Books Like Lise Gold and Harper Bliss
If you've finished every Lise Gold and Harper Bliss novel and are wondering where to go next, you're in good company. Sapphic readers who love slow burn romance, emotional depth, and characters who actually feel like people tend to read all three of us at some point.
This page is here to help you decide which of my books to try first, based on what you already love about Lise's and Harper's writing.
If you love Lise Gold, start here
Lise Gold writes warm, atmospheric sapphic romance with strong settings and a steady emotional build. If that's what hooked you, these books will land.
Start with: Rescuing Hearts (Healing Hearts #1, Goldie Award finalist)
Slow burn. Found family. A flight attendant who never dates the same woman twice meets a paediatric surgeon on a flight to Costa Rica, and everything she's built her life around starts to come undone. If you loved the way Lise builds character through quiet moments and earned emotional payoff, this is the closest entry point.
Try next: Inside Fighter
Standalone within the Stronger You series. A boxer recovering from a fight she shouldn't have taken, and a physiotherapist who refuses to coddle her. Same emotional restraint, same trust-built-slowly feel as Lise's contemporary romances.
Then: Reel vs Real
I co-wrote this one with Lise. If you love her voice, you'll see it threaded through this book.
If you love Harper Bliss, start here
Harper Bliss writes character-driven sapphic romance with chemistry that crackles and emotional vulnerability worn close to the surface. Heat that's earned. Conflict that matters.
Start with: May I Call You Mistress? (Awakening of Desire #1)
A dominant-submissive dynamic written with the kind of psychological care Harper brings to her edgier work. Power and tenderness in the same hand. If you read Harper's higher-heat catalogue and wanted more, this series is for you.
Try next: Open Heart (City General: Medic 1 #2)
A surgeon and a colleague she can't quite read. Medical setting, high competence, slow emotional reveal. The kind of "people who shouldn't and absolutely should" pairing Harper does so well.
Then: Exposed Hearts (Healing Hearts #4)
A climber pulls herself over an eighty-foot cliff without a rope and walks into the life of the search-and-rescue trainer who was meant to be teaching the day. Slow burn, high heat, dangerous attraction, and two women who don't pretend they aren't carrying weight. If you love Harper's character-driven heat and emotional pressure, this is the one.
What I Write That Lise and Harper Don't
Three things that set my catalogue apart:
Sapphic thrillers with the romance still front and centre.
The Art of Deception series (spy thriller), Velvet Storm series (psychological thriller), and Blood Marks (vampire romantasy) blend genre with sapphic romance in a way that's harder to find in pure contemporary romance.
Medical romance done with weight.
The City General: Medic 1 series — six books and counting — is a hospital romance series where the medicine is real, not wallpaper.
The Awakening of Desire series.
Six books of erotic sapphic romance with an ongoing relationship arc. Lise and Harper both write within heat, but the Awakening of Desire is built specifically around power dynamics and the long-term emotional cost of trust.
Where Readers of Lise Gold and Harper Bliss Usually Land
Reader feedback tells me:
Lise Gold readers tend to start with the Healing Hearts series and the Stronger You series.
Harper Bliss readers tend to start with the Awakening of Desire series or City General: Medic 1.
Readers of both usually start with O or the Healing Hearts series, because both blend warmth with edge.
Other Sapphic Authors My Readers Also Read
If you're building a TBR pile, my readers also recommend:
- Anna Stone — for BDSM and age-gap erotic romance
- Lee Winter — for morally complex sapphic leads
- Rachel Spangler — for athlete and competence romance
- Clare Lydon — for contemporary slow burn, lesbian sports romance and warmth
- Milena McKay — for age gap spicy romance and sexual tension
- Rachel Lacey — for character-driven contemporary romance
- Emily Hayes — for contemporary sapphic romance
- Ruby Roe — for spicy sapphic romantasy
None of these are competitors. They're collaborators in the same genre, and the sapphic romance world is small enough that most of us read each other.
Where to Buy My Books
Every book on this site is available as:
- Paperback
- Signed Paperback (personally inscribed, hand-wrapped, dispatched from Scotland)
- Ebook (DRM-free via BookFunnel)
- Signed Ebook (digital file with a real personal signature)
- Audiobook (delivered via BookFunnel)
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Author Ruby
Ruby Scott is a Scotland-based lesbian romance author. Two-time Lesfic Bard Award winner. Two-time GCLS Goldie finalist. Thirty-plus novels across contemporary, medical, erotic, romantasy, and thriller subgenres. Translated into German and Spanish, produced in audiobook on all major platforms, and available direct from this shop.