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Radclyffe is a retired surgeon and full
time author-publisher and winner of two Lammy awards. She has over
thirty lesbian novels and anthologies in print, including the Lambda
Literary Award winners Erotic Interludes 2: ed. with Stacia Seaman and
the romance,
Distant Shores, Silent Thunder, as well as the Lambda Literary Award
Mystery Finalist, Justice Served and Romance Finalists, Turn Back Time
and When Dreams Tremble. Her work includes romance, erotica, intrigue
and suspense. Strong women in love populate her imagination and her
fiction. She has selections in multiple anthologies including Wild
Nights, Fantasy, Best Lesbian Erotica 2006, 2007 and 2008, After
Midnight, Caught Looking: Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and Exhibitionists,
Hide and Seek, First-Timers, Ultimate Undies: Erotic Stories About
Lingerie and Underwear, A is for Amour, H is for Hardcore, L is
for Leather, and Rubber Sex:Erotic Stories. She is the
editor of the anthology, Best Lesbian Romance 2009, forthcoming from
Cleis Press. She is also the recipient of the 2003 and 2004 Alice B.
Readers' award for her body of work and the president of Bold Strokes
Books, one of the world’s largest independent LGBTQ publishing
companies.
Says Radclyffe, “I began reading lesbian
fiction at the age of twelve when I found a copy of Ann Bannon’s
Beebo Brinker. That book and others like it convinced me that I was
not alone, that there were other women who felt like I did. Our
literature provides support and validation and very often, a lifeline,
for members of our community throughout the world. I am proud and
honored to be able to publish the many fine authors at Bold Strokes
Books and to contribute in some small way to the words that celebrate
our lives. I live with my partner, Lee and our family of dogs, in the
country in upstate
New York
and in
Provincetown, Mass. I am a member of the Lambda Literary
Foundation, Romance Writers of America, Publishing Triangle, and
Publisher's Marketing Association (PMA).”
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Coming In 2008...
The Lonely Hearts Club
(February 2008)

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. Then she bumps into—literally—young surgeon Reilly Danvers,
and life gets even more complicated.
Liz's two best friends offer all the
support she needs, but they have secrets of their own. Candace Lory, a
high-powered commodities trader and swinging playgirl, meets her match
when she hooks up with corporate attorney, Parker Jones. Brenda Beal, the only member of "the group" who
hasn't slept with every available
woman, prefers to 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.
In Deep Waters 2: Cruising the Strip
(May 2008)

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 shy novelist
considers research in a hospitality suite. The fountains of Las
Vegas inspire more than one couple to try something new. Double or
nothing? 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.
Word of Honor
(June 2008)

A fast-paced romance shot-through with danger, passion, and
excitement.
First Daughter Blair Powell and her lover Cameron Roberts,
newly appointed deputy director of the Homeland Security Office, escape to a
ski chalet in the Rockies after a harrowing attack by members of a domestic
terrorism organization. However, Blair and Cam come under fire both publicly
and privately when the media spotlights their plans to wed and an old
nemesis resurfaces to threaten their lives. With the nation under attack,
the world on the verge of war, and their personal lives the focus of intense
public scrutiny, Cam and Blair struggle to preserve what matters most—their
love.
The seventh in the Honor series.
Night Call
(October 2008)

Medivac
helicopter pilot Jett McNally's heart belongs to an Army officer she
left behind in Afghanistan, and good-time anesthesiologist Tristan
Holmes is no substitute, except possibly in bed.
When Jett comes home from the war
and destruction in the Middle East, everyone she knows thinks she
should be happy. How can she explain she left a big part of her
life behind, including her heart? 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. 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. Sure she
plans on settling down—later—like in ten years. Until then, life
is meant to be lived, and Jett McNally really gets her engines revving.
Since she isn't looking for anything more than a good time, Tris can't
understand why it bothers her so much that Jett isn't either.
After all, why spoil a great relationship by getting serious?
High-stakes medical drama, life on
the edge, and love in the fast lane—it's all just routine for Night
Call.
Current Releases from
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Fated Love.
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 a life, but also with the mysteries of the heart and the
irresistible forces of fate.
Golden Crown Goldie Award Winner -
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Innocent
Hearts, 2nd ed. Kate Beecher,
a young woman from Boston, looks ahead with a sense of restless
longing to the life her family and friends expect her to embrace.
She doesn't know what she wants, or who, until she moves with her
family to the wild Montana Territory of the 1860's. 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 but
touchingly tender rancher, finds in Kate the passion she had
unknowingly sought all her life.
This is the
story of their struggle to love in a land and time as cruel as it
was beautiful. New
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Love's Masquerade. 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 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.
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Love's Melody Lost. Victim of a terrible accident,
famed composer and pianist Graham Yardley loses far more than her
sight. She can no longer hear the melodies that once filled
her world.
In a bleak mansion atop windswept
cliffs, Graham withdraws into silence, darkness, and bitter
regret—until Anna, a woman struggling to redefine her destiny, comes
into Graham's life.
When Anna awakens passions Graham thought
forever dead, a fragile melody of love grows between their damaged
souls, a song made sweeter and stronger by the day. But will
it be strong enough to overcome the memory of past betrayals and
future uncertainties? (Now in its fourth printing.) |
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Love's Tender Warriors. 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 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. |
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Passion's Bright Fury.
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 blazing romance. Reprint.
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Promising Hearts.
The frontier might be dangerous, but only if
you have something to lose. Can two outcasts find refuge in one
another's hearts?
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. There she
meets a trio of women, all of whom will play a pivotal role in her
life—rancher Jessie Forbes, her lover, Kate Beecher, and Mae, a
frontier madam. Mae, used to standing alone against physical
danger and social sanction, 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.
GOLDEN CROWN LITERARY AWARD WINNER - 2007
Romance
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Tomorrow's Promise.
Two women faced with uncertain futures discover the promise of love when
least expected.
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 is young and restless—and heir to a dynasty. Her
desperate attempts to escape her destiny and the memories of a tragic loss
with casual sex and wild nights chart 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. |

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Turn Back Time. Love has a way of derailing the best of plans. 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.
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. Wynter Thompson, barely
recovered from a failed relationship, 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.
LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD Finalist - 2006 Lesbian
Romance
GOLDEN CROWN LITERARY AWARD Finalist - 2007
Romance
INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS AWARD SILVER
MEDAL - 2007 Romance
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When Dreams Tremble. 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 heartache—and reminds Leslie of just why
she left. Even though her attraction to Dev comes roaring back, the
one thing Leslie doesn’t want is to pick up where they left off,
especially not when she already has just the life she wants—a
rewarding high-power law practice, a condo in Manhattan, and a
lover who satisfies her without demanding the intimacy Leslie
avoids. Unfortunately, environmental biologist Devon Weber doesn’t
play by Leslie’s rules.
Two women whose lives turned
out far differently than they’d once imagined discover that
sometimes the shape of the future can only be found in the past—and
love is strongest when dreams tremble. |
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shadowland.
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.
An erotic romance.
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Change of Pace. Two friends share a walk on
the wild side in Amsterdam's Red Light district; a construction
worker discovers a pleasant distraction in the surgical locker room; 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
ride for two women stranded in the fog on Cape Cod; a surprise party
that ends with a most unusual gift...and more than twenty additional
erotic interludes to spark more than your imagination. Erotica. |
Provincetown Tales
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Safe Harbor. 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.
2nd ed.
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In
Beyond the Breakwater, Sheriff Reese Conlon and Doctor Tory
King face the challenges of defining 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 make one Provincetown summer a time of transformation as each
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Distant Shores, Silent Thunder.
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 opens 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—must examine the boundaries of love, friendship, and the ties that
transcend time.
2006 Romance/Erotic Love Stories GCLS Award Finalist
2005 Romance Lammy Winner |

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Storms
of Change. 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.
GOLDEN CROWN LITERARY AWARD
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Winds
of Fortune.
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.
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Honor Series
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First in the Honor Series. In the expanded edition of the
first in the Honor series,
Above All, Honor introduces
single-minded Secret Service Agent Cameron Roberts and the woman
she is sworn to protect—Blair Powell, the daughter of the President
of the United States. Cam's duty is her life and the only thing
that keeps her from self-destructing under the unbearable weight of
her own deep personal tragedy. However, she hasn't counted on
the fact that her reluctant protectee will do anything in her power
to escape the watchful eyes of her protectors, including seducing
the agent-in-charge. Both women struggle with long-hidden
secrets and dark passions as they are forced to confront their
growing attraction amidst the escalating danger drawing ever closer
to Blair.
From the dark
shadows of rough trade bars in Greenwich Village to the elite
galleries of Soho, each must balance duty with desire and,
ultimately, chose between love and honor.
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Honor
Bound. A request
from the commander-in-chief forces Secret Service Agent Cameron
Roberts to break her word to the woman she loves—a woman who just
happens to be Blair Powell, the president's daughter.
Cam places
duty before love, despite knowing that this decision may destroy
her tenuous new relationship with the first daughter. As the
rift between the two women widens, more than one would-be-suitor is
happy to offer Blair the company that Cam cannot.
Amidst
political intrigue, and escalating threat to Blair's safety, and
the seemingly irreconcilable personal differences that force them
ever further apart, Cam and Blair struggle to find their way back
to one another.
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Love & Honor. US Secret Service
Agent Cameron Roberts has more than one secret that could destroy her
career, not the least of which is that she’s in love with the president’s
daughter. Blair Powell, the first daughter, returns the feeling
despite her ambivalence about Cam's role as her security chief,
particularly in the aftermath of an assassination attempt that almost took
Cam's life.
In this third book
of the Honor series, Blair and Cam struggle to protect their relationship
from intensified media exposure while they are unwillingly drawn into a
shadowy conspiracy that puts Cam's career and the president's political
future at risk.
When Cam's previous lover resurfaces to offer
support and solace, the president's daughter and security chief are faced
with difficult choices as they battle a tangled web of Washington intrigue
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Honor Guards.
When you're the
president's daughter and the closest thing the country has to a first
lady, your life is never really your own. When you're the
woman charged to guard the first daughter, and you also happen to be her
lover, every moment of every day is filled with challenges—and a mistake
could cost you everything.
Unbeknownst to
either Blair Powell or Secret Service Agent Cameron Roberts, the two
lovers are at the center of a conspiracy that will rock the world when a
net of violence and death draws down upon them and the nation. In a
journey that begins on the streets of Paris's Left Bank and culminates in
a wild flight for their lives, the president's daughter and those who are
sworn to protect her wage a desperate struggle for survival. |
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Honor
Reclaimed.
In the chaotic
aftermath of 9/11, Secret Service agent Cameron Roberts and her
lover, first daughter Blair Powell, must contend with recriminations
from within the government and danger from without as they struggle
to uncover those who betrayed the nation and nearly claimed Blair’s
life.
The hunt is a very personal quest for Cam,
who fears that another strike on Blair is imminent. Her
search takes her deep into the shadow worlds of counter-intelligence
where even a friend might be a foe. While Cam races against time to
uncover the traitor's trail, Blair becomes the target of an even
deadlier threat. Not just
honor, but their future together, is at stake as the search culminates
in a violent confrontation with evil. |
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Honor
Under Siege.
A novel of romance and betrayal in a world
where love, loyalty, and honor are under siege and even friends may
be enemies.
With the nation on the verge of war and
the mastermind behind the assassination attempt on her lover, First
Daughter Blair Powell, still at large, the last thing Secret
Service Agent Cameron Roberts wants is to be replaced as Blair’s
security chief. The President has a different mission for her,
however, starting with finding the traitor within the inner circle
level of the nation’s security system who conspired to kill Blair.
The hunt is personal for
Cam
on every level because her quarry is her ex-lover, Valerie
Lawrence. Blair soon finds herself an unwilling participant in a
deadly game that pits her allegiance to her best friend Diane
Bleeker, Valerie’s newfound love, against her loyalty to Cam.
Fast-paced action culminates in a deadly standoff where life and
love hang in the balance.
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Justice Series
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A Matter of Trust, 2nd ed. Prequel to the Justice
Series.
Michael Lassiter, a theoretical
design executive, is about to wage war on the corporate battlefield
She hires JT Sloan, a brash internet security consultant,
to protect her most important asset—her dreams and visions.
Sloan, a brilliant cyber-sleuth
who steadfastly avoids emotional commitments after a disastrous
betrayal, finds it increasingly difficult to think of Michael as
just another client. When Michael is threatened by more than
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Shield of Justice. First
in the Justice Series. One is a cop, sworn to protect and
serve—one is a physician, sworn to heal. Together they become
reluctant allies in the battle for justice.
Special Crimes Unit investigator
Detective Sergeant Rebecca Frye is attempting to solve a series of
sexual assaults and running into dead ends at every turn.
Finally, she has a break in the case—a witness—one person who may
help her bring a madman to justice. But the witness is a
victim herself and Rebecca must convince the injured woman's
physician, Dr. Catherine Rawlings, to assist her—a task that brings
each woman face-to-face with her own darkest fears.
Amidst professional conflicts
and a growing mutual attraction, the two women join in the battle to
trap the perpetrator before he strikes
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Justice in the Shadows. In a shadow world of secrets, lies,
and hidden agendas, Detective Sergeant Rebecca Frye and her lover,
Dr. Catherine Rawlings, join forces once again in the elusive search
for justice.
Rebecca is aided in her struggle to
uncover a pornography ring and expose its connections to a traitor
within the police department by a rag-tag team of dedicated cops and
civilians: JT Sloan, a cyber-sleuth committed to avenging her
lover's devastating injury who walks the fine line between justice and
revenge; Dellon Mitchell, a young police officer who discovers an
unforeseen talent for undercover work; and Sandy, a prostitute who
develops an unexpected passion for cops. Ultimately, this secret
investigation may risk not just their careers, but may cost one her
life.
Golden Crown Goldie Award Winner -
Intrigue/ Mystery 2005
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Justice Served. Newly promoted Detective Lieutenant
Rebecca Frye once again assembles her unorthodox team of lovers and
friends to bring a deadly informant in the police department to justice.
Aided by JT Sloan, a cyber-sleuth with a personal score to settle, Rebecca
soon discovers that the conspiracy extends far beyond the police
department into a world where human life is only a commodity.
Pressured by her superiors, driven by
the private need to avenge her murdered partner, and determined to succeed
at any cost, she must put one officer's life at risk and her own heart on
the line.
2005 Mystery-Lesbian Lammy
Finalist
2006 Mystery/ Action/ Adventure /Thriller GCLS Award Winner
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