She knew that coming back after eight years in a war zone wouldn’t be easy, but she’d underestimated the real difficulties of transitioning back to civilian life. War is hell, but the aftermath is endless. Looking for a fresh start, she’s left her friends and career in Minneapolis to be a police officer in northern Minnesota. It’s in the tiny town of Embarrass where she learns more about Julia Desjardin. The city prosecutor is cool, professional, and untouchable. But she and Cassidy have history, and Cassidy isn’t going to let her easily forget that. For all their surface differences, Cassidy and Julia have more in common than they first realized—both are reluctant to hand over their pasts to be judged and studied. But it might take someone just as damaged as the other to help each cope with the skeletons in their respective closets.

    Hazaar has it all: beauty, talent, and brains. What she doesn’t realize is that Hazaar’s future has already been decided, and Charlie has no place in it.Hazaar desperately wants to break with her traditions and stay with Charlie, but when forced to choose, she chooses her family over love. When she realizes the choice she made is the worst one possible, it’s too late.Years later, while working in Pakistan as a diplomat and negotiator, Charlie receives a phone call from a woman who says her British sister-in-law is to be killed for the family’s honor and asks if someone can save her.Charlie and Hazaar are on a collision course with destiny. If they make it out alive, can they believe in their love once again?

    After several failed relationships, she's more than happy to keep it casual. Sunny Chase is willing to be another notch on Noel's bedpost, after tragedy of her own. Despite their playful intentions, they find themselves poised to fall, especially if Noel’s old-school Italian mother and Sunny's cross-dressing uncle have anything to say about it. The only thing standing in their way is Noel’s niece, Harper, who is also captivated by one of the Chase women. Love becomes a complicated family affair. Robin Alexander’s latest romantic comedy has all the ingredients to warm you on the inside as you slip into the fall.

    Unfortunately, the board of directors had other ideas—they accepted a buyout offer from a health care conglomerate with plans to close the hospital’s doors to the community that depended on it. And Presley Worth, a high-powered corporate financier, came to town to oversee the closure. Funny thing was, no one asked Harper, and she had no intentions of following anyone’s orders but her own—no matter how beautiful, smart, or commanding the new boss might be.

    Join Micah as she takes a walk through her past, leathers and all, for a night she soon won't forget. What can we say? Some fantasies can't be put to sleep until they are put to bed.

    Dr. Stacie Phillips is a Veterinarian caught up in trying to protect her family, her new career, and most of all, her heart. Maria Perez Rivera is Stacie's polar opposite. Spiritual and free-spirited, she invades Stacie's pragmatic life and brings to light a few things she's been missing. A lesbian romance you won't want to miss, not if you've ever tried to wear tie-dye and flannel at the same time.

    Plans change and Chase is still learning a lot about family, but when it comes to Rowan, she has a steep learning curve. This romantic novelette is exactly what it says, all you have to do is read till the end to find out if it's a yes or no. Of course, getting there is the best part of the story.

    Christine Graham, host of the late-night radio show The Midnight Couch. Every night when midnight approaches, she vows that this will be the day when she asks Christine on a date—only to chicken out every time. But when Christine hosts a special show about revealing secret love on Valentine’s Day, Paula suddenly finds herself on The Midnight Couch.

    Because of how painfully it ended between them, Jodie is taken aback at first, but gradually allows Leigh to draw her back in—just like she used to—and shock soon makes way for memories of the intense desire they once shared. 'As Years Go By' is a 13.000 words lesbian erotic romance novelette

    She spends her days in the hills and valleys surrounding Lamore's Holding helping her hedge wizard grandmother see to the needs of the village. All this changes the day the strangers come. Initiate is the first of the 5-volume A Spell for Kia series. This 75,000-word novel will appeal to teenagers and adults alike.

    LIFE IS NOT A COUNTRY SONG Rowan St. John is on her way back home with an empty horse trailer and down a driver. Chase Meadows has nothing but her truck, her horse and a definite need to find a new start. California was as far away from North Carolina and the past as she could go. All she had to do was get there. When Rowan St. John responds to her ad for a last minute horse transport, a deal is struck that benefits both women, more than they ever expected LOVE IS NOT A ROMANCE NOVEL Chase and Rowan are given some time to learn more about each other when the last leg of their trip is delayed. Trust and understanding are tested, and some internal demons are laid to rest against the backdrop of sun-kissed mesas and tall pines. The ladies discover that some journeys aren't measured by how many miles you travel, but by how far you are willing to take your heart. LIFE, LOVE, AND LOYALTY An urgent call sends Chase and Rowan back on the road when wildfires get close enough to threaten an old college friend’s farm. Rowan and Chase find themselves in a volatile situation that places them both in danger. The destructive force of both man and nature can be terrifying. Will Chase and Rowan find each other and find a way out of a suddenly treacherous landscape?

    Includes the Valkyrie Chronicles books, Return of the Asgard, Bloodlines, and Folkvangr. Valkyrie Chronicles: Return of the Asgard The Valkyrie Kara stood alone against the Ragnarok horde on Earth to ensure that the Asgard race and Valhalla could escape. For five thousand years she has fought and evaded the Ragnarok race on Earth, just waiting for her people to return. A human woman, Kate, joins her fight against the invading race, showing as much conviction and valor as any Valkyrie. Their friendship quickly becomes something more as they hold the line on Earth in battle to herald the return of the Asgard. Valkyrie Chronicles: Bloodlines When a weakness of Valkyrie sight is uncovered, Kara, Kate and an unlikely ally, must race against time to stop a saboteur before Valhalla falls. Arina copes with being a new type of Valkyrie and defies Odin while reminding the ruling caste what the ideals of the Asgard are and what they should all aspire to be. She must help a young Ragnarok, who was sent to die at the gates of Valhalla, to learn the truth about the Asgard and her own people. Old enemies and lost friends weave a web that could spell the end for one of Odin's own. Valkyrie Chronicles: Folkvangr he Asgard have created a new permanent colony on Earth. As Kara and the rest of the Asgard prepare to transition away from Earth... Freya, using trickery, subterfuge, and cobbled together technology, fights for the very survival of the last of the Vanger race on Folkvangr.

    and her trusty boi photographer Roi Rodgers ride into Rehoboth Beach, Women’s FEST will never be the same! In non-stop hilarity and mayhem, the dynamic duo battle trains, drag shows, a death-defying car ride—and their unexpected attraction to each other. And, just when they thought things couldn’t possibly get more complicated, a mysterious medical malady crops up and threatens to ruin the success of Women’s FEST. Join June, Roi, Fay Jacobs, The Poodle Beach Girls, a go-go boy named Pico de Gallo, and a cast of zanies as they take CAMP Rehoboth by storm in the rollicking first June Magee, R.N. adventure, Festival Nurse.

    In Greenbow, Alabama, a town only on the map for a fictional character and a town lost in a haze of Good Christian Family Values, it’s especially dangerous to fall in love, especially for the protagonist of The Feeling of Humanity, a radically passionate teenage rebel known as Ellis Hastings. She’s always been a girl who wears many hats over her partially shaved head. For some, she’s the fierce, fearless president of her school’s gay-straight alliance. To others, she’s the dyke trying to change the world, one protest at a time. But, to herself, Ellis is just the fucked up one with the dead girlfriend and the family of perfect people who don’t get it. For the past year, Ellis’s life has been a blur of GSA meetings, trans*formation nights, protests, fundraisers, and anything else she can use to keep her mind off Grace Win, a dance prodigy with the allure of a far away city on her lips, the girl she loved and lost Last March. That’s her life, putting on the mask of being Madame President to some and Public Enemy Number one to others while fighting for those without voices even though she can’t quite get a grip on her own. That is, until she meets Audrey Alton, who transferred not from a mystical city but a town just like Greenbow. Audrey is…complicated. She freaks out when Ellis smokes around her but can down four shots of whiskey with ease. Her dad’s in a wheelchair for reasons she doesn’t like to talk about and it’s her responsibility to care for him. Except she still gets out of bed every morning, puts on a floral dress and paints on her face to hide things. Audrey makes Ellis feel human again, like anything is possible and maybe someone finally understands what it’s like to be empty and awake. So, with the help of a colorful cast of characters, the two set out to change the world or, at the very least, the great state of Alabama.

    She’s not entirely sure she wants the job, but the opportunity to make history ultimately trumps the trouble of having every aspect of her life examined by friends and enemies alike. Committed to the process, she’s determined not to let her attraction to a beautiful woman or the threats on her life deter her from becoming the first female Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.Campaign advisor Julia Scott has spent her entire life working to make other people successful, and her pinnacle achievement was the recent presidential election. Now she’s in charge of making sure the president’s first Supreme Court appointment sails through the Senate. She’s faced tough challenges before, but nothing like those posed by the infuriatingly focused Addison Riley, a woman who challenges her mind and awakens her heart.

    Embittered, she returns to occupied Brussels as a British spy to foment resistance to the Nazis. She works with urban partisans who sabotage deportation efforts and execute collaborators, before résistante leader Sandrine Toussaint accepts her into the Comet Line, an operation to rescue downed Allied pilots.After capture and then escape from a deportation train headed for Auschwitz, the women join the Maquis fighting in the Ardenne Forests. Passion is the glowing ember that warms them amidst the winter carnage until London radio transmits the news they’ve waited for. Huddled in the darkness, they hear the coded message, the "long sobs of the violins,” signaling that the Allied Invasion is about to begin.

    Now, get to know the rest of your favorite characters from Part 1, like Stevie, Ethan and even a new character that will probably hit home with a majority of us in some ways. Now, this is the unfinished version of it, so it's offered at the lowest that Amazon will allow. I'm hoping to see some feedback on this so I'll know where to go as I finish this piece. Enjoy.

    The style of writing is very unorthodox, which seems fitting for such a controversial love. It's very rough around the edges, but it gives you an eyes wide open view, first-hand, of lesbian life and love. Elaine Manning will introduce you to the community, she'll invite you into her day to day life and then, it'll be Taryn Michaels who invites you to stay and learn even more about the complexities of the community. Soon you'll all see that we're not so different afterall. Warning and disclaimer: This book contains materials that is only intended for mature readers. It's rather racy, just as the cover suggests. There are also conversations among-st the characters that are intended to educate the readers about certain topics in regards of sexuality and things of that nature so beware.. So, again, this book is intended for mature audiences only.. If you believe you can handle strong adult language, strong sexual content and plenty of comedy & awkward moments to go along with it, then I suggest you grab a fresh set of batteries and a towel, - and enjoy.. Thank you, -Allysyn Jones

    Her partner and best friend was killed during the incident that left Maddison with permanent nerve damage in her leg. Forced to accept disability, Maddison faces a long and arduous rehabilitation. Karileah (Kari) Gallagher--a wannabe actress. She left home find fame and glory in California. In the meantime she works at her profession, physical therapist. She knows she'll never be a super star, her hope is to become a well-known character actress and finally get out of the shadow of her sister's achievements. Some dreams, though, are never meant to be. Fiona M. Gallagher--an accomplished doctor in her home state of Pennsylvania. She takes a leave of absence from her practice to find her sister, Kari. Over the years, Kari has been faithful in her weekly communications home, often relating funny and interesting stories about life in LA and her new job as physical therapist/personal assistant to famed crime novelist, L.M. Addison. Fiona has long suspected that Kari is in love with her boss. Right now the issue is finding Kari and discovering why her letters stopped. The lives of these women are intricately woven together. Surprises, heartache, and pain will unravel the truth. Will there be enough love left to save the relationships involved?

    She cracks cases with the help of Rollie Austin, a 65-year-old seasoned private eye with a love for surveillance gadgets, and Sasha Fuller, a 17-year-old intern who introduces new employment demands on a daily basis. Together, the three women spend as much time propping each other up as they do unraveling mysteries. This is book #1 in the Lauren Vellequette Mystery Series, by two-time Lambda Literary Awards finalist Jennifer L. Jordan. She is also author of the Kristin Ashe Mysteries.

    Comstock, The P.E. Teacher, and The Rules of the Playground.

    The Secret Sorority is invitation only and any prospects must undergo a hazing ritual, or so the rumors say. When Lindsay takes a scantily clad and blindfolded Kim to her initiation, Kim thinks she knows exactly what to expect. When things take a decidedly different turn, Kim finds the spark of an entirely new kind of desire in the girls of the Sorority. Will Kim be able to rise to the call of her sisters or will she turn and run when she realizes exactly what they are offering?

    "Season's Meetings" by Andi Marquette is a short story about chance encounters that happen at the most unexpected times with unexpected results.

    Is love truly universal?Major Kate Winston is a decorated officer with a promising career until she wakes up naked in the arms a strange woman with no memory of how she got there.Alexia is from another planet sent by the elders to kill Major Winston to put off the foreseen destruction of their planet by Earth’s mistakes.From the backwoods of Pennsylvania to New York City to Alexia’s home world, the novel weaves a tale of emotional intrigue as two women from different words struggle with their desires, and life and death decisions.

    She closes cases, but her world is turned upside down one morning when she meets a young grad student.Painter Frankie Martineli has lost everyone she’s ever loved in this world, so she wants nothing to do with someone that puts their life on the line every day.After a one night stand they go their separate ways. When a case draws them together, they find that their passions can’t be contained. But when fate throws them both into the face of danger, will their love survive?

    She gets a little help from the owner of Theo Brasseaux’s Shop of Voodoo. Shawn puts more faith in Theo’s abilities than she’s willing to admit, even to herself. Jill Searcy has lost her belief in love and magic, and she even despises Christmas. Two women come into her life and make her question everything she thought she knew. She gets more for Christmas than she ever dreamed. Robin Alexander has crafted a novelette to warm your heart and put a chuckle in your New Year.

    She just spent a whole terrible week with her standoffish boss at a trade show and wants nothing more than to crawl into her own bed – but her flight has been overbooked. Fortunately, the airline pays for a night at the airport hotel, which also happens to be where her best friend works. That night, the hotel is hosting a big Halloween party, and Manuela reluctantly allows her friend to dress her up as a sexy pirate. At the party, she meets an exciting stranger who is hiding her face behind a Venetian mask.

    Alison Tyler (Cleis Press).

    An upset Wiccan decides to drown her sorrows. Two different worlds collide, sparks fly, and an unlikely romance ensues.Author Note: Everything happened as is up to Tabula Rasa . . . After that it veers off into K-K's never never land.Words: 85,5691

    Abby has an entire weekend all to herself with no kids or ex-husband to throw her life into chaos. Arriving home from work Abby sets herself to some rest and sensual relaxation when her brainless babysitter shows up at the door.Unaware of Tiffany’s ulterior motives, Abby falls for her bobble head exterior and right into her carnal trap. Will the consummate professional deny her inner passions or will she fall to her knees before Tiffany’s luscious wares?

    She stops by a local lesbian club downtown and the sexy bartender catches her eye. Flirtations ensue, but Nikki gets sidetracked by two very lovely ladies, Sara and Justine who want to teach Nikki that two is so much better than one when it comes to the art of satisfying her needs. Caught up in a web of temptation between the seductive bartender and the hot pair of women teasing her to come out and play…she is destined for an unforgettable night of naughty mayhem.

    But Morgan knows something they don’t: Mac is taking orders from her mom’s ghost, trying to make good on a promise he made years ago. Worried sick, Morgan sets out on the 126-mile drive from Fresno to Santa Cruz, praying she finds Mac before he hurts himself—or worse. The chase is on, but the mission becomes one of more than miles; Morgan must also undertake a journey of the heart.

    Then imagine you've remembered falling in love with a vampire who has mysteriously vanished from your life. Samantha searches for her truth while looking and hoping her true love, Khristina, returns to her. Following this novella read the included bonus story "The Wake of Night" which tells of the Belcourt clan long before Khristina meets Samantha.

    Abandoned by her girlfriend and all of her friends, she finds herself in a seedy bar on the wrong side of town. A rough encounter with a stranger in a toilet might be just what she needs to get over it. But Kristie turns out to be so much more than a bi-curious girl looking for her first lesbian experience. “I leaned forward and kissed her, experimentally. At first, I felt her pull back. So, this wasn’t some pick up line – she really hadn’t been with a girl before. But then she kissed me back, really launched herself at me. Her lips were a sugary crush, and her tongue hungrily probed my mouth. It was a hot, sticky, arousing kiss, and soon the heat in my stomach spread down to my clit.”

    They are co-owners of Dreams Take Flight, a travel agency. Valerie firmly believes in the inevitable encounter with her soul mate, the love of her life. Christine dismisses this idea as a flight of fancy, until the day she meets the unexpected love of her life. At her favorite club Sappho, she sees a beautiful stranger and feels like she has been struck by lightning. Their eyes meet and lock for a moment, but suddenly, the attractive mystery woman vanishes. Christine enters an exciting emotional rollercoaster when she moves heaven and earth to find her again.

    In Jean Roberta’s Shelter the bad girl’s back from prison. An upper-class lady seduces her maid in Laila Blake’s poignant story set in Regency England, while a Catholic nun is beguiled by a hooker in Lisabet Sarai’s powerful The First Stone.These women are cops, slave owners, doctors, Dommes, and horse thieves, and you’ll find them at the pool, being seduced by older women, putting their job on the line for lust, or seducing the salt-and-pepper butch.With stories from writers at the top of their game, including Sacchi Green, Erzabet Bishop, Beth Wylde, Harper Bliss, and Allison Wonderland, this collection is sure to thrill.

    Unfortunately, Tabralea the curseblade can't get a recent brush with death off of her mind. As luck would have it, her caring companions Aeri the elven warlock and Cordie the dark elven priestess are more than ready to soothe their human friend's aching soul with the aid of some seductively arousing spells. This story is approximately 10,000 words long and features three beautiful heroes who are used to exploring Dungeons and slaying Dragons, two sexy elves who attempt to show their human friend the meaning of 'elven friendship,' some sexy magic, an ultra hot bath scene, and a nervous human warrior's first (but definitely not last) girl-girl-girl experience.

    Every story has passion and desire with an elemental twist, an erotic romance with a plot. Whether a Goddess or a nymph hidden in the fields and forest, a spirit or demon, the women inside these pages all have one thing in common—love and lust and an appreciation for the female form. Two short stories are included in this volume, by two different Authors. The Potter’s Wheel Would you dare love a Goddess? Selene works with the earth, finding solace in the way the clay forms beneath hands that tremble and betray her. The memory of a lost love eludes her, until one day a woman like no other wanders into her shop and reminds her that there is a Goddess in us all, some more than others. Pomegranate: Book One in the Myth and Magic Series What if everything you thought you knew was a lie? Crafting spells and hanging with her girlfriend Hayden was all Persephone Carraway wanted out of life. When her mother, Demi, develops a designer pomegranate, infusing it with ritual power for Fae and witch kind alike, all bets are off. A single act of destruction unearths a bevy of secrets and lies kept hidden for centuries. Persephone is drawn into a web of myth and magick where nothing is at it seems, even herself.

    For the last fourteen years she has been reeling from the unsolved murder of her childhood best friend, Izzy. She barely graduated high school, and she hasn’t been able to leave her small hometown of Chewelah, Washington since Izzy died. Elena Lewis is the English teacher at Chewelah High School, and she, too, has been mourning for Izzy for the last fourteen years. But Elena has been keeping secrets all this time, and only one person knows the true nature of her relationship with Izzy. Tammy Sherman knows the secrets that bring Joss and Elena together, but Tammy has some secrets of her own. She knows who killed Izzy, and that past is coming back to haunt her. When she goes to Joss for help, she starts the three of them down a path that will change them forever. Joss and Elena find themselves intensely drawn to each other, and neither is sure if the connection is real or merely an attempt for each of them to feel close to Izzy again. But feelings are forced to take a back seat when the spirits of the dead begin returning to settle old scores, and it looks like Izzy’s murderer may get a chance to kill again.

    Prince of Sylvan, dog, pack gamma, and police detective, finally had everything going right in her life. Love, career, and duty were all aligned perfectly. Nothing could throw it all into chaos, except a new partner, and a murder that could ruin everything she's worked so hard for. Now, as she chases the killer through the criminal underworld, it becomes more clear how much it affects her family, and how, instead of dealing with the stacked deck she had built, she's left with a shuffled pack...

    He’s feeling like a sell-out and growing more resentful every day as he watches the people he ghost writes for make millions. They go on book tours and talk about the books he wrote as if they had done all the work. Meanwhile, he barely ekes by. Sherry Hays is a talented writer who is barely making ends meet doing odd jobs. Yet she constantly refuses Tom’s offers to get her work ghost writing. When the small press that is the only house at which Tom has books in his own name—and the only place that Sherry has books at all—goes under, Tom decides to take action.