of Honor at her wedding right after getting dumped, she resolves to find a fun fling to take her mind off of it. She had no intentions of ever settling down, especially having one failed relationship after another. But when she has an instant connection with the Best Woman, Avery Pacer, she finds that what was supposed to be a one-night fling turns into a connection impossible to ignore. But Avery's pushy attitude and past behavior causes Elle to face some demons from her past that she isn't ready for. When family tragedy strikes, Avery is there to save the day. But will her pushy attitude help Elle navigate the feelings she's been hiding from, or will Avery just push her away?

Army Ranger Staff Sergeant Daniella Donovan while on mission gets a phone call telling her, her father passed away. For the first time in ten years she returns home to be there with her family during this tough time. While at home, she encounters her ex Mallory, the reason she left and hasn't been back in the first place. But a lot has happened in 10 years, Mallory now has a son and a husband and Daniella has a life with her best friend Morgan and a growing list of people she has killed during her time in the Army. Will the pair be able to over coming the thing that drove them apart all those years ago? Or will complicated feelings for her best friend and roommate make her second guess everything. *Updated weekly on Sundays*

~Lesbian Romance~ What happens when the girl you fall for isn't out and you both live in a small town? Meet Rily Fletcher. Part co-owner of her family's ranch, and part-time laidback loner. She has her best friend and her family and her horse. The last thing she ever expected to happen in her life was having her breath stolen by a stranger with blonde hair at a bonfire one town over. That's Ally. She looks like your typical girl next door- honey blonde hair, green eyes, a nice slender body. Almost all the locals know and love her. But she has a secret that she can't share, no matter how much it hurts her inside. Or that was the case until she met the kind rancher with ocean blue eyes and a soft smile. And at the sight of that tall dark and handsome woman...she was immediately taken. After a memorable morning and a hurtful misunderstanding, these two find their way to each other no matter what. Falling fast and hard can sometimes cause some major issues though. News travels fast in small towns. And on top of that, insert unexpected danger... Will their love for one another be enough to hold them together in the end?

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