What We Might Be by Rowan Doyle

Kenyon is a newly-single and newly-rich American, looking for housemates to fill the Tudor bakery he has inherited hidden away near the center of London. Lindsey is a postgrad student, short on cash and in desperate need of somewhere to live. He asks for her help in selecting additional housemates and they meet a range of colourful London characters while trying very hard not to fall in love.

Efa's Duty by A. G. Crawford

Efa is only eight years old when her parent's interstellar cargo vessel is attacked by unknown enemies. They place her in a long-term life support escape capsule and she drifts unconscious in empty space for a thousand years, her aging slowed artificially once she reaches adulthood, being educated as an engineer by an AI that inhabits her dreams. The civilization that eventually rescues her has very different ideas about the role of women, and Efa knows she must escape.