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15 sapphic books with a mistletoe kiss
Below, you’ll find 15 recommended sapphic books in which two characters share a kiss under the mistletoe.
Conflict of Interest by Jae
Workaholic Detective Aiden Carlisle isn’t looking for love—and certainly not at the law enforcement seminar she reluctantly agreed to attend. But the first lecturer is not at all what she expected. Psychologist Dawn Kinsley has just found her place in life. After a failed relationship with a police officer, she has sworn never to get involved with another cop again, but she feels a connection to Aiden from the very first moment.
Can Aiden keep from crossing the line when a brutal crime threatens to keep them apart before they’ve even gotten together?
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This Is the Season to Make You Mine by Johana Gavez
Will the Christmas magic help these two friends take a shot at love?
Morgan Bergman doesn’t want to go home for Christmas. She loves her family, but since her parents retired and her sister moved back to their hometown of Apfelville to take over the family business, she’s been avoiding them, feeling guilty about choosing her rising career in New York over her family.
Angie Gutiérrez would love to spend the holidays with her family, but she doesn’t have a choice. Moving to New York from Colombia to follow her dream of becoming a filmmaker means sacrifices need to be made, like spending the holidays alone.
Spending the holidays together in Apfelville seems the perfect solution. Morgan can use her best friend’s support and Angie doesn’t have to be on her own. There’s only one complication. All their friends and family think they should be together.
Hiding romantic feelings for your best friend is already hard enough without everyone meddling. Maybe all it takes is for one of them to take a chance.
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The Christmas Pic by Rena Sapon-White & Ella Schaefer
Is love finally coming into focus?
Ava Garcia-Greene, a Fortune 5 CEO, has it all–power, prestige, and a swanky office in Silicon Beach. But beneath her icy exterior lies a heart yearning for something money can’t buy.
Jo Fisher, a GLAAD-card-carrying, carabiner-clipping, out-and-proud lesbian, is barely keeping her late father’s photo truck afloat in the queer haven of Harmony Springs, Michigan, where her love life is more Silent Night than Joy to the World.
When Ava’s AI Christmas card generator incites controversy, Jo’s heated call into a radio show leads Ava’s board to an ultimatum: save Jo’s business by Christmas or lose her corporate crown.
As they team up, Ava unexpectedly falls for Jo’s disarming sincerity, while Jo is cautiously intrigued by the pull she feels toward the supposedly straight Ava. With their careers on the line and Christmas around the corner, can their spark ignite a holiday miracle?
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Sunscreen & Coconuts by Eliza Lentzski
Mercy Lewis likes order—lesson plans, to-do lists, and predictable routines. As a first-grade teacher in Boston, she’s built a life that’s safe, sensible, and comfortably small. So when her outspoken best friend Lacy convinces her to spend Christmas on the island of Curaçao, Mercy expects little more than sunburns and awkward small talk with strangers.
Then she meets Kate Emerson.
An American expat with sun-bleached hair and a permanent tan, Kate has spent the last seven years trading Boston winters for Caribbean heat. She’s confident, flirtatious, and far too good at making Mercy forget every reason she’s sworn off taking risks—especially the romantic kind.
Between coral reefs, late-night rumrunners, and too many near-misses to be coincidence, Mercy’s carefully guarded heart starts to thaw. But when the vacation ends, so do the easy excuses.
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It’s a Fabulous Life by Kelly Farmer
After years of putting aside her dreams of travel and adventure, Bailey George is ready to leave Lanford Falls and her responsibilities behind on a long-awaited vacation to New York City. But when the volunteer who took over her leadership position for the town’s Winter Wonderfest has a medical emergency, Bailey finds herself stuck in Lanford Falls. She gets roped into reassuming her old role, not wanting to let the town or her friends and family down.
Staying home seems slightly less terrible when Bailey runs into her high school crush, Maria Hatcher. A kiss they shared years ago in the town’s mistletoe grove was a life-defining moment for them both. Maria quickly offers to pitch in and help with Winter Wonderfest. Her sunny disposition and holiday cheer perk up Bailey’s grinchy feelings about everything.
However, one disaster after another snowball on the day of the festival. Bailey’s frustration boils over, and she ends up on the town’s old wooden bridge. There, she meets fabulous drag queen Clara Angel. Bailey declares that she wishes she hadn’t been born in this Christmas-obsessed, suffocating small town. With a little of the magic Clara possesses, she shows Bailey how wrong she is about Lanford Falls and her place in it. And that with a little hope and some true holiday spirit, there is a way to attain all her dreams.
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A Girlfriend for Christmas by Barbara Winkes
Cindy Jeffries has been harboring a crush on Alison Carter, her boss’s niece, for months. So when Alison needs a favor, she’s more than eager to help out.
Alison, a successful businesswoman, is fed up with her friends’ matchmaking efforts. She hopes that introducing Cindy as her girlfriend will put an end to them.
The unusual pact comes with unforeseen consequences. Both of them will have to figure out what matters most in life, and if love is worth taking the risk.
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The Roommate by Claire Forsythe
Jess Black has life all figured out. She has a job that she loves, and her boyfriend is handsome and successful. That’s why it comes as a shock when she meets a woman on the train who makes her pulse race. Maybe it would’ve been possible to put the surprise attraction behind her, but that becomes impossible when the woman she’s been trying so hard to forget moves into her spare room.
Sydney Fletcher has hit the reset button on her life after a devastating breakup necessitates a move. Her sister’s place is barely big enough for her sister and her nephew, so when Sydney spots a room to rent, she jumps at it. Imagine her surprise when her new housemate just happens to be the same woman who has been on her mind for weeks. But everything quickly turns sour and confusing when Jess gives her the cold shoulder. Maybe Sydney had read the signals all wrong that day?
Jess fights to keep her feelings at bay and Sydney tries to keep her heart from getting involved. But the more time they spend together, the harder it gets to ignore how perfect they are for one another.
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You Matter by Jazzy Mitchell
Chrissy Kramer became pregnant during her senior year of high school and was abandoned by her parents, her boyfriend, and her friends. She became a loner, working hard to provide for her son. It was her and him against the world. She eventually earns a paralegal degree and works for a powerful female attorney, Reggie Esposito, a senior law partner at a leading Boston law firm.
Chrissy’s smitten from the beginning, but she refuses to jeopardize her job by acting on her feelings. When a disgruntled former client attempts to kill Reggie after she loses his lawsuit, Chrissy prevents him from shooting Reggie, but she’s hurt in the process. While Chrissy and her son, Ben, stay in Reggie’s home to recuperate, Chrissy’s connection with Reggie deepens, and they embark on a romantic relationship.
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A Little Mischief and A Lot of Mistletoe by Clint Chico
Cassidy Lane and Ashlynn Harper are in love.
They’re also in a lot of trouble.
They’re in deep with Carter High School’s version of the Mafia, and the only way out is to win a bet.
Their challenge? To Improve twelve people’s lives before Christmas Eve.
Their plan? Find six potential couples and help them fall in love just in time for the holidays.
Not an easy task, even for two Christmas-obsessed girls like Ash and Cassie.
A challenge like that requires a little mischief.
And a lot of mistletoe.
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The Nightingale and the Rose by Jolie Dvorak
Detective Rose Martin has spent years trying to bring down Sterling Montague, a corrupt British billionaire with plans of destroying democracy.
But her pursuit of justice throws her into a shadowy world of spies and assassins—a clandestine organisation called the Circle. Tasked with guarding the monarchy, the Circle operates outside the law, led by a mercurial and dangerous woman known only as the Nightingale.
When Rose realises it is the Nightingale who stalks her through London’s midnight streets, the click of her heels haunting Rose’s dreams, it ignites a passionate obsession neither can deny.
Rose’s investigation pulls her deep into a high-stakes game, where every answer only leads to more questions, where every touch blurs the line between duty and desire. Where trust becomes a powerful weapon and love becomes the ultimate risk.
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Merry Weihnachten by E. J. Noyes
Evangeline Phillips isn’t exactly a Grinch, but being estranged from her parents means Christmas is just another day for her. But when Evie meets her new neighbor—her hot, kind, and blessed-with-the-sexiest-accent-Evie-has-ever-heard neighbor—she thinks it might be just the thing to help her get past the holiday season.
Annika Mayer isn’t really running away. But when there’s a job opening in the United States, it seems like the perfect time to leave Germany and start fresh, even if it’s only temporary. It’s just a pity that she’s missing out on the most important holiday: Christmas with her family. Fortunately, Annika’s cute new neighbor is exactly the distraction she needs.
As their friendship and flirtation builds, Evie and Annika decide on an American-German Christmas mesh-up—they’ll share their Christmas traditions and make it through the season together. And as they plan their “Merry Weihnachten,” that flirtation starts to build into something more. But with so much standing between them and forever, Evie and Annika realize they might not get their gift-wrapped happy ending after all.
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Don’t Marry Me at Christmas by Clare Lydon
Meet Sara Snow: Christmas fanatic, festive wedding Grinch. Her dream nuptials? Sun-soaked, Beth-free.
Meet Beth Callaghan: Expert at running. From countries, feelings, and one-night stands with best friends.
Now Beth’s back, armed with apologies and tinsel-wrapped determination. But can she melt Sara’s frosty heart? Or will she need a Christmas miracle? One thing’s crystal clear: Sara Snow will NEVER have a Christmas wedding. Right? RIGHT?
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The No Kiss Contract by Nan Campbell
Despite being the youngest partner at her firm, corporate attorney Davy Dugan is gunning for a recently vacant name partnership—it would mean finally having the power to make a real change in her conservative workplace. But eighty-hour workweeks don’t allow any time with her much younger half-sister, Tally, who doesn’t seem to need Davy in her life anyway.
Davy aims to get back into Tally’s good graces by throwing her a big birthday party, but that means dealing with Tally’s other half sister, Anna. To say Davy and Anna don’t get along is putting it mildly.
When a misunderstanding leads to her boss’s assumption that she and Anna are headed to the altar, Davy sees a way to leapfrog over the competition straight into one of the top spots at her firm. She just has to convince Anna to be her faux fiancée in order to do it and keep her growing attraction in check, of course.
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Meant to Be Christmas by Jamey Moody
It all started with a Christmas date.
When Kendall Malloy leaves her bustling New York City apartment for a month-long escape to her best friend’s, she’s hoping to leave her loneliness behind and enjoy a festive December.
Marley Jacobs, disillusioned with endless first dates and the quest for a real connection, has decided to take a break from dating apps for the holiday season.
Kendall and Marley’s best friends happen to be married and when they finally meet at Friendsgiving there’s an immediate spark. With a flurry of holiday parties on the horizon, their friends’ well-intentioned attempts to set them up with other singles only seems to highlight the connection Kendall and Marley are trying to keep under wraps.
In a clever twist of festive spirit, Marley proposes they attend the parties as each other’s dates, a plan Kendall is eager to embrace. As Christmas lights twinkle along with a sprinkle of magic, the duo discovers a romance neither of them saw coming.
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I Saw Mommy Kissing the Nanny by Shannon O’Connor
Morgan loves three things; Books, women, and being single. But when Grad school costs more than her rent, she needs to come up with a way to make some money and fast. After a one night stand with a beautiful woman, she wakes the next morning in a hurry to make it to her interview as a live in nanny.
Despite acing the interview, she has to pass one final test; meeting the mother—who just so happens to be her one night stand. They both decide to call it a one night thing and move forward, with Morgan becoming her son’s nanny.
As a divorced, single mom Lucy can get all the help she needs. But as the mistletoe is hung and the stockings are filled, are sparks flying too? As Lucy begins to fall for her son’s nanny, she shows her love in a series of her favorite books. Counting down the 24 days of Christmas with Morgan, by trying to tell her how she feels, worried she doesn’t feel the same.
Morgan devours each book, desperate to know if Lucy is sending her a sign. But as Christmas approaches, will each woman get what they want? Or will they be stuck out in the cold as the days of Morgan’s nannying contract are up?
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Picture-Perfect Christmas by Charlotte Greene
When Nicole Steele left the small mountain town of Glenwood Springs, Colorado, she thought she’d never look back. Almost twenty years later, all she wants is to move home. She’s delighted to be hired to take photographs for Glenwood’s new tourism campaign. Instead of her usual week-long visit, she gets to spend the entire holiday season in town. But there’s a hitch: Quinn Zelinski.
Quinn’s working on the tourism project, too, and she and Nicole have a history: high school rivalry, teenage longing, and one memorable kiss. Then Nicole left for college, Quinn stayed, and except for a few fleeting glimpses, they haven’t seen or spoken to each other since.
Nicole and Quinn can’t avoid each other forever, and the magic of the Christmas season might rekindle the romance between them if they don’t let old hurts and rivalry ruin a picture-perfect reunion.
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Kiss Her Once for Me by Alison Cochrun has a mistletoe kiss. A good one.
The Mistletoe Arrangement by Lauren Hart