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This week’s Sapphic Book Bingo square features sapphic books with mental health representation.
Read a sapphic book with accurate, authentic, and respectful representation of people living with mental health conditions. For example, the main character could struggle with anxiety, depression, PTSD, or other mental health issues.
15 sapphic books with mental health rep
Below, you’ll find 15 sapphic books that highlight mental health:
Waltzing on the Danube by Miranda MacLeod
Jeanie Brooks is a small town history teacher who sometimes leaps before she looks, but when she books a last minute river cruise for lesbian singles, she knows she’ll have no regrets. Two weeks of beautiful women and glorious adventure against the backdrop of Europe’s most famous cities—what more could she want?
Eleanor Fielding is an actuarial accountant from Manhattan, and an expert at assessing risk from every angle. Analytical and reserved, the only thing worse than spending the summer floating around with a gaggle of desperate single women is the prospect of her sister nagging her for all eternity if she refuses to go.
But thanks to a ticketing error, Jeanie and Eleanor unexpectedly find themselves the only two eligible women on the Danube. What starts as an awkward alliance to salvage some enjoyment from the trip soon transforms into something more.
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Strap In by Lou Morgan
Jean is married to her job and there is no room in her life for romance. Until she meets someone who takes her breath away.
There’s just one catch. Ava’s a woman. And Jean’s straight… isn’t she?
The chemistry’s scorching but there’s no place for Ava in Jean’s world. But free-spirited Ava is irresistible. And open to a purely physical relationship. This way Jean gets to have her cake and eat it too.
Yet spending time with Ava makes Jean question everything she thought she knew.
Is it time to start again?
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Warmer, Colder by Alexia Onyx
There’s nothing more dangerous than the truth, except the pretty little lies we tell ourselves.
Stasi
Becca Murphy was always meant to be mine. She betrayed me and buried her love for me deep within her deceptive heart, but she never anticipated me digging myself out of that grave with a singular desire: her. Now that I’m back, I’m determined to drag her demons into the light. I might be dead, but I’m not letting Becca go. This time, she’ll see the truth: it’s always been me.
Becca
One drunken night shattered my carefully crafted facade, leaving me suffocating beneath the wreckage of my so-called perfect life. I thought death would grant me peace, but instead, I’m haunted by the woman who knows my deepest secret. As I cling to the crumbling illusion of perfection, Stasi sees me for what I truly am—a goddamn mess. Do I cling to my web of lies, or do I dare to free fall into her tempting embrace?
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Don’t Quit Your Daydream by Adrian J. Smith
What happens in the elevator doesn’t stay in the elevator.
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?
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Hot Honey Love by Nan Campbell
Chef Stef’s passion for her profession is being severely tested. After a disastrous appearance on a cooking competition show, she has become a meme. The entire Internet now knows her as the Kitchen Bawler. Her ascent through the fine dining kitchens of New York City has been thoroughly derailed, but she has a plan to get her career back on track. She’ll make cooking videos on YouTube to foil the algorithm and overhaul her search engine results. One problem: she knows nothing about creating video content.
Enter Mallory Radowski. She’s a talented filmmaker currently earning a living as a wedding videographer, with complicated reasons of her own for her reluctance to help Stef. Mallory lives with anxiety, and is the pickiest eater imaginable. Food—Stef’s love language—is untranslatable to her. How can she make Stef’s food look delicious if she won’t eat any of it?
Stef has to trust that Mallory’s videos can get her cooking food she’s proud of again, but it’s out of the frying pan and into the fire when she starts to fall for her.
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The Storm Within Her by Ami Spencer
When Kate and Seph met it was flirting at first sight, but with Kate being married it was never meant to be.
Until the two meet again under the worst possible connection, and Kate is forced to re-evaluate what is most important to her. Especially since Seph is a shadow of the person she knew before.
Can Seph fight back against the impending darkness that is consuming her to find her way back to Kate, who is devotedly waiting for the woman she knew to return to her?
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Battle Scars by Meghan O’Brien
Returning Iraq war veteran Ray McKenna struggles with battle scars that can only be healed by love. Ray McKenna returns from the war in Iraq to find that she has attained unwanted celebrity status back home. As the only surviving American soldier of a well-publicized hostage crisis, she is the center of attention at a time when all she wants is solitude.
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Partly For Love by Anne-Marie Pellow
Life can change in a heartbeat.
It happens to Kezia Pope when she comes face to face with a woman who reminds her of Hannah, the only girlfriend she ever had.
Hannah was the one person who understood her. Hannah never judged her and always looked out for her. Until one night when a prank goes too far.
Events of the past come flooding back to Kezia, and old addictions she thought she’d laid to rest creep up on her again.
Olivia Cruz is eleven years older than her wife, Emma. At the end of a working day, all Liv wants to do is put her feet up or go to bed, exhausted and fragile. But Emma has other ideas, and the thought of a night out is too tempting after months of all work and no play. After all, you’re only here once, and life’s for enjoying, right?
The downward spiral begins. A chance meeting. A wrong decision. A sequence of events turns three women’s worlds inside out.
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Lancelot: Her Story by Carol Anne Douglas
A young girl sees a man rape and murder her mother. She grabs a stick and puts out his eye. Her father raises her as a boy so she will be safe from men’s attacks. She practices and practices until she becomes a great fighter – Lancelot. She wants to protect women, and she does.Lancelot hears about King Arthur, a just king across the sea, and journeys to earn a place at Camelot. She vows to serve him, but fears that Arthur and his men will discover that she is a woman and send her away. Lancelot is shocked to realize that she is falling in love with the king’s wife, Guinevere.Guinevere is a strong woman who would have preferred to be queen in her own right, not through marriage. Saxons attack Arthur’s kingdom, and Lancelot finds out that fighting a war is far different from saving women in single combat. The savagery of war devastates her.
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Allure by CEON
Hannah has an open relationship with her boyfriend, and it’s never been a problem.
Until she hooks up with the mysterious Morana via a phone app and wakes up the next morning with an insatiable taste for blood.
Araceli enters Hannah’s life and helps her come to terms with her new status. She has become a vampire, and there is nothing she can do to change that.
However, if she does not take a life, she will get to keep her soul.
But how long can Hannah resist her urges, living on tastes from blood-bags, the odd stolen bite from a willing arm?
When Morana comes back into her life, Hannah finds it harder and harder to resist her allure.
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A Holly Jolly Christmas by Emily Wright
Holly hasn’t been home for two years. Ever since her brother died, Mistleberry is a haunting ground full of history she’s tried to escape. Her family are grieving, her ex won’t stop calling, and bumping into Vicky Castleton puts the cherry on the crumbling Christmas cake.
Because Holly’s first love and biggest regret looks better than ever.
Holly tries to heal the holes in her heart as her family—and persistent best friend—keep pushing her to confront her past. But the more time she spends with her old flame, the more she’s hit with the undeniable truth: her heart has never let go of Vicky. Time’s running out, and years of hiding away and shielding herself have left her with the question: can she conquer her ghosts this Christmas, and risk it all for love?
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Love You However by Katherine Blakeman
This is a statement that I have always tolerated about myself. Except now… it seems to be getting harder.
My gender has never felt right, but I’ve been able to overlook it. I’ve always been okay with being Jean: retail worker, choir leader and wife of Petra. Our idyllic little life in Cornwall has given me the stability I’ve needed ever since my sister died, and everything’s been ticking along just fine.
Up until now.
A blast of menopause hormones has brought my gender to the front of my mind. When Petra is suddenly hurled into the role of ‘headteacher’ at work, it becomes harder and harder to share it with her. With work taking over her life and gender taking over mine, how can we keep our marriage alive?
And can I realise my true identity before it’s too late?
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The Fairfield Frightless and the Midnight Murders by Kay Solo
Anastasia Graves and her friends travel to the quaint tourist town of Bellshire nestled high in the mountains to celebrate their high school graduation. During dinner at an old inn they are told a legend of an ancient creature that sleeps within Bellshire Lake, one that feeds off anger and could spell the doom of the world if it were ever to reawaken.
At first, Anastasia appreciates it for the tall tale it is. But when strange things start happening around the cozy lake town, she starts to fear the story might be more than just something used to scare tourists. To complicate matters further, her attention is divided between two mischievous sirens who seem a little too interested in her, as well as a surly necromancer who watches her from afar.
As the lake becomes more agitated and the bodies of missing townsfolk start to wander the streets at night, Anastasia steels herself to solve yet another mystery. But when the truth of the legend finally comes to light, she realizes she might be up against something far more deadly than she ever imagined.
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Kotov Syndrome by S. Morgan Burbank
Erika Edens is panicking. Behind on her bills and stuck in a crappy job, she’s blindsided when ex-love-of-her-life Abby shows up needing a place to stay. This is the perfect situation for a second chance… …except that Abby is a computer simulation in the body of an android. Battling the rising hostility of her world and the demons in her head, Erika struggles to come to terms with living in a country increasingly hostile to non-human entities. Can Erika adapt to life with her new roommate? Or will her troubles end any chance at reconciliation before it gets started?
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Project O.R.C.A. by Serena J. Bishop
Kari’s telepathic abilities have made life challenging for her. At eighteen and a recent university graduate, she’s desperate to leave home and work in neuroscience. Will a position at inCog help her explore where her abilities come from and how to better control them? She doesn’t know.
But she’s going to find out.
A new job, a new life, and a fresh start on a cruise ship turned business park await her. It’s a thrilling time. But little does she know the excitement will not stop until the ship’s owner’s goals are met. Henry, a billionaire with an interest in unusual sciences, has unique plans for her. Neuroscientist by day, telepathic spy by night. It’s not all bad, though; her clandestine work allows her to see more of the world, receive funding for ORCA, and expose the injustices committed by the affluent.
But the more she delves into the thoughts of the super wealthy, the more dangerous her new life becomes. Soon she has to ask herself, is the money for ORCA worth the risk?
“Now the real science begins . . .”
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American Superstar: Drop the Mic by Shay Paris
After the disastrous final American Superstar show, Lennon’s world is plunged into darkness. Camila had left her, her parents disowned her, and the online smear campaign had her locked inside her apartment. Struggling to keep her head above water, Lennon realizes she has to fake it until she makes it—no matter how hard that would be.
Still reeling from the abrupt dumping by Camila and trying her best to move on, Lennon throws herself into reviving her career and writing a hit album, all the while trying to hold together the heartbreak at the rejection of her parents and the loss of Camila.
Shattered by her decision in New York to save Lennon’s career, Camila continues to battle the fallout while trying to come to terms with her own demons, all while struggling to decide if the life of a performer is something she wants anymore.
Realizing she made a grave mistake in leaving Lennon, Camila sets out to win back the one person who understood her most in the world while healing the darker parts of her soul.
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