Literary agent Alison has been in love with her favorite author-client for years. Not that paperback romance writer Carolyn has ever noticed. She sees Alison as a close, loyal friend; she has never questioned society's conventions.When Alison negotiates a lucrative contract for her, Carolyn seizes the unexpectedly large advance to fulfill a passion of her own. Beginning in Paris, scene of her brief, calamitous marriage, she will immerse herself in great music from the world's great...

A Single Word Will Cost Them Everything...An above sea hunt for the pleasure and song of human women turns disastrous when Ariel, 77th daughter of the Mer Queen, shares rising tides — powerful passion — with the forbidden Erica. Court rivals quickly report her transgression and Ariel finds herself an example of what happens to those who defy the Queen.Stripped of her voice and placed under a powerful curse, Ariel makes her way above water to Erica'...

Games of chance, games of passion, games of love-roll the dice for a week inLas Vegas with games mistresses Radclyffe and Karin Kallmaker. Whether apublic table or a back room invitational, the players want to score and everybody can’t wait to go all in.A pit boss who thinks she’s seen it all thinks again. A convention planner finds hotel hospitality is on the house. Romance novelists discover that high stakes can yield to extreme passions, if they’re willing to call each other’s b...

What if you had the power to change the past—but doing so would destroy your future?Thirteen years have passed since the fiery explosion that killed seven people and shattered the lives of thousands more, but Amanda Martin is unable to forgive herself for her part in the tragedy. Deep in the hills of Arizona, she lets time pass her by, but the torrential rains fail to wash away her pain.During a storm unlike any other, she goes to the aid of a woman caught in the resulting ...

Is true love hidden in the moments we can’t stop remembering… or in those we choose to forget? There is nothing like a high school reunion to bring the old times flooding back…Old Passions… Handsome singer Loretta ” Rett” Jamison has built herself a successful career and a repertoire filled with romantic ballads and hot jazz. But her failing relationship with lover/manager Trisha York has left a growing emptiness in her heart. Trisha seems to have found what she needs in the arms o...

Sabrina Starling doesn’t need love. She has fame as a brilliant violinist and unlimited options for female company. Nothing can shake her — except the memory of her very first love. Knowing that neither the teenaged nor adult Jorie will ever return her feelings, Sabrina has escaped into her music and the arms of other women.When injury leaves her temporarily unable to perform, Sabrina finally finds the one woman who could free her forever from the memory of those stolen Hawaiian ni...

The Coin of Love Series: Women looking for their perfect match get the inspiration they need at just the right moment.Artie Bryson came to Venice to finish her PhD. Five years later the PhD still isn’t done, but life is okay. Leading guided tours of the magnificent city pays the bills. The days are all the same — until she seeks respite from the summer swelter in the Casino di Venezia cabaret.Nikki Velvet has finally found her musical niche singing Postcards from A...

I inherited a castle in Scotland! Well, sort of. I'm a California girl so I might not have much of a chance at keeping it, not when the other claimant is a local. Plus, Portia Tennielle is compelling and sophisticated. She's invaded my dreams. They are very good dreams. Mostly.This whole situation could be the beginning of something wonderful, if not for the bad-tempered daughter of the caretaker. Ms. Perfect Melanie Drake seems to think she knows everything, is annoyed by my very ...

The smile that says, "I know you."Yet another wedding. Yet another horrific bridesmaid dress. Once the wedding is over, there seems little reason to linger. Except Amy finds Maxim's inviting smile as irresistible as the black velvet jacket Maxim wears with such easy, sexy, confident style. Butch-femme lesbian romance short story from award-winning bestseller Karin Kallmaker.

From the cold winter dark of Alaska to the warm summer breezes of Hawaii, take a calendar year’s journey through the lives of women you already love.Love finds its full bloom during a Simply the Best May. The glamour of Hollywood combines with a Because I Said So Halloween. Making Up for Lost Time serves up delicious cookies–and lots of kisses. All kinds of family are welcome at the Car Pool Thanksgiving table.Inspired by classics like Wild Things and Painted Moon, as well ...

Big city girl in a small town—Liddy Peel has culture shock.Marian Pardoo, Reference Librarian for the Iowa City Public Library, would be happy if the woman she’s loved for years wasn’t already married. Annoyed by the thoughtless out-of-town Liddy, she isn’t prepared for the seething passion that erupts when Liddy careens into her meticulously controlled life.Liddy has run two thousand miles from a devastating love affair. Now the idea of spending the sweltering summer watch...

A one-way stage ticket to the frontier leaves a young woman penniless and alone in Long Grass, Wyoming. With no other hope than to survive another day, she takes up the only profession open to her. Years later she encounters the cowboy she can love, and her first taste of pleasure–and happiness.Cowboys, however, are born to wander, and their kisses are as brief as the lives of young women without family or means. Accepting that her days will be numbered too few, Darlin’ escapes int...