Artist Morgan Dunbar works as a doorperson during the daylight hours so she can afford to practice her art at night. Amber, a wealthy, snooty resident of the building, acts like Morgan is invisible. She never thanks Morgan for any of the polite services she provides. She is always snapping fingers at Morgan, then pointing and saying, "Fetch this" or "Fetch that."One fateful day, Morgan reaches her breaking point. She finds Amber's attitude particularly unbearable after hailing her ...

In the fourth novel of the Dutch Chocolate Series, a member of Dutch's team is in serious trouble.Dora, born and raised in the city, won't accept the plot of land Dutch offers upstate because her wife Mattie has no desire to move to the boonies. Mattie is a physical therapist and her clients live in the city. Dora is deeply in love with Mattie and has been for the sixteen years they've been married. She wants whatever Mattie wants, which means they still live in the city.One ...

NYC medical ExaminerDr. Maximillian Leary has a crush on Lieutenant Darlene Duran from the 32nd Precinct's robbery homicide unit. Dr. Maxi has been 'in like' with the lieutenant since they worked another case together two years ago. She would love nothing more than to get to know the lieutenant better on a social level.Unfortunately, the lieutenant thinks the doctor is too much. She thinks the doctor is too young for her. She thinks the doctor is too brilliant, in other words, craz...

Beth Evans, after a failed relationship, is looking for a date. She tries a forward approach with a woman she finds attractive and practically accosts her on the street. Beth babbles about nothing and everything in her efforts to impress the woman, while the object of her desire, Joan Riley, wants to escape from the crazy motor-mouth. Beth feels embarrassed that she bothered Joan and does not even join her friends in the bar they are hanging out at for the evening. She stays in the car and...

Roberta Hathaway is a Black woman who only dates woman of color. In her job as a New York City schoolteacher, she spends too much time in the classroom helping her students and not enough time outdoors, enjoying the world around her. Her friends convince her to join a yoga school so that Roberta can learn to relax and let go of some of her stress.The yoga teacher, Cheyenne Tucker, is a white woman that the class of twenty-five women finds attractive, patient, and an extraordinary i...

When Lieutenant Governor Charlene Ford loses everything in a deadly car crash, nothing feels the same.One minute, she is at the top of her game as the first African American lesbian lieutenant governor of New York State. The next minute, she is trying to keep a stiff upper lip as she watches the gravediggers bury the two walnut coffins containing her son JJ and her life partner, Regina. Her family is gone. Her world is gone. All she wants is to go away and disappear for a while; to...

Laura Boggs, co-owner of an art gallery and bookstore, comes home to a strange woman baby-sitting her five-year-old son. After her initial shock wears off, she realizes that this woman is an artist that she made a pass at after having had too much to drink at a gallery opening. The reluctant artist, Cleopatra Gardner, just wants to rent the basement apartment that Laura has promised her. However, in the light of day, Laura is embarrassed by her behavior and has second thoughts about the po...

When Julia Walters receives word that Adam, the son of her ex-lover Nikki Barrett, is dying, Julia rushes over to Nikki's house to offer her assistance with Adam and also hopes to find closure to the romance that ended abruptly four years before. Upon arriving at Nikki's house, Julia discovers that her ex-mother-in-law, Mavis, is hoping Julia will stay and relieve an exhausted Nikki from taking care of Adam, who is weak and unable to walk, and toddler Theresa, an unexpected surprise to Jul...

Cassandra Johnson and Ramona Wright lived together as college roommates and lovers until Ramona grew nervous about her sexual orientation and deserted Cassandra for a life of loving men.Flash forward twenty-seven years…Ramona's daughter announces that she has met the man of her dreams and his mother is none other than Dr. Cassandra Johnson. Cassandra offers the use of her estate home to hold the wedding, but Ramona has another problem…she has Stage Two breast cancer and is ...

Jenna Jacks, a wildly temperamental artist with a load of baggage, goes through chauffeurs faster than she goes through the models she paints, or so rumors suggest. Professional limo driver Florence Walker immediately bumps heads with Jenna during her interview, but Jenna discovers that Flo is a highly sought after driver and there is also an undercurrent of attraction that both women work at denying. Despite the headaches that Jenna anticipates, she offers Flo the position and despite the...

Sergeant Yolanda Benjamin (Benny) meets Sabrina Miller for the second time in ten years. The baby is now a daredevil ten-year-old. Ellie dares three neighborhood boys they can’t shake her off the top of the monkey bars. Benny happens by in her patrol car as the girl hits the dirt. She doesn’t recognize Ellie as the same baby whose diapers she changed until Sabrina arrives in the ER. Stress makes some people do strange things and that includes Sabrina. She’s anxious about Ellie’s injuries a...

Jerry the bail bondsman hires bounty hunter Lou Ogletree and her crew Nathaniel Onebear and Donny Jackson to find a bail jumper, Dr. Grace Byland, and bring her back to stand trial for murder.Out on bail, Grace thinks she knows who really killed the man the DA's office claims she killed. She just has to prove it, but she can't. The killer is too powerful. He owns the world where she lives and works. So Grace does what she does best. She runs back to the Bayou swamps to hide until s...