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JANUARY 2008
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Learning Curve
Rachel Spangler
ISBN10:
1-60282-001-5
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-001-2
Price: $15.95
Pages:
232
Release: January 2008
Excerpt |
It's
never too late to learn about love...even when the lessons turn your world
upside down.
Ashton Clarke, a
local Casanova with a long history of falling into bed with a different
woman every night, is perfectly content with her free and easy existence
until she gives in to her best friend’s request to spend an evening helping
out at the local gay and lesbian youth center. There, Ash meets Carrie
Fletcher, a women’s studies professor who not only intrigues Ash but causes
her to question the direction her life has taken.
As if this disquieting
attraction isn’t aggravating enough, Ash is forced to deal with Carrie’s
teenage neighbor Tess, whose bad attitude and biting wit seem to complicate
every situation.
Ash doesn’t want to be attracted to Carrie, who isn’t
looking for a relationship with anyone, and Tess is angry at the world, but
especially, it seems, with Ash. Despite resistance on the part of all three
women, it soon becomes obvious that the trio’s destinies are hopelessly
intertwined and the lessons in store will change all their lives. |
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American Goth
JD Glass
ISBN10:
1-60282-002-3
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-002-9
Price: $15.95
Pages:
264
Release: January 2008
Excerpt |
At age two Samantha Cray
lost her mother. By fifteen her father was gone. At eighteen she lost the
only woman she'd ever truly love.
Trapped by an
unsuspected inheritance, the gift of her father’s blood, guided only by the
guardian who holds the secret to her future, Samantha must enter an arcane
new world where why she fights is sometimes more important than what…And she
must walk the path of Light alone.
But the darkness
within parallels the darkness without… haunted, hunted, and constantly questioning what is
duty, what is selfishness, what is self. Boy. Girl. Gay. Straight. All of
them, none of them,or something just a little…different, and all intertwined
with a destiny only she can fulfill.
The purest steel goes
through the hottest flame. Let those who should beware: the only power to
rival love is righteous fury—and a new Wielder has been sworn. |
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Branded Ann
Merry Shannon
ISBN10:
1-60282-003-1
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-003-6
Price: $15.95
Pages:
296
Release: January 2008
Excerpt |
No pirate on the high
seas is more bloodthirsty than the notorious Branded Ann, a woman with eyes
like ice and a face marred by a mysterious cross-shaped scar.
When Branded Ann
raids a merchant vessel bound for Jamaica, her intention is to obtain the
map that will lead her to a legendary treasure. But she hadn't bargained on
taking Violet, the merchant's young wife, on board her ship as a prisoner.
Belying her childlike appearance, Violet has a dark side of her own.
As
the pirate captain sets sail in search of treasure, her task is made more difficult by
a stowaway child, an increasingly rebellious crew, and the treacherous seas
of the Devil's Triangle. To make matters worse, she finds herself
falling for her not-so-innocent but altogether charming captive. |
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FEBRUARY 2008
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Venus Besieged
Andrews & Austin
ISBN10:
1-60282-004-X
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-004-3
Price: $15.95
Pages:
240
Release: February 2008
Excerpt |
Why can't Teague
Richfield and the love of her life, psychic astrologer Callie Rivers, get away together without the "otherworld" following
them?
Teague and
basset hound Elmo head for Sedona and the sensual arms of psychic astrologer
Callie Rivers, but their romantic reunion is interrupted by unearthly forces
and a dangerous journey into the metaphysical realm. A provocative female shaman from
Callie's past involves the duo in shape-shifting, disembodied attacks,
the murders of Native American women, and a spiritual battle that takes
place on a level even higher than the mystical red rocks of Sedona.
Third in the Richfield and Rivers mystery series. |
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The Lonely Hearts Club
Radclyffe
ISBN10:
1-60282-005-8
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-005-0
Price: $15.95
Pages:
272
Release: February 2008
Excerpt |
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.
Attorney Liz Ramsey thought she had
everything—a devoted partner, a challenging job, and plans for a family in
the making. Unfortunately, her life takes a turn, and she ends up alone and
in the kind of trouble she never dreamed of. Then she bumps into—literally—young surgeon Reilly Danvers,
and life gets even more complicated.
Liz's two best friends offer all the
support she needs, but they have secrets of their own. Candace Lory, a
high-powered commodities trader and swinging playgirl, meets her match
when she hooks up with corporate attorney, Parker Jones. Brenda Beal, the only member of "the group" who
hasn't slept with every available
woman, prefers to fantasize about a perfect lover,
especially if she's obedient and willing to do anything Bren orders. A
surprise birthday "trip" and a dashing dark-eyed submissive transform Bren's
fantasies into reality and her dark secrets into delicious pleasures.
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Deeper
Ronica Black
ISBN10:
1-60282-006-6
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-006-7
Price: $15.95
Pages:
256
Release: February 2008
Excerpt |
Happiness. Love. Desire.
Murder.
Former homicide
detective Erin McKenzie couldn’t be any happier with her new life and her
fiancée Elizabeth Adams—until the not so distant past comes knocking at the
door. Erin’s former colleague Detective Patricia Henderson—a woman both
she and Liz have intimate ties to—shows up with a fresh crime scene photo
that looks all too familiar. The
victim is an actor who works for Liz’s movie production company, and Liz had
argued with the young man on more than one occasion.
Erin can’t believe
it’s happening again. The new murder resurrects old questions, and when Liz
all but sends her packing, Erin can’t help but wonder what her lover is
hiding. Lost, alone and frightened, Erin
is once again caught in midst of it all, and no matter how hard she
fights it, she’s where she never thought she’d be…deeper.
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MARCH 2008
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To Protect & Serve
VK Powell
ISBN10:
1-60282-007-4
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-007-4
Price: $15.95
Pages:
240
Release: March 2008
Excerpt |
To protect or serve—a choice no detective should ever be forced to make.
Lieutenant Alex Troy is caught in the paradox of her life—to hold steadfast
to her professional oath or to protect the woman she loves. Assigned to the
Vice/Narcotics Division, Alex is given the dangerous but career-building
mission of catching notorious and elusive drug lord Sonny Davis. She has to
assemble the perfect team of officers to pursue the man suspected of killing
numerous coeds—and a friend of Alex’s—with the poison he peddles.
Keri
Morgan is young, enthusiastic, and alive in ways that Alex can barely
remember, and Keri has a reason of her own to want Sonny Davis dead. Before
justice can be served, Alex and Keri are caught in a web of love, duty,
vengeance, and desire that will change both their lives. |
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Shadow of the Knife
Jane Fletcher
ISBN10:
1-60282-008-2
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-008-1
Price: $15.95
Pages:
312
Release: March 2008
Excerpt |
Militia rookie Ellen Mittal is well aware that the world cannot be reduced
to simple questions of black and white, but she has no idea of just how
complex and dangerous her life is about to become. The most vicious gang in
the Homelands, led by the infamous Butcher, is extending its operations to
Roadsend. By her oath as a member of the Militia, Ellen is sworn to uphold
the rule of law, no matter what the cost to herself. But as the body count
starts to rise, Ellen finds her task made all the harder by a wall of
silence from ordinary citizens, a commanding officer with her head in the
sand, and the attentions of an attractive young farmer who is probably not
who she claims to be.
Ellen must work out who to trust, because if she gets it wrong she might
easily lose her heart, or her life.
Another action packed sci-fi adventure/romance in the Celaeno
series, a 2005 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. |
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Heartland
Julie Cannon
ISBN10:
1-60282-009-0
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-009-8
Price: $15.95
Pages:
248
Release: March 2008
Excerpt |
Two strangers collide on an empty country road…accident or fate?
Political strategist Rachel Stanton, jaded and disillusioned by the
scratching, clawing, and mudslinging of the campaign trail, books a week at
the Springdale Ranch for a much-needed vacation.
Springdale
sounds like just the place to exorcise unhappy childhood memories and
straighten out her head. Shivley McCoy has spent the last four years casting
out her own painful past, working and sweating to make her ranch a
successful business venture. She has nothing in common with fast-living
Rachel Stanton, and after their inauspicious first meeting, is quite certain
she’ll never see her again.
Shivley
is thrown when she comes face-to-face with Rachel among her group of new
arrivals, and sparks of a most unexpected sort ignite.
"We have to stop meeting like this. People
might talk."
"And what would they say?"
"That we're madly
in love and can't bear to be apart." |
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Heart of the Matter
KI Thompson
ISBN10:
1-60282-010-4
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-010-4
Price: $15.95
Pages:
232
Release: April 2008
Excerpt |
Ellen Webster, professor of history, can't
help but fantasize about her next-door neighbor Kate Foster—after all, she
sees her on the evening news every night.
Sexy and smart, Kate is Ellen's dream
girl, but the dynamic TV newscaster doesn't know she exists.
Struggling with self-doubt and low self-esteem, Ellen can only watch the
parade of beautiful women Kate brings home. But a rainy night and near-tragedy change
everything when Kate is involved in an automobile accident and turns to
Ellen for help. Withdrawing from the world, Kate comes to depend upon
Ellen for far more than she realizes—until the day Ellen tells her that she
is leaving on sabbatical.
Ellen and Kate's journey
lead them beyond
the transitory nature of external beauty to the true splendor of the love
they hold in their hearts. |
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Naked Heart
Jennifer Fulton
ISBN10:
1-60282-011-2
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-011-1
Price: $15.95
Pages:
232
Release: April 2008
Excerpt |
Can two women who trust no one risk all and trust each
other? Raised by a single
mother on the wrong side of the tracks, Unity Vaughan has fought for everything she's ever achieved.
Now, having just made a breakthrough discovery at her biotech company, she
finds her business a target for industrial espionage and a hostile
takeover. She needs an expert to watch her
back and spy on her enemies, which is how she finds herself in a bizarre
nightclub trying to hire a woman with a flogger in one hand, a camera in the
other, and a pair of corseted twins fondling her body.
Penn Harte makes her
living the way lots of former CIA agents do, selling her unusual skills to the highest bidder,
Lately she's
also been doing her best friend Lila a favor by helping out in Lila's
upscale fetish club. When Unity approaches Penn with an offer to work
for her, Penn can't believe her luck—she's already been hired by Unity's
biggest enemy, who wants a blackmail tape. Penn figures she'll have
Unity, the perfect subject for seduction, on film in a compromising position
within days. The problem is, Penn doesn't know if she can see Unity as
just another job.
Power, passion, sex, and danger drive a high-stakes plot
in this gripping erotic romance. |
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Deal with the Devil
Ali Vali
ISBN10:
1-60282-012-0
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-012-8
Price: $15.95
Pages:
360
Release: April 2008
Excerpt |
It’s business as usual for crime boss Cain
Casey as she maneuvers to form an alliance with the Jatibon organization
and secure peace among the ruling families in
New
Orleans. Cain’s new associate Remington Jatibon is a lot like Cain used to
be—a playgirl with a passion for bedding beautiful women and an even
greater passion for expanding her father’s empire, on both sides of the law.
When Remi meets Dallas Montgomery, a budding actress working for the studio
Remi's father has just acquired, she finds that there is more to
Dallas
than is included in her press pages.
Meanwhile, on the home front, life is anything
but routine as Cain and Emma hope to conceive another child. Little do
they know an old enemy is about to surface bent on revenge on Cain, and
what better way that to take what she values above all else—her wife.
Third in the Casey Family Saga. |
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Pink
Jennifer Harris
ISBN10:
1-60282-043-0
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-043-2
Price: $14.95
Pages:
204
Release: April 2008
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Who is the woman behind the little pink book?
"When
I first get the acceptance letter from the publisher about the book I
will write, I will walk inside my apartment and call my parents, who
will be as dumbstruck as me...My parents won't say anything at all. So
I will hang up the phone, turn off the ringer, and cry. I mean
pour-my-eyes-out cry...I will suddenly be terrified. I will feel the
blood rush in my veins, the way I do during a horror show, which is
precisely why I won't go see horror shows. I will think that I made a
terrible mistake."
Join this irrepressible heroine as she frolics,
frets, and navigates through the “what if’s” of her life: all the
unexpected turns of fortune, fame, and karma. Real or imagined, she is
the literary Walter Mitty of the lesbian world. Love, fame, and fortune
all line up to do cartwheels in this rollicking satire. Laugh along
with this everywoman and discover that her life may not be so different
from your own. Pink reveals the truths of the lives we all want
and deserve to live.
Reprint.
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In Deep Waters 2: Cruising the Strip
Radclyffe
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Karin Kallmaker
ISBN10:
1-60282-013-9
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-013-5
Price: $15.95
Pages:
288
Release: May 2008 |
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 convention
planner finds hotel hospitality is on the house. Romance novelists
discover that high stakes can yield to extreme passions, if they’re
willing to call each other’s bluff. The risks and rewards of Las
Vegas inspire more than one couple to let it ride. Double
down? 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. |
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Thirteen Hours
Meghan O'Brien
ISBN10:
1-60282-014-7
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-014-2
Price: $15.95
Pages:
248
Release: May 2008
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How long does it really take to fall in love?
It's her
birthday, but lonely workaholic Dana Watts is at the office late,
drafting a proposal. She is interrupted by the very last thing she
would have expected: the most beautiful breasts she has ever seen.
These belong to an incredibly hot stripper, a birthday present from
a friend who thinks she needs to loosen up.
Laurel
Stanley has never encountered a more ungrateful strip-o-gram
recipient than Dana. The uptight project manager makes it clear
that she is furious to be distracted from her work and equally
appalled by Laurel's occupation.
When
Dana insists on escorting Laurel from the building, the two women
take an elevator ride that changes everything. Stuck with each
other for thirteen long hours after the elevator breaks down, they
discover how wrong first impressions can be—and how right two
strangers can feel together.
Can
everything change in less than a day? Dana and Laurel set out to
discover if their passionate elevator encounter can mean more in
this fast-paced, erotic story of lust, loneliness, fantasy, and
desire.
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Edge of Darkness
Jove Belle
ISBN10:
1-60282-015-5
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-015-9
Price: $15.95
Pages:
248
Release: May 2008
Excerpt |
Diana Collins charges at life with an
irreverent comment and a right hook, but even her hard-headed attitude may
not be enough to protect her heart…or her life.
As a senior investigator for a high-end
insurance company, Diana needs to find the person responsible for the theft
of a rare sword. While Diana struggles to protect her burgeoning
relationship with kindergarten teacher, Cami Michaelson, the investigation
leads her into a bitter world of rage and revenge. Diana uncovers one
damning piece of evidence after another that challenges everything she knows
about right and wrong. She finds her hard-driving work ethic, which demands
the thief be held accountable, at odds with the desire to protect her new
friend, Ali Sandoval, who is caught in the center of the conflict. As she
draws Diana deeper into a dark subculture of sex, power, and death, Ali must
choose between vengeance and peace if she hopes to escape with her sanity
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The Three
Meghan O'Brien
ISBN10:
1-60282-056-2
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-056-2
Price: $12.95
Release: May 2008
Excerpt
 eBook edition |
A daring, provocative exploration of love and sexuality... Two
lovers, Elin and Kael, struggle to survive in a post-apocalyptic world where
disease, lawless marauders, and fanatics threaten their existence.
When the two befriend Anna, another survivor, the fabric of their lives and
the family they have made shifts in ways that challenge each woman to
redefine the boundaries of love and friendship. For in order to
prevail, the two must become...The Three, and ultimately Anna and
Kael must find a way to save the woman they both love. |
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Love on Location
Lisa Girolami
ISBN10:
1-60282-016-3
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-016-6
Price: $15.95
Pages:
312
Release: May 2008
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Power, money, and fame spell happiness—at least in the movies.
Hollywood film producer Kate Nyland has it all, including her
gorgeous movie star girlfriend, Hannah Corrant. Amid the
excitement of shooting multimillion-dollar movies and being
photographed by the ever-present paparazzi out to get a glimpse of
Hannah, Kate is reminded continually that her life couldn't be
better. That is, until she arrives in Florida to begin
shooting her next film. There she meets Dawn Brock, a
beautiful, deeply spiritual artist, who sets off sparks that Kate
cannot allow to ignite. But just how can she quell the
attraction that burns so intensely and the growing connection that
seems impossibly unavoidable? And what will happen when
Hannah arrives in town for the movie shoot? From
behind-the-scenes rendezvous to center-stage passions, Kate
discovers that love on location doesn't always follow the script.
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Hotel Liaison
JLee Meyer
ISBN10:
1-60282-017-1
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-017-3
Price:
$15.95
Pages:
240
Release: June 2008
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Two women searching through a secret
past discover that their brief hotel liaison is only the beginning.
Laurel Hoffman, an associate professor of
women's studies in Berkeley, struggles to stay on track for tenure while
caught up in the last throes of a crumbling relationship with a senior
colleague. When she hears of a hotel being renovated and a secret room
full of papers about women who once stayed there, she knows she has a
potential career-saving article.
Stefanie Beresford, the hotel owner,
is not exactly receptive when Laurel approaches her about researching the
hotel's history, but that doesn't stop her from flirting with the alluring
academic. She doesn't need the distraction, but for the first time in
her life she wants to take a chance on more than a fleeting encounter.
While Laurel can't deny her powerful
feelings for Stefanie, she fears she's risking her heart as well as her
future if she acts on her desires. But can a simple encounter between
two rational adults really be all that dangerous? |
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Word of Honor
Radclyffe
ISBN10:
1-60282-018-X
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-018-0
Price:
$15.95
Pages:
264
Release: June 2008
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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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Finding Home
Georgia Beers
ISBN10:
1-60282-019-8
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-019-7
Price:
$15.95
Pages:
248
Release: June 2008
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Rigid
and predictable.
Sarah Buchanan would never in a million
years have used those words to describe herself. Never. But it’s
been almost a year since her long-time girlfriend left her for a man, and
she’s suddenly realized that those words now describe her with frightening
accuracy, along with one more: boring. Deciding it’s time to
escape her disaster of a life, at least long enough to turn it around, she
takes a temporary position with her company overseas. The hardest part is
leaving her blue-eyed dog, Bentley, behind. But at least he’s in the
capable hands of her family. She thinks.
Natalie Fox is the exact opposite of
Sarah. She’s flighty, spontaneous, and lives in The Now. It’s
how she's always been and for better or worse, Natalie loves her carefree
life. When she finds a stray, skinny, terrified dog with blue eyes
outside the coffee shop where she works and decides to adopt him as her own,
things seem just about perfect to her.
Take two stubborn, polar opposites with
an attraction for one another they’re trying desperately to ignore; throw in
a couple of wise Italians, a handful of quirky friends, some homemade
cannoli, and a far-too-observant dog; stir vigorously, then sit back,
relax, and enjoy… |
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In Pursuit of Justice
Radclyffe
ISBN10:
1-60282-061-9
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-061-6
Price:
$12.95
Release: June 2008
Excerpt
eBook edition |
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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Warrior's Valor
Gun Brooke
ISBN10:
1-60282-020-1
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-020-3
Price: $15.95
Pages:
296
Release: July 2008
Excerpt |
Environmental activist Dwyn Izsontro and
law enforcement officer Emeron D'Artansis instinctively dislike everything
about each other, even though the attraction between them is unmistakable.
While Dwyn surveys an endangered region of a remote planet with Emeron
as her security escort, Ambassador M'Ekar has bribed his guards to
facilitate his escape from the planet where he is incarcerated. As
part of his escape plan, he kidnaps one of the individuals he holds
responsible for his humiliation, Dahlia Jacelon. When a spacecraft
carrying unexpected cargo crashes
to the surface in the region where Dwyn and Emeron are working, the two women are unexpectedly hurled into a search and
rescue mission where the fate of millions rest with their ability to work
together. The stakes go up when Rae Jacelon and Kellen O'Dal, the Protectors of
the Realm, join in the hunt.
Another thrilling saga in the Supreme Constellations romantic sci-fi
adventure series. |
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A Place to Rest
Erin Dutton
ISBN10:
1-60282-021-X
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-021-0
Price: $15.95
Pages:
240
Release: July 2008
Excerpt |
Sawyer Drake has never known what she
wants—except it isn't working in the family restaurant, which is what
everyone expects. In order to outrun her destiny, or at least delay
the inevitable, she bounces from job to job—and woman to woman.
Nothing keeps her attention for very long. Nothing, that is, until she meets shy
pastry chef, Jori Diamantina. But Jori has no intention of
risking the job she loves and a life she's comfortable with for a passing
fling with Sawyer, no matter how strong the attraction. Sawyer has no
idea what she want from Jori, or from life, but she's about to find
out—because Jori makes her want to stop running.
A
Place to Rest is a touching romance about the beauty of finally
discovering where you belong. |
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Lethal Affairs
Kim
Baldwin & Xenia Alexiou
ISBN10:
1-60282-022-8
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-022-7
Price: $15.95
Pages:
288
Release: July 2008
Excerpt |
Love has never been more lethal.
Elite operative Domino is no stranger to
peril and impossible situations. Trained all her life to be just as
comfortable fighting terrorists as mixing with the gala crowd, she is
proficient at playing any role necessary to accomplish her objective and
believes the cause sanctifies the means. But her latest assignment to
investigate journalist Hayley Ward will test more than her skills, ingenuity,
and courage, because this time she faces the ultimate dilemma: a choice
between loyalty and love.
First in the Elite Operatives romantic intrigue series. |
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Falling Star
Gill McKnight
ISBN10:
1-60282-023-6
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-023-4
Price: $14.95
Pages: 192
Release: July 2008
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Solley Rayner hopes a few weeks with her family will help heal her shattered
dreams, but she hasn’t counted on meeting a woman who stirs her heart.
With her marriage in crisis, Solley Rayner
takes her children to the beach house of her sister Janie and Janie's partner
Marsha for
a much-needed summer break. But all hopes of rest and relaxation are
interrupted when a movie stunt crew arrives to film a blockbuster in the
bay.
Professional stuntwoman Gin Ito, a paparazzi favorite rumored to be
a killer in bed, heads up the team of daredevils. When Gin literally
drops into Solley’s life, how could the lonely young mother’s interest not
be piqued? And what private pain draws Gin Ito inexorably toward
the small family and the woman who protects it with all her heart? |
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The Caretaker's Daughter
Gabrielle Goldsby
ISBN10:
1-60282-062-7
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-062-3
Price: $12.95
Release: July 2008
Excerpt
eBook edition |
Amidst the
backdrop of a nineteenth century English country estate, two women struggle
to find love--and the truth that could either bind them together or tear
them apart. Despite the barriers of class and sensibity, Lady Bronte and her
groundskeeper Addison find first friendship and then something far deeper on
the sweeping estates of Markby.
Classic Romance at its most breathtaking. |
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Never Wake
Gabrielle Goldsby
ISBN10:
1-60282-063-5
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-063-0
Price: $12.95
Release: July 2008
Excerpt
eBook edition |
Following an
assault, Emma Webster spends two years as a self-sentenced prisoner locked
inside her condo, living a lonely but safe existence - at least she thought
it was safe until the world outside her window goes still and silent.
Troy Nanson, a bicycle messenger, awakens in a hospital with no memory of
how she got there or how long she lay unconscious. When her calls for help
go unanswered, Troy dials 911, but no one answers. As Troy explores a
silent city, her suspicions are confirmed - the rest of the world has fallen
asleep, and nothing she does will wake them. Fear and desperation cause
Troy's tenuous grip on reality to slip. She's ready to give up, until then
she finds Emma.
Believing they are the only people awake in the entire world, two women who
are as different from each other as they could possibly be, come to depend
on one another for safety and sanity—and eventually, much more. |
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Homecoming
Nell Stark
ISBN10:
1-60282-024-4
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-024-1
Price: $15.95
Pages:
248
Release: August 2008
Excerpt |
Love is
thicker than blood.
When Yale student Sarah Storm comes out to
her parents, they disown her and withdraw all support for her education. A
few days later, Sarah's long-term girlfriend breaks up with her and Sarah
loses everything that matters—family, future dreams, and love. Forced to
leave Yale with only the contents of her dorm room and the boat of a car
bequeathed to her by her grandmother, Sarah scrambles to get her life back
on track at the
University of
Rhode Island.
Burying her hurt and disappointment, Sarah throws herself into both her
classes and social life. But no one she meets is quite as
intriguing as Rory, her new—and apparently straight—roommate. When it
becomes clear that her attraction to Rory is mutual, however, Sarah begins
to fear that history will repeat itself and she'll end up alone.
Will Sarah be
able to put aside the betrayals of those she loved and trust again? Or will
the consequences of her own coming-out experience get in the way of a new
chance at happiness? |
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Put Away Wet
Susan Smith
ISBN10:
1-60282-025-2
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-025-8
Price: $15.95
Pages:
224
Release: August 2008
Excerpt |
Jocelyn “Joey”
Fellows is having a bad day.
At twenty-tow, she’s a
college dropout who just got savagely dumped by her ex, Psycho Barbie. Joey
works as a waiter in a pretentious, er, upscale Buffalo restaurant, the
Heritage Room, with her best friend Steve, a gorgeous serial dater and gay man candy. He’s had enough of Joey crying in her beer over Psycho
Barbie, and convinces her to get back on the horse. Joey is adamant that she
doesn’t want a relationship. She needs time to heal and find
out who she is. Steve informs her that she can find herself and get laid
at the same time.
With Steve as
her psycho-pimp, Joey goes online and
posts a personal ad: Newbie seeking erotic adventures. Good-hearted, would-be ethical slut seeks experience.
Train me. No
men, no cheating, no relationships. Just good clean sexual fun. Joey ends
up going on quite a few never-before anticipated adventures, gets licked
into shape, and discovers along the way a joy in
sexuality, a new sense of self, and a woman, Leela, who teaches her how to
embrace life, lust, and laughter. |
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Remember Tomorrow
Gabrielle Goldsby
ISBN10:
1-60282-026-0
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-026-5
Price: $15.95
Pages:
240
Release: August 2008
Excerpt |
Two women find
that creating a successful relationship rests in remembering the mistakes of
the past.
Cees Bannigan has
all the materials needed to build a happy life-a successful home improvement
television show, a new house, and the attention of an intelligent and
beautiful woman. So what is she doing at the hospital bedside of Arieanna
Simons, the love who had abandoned her a several months before? When she discovers
what is behind Arieanna's precipitous withdrawal, Cees must decide if past
betrayals can ever be forgiven, even for the promise that tomorrow might
hold. |
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Simple Justice
John Morgan Wilson
ISBN10:
1-60282-057-0
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-057-9
Price: $15.95
Pages:
280
Release: August 2008
Excerpt
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When a pretty-boy cokehead is murdered outside a gay bar in a working class
district of
Los Angeles, and a young Latino
quickly confesses to the crime, it appears the case is closed. Benjamin
Justice, a disgraced former reporter with the
Los Angeles Times,
is lured out of his alcoholic seclusion to look more deeply into the murder.
But why would a teenager confess to a brutal gang initiation killing he
didn’t commit? Only Benjamin Justice understands, but with his credibility
shattered, no one’s listening. As Justice threads his way through a colorful
gallery of suspects, he’s thrust back into the world of gay bars and
haunting memories that he’s tried to put behind him since the death of his
lover from
AIDS six years earlier, an event that
precipitated the Pulitzer scandal that destroyed his promising career. With
Justice teetering on an emotional brink, his reluctant new partner,
Los Angeles Sun reporter Alexandra Templeton, must
solve the riddle of Justice’s own dark past to save him. Together, with her
deadline looming, they confront the real killer, using every bit of
journalistic skill they can muster to pin that person to the crime.
Reprint. |
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Passion Bay
Jennifer Fulton
ISBN10:
1-60282-064-3
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-064-7
Price: $12.95
Release: August 2008
Excerpt
eBook edition |
Two women from
different ends of the earth discover passion in paradise—a paradise
threatened by secrets and impending disaster.
Mourning the
death of her favorite Aunt, Annabel Worth is stunned to find she has
inherited two things--an island in the South Pacific and a mystery that can
only be solved by traveling there. Disillusioned with life as a securities
trader in Boston, she rashly decides to exchange one world for another. New
Zealander Cody Stanton has made the same choice. Dumped by her lover, laid
off from her job, she rents a beach villa on remote Moon Island, expecting
to take comfort in sea, solitude and simplicity. Then she meets Annabel.
Haunted by a secret that threatens to derail her relationship with her
mother, Annabel resists their powerful attraction. Cody, too, is burdened
with a secret that could destroy the passion growing between them. When
Hurricane Mary strikes the island, each woman must make a choice that will
change her life forever.
A runaway bestseller with seven reprints in its first edition, Passion Bay
is now being re-released in a second 'author's cut' edition, extensively
revised, updated and expanded. First in the Moon Island Series |
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Saving Grace
Jennifer Fulton
ISBN10:
1-60282-066-X
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-066-1
Price: $12.95
Release: August 2008
Excerpt
eBook edition |
Champion swimmer
and Olympic hopeful Dawn Beaumont flees to Moon Island after a car crash
leaves her haunted by guilt over the death of a passenger, her career in
ruins, and her body damaged. Scientist Grace Ramsay welcomes her cute new
neighbor, imagining Dawn could be a pleasant diversion from her secret
mission to evaluate Moon Island for corporate purchase by a chemicals giant
looking for a waste dump far from civilization. But Dawn won't play ball, in
fact she denies she is even a lesbian. Beset by troubling nightmares rooted
in the past, and increasing ambivalence over her job, Grace sets out to
prove otherwise. Meanwhile Annabel Worth, the owner of the island, is
determined not to sell her home to a chemicals conglomerate. But then her
plane goes down in the Pacific under suspicious circumstances. Second in
the Moon Island Series |
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The Sacred Shore
Jennifer Fulton
ISBN10:
1-60282-065-1
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-065-4
Price: $12.95
Release: August 2008
Excerpt
eBook edition |
Successful tech
industry survivor Merris Randall does not believe in love at first sight
until she meets Olivia Pearce. But Olivia is deeply scarred from a damaging
relationship, and has no plans to love again. Thrown together in a sensuous
paradise thousands of miles from home, each comes face to face with her
destiny. Anthropologist Dr. Glenn Howick is also on Moon Island, but romance
is not on her agenda. Chasing the career-making discovery of a lifetime,
Glenn must decide whether she can exploit the spirituality of another
culture for her own ends. Another moral dilemma looms in the form of her
research assistant Riley Mason, a post-grad student whose love for Glenn
threatens both her reputation and her most secret self.
After five years of bliss, life seems complete for the island's owners, Cody
and Annabel. At least Cody thinks so. But Annabel has recently woken up to
the sound of her biological clock ticking. With preparations underway for
the secret rituals local women perform to celebrate the goddess of the
island, the topic is consigned to the back burner. Then Annabel's cousin
Melanie shows up with a young baby and a desperate problem. Third in the
Moon Island Series |
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A Guarded Heart
Jennifer Fulton
ISBN10:
1-60282-067-8
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-067-8
Price: $12.95
Release: August 2008
Excerpt
eBook edition |
Lauren Douglas
never imagined she would wake up one day and find herself the star of the
hottest soap on daytime television. But as wholesome, smart and lovely Dr.
Kate, she is plastered over the media as a role model and inspiration for
young women. Just as she is about to sign a bloated new contract, Lauren is
publicly outed. Scrambling for damage control, her father, a Congressman,
wants her banished abroad and her network writes her temporarily out of the
show in a plane crash. As if the slavering press doesn't have enough to
report, a creepy fan enraged by the revelation, shoots her. All of which
means zip to FBI Special Agent Pat Roussel, whose hunt for the Kiddy Pageant
Killer has consumed every waking moment for three years. Suffering from
burnout, and hoping fresh new eyes might come up with a break in the case,
Pat reluctantly elects to take a few months leave without pay. The last
thing she expects to find herself doing in her time off is an illicit
private security gig babysitting a celebrity. Fourth in the Moon Island
Series |
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Romantic Interludes 1:
Discovery
eds.
Radclyffe
& Stacia Seaman
ISBN10:
1-60282-027-9
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-027-2
Price: $15.95
Pages:
248
Release: September 2008 |
When just one happy ending is not enough…
An anthology of passionate, sensual love
stories about falling in love, being in love, and celebrating the love
between women of every age—yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Discover the
passion, the thrill, and the heartwarming satisfaction of love time and
again with the tales from today’s best-selling romance writers: Ali Vali,
Cate Culpepper, Clifford Henderson, Erin Dutton, Gabrielle Goldsby, Gill
McKnight, Gun Brooke, JD Glass, Jennifer Harris, JLee Meyer, Jove Belle,
Julie Cannon, Kim Baldwin, Larkin Rose, Lee Lynch, Lisa Girolami, Meghan
O'Brien, Merry Shannon, MJ Williamz, Nell Stark, Rachel Spangler, and
Radclyffe.
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Cooper's Deale
KI Thompson
ISBN10:
1-60282-028-7
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-028-9
Price: $15.95
Pages:
224
Release: September 2008
Excerpt |
Two would-be
lovers and a decidedly inopportune murder spell trouble, no matter which way
the cards fall.
Nothing ever
seems to go right in Addy Cooper’s life. To begin with, she loses her job
in California when her boss is arrested for importing Russian brides and exporting bootleg
copies of yet-to-be-released movies. Her partner dumps her for the
butch UPS delivery driver. And to top it all off, the grandmother who raised Addy and Tommy,her
mentally disabled brother, dies suddenly when a piece of
space debris the size of a Kenmore dishwasher lands on her, killing her
instantly.
Returning to the small town she grew up in, Addy
is forced to support herself and Tommy by taking on boarders. Her life appears to be returning to normal
until she finds herself caught between two love interests, both of whom
suspect her of murder. What more can go wrong? Plenty.
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Truth Behind the Mask
Lesley Davis
ISBN10:
1-60282-029-5
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-029-6
Price: $15.95
Pages:
272
Release: September 2008
Excerpt |
High above the city, a young guardian searches for the
enemy...and finds love.
In a city rife with evil, masked
protectors secretly watch over the inhabitants, keeping the
citizens safe while hiding their own identity. One young
Sentinel, however, violates her oath and loses her heart to the
woman she is charged to protect. By day, Pagan Osborne is a shy
security specialist working in the family business. By night, as a
Sentinel, she fulfills a greater family legacy and battles the
criminals who threaten Chastilian's peace. Erith Baylor, a fiery
young woman with her own secrets to hide, is drawn to Pagan's quiet
charm and silent strength. But with so many secrets between them,
their attraction could break the ties of family and finally reveal the
truth behind the mask. |
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I Dare You
Larkin Rose
ISBN10:
1-60282-030-9
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-030-2
Price: $14.95
Pages:
192
Release: September 2008
Excerpt
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Sex is the perfect escape, until it holds
you captive.
Sexy stripper
by night, staid corporate raider by day, Kelsey’s not looking for love, only
sex and power. Then rough, tough karate champion Jordan walks into her
life and dares her to risk her heart on a night of searing passion. Two
women caught in an inferno of desire struggle on the brink of love while
secrets from their past—and a stalker obsessed with Kelsey—threaten to
destroy them. Will the fire burning between them forge a love
strong enough to survive, or will the dare lead to heartbreak—or worse? I
Dare You is a journey into the seething realm of obsession, lust, and
desire.
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Revision of Justice
John Morgan Wilson
ISBN10:
1-60282-058-9
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-058-6
Price: $15.95
Pages:
336
Release: September 2008
Excerpt
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When reporter Alexandra Templeton drags Benjamin Justice to a party
thrown by a legendary Hollywood screenwriting instructor, they stumble
into the murder of Reza Jafari, a young, wannabe screenwriter with more
enemies that completed scripts. The prime suspect is the victim’s
roommate, Danny Romero, a young man who will die of
AIDS in jail, unless Justice
can solve the mystery first, and allow Danny the dignified death he
desperately wants. Among the other suspects: a macho Australian action
director, with his own dark secrets and a career in decline; a former
starlet, now the voluptuous widow of a recently deceased studio
executive, who has a good reason to want the victim dead; a
high-powered female agent, as button-downed and driven as she is
deceptive; a Persian restaurant owner, the victim’s devoutly Muslim
father, who has a troubling violent streak; and an up-and-coming
lesbian film producer, as tough as she is smart. His search for clues
takes Justice into musty Hollywood film archives, and between the lines
of several screenplays, while putting his own life in grave danger.
After the murder of an elderly screenwriter who used Reza Jafari as a
younger "front" to pitch his scripts, the murder plot shifts into high
gear, propelling Justice and Templeton into a raging fire that consumes
the Hollywood Hills, burning steadily toward the famous Hollywood
Sign—and the identity of a cold-blooded killer. Reprint. |
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Lake Effect Snow
C.P. Rowlands
E-ISBN13:978-160282-068-5E
E-Price: $10.95
P-ISBN13:
978-160282-068-5
P=Price: $16.95
Pages:
253
Release: September 2008
Excerpt
eBook edition
BSB Bookshop only |
Renowned international news correspondent
Annie T. Booker has covered
Iraq for over three years when a friend and colleague is killed, and
Annie is injured in Baghdad. Exhausted, she returns stateside to
recover. However, life at home is not the sanctuary it has always been.
Her name is on an Iraqi hit list, her partner of ten years has left,
she is betrayed by a friend, and her TV network wants the FBI in her
life full time. When the danger escalates, senior FBI agent Sarah Moore
is assigned to her case.
Annie and Sarah struggle to stay one step
ahead of disaster as Annie’s life becomes the war zone she once
reported on.
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Night Call
Radclyffe
ISBN10:
1-60282-031-7
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-031-9
Price: $15.95
Pages:
248
Release: October 2008
Excerpt |
All medevac helicopter pilot Jett McNally
wants to do is fly and forget about the horror and heartbreak she left
behind in the
Middle
East, but anesthesiologist Tristan Holmes has other plans.
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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Uncharted Passage
Julie Cannon
ISBN10:
1-60282-032-5
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-032-6
Price: $15.95
Pages:
240
Release: October 2008
Excerpt |
Two
women on a vacation that turns deadly face down one of nature's most
ruthless killers—and find themselves falling in love.
Refusing
to allow her absent lover to ruin her vacation in an exotic corner of
Thailand, Emily Stone determines to set her private disappointment aside and
enjoy herself—until a natural disaster strikes and turns her world upside
down. Major Hayden Caldwell plans to escape the restrictions of her job for
a rare few days of freedom when she and Emily are forced into the fight of
their lives. Together, Hayden and Emily face death, disease, despair, and
imminent death, and find in themselves and each other the strength to deny
the tsunami two more victims. But can their intense bond survive outside of
the extreme situation in which it was forged?
Uncharted
Passage
is the story of two women who face one of life’s deadliest challenges and
find their hearts forever changed. |
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Split the Aces
Jove Belle
ISBN10:
1-60282-033-3
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-033-3
Price: $14.95
Pages:
192
Release: October 2008
Excerpt
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Two women ride
a wave of passion that threatens to consume them in a world of fast money
and fast times in the neon glare of Sin City.
It’s lust at
first sight for blackjack dealer Rae Sutherland and conventioneer Cori
Romero. Rae wants more from life than the constant shuffling of cards in a
smoke-filled casino, but for now, she revels in the excesses of life and
appreciates the never-ending parade of women at the tables. Cori is looking
for something besides her day-to-day grind and she’s aching for a new
adventure but doesn’t expect to find it on the Vegas strip. Fueled by the
encouragement of friends and Captain Morgan, she auditions for a singing gig
and her path inevitably crosses Rae’s. In spite of themselves, their
relationship develops into something deeper than the initial intoxication of
attraction, but both wonder if it's worth the gamble. |
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Run to Me
Lisa Girolami
ISBN10:
1-60282-034-1
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-034-0
Price: $14.95
Pages:
192
Release: October 2008
Excerpt
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Burned
by the four-letter word called love, the only thing Beth Standish wants to
do is flee for—or maybe from—her life.
In the
middle of the night Beth takes her favorite running shoes and a flyer for
the upcoming
San Francisco
half-marathon, and drives to the City by the Bay. Hoping to escape the ruins
of her relationship, Beth intends to run thirteen miles straight into San
Francisco’s famous fog. When an insightful woman named Alder Beckman comes
to her rescue, Beth feels that maybe she’s found the calm sanctuary she so
desperately seeks. But Beth’s calm is soon turned on its ear when she is
pursued by an arousing and wild woman named Mary Walston, who has
relationship ghosts of her own. It quickly becomes apparent that
neither Alder nor Mary intends to let Beth disappear into the fog that
easily.
Will Beth be
able to run fast enough to keep ahead of love, or will it overtake her in
the home stretch? |
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Justice at Risk
John Morgan Wilson
ISBN10:
1-60282-059-7
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-059-3
Price: $15.95
Pages:
292
Release: October 2008
Excerpt
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Reporter
Alexandra Templeton sets up the reclusive Justice on a blind date that leads
to a rare opportunity for legitimate work writing a documentary—until the producer is killed. Justice is smitten with gorgeous Peter Graff,
who was close to the victim, and is drawn into the investigation. As he
delves deeper into the murder, he uncovers connections to a 15-year-old
incident of police brutality that was never prosecuted, but may have been
caught on tape by a TV camera crew on a police ride-along. His investigation
reaches the highest levels of the city’s wealthy power structure and unpeels
layer after layer of the city’s dark history. Ignoring danger signals,
Justice takes reckless chances that put him at mortal risk, and that change
his life forever. The story reaches a shocking climax in the dungeon-like
basement of a former LAPD cop, where pleasure is mixed with pain—and the fates of Justice and the beautiful innocent, Peter Graff, are in the
hands of a human monster. Reprint. |
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truelesbianlove.com
Carsen Taite
E-ISBN13:978-160282-069-2E
E-Price: $10.95
P-ISBN10:
978-1-60282-069-2
P-Price:
16.95
Pages:
202
Release: October 2008
Excerpt
eBook edition
BSB Bookshop only |
Everyone knows true love is just a fantasy…right?
Mackenzie Lewis’ friends think she is
destined to grow old alone, because even though she is a successful
business woman, fun to be with, and great looking, the only women she
meets are the ones in the romance novels she devours or while tagging
along on dates with her best friend Jordan. Mac wants the kind of love
she reads about and that her parents’ storybook love proves exists, and
she intends to wait for it.
Mac’s best friend Dr. Jordan Wagner, a
successful, gorgeous plastic surgeon, has encountered lots of women and
she has enjoyed every one. She is not interested in growing old with
any of them, though, and her past losses only confirm her choice is the
right one. At the first sign of commitment, she is on to the next.
On a dare
from their pals, Mac and Jordan decide to look for matches on the
Internet. As they wind their way through the Web, seemingly looking for
completely different things, both women discover true love is far
different than they imagined. Ultimately, Mac and Jordan discover
truelesbianlove is closer than a click away. |
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Shots Fired
MJ Williamz
ISBN10:
1-60282-035-X
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-035-7
Price: $15.95
Pages:
232
Release: November 2008
Excerpt |
Kyla and Echo seem to have the perfect
relationship and the perfect life until someone shoots at Kyla, causing a
car crash that leaves her with only fractured memories of her former life.
Kyla can't believe her partner Echo is having an affair, but the police
believe a love triangle is motive for murder.
Detective Pat Silverton,
investigating the shooting, is not convinced by her partner Tom Magnell's
theory, but she concedes her attraction to the "other woman" in their
suspect's love triangle could be clouding her judgment—sexy, hotheaded Jenny
Vasquez could tempt anyone. But would a woman kill to be with her?
Or could Jenny be the shooter?
The more Kyla learns, the less certain she feels about everything—her
partner's love, her own choices, and her safety.
Caught between renewed passion for the woman she fell in love with years ago
and the mounting evidence of betrayal, Kyla must decide whether to trust her
heart or her mind. The stakes don’t get any higher: someone is still trying
to kill her and she has no idea why. |
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Calling the Dead
Ali Vali
ISBN10:
1-60282-037-6
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-037-1
Price: $15.95
Pages:
336
Release: November 2008
Excerpt |
Detective Sept Savoie is a cop who thinks making a relationship work is
harder than catching a serial killer, but her current case may prove her
wrong.
Six months
after Hurricane Katrina has devastated most of New Orleans, Detective Sept
Savoie is battling the nightmare of everything the storm has taken from her
when a brutalized body turns up behind one of New Orleans’s most famous
restaurants, run by Keegan Blanchard. The more Sept works through the clues,
the more they point to Keegan, making the relationship growing between them
anything but love at first sight. The first death is only the
beginning, though, as the miles of deserted neighborhoods Katrina left behind provide
the perfect stage for murder. |
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Designed for Love
Erin Dutton
ISBN10:
1-60282-038-4
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-038-8
Price: $14.95
Pages:
192
Release: November 2008
Excerpt
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Jillian Sealy
and Wil Johnson don’t much like each other but they do have to work
together, at least long enough to rehab an historic house.
Jillian Sealy
is not running away from her life, she’s seizing a business
opportunity. That’s what she tells herself when she moves to a rural
Tennessee town to flip a nearly century-old house. But the project gets a
bit more interesting when she meets her devastatingly attractive contractor,
Wil Johnson. When Jillian seems to think she has Wil all figured out from
nearly their first meeting, Wil wants nothing to do with her. Wil has spent
most of her life being underestimated by her neighbors because of where she
came from, and she’s not about to get involved with a big-city snob who does
the same.
Forced to
cooperate for the sake of the project, Jillian and Wil find that what they
desire most is not what either of them had planned.
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The Limits of Justice
John Morgan Wilson
ISBN10:
1-60282-060-0
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-060-9
Price: $15.95
Pages:
302
Release: November 2008
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When celebrity biographer Randall Capri writes a lurid and unauthorized bio
of the late Rod Preston, a virile movie star of the fifties and sixties, he
sets in motion a deadly chain of events. Preston’s naive daughter,
Charlotte, hires Benjamin Justice to salvage her father's good name by ghost
writing an expose of him. After
finding Charlotte dead, an apparent suicide, Justice begins to have his
doubts about how she died. Working with reporter Alexandra Templeton, he
begins an investigation that takes him from the wealthy hillside enclaves of Montecito to
the gay bars of Tijuana as he searches for
the truth—and a young witness named Chucho Pernales, who has fled back to
Mexico in fear for his life. Along the way, Justice stumbles into a ring of
wealthy Hollywood pedophiles—a group of men connected to the late Rod Preston,
and possibly to Charlotte Preston’s death. While Justice copes with a
life-threatening health crisis and struggles to clear himself of suspicion, his search for
the killer propels him behind the locked gates of a mysterious compound in
the remote California desert—and to evidence of evil beyond imagination. Reprint. |
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Dreams of Bali
C.J.
Harte
E-ISBN13:
978-160282-070-8E
E-Price: $10.95
P-ISBN13:
978-160282-070-8
P-Price:
16.95
Pages:
218
Release: November 2008
Excerpt
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Work, power, and success are the idols
attorney Madison Barnes worships, and she’s never allowed anything, or
anyone, to interfere with attaining them—except for her younger sister
Dee. To help her sister out, Madison reluctantly agrees to spend a weekend with Dee’s
closest friend, a smart-ass troublemaker Karlie Henderson. To
Madison’s consternation, she discovers that the opinionated young college activist
she remembers has turned into a wildly popular romance author and an attractive, exciting woman she
can’t quite keep out of her thoughts.
Karlie's life is in complete upheaval. Depressed and troubled,
she's not looking forward to spending a weekend trying to be polite to
her best friend's arrogant older sister.
Memories of their past encounters leave both women unprepared for the
different kinds of sparks that arise when they spend a day together on
Madison's yacht. Suspicious of Madison's motivations, Karlie has
no choice but to return home and try to move on with her life—but the
damage has already been done, and the consequences may be deadly.
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Trails Merge
Rachel Spangler
ISBN10:
1-60282-039-2
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-039-5
Price: $15.95
Pages:
240
Release: December 2008
Excerpt |
Every skier knows that anything can happen when trails merge.
After a
devastating ultimatum from her lover, Campbell Carson returns to her
childhood home, Bear Run Ski Resort, seeking her family’s unconditional
solace and support. Parker Riley escapes to the mountain after the
high-powered world of Chicago’s political machine leaves her questioning her
judgment in both life and love. Despite their initial wariness, the women
find their budding friendship snowballing toward romance. The idyllic
mountain resort is the perfect setting for them to learn to rebuild trust,
and perhaps to find a second chance at love. However, when Parker’s past
resurfaces, Campbell is forced to face her own hard truths. As barely healed
wounds reopen, the unexpected obstacles in their path threaten any hope for
a future together. |
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A Pirate's Heart
Catherine Friend
ISBN10:
1-60282-040-6
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-040-1
Price: $15.95
Pages:
320
Release: December 2008
Excerpt |
Four women, a long-lost treasure, and more than one "thief of hearts"
share a destiny beyond time.
To foil a map thief,
librarian Emma Boyd
searches for a pirate's long-lost treasure map. She's aided in her search by
investigator Randi Marx, who proves to be as frustrating as she is
beautiful.
The treasure map Emma and Randi seeks belonged to
Thomasina Farris,
a
pirate who disappeared from the Caribbean in 1715. Did Captain Tommy steal
an entire treasure from a Spanish galleon and escape? Was she convicted of
piracy and hanged by her neck? Did she die of a broken heart when she
lost the woman she loved?
In her race to find the map, Emma
learns that pirates not only steal treasure, but they also steal hearts.
When Emma discovers Captain Tommy's fate, she must decide her own as well,
choosing between romance...or revenge. |
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Blind Faith
Diane and Jacob Anderson-Minshall
ISBN10:
1-60282-041-4
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-041-8
Price: $15.95
Pages:
248
Release: December 2008
Excerpt |
In the detective business, the ordinary can quickly become deadly.
When
private investigator Yoshi Yakamota and the Blind Eye Detective Agency are
hired to find a woman’s missing sister, the assignment seems fairly mundane.
Then two teens fall to their death from a rocky oceanside cliff in what
appears to be a tragic accident. Although the events seem unrelated, they
have one thing in common: the controversial Pioneer Institute, a residential
ex-gay youth program. Will sending a Blind Eye team member undercover reveal
what's behind the school's terrible safety record, or will it just put the
spy in harm’s way?
Third in the Blind Eye Mysteries. |
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Green-eyed Monster
Gill McKnight
ISBN10:
1-60282-042-2
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-042-5
Price: $14.95
Pages:
192
Release: December 2008
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There is a lot more to kidnapping than financial analyst Mickey Rapowski ever imagined.
Mickey has a chip on her shoulder—she's been cheated out of a small fortune
by corporate giant Victoria Gresham. In an irrational attempt at revenge, Mickey
kidnaps Ms. Gresham's girlfriend, Ginette Felstrom. A straightforward and
effective plan—except Ginette is the worst captive ever and no one wants to
pay her ransom.
Out of her depth as
every one of her well-laid plans spins totally out of control,
Mickey becomes the victim of reverse Stockholm Syndrome, and falls head over
heels for her captive.
How could something so
simple go so wrong? Or is that...right? |
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Bareback
D.Jackson Leigh
E-ISBN13:
978-160282-071-5E
E-Price: $10.95
P-ISBN13:
978-160282-071-5
P-Price:
16.95
Pages:
232
Release: December 2008
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Betrayal is a wound that rarely heals.
A devastating accident that claims the life of her Olympic-bound
mount lands Jessica Black and her new stallion at
Cherokee
Falls
Equestrian
Center, where she is teamed up with an arrogant, womanizing trainer.
Skyler Reese is a former gold medalist, now blacklisted as a
professional rider. The sparks that fly between the two women are
anything but friendly at first, but the heat between them changes
to passion as Skyler helps Jessica prepare for the upcoming
competition. Still, a dark secret Jessica is hiding threatens both
her bid to win a spot on the U.S. Equestrian Team and Skyler's
triumphant return to the eventing circuit.
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Honor Series Vol. 1:
Above All, Honor, Honor Bound,
and Love & Honor
Radclyffe
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-094-4e
Price: $34.50
Release: December 2008
eBook edition
only |
New
series eBook bundle featuring three books from Radclyffe's popular
Honor series.
Above All, Honor—Secret
Service Agent Cameron Roberts and the woman she is sworn to protect—Blair
Powell, the daughter of the President of the United States—struggle with
their growing attraction amidst the escalating danger drawing ever closer.
Honor Bound—Amidst
escalating threats to their safety and the personal differences that force
them ever further apart, Secret Service Agent Cameron Roberts and
president’s daughter Blair struggle to find their way back to one another.
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. |
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The Tristaine Series:
The Clinic, Battle for Tristaine, Tristaine Rises,
& Queens of Tristaine
Cate Culpepper
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-095-1e
Price: $46.50
Release: December 2008
eBook edition
only |
Series
eBook bundle featuring all four books from Cate Culpeppers's popular
Tristaine series.
The Clinic—When
freedom can only be achieved by rebellion, Jesstin leads the warriors of
Tristaine into battle, and Brenna, a young Clinic medic, must weigh love
against loyalty when she chooses to join in their struggles.
Battle for Tristaine—Five fugitive
Amazons are hiding in a high mountain meadow, healing from the wounds
inflicted by a posse of City soldiers, when word reaches Jesstin and Brenna
of a grave danger threatening the Amazon village.
Tristaine Rises—Jess and her warriors fight a ghostly army in their new mountain
stronghold where a battle rages for the lives and souls of the Amazons of Tristaine.
Queens of Tristaine—When a deadly
plague stalks the Amazons of Tristaine, two warrior lovers must return to
the place of their nightmares to find a cure. |
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Justice Series Vol. 1:
A Matter of Trust, Shield of Justice,
& In Pursuit of Justice
Radclyffe
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-096-8e
Price: $34.50
Release: December 2008
eBook edition
only |
Series eBook bundle featuring three books
from Radclyffe's popular Justice series.
A
Matter of Trust—Sloan,
a cyber-sleuth who avoids emotional commitments, finds it increasingly
difficult to think of Michael Lassiter as just another client. When Michael
is threatened by more than just financial ruin, Sloan risks her heart and
dares to trust again.
Shield of Justice—One
is a cop, Detective Sergeant Rebecca Frye, sworn to protect and serve—one is
a physician, Dr. Catherine Rawlings, sworn to heal. Together they become
reluctant allies in the battle for justice.
In Pursuit of Justice—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 and their pursuit of justice becomes a
deadly race against time. |
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The Cain Casey Series
Vol. 1:
The Devil Inside, The Devil Unleashed,
& Deal with the Devil
Ali
Vali
ISBN13:
978-1-60282-097-5e
Price: $34.50
Release: December 2008
eBook edition
only |
Series
eBook bundle featuring three books from Ali Vali’s popular Cain Casey
series.
The Devil Inside—Derby
Cain Casey was groomed from birth to take the reins of the Casey family
enterprises, one of the major crime organizations in New Orleans. Cain is as
careful with her heart as she is with her business—until she met Emma Verde.
The Devil Unleashed—A
gunshot meant to end the legacy of the Casey Clan has left a weakened Cain
fighting to regain control of her business while trying to protect her heart
from Emma’s past.
Deal with the Devil—New Orleans crime boss
Cain Casey brings her fury down on the men who threatened her family, and
blood and bullets fly. |
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