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Posted on July 8, 2021

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Lesbians. Football. Spice. Chaos. 💅⚽️Welcome to my corner of the bookshelf: where sapphic footballers play hard, fall harder, and always get their happy ending.I've written three British-set lesbian football romances with proper wit, plenty of spice, messy flawed characters you'll fall for, and feels that'll wreck you (in a good way).Three standalones. Same universe. All the sapphic soccer yearning your heart can handle.⚽️ THE PRINCESS MATCH⚽️ GIRLFRIEND GOALS⚽️ HOTSHOT⚽️👑❤️ Royalty x Footballer Era🇮🇪⚽️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Rivals To Lovers Era🇺🇸❤️⚽️ US Soccer Star Era Tell me what era you're in and I'll point you to your next read 👇Shop here: clarelydon.shopAll available is ebook, paperback & audiobook! #lesbian #sapphic #lesfic #lesbianromance #wlw ... See MoreSee Less

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9 things you'll find in all my best-selling, award-winning lesbian romance books...-Spice-Messy, flawed characters -British wit-Bad decisions-An occasional cute pet-Women falling in love-Fabulous UK settings-Award-winning first kisses-Always a happy endingShop here: clarelydon.shop All my books are available in ebook, paperback & audiobook.#wlw #lesbian #lesfic #sapphic #queer ... See MoreSee Less

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Want age-gap, fake dating sapphic romance under the hot Mexican sun? Travel with Brooke as she does the unthinkable and falls for her best mate's mum...-Mistakes Were Made in an all-inclusive resort-British wit -Spice-Messy, flawed characters-All the feels -Deliciously satisfying happy endingsShop here: clarelydon.sh#lesbians#Sapphicp#lesfice#LesbianRomancem#wlw #wlw ... See MoreSee Less

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My best-selling lesbian romance is Before You Say I Do. Here's the blurb: What if you fall for your bridesmaid? Abby Porter has a high-flying job and the perfect fiance in Marcus Montgomery.But Abby's world is turned upside down when he hires a professional bridesmaid to help her in the run-up to the wedding. When Abby meets Jordan, she can hardly breathe. Marcus is oblivious.The wedding is weeks away. Now, the only question is: will Abby make it to the altar? Read Before You Say I Do today: clarelydon.shop/products/before-you-s#lesbian#Sapphicn#LesbianRomancei#lesficc#wlwesfic #wlw ... See MoreSee Less

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📚 Best-selling, award-winning sapphic romance author.
❤️ Purveyor of British wit, spice & happy endings.
🌈 Professional lesbian.

A lesbian royal romance where a future queen falls A lesbian royal romance where a future queen falls for England’s women’s football captain? Oh, this could get VERY messy. 👑⚽🌈

Princess Victoria has a crown to inherit, a carefully managed public image, and a boyfriend who looks perfect on paper.

What she doesn’t have is a plan for falling in love with a woman.

Enter Ashleigh Woods. Football superstar. England captain. And quite possibly the biggest threat to royal tradition since someone invented the tell-all memoir. 

Expect forbidden romance, secret meetings, irresistible chemistry, royal scandal, and two women discovering that some rules are worth breaking.

📖 The Princess Match by Clare Lydon: a British sapphic romance combining women’s football, royalty, humour and a whole lot of heart.

🏆 Winner of the Goldie Award for Best Contemporary Romance.

 🛒 Find individual books and bargain bundles on my web shop: clarelydon.shop
📚 All my novels are available as ebooks, paperbacks and audiobooks

#SapphicRomance #LesbianRomance #RoyalRomance #WomensFootball #SapphicBooks
Your sapphic Christmas reading list, sorted. 🎄✨ F Your sapphic Christmas reading list, sorted. 🎄✨

Four festive novels. Four swoony tropes. Four happy endings guaranteed. Grab a mince pie, pour a mulled wine, and let's go ❤️

🎄 ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS — Friends to lovers in London. The one where you've been in love with your best mate the whole time and Christmas is finally about to blow it wide open. 🎁

🎄 CHRISTMAS IN MISTLETOE — Hallmark but make it sapphic. Enemies-to-lovers in a small town, with a failing family Christmas tree farm and the one woman who could ruin everything. 🌲

🎄 THE CHRISTMAS CATCH — Forced proximity chaos. Two women trying to make it home for Christmas via planes, trains, bikes, and more planes. One journey. One disaster after another. One slow-burning spark. ✈️🚲🚆

🎄 DON'T MARRY ME AT CHRISTMAS — Second chance romance in London. The one that got away is back. And it's Christmas. Everything you thought was behind you? Not anymore. 😍

Every book comes with proper British wit, just the right amount of spice, all the feels, and the happy ever after you came here for ❤️

🛒 Find individual books and bargain bundles on my web shop: clarelydon.shop
📚 All my novels are available as ebooks, paperbacks and audiobooks

#SapphicBookTok #LesbianRomance #SapphicRomance #WLW #christmasromance
29 lesbian romance novels. Zero dead lesbians. Tha 29 lesbian romance novels. Zero dead lesbians. That's the whole brand. 🏳️‍🌈💛

Because sapphic readers have been burned enough times. You pick up a book, you fall in love with the characters, and then — bam — tragedy. Not here. Not on my watch. Not in any of my 29 novels. Ever. ✋

Here's what you get instead: proper British wit. Slow-burn tension that'll keep you up till 2am. Just the right amount of spice. All the feels. And a happy ever after you can actually count on. Every. Single. Time. 📚✨

Name a trope, and I've probably written it. 👇

Friends to lovers. Enemies to lovers. Second chance. Fake dating. Forbidden love. Age gap. Small town. Forced proximity. Royalty. Footballers. Festive. Workplace. London love stories. Hallmark-but-make-it-sapphic. 🫠

Whether you want a cosy curl-up read, a steamy slow-burn, or a festive romance to see you through December — there's a book on my shelf with your name on it. ❤️

29 novels. One guarantee: happy endings for lesbians. Always. 🏳️‍🌈

Which one are you starting with? 

🛒 Find individual books and bargain bundles on my web shop: clarelydon.shop
📚 All my novels are available as ebooks, paperbacks and audiobooks

#SapphicBookTok #LesbianRomance #SapphicRomance #WLW #BookTok
I couldn't find lesbian romances set in London, so I couldn't find lesbian romances set in London, so I decided to write them. If you want romantic comedies featuring hot florists, cute Frenchies, flirty bakers, drag kings, TV stars & chic chefs, this is the series for you. 

The London Romance series is a complete set of nine interconnected sapphic romance novels set in the UK's capital city. Each book promises: 

-British wit 
-Sapphic spice
-Real, flawed characters 
-Stories bursting with all the feels
-Deliciously satisfying happy endings 
-A shit-ton of lesbians

The books in order:
London Calling 
This London Love 
A Girl Called London 
The London Of Us 
London, Actually 
Made In London 
Hot London Nights 
Big London Dreams 
London Ever After 

Buy direct and save 30% on the ebook bundle: https://clarelydon.shop/products/london-romance-series-book-1-to-9-ebooks 

Available in ebook, paperback & audiobook. 

#wlw #lesbianromance #queer #sapphic #lesfic
Picture this: Wembley, 2022. The Lionesses have ju Picture this: Wembley, 2022. The Lionesses have just won the Euros. 87,000 fans on their feet. And me, in the stands, having a full-blown epiphany. I HAVE to write a sapphic football romance. ⚽️ ❤️

HOTSHOT is the result. Think Heated Rivalry, but make it sapphic and soccer. A swoony, slow-burn sapphic sports romance set in the WSL up north, about a star striker, the coach she absolutely shouldn't fall for, and the beautiful game that throws them together every single day. ⚽

Expect: on-pitch tension, off-pitch chemistry, forbidden glances across the training ground, proper British wit, just the right amount of spice, all the feels, and the happy ending you came here for ❤️

Because sapphic readers deserve their own sports romance era. Lionesses energy. WSL grit. Forbidden love heat. Found family on and off the pitch. 🫠

Have you tried a sapphic soccer romance yet? If not, this is your sign! 

🛒 Find individual books and bargain bundles on my web shop: clarelydon.shop
📚 All my novels are available as ebooks, paperbacks and audiobooks

#SapphicBookTok #LesbianRomance #SapphicRomance #WLW #SportsRomance
The secret ingredient is (and always has been) LES The secret ingredient is (and always has been) LESBIANS 🏳️‍🌈✨

Second chance romance? Lesbians. Small town sapphic? Lesbians. Fake dating with all the slow-burn tension your heart can handle? You guessed it: lesbians. 

Age gap? Lesbians. Royal romance with a commoner love interest? Lesbians in tiaras 👑 Footballer falling for the one woman she shouldn't? Lesbians on the pitch ⚽ Christmas tree farm, grumpy/sunshine, mistletoe in a town called Mistletoe? LESBIANS. LESBIANS. LESBIANS. 🎄

Whatever trope you love, I've got a sapphic version waiting for you — served with a generous helping of British wit, just the right amount of spice, all the feels, and happy endings guaranteed every single time 📚✨

Because sapphic readers deserve the full buffet. Grumpy/sunshine. Friends to lovers. Enemies to lovers. Second chance. Fake dating. Age gap. Small town. Royalty. Sports romance. Festive romance. Workplace romance. Forced proximity. One bed. WE DESERVE IT ALL! 

29 lesbian romance novels and counting. Cosy, swoony, spicy, funny, heart-melting sapphic love stories with happy ever afters you can actually count on ❤️

Which are you reading first?

🛒 Find individual books and bargain bundles on my web shop: clarelydon.shop
📚 All my novels are available as ebooks, paperbacks and audiobooks.

#SapphicBookTok #LesbianRomance #SapphicRomance #WLW #BookTok
Hallmark Christmas movie, but make it sapphic. 🎄✨ Hallmark Christmas movie, but make it sapphic. 🎄✨

Ruby's home for the busy season, helping save her family's ailing Christmas tree farm. She loves this town, this time of year, these traditions. ❄️

And then Fran arrives. The Grinch. The woman she doesn't trust an inch. In her town. On her turf. For the whole of Christmas. 🙃

CHRISTMAS IN MISTLETOE is my sapphic enemies-to-lovers festive romance. It's every cosy small-town holiday movie you've ever loved, but gay. Sunshine meets grumpy, locals meet outsiders, and one very reluctant visitor meets the one woman who might just change her mind about the whole bloody season.

Expect: crackling tension, slow-burn glances across a frosty tree yard, the warmest gay dads in fiction, proper British wit, all the festive feels, and a happy ending you'll want to re-read with a mince pie in hand 🎁💛

The perfect curl-up-under-a-blanket read for the season. Grab a hot chocolate, light your favourite candle, and settle in. You know how this ends.

Available in ebook, paperback, signed paperback and audiobook wherever books are streamed or sold.

Or buy direct here: clarelydon.shop/products/christmas-in-mistletoe-ebook

#wlw #lesbian #sapphic #lesbianromance #christmasbook
Before You Say I Do is nearly 7 years old, yet it' Before You Say I Do is nearly 7 years old, yet it's still my bestseller. And honestly? I get it. 💍

She's got the job. The ring. The fiancé. The wedding is weeks away.

And then she meets the bridesmaid. 🫠🔥

BEFORE YOU SAY I DO is the sapphic forbidden-love romance readers keep coming back to. The story of Abby, who thought she had her life sorted until Jordan walked in and she suddenly couldn't breathe. Marcus? Completely oblivious. The altar? Getting closer by the day.

Expect: slow-burn tension, stolen glances, big feelings, a woman having the gay awakening of her LIFE, and the happy ending you came here for 💛

If you've ever fallen for a woman who was 100%, totally, definitely straight… I wrote this one for you.

Seven years on and it's still the book my readers tell me they recommend first. Your turn? 📚

Available in ebook, paperback & audiobook wherever books are streamed or sold. 

Shop here: clarelydon.shop/products/before-you-say-i-do 

#wlw #lesbianromance #lesfic #sapphic #lesbian
The London Romance series is a complete set of nin The London Romance series is a complete set of nine interconnected sapphic romance novels set in the UK's capital city. Each book promises: 

-British wit 
-Sapphic spice
-Real, flawed characters 
-Stories bursting with all the feels
-Deliciously satisfying happy endings 
-A shit-ton of lesbians

The books in order:
London Calling 
This London Love 
A Girl Called London 
The London Of Us 
London, Actually 
Made In London 
Hot London Nights 
Big London Dreams 
London Ever After 

Buy direct and save 30% on the ebook bundle: https://clarelydon.shop/products/london-romance-series-book-1-to-9-ebooks 

Available in ebook, paperback & audiobook. 

#wlw #lesbianromance #queer #sapphic #lesfic
9 things you'll find in all my best-selling, award 9 things you'll find in all my best-selling, award-winning lesbian romance books...

-Spice
-Messy, flawed characters 
-British wit
-Bad decisions
-An occasional cute pet
-Women falling in love
-Fabulous UK settings
-Award-winning first kisses
-Always a happy ending

Shop here: clarelydon.shop 

All my books are available in ebook, paperback & audiobook.

#wlw #lesbian #lesfic #sapphic #queer
Want age-gap, fake dating sapphic romance under th Want age-gap, fake dating sapphic romance under the hot Mexican sun? Travel with Brooke as she does the unthinkable and falls for her best mate's mum...

-Mistakes Were Made in an all-inclusive resort
-British wit 
-Spice
-Messy, flawed characters
-All the feels 
-Deliciously satisfying happy endings

Shop here: clarelydon.shop 

#lesbian #sapphic #lesfic #lesbianromance #wlw
Want lesbiantastic romance? Step right this way... Want lesbiantastic romance? Step right this way... 

-British wit 
-Spice 
-Messy, flawed characters
-All the feels 
-Deliciously satisfying happy endings 
-A shit-ton of lesbians

Shop here: clarelydon.shop 

#wlw #lesfic #lesbianromance #sapphic #lesbian
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