Sloan, a security consultant, to protect her company. Sloan shares a painful past with her associate and friend Jason McBride. Sarah Martin, is a gentle practitioner of eastern medicine. Four very different people, each wounded by personal betrayal, find their lives inextricably linked.

    Finally, she has a break in the case–a witness–one person who may help her bring a madman to justice. But, the witness is a victim herself and Rebecca must convince the injured woman's physician, Dr.Catherine Rawlings, to assist her–a task that will force both women to confront their own personal demons. Amidst professional conflicts and a growing mutual attraction, the two women become reluctant allies in the battle to stop the perpetrator before he strikes again.

    But her newest responsibility turns out to be more of a handful than she ever dreamed, challenging her to adapt to an ever-changing role while dealing with an alien race whose culture hides a secret.120,000 words

    However, it's also the one woman she can't resist.Cover by Book Worm 201735,000 words, novella

    The reclusive owner of a successful corporation, she is also hostage to a covert life she neither wanted nor asked for. One that refuses to become a part of her past. Blackmailed into a return to her deadly role as the Wraith, a frightening entity in the world that lives in the shadows, Bailey decides to break free. She settles in for a brutal game of chess with her former employers, prepared for every eventuality but one -- Piper Tate, her new assistant, who decides that the dark, mysterious Bailey is someone she wants to know better. A lot better. The stakes continue to rise, as Piper discovers in Bailey a gentle, innocent heart. A heart that beats within the body of a killer who can't be tamed and who is prepared to do whatever it takes to preserve the new world Piper has introduced her to.

    She soon discovers that the outside world is a dangerous and confusing place. Bandits and monsters are the least of her problems. Someone is prying into a long hidden secret and Tevi is about to get caught up in the deadly consequences. Jemeryl has her future planned out. A future that will, hopefully, involve the minimum contact with ordinary folk who do not understand sorcerers. Her ambition lies with the Coven and the study of magic. Her goal is to rise up the Coven hierarchy and someday become ruler of the Protectorate. It is all very straightforward - until she meets Tevi. The fate of the greatest civilisation the world has known is at stake. Tevi and Jemeryl will have to risk their lives in the race to uncover the traitor and retrieve the chalice. If this is not enough, they will both have to re-evaluate their assumptions about society and their places in it, and then figure out exactly what they want from life and each other.

    Lesbian Erotica. Lesbian Identity. In Spanish and English on inverted pages. This philosophical exploration of the fantasy of being a lesbian is a poetic vision from the heart of the matriarchy. FOR THE HARD ONES/PARA LAS DURAS looks at different aspects of lesbianism, from the fingernails and the tongue to the literature and the herstory. A lesbian manifesto for hardcore dykes, baby dykes and wanna-be lesbians, FOR THE HARD ONES/PARA LAS DURAS is a lesbian celebration in Spanish and English, written by Colombian-American queer activist and librarian, tatiana de la tierra.

    The poet H.D. (1886-1961) was in psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud in Vienna during the spring of 1933 and again in the fall of 1934. She visited him daily at his study at 19 Berggasse, while outside Nazi thugs and militia bullied their way through the streets. Freud was old, and fragile. H.D. was forty-six and despairing of her writing life, which seemed to have reached a dead end, for all her success. Her sessions with Freud proved to be the point of transition, the funnel into which were poured her memories of the past and associations in the presentand from which she emerged reborn. H.D. came to Freud at the urging of her companion, the novelist Bryher (1884-1983), the daughter of a wealthy British shipping magnate. Freud welcomed H.D. as a creative spirit whose work he respected, but he did ask her not to prepare for their sessions, write about them in her journal, or talk about them with her friends, especially Bryher, who remained home in England. H.D.'s letters from Vienna filled the gap. Breezy, informal, irreverent, vibrant with detail, they revolve around her hours with Freud, making her correspondence unique in the spectrum of reminiscences, journals, memoirs, and biographies swirling around the legacy of the "Professor" and the movement he founded. The volume includes H.D. and Bryher's letters, as well as letters by Freud to H.D. and Bryher, most of them published for the first time. In addition, the book includes H.D. and Bryher's letters to and from Havelock Ellis, Kenneth MacPherson, Robert McAlmon, Ezra Pound, and Anna Freud, among others. Fully annotated with Index and Photographs

    Convicted of a crime she did not commit, former Hope child Jackal serves a terrible solitary imprisonment sentence and is eventually abandoned in a strange country where other people like herself help her learn the truth about her imprisonment.

    Once a player in the legal community, she now finds herself in the position of re-evaluating her life - a position brought on by a personal tragedy for which she blames herself. Seeking redemption for her tormented past, she loses herself in her work, strict discipline of mind and body, and the teachings of Native American roots she once shunned. Dallasite Carson Garret is a young paralegal overcoming the loss of her parents and coming to terms with her own sexual orientation. After settling her parents' estate and examining her failed past relationships, she is desperately ready to move forward. Bored with her state of affairs, she longs for excitement and romance to make her feel alive again. A chance encounter finds them inexplicably drawn to one another, and after a weekend together, they quickly find themselves in a long distance romance that leaves them both wanting more. Circumstances at Carson's job develop into a series of mysteries and blackmail attempts that leaves her with more excitement than she ever bargained for. Confused, afraid, and alone, she turns to Kennedy, the one person she knows can help her. As they work together to solve a puzzle, they confront growing feelings that neither woman can deny, complicated by outside forces that threaten to crush them both.

    From the titillating to the taboo, from kisses to climaxes, G-spots to the big O, this is a guide to pleasing a woman, from the women who know. Filled with interviews, surveys and the uncensored voices of women speaking honestly about what they want in a lover, this book should allow you to master the Sapphic arts and enjoy the female body in a fantastic new way.

    Alexis Dorian and Samantha Riley have affirmed their love for each other. Both women harbor the inner feeling that this may not be the first lifetime they have spent together. They possess the gift of love, but as they continue to discover more about each other, they realize just how little is actually understood of the intricacies of soul connections. Although Samantha is a firm believer in reincarnation, Alex remains skeptical of its validity until she suddenly finds herself face to face with facts too genuine to ignore. While celebrating Samantha's birthday, the women embark on a camping trip to one of the spiritually mystical areas of Sedona, Arizona. The lovers soon discover that sometimes it only takes a little rain to open the ancient door of knowledge and take the first step down the path to reawakening old beliefs.

    . . Other Girls.

    King Kong as she's known on the courts falls hard, but will it be because of the person who wants to kill her or for love?

    It is a step-by-step guide to the physical and emotional aspects of conception through delivery, providing easy-to-understand charts and illustrations, checklists, groundbreaking fertility information, and personal exercises geared specifically toward lesbians. Reflecting the unique experience of lesbian mothers in a manner never before addressed," The Essential Guide to Lesbian Conception, Pregnancy, and Birth" is both practical, providing lesbians with everything they need to know to become mothers, and inspirational, addressing the social issues surrounding lesbian pregnancy in an empowering manner. Comprehensive and indispensable, this book will serve as a literary midwife to the growing number of lesbian mothers.Features:Resource guides to fertility centers and informatonResource guides to legal and medical informationSample medical and legal forms and contractsFertility chartsNutritional chartsGlossaryMarketing Plans:o Awareness campaigns to fertility clinics and midwiverieso Awareness campaigns to gay and lesbian community centers and health clinicso National advertising: "The Advocate, Out, Alternative Family Magazine"Stephanie Brill and Kim Toevs run and serve as midwives for Maia Midwifery, and they are faculty instructors for the Midwifery Institute of California. Members of the California Association of Midwives, and the Midwives Alliance of North America, they make their home in Berkeley, California.

    Speaking about her work, Corinne says, If I became a 'visible and accessible lesbian artist' it is because of the images made to fill a perceived void, to fill these blank spaces where desire and questioning and transcendence converged, where my intellectual longings and seven years of university art training responded to the social and cultural forces set in motion in the 1960s.

    From first kiss to last gasp, these stories will thrill you with their honesty, candor, and passion.Lindsey Elder is the editor of Early Embraces, Early Embraces II, and Beginnings. She lives in Montana and loves to tell stories.

    And that's not Cydell Ra Sadiin's biggest problem... The latest release from Women's Work Press is the long-awaited sequel to Jacqui Singleton's Heartstone and Saber, published in 1994 by Rising Tide Press.Mauldar picks up years after the end of Heartstone. Cydell and Elayna have sired a daughter together--Sorryn--and are advancing into middle-age. All is not well within the castle, or without, however. A political challenge is brewing in Cydell's High Provincial Council, there's a foreign vessel docked in Mauldar's harbor, and she's in the fight of her ruling life to ratify an important treaty for the future prosperity of her nation. If those problems weren't already keeping her up at night, Elayna's frequent and unexplained absences from their bedchamber would be. As court intrigues, assassins and foreign invaders threaten the safety of her family and the security of her rule, Cydell Ra Sadiin finds herself questioning her own worth as a sovereign, parent, and lifemate. A warrior queen well into her middle years, can she find the strength to defeat her enemies, regain the respect of her daughter and rekindle her passion with Elayna?

    Short stories. LGBT studies. Lesbian. Queer. Dry, witty and graceful, these stories from Jane Eaton Hamilton's second collection of short fiction are stories about longing and loss."Jane Eaton Hamilton is a superb writer. Those who know her deem her to be among the brightest lights on the Canadian literary landscape. Those who do not know this ought to read and judge for themselves. I wholeheartedly recommend her work." -Joy Kogawa"These stories will grab you by the throat and not let you go. Highly original, gripping, sharp and deeply moving, they deserve the prizes they have won, and those to come." -Emma Donoghue"Jane Eaton Hamilton is a fine and accomplished writer." -Carol Shields"Hamilton explores themes of longing and loss in the lives of lesbians, heterosexual men and women. …marvelously quirky. Hamilton successfully weaves humour with pathos in the lean, accomplished style reminiscent of short stories in the New Yorker." --Nairne Holtz, University of Western Ontario"Accusation," "Goombay Smash," and "How to Have Heart Disease (Without Really Trying)" were first published in Prism International. "How to Have Heart Disease (Without Really Trying)" was later a Notable in Best American Short Stories. "Accusation" and "How to Have Heart Disease (Without Really Trying)" were both winners of the Prism International short-story contest, and "Goombay Smash" won the first prize in 1998, as well as appearing in 98: Best Canadian Stories. "Territory" originally appeared in This Magazine, wining the Great Canadian Literary Hung in 1998, and was reprinted in The Journey Prize Anthology. "Graduation was first published in The Malahat Review and reprinted in the The Journey Prize anthology. "Graduation" was first published in The Malahat Review and reprinted in The Journey Prize Anthology. "Kiss Me or Something" was orginally published in Room of One's Own. "You Just Sit Here, Little Daddy" first appeared in The Missouri Review. "Hunger" won the Paragraph erotic fiction award and was first published in Paragraph.

    What has haunted Devon for years begins to take shape, and as she dissects the file, she learns that the carvings in the victims’ bodies are actually Koans—unanswerable questions that must be meditated upon in order to reach enlightenment.Heather Dune Macadam is a professor at Suffolk County Community College and a former dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company. She is the author of Rena’s Promise, a nonfiction memoir about Auschwitz, which was nominated for a National Book Award. Her writing has appeared in Newsweek and the New York Times Sunday Magazine.

    This book is the first comprehensive academic exploration of contemporary lesbian sexuality in Japanese society. The author employs an interdisciplinary approach and this book will be of great value to those working or interested in the areas of Japanese, lesbian and gender studies as well as Japanese history, anthropology and cultural studies.

    From coffee to caviar, from potatoes to dandelions—even in hunger and anorexia—the metaphors of food have worked like yeast in the imagination of these poets.Preface by Chef Charlotte Turgeon.Phyllis Stowell initiated the Saint Mary’s College of California MFA program. She is a former Fellow of the Camargo Foundation and was a Dewitt Wallace/Reader’s Digest Fellow at the MacDowell Colony. She was granted a Barbara Deming Money for Women Award and was a winner of the International Quarterly Crossing Boundaries Poetry Prize. Her publications include Assent to Solitude, Who Is Alice?, and Sequence and Consequence, an Alchemical Journal. She publishes poetry, criticism, and poetry reviews.Jeanne Foster is a Professor in the Graduate Liberal Studies program at Saint Mary’s College of California. Her critical book, A Music of Grace, explores the vision of the sacred in contemporary American poetry, and her poetry collection, A Blessing of Safe Travel, won the Quarterly Review of Literature Award in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in Triquarterly, Hudson Review, North American Review, Ploughshares, and other journals.

    Erotica. Hungry? This year's--and perhaps the decade's--most imaginative and thought-provoking erotic anthology serves up a mouth-watering feast of desire, lust and ravenous hunger, carnivorous appetites, and deliciously sexy adventures. 20 courses: wicked, shamelessly naughty, outrageous--and at times--not to be believed. Put the kids to bed, set the table, grab an extra-large bib, and get ready...DINNER'S SERVED