Bryce Oakley

What if their fake relationship wasn't ever just pretend?Sage Carson has a messy reputation. Sure, she's a soccer star with World Cup trophies and Olympic medals, but she's almost as well known for her rebellious behavior off the pitch. She's left enough gorgeous women with broken hearts in her dust to fill a roster. That was, until she got injured. Now, her frustratingly-slow recovery means she'd better secure this new squeaky-clean endorsement deal in order to get back on top.Sweet, sunshiny Willa Bellamy has a crisis on her hands. She's used to it - as an events coordinator for the Denver Zoo, it's her job to handle crises. But when she receives an invite to her ex's wedding, she's not so sure it'll be as easy to handle as an escaped emu during a Girl Scout sleepover. Even worse, when the bachelorette party invite mentions that couples are welcome, she realizes she's the sole single person invited. Fifteen years ago, Willa and Sage roamed the same halls of Edgelake High School. When their paths cross again, they decide to team up to solve both their problems - a stable, albeit fake, relationship to snag the endorsement deal and a hot soccer star to make the couples getaway sting a little less... But when the lines between real and fake start to blur, will they be able to keep the growing heat between them just a game or will they start playing to win?

A Lesbian Romance

Never Mine

"I laughed so much, swooned often, and the tender, hot love Joey and Kendall shared was electric." - Amazon Review"This book was so full of fun situations and dialogue, I was beaming from ear to ear even til the last page and line!" - Goodreads ReviewLove is the adventure no one sees coming. Joey Moore got her heart stomped on. At her engagement party. So, she does what any normal, completely rational 28-year-old would do - she moves to a new city with her dog to start a new life. Without much of a plan, it turns out. Kendall O'Hara doesn't enjoy chaos - at 42-years-old, she has a stable job and two cats she likes more than most people. Okay, all people. She likes routine (and yelling the correct Jeopardy answers right before the contestants do). She's not boring. She's just protecting her still-healing heart decades later. When Joey and Kendall's paths cross, a rocky start with an accidental laundry switch turns into an unlikely friendship. From there, the two friends make a pact to get out of their comfort zones, one piece of paper drawn from an "Adventure Jar" at a time. A growing mutual attraction leads them on an adventure that neither one might have expected...

The Adventurers

Against the Grain

Undone

Most Wonderful

Every Version

Baking Spirits Bright

J.J. Arias

Three holidays. Two coasts. One breakup recovery app. Zero chance of staying just friends. Alix swore off serious. Grace swore off messy. Neither expected to fall for someone they met on a heartbreak anonymous app. But when their holiday meet-ups stretch from Miami to Colorado to LA, long distance and the fear of losing their friendship might be the only things standing in the way of something real. Now they'll have to decide if love is worth the leap. Because sometimes the season's magic isn't in the lights. It's in who you find when you stop pretending you're fine. Breakup Buddies is a slow-burn, big-heart, super cozy sapphic rom-com about being seen and chosen, and then finding your way home for the holidays.
Samantha

Breakup Buddies

Something Far Away and Happy

Revel

Bewilder

"A college tradition turned long-term promise means the Payne and Sideris families have spent every Christmas together for the past thirty-something years. Cass Sideris loves traditions. She’s trying her hardest to follow in her lawyer parent's footsteps to make them proud, but in all honesty, the only family customs she truly feels inspired by are the ones that involve cutting down a giant Christmas tree, walking through the forest as the snow falls, and sipping eggnog next to the fire, surrounded by loved ones. She’s grown up alongside the Payne children, including her best friend Dylan, the young twins who exist solely to make her life harder, and, uh, the oldest Payne daughter, Stevie. Stevie, a firefighter with perfect hair and a kind heart. No big deal. Cass hasn’t had an unrequited and unconfessed crush on Stevie since she was eight-years-old or anything. When Stevie gets her heart broken, Cass doesn’t expect to be the one consoling her. And after a series of unfortunate events and a last-minute road trip bring her closer to Stevie, Cass starts questioning more than just her feelings for Stevie... like her path in life. Still, she definitely shouldn’t be trying to casually catch Stevie under the mistletoe, right?"-- page [4] of cover.

A Lesbian Christmas Romance

All Aglow

Billie Rush can't stop writing pop songs. The kind of songs that her rock band, The Shrikes, would never play. After their successful first album, the pressure for a perfect follow-up is crushing her creativity. Billie's new songs and sound need an outlet, but she's not just going to give them away to anyone.

Vero De Luca is always in the limelight for making mistakes. The daughter of a famous musician, she's trying to make smart decisions for the first time in her life as she sets off on a solo career after years in a popular all-female group. Though she knows she's fully capable of writing her own songs, the label insists that her first single needs a major name behind it, not just her own.

Both women think that working together sounds like a match made in hell. Though they can hardly stand each other, sparks start to fly when they're writing the new single, "Undone".

Will they go up in flames or find a way to work together through the blaze?

Undone 

What happens in Vegas might just save their marriage.

Maggie and Gwen Pierce aren’t divorced, not technically. They’re just on pause. Separate bedrooms, strained silences, and young kids who accept vague answers as fact. It’s easier than admitting their marriage is over.

Except, Maggie hasn’t told her best friends.

When the group heads to Vegas for Pete and Danica’s bachelorette party, their friends are so excited to invite Gwen for the first time, thinking Maggie and Gwen are the happily married couple of the bunch. So, to keep the peace, they decide to fake it. A smile here, a kiss on the cheek there. Just until the weekend is over.

Of course, Vegas has its own ideas. Now, Maggie and Gwen have to decide if their story is over or if it is just getting good again.

After All is a second-chance rom-com packed with fake dating, marriage-on-pause angst, and the kind of meddling friends who make sure you never face heartbreak or hope alone.

After all

Izzy Tierney is doing everything right. She’s got a job she’s proud of and a passport full of stamps from her frequent work trips. Everyone keeps telling her she’s living the dream — but it’s starting to feel more like drifting. Constant motion is just another way to avoid standing still long enough to feel lonely. She tells herself she’s content, but something’s missing — something she’s never quite let herself want.

Kiera Phillips is caught in a swirl of uncertainty. Newly divorced and living with her two daughters in her parents’ house, she’s trying to rebuild a life she no longer recognizes. A new city, no job, no real plan — and now even her closest friendships feel distant. She’s doing her best to hold it all together, but the truth is, she feels completely lost.

Then, an invitation from the group chat: a weekend getaway to a beach house in San Diego. Izzy and Kiera agree, thinking it’s just a short escape — how bad can it be? But what starts as a casual weekend quickly pulls them into deeper waters. Reconnected bonds stir up old emotions, buried truths, and unanswered questions. By the end, neither woman knows where she stands.

When real life rushes back like an unstoppable tide, they’re left wondering if they can truly leave the past behind — or if their lives are about to change for good. What happens when the weekend ends, and you’re left standing at the shore, knowing the tide has shifted?

Shift the Tide is a spin-off story of One Last Run, featuring two characters who kept stealing the show. It can be read as a standalone or the second in the series.

Shift the tide

Can you ever truly get over your first love? Julia Evans has fought for every opportunity-one more high-profile interior design client, and she'll land her dream job designing a boutique hotel. Remington Van der Meer is focused on revenge. After a failed marriage, her only goal is taking over her father's company, no matter the cost. Ten years ago, fiery Julia and arrogant Remi were McManus College's most unlikely couple. Their passionate romance burned bright but ended just as abruptly-neither truly understanding why. Now, thanks to a meddling assistant, a 100-year storm, and a lucky blue velvet blazer, Julia and Remi are thrown back together. Loathing turns to lingering glances, old wounds resurface, and undeniable chemistry sparks once more. This friends-to-lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers romance is angsty, hilarious, and completely swoon-worthy.

"Emilia Marin thinks Christmas and the holidays are a waste of time. She’s way too busy to think about gingerbread houses and trees and carols. Instead, she’s running a successful indie bookstore, which is exactly as difficult as it sounds. Cody Nowak loves every holiday tradition, but baking at her uncle’s shop is one of the best. Which is exactly why she’s taking a few weeks hiatus from her role as a paramedic to help him at the bakery. She is definitely not harboring any secrets about why she was put on forced temporary leave.When Cody realizes that Emilia hates Christmas –– like Ebenezer Scrooge levels of hate –– she decides that making Em love Christmas is exactly the distraction she needs. Will Cody be able to melt Emilia’s ice queen exterior with ice skating, hot cocoa, and tree decorating?Or will larger problems arise when they realize that what they each most want threatens to tear them apart?" -- page [4] of cover.

Danica Wendell seems to have it all figured out. She's a respected neonatologist at one of the finest hospitals in the nation, engaged to the man of her dreams, and living a life that most only dream about. Well, one of those things is true. The other? Well, that's her secret to keep for now. Petra "Pete" Pancott isn't settling for an average life. She's globe-trotted, embraced every thrill, and carved out a career that's on her own terms. Sure, sometimes she daydreams of a future with a family and a home, but who needs roots when you're flying through life? When their college friends throw a reunion ski trip in Telluride, Colorado, both women jump at the chance to hit the slopes and reconnect after fifteen years. But as they share a luxurious condo and spend the week together, it becomes clear that everyone has secrets they aren't revealing. More than that, Pete and Danica are finding they can't avoid the avalanche of unresolved feelings that loom between them after their not-so-casual-after-all fling back in college. They say opposites attract, but no one ever warned them that navigating the steep terrain of their past would be anything but a slippery slope. Will they finally find common ground, or will this resurgence of emotion leave them lost in a snowstorm of chaos?

A Sapphic Romance

One Last Run

Danica Wendell seems to have it all figured out. She’s a respected neonatologist at one of the finest hospitals in the nation, engaged to the man of her dreams, and living a life that most only dream about. Well, one of those things is true. The other? Well, that's her secret to keep for now.

Petra “Pete” Pancott isn’t settling for an average life. She’s globe-trotted, embraced every thrill, and carved out a career that’s on her own terms. Sure, sometimes she daydreams of a future with a family and a home, but who needs roots when you’re flying through life?

When their college friends throw a reunion ski trip in Telluride, Colorado, both women jump at the chance to hit the slopes and reconnect after fifteen years. But as they share a luxurious condo and spend the week together, it becomes clear that everyone has secrets they aren't revealing. More than that, Pete and Danica are finding they can’t avoid the avalanche of unresolved feelings that loom between them after their not-so-casual-after-all fling back in college.

They say opposites attract, but no one ever warned them that navigating the steep terrain of their past would be anything but a slippery slope. Will they finally find common ground, or will this resurgence of emotion leave them lost in a snowstorm of chaos?

Bryce Oakley

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