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Fated Love. What do you do when your carefully planned life takes a wrong turn into hell?

When Quinn Maguire, a dashing young trauma surgeon, unaccountably accepts a position as an ER physician, her new boss, Honor Blake, suspects that Quinn is hiding a dark secret.  While the two declare an uneasy truce in an effort to work together, both struggle with mutual, and unexpected, attraction.  Honor, however, has more than one reason to resist her growing feelings for the attractive newcomer—not the least of which is that her heart belongs to the woman whose wedding ring she wears.

Amidst the chaos and drama of a busy emergency room, Quinn and Honor must contend not only with the fragile nature of a life, but also with the mysteries of the heart and the irresistible forces of fate. 

Romance 2005 GLCS Award Winner

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Innocent Hearts, 2nd ed. Kate Beecher, a young woman from Boston, looks ahead with a sense of restless longing to the life her family and friends expect her to embrace.  She doesn't know what she wants, or who, until she moves with her family to the wild Montana Territory of the 1860's. Just eighteen and quietly struggling against the social constraints of the era, Kate meets a woman who fires first her imagination, and then her dreams.  Jessie Forbes, a fiercely independent but touchingly tender rancher, finds in Kate the passion she had unknowingly sought all her life.

This is the story of their struggle to love in a land and time as cruel as it was beautiful.   New Revised Edition.

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The Lonely Hearts Club. Take three friends, add two ex-lovers and several new ones, then mix with more secrets than any of them know—and the result is a recipe for explosive rivalries and incendiary romance. 

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Love's Masquerade. Plunged into the often indistinguishable realms of fiction, fantasy, and hidden desires, Auden Frost discovers a shifting landscape that will force her to question everything she has believed to be true about herself and the nature of love. 

It began one winter morning when Auden set out to interview for a much needed position as an editor in the nonfiction division of Palmer Publishing. 

Haydon Palmer, however, the powerful young head of the company offers Auden something far different—something that ultimately forces them to confront their deepest fears and utmost desires. 

Unable to resist Hays's challenge and unaware of the charismatic woman's closely-guarded secrets, Auden soon finds herself on a journey that will transform both their lives.

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Love's Melody Lost. Victim of a terrible accident, famed composer and pianist Graham Yardley loses far more than her sight.  She can no longer hear the melodies that once filled her world. 

In a bleak mansion atop windswept cliffs, Graham withdraws into silence, darkness, and bitter regret—until Anna, a woman struggling to redefine her destiny, comes into Graham's life.

When Anna awakens passions Graham thought forever dead, a fragile melody of love grows between their damaged souls, a song made sweeter and stronger by the day.  But will it be strong enough to overcome the memory of past betrayals and future uncertainties? (Now in its fourth printing.)

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Love's Tender Warriors. Drew Clark, ex-Marine and martial arts master, is the new instructor at the Golden Tiger dojang.  Intense and aloof, she hides dark secrets and unhealed wounds beneath her warrior's exterior.  Sean Gray is the young psychologist and senior student who threatens to bring down the barriers Drew has erected around her heart.  Battle hardened and world weary, Drew discovers Sean wields a weapon she has no defense against—tenderness. 

Together, two women who have accepted loneliness as a way of life learn that love is worth fighting for and a battle they cannot afford to lose.

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When Jett comes home from the war and destruction in the Middle East, flying and the adrenaline rush of a crisis are the only things that make her happy, and she volunteers to fly night call where all the action is whenever she can.  So maybe once in a while she takes a few chances.  Hey, that's life, right?  

Dr. Tristan Holmes is an expert at two things—high-risk anesthesia and pleasing women. Tristan gave up expecting anything other than a good time from the women in her life a long time ago, and casual relationships are the perfect prescription for stress release.  She doesn’t do relationships, so she can’t quite understand why it bothers her when Jett makes it clear she doesn’t want one.  

High-stakes medical drama, life on the edge, and love in the fast lane—it's all just routine for Night Call.

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Passion's Bright Fury. When a trauma surgeon and a filmmaker become reluctant allies on the battleground between life and death, passion strikes without warning.

Saxon Sinclair, the broodingly secretive Chief of Trauma at a busy Manhattan hospital, is less than pleased to learn that her new resident is going to be the subject of a documentary film.  The arrival of Jude Castle, a fiery independent filmmaker, soon sets sparks flying as the two driven women clash both personally and professionally. 

Both have secrets they have spent a lifetime guarding, and both have chosen careers over love.  Desire and destiny clash in this blazing romance.  Reprint.

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Promising Hearts.  The frontier might be dangerous, but only if you have something to lose. Can two outcasts find refuge in one another's hearts?

Dr. Vance Phelps lost everything in the War Between the States—her professional future, her place in Philadelphia society, and her faith in herself. She travels to New Hope, Montana with no hope of happiness and no desire for anything except forgetting. There she meets a trio of women, all of whom will play a pivotal role in her life—rancher Jessie Forbes, her lover, Kate Beecher, and Mae, a frontier madam.  Mae, used to standing alone against physical danger and social sanction, fiercely guards the well-being of the lost young women who come under her care—she just never expected one of them to be a doctor, wounded in body and soul.

2007 Romance GCLS Award Winner

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Tomorrow's Promise. Two women faced with uncertain futures discover the promise of love when least expected.

Adrienne Pierce, buffeted by fate and abandoned by love, seeks refuge from her past as well as her uncertain future on Whitley Point, a secluded island off the coast of Maine.  Tanner Whitley is young and restless—and heir to a dynasty.  Her desperate attempts to escape her destiny and the memories of a tragic loss with casual sex and wild nights chart a dangerous course that may ultimately destroy her.  One timeless summer, these two very different women discover the power of passion to heal—and the promise of hope that only love can bestow.

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Turn Back Time.  Love has a way of derailing the best of plans. Two women with nothing in common but a shared passion for surgery clash at every opportunity, especially when matters of the heart are suddenly at stake.

Pearce Rifkin is a woman with a plan, and it doesn’t include a serious relationship. Chief Surgical Resident is just a stepping stone to her lifelong goal—chairmanship at one of the top ten medical centers.

Determined to follow in her father’s footsteps, even though she isn’t the son he dreamed of, Pearce has no time for romance.  Wynter Thompson, barely recovered from a failed relationship, struggles to balance the demands of her surgical residency with the responsibilities of her personal life—and between the two, discovers there is little time left for anything else.  She manages to convince herself that she has everything she needs, because another chance at love is definitely not in her game plan.

2006 Lesbian Romance Lambda Literary Award Finalist

2007 Romance GCLS Award Finalist

2007 Romance Independent Publishers Award Silver Medal

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When Dreams Tremble. Leslie Harris’s visit to her upstate New York lakeside family home after a decade of triumphs and disappointment resembles a nightmare more than the quiet vacation she’d hoped for. The unexpected appearance of much-changed town bad girl Devon Weber, with whom Leslie shares a secret that haunts them both, rekindles an old heartache—and reminds Leslie of just why she left. Even though her attraction to Dev comes roaring back, the one thing Leslie doesn’t want is to pick up where they left off, especially not when she already has just the life she wants—a rewarding high-power law practice, a condo in Manhattan, and a  lover who satisfies her without demanding the intimacy Leslie avoids.  Unfortunately, environmental biologist Devon Weber doesn’t play by Leslie’s rules.

Two women whose lives turned out far differently than they’d once imagined discover that sometimes the shape of the future can only be found in the past—and love is strongest when dreams tremble.

2007 Woman's Romance Lambda Award Finalist

2007 Romance IPPY Award Silver Medal Winner

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shadowland. In a world on the far edge of desire, two women are drawn together by power, passion, and dark pleasures.  When Kyle Kirk embarks on a daring exploration of her most secret fantasies, she finds that Dane, the stranger who guides her on the journey of self-discovery, awakens something far more dangerous than her senses.

In the dark hours of the night, when passions rule and the barriers of convention are stripped away, both Dane and Kyle are forced to confront the true nature of what has long lain buried within their hearts. An erotic romance.

Change of Pace. Two friends share a walk on the wild side in Amsterdam's Red Light district; a construction worker discovers a pleasant distraction in the surgical locker room; a femme top welcomes her lover home from the road; a woman enjoys a lazy summer afternoon with solo pleasures; a missed flight leads to a memorable ride for two women stranded in the fog on Cape Cod; a surprise party that ends with a most unusual gift...and more than twenty additional erotic interludes to spark more than your imagination. Erotica.

In Deep Waters 2: Cruising the Strip.  Games of chance, games of passion, games of love—roll the dice for a week in Las Vegas with games mistresses Radclyffe and Karin Kallmaker. Whether a public table or a back room invitational, the players want to score and everybody can’t wait to go all in. 

A pit boss who thinks she’s seen it all thinks again. A shy novelist considers research in a hospitality suite. The fountains of Las Vegas inspire more than one couple to try something new. Double or nothing? Inside bet? How about a little insurance when the dealer has the upper hand?  

Choose your game, ante up and enjoy the floor show.  All bets are off when these two writers deal the cards, and every hand is a winner. 

Following up on In Deep Waters 1, Karin Kallmaker and Radclyffe bring you another passion-filled collection. Bold Strokes Books is proud to present their second collaboration.

2008 Lesbian Erotica Romance Lambda Award Winner

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Safe Harbor. Reese Conlon, Lt Col USMCR, is the new sheriff who has heads turning amidst speculation as to who will be the first woman to capture her attentions.

Doctor Victoria King has been betrayed by love once and refuses to risk heartbreak again. 

Brianna Parker, the teenaged daughter of Reese's chief, fears her father's wrath when he learns that she loves another girl. 

As these three women struggle to live and love in freedom, they risk their hearts and souls to give one another a Safe Harbor.   2nd ed.

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In Beyond the Breakwater, Sheriff Reese Conlon and Doctor Tory King face the challenges of defining their lives and future together.  Tory's pregnancy forces her to examine her personal needs and goals while Reese struggles with her escalating anxieties over conditions she cannot control. 

Twenty-year-old Brianna Parker makes a sacrifice for love that threatens not just her happiness, but her life, when she returns home as the newest member of the Sheriff's department.

A life-threatening accident, a suspicious fire, and the appearance of more than one woman vying for Bri's attentions make one Provincetown summer a time of transformation as each woman learns the true meaning of love, friendship, and family.

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Distant Shores, Silent Thunder. No matter how much we plan, life—and people—have a way of surprising us.

For Doctor KT O'Bannon, a near-fatal tragedy derails a career and disrupts everything she thought she knew about herself and her future. 

Battered and nearly broken, she turns for solace to the one woman who knows her best, her ex-lover Doctor Tory King.  

Their unexpected reunion opens old wounds, forges new bonds, and awakens long-buried passions. 

While Tory's lover Sheriff Reese Conlon struggles to uncover a deadly drug ring and Officer Bri Parker navigates the torturous path between friendship and desire, Tory and KT—and those who love them—must examine the boundaries of love, friendship, and the ties that transcend time.

2006 Romance/Erotic Love Stories GCLS Award Finalist

2005 Romance Lambda Literary Winner

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Storms of Change.  Amidst war abroad and upheaval at home, Reese Conlon and Tory King face their gravest challenge to their life together.

In the continuing saga of the Provincetown Tales, Reese Conlon’s obligations to family and country are put to the test as war engulfs the Middle East, while her partner Tory King must come to terms with the true price of love. While friends and family struggle with the fears and uncertainties of a world in strife, the small seaside town becomes home to newly arrived art gallery owner, Ricarda Grechi, a woman whose underworld family connections make danger her constant companion. Life doesn't get any safer when State Police Detective Carter Wayne takes a sudden interest in Rica, but it does get more complicated. 

When love, duty, honor, and family are in conflict...four women and those who love them struggle to survive the unforgiving storms of change.

2007 Romance GCLS Award Finalist

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Winds of Fortune.  The winds of fortune are fickle guides…and happiness or heartbreak may be the destination.

For Provincetown local Deo Camara, the only winds that have ever blown her way have been cold and lonely. Despite a decade of estrangement, however, Deo can’t turn her back on the call of blood, no matter how high the price in heartache. Dr. Nita Burgoyne has her own family secrets, a past so painful she starts a new life in hopes of leaving it behind. She has a rewarding new job and an historic sea captain’s house in need of renovation—all she needs to be content. Or so she thinks, until she hires Deo to head up the renovations. They have nothing in common except a shared legacy of betrayal by those they’d trusted the most, and an impossible attraction they would both prefer to ignore. Meanwhile, Nita’s new associate, Dr. Tory King, and her partner, Sheriff Reese Conlon, must cope with the aftermath of the winds of war and the approaching fury of a very real gathering storm.

2007 Romance IBPPG Indie Book Award Finalist

2008 Lesbian Erotica GCLS Finalist

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First in the Honor Series. In the expanded edition of the first in the Honor series, Above All, Honor introduces single-minded Secret Service Agent Cameron Roberts and the woman she is sworn to protect—Blair Powell, the daughter of the President of the United States. Cam's duty is her life and the only thing that keeps her from self-destructing under the unbearable weight of her own deep personal tragedy.  However, she hasn't counted on the fact that her reluctant protectee will do anything in her power to escape the watchful eyes of her protectors, including seducing the agent-in-charge.  Both women struggle with long-hidden secrets and dark passions as they are forced to confront their growing attraction amidst the escalating danger drawing ever closer to Blair. 

From the dark shadows of rough trade bars in Greenwich Village to the elite galleries of Soho, each must balance duty with desire and, ultimately, chose between love and honor.  

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Honor Bound. A request from the commander-in-chief forces Secret Service Agent Cameron Roberts to break her word to the woman she loves—a woman who just happens to be Blair Powell, the president's daughter.

Cam places duty before love, despite knowing that this decision may destroy her tenuous new relationship with the first daughter.  As the rift between the two women widens, more than one would-be-suitor is happy to offer Blair the company that Cam cannot. 

Amidst political intrigue, and escalating threat to Blair's safety, and the seemingly irreconcilable personal differences that force them ever further apart, Cam and Blair struggle to find their way back to one another.  Reprint 2005

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Love & Honor. US Secret Service Agent Cameron Roberts has more than one secret that could destroy her career, not the least of which is that she’s in love with the president’s daughter.  Blair Powell, the first daughter, returns the feeling despite her ambivalence about Cam's role as her security chief, particularly in the aftermath of an assassination attempt that almost took Cam's life. 

In this third book of the Honor series, Blair and Cam struggle to protect their relationship from intensified media exposure while they are unwillingly drawn into a shadowy conspiracy that puts Cam's career and the president's political future at risk. 

When Cam's previous lover resurfaces to offer support and solace, the president's daughter and security chief are faced with difficult choices as they battle a tangled web of Washington intrigue for...love and honor.

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Honor Guards.  When you're the president's daughter and the closest thing the country has to a first lady, your life is never really your own.  When you're the woman charged to guard the first daughter, and you also happen to be her lover, every moment of every day is filled with challenges—and a mistake could cost you everything.

Unbeknownst to either Blair Powell or Secret Service Agent Cameron Roberts, the two lovers are at the center of a conspiracy that will rock the world when a net of violence and death draws down upon them and the nation.  In a journey that begins on the streets of Paris's Left Bank and culminates in a wild flight for their lives, the president's daughter and those who are sworn to protect her wage a desperate struggle for survival.

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Honor Reclaimed. In the chaotic aftermath of 9/11, Secret Service agent Cameron Roberts and her lover, first daughter Blair Powell, must contend with recriminations from within the government and danger from without as they struggle to uncover those who betrayed the nation and nearly claimed Blair’s life.

The hunt is a very personal quest for Cam, who fears that another strike on Blair is imminent. Her search takes her deep into the shadow worlds of counter-intelligence where even a friend might be a foe. While Cam races against time to uncover the traitor's trail, Blair becomes the target of an even deadlier threat. Not just honor, but their future together, is at stake as the search culminates in a violent confrontation with evil.

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Honor Under Siege. A novel of romance and betrayal in a world where love, loyalty, and honor are under siege and even friends may be enemies. 

With the nation on the verge of war and the mastermind behind the assassination attempt on her lover, First Daughter Blair Powell, still at large, the last thing Secret Service Agent Cameron Roberts wants is to be replaced as Blair’s security chief. The President has a different mission for her, however, starting with finding the traitor within the inner circle level of the nation’s security system who conspired to kill Blair.  The hunt is personal for Cam on every level because her quarry is her ex-lover, Valerie Lawrence. Blair soon finds herself an unwilling participant in a deadly game that pits her allegiance to her best friend Diane Bleeker, Valerie’s newfound love, against her loyalty to Cam. Fast-paced action culminates in a deadly standoff where life and love hang in the balance.

2007 Suspense IBPPG Indie Book Award Finalist

2008 Lesbian Mystery GCLS Award Finalist

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Word of Honor.  All Cameron Roberts and Blair Powell want is a small, intimate wedding, but the paparazzi and a domestic terrorist have other plans. 

First Daughter Blair Powell and her lover Cameron Roberts, newly appointed deputy director of the Homeland Security Office, escape to a ski chalet in the Rockies after a harrowing attack by members of a domestic terrorism organization. Under orders from the White House, Blair reluctantly allows a member of the "enemy camp," investigative reporter Dana Barnett, to join her inner circle in the hopes of limiting her media exposure. Dana isn't any happier about being pulled from her coverage of the escalating conflict in the Middle East to write a society "fluff piece," although the presence of beautiful Dr. Emory Constantine does make the assignment a little more enticing.

With the nation under attack, the world on the verge of war, and their personal lives the focus of intense public scrutiny, Cam and Blair come under fire both publicly and privately when an old nemesis resurfaces intent on finishing his holy mission—to kill Blair Powell.

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A Matter of Trust, 2nd ed.  Prequel to the Justice Series.  Michael Lassiter, a theoretical design executive, is about to wage war on the corporate battlefield She hires JT Sloan, a brash internet security consultant, to protect her most important asset—her dreams and visions.

Sloan, a brilliant cyber-sleuth who steadfastly avoids emotional commitments after a disastrous betrayal, finds it increasingly difficult to think of Michael as just another client.  When Michael is threatened by more than just financial ruin, Sloan risks her heart and dares to trust again.

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Shield of Justice. First in the Justice Series. One is a cop, sworn to protect and serve—one is a physician, sworn to heal.  Together they become reluctant allies in the battle for justice.

Special Crimes Unit investigator Detective Sergeant Rebecca Frye is attempting to solve a series of sexual assaults and running into dead ends at every turn.  Finally, she has a break in the case—a witness—one person who may help her bring a madman to justice.  But the witness is a victim herself and Rebecca must convince the injured woman's physician, Dr. Catherine Rawlings, to assist her—a task that brings each woman face-to-face with her own darkest fears. 

Amidst professional conflicts and a growing mutual attraction, the two women join in the battle to trap the perpetrator before he strikes again.  Reprint 2005

In Pursuit of Justice (eBook only)  Second in the Justice Series.  In the dynamic double sequel to Shield of Justice and A Matter of Trust, Det. Sgt. Rebecca Frye struggles to return to duty after a near fatal shooting. Joining forces with enigmatic computer consultant J.T. Sloan, Rebecca accepts a temporary assignment with a Federal task force investigating an Internet child pornography ring. Rebecca's obsession with finding her partner's killer and her involvement in the multi-jurisdictional investigation threaten both her life and her new relationship with Doctor Catherine Rawlings. When Catherine becomes professionally involved and an attempt on the life of a task force member ensues, the pursuit of justice becomes a deadly race against time.

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Justice in the Shadows. In a shadow world of secrets, lies, and hidden agendas, Detective Sergeant Rebecca Frye and her lover, Dr. Catherine Rawlings, join forces once again in the elusive search for justice.

Rebecca is aided in her struggle to uncover a pornography ring and expose its connections to a traitor within the police department by a rag-tag team of dedicated cops and civilians:  JT Sloan, a cyber-sleuth committed to avenging her lover's devastating injury who walks the fine line between justice and revenge; Dellon Mitchell, a young police officer who discovers an unforeseen talent for undercover work; and Sandy, a prostitute who develops an unexpected passion for cops.  Ultimately, this secret investigation may risk not just their careers, but may cost one her life.

2005 Intrigue/ Mystery GCLS Award Winner

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Justice Served. Newly promoted Detective Lieutenant Rebecca Frye once again assembles her unorthodox team of lovers and friends to bring a deadly informant in the police department to justice. 

Aided by JT Sloan, a cyber-sleuth with a personal score to settle, Rebecca soon discovers that the conspiracy extends far beyond the police department into a world where human life is only a commodity. 

Pressured by her superiors, driven by the private need to avenge her murdered partner, and determined to succeed at any cost, she must put one officer's life at risk and her own heart on the line.

2005 Mystery-Lesbian Lambda Literary Award Finalist

2006 Mystery/ Action/ Adventure /Thriller GCLS Award Winner