Title: Buyer's Remorse Author: Lori L. Lake ISBN: 978-1-61929-001-3 Publisher: Regal Crest Available At: Bella Books Price: $19.95, ebook: $9.95 Genre: Mystery

Leona “Leo” Reese is a 33-year-old police patrol sergeant with over ten years of law enforcement experience. After she fails her bi-yearly shooting qualification due to a vision problem, Leo is temporarily assigned to the investigations division of the state’s Department of Human Services. She’s shell-shocked by her vision impairment and frustrated to be reassigned to another department, even temporarily. On her first day on the new job, she’s assigned a case where a woman at an independent living facility for elders has been murdered by an apparent burglar. But all is not as it seems, and it will take all her smarts to outwit a dangerous criminal. Will she uncover the murderer before other people are robbed and killed?

Book 1 in The Public Eye Series

Title: Callie's Dilemma Author: Vicki Stevenson ISBN: 9781619290037 Publisher: Regal Crest Available At: Bella Books Price: $15.95, ebook: $10.95 Genre: Mystery

While attending a convention for authors and fans of chick lit, Callie Delaney, closeted reigning queen of mainstream romance, meets Dale Kirby, irresistible fitness instructor for the health club at the hotel that's hosting the event. She also inadvertently walks into the prelude to a murder. Although Callie is unaware of the significance of what she sees, the killer is not, and he embarks on a relentless campaign to eliminate the only witness to his crime.With help from Dale's LGBT family, the women set out to uncover the motivation for the threats against Callie, identify her mysterious stalker, and ultimately prove him guilty of murder. As a fragile relationship develops between Dale and Callie, they are forced to confront escalating danger and the irresolvable conflict between the demands of Callie's public image and the reality of her personal desire.

Shay Cooper was good at her job. As an FBI agent she broke criminals—until they broke her.

Recovery seems unlikely until her mentor proposes she return to work at the training academy near her hometown of Chicago. Life in the slow lane definitely appeals, but her contentment lasts only until she meets the academy’s biggest challenge: Agent Kate Harris.

Kate Harris has made her mistakes and carries her own secrets. Her former partner—a brilliant profiler and author of true crime blockbusters—has disappeared. She’s determined to find him, orders for more training be damned. The horror she uncovers collides with Shay’s own nightmarish past. The only thing they agree on is that they can’t trust anyone, not even each other.

No risk is too high. No adventure too daunting.

Emery Lawson reinvents herself after another near-death experience prompts a thorough reevaluation of her priorities. Empowered to live a life of no regrets, she casts aside all that is familiar to face her fears and chase her dreams. But as she heads for the wilds of Alaska, romance is definitely not on her agenda, because she's convinced she's incapable of falling in love.

Pasha Dunn has learned to expect the unexpected in her job with an adventure outfitter in the remote Alaskan interior. Adaptability is essential in such a savage and unforgiving landscape. But she’s woefully unprepared when her infallible intuition tells her that client Emery Lawson is the soul mate she’s been waiting for all her life. Emery is clearly determined to remain unattached, and her high-risk vagabond lifestyle is too far outside Pasha’s comfort zone.

All that they think they want and know will be challenged when they are thrust into a nightmare of survival and endurance high above the Arctic Circle.

From the author of the legendary classic novel Faultline comes this unforgettable depiction of three generations of women in a vivid, authentic, and luminous story of their lives and times.

Set in Florida and Georgia during a profoundly transitional period of American life, Homestead opens in the 1920s with the birth of Joyce, daughter to Mary Beth, who has dutifully married the widower of her dead sister. Bound to a man whose judgments threaten disaster if not calamity, denied a love she dares not contemplate, Mary Beth lends her strength and resourcefulness toward carrying her family through the life-changing times of prohibition and the Great Depression. In a world fully controlled by men, Mary Beth, and the servant-class women around her, allow new and different choices for Joyce and her future. Yet Joyce too is constrained, by society’s expectations, and even more powerfully, her own sense of duty and obligation. And then Amelia is born...

How these women endure, innovate, and support one another to overcome the circumstances of their lives is the deeply affecting, flesh and blood story in Homestead, a lyrically beautiful homage to the strength and resiliency of women.

In the acclaimed debut of The Always Anonymous Beast, Lauren Wright Douglas introduced tough, resourceful Caitlin Reece, one of the most unconventional women ever to appear in a mystery novel.

The uncompromising private detective once again prowls her terrain of Victoria, British Columbia, investigating a case as dramatic and immediate as today’s headlines.

Caitlin is hired by a woman code-named Shrew, to pick up a package. Caitlin is sickened to the depths of her being by the contents of the package: a blind and maimed cat, and photographs of animal experimentation.

And now Shrew is dead. As a member of the militant animal rights organization Ninth Life, she had infiltrated Living World, a cosmetics company. The other members of Ninth Life suspect she was betrayed by someone within their own ranks and murdered because of what she learned.

The director of Living World has made vehement public denials that his company is experimenting on animals for product development. Caitlin sees only one answer: to penetrate the security systems protecting Living World – alarms, dogs, guards – and discover the truth for herself.

Nobody Asked But Somebody Told. Heartbreak and humor from a WAVE who was there. The true story of five Navy WAVES caught up in a frightening military witch-hunt in 1965...and the lifelong ramifications of that incident...told with amazing candor and good humor by the author.

Kim and Katie purchased an Inn expecting it to be a nice, tranquil, even uneventful way to earn a living. They were looking forward to catering to lesbians from all over the world, from all types of careers and walks of life.

The mixture of guests, friends, music, parties, sun, and fun make Kim and Katie's lives chaotic. Then a private party proves to be more than they bargained for when guests introduce drugs into the mix.
To top things off their private get away to Mexico becomes a wild ride into the dark, dangerous drug underworld where anything and everything is likely to happen.

Title: Rescue Me Author: Julie Cannon ISBN: 13: 978-1-60282-582-6 Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Available At: Bold Strokes Books Price: $16.95  Genre: Lesbian Romance

Tyler Logan reluctantly agrees to pose as the girlfriend of her in-the-closet gay BFF at his company’s annual retreat. Stupid idea, but simple. She’d done it a dozen times before.

Kristin Walker doesn’t want to go on this trip, be the perfect hostess, or be the boss’s wife anymore, but finds herself trapped in all three.

When an unexpected turn of events transforms their five days in paradise into a fight for survival, both women struggle against the odds and their own fears. However, the biggest challenge is their growing attraction toward each other and the question of who will rescue whom?

“The policewoman got shot and she’s bleeding everywhere. Get someone here in one hour or I’m going to put her out of her misery.”

An ultimatum that forever changes the lives of police officer Sam Lucas and Dr. Kate Myles.

When heavy snowfall isolates the small English village of Birchenlow, a violent robbery shatters the community. Taken as a hostage and stranded with the increasingly desperate criminals, Sam is seriously injured during an ill-fated escape attempt. Already struggling to save the lives of the villagers caught up in the raid, Kate volunteers to walk straight into the lion’s den. Cut off from help, with only each other to rely on, Sam and Kate must find a way to fight the odds and stay alive if the growing attraction between them is to survive.

The loss of her partner/lover in a friendly fire shooting sends LA police detective Loni Wagner running back to the quiet, safe life she remembered in a small Southern Arizona town. There she joins theArizona Highway Patrol, assuming that she can stay out of trouble driving her night shift on the peaceful desert roads. And she's right except for a plane wreck in a graveyard, a serial rapist, a kidnapping, a murder, a freeway pileup during a dust storm, a tornado, dead bodies, drug runners, and human smugglers. And she thought the streets of LA were dangerous.

But it's what takes place in the light of day that has her life in total disarray as things keep happening in the small town where everybody knows everybody else's business and where things keep coming back to bite her in the ass. She not only works out of the same police station with high school enemies, she has  a red-neck sexist police chief who loads her down with jobs beyond her shift that leave her exhausted and sleep deprived. And, on top of her need to help an old friend with troubles he doesn't even know he has, she adds her Native Indian grandparents to her worries: her grandmother is not well,and cattle rustling and vandalism on their ranch is about to break them.

Still mourning the death of her partner, Loni makes an effort toconnect with other women she finds intriguing—Jenny, the artteacher, and Tory, the new town veterinarian, while she also attempts to avoid dealing with Dorothea, her old high school interest. But it's Lola, the dispatcher at work that Loni believes is straight, who really occupies her mind, the one who challenges Loni to accept what is and to understand what coming home really means.

Act 1, Scene 1. Ashland, Oregon. Enter WREN LANDRY.

Wren has happily fled San Francisco and her nationally-known work as secretive food critic Eno Threlkeld for a few weeks’ vacation to visit her twin brother, Raven. Enter RAVEN, thrilled to be playing Beatrice in this season’s Much Ado About Nothing.

Enter SOPHIE WARD, former investment banker, now goat farmer and cheese monger, followed by a ruthless celebrity chef with a grudge against Eno, a zealous cupcake competitor, a baker who makes aebleskivers everybody covets, a family of Danish immigrants with a fishy backstory, and a dubious seer whose predictions might just hold the key to averting disaster.

In this mixed-up story of mistaken identities, mysterious loves, miscues, merriment and mayhem, love runs amok on the streets of a Shakespearean festival, and not even the goats on the Tallulah Rose Farm know how it all ends.