I really recommend Max Ellendales Four Point Trilogy and Four Point Universe series. She writes about strong women healing their trauma in such a way that multiple times in my life its helped me to understand my own and others trauma.
She is an amazing writer imo but she also is I believe psychologist in real life or something similar.(I’m blanking atm so don’t quote me in it) So she does actually understand what she shows in her books.
The first time I read them I was learning who I was and for once acknowledging my own trauma. I spent 29 years of my life pretending I was ok until her books. Thats how much they impacted me. I am reading them again now and its healing me so much.
Her books are primary LGBTQ+ focused. This series is crime/thriller with romance interwoven in them and her other series which I haven’t read myself are sci-fi/fantasy with romance interwoven. All I believe are WlW stories and I loved them as a women and now as I trans man I love them even more.
Her works all have sex scenes but they are done sensually, with respect and help each person heal. I never once thought the scenes felt out of character or just added to add.
The four point trilogy especially has some intense themes, light kink/bdsm in some of the four point universe series books as it attains to the characters. I can’t recommend her work enough.
Which also reminds me of L.M Juniper. His book How We End is amazing. Also a must read or listen to as the audio book for it is beyond my favorite and the narrator’s really pull you into the story.