Beverly Bale spent her entire adult life wrapped in luxury-mansion halls, glittering parties, designer labels, and friends who praised her as long as the champagne flowed. She never imagined how quickly it could all disappear. But when her husband is arrested for a long list of financial crimes, Beverly's world collapses in a single day. Her accounts are frozen. Her mansion is seized. Her so-called friends vanish. And for the first time in her life... she has nowhere to go. The only door left open belongs to the woman the Bale family threw away years ago: Kimmy Walters-Jonathan's younger sister, the outcast daughter who was disowned at sixteen for being gay, and the owner of a small, steady bar built from grief, resilience, and the memory of her late girlfriend. Beverly and Kimmy were never close. They were never meant to be. But desperation pushes Beverly into the tiny apartment above Kimmy's bar, forcing two women with nothing in common to live under the same roof. As Beverly learns how to survive without wealth-how to work, how to try, how to be real-Kimmy starts to see a different woman beneath the designer surface. And Beverly begins to discover a life she never knew was possible: simple, honest, filled with people who care without conditions. But closeness is dangerous. Both women carry wounds, fears, and a past that threatens to pull them apart. And yet... something undeniable grows between them, slow and fragile at first, then impossible to ignore. Beverly may have lost her fortune- but in the ruins of her old life, she might be on the verge of finding something far more priceless. A new self. A new home. And a love she was never supposed to want... yet can no longer imagine living without.

Ana Palmer used to have it all, but ever since her wife Izzy passed away two years ago, she feels lost. Can she get her life back on track and possibly open her heart to love again? Or will she remain benched? *** Featured in: - Ambys 2025 - Round 3 (2025) - With Pride, With Love - lgbtq (June 2025) - Romance Picks Anthology - Romance (June 2025) - Shortlist Pride Awards - FreeTheLGBT (June 2025) - Pride Shelf - lgbtq (April 2025)

Kathleen Rivera never asked for the wealth or status that came with her name. If anything, she spent her life running from it, determined to prove she was more than just the daughter of Luna and Katie Rivera. Refusing the easy path, she built a career in investigative journalism, carving her name out of danger and defiance. But every truth she exposed came at a cost, and earned her enemies. One of them is Detective Maxine Solmere. Kathleen has crossed her more than once, somehow uncovering details from Solmere's most confidential investigations and dragging them into the light. Their rivalry reaches a breaking point when Solmere is handed a case so massive, that solving it could define her entire career. But when the case turns out to be personally connected to Rivera's family, the detective has no choice but to work with the very woman who's made her life hell. Because only Kathleen can unlock the city's hidden world for her, as she belongs to it by birthright. This story is a spin-off of "My Favourite Enemy" and "My Favourite Girl" Set 27 years after the birth of Luna and Katie's daughter, Kathleen. There are also gonna be some characters from my book "She's the danger I crave to taste." So be ready to meet old friends from both stories. But you can also read this book as a standalone story. The main characters are GXG But there are also some GXG Intersex couples from my previous books. ⚠️ Content Warning: This story contains: Profanity Explicit mature content Violence Every character in this story is over 18 years old.

• Fortuitous; happening by accident or chance rather than design. • Saylor gets a job offer in her hometown, which she gladly accepts. She misses her hometown, her family, and especially her best friend, Hadley... but what will happen when Hadley's sister, Emerson, also moves back to town? • The two may discover they have more in common than they ever thought possible as well as be forced to process some underlying feelings they thought they buried.

Lena Carver has everything under control-except her dream. As the no-nonsense manager of Rosebay Resort, one of the crown jewels in the Sinclair Hotels empire, Lena has dedicated the past six years to keeping five-star chaos in check. Between demanding guests, last-minute weddings, and her spirited four-year-old niece she's helping raise, Lena's got zero time for distractions-especially not the high-heeled, high-maintenance kind. Enter Avery Sinclair. She's the hotel chain's heiress and a walking HR warning with a trust fund and something to prove. After being sent to "oversee" Rosebay-aka get exiled from corporate HQ-Avery is determined to turn the location into the most profitable in the company. Her plan is simple: maximize revenue, impress Daddy, and earn the CEO title. Her plan does not include clashing with the sarcastic, infuriatingly competent hotel manager who seems allergic to authority and perfectly capable of running the entire empire on her own. What starts as a battle of wills quickly spirals into something much messier: unexpected teamwork, flirty banter, steamy tension in the linen closet, and the kind of feelings that don't come with a corporate playbook. In a place where professionalism is key and romance is strictly off the clock, falling in love might just be the biggest disaster of all. Welcome to The Last Resort-where ambition checks in, sparks fly, and hearts are the messiest rooms to clean.

When power demands sacrifice, love becomes the most dangerous game of all. Daphne Moore has everything, money, status, control. So when her family demands she marry Ashleigh Blackthorne, heir to a her family's empire, she agrees. It's business, nothing more. Two powerful names bound together to build an empire. But months into their perfect marriage on paper, Daphne can't ignore what's missing. Her wife. Ashleigh is beautiful, elusive, and untouchably charming, except when she's around everyone but Daphne. Jealousy was never part of the deal. Neither was desire. When Daphne's envy turns to obsession, walls start to crumble. What began as a contract becomes a dangerous dance of power, passion, and vulnerability. And in a world where love is weakness, falling for your wife might be the one thing that destroys you both. RANKED 1st in business love: November 30th 2025 RANKED 4th in romance fiction: November 30th 2025 RANKED 49th in contract marriage: December 1st 2025 RANKED 30th in business: December 17th 2025 RANKED 3rd in womanxwoman: December 18th 2025 RANKED 30th in lgbt: December 22nd 2025 RANKED 1st in contractmarraige: December 22nd 2025 RANKED 26th in business: December 24th 2025 RANKED 58th in wlw: December 24th 2025 RANKED 6th in queeromance: December 24th 2025 RANKED 2nd in lgbtfiction: December 25th 2025 RANKED 1st in lgbtfiction: December 27th 2025 Start date: 5th November 2025 End date: 15th December 2025

What happens when you fall in love with your worst enemy? 18-year-old Natasha Morton has had an enemy in Blaze Callanan since they were in grade school, and now by chance, they are at the same college. So what happens when Natasha finds herself falling for the impossible to get through to, cold-hearted Blaze? Romance, drama, and scandal ensue.

Still reeling over the mistakes she made at her old job, 25-year-old Jenny O'Malley is looking forward to a fresh start in her career. That is, until her co-worker at her new job winds up being her high school crush, outgoing and boisterous Riley McGabe. As Jenny and Riley get closer, she must deal with accepting her sexuality- and forgiving herself for her past mistakes.

They never expected to see each other again after that night. What happened in that room was supposed to stay there, a fleeting secret neither of them would speak of again. But fate has other plans. A month later, they come face to face in the last place either of them imagined. (ProfessorxStudent)

Delaney Carson is currently one of the most famous singers globally to date. She first rose to prominence when she was only ten years old singing covers on YouTube. At the peak of her YouTube rise she was discovered by a talent scout who recommended that she sign with them and branch out to other ventures, acting being one of them. Hunter 'McKenna' King is currently one of the most famous actresses in America to date. She first began acting when she was only seven years old as a solution to helping her Mother meet bill deadlines. Albeit Hunter acting at seven years old, she did not officially hit her rise until she was ten years old. Delaney and Hunter had no clue of each other's existence until the both of them ran into each other on the set of a powdered milk commercial. The two of them were immediate friends, I would go as far as to say they were the closest on set. All of this friendship came crumbling down the second Delaney accidentally spit her strawberry milk out on Hunter during their last taping. In response to this Hunter poured her chocolate milk over Delaney's head, solidifying her hatred for the girl.