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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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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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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
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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
Excerpt |
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
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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
Excerpt |
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
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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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