Best of
Butch-Femme

2017

Shameless


Brit Ryder - 2017
    Her career is everything, so the rest of her life is put on hold until she reaches her professional goals. Sex is always on the table, though. Finding the perfect woman who only wants a quick hookup seems like a fantasy, but when she meets Lily online, the fantasy turns to reality when they agree to meet. Their tête-à-tête at the museum is more than Emery could imagine—satisfying, exciting, and passionate. Can Emery walk away from sex this good with no strings attached? Or will the lure of lust keep her going back for more?

Beards


Serena J. Bishop - 2017
     It’s the 1990s and Roni, Gina, Steven, and Early decide the most logical way they can live happily as a family is through a dual bearded arrangement. They buy a large home and become the supportive family none of them ever had. It’s everything they could have dreamed…until life happened. Relatives. Children. Careers. And, through the years, a society that gradually starts to become more accepting of homosexuality. How does a family that is based in secrecy stay together when the freedom to be who they really are is at their fingertips? Can they even stay together?

Castor Valley (Law & Order Book 2)


Graysen Morgen - 2017
    Unable to let them hang for a crime she’s sure they didn’t commit, Jessie leaves her wife and the Town of Boone Creek behind, and sets out on a journey back to the one place she thought she’d never see again, Castor Valley. Ellie Henry watches the love of her life leave, not knowing if she will ever return. When she gets an odd telegram, nearly a week later, she fears Jessie is in trouble. With no other choice, she goes to the one person who can help her. Castor Valley is the second book in the Law & Order Series.

Out


Claire Highton-Stevenson - 2017
    A betrayal she never envisaged happening brings a new beginning that will change her life forever. Taking a chance, she moves from her hometown of London to the glitzy world of Los Angeles. She lives by one rule - do not fall in love.Things go great and life is finally falling into place until she meets the one person who could be worth breaking her rule for. But, what if that person isn't OUT and this relationship could ruin her career?Is it worth the risk?

BUTCH


Meg Allen - 2017
    198 pages, soft cover, 9" x 12" monograph of the photo series BUTCH shot in and around the San Francisco Bay Area from 2012-2017, including an introduction by journalist Marcie Bianco.

Spoils of War


Stein Willard - 2017
    Leander, was a good daughter and understood her duty as Princess of Mooldara. After all, many women survived such loveless mergers. In her world, only the poor married for love. Raised poor and desperate, Yoken had set two goals for herself. Keep her brother alive and loved; and conquer the world to offer it to her beloved one day. She found out quickly that love came with its own set of rules.

The Bet


Sarah Markel - 2017
    a stupid bet can change your life for the better. Win or lose, the outcome always sets you on a new path..." For some, a bet is a game. For others, a simple, friendly wager becomes the catalyst for facing their fears and admitting their desires. When Jess Halliwell extends a playful bet to her friends, she has no idea what she's in for. After yet another breakup, Jess has resigned herself to never finding a woman to settle down and raise a family with. Content to live vicariously through her sister, Jess spends as much time as she can with her nephews. After a chance encounter with her sister's friend at the park, Jess starts to question her choice of women. She's had no luck with her typical type of partner, and meeting Karli Adams, a beautiful redhead with a wife who offers almost no help with the raising of their six children, makes Jess once again long for a family of her own. When Jess sees for herself how little help her sister and new friend receive from their spouses, she decides to offer them a bet. Spend one whole day in their wives' shoes, and receive free babysitting for a year. Little did she know that, in trying to prove a point to her friends, she would set herself on a collision course with fate. Will Jess find the woman she longs for? Or will her own fear of the past prevent her from the family she's always wanted?

Crash and Burn


Cynthia Dane - 2017
    But that’s what she gets when her boss sends her on assignments with former FBI agent Stella Moore, who is brash, forgetful… and dangerously hot. Their tenuous attraction is at times exactly what they need and at other times a detriment to their clients. That is until a frightened wife hires them to protect her and her infant… from her husband. The rainy city of Portland has seen its share of female couples, but these two are thornier than the City of Roses. Can they overcome their dating pasts to save a woman in need? Or are they doomed to crash and burn… taking half the city with them?

Bishop's Run


B.D. Gates - 2017
    Usually, she's good at getting out of it, but this time, the trouble was more than she bargained for and it almost killed her. Finding herself in a small town in Virginia, tucked away for safety by the Witness Protection Service, she is given a second chance at a new life. The security detail watching over her is headed by Detective Tess Hayes, a by-the-book police officer with a history of her own. Coming from a big city, the rural town of Tenley provides Bishop the opportunity to reclaim the better aspects of her former life and introduces her to the people who help her start over. Can Bishop run from her troubled past? How do you bury the truth and live the lie? WARNING: REVIEWS CONTAIN ENDING SPOILERS!

Unexpected


Jenny Frame - 2017
    Now in her mid thirties, she’s restless and can’t work out why. Then one day a ten-year-old boy turns up, claiming to be her son, and her simple ordered world turns upside down.Rebecca Harper bears the emotional scars of her father’s crimes, and now she has two rules: never let anyone get too close, and never admit weakness. Thanks to an anonymous egg donor, infertility didn’t stop her from having her son Jake. Now pregnant for a second time, she’s horrified when Jake brings home the woman he believes is his other mother.When distrust turns to understanding and passion, can Dale and Rebecca, two women bound by fate, make a family neither expected?Words: 70,500Genres: Contemporary / Romance Tags: Secret Baby, Blue Collar, Good girls/Bad girls, Friends to Lovers Romance, Children/Families