Reeling after her lover walked out on her, she turned to booze and caffeine to make it through each day. After a family intervention, she finds herself on a remote ranch in New Mexico—on womyn’s land—to detox and heal. No cell service, no Internet—she’s convinced she won’t last three days, much less for the three-month sentence her father has mandated.Running from the chaos that had become her life, Melanie West moved to Eagle Bluff Ranch seven years ago. By far the youngest there, she embraced the compassionate, peaceful life that the elders espoused. Living off what her garden produced, her chickens and goats became her friends and confidants. Exposure to the outside world was limited to the handful of guests who stayed a few days at the ranch each year.This summer would be different. Melanie found herself hosting a young woman for three months. A young woman who wanted to be anywhere but there. As the days and weeks passed, their animosity turned to friendship as they helped the other heal from their past failures.Erin soon found herself loving life on Mel’s little farm. Loving life and loving Mel. Saying goodbye would be the hardest thing she had to do—saying goodbye to Mel…or saying goodbye to her previous life.Genre: RomanceEditor: Medora MacDougallCover Designer: Sandy Knowles

    City of lights, City of love... City of drama! With a year remaining on Dominique's first presidential term, the Laroche camp is gearing up for her re-election campaign. Dominique herself, however, doesn't seem so keen on going through it all again.Aurore and Solange's relationship has been on and off so many times, nobody can keep count. The prospect of being on opposing sides of an election campaign is proving too difficult to overcome. Unless one of them can find it in her heart to make a sacrifice.Claire is showing signs of a midlife crisis. Rather than test her marriage to Margot, her behaviour puts in danger Barbier & Cyr, and her friendship with Juliette and Steph.Partnerships will be questioned, loyalties will shift and priorities will be reassessed as favourite characters, and old foes, return for a new season of Parisian drama and intrigue.Warning: This title contains sensual language, ladies making love, copious wine consumption and the occasional bout of political backstabbing.

    The preternatural races step out of hiding to work with the humans to save what they can from their dying world. With the aid of the Fae, shape shifters, Vampires, and other creatures of supernatural lore, the Worldship, Leviathan, is complete one thousand years later. Lotteries are held and only twelve million souls are selected to make the ten thousand year journey to the new world aboard the multi-generational starship. The Worldship Files follow the cases of Knith Shade, a human law enforcement officer of the Enforcers Brigade aboard the Leviathan, five thousand years into her journey. Knith must investigate a series of grisly murders, where the victims organs are harvested in the back halls of the bulkhead decks of the massive habitation rings of the Leviathan. Where others have failed, she has discovered leads that lead her to the unthinkable, when all signs point to a Fae Lady, and not just any lady, but the daughter of Queen Mab herself. Driven to solve the murders and bring the perpetrator to justice, even though she knows that merely even suggesting a Fae could have anything to do with the crimes would cause retaliation against Knith's habitation ring, as the magic of the Fae is what is keeping everyone alive on the Worldship. It could be more than simply career suicide. Enforcer Shade finds herself almost irresistible drawn to her main suspect, the Winter Maiden, Princess Aurora herself. Secrets are revealed and treachery uncovered, while even more mysteries and questions are unearthed.

    Unable to escape one another in the small town of Pitre, Louisiana, they traded insults and dirty looks well into adulthood. It took a flood and a determined grandmother armed with a bullhorn to turn the tide of their rivalry. Twenty years later, Alicia and Zoe relive the time they went from adversaries to lovers when Alicia’s niece seeks advice on dealing with her own adversarial relationship. In this novella, Robin Alexander has woven a tale about how love can sneak up on us in disguise with her typical humor.

    An orphan of circumstance, Reed knows the streets of Las Vegas better than anyone. Growing up rough has gotten her to the top of her profession, and she plans to stay there.Accountant Brinley Myers, a recent hire at the Moroccan Casino, discovers a money laundering operation orchestrated by the New York mob and suddenly her life and the people in it become collateral damage. Reed has Brinley in her sights and is ready to close the contract when she sees Brinley’s son in the car with her. Even hard-hearted Reed can’t kill a mother in front of her child. Before Reed can come up with a plan to finish the job, she’s double-crossed. It’ll take all her street smarts to keep herself, and her surprisingly beautiful mark, alive.

    Her father’s name was John Doe. Her mother’s last name was Smith. Jane Smith Doe, that’s her. Her dad said he guaranteed her anonymity for life. Thought it was funny.”Forty years away from Doe’s Ferry, it didn’t take long for word to get around that Jane Doe had come home. Most people remained unconcerned with her arrival—memories of young Jane having been long forgotten or never known. But like any tiny place with tiny minds, the whispers at her sudden reappearance revived old rumors and fanned long cold embers into a blaze.“So, you haven’t set foot in Doe’s Ferry since 1979, what finally brought you back?”“Do I have to answer that question?”“You didn’t come home when your father died in 2000. With your history, you can see why this sudden appearance would concern me.”“My history? Which part? The part where we were cradle to grave friends, all of us, or the part where one of us died, three of us lied, and one of us went to prison.”“I’m assuming that means this isn’t a nostalgic trip home.”“No point in pretending…”There were those who wished Jane had stayed gone. Most folks were willing to let the past die with the ones that lived it—but not Jane, and not the person who sent the package that summoned her home. Wrongs needed righting. The time had come for the truth of what happened at Doe’s Ferry to come to light. Jane Doe has come home to amend the record, to make it right: Emendare.

    After seven years as the assistant manager of the Evergreen Resort and Spa, she has ideas to improve the bottom line and increase reservations. When her manager resigns, Olivia puts in her résumé and waits for the interview. The job is practically hers—all she needs is the paperwork.Hayley Boyd Markham is the youngest Markham, the only girl, and the most spoiled. An artistic soul in a family of business-minded type As, she’s always felt like a bit of a screwup. After an embarrassing party situation, her father puts a hold on her allowance and gives her an ultimatum: Spend the winter as manager of the Evergreen Resort and Spa and show him it can turn a profit. Only then will he reconsider her future (and her inheritance).A chance encounter in the woods is filled with chemistry and promise, and though neither Olivia nor Hayley is looking for love, they both feel the possibility. Until they get to work…

    Which one carries the highest cost? And what price is worth paying? The quiet, tough Aya Lawson has been forced to leave her career as a professional boxer behind and now scrambles for a purpose. Gwen Davies is a chatty barista, and artist in her free time, who lives with clinical depression. They both have battles to fight but they also have something else in common - pining over the woman of their dreams. When daydreams one day meet reality, things get complicated. Is it best to stay with what’s safe? Or to fall and maybe break? If they do take the chance and break, who will get back up?

    At thirty-three, she’s in the best shape of her life and has a satisfying position at Jackson City Memorial Hospital. With a good paycheck, great friends, and occasional relationships with smart, beautiful women, she couldn’t be happier. She thinks.Dr. Thayer Reynolds, whiling away some time before the start of her Emergency Department fellowship at JCMH and intrigued by the stories she’s heard, crashes the morgue to get a look at Corey—the woman her young colleagues are whispering about.Totally spinning from her first interactions with Thayer, Corey throws herself into the post mortem exam of a construction worker who fell to his death, which isn’t at all suspicious—until it is. With no support from her boss or the police, Corey investigates the death on her own. Making bad decisions with good intentions, she recklessly endangers her own life and Thayer’s. Even worse—she potentially dooms any chance of a real relationship with Thayer before it even gets started.Genre: Romance, ThrillerEditor: Ann RobertsCover Designer: Judith Fellows

    Pam Wilson makes it an art form. Pam’s been on the run from the law for years and she was getting away with it. The statute of limitations ran out on most of her crimes. For her spouse Charlotte? Not so much. Though they were aging, they looked forward to enjoying their golden years and, hopefully, forgetting about the past. Life got complicated when Charlotte became gravely ill, their daughter got pregnant with the child of a married man…a married man someone took shots at from a rare motorcycle Pam happens to own. When the man was shot again and killed in his office at Pitt a couple of weeks later, the police found all signs pointing to Pam. Rochelle ‘Ro’ Rabinowitz, a second-generation Pittsburgh lawyer, and her little firm take on Pam’s case pro-bono. Ro thinks it’s a slam dunk for the defense and hands the case off to her new associate and – she hopes – her future partner in the firm, Dominique, to get her feet wet in a courtroom. Clients are never completely honest with their lawyers and Ro and Dominque soon learn this one is no exception. Slam dunk? More like a pipe dream… Please use the ‘Look Inside’ feature to view the book contents and remember you can download a sample of “Steel City Confidential” to your Kindle for free.

    Leaving her small northeast Minnesota town for Harvard in a quest to become a doctor, she moves in with med student Olivia Boyd, a neurotic, anal, gigantic pain in the backside. The first year of juggling medical school is gruelling, but it's nothing compared to living with Olivia. Coming out to her friends and family with an anti-climactic flop, Darcy uses her newly publicized sexuality to try and win Taylor's affections through an ill-hatched scheme that crosses uncomfortable lines. The result is as unexpected to Darcy as Darcy's affinity for medicine is to Olivia. The first year of medical school is a nerve-wracking encounter in medicine, learning lessons the hard way, and finding what her heart desires.

    Her eclectic group of friends, a Producer, a Pop Star, and a Professional Dancer keep her from falling off the deep end. It is only when a new face, Jenna Graham, joins the group that Morgan's world begins to right itself, and she learns there can be life and love after loss.

    When the aliens can't solve a serious problem with Muriel's avatar, they invite a small team of robotics experts from Hunt to help resolve the issues. Of course, a trip to Beginnings comes with more adventures than those found in Bay's robotics lab. This is a novel of 160,000 words.

    Desires, pleasures, secrets. When she is assigned client number 299, Lily Ann has no idea the woman waiting for her needs a friend more than an escort. Kathleen Harris is grieving the loss of her wife. She has secluded herself from family, friends, and the world for two years. All until a newspaper ad for an escort service makes her question her life. Suddenly, Kathleen’s eyes are reopened to the beautiful possibilities all around her. Including Bonnie Gibson, a sexy butch who she suddenly must work side-by-side with. But is Lily Ann’s influence enough to keep Kathleen from unraveling from her reawakening emotions? Only Lily Ann has deeply rooted troubles of her own. Determined to keep her family together after their parents are killed on an icy road two years before, she will do anything to keep them safe. Anything. BONUS: A preview of Cuffed to Her

    Anything to keep her mind off her day job working in the local mill making fishing nets. She’s yet to find love, however hard she tries to find the local fellas attractive.  Meeting a woman at one of the concerts makes her realise she’s been looking in all the wrong places.Frankie’s a bit of a tomboy. She works hard by day and follows her local football team at the weekends. Sometimes she finds time for the gigs in nearby Kilbirnie, especially when the chart-topping bands are due to play. Her mother assures her she’ll find ‘the one’ and settle down, but Frankie knows that won’t happen – and why – until one night she meets a woman who takes her breath away.Will they be able to be together in a society where the rules are supposed to be obeyed, and loving another woman – a Protestant one at that – means breaking them all?

    When she renewed her acquaintance with her gorgeous ex-love, Ashley Baldwin, sparks flew and the flame between them was rekindled. So much so that Peyton is thinking about taking their relationship to the next level. The only problem is that Peyton is having trouble finding just the right moment to pop the question. Ashley has finally found happiness and is looking forward to spending the holidays together with Peyton. She's waited a long time for this relationship to work, but Peyton has been acting so strangely lately that Ashley begins to think she's having second thoughts. Seems like finding love and a happily ever after together might just be easier said than done.

    Summer 2018. Britain is basking in a rare heatwave. And Hazel and Dorothy Wilding are working together to clear their family farm high on the North Yorkshire moors. The sisters have been estranged for 42 years. And they’re not happy to be forced together now. Dorothy has always been a dutiful daughter. She’s a regular chapel-goer. She never married. And she’s stayed on the farm all her life, working in the family B & B. Hazel, is lesbian. She lives in London, where she runs her own business in partnership with her Gay best friend Vinny. The two women seem irretrievably locked in bitterness. Though they loved each other once. But then two long-lost figures suddenly re-emerge from the past. And the sisters are forced to look back on a much earlier heatwave summer. Nineteen Seventy-Six. The summer when everything went wrong between them. The summer that broke their hearts.

    Even though her career plans didn’t turn out as she expected, she still believes her expectations for her love life will be met. Brett is ready to meet Ms. Right Forever if she can get a break in the schedule her young boss dictates. Evangeline Scott, known as Scotty, also dreamed of being a famous fashion designer. Years of fighting tooth and nail for a toehold in the fashion industry have taken their toll. Scotty has lowered her expectations and is the latest designer for I Am Alex, a clothing line for young adults. Her boss Alex and her congenial attitude is like a breath of fresh air, but Alex’s chief designer, Brett, is something akin to morning breath with a dash of garlic, yet oddly interesting. Scotty and Brett are more alike than they realize when they first meet, but it takes a crash landing in the wilderness for them to truly realize just how perfect they are for each other. They just have to survive Alex and her sister Cass who can’t stand each other, their Uncle Mark who can’t stand up to his own dog, and whatever lurks in the Montana mountains. Robin Alexander’s latest romantic comedy is loaded with laughs, love, and a tiny bit of wildlife.

    How about a mechanical bull at a country-and-western bar in the Amsterdam of the 1980s? An army jeep in Vietnam in the ’60s? A Chinese pirate ship far out in the Pacific in the ’30s? A hot air balloon soaring above post-Civil War Wyoming? These rides transport you through time, as well as space. In more contemporary settings, you can find (and feel) pent-up passion behind prison walls, a reunion of rivals in a steaming sauna, and a couple both wounded and bonded by modern warfare. There’s plenty of lust and banter, as well as mighty draft horses, at a county fair, and a visit with honeymooners in Paris with a fetish for gargoyles. Add to this mix a ghost story on a Montana ranch, a lovely vampire in the Old West, the occasional dragon, and a noir tale of sex, life, and afterlife in New York City. Join Lambda winner Sacchi Green for a ride through the second collection of her own work.

    They are vibrant and vulnerable, wise and foolish, introspective and outgoing. The close-knit friends fight aging at every turn—or just ignore it altogether. These four will never go quietly into the night, redefining life after fifty. They are the new mature woman. But along with twenty-first-century attitudes come twenty-first-century problems. Public office candidate and retired judge Charlene is confronted by a wannabe blackmailer, Jill’s passions threaten to swamp her common sense, Dory’s best-selling book could turn out to be a national disaster, and Robby must confront the hard reality of learning that her wife may not be the woman she thought she was. Steadfast in their faith in themselves and each other, and bolstered by the rich history of their friendship, the four women struggle with twists and turns as they try to navigate a landscape generated by the actions of others as well as their own choices, proving that experience does not always pave a smooth road. In a world where everything increasingly seems relative, these women remind us that some things don’t change—like the bedrock of relationships. Silver Love is all about love; love among friends, love between lovers, and the unexpected role of love with acquaintances who may not always be what they seem. If you can keep up, join the ride and follow these ageless heroines as they pursue their adventures in the modern world.

    She’s a successful artist with a hot line of edgy clothing and merchandise she sells from her boutique, Hell in a Handbasket. Along with her incredible chosen family, she’s in a loving relationship with Reggie, her girlfriend of six years.When Reggie blindsides London with a public marriage proposal, London freezes. She’s never wanted anything traditional, let alone marriage. When Reggie leaves her, she thinks things can’t possibly get worse, until she receives the call that her estranged mother has died. Suddenly, she’s catapulted into contact with the family she hasn’t seen in nearly twenty years.After her mother’s funeral, London discovers a letter she wrote to her future self as part of a school project when she was ten years old. Face-to-face with her childhood ideals and the drastically different life she’s built, London must find her way to the future—and love—she truly wants.Cover Artist: Tammy SedickGenres: Contemporary / General Fiction / Romance

    Her Wiccan mother, Ena Bowen, has recently passed to spirit and even though Raven hasn't seen or spoken to her in twelve years, she feels the loss. Then there's her relationship with her lesbian lover, Riley Gallagher, which ended rather abruptly and Raven only has herself to blame. When the body of a young woman is discovered with the spring thaw, Raven takes on a new case and isn't impressed when her sergeant assigns a rookie to investigate it with her. If all of that wasn't enough, Raven's mother starts speaking to her from beyond the grave. She only has one question for her mother ... "How the heck do I get you out of my head." The answer comes swiftly and shocks Raven to her core. "Find my killer."

    The feeling is utterly mutual even though the pair are still in their teens, and through idyllic days at school their love only deepens. In the meantime, her mother - one of her two mothers, anyway - Saltbury's favourite Rock goddess, Debbie Stewart, is pregnant and Hazel is eagerly looking forward to becoming a big sister for the first time at seventeen. Her best friend Tina has also found love. Evil Games mistress, Miss Baxter continues to be the bane of her life. An enemy might just be becoming a friend, and then St. Ann's School for Girls is rocked to its core by scandal.

    Well, at least, she is as sweet as any self respecting Goth and aspiring Rock drummer would ever wish to be. Cheerful and confident, with an impish sense of humour, she lives a charmed life as the daughter of a Rock star and a fashion designer, while her beloved older sister, Roisin, is becoming an increasingly big name model. There are only two small clouds in her sky. The first is her near psychopathic Games mistress, Miss Baxter, and the other is her non-existent love life. Because she has never managed to find an actual girlfriend. She has crushes, most notably on her best friend Tina and new girl in town, Annie Roberts, but both only have eyes for the boys. It is really starting to get on her nerves, but what is a girl to do?

     ... until a stranger claiming to know how to get her the love of her dreams changes everything. Suddenly, Dasha is head over heels in love with Vlada, open to homosexualism, ever ready to throw religion into the wind in order to be with her. Everything is lovely and wonderful, for a while, until the consequences Vlada had not been warned about rear their terrifying heads... and make her question the rationality of giving up everything for a love disapproved by God, church and family. In this story with multiple endings and many surprises, the fate of our protagonists will depend on the choices you make on their behalf. How will you behave when life pushes you beyond the boundaries of what you know to be possible, or true? Would you put your trust in faith or love when that happens? Would you be able to survive? ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Anna Ferrara discovered the beauty of writing when in the throes of unrequited heartache while growing up as a closeted lesbian in a conservative country. She has since put her experiences to good use by writing five novels about the hardships, and wonders, of female-female attraction. You can find out more about her life and work at annaferrarabooks.com.

    She longs for the day when she can work with her father in his legal practice. But this usually happy and increasingly beautiful young redhead has become a virtual recluse after being jilted by the girl she had thought was the love of her life. Eventually she starts to rebuild, and plucks up the courage to go dancing at a once cherished haunt, the 'Gemini Club'. But here she sees a face she had hoped never to encounter again. Both old enemies feel the same draw and as her cheerfully hedonistic drama student friend, Katie, puts it: they start to live the story of Shakespeare's 'Much Ado About Nothing'. But if Tina is playing Beatrice, who could be her Benedick? or, as Tina is gay, her other Beatrice?

    But she also believes that the system will work, that goodness will win out over evil, and that she can find a love as rich and deep as the love her parents have for one another. And when Amie Luca, a veterinarian whose compassion and dedication to helping mistreated animals captures her heart, Jada finally begins to trust that she has found what she’s been searching for all along. When the system suddenly fails them and their happiness is threatened by ugly hate and bitter homophobia, the young couple turns to help from a woman who has learned the hard way that kicking rocks is painful and that it takes unwavering persistence to move them. Dusty Logan fought for the ERA, she’s suffered with friends through the AIDS crisis, and she’s battled for the right to openly love a woman—but a lifetime of fighting has left her exhausted and disengaged. Yet when she sees a new generation of women facing old, familiar challenges, her spirit to fight the good fight once more is rekindled—and Jada and Amie might have a shot at real happiness after all.

    On a dark road on a stormy night, fate throws her into the arms of Alexi Russo. After a night of passion, Tatiana’s dragged from the closet and thrown head first into a world of money laundering, hits, brothels, and a secret that threatens to destroy her entire family. Alexi’s a jaguar shifter, and an assassin whose business is women. She’s been searching for a woman strong enough to walk at her side, and she’s certain Tatiana Rayne is that woman. However, Tatiana’s grandfather, a new under-boss for the mob, is determined to bring Alexi to heel. Alexi refuses to play dead for anyone, putting Tatiana in a tough position. So, when the chips fall, Tatiana will have a choice to make—run or walk into the fires of love.

     Homosexuality had only just been decriminalized in England in 1967, and the first British gay pride rally was held in London in 1972, a year after Taylor joined the military. The UK’s feminist movement still battled for reproductive rights, equal pay, and employment protections. This was the climate in which Taylor decided she was not like the other women she knew. Confused by her feelings for her female best friend, unhappy with her family life, and frustrated by the restrictive expectations of women, she sought a different path. For Penny Taylor, army life wasn’t easy, but she found not only herself, she also found family, friends, and a future. This is her story. Based on real events in her life, it is a coming-of-age and a coming-out story, set against the backdrop of the British military and the turbulent social climate of the 1970s.

    A near-death rescue launches Mack into the arms of Zara Weston; a grumpy, reclusive police officer who impedes Mack's investigation at the brink of every discovery. Her officious, vigilant demeanor forces Mack to take matters into her own hands. Can the reporter slip under the radar of the meddlesome cop to uncover the truth? Or will their crossed paths bring them closer to each other and to the dangerous world of werecreatures and vampires that haunts the fringes of society? **The Wolf's Consort is a Legacy Series tie-in novel that can be read as a stand-alone.**

    CFO Riley Stephenson finds herself in a particularly difficult position when the stripper she's fallen for shows up at her office—as her new employee.

     Tenant after tenant has fled the rental home but Miranda and Chelsea scoff at the suggestion of paranormal activity, sure that all of the strange and unsettling occurrences shadowing the house can be explained. Miranda and Chelsea are determined to help but is the house driven by a force too strong to overcome?

    What they don't expect is the wild and raunchy sex-capades it launches them into. Horny Dark Elves and other kinky creatures delight these lesbians as they wander through a VR wonderland.Can you handle their steamy, wet misadventure?"They got to their feet. The elves tied their hands with twine and led them in a direction that suggested that they were going deeper into the forest.“Where are you taking us?” Said Lizzie, speaking to the one who seemed to be the leader.“You’re going back to our dark elf village.  Where you will probably be turned into a sex pet.”“What really?” Said Claire.“Don’t act like you wouldn’t just love to be our little plaything, little gnome, I can tell that you in particular like to to be smothered in pu**y.”“Well, you’re in luck because we have an all lesbian dark elf village.”“Wow. How did you do that?”“Well, it was simple. We just banned together. It’s pretty awesome really. Finally a place for just us girls, where we can pursue all of our fantasies.”“So, is everyone using Mega Quest for kinky sex, then?” Said Lizzie.“You thought you were the first to discover how awesome sex is here? Actually, most of us tried to f**k once we got here. It’s human nature I guess. Don’t get me wrong. There are plenty of people who don’t like the sex thing. But, us dark elves like to enjoy lots of sex in our gaming. I know I don’t have to ask you too if you feel the same.”“Yeah, I guess not,” said Lizzie, as she wiped some gnome pu**y juice from her mouth."

     Emmie Warren is a middle school teacher who is trying not to rock the boat until she can finish her Master’s Degree and find the courage to move herself and her son away from sleepy Sweetwater to diverse, vibrant Austin, the only place in Texas she ever felt free to be herself. She’s been hiding her truth for years. She doesn’t see any reason to change that before she can make a clean break of things and start all over. Cass Prater is a brash cowgirl who lives life out loud, wherever she lives. She's got a plan and she plans to execute it. She's not going to let anything stop her. Cass clashes with Emmie the minute they meet. It’s a battle of wills from there, on. She’s determined to show Emmie she can have it all: her family, a mate and a job that she loves, right there, in the heart of Texas. This novella is a major expansion of the short story, Loving Blue in Red States: Sweetwater Texas.