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Kim Baldwin

Kim Baldwin, a former network news journalist, is a 2008 recipient of the Alice B. Readers' Appreciation Award. She has published five solo novels, four of which have been finalists for Golden Crown Literary Society awards, and one collaborative effort with Xenia Alexiou—Lethal Affairs, the first book in the Elite Operatives Series. The second book in the series, Thief of Always, will be released in February 2009.  Kim is currently at work on another solo book, the romantic Alaskan adventure Breaking the Ice, set for release in August 2009. She has also contributed short stories to five BSB anthologies:  Stolen Moments: Erotic Interludes 2, Lessons in Love: Erotic Interludes 3, Extreme Passions: Erotic Interludes 4, Road Games: Erotic Interludes 5, and Romantic Interludes 1: Discovery. She lives in Michigan, but takes to the road with her laptop and camera whenever possible.

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Breaking the Ice (August 2009)

Nothing is easy about life above the Arctic Circle. Except, perhaps, falling in love. 

Bryson Faulkner embraces the challenges that come with making a home in one of the most beautiful but unforgiving places on earth: the isolation of the endless wilderness, the harsh and unpredictable climate, the predators that lurk about her remote cabin.  And even the most perilous dangers of all—those that await her when she takes to the skies as one of Alaska’s most daring bush pilots. The only thing missing is a special woman to share it all with, but she’s resigned herself to the fact that few people can thrive in such an extreme environment. 

Everything Karla Edwards thought she knew gets called into question when a series of events turns her comfortable and well-ordered life on its ear. Her partner leaves her, her mother dies, and Karla learns she has a sister in Alaska she never knew. She takes a leave of absence from her job as an ER nurse in Atlanta and heads to the far north, seeking answers and adventure. She finds all that and more when she crosses paths with a sexy bush pilot who opens her eyes to new possibilities. But can she open her heart as well and learn to trust again?

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Flight Risk

 

 

 

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Flight Risk For Blayne Keller, being in the wrong place at the wrong time just might turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to her—once she stops running for her life.  

A typical day at a Chicago travel agency turns deadly when Blayne witnesses a mafia murder.

Overnight, her life is turned upside down and she is thrust into WITSEC, the Federal Witness Protection Program. But the mob is determined to keep her from testifying and has a fed on its payroll leaking information about her every move. Only Alexi Nikolos, an enigmatic WITSEC Inspector with an agenda of her own, can keep Blayne alive, and it's not an easy task when the sparks between them are flying faster than the bullets aimed at their heads.

2008 Lesbian Mystery GCLS Award Finalist

Focus of Desire

 

 

 

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Focus of Desire There are times when a picture doesn’t just say it all—it changes everything.

Isabel Sterling isn’t even aware she has been entered in the Sophisticated Women ‘Watch Your Dreams Come True’ contest, so it comes as a complete surprise to learn she has won not only a makeover she doesn’t want or need, plus the chance to appear on the cover of a national magazine she's never read along with  an all-expense paid trip for two to exotic locales. Photographer Natasha Kashnikova is a cynical celebrity playgirl who is barreling toward full, midlife-crisis mode when she agrees to take on the Sophisticated Women shoot as a favor for a friend. Kash is convinced that every woman who shows an interest in her has ulterior motives, so love is not on her agenda—and certainly not with some naïve romantic during an assignment from Hell.

2008 Lesbian Erotica GCLS Award Finalist

Force of Nature

 

 

 

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Force of Nature Disaster brought them together and, despite desire, may ultimately keep them apart.

Wind. Fire. Ice. Love. 

 

Nothing for volunteer firefighters Gable McCoy and Erin Richards seems to go smoothly.  From the tornado that nearly claims their lives to the raging forest fire that threatens to consume them, the forces of nature conspire against them.

 

Even a they struggle with personal uncertainties along with their growing attraction, a deadly challenge awaits that may be the final foe.

Hunter's Pursuit

 

 

 

 

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Hunter's Pursuit.  When the hunter becomes the hunted…do you trust your instincts or your heart? A killer for hire, Katarzyna Demetrious has grown weary of her violent and solitary life. Contemplating retirement, she had gone into hiding in her remote bunker home as a blizzard rages outside.

But her seclusion is shattered by the appearance of a mysterious stranger, and, with a price tag on her head, Kat is thrust into the most perilous situation she has ever face.

Can she outwit the assassin on her trail? And what if the woman she has rescued…and is unexpectedly attracted to…turns out to be the deadliest of them all?

2005 Intrigue/Mystery  GCLS Award Finalist

Whitewater Rendezvous

 

 

 

 

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Whitewater Rendezvous Megan Maxwell is perfectly content with her life just as it is.  As Vice President of World News Central, she has power, prestige, money, connection, and no lack of willing bed partners, so it takes several shots of tequila and a good bit of cajoling to convince her to join her friends on a whitewater kayak trip in northern Alaska.  But the grandeur of the Last Great Frontier and the unexpected allure of her tour guide give her a whole new perspective on what is really important.

Biology professor and adventure guide Chaz Herrick believes she can only find happiness in the wilderness of her adopted home state, and she expects that when she finally falls in love, it will be with someone very much like herself.  When she finds herself falling hard for a big city workaholic who seems to invite disaster at every turn, it's not just rough water that has her worried.

2007 Lesbian Romance GCLS Award Finalist

 


Sometimes, the boundaries between reality and fiction blur -- read Kim's true life account of the tornado that struck her home just weeks before the release of her novel, Force of Nature, which opens with the same event!    

Night of the Twister

Kim can be contacted at KimBaldwin

Website:  Kim Baldwin

MySpace:  AuthorKimBaldwin

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