Title: A Place to Rest Author: Erin Dutton ISBN10: 1-60282-021-X - ISBN13: 978-1-60282-021-0 Publisher: Bold Strokes Books, www.boldstrokesbooks.com Available from: StarCrossed Productions, www.SCP-inc.biz; and Bold Strokes Books, www.boldstrokesbooks.com Price: $15.95 - Pages: 240 Genre: Romance

Sawyer Drake has never known what she wants—except it isn't working in the family restaurant, which is what everyone expects. In order to outrun her destiny, or at least delay the inevitable, she bounces from job to job—and woman to woman. Nothing has ever kept her attention for very long. Nothing, that is, until she meets shy pastry chef, Jori Diamantina. But Jori has no intention of risking the job she loves and a life she's comfortable with for a passing fling with Sawyer, no matter how strong the attraction. Sawyer has no idea what she want from Jori, or from life, but she's about to find out—because Jori makes her want to stop running.

A Place to Rest is a touching romance about the beauty of finally discovering where you belong.

Title: Blue Collar Lesbian Erotica Editors: Pat Cronin & Verda Foster ISBN: 978-1-935053-01-9 Publisher: Regal Crest Available from: StarCrossed Productions, www.SCP-inc.biz Price: $12.95 Pages: 156 Genre: Erotica Anthology

We don't all live in million dollar homes and drive fancy sports cars. We don't all live the life protrayed on television or in some of our books. Most of us live average lives in average homes and average circumstances. So why not have stories about us?

Blue Collar Lesbian Erotica is a collection of stories about the average lesbian in hot, steamy encounters in not-so-average places. Okay, sometimes the women are lawyers or actresses, but the sex doesn't always take place where you would expect. Try taxi cabs, an oil mechanic's pit, backyard tent…

This anthology goes outside the norm and provides a collection of stories you won't see anywhere else.

Contributors: Karin Kallmaker, Radclyffe, Ali Vali, Kate Sweeney, Verda Foster, Vada Foster, Trish Shields, Nann Dunne, Sammo, Pat Cronin, Georgia Beers, Anne J. Kingsley, Kathy Smith, and Victoria Oldham.

Title: Compulsion Author: Terri Breneman ISBN: 978-1-594931-26-0 Publisher: Bella Books Available from: StarCrossed Productions, www.SCP-inc.biz; and Bella Books, www.bellabooks.com Price: $13.95 - Pages: 288 Genre: Mystery

Toni Barston returns as an assistant prosecuting attorney in Fairfield. During an interview with a murder suspect, she stumbles on information about an organized crime operation dealing in drugs and who knows what else. Within days her car is torched. The boss of this organization, a troubled woman, soon becomes obsessed with Toni and will stop at nothing to either have her or have her killed.

After Toni barely escapes a kidnapping attempt, she and her friends desperately try to piece together the information they have before the woman and her people strike again. Who wants her enough to kill?

Title: Deadly Challenge, 2nd Ed. ISBN: 1-933720-44-1 Author: Trish Kocialski Publisher: P.D. Publishing Available From: StarCrossed Productions, www.SCP-inc.biz Price: $14.99 Pages: 168 Genre: Mystery/Adventure

Deadly Challenge, the third installment of the continuing adventures of Dean and Katie, will leave you on the edge of your seat. Colonel Deanna Peterson and Special Agent Katherine O'Malley are riding high after completing another successful operation to thwart a terrorist attack...but the euphoria is short lived. Deanna's friends are being targeted in a challenge and she doesn't know who is behind this threat. Someone has an axe to grind and it's being wielded at Deanna's friends and loved ones.

Intertwined with the mystery, Deanna has to face her estranged father and come to terms with their dark pasts. As the clock runs down, someone will die, someone else will be severely injured, and Katie's life will rest in the hands of her lover as Deanna faces her most deadly challenge yet.

Title: Falling Star Author: Gill McKnight ISBN10: 1-60282-023-6 - ISBN13: 978-1-60282-023-4 Publisher: Bold Strokes Books, www.boldstrokesbooks.com Available from: StarCrossed Productions, www.SCP-inc.biz; and Bold Strokes Books, www.boldstrokesbooks.com Price: $15.95 - Pages: 192 Genre: Romance

Solley Rayner hopes a few weeks with her family will help heal her shattered dreams, but she hasn’t counted on meeting a woman who stirs her heart.

With her marriage in crisis, Solley Rayner takes her children to the beach house of her sister Janie and Janie's partner Marsha for a much-needed summer break. But all hopes of rest and relaxation are interrupted when a movie stunt crew arrives to film a blockbuster in the bay.

Professional stuntwoman Gin Ito, a paparazzi favorite rumored to be a killer in bed, heads up the team of daredevils. When Gin literally drops into Solley’s life, how could the lonely young mother’s interest not be piqued? And what private pain draws Gin Ito inexorably toward the small family and the woman who protects it with all her heart?

Title: Haunted Hearths & Sapphic Shades: Lesbian Ghost Stories Edited By: Catherine Lundoff ISBN: 1-59021-162-6 Publisher: Lethe Press Available From: StarCrossed Productions, www.SCP-inc.biz Price: $17 Pages: 268 Genre: Paranormal Anthology

At their heart, ghost stories are often domestic tales, and so there is little wonder why women have been some of the finest tellers of such stories: cautionary tales and stories where oppression is avenged by the grim ethereal, of lovers lost to life but who refuse to part. This rich tradition finds new voices in Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades. Early ghost stories are filled with characters that can be read as coded lesbians – maiden aunts and spinsters – lurking at the fringe of mortal life. But here are seventeen authors who have spun words that are fresh. These shades vary from the eerie to the romantic. These are phantoms who may well menace or linger long in the dreams of readers.

Title: Land of Entrapment Author: Andi Marquette ISBN: 978-1-935053-02-6 Publisher: Regal Crest Available From: StarCrossed Productions, www.SCP-inc.biz Price: $15.95 Pages: 240 Genre: Mystery/Intrigue

K.C. Fontero left Albuquerque for Texas in the wake of a bitter break-up, headed for a teaching and research post-doc at the University of Texas, Austin. With a doctorate in sociology and expertise in American white supremacist groups, she's well on her way to an established academic life. But the past has a way of catching up with you and as K.C. spends a summer helping her grandfather on his central Texas farm, her past shows up in the form of her ex, Melissa Crown, an Albuquerque lawyer who left K.C. for another woman three years earlier.

Melissa's younger sister Megan has gone missing – she's hooked up with a man Melissa suspects is part of an underground white supremacist group and Melissa needs K.C.'s help to find her and hopefully bring her out of the movement. K.C. knows she has the knowledge and contacts to track the group. She knows that in the interests of public service, she'd be helping law enforcement, as well. What she doesn't know is how far into her past she'll have to go in order to find not only Megan, but herself as well.

Working to locate the group without alerting members' suspicions, K.C. finds herself drawn to Megan's friend and neighbor, Sage Crandall, a photographer who challenges K.C.'s attempts to keep her heart ensconced in the safety of research and analysis. Confronted with her growing feelings for Sage while unraveling her complicated past with Melissa, K.C. delves into the racist and apocalyptic beliefs of the mysterious group, but the deeper she goes, the greater the danger she faces.

Title: Lethal Affairs Author: Kim Baldwin & Xenia Alexiou ISBN10: 1-60282-022-8 - ISBN13: 978-1-60282-022-7 Publisher: Bold Strokes Books, www.boldstrokesbooks.com Available from: StarCrossed Productions, www.SCP-inc.biz; and Bold Strokes Books, www.boldstrokesbooks.com Price: $15.95 - Pages: 288 Genre: Romantic Intrigue

Love has never been more lethal.

Elite operative Domino is no stranger to peril and impossible situations. Trained all her life to be just as comfortable fighting terrorists as mixing with the gala crowd, she is proficient at playing any role necessary to accomplish her objective and believes the cause sanctifies the means. But her latest assignment to investigate journalist Hayley Ward will test more than her skills, ingenuity, and courage, because this time she faces the ultimate dilemma: a choice between loyalty and love.

First in the Elite Operatives romantic intrigue series.

Title: The Kiss That Counted Author: Karin Kallmaker ISBN: 978-1-594931-31-4 Publisher: Bella Books Available From: StarCrossed Productions, www.SCP-inc.biz; and Bella Books, www.bellabooks.com Price: $13.95 - Pages: 288 Genre: Romance

CJ Roshe knows she can never relax her vigilance, especially when her grip on her secrets begins to slip. Contact with the good-hearted Karita Hanssen leaves CJ wishing for impossible things--friends, roots, a lover who knows her real name.

With a life cheerfully balanced between all the things that she loves, Karita gives freely of her time and affection. She isn't looking for more until something in CJ's eyes suggests that there could be feelings deeper, stronger – and more dangerous – than any she has ever felt.

CJ is committed to only tonights with her body and certainly no tomorrows when it comes to her heart. Karita has always lived for today while she waits for tomorrow to happen. One kiss couldn't change all that – unless it's the kiss that counted.

Title: Warrior’s Valor Authors: Gun Brooke ISBN10: 1-60282-020-1 - ISBN13: 978-1-60282-020-3 Publisher: Bold Strokes Books, www.boldstrokesbooks.com Available from: StarCrossed Productions, www.SCP-inc.biz; and Bold Strokes Books, www.boldstrokesbooks.com Price: $15.95 - Pages: 296 Genre: Romantic Fantasy

Environmental activist Dwyn Izsontro and law enforcement officer Emeron D'Artansis instinctively dislike everything about each other, even though the attraction between them is unmistakable. While Dwyn surveys an endangered region of a remote planet with Emeron as her security escort, Ambassador M'Ekar has bribed his guards to facilitate his escape from the planet where he is incarcerated. As part of his escape plan, he kidnaps one of the individuals he holds responsible for his humiliation, Dahlia Jacelon.

When a spacecraft carrying unexpected cargo crashes to the surface in the region where Dwyn and Emeron are working, the two women are unexpectedly hurled into a search and rescue mission where the fate of millions rest with their ability to work together. The stakes go up when Rae Jacelon and Kellen, the Protector of the Realm, join in the hunt.

Another thrilling saga in the Supreme Constellations romantic sci-fi adventure series.