Books like Maybe next time by Karin Kallmaker

A cunning con man teams with an orphaned apprentice to swindle a wealthy heiress, but when the apprentice grows attached, the plot spirals into betrayal, deception and unexpected affection in a grim London slum.

Annie on My Mind follows the deep friendship and emerging love between two teenage girls, set against the backdrop of a private school, as they navigate homophobia and the challenges of coming out.

Nan King, a young oyster girl, falls in love with glamorous music‑hall performer Kitty Butler, a male impersonator, and together they rise to stardom while exploring their hidden desires.

Cameron Post, a gay teen from a conservative Montana ranch town, is sent to a conversion therapy center after her family demands she change her sexual orientation.

A seventeenth‑year college girl falls in love with a female graduate‑student teacher, discovering a deeper connection than she expected.

After her father’s death, young Ash is tormented by a cruel stepmother and hunts for solace in fairy tales—until she meets the dangerous fairy Sidhean and the fierce huntress Kaisa, who pull her toward a choice between fantasy and true love.

Set in late‑1950s Detroit, the novel follows a tight‑knit group of Black women—mothers, daughters, friends and lovers—who flock to the Ford Motor plant, exploring their intertwined relationships and personal ambitions.

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Rich attorney Sydney Van Allen and devoted professor Faith Fitzgerald, engaged in a complex love triangle, discover a passionate romance that challenges their careers and personal lives.

Jackie Frakes is a talented architectural intern whose life has fallen into unsatisfying patterns, both personally and professionally. Renowned artist Leah Beck is exhibited in galleries nationwide. But her life has darkened with the death of her lover, Sharla. Trapped by a mountain snow storm over Thanksgiving weekend, Jackie is rescued by Leah. The snowbound weekend in Leah's cabin shakes the very foundations of Jackie's life. As for Leah, Jackie provides renewal and inspiration for her work. And the exhibition of PAINTED MOON, her new series, will reveal Leah as never before,as a lesbian artist. With their relationship increasingly torn by conflict and misunderstanding, the winter weekend together will surely be their last. Then intervention comes... from a most unlikely source. One of Karin Kallmaker's most popular romances, Painted Moon has achieved the status of a timeless lesbian romance classic.

In a vibrant LGBTQ romance, secret‑keeping CJ Roshe finds herself drawn to the warm and free‑spirited Karita Hanssen, risking heart and safety for a connection that could change her life.

In the early 1970s, eighteen‑year‑old Catherine Grace Cline of Ringgold, Georgia dreams of escaping her small town. Her plans shift when tragedy pulls her back, forcing her to confront whether her true home is where she began.

In the quiet snowfall of an Aspen cabin near Denver, corporate lawyer Leigh Insley contemplates selling her getaway as she encounters the independent ski instructor and shopkeeper Margo Tosch, and both women discover unexpected connection in the mountains.

After a brutal assault lands her in a coma, Morgan Masters awakens to a world that has drastically changed, where familiar faces and timelines are unfamiliar. She must rebuild her identity and discover a new love.

Grace Henderson, a Brooklyn tailor who vows not to date clients, faces temptation when Dakota Lane—an outspoken bicycle messenger and male model—asks for a custom suit for her sister’s wedding, sparking an unexpected romance between two African American lesbians.

After her wife's death, jazz pianist Liz Randall battles grief and a fractured band while striving for a spot at the Monterey Jazz Festival. With the help of a mysterious neighbor, she must confront past secrets to revive her life.

When Amy Forrester invites her three closest friends and wife Jo to her mountain cabin for a week between Christmas and New Year's, relationships are tested, secrets surface, and a free‑spirited niece creates unexpected romance.

Doctor KT O'Bannon’s near‑fatal accident forces her to confront her past and her future as she reconnects with former lover Dr. Tory King in Provincetown, where old wounds, new bonds, and hidden passions emerge.

Beyond the Pale follows the intertwined lives of a Russian‑Jewish midwife, her lesbian partner, and two young girls as they flee pogroms, settle in New York’s Lower East Side, and navigate love amid the early twentieth‑century fight for workers’ rights and suffrage.

A hilarious tale of a dybbuk in the modern world, where history is revisited and the descendants of ancient demons must be hunted.

In a Minneapolis murder mystery, lesbian detectives Jane Lawless and Cordelia Thorn investigate a killing that may involve Lawless’s former lover, Dr. Julia Martinson.

When the Vengeful River Walker prowls the Rio Grande, cultural anthropologist Grady Wrenn and spiritual healer Elena Montalvo must unite to end the haunting and navigate deep cultural divides.