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Special eBook Bundles (15% eBook savings per bundle)

     Ronica Black

ISBN: 978-1-60282-164-4E

ePrice:   $34.00

Release: November 2009

Series eBook bundle Volume 1 featuring three books from author Ronica Black. 

 In Too Deep — Undercover homicide cop Erin McKenzie tracks a femme fatale who just might be a real killer—with love and danger hot on her heels. 

Deeper — Former homicide detective Erin McKenzie and her fiancée Elizabeth Adams couldn’t be happier—until the not-so-distant past comes knocking at the door. 

Wild Abandon— From their first tumultuous meeting, Dr. Chandler Brogan and Officer Sarah Monroe are drawn together by their common obsessions.sex, speed, and danger.

     Catherine Friend

ISBN: 978-1-60282-165-1E

ePrice:   $34.00

Release: November 2009

Series eBook bundle featuring three books from author Catherine Friend. 

The Spanish Pearl — On a trip to Spain, Kate Vincent is accidentally transported back in time...an epic saga spiced with humor, lust, and danger. 

The Crown of Valencia — Ex-lovers can really mess up your life…even, as Kate discovers, if they’ve traveled back to the 11th century. 

A Pirate's Heart — When rare book librarian Emma Boyd searches for a long-lost treasure map, she learns the hard way that pirates still exist in today’s world—some modern pirates steal maps, others steal hearts.

     JLee Meyer

ISBN: 978-1-60282-166-8E

ePrice:   $34.00

Release: November 2009

Series eBook bundle Volume 1 featuring three books from author JLee Meyer. 

Forever Found — Can time, tragedy, and shattered trust destroy a love that seemed destined? When chance reunites two childhood friends separated by tragedy, the past resurfaces to determine the shape of their future. 

First Instinct — When high-stakes security fraud leads to murder, one woman flees for her life while another risks her heart to protect her. 

Rising Storm — The sequel to First Instinct takes our heroines on a dangerous journey instead of the honeymoon they’d planned.

     Julie Cannon

ISBN: 978-1-60282-167-5E

ePrice:   $45.00

Release: November 2009

Series eBook bundle Volume 1 featuring four books from author Julie Cannon. 

Come and Get Me — Elliott Foster isn’t used to pursuing women, but alluring attorney Lauren Collier makes her change her mind. 

Heart 2 Heart — Suffering from a devastating personal loss, Kyle Bain meets Lane Connor, and the chance for happiness suddenly seems possible. 

Heartland — When political strategist Rachel Stanton and dude ranch owner Shivley McCoy collide on an empty country road, fate intervenes. 

Uncharted Passage — Two women on a vacation that turns deadly face down one of nature’s most ruthless killers—and find themselves falling in love.

     Erin Dutton

ISBN: 978-1-60282-168-2E

ePrice:   $34.00

Release: November 2009

Series eBook bundle Volume 1 featuring three books from author Erin Dutton. 

Sequestered Hearts — A popular artist suddenly goes into seclusion; a reluctant reporter wants to know why; and a heart locked away yearns to be set free. 

A Place to Rest — Sawyer Drake doesn’t know what she wants from life until she meets Jori Diamantina—only trouble is, Jori doesn’t seem to share her desire. 

Designed for Love — Jillian Sealy and Wil Johnson don’t much like each other, but they do have to work together—and what they desire most is not what either of them had planned.

     Kim Baldwin

ISBN: 978-1-60282-169-9E

ePrice:   $34.00

Release: November 2009

Series eBook bundle Volume 1 featuring three books from author Kim Baldwin. 

Hunter's Pursuit — A raging blizzard, a mountain hideaway, and a killer-for-hire set a scene for disaster—or desire—when Katarzyna Demetrious rescues a beautiful stranger. 

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. 

Focus of Desire — Isabel Sterling is surprised when she wins a photography contest, but no more than photographer Natasha Kashnikova. Their promo tour becomes a ticket to romance.

     Kim Baldwin

ISBN: 978-1-60282-170-5E

ePrice:   $34.00

Release: November 2009

Series eBook bundle Volume 2 featuring three more books from author Kim Baldwin. 

Force of Nature — From tornados to forest fires, the forces of nature conspire to bring Gable McCoy and Erin Richards close to danger, and closer to each other.   

Whitewater Rendezvous — Two women on a wilderness kayak adventure—Chaz Herrick, a laid-back outdoorswoman, and Megan Maxwell, a workaholic news executive—discover that true love may be nothing at all like they imagined. 

Breaking the Ice — Nothing is easy about life above the Arctic Circle—except, perhaps, falling in love. At least that’s what pilot Bryson Faulkner hopes when she meets Karla Edwards.

     Radclyffe

ISBN: 978-1-60282-171-2E

ePrice:   $34.00

Release: November 2009

Series eBook bundle Volume 1 featuring three books from author Radclyffe.  

Love's Melody Lost — A secretive artist with a haunted past and a young woman escaping a life that has proved to be a lie find their destinies entwined. 

Love's Tender Warriors — 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. 

Love's Masquerade — Plunged into the indistinguishable realms of fiction, fantasy, and hidden desires, Auden Frost is forced to question all she believes about the nature of love.

     Radclyffe

ISBN: 978-1-60282-172-9E

ePrice:   $34.00

Release: November 2009

Series eBook bundle Volume 2 featuring three more books from author Radclyffe’s Provincetown Tales.   

Storms of Change — In the continuing saga of the Provincetown Tales, duty and love are at odds as Reese and Tory face their greatest challenge. 

Winds of Fortune — Provincetown local Deo Camara agrees to rehab Dr. Nita Burgoyne’s historic home, but she never said anything about mending her heart. 

Returning Tides — Insurance investigator Ashley Walker faces more than a dangerous opponent when she returns to the town, and the woman, she left behind.

     Justine Saracen

ISBN: 978-1-60282-173-6E

ePrice:   $21.00

Release: November 2009

Series eBook bundle featuring two books from author Justine Saracen. 

100th Generation — Ancient curses, modern day villains, and a most intriguing woman who keeps appearing when least expected lead Archeologist Valerie Foret on the adventure of her life. 

Vulture’s Kiss —  Archeologist Valerie Foret, heir to a terrifying task, returns in a powerful desert adventure set in Egypt and Jerusalem.

DECEMBER 2009 (back to top)

Chaps

     Jove Belle

ISBN10: 1-60282-127-5

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-127-9

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     232

Genre:  Romance

Release: December 2009

Excerpt

Eden is fleeing a past filled with blood and death that promises to forever haunt her. She travels aimlessly until the day her motorcycle breaks down in the middle of nowhere, southern Idaho, and in rides Brandi Cornwell.  

Brandi Cornwell lives a simple life on her Idaho ranch. She works hard, struggles to make ends meet, and follows the Golden Rule. The only thing missing is a good woman to share the sunsets.  As much as she’d like that woman to be Eden, Brandi senses the turmoil within her, and buries her feelings, knowing that whatever Eden’s running from, it’s going to take her away from Idaho and from whatever chance they might have at love.

The Seeker

     Ronica Black

ISBN10: 1-60282-128-3

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-128-6

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:    288

Genre:  Romantic Intrigue

Release: December 2009

Excerpt

FBI profiler Kennedy Scott battles ghosts from her past, deadly obsession, and the evil that haunts her. The Seeker. 

Famed Hollywood actress Veronica Ryan arrives at a red carpet event with her wife Shawn. They are the world's most famous gay couple—beautiful, wealthy, and by all appearances, the happiest couple in the world. But things aren't always as they appear. And someone is out to dampen the parade. A shot rings out and Veronica finds herself tackled to the ground by security, her wife lying next to her in a pool of blood. 

Kennedy Scott used to be the best behavioral profiler the FBI had, but she is haunted by a string of child murders no one can solve. A single quote—Seek and ye shall find—was all she had to go on. The case has eaten her alive, and after her own family is threatened by an armed intruder, Kennedy retreats to be with them. But one phone call brings her back into the game. Veronica Ryan needs her help and the path may lead to the one who haunts her.

Battle Scars

     Meghan O'Brien

ISBN10: 1-60282-129-1

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-129-3

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     248

Genre:  Romance

Release: December 2009

Excerpt

Returning Iraq war veteran Ray McKenna struggles with battle scars that can only be healed by love. 

Ray McKenna returns from the war in Iraq to find that she has attained unwanted celebrity status back home. As the only surviving American soldier of a well-publicized hostage crisis, she is the center of attention at a time when all she wants is solitude.  Struggling to overcome the fear and anxiety that plague her, she relies on her psychiatric therapy dog Jagger to help her through the vicious symptoms of PTSD. 

Veterinarian Dr. Carly Warner hasn't yet figured out how to open her heart to the possibility of falling in love again after the death of her longtime partner. When Ray McKenna walks into the North Coast Veterinary Clinic with Jagger, she and Carly begin a friendship that takes them both by surprise. Brought together by their shared love of dogs, Ray and Carly discover that they are both capable of moving forward, if only they are brave enough to try. 

Lightbearer

     John Caruso

ISBN10: 1-60282-130-5

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-130-9

Price:      $17.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     360

Genre:  Gay Fantasy

Release: December 2009

Excerpt

Lucifer: fallen angel or martyr of desire? 

Condemned to die by God and branded a traitor by his fellow fallen angels, Lucifer descends on Boston in a blizzard.  He is drawn to humanity and vows to appear before the world again as Lucifer.  But with Heaven's longstanding disinformation campaign stacked against him, he does not yet dare.  When he learns of a celibate cult, the Wise Virgins, he dons human disguises and enters the lives of two of its leaders, Virgil Caldera and his aunt, Agatha Brimsmead.  The powerful archangel Michael, Lucifer's creator and former lover, is behind the cult.  Michael is convinced that sex is the source of all misery on earth, and has decreed that humans must renounce erotic love or burn in hellfire.

The battle of wills and wits is on—not only over the bodies and souls of Virgil and Agatha, but in that age old struggle between desire and divine authority.  Lucifer has one hope of defeating Michael: he must expose the deadly flaw in Michael's plan of salvation.  But as long as he remains hidden, he cannot reveal the truth about his past in heaven or the scandal of the world to come.

In The Bible and Milton's Paradise Lost, Lucifer is portrayed as the angel whose pride caused him to fall from heaven and turn toward evil.  In Lightbearer, he is the artist, the dissident, and the genius of desire who dares to question the premise of creation itself, and who reveals that sin may be all that stands between us and living hell.

The Latecomer

     Sarah Aldridge

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-174-3E

ePrice:   $10.95

Pages:     tba

Genre:  Romance

Release: December 2009

eBook only

The Latecomer invites you into the world of Philippa and Kay, strangers who meet aboard a cruise ship and despite very different lives and aspirations, find a surprising bond. Through political and romantic intrigue they uncover the truth about themselves.

"I've learned a peculiar kind of courage,” Philippa thought, “a particular kind of self-respect, that I did not know existed. I'm alive. I' m a whole human being. At last."

The Latecomer, by Sarah Aldridge was the first book published by the legendary Naiad Press and one of the first lesbian romance to have a happy ending. This brave and passionate love story ushered in a brigade of fierce women writers, musicians, and activists determined to change their self imagery.

Sarah Aldridge was a pen name for Anyda Marchant who went on to write a total of 14 lesbian novels between 1974 and 2003. She and her partner Muriel Crawford were two of the founders of Naiad Press.

We celebrate this 35th anniversary reissue of The Latecomer by launching The Latecomer Legacy Project – gathering the words of women who discovered this early lesbian literature and telling their tales — how these pioneering stories helped pave the way to positive self images and lesbian pride. Essays from lesbian authors, musicians, and other artists in a unique introduction to this edition of a classic romance.

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“Think back. Who saved your life? … Did new discoveries like Sarah Aldridge’s The Latecomer arrive in secret brown paper packages from Naiad Press?” —Holly Near, singer, author

“The first book I purchased at Giovanni’s Room was The Latecomer by Sarah Aldridge. It was also the first lesbian book I ever purchased…I still have that book…” —Radclyffe, author

“Anyda died in 2006 at the age of 94, full of honors and with a legion of devoted fans. How lucky we are that she passed our way. (This edition) is a fitting accolade to one of our most cherished literary lights and deserves a place on every lesbian’s bookshelf. —Ann Bannon, author

“I began calling myself a lesbian long before I had a girlfriend. What to do during those lonely summer days and nights? Why read, of course.” —Lesléa Newman, author, Poet Laureate of Northampton, MA

As I Lay Frying —A Rehoboth Beach Memoir

     Fay Jacobs

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-175-0E

ePrice:   $10.95

Pages:     tba

Genre:  General Fiction

Release: December 2009

eBook only

In 1995, writer Fay Jacobs and her partner Bonnie literally cruised into town and discovered the unique charm of this seaside community. Almost immediately, Fay began chronicling her life as a Rehoboth weekender in a column that appeared in the magazine Letters from CAMP Rehoboth.  In the years that followed, Fay’s Rehoboth fans have followed her smart, witty columns as Fay & Bonnie made the transition from visitors to regulars to locals themselves.  Fay’s unique voice and her willingness to bare it all in print turned her fans into a sort of extended family.  Now, for the first time, the collected essays of Fay Jacobs are being published in book form.  Together, they tell a story that is sometimes provocative, sometimes political, occasionally heartwarming, and always hilarious.

“Fay Jacobs is the secret love child of Dorothy Parker and Jackie Mason. I can always count on her to make me laugh out loud.” —Marc Acito, author, How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater

"Her columns... are laugh out loud funny and the best part is that Jacobs is sincere...those who enjoyed Jacobs' first collection will not be disappointed and those reading her for the first time will understand why she's such a beloved columnist." —Jane van Ingen - Lambda Book Report

"The emotions portrayed in these stories run the gamut. Every tale is masterfully told—this memorable memoir is both pleasure and treasure." —Anna Furtado, author - JustAboutWrite!

"Fay’s a funny girl and a smarty pants, and something else: a generous writer.  I love a lot of humor columnists, but there’s something different about Fay—you never get the sense that she sat down to write with the sole purpose of being funny.  She’s also different from most memoirists, in that her tone never suggests self-importance or “Look at Me!”-ness.   When’s the last time you read a memoir and thought of the writer as “generous” for letting you in on his or her life?" —Emily Lloyd, Lambda Book Report

Fried and True —Tales from Rehoboth Beach

     Fay Jacobs

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-176-7E

ePrice:   $10.95

Pages:     tba

Genre:  General Fiction

Release: December 2009

eBook only

Following on the heels of the best-selling and riotous As I Lay Frying—A Rehoboth Beach Memoir, Fay Jacobs gives you the inside story on life in this small resort town on the Delaware coast. This collection of her latest columns from the publication Letters from CAMP Rehoboth is sometimes provocative, sometimes political, often heartwarming and reliably hilarious. Her unique voice and willingness to bare it all in print turns readers into extended family. 

In addition to her Letters commentaries, Fay takes you inside the remarkable lives of two Rehoboth Beach icons, sharing her close friendship with legendary feminist author Sarah Aldridge (the pen name of Anyda Marchant) and her partner Muriel Crawford.

Jacobs’ witty way of describing universal experiences and the travails life delivers will keep you laughing, smiling and relating page after page.

Here’s what critics have to say about Jacobs’ writing:

“Funny, touching—and real. It’s a true laugh riot as Fay wittily takes on sexuality, politics, relationships, and day-to-day dilemmas.” —InsightOut Book Club

“Are you in need of a good belly laugh? Look no farther….Jacobs serves up constant laughs, from chuckles to chortles to rib-ticklers to out-and-out brays. Jacobs’ ability to infuse even the simplest occasion with humor will have you grabbing your sides and crying for more.“ —Nann Dunn, Just About Write

"Fay’s a funny girl and a generous writer…you never get the sense that she sat down to write with the sole purpose of being funny. She’s also different from most memoirists, in that her tone never suggests self-importance or “Look at Me!”-ness. When’s the last time you read a memoir and thought of the writer as “generous” for letting you in on his or her life?" —Emily Lloyd, Lambda Book Report

“Fay’s unvarnished essays resonate with warmth, candid humor, and the unabashed joy of finding one’s place.” —OutTraveler 

“Fay Jacobs is the secret love child of Dorothy Parker and Jackie Mason. I can always count on her to make me laugh out loud.” —Marc Acito, author, How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater

JANUARY 2010  (back to top)

Magic of the Heart

    C.J. Harte

ISBN10: 1-60282-131-3

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-131-6

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     232

Genre: Romance

Release:  January 2010

Excerpt

Financial executive Susan Hettinger and wild, impulsive rock star MJ Carson couldn’t be more different if they tried—but opposites attract in ways neither can resist.

Rock star Maggie “MJ” Carson has heard a thousand I-Love-You’s. People always want something for nothing from her, and she long ago decided it was better to use than be used. On a plane trip from hell, she’s seated next to an attractive woman and turns on her irresistible charm, expecting the usual weak-kneed compliance.  

But Susan doesn’t know who her sexy fellow traveler is and loses all interest once she finds out. The heat between them is instant, yet Susan can think of countless reasons to ignore the spark of attraction. She knows she should walk away, but when Maggie ends up stranded without her wallet and ID, she offers to help.

Completely incompatible, they still can’t resist the magic that draws them together. Can they find a place between the glare of the media spotlight and the legacy of past betrayals where trust can grow and love might have a chance?

Ambereye

    Gill McKnight

ISBN10: 1-60282-132-1

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-132-3

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     232

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Release:  January 2010

Excerpt

The thing with the Garouls is you never get quite what you think you will. They really are something else.

Hope Glassy loves her job at Ambereye, Inc., despite having Jolie Garoul as her new boss.

Jolie is a moody workaholic. She is awkward, contrary, and on occasion just plain mean. Hope is hardworking, popular, and in recovery from a serious illness. She doesn’t need a bizarre boss. She doesn’t need office politics. And she doesn’t need to work over Thanksgiving either. Nevertheless, that’s what she and Jolie end up doing…in Little Dip, home of the Garoul clan.

An important meeting brings them to the valley where it’s assumed Jolie has brought her chosen mate to meet her pack. Much to her consternation Jolie finds she likes this idea, but Hope has no time for romance. She is eager to get her life, health, and career back on track, nothing more. Jolie is determined to change her mind, but how does a lycanthrope woo a human? A small and super-efficient, bossy boots human at that?

Collision Course

    C.P.Rowlands

ISBN10: 1-60282-133-X

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-133-0

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     240

Genre: Romance

Release:  January 2010

Excerpt

Brie O'Malley, successful author and college professor, isn't sure if she believes in destiny in a universe where a random act of violence extinguished her happy-ever-after.  The life she had, the woman she loved, the future she was planning for, were stolen from her the day she and her lover were shot. The only survivor, Brie has "recovered" two years later, at least that's how it seems to others.  She is dedicated to her work, volunteering in the community, and researching her next historical novel. Yet she hasn't laughed since the tragedy. Until the day she meets Jordan.

Skateboarding to show her two kids how an expert does it, Jordan Carter can’t believe her bad luck when she collides with beautiful blond Brie and meets her later at the hospital.  A carpenter and partner in the family business, Jordan has also struggled to pull her life together after a tragedy.

Neither woman is looking for or expects a second chance at love but each must make a decision about the past that will open a door to the future.

Mephisto Aria

    Justine Saracen

ISBN10: 1-60282-139-9

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-139-2

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     272

Genre: Romance

Release:  January 2010

Is the history of a dangerous love affair destined to be repeated?  

At the height of her career, opera singer Katherina Marow is brought crashing down by her father's suicide. Among his effects, she finds his wartime journal and reads the heart-wrenching entries of a soldier in Russia and in war-torn Berlin. She learns the crimes and secrets her father harbored, but cannot condemn him, for while she discovers his demons, she is facing her own. The stage-world she lives in draws her into a lawless ecstatic realm, and she is tempted, as he was, by forces which could destroy her. Has she too made a devil's pact? And if so, will she pay for it, as her father did, with her life?

Fever

    VK Powell

ISBN10: 1-60282-135-6

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-135-4

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     256

Genre: Romantic Intrigue

Release:  February 2010

Zak Chambers is a disillusioned hired gun who longs for a connection with life beyond her sat-phone and assignments she can’t share with anyone. Her boss lines up a cushy escort job to Africa to give her time to refocus.  

But the country she loved as a child holds memories she isn’t ready to face. Adding to her ambivalence about returning is the immensely attractive Sara Ambrosini, head of Ambrosini Philanthropic, who sees everything through the rose-colored glasses of wealth and privilege. Zak’s task is to provide security for Sara until they reach the future site of her primary school for tribal children in the bush country. But Zak soon discovers that Sara’s stubbornness and independence aren’t the only obstacles to the success of her assignment.

High Risk

    JLee Meyer

ISBN10: 1-60282-136-4

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-136-1

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     240

Genre: Romance

Release:  February 2010

Can actress Kate Hoffman really risk all she’s worked for to take a chance on love? Or is it already too late? 

Kate Hoffman has worked hard for five years achieving fame and fortune in Hollywood and is now one of its highest paid actresses. The last person she expects to run into when taking time off to help her sister Laurel and her partner launch their new hotel venture is Dasher Pate. Kate walked away from her attraction to the enticing A-List agent years before because she didn’t want to complicate her career. 

Dasher has never forgotten being captivated by Kate or the fact that she was spurned despite what felt like an undeniable attraction. Kate must confront her feelings toward women, and to Dasher in particular. Can destiny bring two women together no matter how much they resist?

Missing Lynx

    Kim Baldwin & Xenia Alexiou

ISBN10: 1-60282-137-2

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-137-8

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     312

Genre: Romantic Intrigue

Release:  February 2010

When a sadistic serial killer known as the Headhunter resurfaces, a government blunder forces the Elite Operatives Organization into action. Operation Mask falls to Lynx. She has the determination, skills, and most importantly, the right profile, but her youth and lack of experience in the field could put more than the mission in jeopardy.

Her search takes her deep into the jungles of Asia, where she must battle not only the ruthless purveyors of the international skin trade, but also her growing feelings for a mysterious mercenary with her own agenda for the Headhunter.

Spanking New

    Clifford Henderson

ISBN10: 1-60282-138-0

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-138-5

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     288

Genre: Gen. Fiction/Lesbian

Release:  February 2010

Getting born is trickier than Spanky ever imagined. 

Yearning for life, Spanky chooses Nina, a flighty actress just out of college, and Rick, a sax player who changes tires to get by, to be his parents. Only Nina seems to be hung up on her gay guy friend Pablo, and Nina’s best girlfriend Dink is hung up her! Will Nina and Rick get it together in time to conceive Spanky before he evaporates? And if this hurdle gets crossed, will they choose to keep him?  

There’s not much Spanky can do but watch from above while his fate plays out—and if that’s not scary enough—an unexpected twist of fate makes Spanky have to completely reevaluate his expectations. He’s a girl! 

A poignant, hilarious, unforgettable look at life, love, gender, and the essence of what makes us who we are.

 Radclyffe & Karin Kallmaker

ISBN: 978-1-60282-203-0E

ePrice:   $23.00

Release: February 2010

IDW1 Cruising the Seas:  Book passage on an erotic journey with pleasure-planning cruise directors, Radclyffe and Karin Kallmaker.

IDW2 Cruising the Strip:  All bets are off when two award winning-authors deal the cards of love and passion...and every hand is a winner.

The Midnight Hunt

  Radclyffe writing as L.L. Raand

ISBN10: 1-60282-140-2

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-140-8

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     288

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Release:  March 2010

Medic Drake McKennan has never been good at  following protocol, so she doesn't think twice about rendering emergency care when a young girl's life is at stake—even if the girl is in the throes of Were fever and any sane human should know better. It isn't the bright shining pain of the bite or even the wrenching agonies of the fever that convinces her everything in her life has changed. It's the way she feels about the blonde with the   wolf-gold eyes leaning over her     hospital bed when she    finally wakes up. Sylvan, the Alpha of the Adirondack Timberwolf Pack—the one female Drake can't have. And the only one she wants.  

A Midnight Hunters novel

Long Shot

   D. Jackson Leigh

ISBN10: 1-60282-141-0

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-141-5

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     240

Genre: Romance

Release:  March 2010

If you’re going to bet a long shot, you have to be prepared to lose. 

Equine veterinarian Tory Greyson has always played the safe bet. That is, until she runs into a very cute, opinionated, jobless journalist. The small town of Cherokee Falls is just a pit stop for Leah Montgomery while she figures out how to put her career back on track and deal with her grandmother’s slide into dementia. Tory is unable to resist when Leah talks her into putting money on a long shot at the track and then spending the winnings to buy a wild pony. Will Tory take a chance on Leah, too? Or will she stick with the safe bet and pursue Bridgette LeRoy, the calm, Zen-centered artist who arrives to teach at the local college?

In Medias Res

   Yolanda Wallace

ISBN10: 1-60282-142-9

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-142-2

Price:      $14.95

ePrice:   $10.95

Pages:     192

Genre: Romantic Adventure

Release:  March 2010

Sometimes you have to forget who you were to remember who you are.   

For Sydney Stanton, nothing could be closer to the truth.  Suffering from amnesia, Sydney finds herself alone in the middle of O’Hare Airport with no idea how she got there, where she’s headed, or even who she is.  Her only clues to her identity are the ticket to Key West in her hand and the items in the backpack slung over her left shoulder. 

Halfway around the world, Dr. Jennifer Rekowski, Sydney’s best friend and longtime confidante, holds the key to unlocking Sydney’s memory.  But Jennifer, nursing a broken heart and trapped in the middle of a civil war, remains agonizingly out of reach.    

Can two women united by love and divided by circumstance find each other—and themselves—before time runs out?

Awakening to Sunlight

   Lindsey Stone

ISBN10: 1-60282-143-7

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-143-9

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     240

Genre: Fiction/Romance

Release:  March 2010

To embrace the future is to find the courage to accept the past. 

Judith Hilford flees from an emotionally abusive relationship and accepts temporary lodging arranged by a friend until she can set her life on a new course. Lizzy Mayfield, a filmmaker who lost her lover three years ago, comes home from a business trip to find Judith and her child unexpectedly living in her apartment.  

Lizzy wants nothing more than to be left alone, but as Judith has nowhere else to go, Lizzy allows her to stay. While Judith struggles to create a new life for her daughter and herself, Lizzy contends with the vibrancy their presence brings to her emotionally barren existence. As Lizzy and Judith gradually become involved in each other’s lives, they are both forced to confront the ghosts of their pasts.

The Pleasure Set

    Lisa Girolami

ISBN10: 1-60282-144-5

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-144-6

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     tba

Genre: Romance

Release:  April 2010

Though Laney DeGraff is a successful president of a family-owned bank on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, she can’t seem to feel happy about anything. Then she meets Theresa Aguilar, a sleek, sexy lawyer, and is invited to join an exclusive group called the Pleasure Set, a privileged society of powerful women whose sexy goings-on remain steadfastly secret. Soon Laney finds out that what is really happening within the Pleasure Set is not only dangerous, it’s lethal. 

Suddenly in too deep, Laney realizes that to leave the group would be deadly so she reaches out to Detective Sandrine Girard, an honest cop with a flawed past, who arranges to have her go undercover in a delicate operation to not only catch Theresa but to save Laney from both career suicide and certain death. But the intense attraction that grows quickly between Laney and Sandrine threatens to expose them at the most critical juncture in the sting. 

Some people would kill to get into the Pleasure Set. But Laney just wants to get out alive.

A Perfect Match

    Erin Dutton

ISBN10: 1-60282-145-3

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-145-3

Price:      $14.95

ePrice:   $10.95

Pages:     tba

Genre: Romance

Release:  April 2010

In a game where careers are made or broken in the span of one round, can there be any such thing as a perfect match? 

After a high-profile breakup, professional golfer Tiernan O’Shea blows a considerable lead and loses a major tournament. Soon, unable to get her game back on track, she is in danger of losing her sponsor. The upcoming Celebrity Pro-Am is her chance at redemption. 

Elena Pilar has paid her dues in the boys’ club of sportscasting and her career is finally on the upswing. But when she is paired with Tiernan in the Pro-Am, her attraction to the volatile golfer could threaten her success as well as her carefully guarded personal life.  

Truths

    Rebecca S. Buck

ISBN10: 1-60282-146-1

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-146-0

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     tba

Genre: Fiction/Romance

Release:  April 2010

Two women, Elizabeth and Jen, separated by two hundred years, but inescapably connected. Will the echoes of the past be enough to save Jen as she begins to discover her truth? 

In 1808 Elizabeth Cooper, found guilty as a thief, is sentenced to hang and imprisoned, the convicted women with whom she shares her gloomy cell the only solace she will have until the day of her execution. In gentle Gilly Stevens she finds the strength and comfort of a growing intimacy. As the horrors of the prison threaten to overwhelm her, Elizabeth and Gilly fight to ensure Elizabeth’s innocence, her truth, can survive into the future. 

 In 2008 Jen is a costumed tour guide, the prison where Elizabeth Cooper was imprisoned now an atmospheric museum. Then Jen encounters Aly, an intriguing, confident photographer, who seems to change everything. Jen is determined not to deny her truth any longer and to finally reach for happiness, but, as the warning shadows within the high prison walls lengthen, she is in more danger than she realizes.

Father Knows Best

    Lynda Sandoval

ISBN10: 1-60282-147-X

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-147-7

Price:      $13.95

ePrice:  $9.95

Pages:     tba

Genre: Young Adult

Release:  April 2010

After a tumultuous junior year, best friends Lila Moreno, Meryl Morganstern, and Caressa Thibodoux plan to make the most of the summer before senior year. But those plans fall by the wayside when Lila’s archenemy, Jennifer Hamilton, finds herself friendless and flailing in a mess of her own making. Meryl steps up to help…and drags Lila and Caressa along with her. 

What was supposed to be a carefree few months morphs into a summer of girl power, growing up, and giving in to situations beyond their control. In the end, all four girls are tighter than ever and one step closer to tackling their all-important senior year. 

In Pursuit of Justice

    Radclyffe

ISBN10: 1-60282-148-8

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-148-4

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     tba

Genre: Romantic Intrigue

Release:  April 2010

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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Wind & Bones

    Kristin Marra

ISBN10: 1-60282-150-X

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-150-7

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     tba

Genre: Romantic Intrigue

Release:  May 2010

Women, funerals, guns, and rattlesnakes. What could go wrong?  

Jill O’Hara, award-winning journalist and inveterate egotist, is about to find out. When Jill is summoned to her hometown Prairie View, Montana, to bury her father and clean up his messes, she assumes a few days of signing papers and delegating responsibilities will complete her obligations. But her duties soon become less mundane and more menacing. To complicate matters, Jill’s first love, Annie Doyle, lives in Prairie View and despite Annie’s blistering past betrayal, Jill still desires her. Fortunately, Sheriff Rae Terabian, a woman with a uniform, power, and shady associates, deliciously distracts Jill from her obsession with Annie. 

Amidst her customary confusion over women, Jill is forced to confront her father’s treacherous legacy, battle the extremes of the northern Montana wilds, and face down survivalists bent on silencing her. Despite the remote location and severe peril, she discovers the possibility for one more chance at love.

Nightshade

    Shea Godfrey

ISBN10: 1-60282-151-8

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-151-4

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     tba

Genre: Romantic Fantasy

Release:  May 2010

In a land torn by war for generations, Princess Jessa is sent as a peace offering to the country of Arravan, understanding all too well that she is being sacrificed upon the altar of her father’s ambitions—and condemned to an uncertain and possibly short-lived future, if the machinations of her own family are any indication.   

But what she finds at Blackstone Keep is not what she expects, and for a daughter of royal blood who has known little of freedom and even less of love, the members of the Durand family are proving to be a very pleasant riddle to be solved—the youngest daughter, Darrius Durand, is the most surprising of all. A captain in the King’s elite guard, Darry’s considerable charms pull Jessa rather happily into an unexpected friendship that quickly becomes something more, promising passion and the fulfillment of her deepest desires.  

Jessa and Darry’s relationship threatens the fragile peace, and the future of two countries might very well hang in the balance. When family secrets and hidden agendas begin to surface, as well as an ancient majik that Jessa has been preparing to use since the day she was born, a prophecy is set in motion that will thrust both lands into a bloody war of revenge and retribution—a war that love alone will not be able to stop.

Vieux Carré Voodoo

    Greg Herren

ISBN10: 1-60282-152-6

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-152-1

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     tba

Genre: Gay Mystery

Release: May 2010

Former go-go boy turned detective Scotty Bradley is back!  

When an old family friend apparently commits suicide from his French Quarter balcony, Scotty’s life accelerates from boring to exciting again in a nanosecond. Why would anyone want the old man dead, and what were they looking for in his ransacked apartment?  It’s up to Scotty, Frank, his crazy family, and friends to get to the bottom of this bizarre mystery—and when an old, all-too-familiar face turns up, it’s not just Scotty’s life that’s in danger, but his heart.

Do Not Disturb

    Carsen Taite

ISBN10: 1-60282-153-4

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-153-8

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     tba

Genre: Romance

Release:  June 2010

Love doesn’t wait to be invited in… 

Ainsley Faraday specializes in the management of sleek, urban hotels, and is reluctant to accept her employer’s latest challenge to take over a mom-and-pop property in Santa Fe. Even though she has no desire to be surrounded with lonely mountain ranges and coyote skulls, she can’t resist a challenge that might put her within reach of a corner office at headquarters.  

Rock star Greer Davis’s protective bubble of stardom bursts after a night of wanton partying results in a public disaster of epic proportions. Unprepared for the scathing turn of events, Greer heads for the hills—literally. She assumes a new identity and returns to her roots in Northern New Mexico just as her latest album debuts at number one on the charts. 

When Ainsley and Greer meet on a flight to New Mexico, love is the last thing on either of their minds, but tall mountain vistas, big blue skies, and hot, hot green chili all combine to create a rush of endorphins begging for release. 

From this Moment On

    PJ Trebelhorn

ISBN10: 1-60282-154-2

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-154-5

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     tba

Genre: Romance

Release:  June 2010

When faced with the loss of everything you hold dear, you run.  

After a drunk driver took the lives of her lover and unborn child, that's exactly what Devon Conway did. Three years later when offered a business opportunity she can't pass by, she decides it's finally time to return home—even though she’s far from sure of her welcome. 

Katherine Hunter took a different path in the face of loss, throwing herself into her work to fill the emptiness in her heart. She doesn't have the time to date, even if she wanted to. But then fate drops Devon on her doorstep—literally—and Kat begins to question if the life she has painstakingly rebuilt is really enough. 

Despite Devon and Kat’s powerful attraction, the past stands between them—preventing them from taking a chance on the future. Will what is growing between them be enough to convince them that from this moment on, anything is possible, even love? 

Vapor

    Larkin Rose

ISBN10: 1-60282-155-0

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-155-2

Price:      $14.95

ePrice:   $10.95

Pages:     tba

Genre: Erotic Romance

Release:  June 2010

Tainted love and paybacks…in a black satin tux? 

Author Ashley Vaughn deserves nothing less, according to Vic, the unwilling star of Ashley’s latest erotic best seller. Ashley spends her life writing erotic romance and her nights alone. When a sexy butch sweeps her off her feet following a book signing, she’s too afraid to believe in the miracle of love at first sight to take a chance. Instead, she writes about it. 

Victoria Hadley, chef and restaurateur, believes she’s found the woman of her dreams. Until she discovers Ms. Right has used their night of passion to further her career. Bent on revenge, she lures Ashley into a trap. But is the trap about to snare her too?

Witch Wolf

    Winter Pennington

ISBN10: 1-60282-177-1

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-177-4

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     tba

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Release:  June 2010

An Aeros eBook

Preternatural Private Investigator and Paranormal Huntress Kassandra Lyall is used to working alone. Whenever there’s a murder or a mystery to solve that involves the preternatural—she’s the witch they call. When she’s called in to help the local cops work on a mysterious murder case, she finds herself needing all the help she can get. 

A bloodthirsty werewolf is loose in the city and on a killing spree.  

As if her plate weren’t full enough, a strange she-wolf seeks Kassandra’s aid, asking her to help find her missing brother. Kassandra soon learns that the strange she-wolf serves two masters, and one of those masters has taken quite an interest in her. 

In a world where vampires have charmed their way into modern society, where werewolves walk the streets with their beasts disguised by human skin, Kassandra Lyall has a secret of her own to protect.  

She’s one of them.

The First Book in the Kassandra Lyall Preternatural Investigator Series.

Fierce Overture

    Gun Brooke

ISBN10: 1-60282-156-9

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-156-9

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     tba

Genre: Romance

Release:  July 2010

Music superstar Noelle Laurent refuses to record the music her producers have lined up for her new album. Prepared to break her contract if necessary, all Noelle wants is a chance to sing her own songs. Desperate, the producers bring in their CEO, business tycoon Helena Forsythe, who is infamous for not taking any prisoners. Noelle expects the CEO to be the company bitch everybody fears but she is not prepared to be so affected by Helena's formidable presence and charisma. 

For Helena, it's all about the money, so why change a winning game plan? However, when Noelle shows unexpected strength and courage in the negotiations, Helena knows she has to change her usual steamroller approach. Trying charm instead of brute force, Helena is blind-sided by her own unexpected feelings. When Noelle responds in kind, the stakes escalate for both women, who risk not only their professional futures but everything when it comes to their hearts.

Trauma Alert

  Radclyffe

ISBN10: 1-60282-157-7

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-157-6

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     tba

Genre: Romance

Release:  July 2010

Dr. Ali Torveau knows just how fragile life can be—she sees death and tragedy every day in the trauma unit. Battling the dark forces of fate is her life’s work and she doesn’t want or need anything else, certainly nothing as transient as love. Plenty of women try to change her mind, but she never has any trouble saying no. Not until the day firefighter Beau Cross shows up in her ER and sets Ali’s carefully ordered world aflame. 

A First Responders Novel

Wolfsbane Winter

    Jane Fletcher

ISBN10: 1-60282-158-5

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-158-3

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     tba

Genre: Romantic Fantasy

Release:  July 2010

The Iron Wolf mercenaries who guard travelers on the Misery Trail are notorious for their quick and casual sex lives.  

Deryn may fit the stereotype better than most, but she has her reasons. A childhood tragedy has left her wary of forming attachments. If you don't care, then you can't get hurt, but you can still make a mess of things—such as the error of judgment that leaves her with no money, forced to spend the winter on a lousy job in a miserable little backwater. 

There she meets Alana, local healer, vet, and woman of mystery. It does not take Deryn long to find out that Alana is more than she seems, and has her own perilous secret to keep. Yet Deryn still finds herself falling for the woman, so much so that her come-and-go lifestyle is at risk. 

This would be bad enough, but serious trouble arrives for Deryn and Alana in the form of demon magic from the Time of Chaos—revealing that old legends are not merely material for ghost stories around the fire. As the danger increases, who do they need to fear more, the living or the dead?

Little White Lie

    Lea Santos

ISBN10: 1-60282-163-1

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-163-7

Price:      $14.95

ePrice:   $10.95

Pages:     tba

Genre: Romance

Release:  July 2010

Emie Jaramillo learned long ago that brains count more than beauty, and that’s just fine with her.  She doesn’t want, nor does she need, a relationship. When her prestigious academic career earns her an invitation to appear on a national talk show, she eagerly looks forward to discussing her genetics work. Little does she know that the episode is really entitled “Those bookworm looks have to go!” Worse yet, gorgeous makeup artist Gia Mendez—a woman Emie stupidly lowers her guard around—is in on the humiliating prank.

The fiasco just convinces Emie of what she knew all along: relationships are for other people, and women like Gia don’t belong anywhere near her world. But Gia’s about to make it up to Emie, by convincing her she has not only brains, but beauty...and she’s the only woman Gia wants in her life. 

First in the Amigas y Amor Series

The Devil Be Damned

     Ali Vali

ISBN10: 1-60282-159-3

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-159-0

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     tba

Genre: Romantic Intrigue

Release:  August 2010

Cain Casey is close to getting everything she wants. Her partner Emma is pregnant with their third child, her children are safe and happy, and her business is still thriving despite the FBI’s vendetta. Life is perfect on the surface, but it’s the underbelly that worries her. Her long-time enemy Juan Luis and his new partner, rogue agent Anthony Curtis have disappeared; her cousin Muriel has gotten serious about Shelby Philips, the FBI agent in charge of the Casey surveillance team; and her business partner, Remi Jatibon, is facing trouble from her new love Dallas’s secret past. 

While Cain struggles to defeat a new enemy—a woman who just may be her equal when it comes to destroying those who stand against her family—an unimaginable betrayal may bring Cain’s charmed life to an end. 

The fourth book in the Casey Family Saga series

Descent

    Julie Cannon

ISBN10: 1-60282-160-7

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-160-6

Price:      $14.95

ePrice:   $10.95

Pages:     tba

Genre: Romance

Release:  August 2010

Speed, competition, danger, and sex…Shannon Roberts has it all, just the way she wants it…on her terms. 

Being on top is the only thing that matters to Shannon. If not in that position in a hotel room with the latest groupie on the mountain bike racing tour, it’s seeing her name in first place on the leader board.  That is until she comes head to head with Caroline Davis, her main rival and the woman with whom she had a brief, yet sizzling sex-fest ten years earlier. Two world class competitors pit their skills against one another in a struggle for the world championship of downhill mountain bike racing, all the while fighting an even tougher battle—the attraction they thought they had extinguished.

Kiss of Noir

    Clara Nipper

ISBN10: 1-60282-161-5

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-161-3

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     tba

Genre: Mystery

Release:  August 2010

“I was forty-six when I left the big city for the Big Easy. They say New Orleans is like a woman, beautiful, deceitful, and deadly. All I know is, I had to leave Los Angeles on the run and The Crescent City beckoned like a broad on her back.”   

In the sequel to Femme Noir, Nora Delaney has returned to her job as a college basketball coach in Los Angeles. When she beats up a rival coach on national television, she is fired and flees to a tiny town outside New Orleans to take refuge with her cousin Ellis Delaney and his wife. Working at Ellis’ pawn shop, Nora meets Cleo Sweetleaf, who becomes a mentor and a second father. While Nora takes stock of her life, her everlasting hunger for strange women causes trouble from sunup to sundown. When Cleo is murdered, Nora, spurred on by revenge, is drawn into solving the crime. But after being beaten and left bleeding in an alley, Nora might not solve the mystery alive.

Under Her Skin

    Lea Santos

ISBN10: 1-60282-162-3

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-162-0

Price:      $14.95

ePrice:   $10.95

Pages:     tba

Genre: Romance

Release:  August 2010

Who would believe that the world-famous supermodel Iris Lujan has a care in the world? Only Mexican gardener, Torien Pacias, who sees through Iris’s facade and offers gentle understanding and friendship when Iris most needs it. Though Torien senses the passion smoldering between them, she doesn’t dare imagine a future with Iris. She is like royalty, and Torien is a woman of simple needs and weighty family obligations. But, how long can Torien resist the charms of this untouchable woman she longs to claim for her own?

Second in the Amigas y Amor Series