Bywater Books

Fiction

- A Field Guide to Deception
  
  $14.95
  
  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.
- All in the Seasoning
  
  $13.95
  
  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.
- Babies, Bikes and Broads
  
  $14.95
  
  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
  
  $14.95
  
  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 communityâ€”friends and family together for the long haul, no matter how bumpy the ride.
- Dreams and Swords
  
  $13.95
  
  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
  
  $14.95
  
  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
  
  $14.95
  
  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.
- Red Audrey and the Roping
  
  $14.95
  
  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
  
  $14.95
  
  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.
- Stranded
  
  $13.95
  
  In this collection of short fiction, Val McDermid demonstrates her mastery of the form.
- Verge
  
  $13.95
  
  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.