Welcome to TLR’s 52 Best Thawing The Ice Queen Books. This list is perfect for readers who love to watch untouchable ice queens thaw or beasts be tamed and ultimately become more accessible emotionally. Together with the TLR Reader champions we have put together an awesome best of list for you.
Here’s a quick breakdown of what kind of ice queen each main character is. For all of them it is about power and control but there are subtle differences that make it a different kind of character. Here’s how we categorised them:
- Ice Queen – An emotionally unavailable, high powered woman who typically presents on the more feminine side of the scale and doesn’t really have any close relationships.
- Ice Queen Lite – An Ice Queen who is a teeny bit more accessible to some folks. This character will often already have some close friends or family, though not many.
- Beast – An emotionally unavailable, often rude and brusk, physically powerful character who tends to present more on the more masculine side.
1 Ambereye by Gill McKnight
Published by Bold Strokes Books
Audiobook None
Type of Ice Queen Beast
Recommended by Sheena, Anna, Valden, Michelle, Kitty (5 votes)
Synopsis
The thing with the Garouls is you never get quite what you think you will. They really are something else.
Hope Glassy loves her job at Ambereye, Inc., despite having Jolie Garoul as her new boss.
Jolie is a moody workaholic. She is awkward, contrary, and on occasion just plain mean. Hope is hardworking, popular, and in recovery from a serious illness. She doesn’t need a bizarre boss. She doesn’t need office politics. And she doesn’t need to work over Thanksgiving either. Nevertheless, that’s what she and Jolie end up doing…in Little Dip, home of the Garoul clan.
An important meeting brings them to the valley where it’s assumed Jolie has brought her chosen mate to meet her pack. Much to her consternation Jolie finds she likes this idea, but Hope has no time for romance. She is eager to get her life, health, and career back on track, nothing more. Jolie is determined to change her mind, but how does a lycanthrope woo a human? A small and super-efficient, bossy boots human at that?
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2 Hotel Queens by Lee Winter
Published by Ylva Publishing
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Angela Dawe
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen
Recommended by April, Tara, PJ, Jen C, Lynelle Faszczewski (5 votes)
Synopsis
Ice meets fire in this opposites-attract lesbian romance, which is as layered, sassy, and smart as its characters.
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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3 Requiem For Immortals by Lee Winter
Published by Ylva Publishing
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Anais Inara Chase
Audiobook Publisher: Tantor Audio
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen
Recommended by Sheena, Tara, Valden, Michelle, PJ (5 votes)
Synopsis
Professional cellist Natalya Tsvetnenko moves seamlessly among the elite where she fills the souls of symphony patrons with beauty even as she takes the lives of the corrupt of Australia’s ruthless underworld. The cold, exacting assassin is hired to kill a woman who seems so innocent that Natalya can’t understand why anyone would want her dead. As she gets to know her target, she can’t work out why she even cares.
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4 The Music And The Mirror by Lola Keeley
Published by Ylva Publishing
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Abigail Rakocy
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen
Recommended by Sheena, Tara, Anna, Valden, PJ (5 votes)
Synopsis
Anna is the newest member of an elite ballet company. Her first class with her mysterious idol Victoria almost ruins her career before it starts. When she shows she might be a potential star, Victoria chooses Anna to launch a new season around.
Now Anna must face down jealousy, sabotage, and injury, not to mention navigate the circus of friends and lovers within the company. The pressure builds as she knows she must pour everything she has into opening night and prove to her rivals and herself that Victoria’s faith in her is not misplaced.
In the process, Anna discovers that she and the daring, beautiful Victoria have a lot more than a talent for ballet in common, and that not every thrilling dance can be found on stage.
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5 Temptation by Kris Bryant
Published by Bold Strokes Books
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Brittni Pope
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen
Recommended by Anna, PJ, Cate, Jen C (4 votes)
Synopsis
Cassie Miller is broke. Her parents cut off all funding when she dropped out of medical school, and graduate school is expensive. A full-time nanny job at the Wellington estate is the answer to her problems, except working for beautiful, successful Brook Wellington wasn’t in the job description.
Brook has always had a head for business. Born into a global shipping empire, she sits at the helm running it with skill and savvy. But success comes at a cost. Her priority is her six-year-old son, but she can’t be in two places at once. Hiring a nanny isn’t the perfect solution, but it would certainly help, and Cassie came highly recommended. If only she wasn’t so damn attractive.
Can Cassie and Brook deny their growing attraction and keep things professional? Or will they sidestep propriety and give in to temptation?
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6 The Sex Therapist Next Door by Meghan O’Brien
Published by Bold Strokes Books
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Brittni Powers
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen Lite
Recommended by Victoria, Tara, Anna, PJ (4 votes)
Synopsis
Diana Kelley is a couple’s sex therapist with a problem: It’s her job to convince her clients of the importance of sexual and emotional intimacy, but after surviving a toxic relationship with an abusive ex, she’s sworn off love and can’t fathom ever making herself vulnerable again. When her best friend, Ava, is injured the night she is scheduled to assist with a hands-on sexual education workshop, Diana is forced to find a short-term replacement. The last thing she wants is a new lover, even a paid one.
After a year of living in the apartment next door, all Jude Monaco knows about her neighbor Diana is that she’s a gorgeous older woman and the inspiration for more dirty fantasies than she cares to admit. So when Diana knocks on her door with a shockingly delicious favor to ask, Jude seizes the opportunity to learn more.
Their professional relationship is supposed to be a clinical erotic arrangement between a sex therapist and her assistant, but at the intersection of sex and intimacy, anything is possible. Even love.
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7 Breaking Character by Lee Winter
Published by Ylva Publishing
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Angela Dawe
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen Lite
Recommended by Sheena, Anna, PJ (and Tara would also have voted for this one if she realised she was wrong about Elizabeth who is in fact an Ice Queen Lite) (3 votes)
Synopsis
Life has become a farcical mess for icy British A-lister Elizabeth Thornton. America’s most-hated villain stars in a top-rated TV medical drama that she hates. Now, she’s been romantically linked to her perky, new co-star, Summer, due to the young woman’s clumsiness. As a closeted actress, that’s the last thing Elizabeth needs. If she could just get her dream movie role, life would be so much better. The only problem is that the eccentric French film-maker offering it insists on meeting her “girlfriend”, Summer, first.Summer Hayes is devastated when her co-star shuns her for accidentally sparking rumors they’re lovers. Now the so-called British Bitch has the audacity to ask Summer to pretend to be her girlfriend to get her a role? Elizabeth doesn’t even like Summer! Oh, how she’d love to tell her no. And Summer definitely would if it wasn’t for the fact she’s maybe a tiny bit in love with the impossible woman.A lesbian celebrity romance about gaining love, losing masks, and trying to stick to the script.
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8 Courting The Countess by Jenny Frame
Published by Bold Strokes Books
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Nicola Victoria Vincent
Audiobook Published by Bold Strokes Books
Type of Ice Queen Beast
Recommended by Sheena, Victoria, Tara (3 votes)
Synopsis
Professor of Archeology Henrietta “Harry” Knight becomes Countess of Axedale upon her father’s death and takes a sabbatical from Cambridge University to begin refurbishing the long-neglected and run-down Axedale Hall. The child of a loveless marriage, witness to her father’s infidelities and her mother’s pain, Harry has no intention of ever falling in love.
Annie Brannigan is a survivor, remaining positive through hardships. As an agency housekeeper, she moves from post to post with her daughter Riley, taking care of people who have everything she will never have. Annie’s greatest wish is to find her happy ever after, but she fears this dream will never come true.
Can love restore the countess’s heart and the crumbling Axedale Hall, or will the foundations of love turn to dust at the first challenge?
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9 First Position by Melissa Brayden
Published by Bold Strokes Books
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Katrina Holmes
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen
Recommended by Sheena, Anna, Miranda (3 votes)
Synopsis
Anastasia Mikhelson is the rising star of the New York City Ballet. She’s sacrificed creature comforts, a social life, as well as her own physical well-being for perfection in dance. Even her reputation as The Ice Queen doesn’t faze her. Though Ana’s at the peak of her career, competition from a new and noteworthy dancer puts all she’s worked for in jeopardy.
While Natalie Frederico has shown herself to be a prodigy when it comes to ballet, she much prefers modern dance and living on her own terms. Life is too short for anything else. However, when the opportunity to dance with the New York City Ballet is thrust upon her, it’s not like she could say no. Dealing with the company’s uptight lead is another story, however. When the two are forced to work side-by-side, sparks begin to fly onstage and off.
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10 Scissor Link by Georgette Kaplan
Published by Ylva Publishing
Audiobook None
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen Lite
Recommended by Victoria, Michelle, Cecilia Richardson (3 votes)
Synopsis
An age-gap, workplace, lesbian romantic comedy about chasing that impossible, dream crush.
Savin Aerospace employee Wendy Cedar has a massive crush on her hot older boss, Janet Lace, who’s just gone through a divorce.
Her secret love is all harmless enough until Janet finds an email listing every naughty thing Wendy wants to do to her, inspired by a sex dream Wendy has shared with her friend.
Now Wendy’s been called into the boss’s office. It might be a fantasy come true…if she doesn’t get fired first.
What starts off as a no-strings-attached, office fling could become something more. The women have to decide if a romance is for them or if they’re better off as boss and employee.
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11 The Brutal Truth by Lee Winter
Published by Ylva Publishing
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Angela Dawe
Audiobook Published by Tantor Audio
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen
Recommended by Anna, Valden, PJ (3 votes)
Synopsis
Take one ice queen media-mogul boss, an assistant with a crush on her, throw in a truth bet, and as their secrets pour out in this slow-burn lesbian romance, neither woman will be the same again.
Australian crime reporter Maddie Grey is working the night shift, out of her depth in New York, miserable, and secretly crushing on her twice-married, media-mogul employer.
Elena Bartell is a brilliant, fierce, ice queen boss who eats failing newspapers for breakfast and believes to her core that everything would be much simpler if people told each other the whole, unvarnished truth.
As work takes them to Australia, Maddie is goaded into a brief, seemingly harmless bet with her enigmatic boss—where they can’t lie to each other. The bet backfires spectacularly as Elena realizes that the brutal truth might not be what she wanted after all.A beautiful lesbian workplace romance about the lies we tell ourselves.
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12 The Delicate Things We Make by Milena McKay
Published by Indie Author
Audiobook None
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen Lite
Recommended by April, Victoria, PJ (3 votes)
Synopsis
Hitting rock bottom in the concrete jungle of Manhattan, investigative journalist Jamie Walker lands the assignment of a lifetime: Find the most elusive artist of a generation, who has enthralled the art and fashion world for over a decade.
This assignment is supposed to finally be Jamie’s ticket to journalistic fame and fortune. The quest, however, proves to be difficult, as—so far—nobody has managed to discover who the legendary DeVor really is.
As Jamie delves deeper into the mysteries surrounding the enigmatic artist, trying to salvage her stagnant career, she risks getting in over her head and losing her heart in the process.
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13 Thorn by Anna Burke
Published by Bywater Books
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Annette Romano
Audiobook Published by Bywater Books
Type of Ice Queen Beast
Recommended by Victoria, Tara, Michelle (3 votes)
Synopsis
On a cold day deep in the heart of winter, Rowan’s father returns from an ill-fated hunting trip bearing a single, white rose. The rose is followed by the Huntress, a figure out of legend. Tall, cruel, and achingly beautiful, she brings Rowan back with her to a mountain fastness populated solely by the creatures of the hunt. Rowan, who once scorned the villagers for their superstitions, now finds herself at the heart of a curse with roots as deep as the mountains, ruled by an old magic that is as insidious as the touch of the winter rose. Torn between her family loyalties, her guilty relief at escaping her betrothal to the charming but arrogant Avery Lockland, and her complicated feelings for the Huntress, Rowan must find a way to break the curse before it destroys everything she loves. There is only one problem―if she can find a way to lift the curse, she will have to return to the life she left behind. And the only thing more unbearable than endless winter is facing a lifetime of springs without the Huntress.
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14 Tricky Wisdom by Camryn Eyde
Published by Indie Author
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Nikki Jacobs
Audiobook Produced by Audible Studios
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen
Recommended by Sheena, Tara, Miranda (3 votes)
Synopsis
Darcy Wright is a closeted lesbian who has been infatuated with her best friend, Taylor, since junior high. Leaving her small northeast Minnesota town for Harvard in a quest to become a doctor, she moves in with med-student Olivia Boyd, a neurotic, anal, gigantic pain in the backside. The first year of juggling medical school is gruelling, but it’s nothing compared to living with Olivia.
Coming out to her friends and family with an anti-climactic flop, Darcy uses her newly publicised sexuality to try and win Taylor’s affections through an ill-hatched scheme that crosses uncomfortable lines. The result is as unexpected to Darcy as Darcy’s affinity for medicine is to Olivia.
The first year of medical school is a nerve-wracking encounter in medicine, learning lessons the hard way, and finding what her heart desires.
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15 A Heart To Trust by A.L. Brooks
Published by Ylva Publishing
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Anastasia Watley
Audiobook Publisher Tantor Audio
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen Lite
Recommended by Anna, Valden (2 votes)
Synopsis
Change is not Jenny Quinn’s strong suit, but she’s happy enough with her easy-going life, friends, and job as a TV production assistant. That is until a company shake-up foists the infuriating Olivia Sinclair on her. The woman is uptight, snobby, and has some perfect and famous motor-racing husband.
TV and theater producer Olivia moved to New York from the UK to marry her longtime friend. It’s a sham marriage, a favor to a man she loves as a brother, but the strain is beginning to take its toll. How can she even meet women when she’s the picture of heterosexual bliss? Add in her stressful new job, an irritating colleague called Jenny, who thinks being goofy is some kind of admirable work ethic, and life can be a grind some days. The worst part isn’t the office politics or clashing personalities, but the fact there’s an attraction between both women that’s gradually becoming impossible to ignore.
So…should they stop ignoring it? That would mean learning to trust your heart that this is the right woman. And that’s a huge step.
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16 Double Six by Brenda Murphy
Published by NineStar Press
Audiobook None
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen
Recommended by April, Victoria (2 votes)
Synopsis
Elaine MacLeod, the most feared and revered Mistress of Rowan House, is frustrated. Overworked, still hurt and angry over the departure of her long-term lover, she refuses to admit Rowan House needs another Mistress to accommodate their guests. Unconvinced anyone will be able to meet her high standards, Elaine grudgingly agrees to audition the sole applicant, Petra Grendhal.
Robin Broadacre would do anything for the woman who rescued her from certain death at the hands of her previous employers. When she volunteers to assist Petra with her audition, Elaine is forced to reckon with her desire for Robin. Drawn to Petra’s fiery strength and icy demeanor as well Robin’s devotion, Elaine finds herself torn between her passion for both women. When Petra disappears on a trip to Oslo, Elaine and Robin’s search leads them to menaces from Robin’s past and a fight for their lives.
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17 Edge Of Glory by Rachel Spangler
Published by Bywater Books
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Ann Etter
Audiobook Published by Rachel Spangler
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen
Recommended by Tara, Miranda (2 votes)
Synopsis
As Olympic snowboarder Corey LaCroix and skier Elise Brandies ride the razor’s edge between victory and defeat on the slopes, they also face a heat neither of them is prepared for in their safe worlds of snow and ice. The stakes become steeper than any mountain either of them will ever face when legacies and hearts collide at breakneck speed
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18 Hunter’s Way by Gerri Hill
Published by Bella Books
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Abby Craden
Audiobook Published by Audible Studios
Type of Ice Queen Beast
Recommended by Sheena, April (2 votes)
Synopsis
Homicide detective Tori Hunter was used to doing things her way. But even after six different partners in seven years, she was not prepared for the hot-tempered Samantha Kennedy. Samantha, on the other hand, was trying to juggle a new job and a demanding boyfriend and now finds herself with an even greater challenge – being partnered with the most difficult detective in the entire squad.
After a brief terrorist scare disrupts their serial killer investigation, the two women find themselves growing closer. Sam begins to question the relationship with her longtime boyfriend, and Tori, never one to allow anyone to get too close, begins to feel her defenses slipping in Sam’s presence.
While facing a serial killer and drug deals gone bad, the two detectives struggle with their feelings, trying to maintain their professional relationship while keeping their nearly flammable physical relationship in check.
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19 In Development by Rachel Spangler
Published by Brisk Press
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Anne Etter
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen
Recommended by Sheena, Tara (2 votes)
Synopsis
From a young age, Cobie Galloway made a career of playing the girl-next-door on the silver screen. Only, she’s not a teenager anymore. Ready to challenge herself artistically and earn the part she’s always dreamed of, she’s forced to face the realization that in order to win the roles afforded to edgier actresses, she might first have to audition by playing someone edgier in her day-to-day life.
Pop star Lila Wilder built a multimedia empire by always having her finger on the pulse of what’s hot. However, as she struggles to produce her next smash hit record, she’s finding it hard to keep her name in the public eye, and a string of tumultuous relationships with Hollywood boy-toys no longer captivates anyone’s attention.
Both women tentatively agree to a headline-grabbing fauxmance, with two simple rules: Always stick to the script, and never forget that on the stage of public perception, nothing is real. Can two women find love in a world of carefully crafted illusions, or will a successful charade mean the potential for something more gets left on the cutting-room floor?
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20 Secrets In A Small Town by Nicole Stiling
Published by Bold Strokes Books
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Hollis Elizabeth
Audiobook Produced by Bold Strokes Books
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen
Recommended by Sheena, April (2 votes)
Synopsis
Town manager Savannah Castillo has everything under control, just the way she likes it. But when she starts to receive unsolicited gifts and messages from a stranger, her life turns to chaos. Against her better judgment, Savannah accepts Deputy Chief Mackenzie Blake’s help in the investigation and is more than a little annoyed when Mackenzie suggests herself as a part-time, live-in bodyguard.
Savannah isn’t Mackenzie’s favorite person. She’s rude and entitled, and she always has to have the last word. Always. But when she and her daughter, Eliana, need help, protecting them becomes more than just a job. Mackenzie’s mission is to find the person harassing them before they cause real harm. Savannah’s fleeting and incredibly sexy smiles don’t make the task any easier, and there’s no time for distractions.
Not when someone waits in the shadows, watching and preparing to strike.
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21 Silver Collar by Gill McKnight
Published by Bold Strokes Books
Audiobook None
Type of Ice Queen Beast
Recommended by Sheena, Kitty (2 votes)
Synopsis
Luc Garoul is outlawed and out of control. The Garouls have set their best hunters after her before she self-destructs and takes the whole pack with her. But will they reach her in time? A more sinister predator has Luc in her crosshairs—a hunter as cunning and unforgiving as her prey.
Twenty years ago, Emily Johnston’s father drowned in the Silverthread River, and no one in the town of Lost Creek believes it was an accident. For years, Emily has been spying on the Garouls. She has some ideas of her own as to what they really are. Now her chance has come. A lone Garoul has crossed her path, and Emily is determined to avenge her father. Emily is a strong and skilled hunter. And she has a silver collar.
Fourth in the Garoul series.
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22 The Fate Of The Stars by SD Simper
Published by Endless Night Publications
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Lois Ridge
Audiobook Published by Shauntel Dian Simper
Type of Ice Queen Beast
Recommended by April, Valden (2 votes)
Synopsis
A devout mermaid. A disgraced princess. A feud as ancient as the gods.
Worlds collide when Tallora is kidnapped from her ocean home and forced to be a pet to a tyrannical foreign empire. Her only hope for rescue lies with a sworn enemy—Princess Dauriel, infamous for her stone heart and conflicted past. But when Dauriel’s kingdom comes to the cusp of war, could their uneasy alliance be the key to defeating a common foe? Or will their tenuous feelings lead them to ruin?
From the world of FALLEN GODS comes a tale of ancient magic and cutthroat politics—and finding redemption through love.
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23 The Love Factor by Quinn Ivins
Published by Ylva Publishing
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Lori Prince
Audiobook Publisher Tantor Audio
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen
Recommended by PJ, Cate (2 votes)
Synopsis
A smart, opposites-attract, student-professor romance filled with nostalgia, edgy politics, and the forbidden thrills of lesbian love in the nineties.
Molly Cook is almost thirty, with dismal career prospects, and has given up on saving the world. It might be the nineties, and everything’s shoulder pads, Doc Martens, and The X-Files, but people won’t budge on gay rights. Molly decides to give a PhD a whirl but finds herself more interested in campus politics…and her strict and sexy statistics professor.
Professor Carmen Vaughn is stuck in small-town Maryland with smarmy blowhards for colleagues and ungrateful students who can’t handle her high standards. She has no intention of coming out, least of all to Molly, a troublemaking grad student who can’t stop picking fights with the conservative faculty.
But when Molly discovers evidence implicating a homophobic colleague in a scandal, Carmen can’t ignore it—even if the subject hits too close to home. As the two women work together to make their case, they grow closer than Carmen ever imagined. But she absolutely refuses to get involved with a student.
The thing is, as the chemistry builds between them, Molly isn’t sure she wants to be a grad student anymore…if she ever did.
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24 The Midnight Hunt by LL Raand
Published by Bold Strokes Books
Audiobook Yes, narrated by
Type of Ice Queen Beast
Recommended by Sheena, Victoria (2 votes)
Synopsis
What do you do when you wake up to a whole new life…with dangerous urges you can’t control? Medic Drake McKennan has never been good at following protocol, so she doesn’t think twice about rendering emergency care when a teenager’s life is at stake – even if the young girl is in the throes of Were fever and any sane human should know better. It isn’t the bright shining pain of the bite or even the wrenching agonies of the fever that convinces Drake everything in her life has changed. It’s the way she feels about the blonde with the wolf-gold eyes who awakens a dark hunger she can’t control…and doesn’t want to. Sylvan, the Alpha of the Adirondack Timberwolf Pack, is the one female Drake can’t have. And the only one she craves.
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25 The Red Files by Lee Winter
Published by Ylva Publishing
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Victoria Mei
Audiobook Publisher Ylva Publishing
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen
Recommended by Tara, Shawn (2 votes)
Synopsis
Ambitious Daily Sentinel journalist Lauren King is chaffing on LA’s vapid social circuit, reporting on glamorous A-list parties while sparring with her rival – the formidable, icy Catherine Ayers. Ayers is an ex-Washington political correspondent who suffered a humiliating fall from grace, and her acerbic, vicious tongue keeps everyone at bay. Everyone, that is, except knockabout Iowa girl King, who is undaunted and unimpressed and gives as good as she gets.
One night a curious story unfolds before their eyes: one political launch, 34 prostitutes and a palette of missing pink champagne. Can the warring pair work together to unravel an incredible story?
This is a lesbian fiction with more than a few mysterious twists.
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26 The Sweetest Thing by Natasha West
Published by Indie Author
Audiobook None
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen Lite
Recommended by Sheena, Miranda (2 votes)
Synopsis
Robyn Vincent bakes. It’s the only thing in her life that feels good, feels like control. Until almost by accident, she ends up as a contestant on one of the biggest cookery shows in the world, ‘Bake It!’ Now she’s wildly out of her comfort zone, baking under the watchful eye of mean judges as well as a national audience. If that wasn’t bad enough, there’s also her main competitor, Jodie Jacobs. She’s seriously skilled, cold as ice, and worst of all, sex on a stick.
However, when the competition heats up, so do things between Robyn and Jodie. And not just on the set… But are they a recipe for disaster? Or is the attraction between them the icing on the cake?
Another witty and warm romantic comedy from the author of ‘Just Married?’ and ‘The Matchmaker.’
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27 Too Close To Touch by Georgia Beers
Published by Bold Strokes Books
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Abby Craden
Audiobook Publisher: Audible Studios
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen Lite
Recommended by Victoria, Miranda (2 votes)
Synopsis
Life gets complicated when love turns out to be nothing like you expected – and the woman you want is too close to touch. Gretchen Kaiser is a workaholic corporate honcho with issues – she’s got daddy issues, she’s got female-executive-in-a-man’s-world issues, and she’s got one-night-stand issues. What she doesn’t have are love issues. She isn’t looking for it, she doesn’t feel she needs it, and she doesn’t expect to find it…certainly not right under her nose.
Kylie O’Brien is the kind of girl who believes in true love and is willing to wait until it shows up at her door. Her best friend, Mick, would sweep her off her feet given the chance, but Mick doesn’t make Kylie feel the way true love should. And now Kylie has to worry about her new boss…. Gretchen Kaiser’s icy reserve makes life as her administrative assistant a challenge. It doesn’t matter one damn bit that Gretchen is extremely attractive with a voice as rich and smooth as melted chocolate. It absolutely doesn’t…
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28 Under A Falling Star by Jae
Published by Ylva Publishing
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Shawn Marie Bryan
Audiobook Published by Ylva Publishing
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen Lite
Recommended by Sheena, Anna (2 votes)
Synopsis
Falling stars are supposed to be a lucky sign, but not for Austen. Her new job as a secretary in an international games company isn’t off to a good start. Her first assignment—decorating the Christmas tree in the lobby—results in a trip to the ER after Dee, the company’s second-in-command, gets hit by the star-shaped tree topper.
Dee blames her instant attraction to Austen on her head wound, not the magic of the falling star. She’s determined not to act on it, especially since Austen has no idea that Dee is practically her boss.
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29 Who’d Have Thought by G Benson
Published by Ylva Publishing
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Tanya Eby
Audiobook Published by Tantor Audio
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen
Recommended by Miranda (1 votes)
Synopsis
Top neurosurgeon Samantha Thomson needs to get married fast and is tightlipped as to why. And with over $200,000 on offer to tie the knot, no questions asked, cash-strapped ER nurse Hayden Pérez isn’t about to demand answers.
The deal is only for a year of marriage, but Hayden’s going into it knowing it will be a nightmare. Sam is complicated, rude, kind of cold, and someone Hayden barely tolerates at work, let alone wants to marry. The hardest part is that Hayden has to convince everyone around them that they’re madly in love and that racing down the aisle together is all they’ve ever wanted. What could possibly go wrong?
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30 A Curious Woman by Jess Lea
Published by Ylva Publishing
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Cat Gould
Audiobook Published by Tantor Audio
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen
Recommended by April (1 vote)
Synopsis
A funny, fabulous, cozy mystery filled with quirkiness and a sweet serve of lesbian romance.
Bess Campbell has escaped to the windswept Australian coastal town of Port Bannir, determined to begin her life again. She is loving her fresh start, thanks to her fun job running a hip gallery, her territorial chickens, and a lot of self-help books to find her new, better self.
Port Bannir local Margaret Gale runs an austere maritime museum, and rules her staff with an iron fist. She has no time for that crazy modern gallery or upbeat, earnest Bess sweeping around town on her hipster bicycle.
After a heated dispute over an antique collectible dildo, there’s little hope Margaret and Bess will ever see eye to eye.
But when Port Bannir is rocked by a senseless murder, both women find themselves implicated. Can they work together to expose the truth––or will the truth prove far too dangerous?
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31 A Roll In The Hay by Lola Keeley
Published by Ylva Publishing
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Ruth Urquhart
Audiobook Published by Tantor Audio
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen
Recommended by April (1 vote)
Synopsis
In a world of expectations, this quirky, enemies-to-lovers lesbian romance is about making your own path.
The whole “big city, successful career, loyal, hot girlfriend” experiment has been a miserable failure for veterinarian Tess Robinson, so she’s moved back home to a small town in the Scottish countryside. She doesn’t count on a run-in with the stuck-up, maddening, local landowner Lady Susannah Karlson, who tries to boss Tess around as if she owns the whole town…which she sort of does.
Closeted, wealthy, ice queen Lady Karlson is having the worst year – becoming widowed, being embroiled in a public feud over her vast estate, and now finding herself at odds with the sharp-tongued new vet who has just blown in from London. The annoying woman is so unsuitable to tend her horses, so impertinent, and so frustratingly cute.
As their clashes build and they’re thrust together against a back-drop of eccentric village busybodies, class warfare, and deadly dangers, the circling women start to wonder if there might be something more to the rising tensions between them. It can’t all be hate, can it?
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32 Anyone But You by Chelsea M Cameron
Published by Indie Author
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Lori Prince
Audiobook Produced by Tantor Audio
Type of Ice Queen Beast
Recommended by Tara (1 vote)
Synopsis
Things are going great for Sutton Kay, or at least they were. Her yoga studio is doing well, she’s living with her best friend, and she just got two kittens named Mocha and Cappuccino. Sure, she doesn’t have a girlfriend, but her life is full and busy.
Then her building is sold and the new landlord turns out to be the woman putting in a gym downstairs who doesn’t seem to understand the concepts “courtesy” and “don’t be rude to your tenants.” Sutton can’t get a read on Tuesday Grímsdóttir, but she can appreciate her muscles. Seriously, Tuesday is ripped. Not that that has anything to do with anything since she’s too surly to have a conversation with, and won’t stop pissing Sutton off.
Sutton’s life gets interesting after she dares Tuesday to make it through one yoga class, and then Tuesday gives Sutton the same dare. Soon enough they’re spending time working out together and when the sweat starts flowing, the sparks start flying. How is it possible to be so attracted to a person you can barely stand?
But when someone from Tuesday’s past shows up and Sutton sees a whole new side of Tuesday, will she change her mind about her grumpy landlord? Can she?
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33 Behind The Green Curtain by Riley LaShea
Published by Indie Author
Audiobook None
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen
Recommended by PJ (1 vote)
Synopsis
When Caton’s sleazy boss offers her a position as his wife’s personal assistant, she accepts the job with reservations, certain Jack Halston has ulterior motives.
After meeting Jack’s wife Amelia, though, it’s Caton’s motivations that begin to unravel. As vicious as she is beautiful, Amelia threatens Caton’s position and her sense of decorum.
As the attraction between the two women spirals into a torrid affair, Caton is drawn deeper into Jack and Amelia’s world of privilege and prestige, where everything is at stake and nothing is what it seems.
Behind the Green Curtain is a gritty erotic romance with numerous descriptive sex scenes intended for a mature audience.
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34 Blend by Georgia Beers
Published by Bold Strokes Books
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Paige McKinney
Audiobook Published by Bold Strokes Books
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen
Recommended by Victoria (1 vote)
Synopsis
When the widowed owner of the wine bar Vineyard decides she wants to take some time off and travel abroad, she leaves her business in the very capable hands of the two women she trusts most: her daughter Piper and Vineyard’s general manager, Lindsay.
For Lindsay Kent, Vineyard is her dream job. She’s thrilled when her boss leaves her in charge (well, half charge) and tells her to feel free to make changes. Lindsay has tons of ideas that she’s been dying to put into action, and this is her big chance to increase the success of the business and prove she’s more than ready to run things solo. But getting the boss’s daughter on board is harder than expected. The uptight and annoyingly attractive Piper is blocking her every move.
For Piper Bradshaw, Vineyard is not her job. She already has one. She’s VP at a large tech company, and she’s damn good at it. Who cares if people say she’s a workaholic and an icy bitch? She didn’t get to the top by being prone to whims and experiments. She’s not happy when her mother suddenly decides to gallivant all over the country and furious that the family business has been left in the hands of the happy-go-lucky, born-a-generation-too-late hippie who manages it. Good thing Lindsay can’t make any changes unless they both agree, because Piper doesn’t intend to.
Lindsay and Piper are like night and day. Working together won’t be easy, but not falling in love might prove the hardest job of all.
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35 Blurred Lines by KD Williamson
Published by Ylva Publishing
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Sarah Grant
Audiobook Published by Ylva Publishing
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen
Recommended by Tara (1 vote)
Synopsis
Kelli MacCabe is a no nonsense detective with a tough exterior. Only a select few know her as a loyal, loving friend. Committed to her family, her friends, and her job, Kelli puts her needs behind everyone else’s. As a surgeon, Nora Whitmore is used to being in control. The hospital is her life and leaves room for little else. Respected by her colleagues, but misunderstood by the residents, Nora takes what she needs and keeps everyone at arm’s length. In the process, she creates unexpected enemies. Tragedy brings them together. As chaos grows around them, the lines between them begin to blur. Despite being from different worlds, friendship grows between them, turning quickly to attraction. Will these two strong, independent women find a way to deal with their individual baggage? Or will they be overcome by it?
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36 Breaking Down Her Walls by Erin Zak
Published by Bold Strokes Books
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Brittni Pope
Audiobook Produced by Bold Strokes Books
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen
Recommended by Anna (1 vote)
Synopsis
Leaving is what Julia Finch does best.
When a meeting with her birth parents goes horribly wrong, Julia escapes on a hastily planned road trip and winds up breaking down in a Colorado town so small the cows outnumber the people. Completely out of her element, she takes a temporary job as a ranch hand at Bennett Ranch. She only has to survive long enough to get her car fixed, and then she’s out of there for good.
Her bad luck continues when she meets the ranch owner, Elena Bennett. Elena is unhappy, abrasive, and annoyingly breathtaking. But the longer Julia stays, the more the ranch starts to feel like home, and her feelings for Elena become impossible to ignore. She’s spent years building her defenses high and running from her past. Could a love worth staying for be the key to breaking down her walls?
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37 Chasing Stars by Alex K Thorne
Published by Ylva Publishing
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Abigail Rakocy
Audiobook Published by Ylva Publishing
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen
Recommended by Anna (1 vote)
Synopsis
For superhero Swiftwing, crime fighting isn’t her biggest battle. Nor is it having to meet the demanding whims of Hollywood screen goddess Gwen Knight as her mild-mannered assistant, Ava.
It’s doing all that, while tracking a giant alien bug, being asked to fake date her world-famous boss, and realizing that she might be coming down with a pesky case of feelings.
A fun, sweet, and sexy lesbian romance about the masks we all wear.
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38 Close To Home by Rachel Spangler
Published by Bywater Books
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Ann Etter
Audiobook Published by Rachel L Spangler
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen
Recommended by Anna (1 vote)
Synopsis
When a CPA is forced to hire help for tax season, she resents the presence of her brash, young intern. The intern only wants to complete the internship so she can chase her dream job in D.C. Will the CPA’s past and the intern’s future add up to something greater than the sum of their escalating attraction?
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39 Don’t Call Me Hero by Eliza Lentzski
Published by Indie Author
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Lori Prince
Audiobook Published by Indie Author
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen
Recommended by Shawn Karns (1 vote)
Synopsis
It’s been over a year since Cassidy Miller retired from the United States Marine Corps, but try telling that to her nightmares. She knew that coming back after eight years in a war zone wouldn’t be easy, but she’d underestimated the real difficulties of transitioning back to civilian life. War is hell, but the aftermath is endless.
Looking for a fresh start, she’s left her friends and career in Minneapolis to be a police officer in northern Minnesota. It’s in the tiny town of Embarrass where she learns more about Julia Desjardin. The city prosecutor is cool, professional, and untouchable. But she and Cassidy have history, and Cassidy isn’t going to let her easily forget that.
For all their surface differences, Cassidy and Julia have more in common than they first realized – both are reluctant to hand over their pasts to be judged and studied. But it might take someone just as damaged as the other to help each cope with the skeletons in their respective closets.
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40 Femme Tales by Anne Shade
Published by Bold Strokes Books
Audiobook None
Type of Ice Queen Beast
Recommended by Miranda (1 vote)
Synopsis
Beast: Former hip-hop artist Ebony “The Beast” Trent has wrapped her persona around herself like a protective wall of bitterness. Belinda Jansen is confident, intelligent, sexy, and—to Ebony’s fascination—not the least bit intimidated by Ebony’s beastly demeanor. Can Beauty truly tame The Beast?
Awaken: Local celebrity chef Chayse Carmichael has achieved a level of success she’d only imagined while learning to cook. But when free-spirited Georgia peach Serena Frasier walks into her restaurant, Chayse realizes that success doesn’t always bring happiness if you don’t have someone special to share it with. Does love at first sight truly exist?
Stiletto: Music mogul Cass Phillips barely has a moment to sleep, let alone build a relationship. But an unexpected encounter with shoe designer Faith Shaw leads her to believe that maybe fairy tales do come true. Can true love really conquer all?
Six women find themselves in their own real-life fairy tales when true love finds them in the most unexpected ways.
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41 Kiss The Girl by Melissa Brayden
Published by Bold Strokes Publishing
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Felicity Monroe
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen Lite
Recommended by Meredith Santiago (1 vote)
Synopsis
Sleeping with the enemy has never been so complicated.
Twenty-eight-year-old Brooklyn Campbell is having a bad day. A speeding ticket, a towed car, and a broken heel are all working against her laid-back vibe. To top it all off, her birth mother, whom she’s never met, has requested contact. The only bright spot is an impromptu date with a beautiful and mysterious brunette.
Jessica Lennox is what you would call a high-powered executive. She’s the head of a multimillion-dollar advertising firm in New York City, and it didn’t happen by accident. But when the blonde head turner from the wine bistro turns out to be her number one competitor, her life gets infinitely more complex.
Is New York big enough for both Brooklyn and Jessica? Maybe it’s just time they experienced it together…
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42 Love’s Melody Lost by Radclyffe
Published by Bold Strokes Books
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Paige McKinney
Audiobook Published by Bold Strokes Books
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen
Recommended by Tara (1 vote)
Synopsis
A secretive artist with a haunted past and a young woman escaping a life that proved to be a lie find their destinies entwined. Victim of a terrible accident, famed composer and pianist Graham Yardley loses sight, heart and soul. Wealth and fame mean nothing after the devastating loss of her beloved music; her life is reduced to silence, darkness, and bitter regret. She retreats to a bleak mansion atop windswept cliffs, her once consuming passions are now a source of anguish and fear. Then Anna, a lost woman seeking a place in the world, comes into her life and awakens feelings she thought were dead forever.
A fragile melody of love is played between these damaged souls, a song made sweeter and stronger by the day. But will their blossoming romance be destroyed by an outsider’s greed or will it succumb to the discord of Graham’s tormented heart? Can Graham find happiness with Anna, caught up in the fiery overtures and darkly gothic strains of Love’s Melody Lost?
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43 Mangos And Mistletoe by Adriana Herrera
Published by Indie Author
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Lacy Laurel
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen Lite
Recommended by Tara (1 vote)
Synopsis
Kiskeya Burgos left the tropical beaches of the Dominican Republic with a lot to prove. As a pastry chef on the come up, when she arrives in Scotland, she has one goal in mind: win the Holiday Baking Challenge. Winning is her opportunity to prove to her family, her former boss, and most importantly herself, she can make it in the culinary world. Kiskeya will stop at nothing to win, that is, if she can keep her eyes on the prize and off her infuriating teammate’s perfect lips.
Sully Morales, home cooking hustler, and self-proclaimed baking brujita lands in Scotland on a quest to find her purpose after spending years as her family’s caregiver. But now, with her home life back on track, it’s time for Sully to get reacquainted with her greatest love, baking. Winning the Holiday Baking Challenge is a no brainer if she can convince her grumpy AF baking partner that they make a great team both in and out of the kitchen before an unexpected betrayal ends their chance to attain culinary competition glory.
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44 Mergers And Acquisitions by A.E. Radley
Published by Heartsome Publishing
Audiobook Yes, narrated by P.J. Morgan
Audiobook Published by Heartsome Publishing
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen
Recommended by April (1 vote)
Synopsis
A crush on your boss is bad. A crush on her mortal enemy is worse.
Sophie Young is on cloud nine now that she works for her idol Kate Kennedy – owner of the best advertising agency in Europe. When a top client requests that Kate works on a lucrative project with the notoriously fastidious Georgina Masters, Sophie knows that things are about to get tough. What she doesn’t anticipate is Georgina setting her romantic sights on her.
Stuck between two fiery women and desperately trying to keep the peace, Sophie has to attempt to balance the fragile merger, keep her job, and appease both women.
Mergers and Acquisitions is a fun lesbian romance that’s impossible to put down. Find out who Sophie chooses today.
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45 Rabbit by Max Ellendale
Published by Indie Author
Audiobook None
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen Lite
Recommended by Victoria (1 vote)
Synopsis
Bias Crimes Detective, Alice Lange, has spent most of her adult life building a sarcophagus around her heart. When a targeted hate crime hits close to home and lands Alice in the emergency room, the last thing she expects is to fall for the kind doctor who softens her inhibitions while she’s on the mend. Doctor Corwin isn’t without her own shadows, however, as she battles the grief and guilt that’s captured her for so long. Can two women, scarred by both love and their professions, submit to the budding desire between them? Or will they continue to trip through their old cycles and hide away from love’s starry light?
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46 Redemption by Susanne M Beck
Published by AUSXIP Publishing
Audiobook None
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen
Recommended by Michelle (1 vote)
Synopsis
Meet Ice and Angel who are nurturing a passionate love in the notorious women’s prison called “The Bog”. A love that makes them stronger together… and so much more vulnerable when they are apart.
If you love “Orange is the New Black”, you will fall in love with Redemption’s Ice and Angel. The best things in life are often found in the most unexpected places…
Angel is a small-town young woman who finds herself trapped in her worst nightmare, a state penitentiary called “The Bog”. Sentenced for murder and sent to the infamous prison, Angel becomes a useful inmate to the other prisoners with her unique skills of procuring items for the prisoners. Her life changes when Angel attracts the attention of the legendary prisoner and repeat offender, Morgan Steele, better known as “Ice”, who once again returns to the Bog.
The minute Angel looks into the woman’s icy blue eyes, she is irresistibly attracted to the charismatic woman, sensing a connection she cannot explain nor deny. Charmed by her innocence, Ice takes Angel up on a dare that will forever change their lives as the two start down a road together they’ve never traveled before – fueling a passion that will rock them to the very core and nurturing a love that will make them stronger together… and so much more vulnerable when they are apart.
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47 Space Unicorn Blues by TJ Berry
Published by Angry Robot
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Joanthan Todd Ross
Audiobook Published by Recorded Books
Type of Ice Queen Beast
Recommended by Michelle (1 vote)
Synopsis
A misfit crew race across the galaxy to prevent the genocide of magical creatures, in this unique science fiction debut.
Having magical powers makes you less than human, a resource to be exploited. Half-unicorn Gary Cobalt is sick of slavery, captivity, and his horn being ground down to power faster-than-light travel. When he’s finally free, all he wants is to run away in his ancestors’ stone ship. Instead, Captain Jenny Perata steals the ship out from under him, so she can make an urgent delivery. But Jenny held him captive for a decade, and then Gary murdered her best friend… who was also the wife of her co-pilot, Cowboy Jim. What could possibly go right?
File Under: Science Fiction [ Rocks in Space | Stand Up to Reason | The Human Experiment | Last Unicorn ]
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48 Sunsets And Shades by Erica Lee
Published by Indie Author
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Jessica Renfro
Type of Ice Queen Beast
Recommended by Tara (1 vote)
Synopsis
Kinsley Scott is a lesbian romance author who doesn’t actually believe in love. While her alter ego, Laurel Lake, loves happy endings and epic love stories, Kinsley has a more cynical view of the world.
Grace Harper is a hopeless romantic hanging on every word of the lesbian romance novels she reads. She believes her happy ending is right around the corner if she can just move on from the ex who cheated on her. When Grace’s childhood best friend, Leah, suggests that she comes to Philly to get space from her ex, it seems like the perfect opportunity to start over, especially since Leah’s roommate is none other than Laurel Lake – Grace’s favorite romance author.
Grace quickly learns that people aren’t always how they appear online and is disappointed to find that Kinsley Scott is nothing like Laurel Lake. She’s rude and vulgar and, unfortunately, irresistibly sexy. There is also much more to her than meets the eye, and as the two grow closer, her tough exterior is quickly stripped away, revealing much more than Grace ever bargained for.
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49 The Belle VS The BDOC by Amy Jo Cousins
Published by Indie Author
Audiobook Yes, narrated by J.A. Rock
Type of Ice Queen Beast
Recommended by Tara (1 vote)
Synopsis
Love is a battlefield.
Shelby Summerfield is a Southern belle at a northern college in 1993, which is a challenge to begin with. And yes, Florence Truong, the object of Shelby’s lust and the only other woman on campus not wearing flannel, does catch her in what looks like a compromising position with a straight boy at pub trivia night.
But Shelby is a gold star lesbian and Florence’s dapper fashion sense makes her weak in the knees, so her rejection stings hard. To exact her revenge, Shelby cheats a little when putting together her own trivia dream team, because nobody strategizes to win like a Southern girl on a mission. And if trivia can’t settle their rivalry, then maybe the annual campus-wide game of assassin will do the trick.
Shelby’s gonna come out on top of Florence – in bed or out, one way or another. Bless her heart. And her silk pocket squares.
Warning: Contains obscene pub trivia team names, paint guns, a Southern belle with an exquisite grasp of battlefield tactics, and one dapper dyke who’s misjudged her.
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50 The Lily and the Crown by Roslyn Sinclair
Published by Ylva Publishing
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Angela Dawe
Audiobook Published by Roslyn Sinclair
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen
Recommended by PJ (1 vote)
Synopsis
Ariana “Ari” Geiker lives an isolated life on an imperial space station commanded by her father. The skilled, young botanist rarely leaves her living quarters, where she maintains an elaborate garden. When an imperious older woman is captured from a pirate ship and given to her as a slave, Ariana’s perfectly ordered life is thrown into chaos. Her nameless slave is watchful, intelligent, dangerous, and sexy, and seems to know an awful lot about tactics, star charts, and the dread, marauding pirate queen, Mir. What happens when the slave also reveals an expertise in seduction to her innocent mistress?
The Lily and the Crown is a lesbian romance about daring to risk your heart with someone you shouldn’t.
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51 The Sting Of Victory by SD Simper
Published by Endless Night Publications
Audiobook None
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen
Recommended by Michelle (1 vote)
Synopsis
When Flowridia, a witch granted power by an unknown demon, deceives an alluring foreign diplomat, she is promoted to a position of power to conceal her falsehood. Thrust into a world of politics and murderous ambition, she has her gentle heart and her Familiar to guide her – as well as a drunk Celestial with a penchant for illusion.
Meanwhile, Lady Ayla Darkleaf, Grand Diplomat of Nox’Kartha, smiles with predatory charm and wields her blades with a dancer’s grace. Flowridia falls into a toxic love affair, one she knows will end in heartbreak. But as Ayla’s legacy as a vampiric creature unfolds, Flowridia begins to see the broken woman behind the monster.
When a foreign emperor dies at the hands of a mysterious interloper, one who seeks to collect the greatest sources of power in the realms, Flowridia’s kingdom is charged to stop him. But Flowridia’s devotion is torn between duty to her own and the woman whose claws grip her heart.
In the ensuing clash of Gods, Flowridia must choose her loyalties with care – the fates of kingdoms rest in her hands.
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52 The X Ingredient by Roslyn Sinclair
Published by Ylva Publishing
Audiobook Yes, narrated by Anastasia Watley
Audiobook Published by Tantor Audio
Type of Ice Queen Ice Queen
Recommended by April (1 vote)
Synopsis
Laurie Holcombe is out of a job, out of luck, and out of time. When a prestigious law firm hires her as an assistant to one of its senior partners, it feels like she might finally get back on her feet. All she has to do is put up with the whims of her infuriatingly icy boss, Diana. How hard could that be?
Diana Parker is Atlanta’s top lawyer and isn’t afraid to let everyone know it. She’s driven, ruthless, demanding, and stuck in a failing marriage. Too bad she can’t run her personal life as well as she runs her ordered office.
When a young assistant shows up with bright blue eyes, a cute Southern accent, and a streak of pink hair, Diana’s sure she’s all wrong for the job. And yet something seems to be pulling her and Laurie Holcombe together, drawing them into a secret, thrilling dance that’s far too dangerous for a boss and employee.
Can they make rules for this powerful attraction, a way to keep each other at arm’s length? But how do you resist the irresistible?
Contains mature themes.
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To note about this 52 Best Thawing The Ice Queen Books list:
- This list is sorted by the number of recommendations then by title alphabetically so there are a number of great books with the same number of votes which technically puts them in the same category of awesome.
- Certain books may not have as many votes because we haven’t all read them.
- We only look at books that we have reviewed when choosing a best of list
- The list does get updated as new books come out but it will be a great selection nonetheless
- All active reviewers have a chance to vote for their favourites and adjust and add their name as the list grows so the names next to the books are the reviewers who picked it as a must-read.
If you enjoyed this list then you may also want to see what other books we have reviewed in the category of Taming The Beast / Thawing The Ice Queen
