Sapphic books that include an epilogue (Sapphic Book Bingo #20)
This week’s Sapphic Book Bingo square features sapphic books that include an epilogue.
An epilogue is a section at the end of the novel that typically takes place months or even years after the main events of the book have concluded. Epilogues are common in genres such as romance, historical fiction, and speculative fiction.
15 sapphic books that include an epilogue
Below, you’ll find 15 sapphic books that include an epilogue:
Just a Touch Away by Jae
Hannah Martin has an unusual job: she’s a professional cuddler. While she has a big heart for her clients, she hasn’t found someone special to snuggle up to in her personal life.
Winter Sullivan isn’t looking for love. She’s an aloof workaholic who’s built walls of ice around herself. She would rather drive toothpicks under her fingernails than cuddle, and she certainly doesn’t want to share her space with anyone.
When Winter’s estranged father dies, he leaves her one last surprise: she and Hannah, a perfect stranger, will inherit a building together. But there’s a catch: first, they have to live together for ninety-two days.
Winter is determined to dislike her rival, but soon finds Hannah isn’t what she expected at all. Thanks to a hilarious doormat war, a cuddle dare from Winter’s half sister, and a kiss in the most unusual of places, the frosty fortress around her heart begins to melt.
Will she be able to accept that love might be just a touch away?
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The Promise by Addison M. Conley
When the world keeps pulling you under, who do you reach for?
Life was stupidly hard enough, but when tragedy strikes Mika’s life, her high school world is flipped over and stepped on, hard. Aunt Val moving in sucks even more than she thought it would too. There’s just no way forward. Until the right girl shows up, that is.
Willow has it all. Popular, pretty, and perky, she’s got senior year wrapped up in a hot little bow. Mika can’t imagine why Willow not only wants to be her friend but is also determined to have her back. When feelings start to bloom between them, Mika wonders if just maybe things will be okay…
The world doesn’t work like that though, and when Mika is betrayed by her family and learns secrets that upend everything yet again, she isn’t sure how to get through. Can she find the strength to overcome and be the person she wants to be, or will she end up being forced into being someone she doesn’t recognize?
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Finding Molly Parsons by Alyson Root
Faith Parsons is finally 18 and eager to make her lesbian debut. But before stepping into this new chapter, she must escape the only world she’s ever known. Faith’s journey is not just a physical escape but a courageous leap into self-discovery, navigating uncharted territories with a heart full of hope. Guided by fate on a journey to find her long-lost Aunt Molly—the Parsons family’s sapphic secret—Faith is driven by a deep desire to break free from her toxic past and find a new familial embrace.
As Faith unravels a series of cryptic clues, she meets Carmen, a steamy self-made woman with a penchant for avoiding commitment, Mateo, her sequin-covered counterpart, whose life is a perpetual red-carpet event, and Enid Butcher, the cannabis-loving and self-appointed neighborhood watch. This motley crew navigate family, friendship, and love in this uproarious journey to find Molly Parsons.
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Binding Bricks by Ami Spencer
When your lost chance reappears…
Grace Khan is disappearing.
Ten years ago, burdened by the devastation of losing her best friend to a life which didn’t include her, she got swept up in a marriage she should never have agreed to. Now, with the relationship barely more than a contentious cohabitation, she dedicates all her energy to her son, the only light in her otherwise dull and uninspiring life.
Until across the crowded school playground she sees Mica Davenport. The lost love which has haunted her life with ifs and maybes is back, and their presence relights a fire in Grace that she thought was long extinguished.
While Grace and Mica navigate the potential of rekindling their friendship, they both also have to face the hand those missing years has dealt them. While Mica argues with themself about getting close to Grace again, Grace has to rediscover who she is outside of being a mother. Quieting the voice of self-doubt which has become her constant companion proves harder than she anticipated, especially when the person offering their unwavering support also reminds Grace of her biggest regret…
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The Others by Annette Mori
As a seer and brilliant scientist, Em convinces her wife, Lise, to prepare for the inevitable conclusion, after the chaos caused by foreign countries attacking the United States. Leaving behind a wake of destruction and a new world order. Forcing them to navigate a frightening reality. After ten months in their cozy bomb shelter, they emerge to a world where the vegetation is surprisingly unaffected. Should they band together with other survivors or try to make it on their own? There are others in this unknown world. On the first day outside of their shelter, they meet members of an alternate society. Are they friend or foe? Change is inevitable. But will they change in ways Em and Lise can live with, or will this altered world change them into something unrecognizable?
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Wolf Killer by C H Clepitt
“Honey, it’s the ’80s. You need to find yourself a woman who can hold your hand in public, not one who calls you her ‘friend’ and keeps you away from her boss. You don’t need that kinda heartache. You think it’ll be OK, but it won’t, trust me. It starts to eat away at you.”
FBI Agent Clara Hunter might not be girlfriend material, but as Red soon discovers, if you have a serial killer on your heels she is just the woman you want in your life!
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Just Kiss Her by Clare Lydon
When Brooke’s best friend Noah asks her to pose as his girlfriend for his sister’s resort wedding, she can’t refuse. Sure, she’s a lesbian, but it’s a free holiday. How hard can it be to fake it for a few days?
Harder than Brooke imagined when she meets Noah’s mum, Jen. Sophisticated, confident, and utterly gorgeous, Jen is everything Brooke wants. With each sizzling glance, casual touch, and chance encounter, an irresistible attraction pulls Brooke towards the one woman she can’t have.
As their holiday in paradise unfolds, this scorching love triangle is about to reach its breaking point under the hot Mexican sun. Jen is strictly off-limits, but Brooke’s heart doesn’t care for rules. Can she keep her feelings buried, or will she just kiss her?
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Bittersweet Homecoming by Eliza Lentzski
They say you can never go home again, but sometimes you have no choice. A phone call in the middle of the night and news of a death in the family has Abigail Henry catching the next flight out of Los Angeles and traveling back to the small hometown she hasn’t visited in a decade. Nearly everything and everyone looks untouched by time, but it’s Abigail herself who has changed.
A love story by genre, Bittersweet Homecoming grapples with the basic question: Can you really ever go home again? You might never be able to go home again, but it’s Charlotte, the beautiful bartender at the local pub, who can tempt Abigail into staying.
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Saving Summer’s Santa by Elle Armstrong
Ettia’s world is thrown into a spin when she is asked to go to the South Pole, to fill in for her uncle, the summer Santa, who has been taken ill. Upon arriving in Antarctica, Ettia is met with talking kangaroo’s and a sleigh that doesn’t like sand.
When Cherri gets a call to rescue a stranded vehicle, she doesn’t realise that she may end up saving far more than the cute woman dressed in a mini Santa suit. But can Cherri risk leaving the security of Australia for her damsel in distress?
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Sleepless Nights by Iona Kane
Rock singer Alex Knight is at the top of her game, dazzling fans and selling out stadiums worldwide on her most electrifying tour yet. Her life may be shrouded in secrecy and loneliness, but her meteoric success leaves everyone wanting a piece of her.
Tyra MacLean knows all too well the dark side of fame. Once a rising star herself, she’s scarred and disillusioned by the celebrity lifestyle, and just wants a quiet life. But when Alex insists on having Tyra and her band join the tour, Tyra has to sacrifice her peace and support her bandmates by returning to the relentless world that nearly broke her.
As they tour America, can Alex and Tyra overcome their fears and differences to forge a deeper connection? Amid the glitz and chaos of the music industry, love might just be the ultimate encore.
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A Perfect Fifth by Jaycie Morrison
Two divides perfectly into four, not five.
Zara Keller is a survivor turned piano phenomenon living for a big dream. When she’s invited to spend the weekend with four long-time friends outside of London, she has little use for luxurious Fullerhill Manor—but Lady Jillian Stansfield might be a different story.
The obligations thrust on Jillian Stansfield as Lady of the Manor center on home and family. Even her best friends expect her to put aside the desire for a meaningful life and carry on her legacy through marriage and children. Will the arrival of a fifth person be enough to tip the balance of their “gang of four” in her favor?
Zara challenges Jillian to pursue grander plans and stirs something new and profound, compelling Jillian to be true to herself and make the hardest decisions of her life. But when tragedy strikes, saving Jillian may cost Zara the goal of a position at the Royal College of Music, and the chance at love.
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Frosting on the Cake 3: Still Crazy After All These Years by Karin Kallmaker
From the cold winter dark of Alaska to the warm summer breezes of Hawaii, take a calendar year’s journey through the lives of women you already love.
Love finds its full bloom during a Simply the Best May. The glamour of Hollywood combines with a Because I Said So Halloween. Making Up for Lost Time serves up delicious cookies–and lots of kisses. All kinds of family are welcome at the Car Pool Thanksgiving table.
Inspired by classics like Wild Things and Painted Moon, as well as bestsellers and award-winners like Captain of Industry and Above Temptation, Karin’s third volume of follow-up stories shows the love, tenderness, and romance that stands the test of time.
Karin Kallmaker’s delightful and moving short stories have won Lambda Literary and Golden Crown awards and are sure to have you falling in love with her characters all over again.
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Love Never Dies by Laura G. Wiser
Long before their lives in Cornwall, Julie and Hilary lived in London where they met and fell in love. This is a story of new beginnings; one in which Julie discovers who she is without depending on anyone or any label to define her.
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Pursuing Pandora by Maggie Brown
Corporate Lawyer, Winter Carlyle has become jaded with romance after a messy public breakup.
When her aunt asks her to visit a high-end nightclub to check on her younger cousin, Winter reluctantly agrees. Poking her nose into his love-life is the last thing she wants to do. So what if he has a crush on Pandora, a lounge singer thirteen year his senior. The cougar might just teach him a thing or two.
For Pandora, the sultry siren in the low-cut gown facade is all an act. She dislikes adulation and the numerous advances, especially from the Russian gangster and the aging playboy. She has her reasons for being at the club and romance is definitely off the agenda.
But uptight, reserved Winter is a complication she hasn’t foreseen. And love has a way of striking at the most inopportune moments.
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E mbers by Tiffany E. Taylor
If fairy godmothers truly did exist, the only thing in this world Embry Novak would wish for would be the freedom to be herself and live authentically. Her conniving and “fragile” stepmother, however, has Embry’s father convinced he is destined to lose a second wife to illness and death unless Embry does what she says daughters should do: give up their own lives to take care of their parents. Knowing she will be cut off from her butch identity—but racked with guilt at the thought of leaving her still-grieving father to the mercy of her scheming stepmother and her two mean, selfish sons—Embry moves back into his house and bears her hellish life in silence for her father’s sake, dreaming of the day she can finally escape the toxicity.
Sapphire Keene is the incoming chief executive officer of Crunch, an organically sourced produce subscription box service headquartered locally. With one flagship brick-and-mortar store and thousands of online members, Crunch is wildly successful and Sapphire is looking forward to taking the reins from her retiring dad. But her socialite mother nags at her constantly to forget about this stupid career business and find a suitable man to marry—unaware that it has always been masculine of center females who have piqued Sapphire’s femme interest instead. While avoiding males as best she can, despite her mother’s strident efforts to find her a husband, Sapphire indulges in small, secret trysts whenever she has the opportunity—even though she knows those superficial connections have done little to satisfy her deep longing to find a butch mate with whom she can openly live and love.
When Embry—a trained chef—meets the store manager of the Crunch physical location while on a shopping trip, she is unaware that the gay, flamboyant matchmaker smells a probable match between Sapphire and Embry, and sets out to do everything he can to make sure the two of them have their happily ever after. But conniving stepmothers, selfish stepbrothers, nagging mothers, business and family obligations, and a rocky path to love seem determined to put a stop to any potential relationship, even though Sapphire and Embry are falling hard and fast for each other. It’s anyone’s guess if they can circumvent the obstacles the universe keeps throwing in their way.
Unless you have Marlow Matheson on your side, that is. Never underestimate the power of a gay fairy godfather with fabulous sequined sneakers who’s on a mission.
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