Best of
Lesbian-Romance

2011

Before It Stains


R.E. Bradshaw - 2011
    Staying in love is work.Stephanie Austin has it all – a loving wife of 17 years, a handsome teenage son, a comfortable home in the suburbs, professional success, and a bright future. At forty, Stephanie’s life is all she’d ever dreamed of, but like the old blues song says, “What a difference a day makes.”Betrayal by the woman she loves, thought she knew, and always trusted, cuts deep. Forgiveness is a simple word, but is it possible?This is a story about love and family, with all the joys and pains of a lifetime commitment. When Stephanie’s perfect world starts spiraling out of control, the fate of her family rests in her hands. With the help of her mother, friends, an old flame, and a healthy dose of humor, Stephanie must decide if she can put aside the hurt and figure out how to clean up the mess, before it stains their lives forever.

L.A. Metro


R.J. Nolan - 2011
    Kimberly Donovan’s life is in shambles. After her medical ethics are questioned, first her family, then her closeted lover, the Chief of the ER, betray her. Determined to make a fresh start, she flees to California and L.A. Metropolitan Hospital.Dr. Jess McKenna, L.A. Metro’s Chief of the ER, gives new meaning to the phrase emotionally guarded, but she has her reasons.When Kim and Jess meet, the attraction is immediate. Emotions Jess has tried to repress for years surface. But her interest in Kim also stirs dark memories. They settle for friendship, determined not to repeat past mistakes, but secretly they both wish things could be different.Will the demons from Jess’s past destroy their future before it can even get started? Or will L.A. Metro be a place to not only heal the sick, but to mend wounded hearts?

The Blue Hour


Jae - 2011
    Short story prequel to Backwards to Oregon.When her mother dies, twelve-year-old Lucinda Hamilton decides to start a new life—as a boy.

Waking Up Gray


R.E. Bradshaw - 2011
    She found her first gray hair on the morning of her trip to Ocracoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina. Lizbeth was beginning a three-month sabbatical, on the scenic coastal island, in order to finish her Master's thesis in Linguistic Anthropology. She plans to study the Carolina Brogue spoken there. What she ends up studying is her lesbian neighbor across the street and the uncontrollable pull Lizbeth feels toward her. Lizbeth Jackson is about to find out what life has to offer, after waking up gray.

Black Rage


Selina Rosen - 2011
    The intimacy and passion of this love story by the indomitable Selina Rosen transcends such vagaries as gender or orientation, and you find yourself thinking of Gene, Aggy, May and their families as real people you know well. Those looking for a fluffy, paint-by-numbers romance novel should look elsewhere; Black Rage reminds us that the course of true love never did run smooth, that you can love again and again in a lifetime and still not get it right, that the world has little care for romance or destiny, and sometimes the best things in life are ripped away from us before we truly appreciate them. There isn't a flat or undeveloped character in this story, and while there are hints of the paranormal floating about, it is not a book about ghosts or psychics. It is a story about love and living, the power of the artistic life and the need to share that life with another person. Almost too real, the raw emotion in this book will completely envelop you.” —Elizabeth Donald, author of The Cold Ones and Setting Suns

Balance of Forces: Toujours Ici


Ali Vali - 2011
    After accepting the opportunity to drink the elixir of the sun, Kendal becomes immortal and the Genesis Clan’s slayer. History has taught her the dangers of getting too close to anyone who hasn’t harnessed the power of time.After many years, she returns to New Orleans to finish a job she’s trained for all her life. It’s time for her to face her brother Henri, and it will have dire consequences to mankind if she fails.Piper Marmande believes Kendal has come to take over the company her family has built over generations. As Kendal prepares for the most important battle of her long life, Piper does her best to uncover every one of Kendal’s secrets, making herself a distraction Kendal can’t afford as she hunts Henri and Ora, the vampire who seduced him to a life of darkness.

How I Spent the Apocalypse


Selina Rosen - 2011
    I told you so!These are the words that Katy longs to scream over and over at what's left of the population after the apocalypse (which she's been telling anyone who would listen was coming) finally arrived.Now that it’s here, she’s set up to become the new king of the world, and everything would be perfect......if her stupid sons hadn't decided she was as crazy as everyone else thought she was and moved away from the safety of their mother's bunker into the city, and if the very reporter who had made her name synonymous with "crackpot" hadn't wound up pounding on her door as the world around them blew away.YES, THE END OF THE WORLD CAN BE FUNNY (if you’re ten feet underground with 50 years of supplies)!