Sapphic characters with unique nicknames

It’s time for another Micro-Trope category of the Sapphic Book Bingo! This week, we’re covering sapphic characters with unique nicknames.

For this category, read a sapphic book in which the main characters have special nicknames for each other that no other character uses. It has to be a nickname that is unique to their relationship, not a common endearment like “honey” or “baby.”

 

15 sapphic characters with unique nicknames

Below, you’ll find 15 sapphic books in which the characters have unique nicknames for each other:

 

Wrong Number, Right Woman by Jae

A single text message can change everything!

Flirting has never been Denny’s strong suit, but so what if she’s too shy to ask women out? She’s content with her simple life, working as a cashier and helping her sister raise her niece.

But then she gets a wrong-number text message from a stranger named Eliza, asking her of all people for dating advice! Eliza is Denny’s total opposite: witty, outgoing—and straight. Despite their differences, the accidental text sparks an unlikely friendship. Soon, Eliza—self-proclaimed queen of disastrous first dates—would rather banter back and forth with Denny than to keep trying her luck at online dating.

When they meet in person, there’s an instant connection. But what Eliza is feeling can’t be attraction, right? It doesn’t mean a thing that she’s starting to wish the guys she dates would be more like Denny. Or does it? Can the wrong number lead to the right woman after all?

Available at:
Ylva Publishing
Amazon
Apple Books
Audible

 

Mother of Pearl: A Sapphic Sugar Baby Romance by A.A. Fairview

The summer has never been so sweet.

Lydia hadn’t planned to spend the summer poolside. She was supposed to get an internship in the city and spend nights with her girlfriend. Instead she’s single and making minimum wage as a country club lifeguard. Chlorine might dry out her scales, but it’s not all bad.

At least she can flirt on company time.

Stephanie is a bombshell mom with a fortune five-hundred job but without a wedding ring. She might have baggage, but it’s designer–and she’s happy to share the wealth with Lydia in exchange for some lessons in fishfolk biology.

Lydia isn’t sure she’s ready to navigate exes, kids, or even a proper relationship. But summers never last forever. Will this situationship be any different?

Available at:
Amazon
Apple Books

 

Don’t Quit Your Daydream by Adrian J. Smith

When Laura Finch’s business partner hires Skylar to bring their company to the next generation, Laura sees red. An obnoxious millennial isn’t someone she wants to work with—they’re known for failing their side hustles. Since Laura gave up everything for Solace Inc to succeed, including her dreams of marriage and family, she’s not willing to risk it on just anyone.

Skylar Ross vies to succeed in her first big contract and won’t let Laura’s sour personality get in her way. Each day she finds something else intriguing about Laura and all the fronts she puts up. With a dash of humor and hope, Skylar bets on her sunny disposition winning Laura over. What she doesn’t expect is her growing crush on a straight woman to go anywhere.

Dreams are meant to be scary. What will they risk to make theirs come true?

Available at:
Amazon
Audible

 

You Are My Sunshine by Anne-Marie Pellow

Sid’s New Year plan is to hide away in her late mum’s house, finishing the Christmas chocolates. After she’s taken the dog for his early morning walk. In her pyjamas. Who’s to see? It’s a tiny village, and it’s only a quick whizz around the block.

Julia has a new job working for an estate agent. She’s suited and booted, on her way to a viewing when she turns the corner, and sees a face from the past. The face of the woman she hurt thirty years ago.

It’s a small community and their paths cross again. Julia wants to explain herself. Sid doesn’t want to listen. But memories of the past won’t go away.

From enemies to band mates, and icebergs to palm trees, life was a rocky road to negotiate. Three decades on, it’s still a learning curve. But have they mellowed enough to navigate a relationship second time around?

Available at:
Amazon

 

Synchronicity by J.J. Hale

While running the dance program at a summer camp for neurodivergent kids, Haley Tyne bumps into the mysterious woman who ghosted her after a life-altering date two years ago, and their connection is undeniable. Cal O’Shea took a job at the camp to watch over her sister. She never anticipated seeing the woman who left a beautiful mark on a terrible night in her past.

When Haley’s dance partner is injured and their end-of-summer show is in jeopardy, Cal steps in, reviving memories from the past better left behind. With passion igniting in stolen moments, their dance becomes more emotional than anticipated. As past and present intertwine, their dance of destiny may bind their hearts or become just another fleeting step in their separate journeys.

Available at:
Bold Strokes Books
Amazon
Apple Books

 

Wish Upon a Rainbow Star by Jamey Moody

Celeste Starr is about to begin a career-defining research project in astronomy when she has an overnight layover in Dallas. Full of too much excitement to sleep, Celeste finds herself in the hotel bar.

There, the notoriously single, Celeste meets Esse Perkins who has a sweet southern drawl that enchants Celeste with each sultry syllable. The two unlikely strangers find themselves entwined in a night of passion neither will soon forget.

The next day as Celeste begins a long day of travel to the remote mountains of west Texas, she knows she’ll never see Esse again, but is nonetheless irritated with herself for not at least getting her number.

As the weather turns this never ending day into a treacherous journey Celeste finds herself not thinking of her beloved stars, but wishing she was once again in the arms of Esse Perkins. At times Celeste doubted she’d make it through the blinding snowstorm when she finally arrived at a rural hotel where the manager’s smiling face welcomed her inside the warm haven.

Celeste blinked and couldn’t believe her eyes. Esse Perkins! Here? How could it be?

Available at:
Amazon

 

A Marine Discovery by Jax Meyer

In more than five years together, Marines Cameron Warren and Sharon Rodriguez have weathered every challenge thrown at their relationship — including “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”

But the world changed on September 11, leaving Cam to face civilian life on her own while Sharon deploys to Iraq.

For seven months, Cam reluctantly faces new challenges: making new friends, supporting those left behind, and realizing for the first time that she’s autistic. Life is hard, but everything returns to normal when Sharon comes home. Right?

Available at:
Amazon

 

The Golden Trinity by Robyn Nyx

Rayne Marcellus knows what people want, and she’s damn good at getting it. Antiquities is her game, and she’s the best there is, moving in the shadows even as she trades in the light. When an ambitious criminal approaches her to take on a deadlier game than even she’s willing to play, she knows she has to stop him. But she’ll need help… After a previous betrayal, Chase Stinsen doesn’t want anything to do with Rayne. Chase believes archeology is a tool to understand the past in an effort to help the future and has no use for profiting from the finds of history. But when Rayne proposes they track the legendary Golden Trinity, with the added benefit of helping indigenous tribes, she’s hooked. Danger lurks around every corner, and their defenses crumble as they have to depend on one another to survive. If Chase can finally trust Rayne again, she might just end up with more than the gold.

Available at:
Amazon

 

The Shattered Path by Maggie Brown

Vanessa Templeton, the formidable head of a global media empire, has it all. Until she doesn’t. Her world changes in an instant, tumbling her into the unknown.

Eden Ford, a renowned photographer, has been travelling the world in her quest for the perfect pictures. She thought she was past finding love, especially on an isolated island in the middle of the sea. That is until Vanessa falls into her world.

When they meet, the attraction is powerful, but is it real?

The Shattered Path is a poignant story of love, loss, and the enduring hope that even the most fractured memories can find a way back to the heart where they belong.

Available at:
Amazon

 

On My Way There by Jaycie Morrison

Maxine Terrell lurches into adulthood madly in love with a woman and her child. Unfortunately, Daphne Polk is someone else’s wife, and her daughter Lena is someone else’s child. But Daphne’s been there for her ever since Max and her father weathered a terrible tragedy, one that’s still whispered about in their small Texas town. After years of hope and heartbreak, and too many lies to count, Max seems poised to settle for the various “friends with benefits” she encounters.

Unexpectedly wealthy after her father’s death and emotionally adrift with no idea what she really wants from life, Max decides to take to the road and signs up to become a truck driver. During her training in Lubbock, she meets Trillian—“Thrill”—and manages to screw things up from the start. After another chance encounter and a sweet kiss she can’t forget, Max begins to rethink not only what, but who she really wants.

As Max traverses the open road, her journey of impossible love, loss, and courage mirrors her voyage of self-discovery. But before she can look to the future, she must come to terms with the history she’d rather forget.

Available at:
Bold Strokes Books
Amazon
Apple Books

 

Traveller by Caitríona Page

Ríona isn’t out yet. After her mother passes away, she wants nothing more than to leave her small, rural life but when she finds her perfect escape, she finds the perfect reason to stay.

After she meets Tomi, the strong, handsome mechanic with a tragic past of her own, she is forced to confront the secret she’s kept to herself, the same secret she’s trying to escape from. Reeling from a brutal heartbreak, the loss of her mother, and the end of a friendship she once thought unbreakable, Ríona has to learn to live her truth.

A coming of age story about learning to love yourself, and to trust those who call you family.

Available at:
Amazon

 

The Piano in the Tree by Jo Havens

Sixteen years ago, something terrible kept Polly from meeting her girlfriend at a train station in Berlin. Dreams were shattered. Hearts were broken. Two women continued through life alone.

Now, Ksenia Tokarycz is obliged to come back to Australia. Sure, she does it in triumph and she does it in style, but a tardy delivery sends her in search of her piano – back to her childhood home, back to the place where Polly Paterson is still just next door.

High on the escarpment where the summer storms beat their way up the coast and hurl their fury against the sandstone cliffs, a love that never truly died forces two women to come to terms with their scars.

But there is a curious sound on the breeze. There is music on the breath of the wind. And when Toks sees what has happened to her piano, she fears there is a very strong chance her darling Pearl might be utterly mad.

Available at:
Amazon

 

My Aunt, The Vampire by Autumn Wolff

Vedalia’s coming out didn’t exactly go as planned. Instead of living the queer life of her dreams, she wound up being kidnapped by a cult run by her grandfather. And after being chained in a basement for a month, things look pretty grim. That is. . . until a mysterious woman breaks her out.

The woman turns out to be a vampire, and she introduces herself as Vedalia’s estranged aunt Becky. The vampire offers to take her niece in and give her a new life. Eager to escape her grandfather, Vedalia accepts Becky’s offer and soon finds herself the new daughter of a vampire and a witch.

Starting fresh in Maine, Vedalia meets Becky’s wife, Jazmine. With the help of her new monster family, she begins to put the pieces of her life back together: starting her senior year of high school, making new friends, and even dating a mysterious girl with a few secrets of her own.

Jazmine and Becky give their niece the free, queer life she’s always wanted. And it isn’t long before she’s fully immersed in a life of supernatural adventure.

But the shadow of Vedalia’s grandfather stretches far across the country. Between monster hunters and the cult Vedalia narrowly escaped, the teen soon realizes she’ll have to fight to keep the new life she’s been given. Of course, she won’t be alone. And she might not be entirely human once everything is said and done.

Available at:
Amazon
Apple Books
Audible

 

Unworthy by J.A. Vodvarka

Nyssa Blacksea is eager to silence her doubters. The only warrior in her guild without magick, she’s forced to rely solely on her martial arts mastery, unwavering confidence, and charisma. When given the chance to hunt down a mysterious woman named Quinn, and earn the coveted title of Ashcloak, Nyssa seizes the opportunity. Track down a fugitive? An easy task.

There’s just one problem—Quinn isn’t receptive to Nyssa’s charms and refuses to go down without a fight. Dangerous secrets swirl around Quinn and a treacherous guild leader, rattling Nyssa’s faith in the very system that raised her.

Though troubled by the sinking feeling she’s not meant to survive the mission, Nyssa confronts the dangers awaiting her, clashing with pirates, assassins, and undead horrors. Duty pulls her in one direction, but a strange, undeniable spark of connection draws her towards Quinn. With only her heart and code of honor to guide her, Nyssa risks death to stay true to herself.

Available at:
Amazon
Audible

 

Clean by Simonetta Pastorini

Pop star Sydney Grant has it all—money, fame, and a long line of gorgeous exes. Yet beneath the polished facade lies a woman haunted by a lost love and increasingly consumed by lies, mistakes, and loneliness. Fame demands everything from Sydney—her privacy, peace of mind, and, it seems, her very soul. Struggling to reconcile the public’s image of her with her true self, she drowns in a dangerous cocktail of drugs and self-loathing.

Then she meets Haley Butler, a rising actress with a heart still unscarred by the darker side of fame. Haley’s honesty and warmth shake Sydney in ways she never expected, sparking a rare, electric connection. But Sydney’s terrified of letting anyone in too close. Pushing Haley away seems the only way to keep her safe from Sydney’s darkness, even if it means giving up the only chance at love and happiness.

Can Sydney break free from her destructive habits and open herself to a real love she’s always doubted she deserves, or will her demons destroy everything she holds dear?

Available at:
Amazon

 

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