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Mac Griffith is used to risk and digging up dirty secrets in dangerous places, and this time it's her twin that's gone missing. Rachel Anderson wants no help from a war-shocked journalist-what police detective ever needs an amateur tagging along, especially a damnably attractive one?But Brisbane is under siege and a serial killer's body count is rising. With the clock ticking, no lead is too slim. Rachel needs Mac's help, and there's no chance Mac won't take. Neither of them means for it to go as far as it does...From the author of the sizzling, breathless I Can't Dance Alone

Antuniet Chazillen lost everything the night her brother was executed. In exile, she swore that treason would not be the final chapter of the Chazillen legacy in Alpennia''s history. A long- hidden book of alchemical secrets provides the first hope of success, but her return to the capital is haunted by an enemy who wants those secrets for himself.Jeanne, Vicomtesse de Cherdillac is bored. The Rotenek season is flat, her latest lover has grown tediously jealous and her usual crowd of friends fails to amuse. When Antuniet turns up on her doorstep seeking patronage for her alchemy experiments, what begins as amusement turns to interest, then something deeper. But Antuniet''s work draws danger that threatens even the crown of Alpennia.The alchemy of precious gems throws two women into a crucible of adversity, but it is the alchemy of the human heart that transforms them both in this breathtaking follow-up to the widely acclaimed Daughter of Mystery.

Nearly ten years ago, after the sudden death of her sister, Kate Bellem didn't hesitate to become surrogate mom to her niece Megan. Her life has become a treadmill of work, motherhood and celibacy. Her long perfected calm, necessary in a surgical nurse, is tested the moment she meets Megan's new mentor. Sportswriter "Tommie" Tommelson sets off all the alarms, both good and bad. Out as a lesbian, brash in her seductive powers and with a reputation for breaking hearts, Tommie is obviously looking for nothing more than a fling. Kate knows she is finally ready for so much more, but she's seen too much of life to believe that Tommie can ever change. Newcomer RJ Layer delivers a story of tumultuous passion in her debut romance.

Dani Blazer has "an empty home, a broken heart and a young mustang that needs a slow, gentle hand. Hope Fielding watches the intriguing, attractive [Dani] with a nameless panic. She's been the mother to her siblings most of her life, and the choices she's made to please her family and church weren't easy"--Back cover.

Fort Bliss-it''s anything but. Caroline "CJ" Jamieson gave up studying history and joined the Women''s Army Corps to live it instead. Along with her new WAC friends, she is ready to do her part to help boys like her brothers, fighting in the European and Pacific theaters, make it home sooner.The Army, however, has derailed her plans. Instead of the California post she anticipated, west Texas cacti and an artillery training base are the unexpected sights on her new horizons. Not one to question orders, she''s not sure how her skills in airplane engine maintenance will be of use in this desolate region.But when CJ meets fellow WAC enlistee Brady Buchanan, Fort Bliss might live up to its name.

Electra Campos has kept her life cleanly divided. By week she tends to her academic duties and her students. Weekends she frequents the Down Under, a Chelsea sex club for women.When her spiteful ex Isabel Cortez issues yet another petty threat, she brushes it off-until she finds Capital College''s dean in a pool of his own blood. At first, NYPD Detective Carolina Quinn seems concerned only in Electra''s details of finding the body. Then the interest grows intensely professional...and personal.Why would the police think Electra had a motive for murder? She had no personal interaction with Dean Johnson. But his wife was no stranger to the Down Under, and Detective Quinn is extremely curious about every detail of Electra''s other life.Bella After Dark title!Electra''s Complex is a sexy romp through queer New York and the groves of academia from a writer who knows the landscape and is a confident and engaging guide. Emma Perez''s book is a pleasure!-Michael Nava, critically acclaimed author of the seven-volume mystery series featuring gay attorney Henry Rios.

"Equal in station and age, it was foreseeable that neighbors Clara Battersley and Serena Coleridge would become fast friends. More surprising is that they would become lovers--a secret they tell no one. Giddy with love and the prospect of their London season, they are about to embark on a social whirl of fashionable, high season balls. But Serena's fortunes are reversed by Napoleon's escape from Elba. Her financial resources compromised, the two debutantes are parted. Bereft and facing unbearable pressure to conform to social and family expectations, how can they keep the promises of their hearts?"--Page 4 of cover.

"Jordan Weston never felt alone with a basketball in one hand. Then she got hurt. The roar of the crowd faded away and so did the friends. Her lonely, small town world is blown wide open by the arrival of a breath of fresh air called Taylor Reeves. Gorgeous, wild, confusing. Bouncing from one town to another in the wake of her father's ministry, Taylor has learned to keep her wildest outlets a secret--especially her history with other women"--Amazon.com.

The new romance from Lambda Literary Award winner Kenna White! A mile wide and with winds rising over 200 miles per hour, the EF-5 tornado that laid waste to Joplin, Missouri, took everything from Dale Kinsel. Already struggling to get through the months after the death of her partner Sydney, Dale doesn't believe she can find the strength to dig through the rubble. The last thing she needs is Sydney's sister, Taren, crossing her path again. There is nothing but bad blood between them and Taren's help doesn't change that. Surrounded by a broken landscape, Dale has little hope of reclaiming even the simple pleasures. But life--and love--have a way of starting over.

To most, Princess Katya Nar Umbriel is a rogue and a layabout; she parties, she hunts and she breaks women's hearts. But when the festival lights go down and the palace slumbers, Katya chases traitors to the crown and protects the kingdom's greatest secret: the royal Umbriels are part Fiend. When Katya thwarts an attempt to expose the king's monstrous side, she uncovers a plot to let the Fiends out to play.Starbride has no interest in being a courtier. Ignoring her mother's order to snare an influential spouse, she comes to court only to study law. But a flirtatious rake of a princess proves hard to resist, and Starbride is pulled into a world of secrets that leaves little room for honesty or love, a world neither woman may survive.

Shel Carson was a great cop until she fell victim to the vices of Shreveport's underworld. Clawing her way back from the brink has left her clean and sober, but also dishonored and unemployed. She turns to the only thing she knows and becomes a detective for hire. She can't afford to be picky about her cases, and when a wealthy client wants her to extract his kidnapped daughter from his manipulative, psychotic ex-wife she reluctantly agrees. The fee is huge and will ease her financial woes. She finds mother and daughter quickly, living under new names. Even to Shel's jaundiced eye, "Addison James" appears to be a loving mother and a gentle, quiet woman, nothing like the evil witch her ex-husband described. A belated sense of honor is extremely inconvenient--as is the irresistible passion that Addison arouses. But her client wants back what he considers his... Click is the latest imaginative and gripping story from the authr of Before I Died and InSight of the Seer.

It's 1991 and Melissa Etheridge is a brand new voice on the radio. In Southern California it's almost--but not quite--safe to say lesbian outloud. For Camille Wallace, a sophomore attending San Diego University on a soccer scholarship, life is sweet. She has gay friends, the sport she loves and a future full of possibilities.Her possible futures don't include a woman like Jess Maxwell. Potential all-American, star-caliber tennis player and in every way the perfect co-ed, Jess isn't likely to notice Cam's admiring glances. And if she did, chances are she'll never think of Cam as more than a fan.The brilliant sunshine might be why Cam sees a Jess that no one else has realized is there. But it will take more than training and tenacity to find out if Jess wants to be the woman Cam believes lurks within. It may take more than Cam can possibly risk.Kate Christie looks at love and the pursuit of happiness for two vibrant, gifted college athletes in the early Gay 90s.

Happily ever after doesn''t look the same for every couple.In Raw Silk, happily married June and Ashlyn Phillips occasionally enjoy adding another dynamic to their sex life. When Katerina "Kat" VanderVort enters June''s office one day, she sets her sights on June. Lucky for her, Ashlyn loves to indulge her wife''s fantasies.In On Her Knees, Simone Davies is finally happy. That is, until her chief tormentor and biggest crush, Abby Nelson, shows up at her firm''s holiday party. Together they struggle to forget the past and build a future together.In Hollis, homicide detective Jude Lassiter pushes a little too hard, and her instructor at a FBI anti-terrorism training session, Special Agent Beverly Hollis, knows exactly how to punish her. Jude is all too willing to submit.