New Releases for June 2010

   

Title: Come Back to Me
Author: Chris Paynter
ISBN: 978-0-9822858-5-5
Publisher: Blue Feather Books, Ltd., www.bluefeatherbooks.com
Available From: Blue Feather Books, www.bluefeatherbooks.com; and Bella Books, www.bellabooks.com
E-book available from Bella Books,www. bellabooks.com
Pages: 220 - Price: $15.50
Genre: Lesbian Romance












Author Angie Cantinnini’s agent convinces her she must use a pseudonym if she hopes to land a contract with a mainstream publishing company—especially since the protagonist of Angie’s novels is a hard-boiled male detective. Neither Angie nor her agent anticipate the raging success of the series of books or the mountain of wealth that accompanies each new release.

As a best-selling author, Angie should be delighted with her Bohemian life in Key West, but happiness is elusive because it’s her alter-ego, Zach England, who’s receiving the accolades, while Angie is relegated to anonymity.

Meryl McClain, the recently hired book review editor at the prestigious New York Banner, wants to make a strong first impression with her readers, so she picks Zach England’s latest novel for her debut column. She offers a scathing critique, unaware the real author behind the pseudonym is her long-lost true love, Angie. Heartrending choices separated the lovers eleven years earlier.

Seeing Meryl’s review overwhelms Angie with feelings she thought she’d laid to rest years ago. This stroke of fate beckons them to reunite, but Angie’s secret identity and Meryl’s struggle with a childhood trauma conspire to keep them apart.

Torn from a shared moment in their past, the words Come Back to Me have haunted the two women for more than a decade. Is it too late for Angie and Meryl to choose love again?



   

Title: Do Not Disturb
Author: Carsen Taite
ISBN10: 1-60282-153-4 - ISBN13: 978-1-60282-153-8
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books, www.boldstrokesbooks.com
Available From: Bold Strokes Books, www.boldstrokesbooks.com
Price: $16.95
Genre: Lesbian Romance












Love doesn’t wait to be invited in…

Ainsley Faraday specializes in the management of sleek, urban hotels, and is reluctant to accept her employer’s latest challenge to take over a mom-and-pop property in Santa Fe. Even though she has no desire to be surrounded with lonely mountain ranges and coyote skulls, she can’t resist a challenge that might put her within reach of a corner office at headquarters.

Rock star Greer Davis’s protective bubble of stardom bursts after a night of wanton partying results in a public disaster of epic proportions. Unprepared for the scathing turn of events, Greer heads for the hills—literally. She assumes a new identity and returns to her roots in Northern New Mexico just as her latest album debuts at number one on the charts.

When Ainsley and Greer meet on a flight to New Mexico, love is the last thing on either of their minds, but tall mountain vistas, big blue skies, and hot, hot green chili all combine to create a rush of endorphins begging for release.


   

Title: Fierce Overture
Author: Gun Brooke
ISBN10: 1-60282-156-9 - ISBN13: 978-1-60282-156-9
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books, www.boldstrokesbooks.com
Available From: Bold Strokes Books, www.boldstrokesbooks.com
Pages: 240
Price: $16.95
Genre: Lesbian Romance













Music superstar Noelle Laurent refuses to record the music her producers have lined up for her new album. Prepared to break her contract if necessary, all Noelle wants is a chance to sing her own songs. Desperate, the producers bring in their CEO, business tycoon Helena Forsythe, who is infamous for not taking any prisoners. Noelle expects the CEO to be the company bitch everybody fears but she is not prepared to be so affected by Helena's formidable presence and charisma.

For Helena, it's all about the money, so why change a winning game plan? However, when Noelle shows unexpected strength and courage in the negotiations, Helena knows she has to change her usual steamroller approach. Trying charm instead of brute force, Helena is blind-sided by her own unexpected feelings. When Noelle responds in kind, the stakes escalate for both women, who risk not only their professional futures but everything when it comes to their hearts.


   

Title: From This Moment On
Author: PJ Trebelhorn
ISBN10: 1-60282-154-2 - ISBN13: 978-1-60282-154-5
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books, www.boldstrokesbooks.com
Available From: Bold Strokes Books, www.boldstrokesbooks.com
Price: $16.95
Genre: Lesbian Romance












When faced with the loss of everything you hold dear, you run.

After a drunk driver took the lives of her lover and unborn child, that's exactly what Devon Conway did. Three years later when offered a business opportunity she can't pass by, she decides it's finally time to return home—even though she’s far from sure of her welcome.

Katherine Hunter took a different path in the face of loss, throwing herself into her work to fill the emptiness in her heart. She doesn't have the time to date, even if she wanted to. But then fate drops Devon on her doorstep—literally—and Kat begins to question if the life she has painstakingly rebuilt is really enough.

Despite Devon and Kat’s powerful attraction, the past stands between them—preventing them from taking a chance on the future. Will what is growing between them be enough to convince them that from this moment on, anything is possible, even love?



   

Title: Little White Lie
Author: Lea Santos
ISBN10: 1-60282-163-1 - ISBN13: 978-1-60282-163-Publisher: Bold Strokes Books, www.boldstrokesbooks.com
Available From: Bold Strokes Books, www.boldstrokesbooks.com
Pages: 192
Price: $14.95
Genre: Lesbian Romance












First in the Amigas y Amor Series

Emie Jaramillo learned long ago that brains count more than beauty, and that’s just fine with her. She doesn’t want, nor does she need, a relationship. When her prestigious academic career earns her an invitation to appear on a national talk show, she eagerly looks forward to discussing her genetics work. Little does she know that the episode is really entitled “Those bookworm looks have to go!” Worse yet, gorgeous makeup artist Gia Mendez—a woman around whom Emie stupidly lowers her guard—was in on the humiliating prank.

The fiasco just convinces Emie of what she knew all along: relationships are for other people, and women like Gia don’t belong anywhere near her world. But Gia’s about to make it up to Emie, by convincing her she has not only brains, but beauty...and she’s the only woman Gia wants in her life.


   

Title: Natural Order
Author: Moondancer Drake
ISBN: 978-1-933720-67-8
Publisher: PD Publishing, www.pdpublishing.com
Available From: Your favorite bookstore
Price: $19.99
Genre: Lesbian / Romance / Paranormal












An evening at the movies turns into a living nightmare for Elizabeth Crew as her lover Dusty battles for their lives and the unborn baby Elizabeth is carrying. Dusty’s dying request is that Elizabeth go live with Dusty’s family, where she and the baby will be safe.

Dusty’s family takes Elizabeth into their home with open arms and a bit of concern. What will happen if Elizabeth learns that her new family includes shape-shifters? For Elizabeth, the family secrets are not all that awaits her in the darkness.



   

Title: Rip Van Dyke
Author: Kate McLachlan
ISBN: 978-1-935053-29-3
Publisher: Regal Crest, www.regalcrest.biz
Available From: Allied Crest Editions, www.rcedirect.com
Pages: 228
Price: $17.95
Genre: Adventure/Time-travel












When Van Hollinger is suddenly transported twenty years into the future, she is dumbfounded - and furious. Jill's silly time-travel experiment wasn't supposed to actually work. But it did, and now Van is stuck in the future. 2008, that is. A future in which Van's friends and lover have all aged twenty years, but Van has not. Jill, an old woman now, promises to recreate her time-travel machine and send Van back, but Van is skeptical and decides instead to try to make a life for herself in 2008.

It isn't easy. Patsy, her lover, never recovered from Van's sudden disappearance in 1988 and is now a deeply troubled old woman, in no condition to offer Van any help. Van has no home, no job, no money, not even a driver's license. But help and hope arrive in the form of Bennie, the steamy young woman whose intriguing overtures were off limits in the past. Van wrestles with herself. Does she remain faithful to Patsy despite the sudden chasm between their ages, or does she let herself accept the life, love and laughter that Bennie offers?

But when secret agents learn of Van' s leap through time, Van faces an even tougher decision. This time, one of life or death.



   

Title: Sea Of Grass
Author: Kate Sweeney
ISBN: 978-1-935216-15-5
Available From: Bella Books, www.bellabooks.com; and Intaglio Publications, www.intagliopub.com ebooks
Ebook available from Bella Books, www.bellabooks.com
Price: $16.95
Genre: Romance












Professor Tess Rawlins spent the last twelve years teaching agriculture in California, away from Montana and her heart. When she's called back to the sprawling Double R cattle ranch and her ailing father, Tess is thrown back into the world she had nearly forgotten since the death of her brother two years earlier.

Unsettling memories boil to the surface for Tess, and her only pleasant distraction is the new cook Claire Redman and her son Jack. However, there is more facing Professor Rawlins than dealing with the memory of her brother or her attraction to Claire. Tess must figure a way to save the Rawlins's five thousand acres of rich grassland. It has thrived for five generations, when her great-grandfather started the dynasty in the 1880s; now she may lose it all to an unscrupulous land developer.

Set in the foothills of the Bitterroots, Tess and Claire find themselves in the fight of their lives—for love and the sea of grass.



   

Title: Staying in the Game
Author: Nann Dunne
ISBN: 978-1-9356279-0-6
Available From: Blue Feather Books, www.bluefeatherbooks.com; and Bella Books, www.bellabooks.com
E-book available from Bella Books,www. bellabooks.com
Pages: 196 - Price: $14.50
Lesbian / Mystery Thriller












A serial killer has every college in the area on tenterhooks. When Shelley Brinton switches to Spofford College and acts mysteriously, her softball teammates jump to unnerving conclusions.

Angela Wedgeway cautions everyone that Shelley should be considered innocent until proven guilty, but her words fall on deaf ears.

The group decides to shadow Shelley each night, and to Angela’s dismay, their case against Shelley gets stronger and stronger. Everyone is shocked when the truth comes out, and Angela receives the worst shock of all.

Who is Shelley Brinton? What dark secret drives her? Is Angela’s life in danger? The answers astound everyone involved.



   

Title: Strength in Numbers
Author: Jeanine Hoffman
Available From: L-Book, http://L-Book.com/jh-sin.html
All formats: eBooks, Paperback, Audio eBook and Micro/SD Memory Card.
Novel: 252 pages, 83,000 words - $16.95
Audio is mp3 format, 8:15 hours listening time, 344 MB Total, 45 Tracks, all eBooks are included.
See L-Book site for costs.












Four women. One ran from her best friend years ago but wants to make amends, if she can. A second has buried herself in work for so long she isn't sure she knows how to do much else. The third has traveled and played the field, while playing some of the finest golf courses of the world. And the fourth is the best friend that had her heart broken so many years ago. She hasn't trusted many since.

All four women have things to face about themselves and the others. What do these women have in common? A crisis. Their lives are all about to turn upside down and the outcome can only be determined by their faith in the saying, There is Strength in Numbers.

Note: As per L-Book new release tradition, we are giving away a Free electronic jigsaw puzzle of the book cover. Receive the free gift with purchase of Strength in Numbers any format. All puzzles are 300 pieces and sizeable to best match different size screens. Free Gift Jigsaw Puzzles by Galore Puzzles. Thank You for supporting our authors, eBooks, L-Books (Audio) and paperback.



   

Title: Trauma Alert
Author: Radclyffe
ISBN10: 1-60282-157-7 - ISBN13: 978-1-60282-157-6
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books, www.boldstrokesbooks.com
Available From: Bold Strokes Books, www.boldstrokesbooks.com
Pages: 320
Price: $16.95
Genre: Lesbian Romance












Series: First Responders

When you spend your life battling death, who has time for love?

Dr. Ali Torveau knows just how fragile life can be—she sees death and tragedy every day in the trauma unit. Battling the dark forces of fate is her life’s work and she doesn’t want or need anything else, certainly nothing as transient as love. Plenty of women try to change her mind, but she never has any trouble saying no. Not until the day firefighter Beau Cross shows up in her ER and sets Ali’s carefully ordered world aflame.



   

Title: Turn for Home
Author: Lara Zielinsky
ISBN: 978-1-933720-74-6
Publisher: PD Publishing, www.pdpublishing.com
Available From: Your favorite bookstore
Pages: 202
Price: $16.99
Genre: Romantic Intrigue












Falling in love wasn’t easy. Staying together may be impossible.

With her divorce proceeding, Brenna Lanigan is upset by her sons’ cold shoulders and opposition to her intimate relationship with Cassidy Hyland. Cassidy’s son Ryan eagerly accepts their relationship, which makes Thomas and James’ lack of support more upsetting.

When the women return from holiday hiatus to Time Trails, they sneak precious moments of intimacy in shadows and trailers. With many of the cast and crew showing support, Cassidy and Brenna try to date in hopes of being seen simply as friends. The paparazzi give chase, however, very interested in the attitude change from cold shoulder to coziness between them.

When their romance is suspected, the “lesbian” label sets off Mitch Hyland, Cassidy’s ex-husband, who plans to remove his son from being raised by a lesbian –

By force if necessary.



   

Title: Vapor
Author: Larkin Rose
ISBN10: 1-60282-155-0 - ISBN13: 978-1-60282-155-2
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books, www.boldstrokesbooks.com
Available From: Bold Strokes Books, www.boldstrokesbooks.com
Price: $14.95
Genre: Lesbian Erotica, Romance












Tainted love and paybacks…in a black satin tux?

Author Ashley Vaughn deserves nothing less, according to Vic, the unwilling star of Ashley’s latest erotic best seller. Ashley spends her life writing erotic romance and her nights alone. When a sexy butch sweeps her off her feet following a book signing, she’s too afraid to believe in the miracle of love at first sight to take a chance. Instead, she writes about it.

Victoria Hadley, chef and restaurateur, believes she’s found the woman of her dreams. Until she discovers Ms. Right has used their night of passion to further her career. Bent on revenge, she lures Ashley into a trap. But is the trap about to snare her too?



   

Title: Witch Wolf
Author: Winter Pennington
ISBN10: 1-60282-177-1 - ISBN13: 978-1-60282-177-4
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books, www.boldstrokesbooks.com
Available From: Bold Strokes Books, www.boldstrokesbooks.com
Price: $16.95
Genre: Lesbian Paranormal/Urban Fantasy, Romance












The First Book in the Kassandra Lyall Preternatural Investigator Series

Preternatural Private Investigator and Paranormal Huntress Kassandra Lyall is used to working alone. Whenever there’s a murder or a mystery to solve that involves the preternatural—she’s the witch they call. When she’s called in to help the local cops work on a mysterious murder case, she finds herself needing all the help she can get.

A bloodthirsty werewolf is loose in the city and on a killing spree.

As if her plate weren’t full enough, a strange she-wolf seeks Kassandra’s aid, asking her to help find her missing brother. Kassandra soon learns that the strange she-wolf serves two masters, and one of those masters has taken quite an interest in her.

In a world where vampires have charmed their way into modern society, where werewolves walk the streets with their beasts disguised by human skin, Kassandra Lyall has a secret of her own to protect.

She’s one of them.



   

Title: Wolfsbane Winter
Author: Jane Fletcher
ISBN10: 1-60282-158-5 - ISBN13: 978-1-60282-158-3
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books, www.boldstrokesbooks.com
Available From: Bold Strokes Books, www.boldstrokesbooks.com
Pages: 264
Price: $16.95
Genre: Lesbian Romantic Fantasy












The Iron Wolf mercenaries who guard travelers on the Misery Trail are notorious for their quick and casual sex lives.

Deryn may fit the stereotype better than most, but she has her reasons. A childhood tragedy has left her wary of forming attachments. If you don't care, then you can't get hurt, but you can still make a mess of things—such as the error of judgment that leaves her with no money, forced to spend the winter on a lousy job in a miserable little backwater.

There she meets Alana, local healer, vet, and woman of mystery. It does not take Deryn long to find out that Alana is more than she seems, and has her own perilous secret to keep. Yet Deryn still finds herself falling for the woman, so much so that her come-and-go lifestyle is at risk.

This would be bad enough, but serious trouble arrives for Deryn and Alana in the form of demon magic from the Time of Chaos—revealing that old legends are not merely material for ghost stories around the fire. As the danger increases, who do they need to fear more, the living or the dead?