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Change of Pace: Erotic Interludes

ISBN:

1-933110-07-4

Price:

$14.95

Pages:

19

Released:

December 2004

Publisher:  

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A construction worker discovers a pleasant distraction in the surgical locker room; two friends share a walk on the wild side in Amsterdam's Red Light district; a femme top welcomes her lover home from the road; a woman enjoys a lazy summer afternoon with solo pleasures; a missed flight leads to a memorable limo ride for two women stranded in the fog on Cape Cod; a surprise party that ends with a most unusual gift; a woman takes a trip to the toy store for the one thing her lover never knew she needed; a graduate student signs up for a stimulating study that tests the outer limits of her control; two lovers reconnect with passion and pleasure...and more than ten other erotically-charged encounters from Radclyffe. 

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Erotic Interludes 2: Stolen Moments

-edited with Stacia Seaman

 

ISBN:

1-933110-16-3

Price:

$15.95

Pages:

288

Released:

September 2005

Publisher:  

BOLD STROKES BOOKS

 

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2005 Lambda Literary Award Winner

As an entry in the Bold Strokes Erotic Interludes collection, this anthology offers no-holds-barred erotica  from some of today’s best lesbian authors.

 

Love on the run, in the office, in the shadows…women stealing time from ordinary life to make passion a priority, if only for a moment. Fast, furious, and almost too hot to handle.   Read a review

 

Second Printing -  April 2006

 

Erotic Interludes 3: Lessons in Love

-edited with Stacia Seaman

 

ISBN:

1-933110-39-2

Price:

$15.95

Pages:

336

Released:

May 2006

Publisher:  

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GCLS Award Finalist- 2007 Lesbian Erotica

Sign on for a class in love…

Ronica Black, Cheyenne Blue, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Crin Claxton, Amie Evans, Lynne Jamneck, Karin Kallmaker, Meghan O'Brien, Radclyffe ...and over twenty more of the best lesbian erotica writers take us to “school” with stories of how to make passion an experience to remember. Visit a “butch-on-butch” bath house for an afternoon of discovery; trade secrets with a femme on how to strap-it-on; learn about what happens after the conference ends and the clothes come off; and watch a mistress instruct her pet in public.  Matriculate for an education and sample the incendiary pleasures of women trading secrets between the sheets.

 

Erotic Interludes 4: Extreme Passions

-edited with Stacia Seaman

 

ISBN:

1-933110-58-9

Price:

$15.95

Pages:

352

Released:

October 2006

Publisher:  

BOLD STROKES BOOKS

 

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Independent Publishers "IPPY" Silver Award - 2006 Erotica

Forbidden Fruits: Over thirty tales of love and lust that know no bounds – or boundaries.  

Today’s hottest erotica writers explore just how far women will go to get the girl. Seduction, abduction, champagne and flowers, bondage … extreme moves that are sooo bad, they’re too good to miss.

 

 

 

GCLS Award Winner- 2007 Lesbian Erotica

Erotic Interludes 5:  Road Games

 

ISBN: 978-1-933110-77-6

Price: $15.95

Pages: 296

Released: May 2007  Publisher:

BOLD STROKES BOOKS

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Independent Publishers "IPPY" GOLD Award - 2007 Erotica

 

2007 Ind. Book Pub. Pro. Grp. Indie Book Award Finalist- Erotica

2007 GCLS Award Winner - Erotica

 

Adventure, "sport", and sex on the road.  From erotic travel adventures to games of seduction and conquest—diverse, out on the edge lesbian erotica with a hint of risk/danger.  Established couples looking for a little spice (what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas); business women and conference goers sharing one-nighters, threesomes or more; play parties, private clubs, and secret rites; roadies and groupies and grips.

Up for a fast ride with the top down—climb aboard for thirty of the hottest trips in town.

In Deep Waters 1 In Deep Waters

Volume 1:  Cruising the Seas

ISBN: 978-1594931116

Price: $15.95

Pages: 288

Released: October 2007  Publisher: Bella Books

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Book passage on a deliciously sensual Mediterranean cruise with tour guides Radclyffe and Karin Kallmaker. Poolside, topside, below deck and ship-to-shore--grab a deck chair and feel the temperature climb.

From honeymooning couples to strangers with mutual desires, there are no secrets about what goes on between embarkation, midnight buffets and ports-of-call. Passengers, entertainers, ship's crew and tour staff explore every inch of each other and their floating paradise. The lounge. The ex's stateroom. The casino. The little room no one else has realized is so handy, and so private.

It's like no vacation you've ever experienced before when these two adventurous authors lure you into the deep waters where everyone gets wet.

Bella Books is proud to present best-selling romance authors Karin Kallmaker and Radclyffe's first collaboration.

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Illustration by Barb Kiwak,

Cover graphics by Sheri

 

In Deep Waters 2

Cruising the Strip

ISBN: 978-1602820135

Price: $15.95

Pages: 288

Release: May 2008  Publisher:

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Games of chance, games of passion, games of love—roll the dice for a week in Las Vegas with games mistresses Radclyffe and Karin Kallmaker. Whether a public 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 bluff. The risks and rewards of Las Vegas inspire more than one couple to let it ride. Double down? Inside bet? How about a little insurance when the dealer has the upper hand?  

Choose your game, ante up and enjoy the floor show.  All bets are off when these two writers deal the cards, and every hand is a winner.

Following up on In Deep Waters 1, Karin Kallmaker and Radclyffe bring you another passion-filled collection. Bold Strokes Books is proud to present their second collaboration.

Romantic Interludes 1:  Discovery

     eds. Radclyffe & Stacia Seaman    

 

ISBN: 978-1-60282-027-2

Price:      $15.95

Pages:     248

Release: September 2008

Publisher:

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When just one happy ending is not enough… 

An anthology of passionate, sensual love stories about falling in love, being in love, and celebrating the love between women of every age—yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Discover the passion, the thrill, and the heartwarming satisfaction of love time and again with twenty tales from today’s best-selling romance writers.


The Provincetown Tales

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Safe Harbor

 

ISBN:

1-933110-13-9

Price:

$14.95

Pages:

232

Released:

November 2004

Publisher:  

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A mysterious newcomer, a reclusive doctor, and a troubled gay teenager learn about love, friendship, and trust during one tumultuous summer in Provincetown. Reese Conlon, LtCol USMCR, is the new sheriff who has heads turning amidst speculation as to who will be the first woman to capture her attentions. Doctor Victoria King has been betrayed by love once and refuses to risk heartbreak again. Brianna Parker, the teenaged daughter of Reese's chief, fears her father’s wrath when he learns that she loves another girl. As these three women struggle to live and love in freedom, they risk their hearts and souls to give one another a Safe Harbor.   Revised edition. 

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Beyond The Breakwater

 

ISBN:

1-933110-6-6

Price:

$15.95

Pages:

32

Released:

October 2004

Publisher:  

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In Beyond the Breakwater, the sequel to Safe Harbor, Sheriff Reese Conlon and Doctor Tory King face the challenges of personal change as they define their lives and future together. Tory’s pregnancy forces her to examine her personal needs and goals while Reese struggles with her escalating anxieties over conditions she cannot control.  Twenty-year-old Brianna Parker makes a sacrifice for love that threatens not just her happiness, but her life, when she returns home as the newest member of the Sheriff's department. A life-threatening accident, a suspicious fire, and the appearance of more than one woman vying for Bri’s attentions makes one Provincetown summer a time of transformation as each woman learns the true meaning of love, friendship, and family.   Read a review

Distant Shores, Silent Thunder

 

ISBN:

1-933110-8-2

Price:

$15.95

Pages:

304

Released:

March 2005

Publisher:  

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2005 Lambda Award Winner

2006 GCLS Finalist - Romance

2006 Independent Publisher Award Finalist - Romance

No matter how much we plan, life—and people—have a way of surprising us.

 

For Doctor KT O’Bannon, a near-fatal tragedy derails a career and disrupts everything she thought she knew about herself and her future. Battered and nearly broken, she turns for solace to the one woman who knows her best, her ex-lover Doctor Tory King. Their unexpected reunion in Provincetown uncovers old wounds, forges new bonds, and awakens long-buried passions. While Tory’s lover Sheriff Reese Conlon struggles to uncover a deadly drug ring and Officer Bri Parker navigates the torturous path between friendship and desire, Tory and KT—and those who love them—are forced to examine the boundaries of love, friendship, and the ties that transcend time.  Read a review

Excerpt

Storms of Change

 

ISBN:

1-933110-57-0

Price:

$15.95

Pages:

288

Released:

October 2006

Publisher:  

BOLD STROKES BOOKS

 

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2007 GCLS Award Finalist -Lesbian Romance

Amidst war abroad and upheaval at home, Reese Conlon and Tory King face their gravest challenge to their life together.

In the continuing saga of the Provincetown Tales, Reese Conlon’s obligations to family and country are put to the test as war engulfs the Middle East, while her partner Tory King must come to terms with the true price of love. While friends and family struggle with the fears and uncertainties of a world in strife, the small seaside town becomes home to newly arrived art gallery owner, Ricarda Grechi, a woman whose underworld family connections make danger her constant companion. Life doesn't get any safer when State Police Detective Carter Wayne takes a sudden interest in Rica, but it does get more complicated.  When love, duty, honor, and family are in conflict...four women and those who love them struggle to survive the unforgiving storms of change.

Winds of Fortune

Excerpt

Winds of Fortune

 

ISBN: 978-1-933110-93-6

Price: $15.95

Pages: 280

Released: October 2007  Publisher:

BOLD STROKES BOOKS

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2007 Ind. Book Pub. Pro. Grp. Indie Book Award Finalist- Romance

2008 GCLS Award Finalist - Lesbian Erotica

 

The winds of fortune are fickle guides…and happiness or heartbreak may be the destination.

For Provincetown local Deo Camara, the only winds that have ever blown her way have been cold and lonely. Despite a decade of estrangement, however, Deo can’t turn her back on the call of blood, no matter how high the price in heartache. Dr. Nita Burgoyne has her own family secrets, a past so painful she starts a new life in hopes of leaving it behind. She has a rewarding new job and an historic sea captain’s house in need of renovation--all she needs to be content. Or so she thinks, until she hires Deo to head up the renovations. They have nothing in common except a shared legacy of betrayal by those they’d trusted the most, and an impossible attraction they would both prefer to ignore. Meanwhile, Nita’s new associate, Dr. Tory King, and her partner, Sheriff Reese Conlon, must cope with the aftermath of the winds of war and the approaching fury of a very real gathering storm.

The fifth in the saga of the Provincetown Tales.


Romances

Excerpt

Fated Love

 

ISBN:

1-933110-05-8

Price:

$15.95

Pages:

304

Released:

September 2004

Publisher:  

BOLD STROKES BOOKS

 

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2005 GCLS Award Winner-Romance

What do you do when your carefully planned life takes a wrong turn into hell?

 

When Quinn Maguire, a dashing young trauma surgeon, unaccountably accepts a position as an ER physician, her new boss, Honor Blake, suspects that Quinn is hiding a dark secret. While the two declare an uneasy truce in an effort to work together, both struggle with mutual, and unexpected, attraction. Honor, however, has more than one reason to resist her growing feelings for the attractive newcomer—not the least of which is that her heart belongs to the woman whose wedding ring she wears.

 

Amidst the chaos and drama of a busy emergency room, Quinn and Honor must contend not only with the fragile nature of life, but also with the mysteries of the heart and the irresistible forces of fate.   Read a review

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Innocent Hearts, 2nd ed.

 

ISBN:

1-933110-21-X

Price:

$15.95

Pages:

200

Released:

October 2005

Publisher:  

BOLD STROKES BOOKS

 

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In 1860's Montana Territory, Kate Beecher, a young woman from Boston, faces the hardships and hard choices of life on the frontier.  Just eighteen and quietly struggling against the social constraints of the era, Kate meets a woman who fires first her imagination, and then her dreams.  Jessie Forbes, a fiercely independent rancher, finds in Kate the passion she never knew she had been missing.  This is the story of their struggle to love in a land, and time, as cruel as it was beautiful.   Read a review

Excerpt

Love's Masquerade

 

ISBN:

1-933110-14-7

Price:

$15.95

Pages:

320

Released:

November 2004

Publisher:  

BOLD STROKES BOOKS

 

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Plunged into the often indistinguishable realms of fiction, fantasy, and hidden desires, Auden Frost discovers a shifting landscape that will force her to question everything she has believed to be true about herself and the nature of love.

It began one winter morning when Auden set out to interview for a much-needed position as an editor in the nonfiction division of Palmer Publishing. Haydon Palmer, however, the powerful young head of the company, offers Auden something far different—something that ultimately forces them both to confront their deepest fears and utmost desires. Unable to resist Hays's challenge and unaware of the charismatic woman's closely-guarded secrets, Auden soon finds herself on a journey that will transform both their lives.

Excerpt

Love's Melody Lost

 

ISBN:

1-933110-00-7

Price:

$14.95

Pages:

232

Released:

September 2004

Publisher:  

BOLD STROKES BOOKS

 

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A secretive artist with a haunted past and a young woman escaping a life that proved to be a lie find their destinies entwined.

Victim of a terrible accident, famed composer and pianist Graham Yardley loses her sight, her heart and her soul. Wealth and fame mean nothing after the devastating loss of her beloved music; her life is reduced to silence, darkness and bitter regret. In a bleak mansion atop windswept cliffs, the blind woman withdraws from the world, her once consuming passions now a source of anguish and fear. Then Anna, a lost woman seeking a place in the world, comes into her life and awakens feelings she thought were dead forever. A fragile melody of love is played between these damaged souls, a song made sweeter and stronger by the day... but will their blossoming romance be destroyed by an outsider's greed or will it succumb to the discord of Graham's tormented heart? Can she find happiness with Anna, caught up in the fiery overtures and darkly gothic strains of... Love's Melody Lost.  

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Love's Tender Warriors

 

ISBN:

1-933110-02-3

Price:

$14.95

Pages:

216

Released:

September 2004

Publisher:  

BOLD STROKES BOOKS

 

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Drew Clark, ex-Marine and martial arts master, is the new instructor at the Golden Tiger dojang. Intense and aloof, she hides dark secrets and unhealed wounds beneath her warrior's exterior. Sean Gray is the young psychologist and senior student who threatens to bring down the barriers Drew has erected around her heart. Battle hardened and world weary, Drew discovers that Sean wields a weapon she has no defense against--tenderness. Together, two women who have accepted loneliness as a way of life learn that love is worth fighting for and a battle they cannot afford to lose.

 

Based upon the web story, Golden Tiger, the print version has over 130 added pages and more than double the action and romance.

Night Call

   

ISBN: 978-1-60282-031-9

Price:      $15.95

Pages:     248

Release: October 2008

Publisher:

BOLD STROKES BOOKS

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All medevac helicopter pilot Jett McNally wants to do is fly and forget about the horror and heartbreak she left behind in the Middle East, but anesthesiologist Tristan Holmes has other plans. 

When Jett comes home from the war and destruction in the Middle East, flying and the adrenaline rush of a crisis are the only things that make her happy, and she volunteers to fly night call where all the action is whenever she can.  So maybe once in a while she takes a few chances.  Hey, that's life, right?  

Dr. Tristan Holmes is an expert at two things—high-risk anesthesia and pleasing women. Tristan gave up expecting anything other than a good time from the women in her life long time ago, and casual relationships are the perfect prescription for stress release.  She doesn’t do relationships, so she can’t quite understand why it bothers her when Jett makes it clear she doesn’t want one.  

High-stakes medical drama, life on the edge, and love in the fast lane—it's all just routine for Night Call.

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*French Translation:

Passion's Bright Fury

 

ISBN:

1-933110-54-6

Price:

$15.95

Pages:

264

Released:

September 2006

Publisher:  

BOLD STROKES BOOKS

 

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When a trauma surgeon and a filmmaker become reluctant allies on the battleground between life and death, passion strikes without warning.

Saxon Sinclair, the broodingly secretive Chief of Trauma at a busy Manhattan hospital, is less than pleased to learn that her new resident is going to be the subject of a documentary film.  The arrival of Jude Castle, a fiery independent filmmaker, soon sets sparks flying as the two driven women clash both personally and professionally.  Both have secrets they have spent a lifetime guarding, and both have chosen careers over love.  Desire and destiny clash in this fiery romance.  Reprint.

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Promising Hearts

 

ISBN:

1-933110-44-9

Price:

$15.95

Pages:

288

Released:

June 2006

Publisher:  

BOLD STROKES BOOKS

 

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GCLS Award Winner- 2007 Lesbian Romance

The Montana frontier of the 1860s might be dangerous, but only if you have something to lose.

 

Dr. Vance Phelps lost everything in the War Between the States—her professional future, her place in Philadelphia society, and her faith in herself. She travels to New Hope, Montana with no hope of happiness and no desire for anything except forgetting. Mae is a frontier madam, used to standing alone. She fiercely guards the well-being of the lost young women who come under her care—she just never expected one of them to be a doctor, wounded in body and soul.

 

Can two outcasts find refuge in one another’s hearts?   Read a review

 

 

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shadowland

 

ISBN:

1-933110-11-2

Price:

$14.95

Pages:

250

Released:

November 2004

Publisher:  

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In a world on the far edge of desire, two women are drawn together by power, passion, and dark pleasures. When Kyle Kirk embarks on a daring exploration of her most secret fantasies, she finds that Dane, the stranger who guides her on the journey of self-discovery, awakens something far more dangerous than her senses. In the dark hours of the night, when passions rule and the barriers of convention are stripped away, both Dane and Kyle are forced to confront the true nature of what has long lain buried within their hearts. Read a review


"In a bold break with traditional romance, the mistress of lesbian fiction introduces us to the shadow world of leather and lace, and dominance and submission. In Shadowland, Radclyffe takes these seemingly singular lives and effortlessly intertwines them with our own until the characters are as much a part of our hearts and fantasies as...in any of her previous bestselling romances." --KatLyn, author of
Storm Surge

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The Lonely Hearts Club

 

ISBN: 978-1602820050

Price: $15.95

Pages: 272

Release: February 2008  Publisher:

BOLD STROKES BOOKS

 

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Take three friends, add two ex-lovers and several new ones, then mix with more secrets than any of them know—and the result is a recipe for explosive rivalries and incendiary romance. 

Attorney Liz Ramsey thought she had everything—a devoted partner, a challenging job, and plans for a family in the making.  Unfortunately, her life takes a turn, and she ends up alone and in the kind of trouble she never dreamed of.  When she bumps into—literally— young surgeon Reilly Danvers during an appointment at the University Hospital, conversation leads to an offer of coffee, and in a moment of weakness, Liz accepts.  But there's no danger in that, right?  It's just coffee. 

Liz's two best friends offer all the support she needs, but they have secrets of their own.  Candace Lory is a high-powered commodities trader and swinging playgirl who meets her match when she hooks up with corporate attorney, Parker Jones.  Parker is as much a swinger as Candace but try as they might, the two can't seem to stop repeating their one-night stand. Brenda Beal writes best-selling erotic romance novels under a pseudonym even her closest friends don't know.  One of the only members of "the group" who didn't sleep with every available woman during college, Bren would rather fantasize about a perfect lover, especially if she's obedient and willing to do anything Bren orders.  A surprise birthday "trip" and a dashing dark-eyed submissive transform Bren's fantasies into reality and her dark secrets into delicious pleasures. 

Together the three friends struggle to heal their lonely hearts and broken dreams.

 

Excerpt

Tomorrow's Promise

 

ISBN:

1-933110-12-0

Price:

$15.95

Pages:

212

Released:

November 2004

Publisher:  

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Adrienne Pierce, buffeted by fate and abandoned by love, seeks refuge from her past as well as her uncertain future on Whitley Point, a secluded island off the coast of Maine. Tanner Whitley—young, wild, restless—and heir to a dynasty, desperately tries to escape both her destiny and the memories of a tragic loss with casual sex and wild nights, a dangerous course that may ultimately destroy her. One timeless summer, these two very different women discover the power of passion to heal--and the promise of hope that only love can bestow. 

Excerpt

Turn Back Time

    

ISBN:

1-933110-34-1

Price:

$15.95

Pages:

288

Released:

March 2006

Publisher:  

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Independent Publishers "IPPY" Silver Award - 2006 Romance

 

2006 Lambda Literary Foundation Award Finalist - Lesbian Romance

2007 GCLS Award Finalist - Romance

 

Love has a way of derailing the best of plans.

Barely recovered from a failed relationship, Wynter Thompson struggles to balance the demands of her surgical residency with the responsibilities of her personal life - and between the two, discovers there is little time left for anything else. She manages to convince herself that she has everything she needs, because another chance at love is definitely not in her game plan.

Pearce Rifkin is a woman with a plan, and it doesn’t include a serious relationship. Chief Surgical Resident is just a stepping stone to her lifelong goal - chairmanship at one of the top ten medical centers. Determined to follow in her father’s footsteps, even though she isn’t the son he dreamed of, Pearce has no time for romance.

Two women with nothing in common but a shared passion for surgery clash at every opportunity, especially when matters of the heart are suddenly at stake. Read a review

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When Dreams Tremble

 

ISBN 978-1-933110-64-6 Price: $15.95

Pages: 272

Released: January 2007  Publisher:

BOLD STROKES BOOKS

 

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Independent Publishers "IPPY" Silver Award - 2007 Romance

 

 

2007 Lambda Literary Foundation Award Finalist - Woman's Romance

Leslie Harris’s visit to her upstate New York lakeside family home after a decade of triumphs and disappointment resembles a nightmare more than the quiet vacation she’d hoped for. The unexpected appearance of much-changed town bad girl Devon Weber, with whom Leslie shares a secret that haunts them both, rekindles an old heart ache—and reminds Leslie of just why she left. Even though her attraction to Dev comes roaring back, the