Hello. I'm Ruby Scott, a Scotland-based lesbian romance author and two-time Lesfic Bard Award winner. May I Call You Mistress? won Erotic Novella of the Year and Mistress of Desire won Erotic Novel of the Year, both at the 2022 Lesfic Bards. Rescuing Hearts was a 2023 GCLS Goldie Award finalist, and No Way Out is a 2025 Goldie Award finalist. I write slow burn sapphic fiction across contemporary, medical, erotic, romantasy, and thriller subgenres, with translations available in German and Spanish.

Thirty-plus books in, the catalogue spans everything from quiet Scottish villages to 33,000 feet. Most of the list is also available in audio.

Lesbian Romance with Depth, Heat, and Heart

Readers come back for the same thing: characters who feel real. I write women who carry their own weight and find themselves through someone they didn't expect to need.

What you can expect:

• Complex, believable women with emotional depth
• Slow-burn attraction and earned chemistry
• Vulnerability and longing
• Strong confident sensuality
• Favourite tropes including age-gap, ice queens, power dynamics, forced proximity, and forbidden attraction

There is always humour woven through. These are sapphic love stories where desire matters, consent matters, and love is worth the risk.

A Home for Women Who Love Women

Ruby Scott Books is the direct-from-the-author shop for sapphic readers. Signed paperbacks dispatched from Scotland, signed ebooks, ebooks, audiobooks, and bundles that save up to 45 percent across the catalogue.

Every book on this shop is sold by the woman who actually wrote it.

Meet Ruby

I live in Scotland with my wife Angie. We have a habit of saying yes to questionable adventures, including the time we ended up needing gas masks at an active volcano. Somehow, she still married me.

I don't take myself too seriously, and that sense of humour runs through my writing. When I'm not writing as Ruby Scott, I also write softer contemporary romance as Frankie Duncan and lesbian crime fiction as Susie Fleming.

Thank you for being here. The catalogue is on this shop. The Reading Order page tells you where to start. The Reader Favourites page lists the most-loved titles.

If you came from Lise Gold or Harper Bliss's catalogue, the Books Like Lise Gold and Harper Bliss page is where to start.

If you've been navigating compulsory heterosexuality or a late-bloomer realisation, the blog post What Is Comphet? is where to start.