Harper Bliss Books in Order

These eight stories follow women discovering desire and unexpected connections in settings ranging from Paris and Berlin to Thailand. Familiar friendships, new encounters and unconventional relationships create opportunities to reconsider what they want from love.

Dumped shortly before a planned holiday, Cat joins her parents on their annual trip to Tuscany. Returning to the house of her childhood summers, she discovers unexpected possibilities for desire and connection amid her disappointment.

Newly out Kristin is drawn into Sheryl's energetic world, and their attraction develops into a shared life. But Kristin's ambition and the difficult experiences Sheryl carries threaten a relationship that must grow beyond its early promise.

A year after her divorce, Micky takes a job at the Pink Bean café and begins confronting long-suppressed desires. Confident customer Robin offers an unexpected chance at romance, challenging Micky's habit of choosing safety over what she wants.

Coffee shop worker Jo can scarcely believe that admired feminist author Caitlin wants to date her. While Caitlin pursues their connection, Jo must confront the doubts about her own worth that make accepting love difficult.

After twenty years together, Annie and Jane's marriage is unsettled when Annie develops a crush on the café owner downstairs. Familiar routines begin to shift, forcing both women to reconsider what keeps their long relationship alive.

After a painful separation, Sydney television presenter Zoya rents her apartment to visiting Frenchwoman Camille. Their attraction deepens during Camille's brief stay, but careers and established lives on opposite sides of the world complicate a future together.

Yoga teacher Lou is shocked to encounter her former school bully managing her favorite café. Mia does not recognize her, but their shared community keeps drawing them together, forcing Lou to face old pain and an unexpected attraction.

A golf instructor determined to avoid another workplace romance befriends a divorced accountant at her new club. Their growing attraction challenges both women’s expectations, including one’s hesitation about loving a woman and the other’s familiar patterns in relationships.

At her son's graduation, Jodie unexpectedly meets Leigh, the former partner whose departure caused lasting pain. As conversation revives memories of their intense connection, she must decide whether she can risk letting Leigh close again.

Recovering from life-changing surgery, lonely Jessica hires dates rather than risking closeness. A booking mistake introduces her to Liz, whose confidence attracts her, but Jessica's discomfort with Liz's work challenges their chance at a relationship.

President Dominique Laroche faces political pressure over a law affecting lesbian families, while her relationship with Steph strains under the demands of office. Around them, new arrivals and political rivals navigate difficult loyalties, romance, and prejudice.

Longtime friends Claire and Juliette run a successful Paris PR agency while their personal lives falter. Juliette's relationship is drifting, Claire has neglected romance, and their colleague Steph risks complications by growing close to a prominent client.

A public relationship, recovery from an accident, and disagreements about motherhood test the Parisian friends. As old attractions return and a presidential election approaches, secrets threaten the balance between their private lives and public responsibilities.

After a public revelation unsettles their circle, the women of a Paris PR agency try to rebuild their lives. Wedding plans, revived romances, and a newly exposed affair face old hurts and fresh complications.

Twenty-eight stories follow women of different ages and backgrounds through romantic and intimate encounters. The collection brings together previously published pieces featuring relationships across workplaces, professions, and everyday situations, from new attractions to unexpected reunions.

Sophie believes her partner’s death has ended her chance of happiness. Turning to Dolores, who understands her grief, brings an unexpected attraction and the difficult question of whether opening her heart again would betray what she has lost.

Seven novelettes explore women finding intimacy through reunions, travel, work, and unexpected encounters. Former lovers and old crushes reappear, while holidays and lessons become occasions to reconsider desire and the possibilities of a new relationship.

Photographer Eileen returns home after a devastating event threatens to end her career and meets Naomi, whose generosity and enthusiasm draw her in. A possible Christmas romance requires Eileen to confront trauma and troubled family relationships before accepting another future.

Caitlin is confident in her beliefs about open relationships until she and Jo decide to try one. Unexpected jealousy tests her certainty, while Jo discovers needs and vulnerabilities in her partner that neither woman had fully understood.

Grieving contractor Hera agrees to renovate her nephew's café and clashes with his business partner, retired escort Kat. Attraction grows through their uneasy encounters, but judgment and guarded emotions threaten both women's hopes of starting over.

A workplace injury sends Angela into counseling, where she unexpectedly reconnects with Jackie, the woman who broke her heart twenty years earlier. Their renewed attraction offers another chance at love, but old wounds complicate the possibility of starting again.

Princess Olivia Charlton escapes royal expectations for a stay in Cornwall, where cafe owner Rosie Perkins is struggling to keep her business afloat. Their attraction challenges the demands of duty and the distance between their worlds.

As Dominique's reelection campaign approaches, she questions whether she wants another presidential term. Political divisions strain Aurore and Solange's relationship, while Claire's personal crisis threatens her business and friendships within their Parisian circle.

Ali returns to Los Angeles to lead her family’s brewery, frustrating longtime executive Jill, who is expected to mentor her. Forced to work together, they confront assumptions about privilege, old hurts and an attraction neither anticipated.

A celebrated singer who lost her voice has spent years struggling to find reasons to continue. When journalist Leila arrives to finish her biography, their growing connection challenges her darkest intentions and opens an unexpected possibility of hope.

Burned-out researcher Amelia unexpectedly falls for her psychiatrist, Jill. When Jill ends their sessions after acknowledging the attraction, both women must navigate a connection complicated by professional boundaries and their closely linked community.

Recently divorced Ash meets her mother’s friend Gloria at a family party, sparking an unexpected connection. As their attraction grows, Ash must release old hurt while the older widow confronts uncertainty about desire and the opinions of others.

Anna has arranged her small-town life around a reassuring routine of work, dog walks and familiar company. The arrival of a new bookstore owner challenges that order, raising questions about whether intimacy can coexist with her need for predictability.

Anna and Zoe are slowly building a relationship after working through earlier difficulties. When an unexpected visitor arrives in Donovan Grove, new pressures test their progress and force them to decide how much space their partnership can make for change.

Having found each other, Anna and Zoe face the practical challenges of a new relationship under their small town’s scrutiny. Zoe must consider difficult compromises while Anna’s anxieties threaten the connection they have only recently begun to trust.

A fading Hollywood star sees a lesbian romantic comedy as a chance to revive her career and stop hiding her sexuality. Working opposite an admired younger actor brings powerful chemistry, but their first on-screen kiss changes the stakes.

Ten years after a secret night together, Quinn and Maya reunite with their attraction intact. Their age difference and connections to each other’s families remain obstacles, forcing them to decide whether fear will keep them apart again.

Olivia enjoys a secluded life in Brittany until Marie moves into the holiday home next door. Mutual irritation slowly gives way to curiosity, revealing unexpected common ground between a woman guarding her solitude and another fleeing trouble at work.

Five festive stories follow women finding desire in unexpected holiday settings, from office celebrations and woodland cabins to bed shops and the Australian outback. Christmas gatherings and a masquerade ball create opportunities for attraction, intimacy, and seasonal encounters.

With her marriage strained by failed attempts to have children, Kate moves temporarily into her mother-in-law’s pool house. Growing close to her husband’s sister offers unexpected comfort, until their bond crosses a line that could unsettle the entire family.

Returning to her hometown for her fortieth birthday, actor Sadie reconnects with Devon, her former best friend. A teenage crush once destroyed their friendship, and renewed intimacy forces both women to reconsider the feelings that still link them.

A veteran rock singer returns to touring after years away and invites a younger support-act musician to perform a nightly duet. Their onstage attraction grows into something personal, complicated by grief, age differences and tensions within their bands.

Twenty years after Jamie left Mac for another woman, the former partners meet again at a friend’s wedding. Lingering pain and regret complicate their renewed attraction as they consider whether forgiveness could make a second chance possible.

Actor Nora resents the hands-on approach of her production company’s new chief executive, Mimi. As irritation turns into affection, the two strong-willed women discover vulnerabilities behind their assumptions and must decide whether they can build something beyond work.

Justine’s work sheltering homeless queer youth becomes the subject of a film, bringing her close to actor Sienna. Attraction grows between them, but Justine’s unresolved grief and the distance between their everyday lives complicate the possibility of a relationship.

Raffo retreats to a lake house after heartbreak and unexpectedly finds her best friend’s mother already staying there. Their shared refuge becomes a secret romance, raising the prospect that following their feelings could damage relationships they both treasure.

Chef Cass struggles with changes brought by menopause, while mathematician Estelle returns home grieving her father. Their unexpected connection challenges Cass’s assumptions about desire and gives Estelle, who is asexual, reason to risk a relationship without abandoning herself.

Suspicious of her father’s younger girlfriend, Jen confronts dance teacher Clancy and finds herself unexpectedly attracted. Private tango lessons deepen their connection, forcing both women to consider the family consequences of acting on feelings neither had planned.

A widowed therapist has built her life around careful boundaries until a rising actor becomes her client. Their attraction develops into an affair that threatens her professional standing and forces both women to confront grief, fame and forbidden desire.

After a traumatic experience, Ella returns to Oregon hoping to heal and repair her relationship with her family. At a lakeside resort, an unexpected friendship with owner Kay challenges her determination to avoid the distractions of falling in love.

Seeking solitude after trauma, Laura moves to a small Texas town where newspaper editor Tess refuses to remain a stranger. Their friendship develops into attraction, forcing Laura to decide whether the walls protecting her also prevent her from living again.

Four women living in the same Hong Kong building find their lives and romances intertwining. A gym owner, an American writer, an investment banker and a psychiatrist navigate heartbreak, demanding careers and unexpected attraction across four connected novellas.

Disappointed by dating men, Dakota changes her app settings and meets a woman who wants no commitment. What begins as a casual encounter grows into deeper attachment, forcing them to confront old hurts and conflicting expectations about relationships.

News anchor Elise returns to her hometown after twenty years away and encounters Amy, the best friend she once fled. Their reunion brings long-suppressed feelings back to the surface, giving them a chance to confront what was left unspoken.

Ella and Kay have built a happy life together in Northville, but a marriage proposal unsettles their relationship. Ella must confront the history behind her fear of commitment before deciding whether she can share the future Kay wants.

Still struggling after a breakup, Ruby cannot concentrate on her piano lessons. Her teacher Jill invites her into the home she shares with Charlotte, offering an intimate afternoon that may help Ruby leave her former relationship behind.

After her girlfriend leaves her for a man, novelist Charlie moves to Los Angeles determined to date only women who identify as lesbians. Her attraction to bisexual television host Ava forces her to question the rules she created to protect herself.

A disciplined solicitor reluctantly takes a holiday at her business partner’s Portuguese home, only to find the partner’s daughter staying there too. Their unexpected romance must survive an age gap and the complications waiting when they return to ordinary life.

After losing her partner, Marianne retreats to a Thai island and runs a small bed and breakfast. A visiting guest carries her own painful history, and their unexpected connection offers both women a possibility of returning to life and love.

Workaholic Katherine and free-spirited singer Ali have disliked each other since college. As their paths repeatedly cross over the years, they must reconsider whether their differences make lasting affection impossible or conceal a connection neither can easily escape.