Sadly, there's a relative dearth of these compared to stories with gay male protagonists, but A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend is great. Lisa Jahn-Clough's Country Girl City Girl is okay (and written by a friend of mine). Haven't read Ash by Malinda Lo but it's pretty widely praised (there's also her Huntress). And of course I teach Donoghue's Kissing the Witch, it's one of my all-time favorites. Ellen Wittlinger's Hard Love is about a straight male protagonist in love with a lesbian, but it's a great book and she's a great character, and apparently there's a sequel called Marisol's Story which I MUST READ.
ETA: Sorry, just saw you mentioned Huntress in your original post. I also just remembered Deliver Us From Evie by M.E. Kerr, but it's the kind of thing you read for a historical perspective on the cringe-worthy way homosexual characters were sometimes treated in YA fiction in the '90s (told from the perspective of her straight brother with a focus on how hard it is on the family for their daughter to be gay).
ETA: Sorry, just saw you mentioned Huntress in your original post. I also just remembered Deliver Us From Evie by M.E. Kerr, but it's the kind of thing you read for a historical perspective on the cringe-worthy way homosexual characters were sometimes treated in YA fiction in the '90s (told from the perspective of her straight brother with a focus on how hard it is on the family for their daughter to be gay).
FWIW here's a Goodreads list on the topic:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/16326.Lesbian_teen_fiction#6725896
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