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JANUARY 2009

Fireside

     Cate Culpepper

ISBN10: 1-60282-044-9

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-044-9

Price:      $15.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:    232

Genre: Romance

Release:  January 2009

Excerpt

Mac closed her eyes because that’s how one traditionally prepared for prayer, and she was in need of divine intervention. A hiccup of laughter almost bubbled out of her. What kind of merciful goddess would cast her, shirtless and prostrate before a roaring fire on a stormy night, subject to the tender ministrations of the straightest woman on the eastern seaboard? 

Mac is a new therapist at Fireside, a domestic violence shelter in rural Virginia. Mac hopes to find answers here—answers for the women and children she works with, and to her own lifelong restlessness. Perhaps she’ll even learn the identity of the small ghost who’s been following her all her life.  

Abby is the shelter’s doctor—irresistibly alluring, and straight as a stick. Mac and Abby, devoted to those they serve, discover equal passion for each other while fighting to protect all they love.  

Fireside is a story of love, friendship, healing, and laying our ghosts to rest at last.

Uncross My Heart

     Andrews & Austin

ISBN10: 1-60282-045-7

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-045-6

Price:      $15.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     240

Genre: Romance

Release:  January 2009

Excerpt

Falling in lust with a priest is the last thing on Vivienne Wilde’s agenda…but then she’s yet to meet Alexandra Westbrooke.  

When author and radio talk show diva Vivienne Wilde launches a media attack on Claridge Seminary, the chancellor orders Dr. Alexandra Westbrooke to make this “Wilde woman” cease and desist. Vivienne is determined to discover what caused one-time radical Alexandra to embrace the institution she once decried and refuses to be sidetracked even when her journalistic interest becomes unexpectedly personal. Alexandra’s immediate attraction for Vivienne puts her at odds with her father, both earthly and heavenly, and forces her to confront feelings she buried when she became a priest.

Paybacks

     Gabrielle Goldsby

ISBN10: 1-60282-046-5

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-046-3

Price:      $14.95

ePrice:   $11.95

Pages:     192

Genre: Romance

Release:  January 2009

Excerpt

Two women with a fiery past discover paybacks can be hell…and just as hot. 

Colby Dennis’s first thought was to toss the invitation to her ten-year high school reunion into the garbage. After all, she spent most of her adult life trying to forget high school—more specifically, her tormentor Mackenzie Brandt. But then, maybe putting her old nemesis in her place is reason enough to show up. Unsuspecting Mackenzie has only one reason for attending the reunion: She wants to look into the eyes of the classmate responsible for getting her expelled weeks before her graduation…and apologize the best way she knows how. Revenge is most definitely not best served cold.

The Middle of Somewhere

     Clifford Henderson

ISBN10: 1-60282-047-3

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-047-0

Price:      $15.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     288

Genre:  Lesbian Fiction

Release:  January 2009

Excerpt

Eadie T. Pratt sets out on a road trip in search of a new life and ends up in the middle of somewhere she never expected.

Start with one independent, urban lesbian who cashes out her life in San Francisco for a secondhand travel trailer and sets off to the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival in search of a new life. Add to this a broken-down ’66 T-bird, a bunch of small-town Texas Baptists, a ton of fried food, and a church scandal. Pepper with a hot love interest and a dash of greed, and what you get is Eadie T. Pratt’s road trip gone awry.

eBook only

Death by the Riverside

     J.M. Redmann

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-072-2e

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     306

Genre:  Romantic Mystery

Release:  January 2009

Excerpt

Among the moss-covered trees and wrought-iron balustrades of southern Louisian, Detective Michele Knight (Micky to her friends) takes on the seemingly simple job of shooting a few photos for a client, but the going gets rough as Micky finds herself slugging through thugs and slogging through swamps in an attempt to expose a dangerous drug ring. The trail leads to the Hundred Oaks Plantation, a transvestite named Eddie, a beautiful doctor named Cordelia, and memories Micky thought she had buried twenty years ago.  

Hard-hitting prose in the style of Sam Spade and Mike Hammer with a lesbian twist.  (reprint)

The First Micky Knight Mystery 

FEBRUARY 2009 (back to top)

X

JD Glass

ISBN10: 1-60282-048-1

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-048-7

Price: $15.95

ePrice: $12.95

Pages: 224

Genre: Romantic Intrigue

Release: February 2009

Excerpt

In a fast-paced, cyberpunk world of love, betrayal, political intrigue, sex, and surfing, two women must decide to live by the code, even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice. 

Charli Riven, a prototypical Gen-Xer who works hard and plays harder, is known as CharliX to the Consortium, an elite community of coders, hackers, and crackers. She thinks out of the box, manipulates code, and makes money hand over fist for the hedge funds her employer manages. When she’s not shattering glass ceilings and showing the code-boys how it’s done, Charli turns her relentless focus to surfing the Atlantic—and to Anna Pendleton, her brilliant colleague, the only woman she’s ever trusted, in or out of bed. What Charli doesn’t know is that Anna is a CIA plant, hot on the trail of a rogue agent, John Romello. And neither of them knows that Charli is the object of Romello’s quest, that he believes she and other Gen-Xers hold the genetic key to his new world order. When the system is breached and the waves begin to collapse around them, will Charli and Anna solve for X in time?

Thief of Always

Kim Baldwin & Xenia Alexiou

ISBN10: 1-60282-049-X

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-049-4

Price: $15.95

ePrice: $12.95

Pages: 288

Genre: Romantic Intrigue

Release: February 2009

Excerpt

Stealing a diamond to save the world is the easy part. 

Mishael Taylor takes comfort in speed, racing from one mission to another as Allegro, one of the Elite Operative Organization’s top agents—or from one affair to another, to avoid having to think about the things she’s seen and done. Cocky, confident, and used to winning, Mishael confronts her greatest challenge when she’s assigned to steal the priceless Blue Star Diamond from Dutch countess Kristine Marie van der Jagt. Not only must she win a high-stakes race with Arab terrorists and Neo-Nazis, she also has to contend with a target who has somehow managed to steal her heart.  

Second in the romantic suspense Elite Operatives series, following the smash hit Lethal Affairs. 

Radical Encounters

Radclyffe

ISBN10: 1-60282-050-3

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-050-0

Price: $15.95

ePrice: $12.95

Pages: 240

Genre: Erotic Anthology

Release: February 2009

Award-winning erotica and romance writer Radclyffe explores the outer reaches of desire and the shifting gender terrain beyond butch-femme: an initiate tests her limits in a men’s leather bar, a construction worker gets a special treat during her noon break, a porn star tells…and shows…all, a femme instructs her straight girlfriends in the fine art of fellatio, and twenty more radically erotic encounters.

Sistine Heresy

Justine Saracen

ISBN10: 1-60282-051-1

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-051-7

Price: $15.95

ePrice: $12.95

Pages: 256

Genre: LGBT Fiction

Release: February 2009

Excerpt

Eros, art, and gorgeous blasphemy… 

Adrianna Borgia, survivor of the Borgia court, presents Michelangelo with the greatest temptations of his life while struggling herself with soul-threatening desires and heresies. Her growing passion for the painter Raphaela Bramante mirrors the sculptor’s damnable interest in a castrato in the Sistine choir and in the ideas of secular humanism. Claimed as the epitome of Christian inspiration, Michelangelo’s ceiling is revealed as a coup of Eros upon religion, a gorgeous blasphemy and a paean to forbidden love in the very heart of the Church.

eBook  only

Deaths of Jocasta

J.M. Redmann

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-073-9e

ePrice: $12.95

Pages: 392

Genre: Romantic Mystery

Release: February 2009

Excerpt

The Second Micky Knight Mystery

MARCH 2009 (back to top)

Just Business

Julie Cannon

ISBN10: 1-60282-052-X

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-052-4

Price: $15.95

ePrice: $12.95

Pages: 224

Genre: Romance

Release: March 2009

Excerpt

What should be just business becomes much more when two women agree to a deal that changes their lives. 

Real estate tycoon Dillon Matthews, in the middle of negotiating the deal of her life, is stunned when the owner of the small parcel of land she desperately needs to complete her latest project presents the final condition she must meet to close the deal. Callie Sheffield is struggling to pay the attorney she has hired to appeal her brother’s conviction for a crime he didn’t commit. When Dillon and Callie meet by chance, they realize each has what the other needs. A simple business transaction will give them both what they need—until love threatens to derail the negotiations.

Suspect Passions

VK Powell

ISBN10: 1-60282-053-8

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-053-1

Price: $15.95

ePrice: $12.95

Pages: 224

Genre: Romantic Intrigue

Release: March 2009

Excerpt

City Attorney Regan Desanto moved to town a year ago after her partner of twenty years dumped her for another woman. All she wants is to be near her ailing grandmother and to work ordinary, boring municipal cases until she can get her life back together. Beat officer Sydney Cabot is a chronic serial polyamorist who craves the adrenaline rush on and off the job. She has never wanted to be or tried to be faithful to one woman. When Syd is slapped with a wrongful death suit, Regan, the most uptight, controlling, and monogamous woman Syd has ever met, is assigned the case. 

Sydney doesn’t trust Regan, and the feeling is mutual, but they have to work together—and what’s even more of a challenge, they have to figure out how to defuse their growing attraction.

The Sublime and Spirited Voyage of Original Sin

Colette Moody

ISBN10: 1-60282-054-6

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-054-8

Price: $15.95

ePrice: $12.95

Pages: 240

Genre: Romantic Adventure

Release: March 2009

Excerpt

The Gulf of Mexico, 1702: When pirates of the square-rigger Original Sin steal ashore to abduct a doctor to tend to their wounded, they end up settling for the doctor’s attractive fiancée—Celia Pierce, the town seamstress.  

Together with Gayle Malvern, daughter of wounded pirate captain “Madman” Malvern, Celia becomes a reluctant participant in an unexpectedly thrilling journey through the Caribbean. For Gayle, Celia’s presence is at first a welcome and shapely distraction, but as her attraction to the seamstress deepens, she realizes that Celia comes to mean more to her than is almost certainly prudent. As Celia and Gayle navigate the perilous territories of gypsies, prostitutes, mercenaries, and slave-traders, they forge a partnership born of necessity that Gayle soon hopes will veer away from insurmountable danger—and instead detour directly to her bed.

The Intersection of Law & Desire

J.M. Redmann

ISBN10: 1-60282-090-2

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-090-6

Price: $17.95

ePrice: $12.95

Pages: 344

Genre: Romantic Mystery

Release: March 2009

Excerpt

It is fall in the steamy underworld of New Orleans, the seasons are changing, and so is tough detective Micky Knight’s life. Micky takes on the case of the daughter of a friend, who is believed to be sexually abused, not knowing that the investigation will lead her on a dangerous sexual odyssey. In Cissy’s sleepless nights, Micky sees echoes of her own past, and she becomes caught up in a world where young girls are treated as commodities. While doing battle with seedy thugs and struggling to hold on to her rocky relationship with Dr. Cordelia James, Micky travels between the uptown opulence of the Sans Parel Club, one of New Orleans’s exclusive private clubs, and a tawdry hole of a bar near the Desire Projects. Evil exists in both places, and the mystery culminates where law and desire intersect. (reprint)

The Lambda Literary Award  winning Third Micky Knight Mystery 

Lost Daughters

J.M. Redmann

ISBN10: 1-60282-091-0

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-091-3

Price: $17.95

ePrice: $12.95

Pages: 266

Genre: Romantic Mystery

Release: March 2009

Excerpt

The Fourth Micky Knight Mystery

APRIL 2009 (back to top)

Sanctuary

I. Beacham

ISBN10: 1-60282-055-4

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-055-5

Price: $16.95

ePrice: $12.95

Pages: 264

Genre: Romance

Release: April 2009

Excerpt

Cate Canton has only one goal: to crush her professional rival, Dita Newton, and reclaim the future unjustly stolen from her. The only obstacle is her attraction to the woman she has vowed to destroy. 

Young Cate Canton dreams of becoming a designer and running Seraphim, the Boston fashion house her late mother started. Born into a loving family, and with everything to live for, she loses it all when misfortune and tragedy strike. In the aftermath of betrayal, Cate vows to reclaim her destiny. Fueled by revenge, she becomes a ruthless businesswoman with her own successful fashion empire, plotting to one day take over her mother’s business by any means necessary.  

But one person stands in her way—Dita Newton, the beautiful, gifted designer who now runs Seraphim. Cate will need to crush her adversary to succeed, but Dita strikes back in the most unexpected way—by stirring Cate’s fragile, hidden heart. A contemporary high-stakes drama between two driven, passionate women.

Justice for All

Radclyffe

ISBN10: 1-60282-074-0

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-074-6

Price: $16.95

ePrice: $12.95

Pages: 312

Genre: Romantic Mystery

Release: April 2009

Excerpt

While Detective Lt. Rebecca Frye’s elite unit attempts to uncover the connection between the local organized crime syndicate and a human trafficking ring, she and her team, and those they love, unwittingly become targets. 

As part of the operation, Dellon Mitchell goes undercover with a young woman posing as her lover—a woman with a secret agenda who puts Mitchell's personal and professional life at risk.  Before long, the hunters and the hunted are caught in a complex web of double-crosses and desire where the lines between good and evil blur, and justice may be the ultimate victim.

Fifth in Radclyffe's Justice Series.

Death of a Dying Man

J.M. Redmann

ISBN10: 1-60282-075-9

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-075-3

Price: $16.95

ePrice: $12.95

Pages: 288

Genre: Romantic Mystery

Release: April 2009

Excerpt

New Orleans PI Micky Knight just had to get into a butch pissing contest with the journalist partner of a famous doctor working with her lover, Cordelia James.  Micky's insistence that the skills of a reporter are of no use to a PI backfires, and now she’s stuck with a drop-dead gorgeous assistant and the case of a dying gay man looking for a child he might have fathered. These chains of events—and an act of nature—will tear Micky’s life apart in ways that may never be put back together. 

Fifth in the Lambda Award-winning Micky Knight mystery series.

The Lure

Felice Picano

ISBN10: 1-60282-076-7

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-076-0

Price: $17.95

ePrice: $12.95

Pages: 376

Genre: Gay Mystery

Release: April 2009

Excerpt

Noel Cummings’s life is about to change irrevocably. After witnessing a brutal murder, Noel is recruited to assist the police by acting as the lure for a killer who has been targeting gay men. Undercover, Noel moves deeper and deeper into the dark side of Manhattan’s gay life that stirs his own secret desires—until he forgets he is only playing a role.  Reprint. 

MAY 2009 (back to top)

Blue Skies

Ali Vali

ISBN10: 1-60282-077-5

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-077-7

Price: $16.95

ePrice: $12.95

Pages: 304

Genre: Romantic Adventure

Release: May 2009

Excerpt

Commander Berkley Levine is content with her life as a Top Gun instructor in Fallon, Nevada, flying F-18s for the Navy. A change of government and a new equality initiative places Captain Aidan Sullivan at the helm of the Navy’s newest carrier, the USS Jefferson. Her first mission could lead to serious international consequences if she fails. Aidan’s orders are to destroy two sites housing the nuclear program of an unfriendly nation, and she can think of only one person she trusts enough to get the job done: her old lover Berkley.  

Blue Skies will take you from Fallon, Nevada, to the Sea of Japan and beyond, as Berkley leads an elite group of pilots over enemy territory. As they embark on this adventure, Berkley and Aidan try to rediscover what they gave up for family, duty, and country.

Between the Lines

Bobbi Marolt

ISBN10: 1-60282-078-3

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-078-4

Price: $16.95

ePrice: $12.95

Pages: 224

Genre: Romance

Release: May 2009

Excerpt

When romance writer Gail Prescott meets British actor Tannen Albright, she develops feelings that usually only her characters experience. Despite Gail’s prickly demeanor, Tannen won’t be deterred from striking up a friendship. Gail’s emotional walls begin to crumble before Tannen’s irresistible charms, and she cautiously allows Tannen, and the possibility of love, into her life. Then Gail’s tragic history collides with Tannen’s equally heartbreaking past, and Gail’s life turns into a hurricane of destruction. Hoping to save their love, Tannen asks for the one thing Gail may not be able to give—all of herself. Can their love prevail, or will history destroy all hope for the future? The answer lies between the lines of what has been written and what might be in this sensual, touching romance. 

No Leavin' Love

Larkin Rose

ISBN10: 1-60282-079-1

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-079-1

Price: $14.95

ePrice: $11.95

Pages: 192

Genre: Erotic Romance

Release: May 2009

Excerpt

Beautiful, successful Mercedes Miller is headed home for her father’s wedding, to the Colorado ranch she couldn’t wait to get away from, and the far-too-sexy woman she left behind long ago.   

Ranch foreman Sydney Campbell isn’t expecting anything from the arrogant fireball she once found irresistible, least of all a tame heart inside the beautiful body. She’s not surprised when Mercedes thinks she can use her again.   

Two can play that game, but when neither notices that the rules have changed, both women find they have a lot to lose.

Flesh and Bone

Ronica Black

ISBN10: 1-60282-093-7

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-093-7

Price: $16.95

ePrice: $10.95

Pages: 202

Genre: Erotic Anthology

Release:May 2009

Flesh and Bone. What every woman is made of. Beautiful, daring, naughty, sensual. She has a fantasy, she wants to go higher, she searches for her own definition of love. She never says never, has her first orgasm, yearns for the everlasting. This is woman. You, me, the girl next door. We are all flesh and bone.  

An eclectic collection of lesbian erotica, the stories in Flesh and Bone are as individual as every woman. From the sweetest petals of romance to the thorny edges of desire, our stories are as individual as we are. Yet one theme remains constant and keeps us intertwined…we are all Flesh and Bone.

JUNE 2009 (back to top)

September Canvas

Gun Brooke

ISBN10: 1-60282-080-5

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-080-7

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     264

Genre: Romance

Release:  June 2009

Excerpt

Physically depleted and at a crossroads in her personal life, popular TV-personality Faythe Hamilton rents a lakeside cabin in Vermont for a much-needed vacation. On her first day in town, Faythe receives unsolicited warnings from the locals to stay away from her neighbor, which only rouses her curiosity. 

Deanna Moore, a successful illustrator, has dedicated her life to her work and her family. Beleaguered by accusations stemming from an event she is powerless to explain or defend, Deanna lives a solitary life. When she meets Faythe, she is reluctantly attracted to her, but she fears Faythe will not be able to see beyond the rumors.

September Canvas is a story of hurt and betrayal, but also of trust and endurance as two women struggle to show faith and dare to love.

Punishment With Kisses

Diane Anderson-Minshall

ISBN10: 1-60282-081-3

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-081-4

Price:      $14.95

ePrice:   $11.95

Pages:     208

Genre:  Romance

Release:  June 2009

Excerpt

Home from college, Megan spends her days in her east-wing room of her parents’ palatial estate overlooking the pool house where her sister has taken up residence. Her sister Ashley spends her days wildly bucking convention, bringing home a bevy of female lovers, each one more dangerous than the last, and making love to them by the pool—in plain view of her sister, their conservative parents, and their bewildered staff. Ashley stays out all hours, goes places that she doesn’t tell anyone about, and keeps secrets that only she knows. Then one night, Ashley is murdered, and when the case grows cold, Megan immerses herself in her sister’s underground life in order to find out who killed her and why. She starts by finding Ashley’s diary and begins a sexual odyssey of her own. Will she find the answers she seeks, or will her growing relationship with one of Ash’s exes blind her to the real truth?

Dark Garden

Jennifer Fulton

ISBN10: 1-60282-036-8

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-036-4

Price:      $15.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     224

Genre:  Paranormal Romance

Release:  June 2009

Excerpt

Two sworn enemies who can’t resist each other. Something has to give.

The Blakes and the Cavenders have been going at it since 1870 and Vienna Blake keeps up the family tradition, gunning for the Cavenders at every opportunity. All the same, she’s shocked when Mason Cavender confronts her in her office and accuses her of murder. Vienna has the stunningly sexual Mason thrown out by security, but she can’t rid herself so easily of her powerful, instant attraction to the woman she’s been groomed since childhood to destroy.

Last in a long line of “Cursed Cavenders,” as the media describes them, Mason has just walked away from the small plane crash that killed her brother. Now in charge of her family’s crumbling business empire, she suspects sabotage and believes beautiful, ruthless Vienna Blake is responsible. Fearing for her life and grieving for her brother, Mason hires a private investigator to get evidence she can take to the police. She is frustrated when the man finds nothing but makes the bizarre suggestion that she hire a psychic to undo the “curse” on her family. He gives her a name. Phoebe Temple. Phoebe’s dreams have always centered on the victims of crimes, and she isn’t surprised when the woman steps from her dreams into her life, asking for help.

Exposing family secrets always comes at a price. With passion and family honor in the balance, Mason is willing to pay her dues. But can she persuade Vienna to accept a truce before it’s too late? Dark Garden brings together two powerful women who must confront the past if they want to seize the future.

The third book in the Dark Vista series.

Late in the Season

Felice Picano

ISBN10: 1-60282-082-1

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-082-1

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     196

Genre: Gay Fiction

Release:  June 2009

Excerpt

A telling novel about gay life after Stonewall, Late in the Season is one of the finest novels in the long career of one of the founding members of the Violet Quill Club. Set on Fire Island in late September, this is the story of an unlikely pair of friends—a gay composer in his late thirties and an eighteen-year-old schoolgirl—both of whom are trying to make sense of their complicated lives. But much more than this, it is a compelling portrait of a magical time and place, after the Stonewall riots opened up so many possibilities and before AIDS forever changed the face of the gay world.   Reprint.

Secrets in the Stone

Radclyffe

ISBN10: 1-60282-083-X

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-083-8

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     272

Genre: Romance

Release:  July 2009

Excerpt

Three women caught in a web of secrets and dark desires—

Rooke Tyler lives a solitary life in a small town on the Hudson River, carving intricate headstones in an exclusive cemetery for the county's wealthy families.  At night she pours her dreams and desires into the figures she sculpts—waiting for the woman she senses in the stone.

Adrian Oakes knows there are things in life that defy rational explanation—she has spent her life avoiding casual contact with others, because sometimes what she feels draws her into a world of dangerous attractions and dark desires.

Melinda Singer, a beautiful seductive art dealer, wants both women and will stop at nothing to have them.  When fate brings the three together, passion and destiny ignite.

Point of Ignition

Erin Dutton

ISBN10: 1-60282-084-8

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-084-5

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     240

Genre: Romance

Release:  July 2009

Excerpt

Arson investigation is not exactly what firefighter Kate Chambers signed up for. But she doesn’t have a choice when an injury forces her off the engine and into the office. Her first case, a fire at a downtown bar, is a clear-cut instance of insurance fraud, or so she thinks. 

But the property co-owner and prime suspect, Alexi Clark, has spent too many years battling her own demons to quietly go to jail for a crime she didn’t commit. Soon Alexi is fighting both the false charges against her and an unexpected attraction to the investigator determined to prove them. 

Amid a blaze that threatens to consume them both, Kate and Alexi redefine love and trust.

The High Priest and the Idol

Jane Fletcher

ISBN10: 1-60282-085-6

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-085-2

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     336

Genre: Romantic Fantasy

Release:  July 2009

Excerpt

Jemeryl and Tevi’s relationship is put to the test when the Guardian sends Jemeryl on a mission that lands her not only in harm’s way, but also back into the sights of a previous lover.

The Protectorate of Lyremouth promises liberty for all its citizens, but this does not mean that everyone is equal. When Jemeryl is summoned alone to Lyremouth, she suspects it is a ploy to separate her from her lover, Tevi. After all, many disapprove of their relationship—not because they are both woman, but because Jemeryl is a sorcerer and Tevi is not.  The task Jemeryl is given, to track down an ex-lover who has turned renegade on the Coven, does nothing to assuage her doubts. However, old bonds of affection are enough to make her accept the assignment, even though she is sure that she has been told only half the true story. 

But Jemeryl is wrong—she has not been told even a tenth of what is behind this mission. When Jemeryl does not return, nobody can stop Tevi from going after her. 

Book four in the romantic fantasy Lyremouth Chronicles series.

Erosistible

Gill McKnight

ISBN10: 1-60282-134-8

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-134-7

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $10.95

Pages:     190

Genre: Romance

Release:  July 2009

eBook edition

Excerpt

A week in paradise—with the ex-girlfriend from Hell. 

Winifred Martin has a new job, newfound confidence, and a glamorous new lover. In fact, after moving on from a heart-wrenching breakup, Win has a whole new life. 

Benedikte (Benny) Fiske has also sold up and moved on, too—to a wonderful Greek island where she can invest in herself again and find peace and quiet. 

When Win arrives at a luxurious boutique hotel for a much-anticipated week of sun and sex with her new girlfriend, she is stunned to find her ex-girlfriend, Benny, is the proprietor.  Benny is equally shocked to find Win doing so well and looking so gorgeous...far too gorgeous. She’s convinced Win is wasting her time on this vacuous new lover. In fact, she has a lot of opinions on Win and her new life—the strongest being Benny should be back in it.  

Nestled in the beautiful Aegean on an island blessed by Eros, the God of Love himself, Benny finds no lack of inspiration in her quest to woo back her lost love. Her methods, however, are the stuff myths are made of.

It Should be a Crime

Carsen Taite

ISBN10: 1-60282-086-4

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-086-9

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:    $12.95

Pages:     240

Genre: Romantic Intrigue

Release:  August 2009

Excerpt

Forbidden romance coupled with high-stakes courtroom drama.

Two women meet in an alley and fulfill their mutual desire with a night of passion, neither expecting more than the few lusty hours they shared. Weeks later Morgan Bradley and Parker Casey meet again, but this time one is a law professor and the other her student. A series of events lands them in the middle of a high-profile murder trial, but the twists and turns of the case are no match for the spiral of increasing attraction as they work side by side in the defense of justice.

Breaking the Ice

Kim Baldwin

ISBN10: 1-60282-087-2

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-087-6

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     248

Genre: Romantic Adventure

Release:  August 2009

Excerpt

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

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

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

Looking Glass Lives

Felice Picano

ISBN10: 1-60282-089-9

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-089-0

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     176

Genre: Gay Gen. Fiction

Release:  August 2009

Excerpt

Stories within stories, secrets buried for generations, and the ghostly presence of a tragic figure from Civil War times haunts a seaside Rhode Island town and the lives of sexually precocious cousins Roger and Chas Lynch.  When grown up Roger returns to live in the town's "haunted house" with his new wife, he discovers its cruel story.  And the cousins' love triangle plays out eternal cycles of passion, jealousy, and perhaps also redemption. Reprint.

On Dangerous Ground

D.L. Line

ISBN10: 1-60282-113-5

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-113-2

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     240

Genre: Romantic Intrigue

Release:  August 2009

Excerpt

What happens when the right thing to do is the wrong choice for your heart?  

FBI Agent Terri McKinnon always knows the right thing to do. She is a decorated officer who knows procedure like the back of her hand. She is, in a word, unflappable—until she meets Dr. Jennifer Rosenberg, a college professor with a questionable past, who may also be a key witness in a series of violent crimes. The last thing Jen wants is a by-the-book cop in her life, but fate has other plans.  

Terri is drawn to the unconventional Dr. Rosenberg and the attraction appears mutual, but the rules are clear—this woman is off-limits. Can Terri’s well-ordered life stand the whirlwind that is Jen Rosenberg? More importantly, can Terri protect her when Jen’s past comes back to haunt her? Or will Agent McKinnon find herself On Dangerous Ground?

Rough Trade: Dangerous Gay Erotica

edited by Todd Gregory

ISBN10: 1-60282-092-9

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-092-0

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     240

Genre: Gay Erotica

Release:  August 2009

Jonathan Asche, Dan Boyle, Bill Brent, Dale Chase, M. Christian, Todd Gregory, Greg Herren, Adam McCabe, Kelly McQuain, Christopher Pierce, Neil Plakcy, Nic P. Ramsies, Max Reynolds, Jay Starre, Cage Thunder, Aaron Travis, Greg Wharton, and Logan Zachary.

The Seduction of Moxie

Colette Moody

ISBN10: 1-60282-114-3

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-114-9

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     248

Genre:  Romance

Release:  September 2009

Excerpt

When Hollywood-bound actress Violet London meets speakeasy singer Moxie Valette, her trip takes an unexpected turn toward love. 

New York City, 1931: When wry Broadway actress Violet London and her hard-drinking cohorts venture into a speakeasy the night before she is to board a train for Hollywood, she is floored by sassy blond singer Moxie Valette. As Violet introduces Moxie to an assortment of bootleg liquor, cross-dressers, and sex shows, she vows to find a way to see her again. Moxie is fascinated by Violet in a thrilling and unfamiliar way, and the ensuing evening of bon mots, shameless flirtation, and illicit revelry is unlike anything she has ever experienced.  

From Manhattan to Los Angeles, both women’s lives are turned upside-down by separation, unscrupulous motion picture studio executives, self-serving agents, eccentric celebrities, and the collection of hedonistic reprobates that are their closest friends.

Goldenseal

Gill McKnight

ISBN10: 1-60282-115-1

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-115-6

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     240

Genre:  Paranormal Romance

Release:  September 2009

Excerpt

When Amy Fortune returns to her childhood home, she discovers something sinister in the air—but is former lover Leone Garoul stalking her or protecting her? 

Amy Fortune and Leone Garoul were teenage lovers. Now, years later, Amy returns to Little Dip, the Garoul home valley to help her aunt finish a botanical project. Except Little Dip is no longer the happy place of Amy’s childhood memories. There’s something sinister in the woods. And why hasn’t Leone moved on? Why does she still dog Amy’s every move?   

As more and more of the Garoul family arrive for a special hunting weekend, parts of the puzzle come together and Amy’s fears escalate as she moves closer to the truth—and the secret that has eluded her since childhood.

Romantic Interludes 2: Secrets

eds. Radclyffe & Stacia Seaman

ISBN10: 1-60282-116-X

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-116-3

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     288

Genre:  Romance Anthology

Release:  September 2009

Imagine the excitement when everything you thought you knew about love becomes so much…more.  

An anthology of sensual love stories about women sharing passion, surprises, and secret desires. Discover the thrill of love as you never dreamed it could be with more than twenty selections from best-selling romance authors: Colette Moody, Lesley Davis, Lesléa Newman, Meghan O’Brien, Clifford Henderson, Merry Shannon, Erin Dutton, Ali Vali, Carsen Taite, VK Powell, Julie Cannon, Yolanda Wallace, Andrews & Austin,  D. Jackson Leigh, Nell Stark and Trinity Tam, KI Thompson, C. J. Harte, Lisa Girolami, Clara Nipper, Shea Godfrey, Kim Baldwin, Lea Santos, and Radclyffe writing as L.L. Raand.

Femme Noir

Clara Nipper

ISBN10: 1-60282-117-8

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-117-0

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     240

Genre:  Mystery

Release:  September 2009

Excerpt

Womanizing tough broad Nora Delaney meets her match in Max Abbott, a sex-crazed dame who may or may not have the information Nora needs to solve a murder—but can she contain her lust for Max long enough to find out? 

Dames, booze, and murder is the oldest story in the book, but this time, it happens too fast to Nora Delaney, who is a notorious womanizing college basketball coach. After her ex is found murdered, Nora chases the scent all the way from Los Angeles to Tulsa to find some right angles in this nasty business, only to be waylaid by a gorgeous, gin-swilling skirt who has information as well as an appetite for women like Nora.  

Filled with cock-eyed optimism, vivid sexual fantasy, tough broads, and big babes who know their ways around drinks, trash talk, and murder, Femme Noir is a wry homage to retro outlooks of a bygone tough guy/femme fatale age. If you like sex and humor, this book is for you.

The Reluctant Daughter

Lesléa Newman

ISBN10: 1-60282-118-6

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-118-7

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     256

Genre:  Lesbian Gen. Fiction

Release:  September 2009

Excerpt

A story every daughter will recognize, The Reluctant Daughter depicts the struggles of Lydia Pinkowitz to communicate the realities of her life as a lesbian, as a feminist scholar, and as the woman she has become to her mother Doris. After years of hoping to attain her mother’s love and acceptance while struggling to live a true and honest life, Lydia eventually acknowledges her mother will never really see her. When Doris develops a life-threatening illness, Lydia is forced to make a life-and-death decision of her own: should she make one final attempt to heal her relationship with her mother or simply let her go? 

Praise for The Reluctant Daughter 

“The Reluctant Daughter is a moving look at a woman forced to come to grips with her remote mother’s illness and vulnerability. With this novel, Lesléa Newman continues to tell the stories of lesbian lives with her trademark humor, discernment, and warm empathy.” —Alison Bechdel, author, Dykes To Watch Out For and Fun Home

everafter

Nell Stark & Trinity Tam

ISBN10: 1-60282-119-4

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-119-4

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     288

Genre:  Paranormal Romance

Release:  October 2009

Excerpt

How far would you go to save your lover’s soul? 

When medical student Valentine Darrow is bitten by a Vampire on her way home to propose to her lover, Alexa Newland, her life becomes a nightmare.  She is consumed—both by a craving for human blood, and by an obsession to find her attacker and bring him to justice.  Alexa is determined to be everything that Valentine needs, but when Val's appetite outstrips Alexa's ability to nourish her, Alexa risks her life to save her lover.  

Will Valentine be able to control her thirst—for blood and for vengeance?  And can Valentine and Alexa's relationship endure against seemingly impossible odds?

Summer Winds

Andrews & Austin

ISBN10: 1-60282-120-8

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-120-0

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     240

Genre:  Romance

Release:  October 2009

Excerpt

Widow Maggie Tanner needs a ranch hand to work her thousand acres of Kansas hayfields. Young Cash Tate takes the job—a summer break from the city and her girlfriend troubles. Cash is irritated by and enamored of this self-sufficient rancher woman who refuses to treat her as an equal, and she vows to earn her respect.

While Cash struggles to win a place in Maggie’s heart, Maggie fights her unwelcome desire to take Cash into her arms. Not one to give in to forces of nature, particularly when they’re female and fifteen years her junior, Maggie is determined to suppress her feelings.

But one soft summer night, with the prairie breezes swirling over her skin like the breath of an impatient lover, Maggie Tanner has to decide whether to deny her yearnings or ride the wind.

The Pleasure Planner

Larkin Rose

ISBN10: 1-60282-121-6

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-121-7

Price:      $14.95

ePrice:   $11.95

Pages:     192

Genre: Erotic Romance

Release: October 2009

Excerpt

Brianna “Bree” Hendricks treats love like a commodity to be served up to her clients on demand, but has given up the search for a true love of her own. Logan Delaney is too busy trying to reconcile the legacy of her grandparents’ failed magazine company to invest in anything more than the occasional affair.

Can two women who aren't looking for love find it in each other's arms?

Beggar of Love

Lee Lynch

ISBN10: 1-60282-122-4

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-122-4

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     336

Genre:  Lesbian Gen. Fiction

Release:  October 2009

Excerpt

Jefferson is the lover every woman wants to be—or to have. 

Magnetically attractive, athletic, alcoholic, Jefferson is an anchorless innocent wandering through a world of women who can resist her no more than she can resist them. Never lacking a lover, Jefferson knows little of love; brought up on the right side of the tracks, she's drawn to the wild side.  Every lesbian has known Jefferson—or is Jefferson.

Not since The Well of Loneliness has there been a lesbian novel of this scope. But much has changed since then…

Returning Tides

Radclyffe

ISBN10: 1-60282-123-2

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-123-1

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     256

Genre:  Romance

Release: November 2009

Excerpt

A devastating hurricane brings insurance investigator Ashley Walker back to Provincetown, the last place she wants to be. Not only must she deal with the dangerous consequences of the natural disaster, she has to fight her soul-shattering need for the woman she left behind. 

While Reese Conlon and Tory King deal with the challenges of a community in turmoil, a new threat emerges that proves to be even more deadly than the ravaging storm. A silent killer stalks the night, drawing ever closer to the one woman he believes to be his. Soon, no woman is safe, including Tory. 

The sixth in the Lambda Literary Award-winning Provincetown Tales.

Veritas

Anne Laughlin

ISBN10: 1-60282-124-0

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-124-8

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     232

Genre: Mystery

Release:  November 2009

Excerpt

When the hallowed halls of academia become the stage for murder, newly appointed Dean Beth Ellis's search for the truth leads her to unexpected discoveries about her own heart.

For Beth Ellis, Grafton College and its faculty and students are her home and family. But the president of the college rubs everyone the wrong way, the new English professor on campus isn't much more popular, and Beth has her hands full trying to keep the peace as various campus factions quarrel.  Still, she didn't expect a tenure battle to end in murder.

Sally Sullivan left the Chicago police homicide division and returned to her hometown where, as chief of police, she expected her greatest challenges to be dealing with car accidents and drunk drivers.  But faced with a murder investigation with more motives than evidence and an inexperienced staff, Sally finds small-town policing isn't as simple as she thought.  Neither are her growing feelings for Beth Ellis.

As Sally and Beth's different worlds collide, their desire to solve the murder is complicated by their unexpected attraction.  A second murder on campus places the survival of the college itself, their tenuous relationship, and even their lives in jeopardy.

Power Play

Julie Cannon

ISBN10: 1-60282-125-9

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-125-5

Price:      $14.95

ePrice:   $11.95

Pages:     192

Genre:  Romance

Release: November 2009

Excerpt

Powerful business women Tate Monroe and Victoria Sosa are at odds in the boardroom, but will  their professional differences keep them from a successful merger in the bedroom?

Tate Monroe is a high-powered business executive with a Wharton MBA, a Coach briefcase, and Jimmy Choo shoes. She has never failed to deliver exactly what her boss wanted.

But Tate didn’t count on running into Victoria Sosa, an Olympic Gold Medalist with a mind of her own, and a business challenge she must conquer or her career is over. Tate and Victoria face off in the boardroom in the ultimate power play while fighting to take their growing attraction into the bedroom.

The Remarkable Journey of Miss Tranby Quirke

Elizabeth Ridley

ISBN10: 1-60282-126-7

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-126-2

Price:      $16.95

ePrice:   $12.95

Pages:     192

Genre:  Historical Romance

Release: November 2009

Excerpt

When love enters Tranby Quirke's life in the form of Lysette McDonald, a beautiful 19-year-old student, Tranby embarks on the most remarkable journey of all. 

London: 1909.  Thirty-four-year-old spinster and secret suffragette Tranby Quirke spends her days toiling in obscurity as a lecturer to modern women and spends her nights embarking on exotic foreign adventures—but only inside her head. Then love enters Tranby’s life in the most unexpected way and her real-life adventures take her on a journey beyond her imagination.

Chaps

Jove Belle

ISBN10: 1-60282-127-5

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-127-9

Price: $16.95

ePrice: $12.95

Pages: tba

Genre: Romance

Release:December 2009

Excerpt

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

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

The Seeker

Ronica Black

ISBN10: 1-60282-128-3

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-128-6

Price: $16.95

ePrice: $12.95

Pages: tba

Genre: Romantic Intrigue

Release:December 2009

Excerpt

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

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

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

Battle Scars

Meghan O'Brien

ISBN10: 1-60282-129-1

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-129-3

Price: $16.95

ePrice: $12.95

Pages: tba

Genre: Romance

Release:December 2009

Excerpt

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

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

Lightbearer

John Caruso

ISBN10: 1-60282-130-5

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-130-9

Price: $17.95

ePrice: $12.95

Pages: tba

Genre: Gay Fantasy

Release:December 2009

Excerpt

Lucifer: fallen angel or martyr of desire?

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

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

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

The Latecomer

Sarah Aldridge

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

ePrice: $10.95

Genre: Romance

Release:December 2009

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

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

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

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

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

As I Lay Frying - a Rehoboth Beach Memoir

Fay Jacobs

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

ePrice: $10.95

Genre: Romance

Release:December 2009

Rehoboth Beach, Delaware has been called “The Nation’s Summer Capital” ever since the families of U.S. Senators and Congressmen discovered its beauty and charm, spending summers in Rehoboth to escape the oppressive heat and humidity of Washington, DC. Later, Rehoboth became another kind of refuge, when the gay and lesbian communities of the Mid-Atlantic found a beach resort to call their own.

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

Fried and True - Tales from Rehoboth Beach

Fay Jacobs

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

ePrice: $10.95

Genre: Romance

Release:December 2009

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

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

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

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Magic of the Heart

C.J. Harte

ISBN10: 1-60282-131-3

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-131-6

Price: $16.95

ePrice: $12.95

Pages: 232

Genre: Lesbian Romance

Release: January 2010

Excerpt

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

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

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

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

Ambereye

Gill McKnight

ISBN10: 1-60282-132-1

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-132-3

Price: $16.95

ePrice: $12.95

Pages: 232

Genre: Lesbian Paranormal/Urban Fantasy, Romance

Series:  Garoul Series

Release: January 2010

Excerpt

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

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

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

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

Collision Course

C.P.Rowlands

ISBN10: 1-60282-133-X

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-133-0

Price: $16.95

ePrice: $12.95

Pages: 240

Genre: Lesbian Romance

Release: January 2010

Excerpt

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

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

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

Mephisto Aria

Justine Saracen

ISBN10: 1-60282-139-9

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-139-2

Price: $16.95

ePrice: $12.95

Pages: 272

Genre: Gen. fiction-Lesbian, General Fiction

Release: January 2010

Excerpt

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

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

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Fever

VK Powell

ISBN10: 1-60282-135-6

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-135-4

Price: $16.95

ePrice: $12.95

Pages: 256

Genre: Lesbian Romance, Intrigue/Thriller

Release: February 2010

Excerpt

Hired gun Zak Chambers expects to provide a simple escort service to philanthropist Sara Ambrosini, but nothing is as simple as it seems, especially love. 

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

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

High Risk

JLee Meyer

ISBN10: 1-60282-136-4

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-136-1

Price: $16.95

ePrice: $12.95

Pages: 240

Genre: Lesbian Romance

Release: February 2010

Excerpt

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

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

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

Missing Lynx

Kim Baldwin & Xenia Alexiou

ISBN10: 1-60282-137-2

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-137-8

Price: $16.95

ePrice: $12.95

Pages: 312

Genre: Lesbian Romance, Intrigue/Thriller

Series:  Elite Operatives

Release: February 2010

Excerpt

Where do you run when there's nowhere to hide?

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

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

Third in the romantic intrigue series: Elite Operatives.

Spanking New

Clifford Henderson

ISBN10: 1-60282-138-0

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-138-5

Price: $16.95

ePrice: $12.95

Pages: 288

Genre: Gen. Fiction

Release: February 2010

Excerpt

Getting born is trickier than Spanky ever imagined.

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

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

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

In Deep Waters Series

Radclyffe & Karin Kallmaker

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-203-0E

ePrice: $23.00

Genre: Lesbian Erotica

Release: February 2010

Series eBook bundle featuring two erotic compilations from Radclyffe and Karin Kallmaker.

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

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

MARCH 2010 (back to top)

The Midnight Hunt

Radclyffe writing as L.L. Raand

ISBN10: 1-60282-140-2

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-140-8

Price: $16.95

ePrice: $12.95

Pages: 288

Genre: Lesbian Paranormal/Urban Fantasy, Romance

Series:  Midnight Hunter

Release: March 2010

Excerpt

What do you do when you wake up to a whole new life…with dangerous urges you can’t control?

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

A Midnight Hunters novel

Long Shot

D. Jackson Leigh

ISBN10: 1-60282-141-0

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-141-5

Price: $16.95

ePrice: $12.95

Pages: 240

Genre: Lesbian Romance

Release: March 2010

Excerpt

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

Equine veterinarian Tory Greyson has always played the safe bet. That is, until she runs into a very cute, opinionated, jobless journalist. The small town of Cherokee Falls is just a pit stop for Leah Montgomery while she figures out how to put her career back on track and deal with her grandmother’s slide into dementia.

Tory is unable to resist when Leah talks her into putting money on a long shot at the track and then spending the winnings to buy a wild pony. Will Tory take a chance on Leah, too? Or will she stick with the safe bet and pursue Bridgette LeRoy, the calm, Zen-centered artist who arrives to teach at the local college?

In Medias Res

Yolanda Wallace

ISBN10: 1-60282-142-9

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-142-2

Price: $14.95

ePrice: $10.95

Pages: 192

Genre: Lesbian Romance, Action/Adventure

Release: March 2010

Excerpt

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

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

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

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

Awakening to Sunlight

Lindsey Stone

ISBN10: 1-60282-143-7

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-143-9

Price: $16.95

ePrice: $12.95

Pages: 240

Genre:  Gen. Fic-Lesbian, General Fiction, Romance

Release: March 2010

Excerpt

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

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

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

Set in the center of Amsterdam, Awakening to Sunlight is a tender love story about two women brought together by fate who, while struggling to come to terms with the painful realities of their lives, discover a future they never dared dream.

APRIL 2010 (back to top)

The Pleasure Set

Lisa Girolami

ISBN10: 1-60282-144-5

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-144-6

Price: $16.95

ePrice: $12.95

Pages: 240

Genre: Lesbian Romance, Intrigue/Thriller

Release: April 2010

Excerpt

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

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

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

A Perfect Match

Erin Dutton

ISBN10: 1-60282-145-3

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-145-3

Price: $14.95

ePrice: $10.95

Pages: 192

Genre: Lesbian Romance

Release: April 2010

Excerpt

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

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

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

Truths

Rebecca S. Buck

ISBN10: 1-60282-146-1

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-146-0

Price: $16.95

ePrice: $12.95

Pages: 264

Genre:  Gen. Fic.-Lesbian, General Fiction, Romance

Release: April 2010

Excerpt

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

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

In 2008 Jen is a costumed tour guide, the prison where Elizabeth Cooper was imprisoned now an atmospheric museum. Jen’s work relating its horrors distracts her from the confusion of her personal life. Then she encounters Aly, an intriguing, confident photographer, who seems to change everything. Jen is determined not to deny her truth any longer and to finally reach for happiness, but, as the shadows within the high prison walls lengthen and seem to warn her of the threat, she is in more danger than she realizes.

Father Knows Best

Lynda Sandoval

ISBN10: 1-60282-147-X

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-147-7

Price: $13.95

ePrice: $9.95

Pages: 240

Genre: Young Adult

Release: April 2010

Excerpt

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

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

In Pursuit of Justice

Radclyffe

ISBN10: 1-60282-148-8

ISBN13: 978-1-60282-148-4

Price: $16.95

ePrice: $12.95

Pages: 264

Genre: Lesbian Romance, Intrigue/Thriller

Series: Justice Series

Release: April 2010

Excerpt

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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