This week’s Sapphic Book Bingo category features sapphic books in which a main character is a CEO (Chief Executive Officer) of a company.
Most of the books you’ll find in this category are sapphic romances with strong, successful women, interesting power dynamics, and a high-stakes company setting.
15 sapphic books in which a main character is a CEO
Below, you’ll find 15 recommended sapphic books with a main character who’s a CEO:
Boss of Her by Anna Stone
Small-town girl Jade Fisher has sacrificed everything for her dream of a high-powered career in Los Angeles. Fresh out of grad school, she’s one step away from landing the perfect job as executive assistant to Simone Weiss, LA’s hotel queen. So when her friend invites her to the opening night of Club Velvet, a luxury club for women to explore their wildest desires, Jade decides to let loose a little, just this once.
She isn’t expecting an encounter with a commanding older woman who makes her heart race and her body burn. And she’s even more surprised to come face to face with the same woman days later. Simone Weiss. Her new boss.
CEO by day, part owner of Club Velvet by night, Simone built her hotel empire from the ground up. She knows what she wants. She’ll stop at nothing to get it. And now, she has her sights set on her curvaceous new assistant.
One sensual night of surrender is all it takes for Jade to fall under her spell. Neither woman is looking for romance. Both bear scars from the past. But the more Simone awakens Jade’s submissive desires, the harder it becomes to ignore the feelings between them. Can love conquer all, even the walls around their hearts?
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Business of the Heart by Claire Forsythe
Abby Archer should be content. Her coffee shop, Haze, is thriving, and she has a great group of friends. There’s just one thing missing: love. Despite past betrayals, Abby hasn’t given up on finding the one, waiting with increasing impatience to experience the sparks she’s always dreamed of.
Lexi Finn lives for her career. At least her job won’t break her heart. Unlike Abby, she’s most definitely not searching for the one or anyone for that matter. Avoiding relationships isn’t all that difficult when she’s become so skilled at keeping people at a distance.
So imagine Lexi’s shock when, walking into Haze, she feels instant attraction and an unshakeable connection with Abby. Abby has a picture of her perfect woman in her mind, and it certainly isn’t the intolerable Lexi Finn. When a hopeless romantic meets a tough-as-nails cynic, they’ll need to overcome the wounds of the past to discover that their hearts are the most important business of all.
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Changing Times by Jen Silver
Thirty years on from when we first met Dani Barker and Camila Callaghan in Changing Perspectives, they’re enjoying marriage and semi-retirement in a luxury flat near London.
Dani’s niece, Holly, runs their mixed media business, now gaining a foothold in the highly competitive online games market. Holly’s older sibling, Luc, influences people to take action on climate issues with their website, Gaia One: One Earth, One Chance.
Romance has been in short supply for both Holly and Luc. Immersed in her work, Holly’s dating life is non-existent. For Luc, family prejudices stand in the way of a relationship with the love of their life.
Can Holly and Luc succeed in making the changes necessary to achieve their own happy ever afters?
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Leveling Up by Jazzy Mitchell
Six years after completing her internship, Clarke Parson, a video game graphic designer and animator, finds herself back in the orbit of Haboob Software’s CEO, Fran Silvetti. Clarke contacts Fran to warn her that the game her company is developing was stolen from Clarke’s computer by an ex-girlfriend after an acrimonious breakup. As Clarke is swept into a torrid affair with the fascinating woman, she covets their time together, hoping Fran may someday return the love Clarke harbors for her.
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Hotel Queens by Lee Winter
Over one long night at a bar in Las Vegas, two powerful hotel executives meet, flirt, and challenge each other—having no clue they’re rivals after the same dream deal.
Brilliant ice queen Amelia Duxton is a hotel vice president who thrives on control, truth, and efficiency. She’s in no mood for love or the mess it brings. All she wants is to buy the coveted Mayfair Palace—a massive deal that could finally help her land the CEO job in her family’s hotel empire.
Fiery Kai Fisher is charming and chaotic and renowned for closing ambitious deals. Her sights are set on snatching the Mayfair Palace out from under the nose of her hated arch rivals, the Duxton family.
But when secrets emerge and everything starts to fall apart, how can either of the warring women win—especially when they’ve just met their match?
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Heart of Ice by TB Markinson & Miranda MacLeod
Laurie “the Hatchet” Emerson is a ruthless leader in Boston finance who’s rumoured to have a block of ice where her heart should be. If only. Recently widowed, Laurie fears she’s broken beyond repair, until a once-in-a-lifetime business deal reignites her passion for work and gives her a shot at proving to the world she still has some life left in her.
Jack Kennedy is a young portfolio manager who aspires to greatness. Unfortunately, she’s so many rungs down the corporate ladder she can’t even scrape up enough money to move out of her mother’s apartment. Her luck changes when her work ethic is finally rewarded with the job opportunity of her dreams.
A blizzard forces their worlds to collide, but what was meant to be a no-strings night of passion becomes more complicated when they both arrive at the office the next morning to discover they each spent the night with the one person in the city who could crush their futures.
Together, they just might hold the keys to everything they’ve ever wanted, but the difference in their ages and positions could spell the end of their careers. Will the ice queen and the protégé find happiness together or lose everything?
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Getting Back by Cindy Rizzo
Elizabeth Morrison has ascended the ranks of her industry and now runs one of the most successful publishing companies in the US. But even after three decades, she has never been able to get past the devastating end of her relationship with the beautiful and brilliant Ruth Abramson. As Elizabeth approaches her 30th college reunion, she must face the woman who long ago acceded to the demands of her father, a famous Russian dissident, and married the young man who’d been chosen for her. It doesn’t make it any easier that Ruth, now divorced and living openly as a lesbian, is the class luncheon speaker.
As the two women face one another and attempt to reconcile their past, Elizabeth finds she must wrestle with a number of issues she has avoided confronting. And she must carefully decide whether she is more distrustful of Ruth or of herself. Is she headed for another fall with this woman? Or does she want to get close again, so she can be the one to walk away?
When it comes to reuniting with the love of your life, it’s not always easy to know the difference between getting back together and just getting back.
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The Deal by Sabrina Blaum
General Partnership Agreement
E. G. Jones, (Partner 1) residing at 1214 Salix Rd, Pattern, TX, and Nicole Summers (Partner 2), residing at 2004 Ash Ct, Austin, TX (“the Partners”) agree as follows:
Fake Romantic Relationship
- Since October 14, 2023, the Partners have voluntarily associated themselves together in a fake romantic relationship for the purpose of Partner 1 joining the holiday celebrations at Partner 2’s family residence in Dallas, TX for both Thanksgiving and Christmas.
- The assets of the Partnership include, but are not limited to, Partner 1 acting as the girlfriend of Partner 2 around the family of Partner 2 for the duration of this contract. Partner 1 shall receive a compensation of $10,000.
Term of Partnership
- This partnership commenced in October 2023 shall continue until December 27, 2023, or until dissolved by mutual agreement of the parties or terminated by one Partner at any point. Payment shall be calculated based on term fulfilled at termination.
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Souls Aligned by Najee Jamerson
As I watch her smile, my heart aches with a love that cannot be spoken. Amaris is the light in my life, the one who makes everything else fade away.
I would do anything for her, but the fear of her pain keeps me from confessing my love. The illness lingers like a shadow, a constant reminder of how precious time truly is.
Our love is a flame that burns bright, but the shadow of death always looms nearby.
In the end, it is the love that keeps us going, that brings us back to each other. It is the one thing that can never be taken away, even in the face of death.
A Love that has the Power to Shift Mountains and Conquer Death!
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The Warrior Within by Brooke Campbell
Libby struggles with a debilitating disease and is resigned to singlehood. When she goes out one evening with co-workers, the last thing she expects is to stumble into the woman of her dreams: Jo.
It isn’t long until she falls head over heels for her. But Jo’s stunning revelation could spell the end of their new relationship, and as if that wasn’t bad enough, the 150-year-old half-vampire has powerful enemies – including her father.
Entering Jo’s dangerous world, Libby is drawn into a web of secrets and danger. Can she overcome the seemingly insurmountable odds and survive?
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Watch Over Me by Kate Hennessy
Caught stealing medication for her illegal sister, Yara is forced to participate in RePay – a terrifying TV game show that will determine her sentence.
Her only hope for freedom lies in surviving a risky biotechnology trial within the sterile walls of Watch Over Me, where ruthlessly passionate head engineer, Ms Wilding, reveals an unnerving agenda.
When Wilding’s controlling obsessions turn curiously personal, Yara must summon every ounce of willpower to outwit her captor and resist the pull of forbidden attraction in their dangerous game of cat-and-mouse. If she fails, she’ll forfeit her only chance to save her sister in an off-record deal with Wilding’s celebrity arch-enemy.
But what Yara uncovers during her incarceration at Watch Over Me proves she’s not the only one closely guarding a life-changing secret that will challenge alliances, and alter the course of freedom.
But whose secrets should stay hidden and whose should be revealed to the world?
Only 30 days to decide.
With no way to know who’s telling the truth, you’ll be questioning who the real enemy is…
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The Collins Trilogy by Kate Hershberger
Book 1: The Calling
Even in the supernatural world, Darcy and Ceridwen Collins are considered quite extraordinary. They’re the first females born into the Collins clan in nearly 1,000 years. They’re not only twins (an extreme rarity in the werewolf world) but twins that get along despite their Alpha/Omega dynamic.
Darcy, as the first born and alpha, is the heir of the Collins pack. Destined to take over as pack leader when their father steps down. However, Darcy doesn’t want to be the leader and has been trying to convince their father to name her sister as the proper heir for years. He won’t hear of such a thing as an omega becoming pack leader would surely end in anarchy. Things start looking up when a beautiful druid doctor comes into the twins’ lives, befriending Ceridwen and enthralling Darcy instantly. Making their parents and the rest of the pack think that Darcy has finally decided to accept her destiny.
Of course, not everyone wants Darcy to take over as pack leader and a sinister plan begins to develop in an effort to bring down the Collins reign once and for all.
Book 2: The Cure
One year after the events of “The Calling”, the Collins twins are settling into the changes in their lives. Ceridwen and Patrick are now married and trying to figure out the best time to bring a new heir into the pack. Meanwhile, Darcy and Tamsin are planning a wedding as well as their future.
With everything going so well, Ceri decides the time is right to start working on her dream project. Enlisting help from Tamsin, they begin working on a cure for vampirism. They keep their work secret, even from their mates as they know their significant others would never allow them to work on such a project.
They soon find out that keeping their work a secret isn’t so easy. Especially with overly cautious alphas and growing suspicious from an old acquaintance. The doctors’ good intentions might just put the pack, as well as the entire supernatural community, in great danger.
Book 3: The Heir
Shortly after the ending of “The Cure”, the Collins pack is quaking with excitement as Ceridwen is expecting her first child. Meanwhile, Darcy and Tamsin are enjoying their lives as newlyweds and adjusting to their new roles at the Collins Academy.
It would seem that all is right within the pack. That is until an ancient prophecy is uncovered along with a long-forgotten breed of werewolf that seems to have been living in plain sight all along.
Change looms on the horizon as the new heir is preparing to make their way into the world. Meanwhile, Darcy has to accept her destiny to ensure there is a future for the Collins pack as well as all of werewolf kind.
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Dare to Love by A. L. Brooks
Investment banker Ash Taylor left her cut-throat world to set up a cool, cutting-edge tattoo studio. Her love life’s been a lot bumpier, though. Ever since a heart-breaking affair with a straight colleague, she’s vowed to steer clear of women unsure of their sexuality.
Talent-agency executive Carmen Lyttleton is straight, career focused, and not prone to distraction from her occasional casual relationships. When her best friend gets a tattoo at Ash’s studio, Carmen finds herself unexpectedly impressed by Ash and her business.
When they accidentally meet again, Carmen is shocked by the sparks between them and the realization that she feels a lot more than just admiration for Ash’s work ethic. It can’t possibly mean what it seems…can it?
The pull between the women is powerful but so are their fears, old baggage, and stubbornness. Can they dare to love?
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V.A.M.P. Book Three—Bloodlines by Kimberly A. Todd
Katerina didn’t sign up to be a hero for the vampire family that she never knew she had. But with her mother’s return and the full force of the Hapsbergen clan threatening all those she loves, Katerina must decide to fight her enemy and take her rightful place as the head of the Dallenbach Elder Family or risk losing all those that are dear to her and changing the fate of all Elder family vampires.
When an unforeseen circumstance causes Serena to fall into the hands of those who want her dead, will she survive long enough for Katerina to master her newfound strength and save the woman she loves?
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Trust in Me by Tiffany E. Taylor
Giselle Deveraux is the Artistic Director of Edge, the most exclusive hair salon and spa in the Tampa Bay area. She is also secretly a femme submissive, but one who’s vowed she will never again get involved with another so-called “Dominant” after suffering mental, physical, and emotional torture at the hands of her first one.
Master Chance Harmon, the owner of Eros—an exclusive BDSM club for the queer community in Florida—unexpectedly takes possession of Giselle one night when the lovely woman loses a wager she’s made with her gay business partner Derrick, another Dominant at Eros. Giselle has agreed to spend a single night as the submissive of any Dom who can lure a response from her at Derrick’s birthday party at Eros. When it’s the mysterious and seductive butch club owner who draws an unbidden reaction from the guarded femme that night, Giselle is persuaded to spend the entire weekend with Chance, at her command.
Chance is determined to show Giselle what a real D/s relationship should be, that nightmare abuse is not what any sub should suffer under her Master. After a weekend filled with passion, healthy power exchange, and the fulfillment of Giselle’s darkest desires, the couple decides to see where their budding relationship will take them, with Chance confident she can heal Giselle’s scars.
But Giselle’s trust issues are much deeper than even Chance has suspected. Giselle struggles to obey her Master when Chance makes it clear she will expect no less than her submissive’s complete and total surrender. When Nisha Rhymer, Giselle’s old tormentor, appears and sends Giselle spiraling into panicked fear—leaving the frightened woman convinced she can only depend on herself to stay protected from Nisha’s latest threat—Master Chance must fight to make Giselle finally understand it’s her total trust in Chance that can free her to give her Master the most rewarding submission of all.
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Coming soon: Sapphic Book Advent Calendar
Like in past years, I’m putting together a bookish Advent calendar for readers of sapphic fiction, with a giveaway, a free book, or a book on sale behind every door, plus a big finale with dozens of book prizes on December 24 and 25.
You can already check out the Advent calendar page and sign up for the daily reminder emails, which will land in your in-box any time you can open a new door.
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What sapphic book will you be reading for the “main character is a CEO” category? Are there other books that are a good fit for this category? Let us know in the comments!
