On a scale of awkward to totally catastrophic, Kelly Bennett has managed to hit every level of “Oh. My. God.” in just one night.Kelly decides her older, uptight girlfriend Paula needs a bit of loosening up during her birthday party. When she finds her curled up in bed, Kelly leaps her bones, adds a few restraints and kinky sex, and one satisfied lover later, sneaks out… only to run into her girlfriend, Paula, in the hallway.After the shock wears off, leaving a puddle of gui...

If anyone had told Sadie she'd be homeless and living out of her car at age twenty-five, she'd have laughed in their stupid faces. She'd have laughed even harder if she'd been told her new, uptight, beauty parlour boss, Victoria, would steal her heart and stamp all over it. Because Sadie's way smarter than that.The saying "You don't know what you have until it's gone" has become Victoria's motto ever since Sadie stumbled into her ordered world. Victoria just needs a cleaner. But ap...

For as long as Haylee can remember, she's been a people-pleaser, forsaking her own needs for the sake of others. Would it be so bad to have one night a week to herself? A night where she can forget about the outside world and lose herself in the arms of a beautiful woman.Angela is done with relationships. Fine dining and fancy dates are as unappealing as explaining her reasons why. Her appetite craves but one thing—intimacy without the confines of commitment.When the two wo...

When a mysterious stranger rescues Rose Collins from the date from hell, she's intrigued despite her skepticism about fate. The last thing this curvy office manager expects is for her alluring savior to reappear with a job offer.Alex Carpenter can't stop thinking about the confident woman she rescued. Her dream of opening an exclusive women's retreat with fantasy-themed suites finally feels within reach—if only she can convince Rose to join her business venture. But what started as...

After an overseas romantic getaway goes horribly wrong, Zoe Anderson finds herself wandering the streets of New Zealand, betrayed and miserable. The last thing the Canadian visitor expects is a beautiful stranger to come to her rescue.Claire Evans, still raw from a shattered heart, usually loves the solitude of her remote property. But when she meets a young woman with a world of hurt in her eyes, a look she recognizes all too well, she offers to put her up for a few nights.

The universe is definitely trying to punish Jennifer Andrews. Her new colleague, Ellaine Baxter, is not only an annoying, ambitious hard-ass, she's the woman who broke Jennifer's best friend's heart. Now, for added torture, they have to drive to a teambuilding conference together.On their three-hour journey, things go from tense to catastrophic after an unscheduled stop in New Zealand's wildly beautiful Kaimanawa Forest. Getting lost is just the start of the nightmare.For f...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Shift**, this richly drawn portrait of four nurses in four different sectors of our broken healthcare system reveals where solutions are actually possible—to make care about people rather than profits.**Theresa Brown worked as a oncology nurse for years before finally burning out, but instead of leaving the healthcare system behind entirely, she se...

Learn how to heal your emotional wounds, get unstuck, and get into healthy, loving, intimate relationships with the help of this eye-opening book.At the core of most toxic relationships is a painful trauma wound desperate to be healed. As a licensed professional counselor and trauma researcher, Dr. Laura Copley often found herself disturbed by the stigma that her profession puts on trauma survivors who are in these toxic bonds, often too quickly labeling them as vi...

Writing Through the Visual and Virtual: Inscribing Language, Literature, and Culture in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean interrogates conventional notions of writing. The contributors—whose disciplines include anthropology, art history, education, film, history, linguistics, literature, performance studies, philosophy, sociology, translation, and visual arts—examine the complex interplay between language/literature/arts and the visual and virtual domains of expressive culture. The twen...

Driven and efficient businesswoman Vivienne Alexander reluctantly finds herself at a speed-dating night after her friend buys her a ticket. It'll probably be a waste of time anyway, she tells herself. She doesn’t need a relationship to make her whole.So, when an alluring stranger with bright smiles and a riot of auburn hair predicts Vivienne will be in her bed by the end of the night, she’s not sure which is more surprising: the sheer cockiness or the thrill that shoots through her...

What happens when you find yourself with an empty nest? Do you lose touch with your partner or reconnect?What if reconnecting means discovering your wife wants to take charge in the bedroom? Join Laci and Cole as they explore a female-led relationship.Contains BDSM elements - Dominance and submission

When Tara's mother catches her in a compromising position, she delivers an ultimatum: see a therapist or leave for New Zealand. Choosing exile over therapy, Tara finds herself halfway across the world, living under the roof of her aunty's boss, Kathryn. From the moment they meet, Tara's planned escape becomes complicated by an unexpected attraction. The sassy Australian is as charming as she is off-limits.As lines blur and attraction ignites, both women must navigate more than just...