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Everybody longs for a happy ending.

The day the kid fell in the river—that was the moment for Claire and Liv. The first inkling of a possibility of something to pull them together, away from grief, back from despair.

Third book in the Cat Rising trilogy. Cat Hood doesn't want to go home. She has a new life and a new love in Scotland. But her brother, Will, has been widowed and left with two small children. So there's no choice for Cat now. She must return to Galway, North Carolina, the place she left when love got lost.

Cat Rising is the richly drawn tale of one woman's quest to build a future through the discoveries of her past. Author Cynn Chadwick paints a vibrant portrait of community—friends and family together for the long haul, no matter how bumpy the ride.

Girls with Hammers is a lovingly crafted novel of an independent woman's struggle to overcome obstacles and build the life she's always wanted. Author Cynn Chadwick works her literary magic again with this charming tale of family, love, human courage and strength, and Southern hospitality.

Do you know what it’s like to come out when you’re in your forties, having menopausal symptoms, for God’s sake, and then fall madly in love with someone?

Last Chance at the Lost and Found is a story of personal growth, of choices made—good and bad—of how to live and love. It’s also the story of the lesbian and gay community from the 70s through the 90s. A story of friendships and lovers and alcohol and recovery and turmoil and, finally, peace of mind.

Jean Carson is not a lesbian. Not when wants to keep her job. But Jean's a teacher and one of her students is being bullied; everyone calls her "Lezzie Lin". So Jean stays in the closet and soon Lezzie Lin isn't at school but in a hospital bed.

Risk is a beautifully told story that spans the years from the mid-eighties to the post-9/11 world. Carol, whose father was killed in the Vietnam War, is an idealistic, Berkeley-educated, Jewish lesbian living in Oakland, California. She makes her living by tutoring high school students, engages in community activism, and sometimes supplements her income with gambling. Through Carol's life, Dykewomon explores the changing times and values in America.

Kit O'Malley, the Australian PI with the mean right-hook, is smarter, tougher, and more dangerous than ever and she is on the scene when a corpse belonging to a member of a notorious Melbourne crime family is found at her local bar. Asking the right questions of the wrong people sees Kit and her friends dragged into serious danger.

Claire has three goals: to stay sober, to stay away from sex, and to get into film school. So far she's blown two of the three and her drunken affair with her professor's wife means she might just have blown the third.

Everybody longs for a happy ending.

The day the kid fell in the river—that was the moment for Claire and Liv. The first inkling of a possibility of something to pull them together, away from grief, back from despair.

Celebrate the holidays . . . lesbian style! Celebrate solstice with women journeying along California's rugged north coast. With a firefighter on the job in New York City. Overlooking a plain, filled with waiting children, north of Los Angeles. Experience Thanksgiving with a lesbian border patrol agent along the Arizona-Mexico border.

Third book in the Cat Rising trilogy. Cat Hood doesn't want to go home. She has a new life and a new love in Scotland. But her brother, Will, has been widowed and left with two small children. So there's no choice for Cat now. She must return to Galway, North Carolina, the place she left when love got lost.

Cat Rising is the richly drawn tale of one woman's quest to build a future through the discoveries of her past. Author Cynn Chadwick paints a vibrant portrait of community—friends and family together for the long haul, no matter how bumpy the ride.

Dreams and Swords is not only the perfect introduction to Katherine V. Forrest's work—it is also a delicious treat for her legion of fans.

Girls with Hammers is a lovingly crafted novel of an independent woman's struggle to overcome obstacles and build the life she's always wanted. Author Cynn Chadwick works her literary magic again with this charming tale of family, love, human courage and strength, and Southern hospitality.

Mouths of Babes is a gripping psychological thriller that examines what happens when we discover our heroes are only human. And sometimes a little less than that.

Fight or flight? Jane Elliott has tried both. Surfing, letting the waves take her. Teaching Latin, clutching at its rules to feel safe. Safe from a lover, safe from her friends, safe from her mother's death —and her guilt. A guilt that has her flinching from love and embracing pain. And now she lies in a hospital bed, alone.

Risk is a beautifully told story that spans the years from the mid-eighties to the post-9/11 world. Carol, whose father was killed in the Vietnam War, is an idealistic, Berkeley-educated, Jewish lesbian living in Oakland, California. She makes her living by tutoring high school students, engages in community activism, and sometimes supplements her income with gambling. Through Carol's life, Dykewomon explores the changing times and values in America.

In this collection of short fiction, Val McDermid demonstrates her mastery of the form.

Claire has three goals: to stay sober, to stay away from sex, and to get into film school. So far she's blown two of the three and her drunken affair with her professor's wife means she might just have blown the third.

Kit O’Malley must find a political prankster-turned-killer before he kills again. Poison pens can draw blood. And that is exactly why TV presenter Rebecca Jones hires private eye Kit O’Malley to investigate the threats against her. But the trouble with being tenacious, tough, and too smart for her own good is that everybody else wants her on their team.

Celia Robinson hires Kit because she suspects her husband is cheating on her. But what kind of cheating involves a blonde, a redhead and a shady businessman? Kit senses something fishier than adultery, a suspicion that’s confirmed when a body turns up in the Robinson’s ornamental pond.

Why would anyone want to kill Penny Varnavides, bestselling author of the 'Teen Dreams' series? Her demise can't be the freak accident it first appeared—it's an exact replica of the murder method in her forthcoming book.

A protest group hits the headlines when unrest at a women's peace camp explodes into murder. Already on the scene, journalist Lindsay Gordon desperately tries to strike a balance between personal and professional responsibilities. As she peels back the layers of deception surrounding the protest and its opponents, she finds that no one—ratepayer or reporter, policeman or peace woman—seems wholly above suspicion.

Leaving her new home in California for a trade union conference in Sheffield, Lindsay Gordon finds herself in the company of old friends —and enemies, including Tom Jack. When this unethical union leader is found dead, having catapulted out of Lindsay’s tenth-floor hotel room, she is taken in for questioning by the police.

When Alison Maxwell, a well-known Glaswegian journalist with an irresistible sexual attraction to both sexes, is found murdered the police look no further than the owner of the scarf used to strangle her Lindsay Gordon, however, has other ideas. Maxwell was a serial seductress who kept a secret record of her encounters — including one with Lindsay herself.

When a local car dealer's stepson is kidnapped, Lindsay Gordon trades journalism for detection. The trail leads her to St Petersburg and a dangerous snatch-back operation that will test Lindsay to her absolute limits.

Idaho Code is a very funny book about love, family, and the freedom you can find only in a state that values individuality more than common sense.

Freelance journalist Lindsay Gordon is strapped for cash. Why else would she agree to cover a fund-raising gala at a girls' public school? Butwhen the star attraction is found garrotted with her own cello string minutes before she is due on stage, Lindsay finds herself investigating a vicious murder.

Kit O'Malley, the Australian PI with the mean right-hook, is smarter, tougher, and more dangerous than ever and she is on the scene when a corpse belonging to a member of a notorious Melbourne crime family is found at her local bar. Asking the right questions of the wrong people sees Kit and her friends dragged into serious danger.

Paige Flemming is on the run. From the police, from her history, and from love itself. After sixteen years looking over her shoulder, she realizes its time to run again. But when she pauses in her headlong flight to catch her breath with old friends, she crashes straight into another ghost from her past. And this time, it's not one she can easily escape.

Moni Matteson is a young woman too old for her years and too young for her dreams. At seventeen, she has known for some time her happiness would come from the love of a woman. She finds it first in the arms of Paige Flemming, a woman with an unknown past and questionable future.

Renee Parker knows what love is and what love does. Driven to desperation, she faces the most agonizing decision of her life.

Marie Santora has always known her Italian family is a little crazy, but when she inherits her grandmother's estate, they now have a million more reasons to act nuts. It soon becomes clear that the amount of money Marie needs to live comfortably will be decided by her family—if they don't get enough of her money, she won't live comfortably.

Last Chance at the Lost and Found is a story of personal growth, of choices made—good and bad—of how to live and love. It’s also the story of the lesbian and gay community from the 70s through the 90s. A story of friendships and lovers and alcohol and recovery and turmoil and, finally, peace of mind.

Sage Bristo couldn't explain why women were attracted to her, but she had certainly benefited from it, at least physically. Women would do anything for her. But never the woman she needed the most—the one woman who could lead her through the realm of desire to the one thing she desires most.

Jean Carson is not a lesbian. Not when wants to keep her job. But Jean's a teacher and one of her students is being bullied; everyone calls her "Lezzie Lin". So Jean stays in the closet and soon Lezzie Lin isn't at school but in a hospital bed.

Two women find love amid the stifling intolerance of a small southern town.

Never Ending is a look at the life and relationship of Sage and Deanne four years after Legacy of Love.

After inheriting an old plantation house, Dhari Weston heads south to settle the estate and meets intriguing Dr. Erin Hughes, a local history professor with in interest in old houses and the new girl in town.

Mary McGhee is a legend. Heroic to some, hated by others. Her dead lover's inheritance has fueled resentment among a dispossessed family. And in the South, grudges are as hard and immutable as the rocks themselves.

Angels and Manners shows us three women who have been tripped up by life but are determined to claw their way back. Not back to where they came from, though. These women have new lives to make.