But when her sister convinces her to flip a rundown house in Niagara Falls, Alex finds herself caught in the middle of a mystery, and she's too curious to leave town before the case is solved. With sexy librarian--and amateur ghost hunter--Trudy Strange by her side, Alex attempts to unravel the clues hidden in the hundred-year-old house, and to restructure her long-held beliefs about life, love, and everything after. In their quest to reveal the secrets haunting the old Victorian, Alex and Trudy uncover a long-buried romance--and succumb, mind, body and soul, to the intense feelings that they have for each other.  But will their new-found trust be strong enough to protect them from the dark force lurking, lying in wait? CROSS MY HEART is a sexy, funny, romantic romp, a tribute to the healing power of love.

    Four minutes after she plummeted to Earth and landed atop a United Nations Assembly Cadillac parked curbside on West 33rd Street, an amateur photographer named Robert C. Wiles captured her final repose. The now iconic image, first published in Life magazine on May 12 of that year, is called ‘The Most Beautiful Suicide’ and it’s for this—for her beauty and unnerving serenity in death—that Evelyn McHale has become known. Yet there was a woman behind that photograph. A woman who served her country in the Women’s Army Corps during WWII. A woman who couldn’t find happiness, no matter how hard she tried.What follows is a factional account of her final years and tragic death.-------------------------------In the fall of 1943, at the height of World War 2, twenty-year-old Evelyn McHale joins the Women’s Army Corps in an attempt to bring some sense of order and discipline to her life, but her plans unravel when she meets fellow enlisted woman Grace Pennetta and falls passionately in love.

    Their friendship blossomed into a beautiful love that seemed to be indestructible. As the years pass, emotions, obstacles and outside forces come crashing their way. Will they get to have their happily ever after or is that only in fairy tales?Copyright 2015 by Susan McKinney

    Glitter & Grit showcases writing by writers, artists, and organizers who have worked with or in Heels on Wheels, a working-class led and multiracial queer femme-inine spectrum DIY arts organization who produces cultural works, tours, salons, and community events in Brooklyn and beyond.

    And why? Because she breaks new ground with each and every book. Me and My Boi throbs with the currency of lesbian love and lust today, when the love dares speak it's name using new words, terms and letters. Me and My Boi celebrates lesbian bois, butches, and screw-the-binary free spirits; cool bois, hot bois, swaggering bois, shy bois, leather bois, flannel bois, butch daddies, and the girls (and other bois) who wouldn't have them any other way. The stories range from Sinclair Sexsmith's raw "Five Blow Jobs" through Victoria Oldham's searing "Resurrection" and old-school lesbian bar tale "Hot Pants" by Jen Cross to the aching tenderness of "Her Gardener's Boy" by D. Orchid. Twenty authors, among them Sommer Marsden, Annabeth Leong, Tamsin Flowers and Kathleen Tudor, heat up settings all the way from a Regency drawing room to modern Paris to a Brooklyn bike shop. Whatever turns you on, or cuts deep, or sparks your wildest fantasies, if these writers don't push the buttons you already have, they'll hook you up with some new ones. Gender has no boundaries, and neither does lust.

    Her new apartment is full of history, and she loves the original fixtures – especially the huge soaking tub and the old mirrors. Little does she know she’s not alone at night, and her sexy dreams are more reality than fantasy. Bunny is a timid femme, always nose deep in a book and keen to stay out of trouble. After moving to a new remote town in Montana to study the wild wolf population for her thesis, she surprises even herself by seeking out trouble at the rowdy bar The Den. She meets her fate in the arms of a butch who is more than a little rough around the edges. Chris back in her hometown of Savannah to attend her high school reunion. As a self-made butch she can’t wait to show all those jerks from her youth that she was on top of the world. But that’s not the only thing drawing her here – she yearns to find her missing high school crush, who disappeared the night Chris last saw her. To her shock, her old flame is back, and incredibly thirsty. This is a trio of short stories for dykes, lesbians and queer women who appreciate the butch/femme dynamic and a little twist to their erotica. A special bonus story is included at the end. Enjoy!

    An empty house is still filled with memories of lust and love. Tearing open a birthday gift takes the wrapper off a woman’s deepest fantasy. A breath-stealing ride through a star-studded night sky on a dragon horse ignites a fire never before experienced. A woman is reminded that her long-time partner still sees her through a lover’s eyes. Mount up for a ride through a novella of passion and ten short stories of buried desire, sizzling encounters, and romantic surprises.