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JANUARY 2008

	Learning Curve Rachel Spangler ISBN10: 1-60282-001-5 ISBN13: 978-1-60282-001-2 Price: $15.95 Pages: 232 Release: January 2008 Excerpt	It's never too late to learn about love...even when the lessons turn your world upside down. Ashton Clarke, a local Casanova with a long history of falling into bed with a different woman every night, is perfectly content with her free and easy existence until she gives in to her best friend’s request to spend an evening helping out at the local gay and lesbian youth center. There, Ash meets Carrie Fletcher, a women’s studies professor who not only intrigues Ash but causes her to question the direction her life has taken. As if this disquieting attraction isn’t aggravating enough, Ash is forced to deal with Carrie’s teenage neighbor Tess, whose bad attitude and biting wit seem to complicate every situation. Ash doesn’t want to be attracted to Carrie, who isn’t looking for a relationship with anyone, and Tess is angry at the world, but especially, it seems, with Ash. Despite resistance on the part of all three women, it soon becomes obvious that the trio’s destinies are hopelessly intertwined and the lessons in store will change all their lives.

	American Goth JD Glass ISBN10: 1-60282-002-3 ISBN13: 978-1-60282-002-9 Price: $15.95 Pages: 264 Release: January 2008 Excerpt	At age two Samantha Cray lost her mother. By fifteen her father was gone. At eighteen she lost the only woman she'd ever truly love. Trapped by an unsuspected inheritance, the gift of her father’s blood, guided only by the guardian who holds the secret to her future, Samantha must enter an arcane new world where why she fights is sometimes more important than what…And she must walk the path of Light alone. But the darkness within parallels the darkness without… haunted, hunted, and constantly questioning what is duty, what is selfishness, what is self. Boy. Girl. Gay. Straight. All of them, none of them,or something just a little…different, and all intertwined with a destiny only she can fulfill. The purest steel goes through the hottest flame. Let those who should beware: the only power to rival love is righteous fury—and a new Wielder has been sworn.

	Branded Ann Merry Shannon ISBN10: 1-60282-003-1 ISBN13: 978-1-60282-003-6 Price: $15.95 Pages: 296 Release: January 2008 Excerpt	No pirate on the high seas is more bloodthirsty than the notorious Branded Ann, a woman with eyes like ice and a face marred by a mysterious cross-shaped scar. When Branded Ann raids a merchant vessel bound for Jamaica, her intention is to obtain the map that will lead her to a legendary treasure. But she hadn't bargained on taking Violet, the merchant's young wife, on board her ship as a prisoner. Belying her childlike appearance, Violet has a dark side of her own. As the pirate captain sets sail in search of treasure, her task is made more difficult by a stowaway child, an increasingly rebellious crew, and the treacherous seas of the Devil's Triangle. To make matters worse, she finds herself falling for her not-so-innocent but altogether charming captive.

FEBRUARY 2008 (back to top)

	Venus Besieged Andrews & Austin ISBN10: 1-60282-004-X ISBN13: 978-1-60282-004-3 Price: $15.95 Pages: 240 Release: February 2008 Excerpt	Why can't Teague Richfield and the love of her life, psychic astrologer Callie Rivers, get away together without the "otherworld" following them? Teague and basset hound Elmo head for Sedona and the sensual arms of psychic astrologer Callie Rivers, but their romantic reunion is interrupted by unearthly forces and a dangerous journey into the metaphysical realm. A provocative female shaman from Callie's past involves the duo in shape-shifting, disembodied attacks, the murders of Native American women, and a spiritual battle that takes place on a level even higher than the mystical red rocks of Sedona. Third in the Richfield and Rivers mystery series.

	The Lonely Hearts Club Radclyffe ISBN10: 1-60282-005-8 ISBN13: 978-1-60282-005-0 Price: $15.95 Pages: 272 Release: February 2008 Excerpt	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.

	Deeper Ronica Black ISBN10: 1-60282-006-6 ISBN13: 978-1-60282-006-7 Price: $15.95 Pages: 256 Release: February 2008 Excerpt	Happiness. Love. Desire. Murder. Former homicide detective Erin McKenzie couldn’t be any happier with her new life and her fiancée Elizabeth Adams—until the not so distant past comes knocking at the door. Erin’s former colleague Detective Patricia Henderson—a woman both she and Liz have intimate ties to—shows up with a fresh crime scene photo that looks all too familiar. The victim is an actor who works for Liz’s movie production company, and Liz had argued with the young man on more than one occasion. Erin can’t believe it’s happening again. The new murder resurrects old questions, and when Liz all but sends her packing, Erin can’t help but wonder what her lover is hiding. Lost, alone and frightened, Erin is once again caught in midst of it all, and no matter how hard she fights it, she’s where she never thought she’d be…deeper.

MARCH 2008 (back to top)

	To Protect & Serve VK Powell ISBN10: 1-60282-007-4 ISBN13: 978-1-60282-007-4 Price: $15.95 Pages: 240 Release: March 2008 Excerpt	To protect or serve—a choice no detective should ever be forced to make. Lieutenant Alex Troy is caught in the paradox of her life—to hold steadfast to her professional oath or to protect the woman she loves. Assigned to the Vice/Narcotics Division, Alex is given the dangerous but career-building mission of catching notorious and elusive drug lord Sonny Davis. She has to assemble the perfect team of officers to pursue the man suspected of killing numerous coeds—and a friend of Alex’s—with the poison he peddles. Keri Morgan is young, enthusiastic, and alive in ways that Alex can barely remember, and Keri has a reason of her own to want Sonny Davis dead. Before justice can be served, Alex and Keri are caught in a web of love, duty, vengeance, and desire that will change both their lives.

	Shadow of the Knife Jane Fletcher ISBN10: 1-60282-008-2 ISBN13: 978-1-60282-008-1 Price: $15.95 Pages: 312 Release: March 2008 Excerpt	Militia rookie Ellen Mittal is well aware that the world cannot be reduced to simple questions of black and white, but she has no idea of just how complex and dangerous her life is about to become. The most vicious gang in the Homelands, led by the infamous Butcher, is extending its operations to Roadsend. By her oath as a member of the Militia, Ellen is sworn to uphold the rule of law, no matter what the cost to herself. But as the body count starts to rise, Ellen finds her task made all the harder by a wall of silence from ordinary citizens, a commanding officer with her head in the sand, and the attentions of an attractive young farmer who is probably not who she claims to be. Ellen must work out who to trust, because if she gets it wrong she might easily lose her heart, or her life. Another action packed sci-fi adventure/romance in the Celaeno series, a 2005 Lambda Literary Award Finalist.

	Heartland Julie Cannon ISBN10: 1-60282-009-0 ISBN13: 978-1-60282-009-8 Price: $15.95 Pages: 248 Release: March 2008 Excerpt	Two strangers collide on an empty country road…accident or fate? Political strategist Rachel Stanton, jaded and disillusioned by the scratching, clawing, and mudslinging of the campaign trail, books a week at the Springdale Ranch for a much-needed vacation. Springdale sounds like just the place to exorcise unhappy childhood memories and straighten out her head. Shivley McCoy has spent the last four years casting out her own painful past, working and sweating to make her ranch a successful business venture. She has nothing in common with fast-living Rachel Stanton, and after their inauspicious first meeting, is quite certain she’ll never see her again. Shivley is thrown when she comes face-to-face with Rachel among her group of new arrivals, and sparks of a most unexpected sort ignite. "We have to stop meeting like this. People might talk." "And what would they say?" "That we're madly in love and can't bear to be apart."

APRIL 2008 (back to top)

	Heart of the Matter KI Thompson ISBN10: 1-60282-010-4 ISBN13: 978-1-60282-010-4 Price: $15.95 Pages: 232 Release: April 2008 Excerpt	Ellen Webster, professor of history, can't help but fantasize about her next-door neighbor Kate Foster—after all, she sees her on the evening news every night. Sexy and smart, Kate is Ellen's dream girl, but the dynamic TV newscaster doesn't know she exists. Struggling with self-doubt and low self-esteem, Ellen can only watch the parade of beautiful women Kate brings home. But a rainy night and near-tragedy change everything when Kate is involved in an automobile accident and turns to Ellen for help. Withdrawing from the world, Kate comes to depend upon Ellen for far more than she realizes—until the day Ellen tells her that she is leaving on sabbatical. Ellen and Kate's journey lead them beyond the transitory nature of external beauty to the true splendor of the love they hold in their hearts.

	Naked Heart Jennifer Fulton ISBN10: 1-60282-011-2 ISBN13: 978-1-60282-011-1 Price: $15.95 Pages: 232 Release: April 2008 Excerpt	Can two women who trust no one risk all and trust each other? Raised by a single mother on the wrong side of the tracks, Unity Vaughan has fought for everything she's ever achieved. Now, having just made a breakthrough discovery at her biotech company, she finds her business a target for industrial espionage and a hostile takeover. She needs an expert to watch her back and spy on her enemies, which is how she finds herself in a bizarre nightclub trying to hire a woman with a flogger in one hand, a camera in the other, and a pair of corseted twins fondling her body. Penn Harte makes her living the way lots of former CIA agents do, selling her unusual skills to the highest bidder, Lately she's also been doing her best friend Lila a favor by helping out in Lila's upscale fetish club. When Unity approaches Penn with an offer to work for her, Penn can't believe her luck—she's already been hired by Unity's biggest enemy, who wants a blackmail tape. Penn figures she'll have Unity, the perfect subject for seduction, on film in a compromising position within days. The problem is, Penn doesn't know if she can see Unity as just another job. Power, passion, sex, and danger drive a high-stakes plot in this gripping erotic romance.

	Deal with the Devil Ali Vali ISBN10: 1-60282-012-0 ISBN13: 978-1-60282-012-8 Price: $15.95 Pages: 360 Release: April 2008 Excerpt	It’s business as usual for crime boss Cain Casey as she maneuvers to form an alliance with the Jatibon organization and secure peace among the ruling families in New Orleans. Cain’s new associate Remington Jatibon is a lot like Cain used to be—a playgirl with a passion for bedding beautiful women and an even greater passion for expanding her father’s empire, on both sides of the law. When Remi meets Dallas Montgomery, a budding actress working for the studio Remi's father has just acquired, she finds that there is more to Dallas than is included in her press pages. Meanwhile, on the home front, life is anything but routine as Cain and Emma hope to conceive another child. Little do they know an old enemy is about to surface bent on revenge on Cain, and what better way that to take what she values above all else—her wife. Third in the Casey Family Saga.

	Pink Jennifer Harris ISBN10: 1-60282-043-0 ISBN13: 978-1-60282-043-2 Price: $14.95 Pages: 204 Release: April 2008 Excerpt	Who is the woman behind the little pink book? "When I first get the acceptance letter from the publisher about the book I will write, I will walk inside my apartment and call my parents, who will be as dumbstruck as me...My parents won't say anything at all. So I will hang up the phone, turn off the ringer, and cry. I mean pour-my-eyes-out cry...I will suddenly be terrified. I will feel the blood rush in my veins, the way I do during a horror show, which is precisely why I won't go see horror shows. I will think that I made a terrible mistake." Join this irrepressible heroine as she frolics, frets, and navigates through the “what if’s” of her life: all the unexpected turns of fortune, fame, and karma. Real or imagined, she is the literary Walter Mitty of the lesbian world. Love, fame, and fortune all line up to do cartwheels in this rollicking satire. Laugh along with this everywoman and discover that her life may not be so different from your own. Pink reveals the truths of the lives we all want and deserve to live. Reprint.

MAY 2008 (back to top)

	In Deep Waters 2: Cruising the Strip Radclyffe & Karin Kallmaker ISBN10: 1-60282-013-9 ISBN13: 978-1-60282-013-5 Price: $15.95 Pages: 288 Release: 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 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.

	Thirteen Hours Meghan O'Brien ISBN10: 1-60282-014-7 ISBN13: 978-1-60282-014-2 Price: $15.95 Pages: 248 Release: May 2008 Excerpt	How long does it really take to fall in love? It's her birthday, but lonely workaholic Dana Watts is at the office late, drafting a proposal. She is interrupted by the very last thing she would have expected: the most beautiful breasts she has ever seen. These belong to an incredibly hot stripper, a birthday present from a friend who thinks she needs to loosen up. Laurel Stanley has never encountered a more ungrateful strip-o-gram recipient than Dana. The uptight project manager makes it clear that she is furious to be distracted from her work and equally appalled by Laurel's occupation. When Dana insists on escorting Laurel from the building, the two women take an elevator ride that changes everything. Stuck with each other for thirteen long hours after the elevator breaks down, they discover how wrong first impressions can be—and how right two strangers can feel together. Can everything change in less than a day? Dana and Laurel set out to discover if their passionate elevator encounter can mean more in this fast-paced, erotic story of lust, loneliness, fantasy, and desire.

	Edge of Darkness Jove Belle ISBN10: 1-60282-015-5 ISBN13: 978-1-60282-015-9 Price: $15.95 Pages: 248 Release: May 2008 Excerpt	Diana Collins charges at life with an irreverent comment and a right hook, but even her hard-headed attitude may not be enough to protect her heart…or her life. As a senior investigator for a high-end insurance company, Diana needs to find the person responsible for the theft of a rare sword. While Diana struggles to protect her burgeoning relationship with kindergarten teacher, Cami Michaelson, the investigation leads her into a bitter world of rage and revenge. Diana uncovers one damning piece of evidence after another that challenges everything she knows about right and wrong. She finds her hard-driving work ethic, which demands the thief be held accountable, at odds with the desire to protect her new friend, Ali Sandoval, who is caught in the center of the conflict. As she draws Diana deeper into a dark subculture of sex, power, and death, Ali must choose between vengeance and peace if she hopes to escape with her sanity intact.

	The Three Meghan O'Brien ISBN10: 1-60282-056-2 ISBN13: 978-1-60282-056-2 Price: $12.95 Pages: tba Release: May 2008 Ebook edition	A daring, provocative exploration of love and sexuality... Two lovers, Elin and Kael, struggle to survive in a post-apocalyptic world where disease, lawless marauders, and fanatics threaten their existence. When the two befriend Anna, another survivor, the fabric of their lives and the family they have made shifts in ways that challenge each woman to redefine the boundaries of love and friendship. For in order to prevail, the two must become...The Three, and ultimately Anna and Kael must find a way to save the woman they both love.

	Love on Location Lisa Girolami ISBN10: 1-60282-016-3 ISBN13: 978-1-60282-016-6 Price: $15.95 Pages: 312 Release: May 2008 Excerpt	Power, money, and fame spell happiness—at least in the movies. Hollywood film producer Kate Nyland has it all, including her gorgeous movie star girlfriend, Hannah Corrant. Amid the excitement of shooting multimillion-dollar movies and being photographed by the ever-present paparazzi out to get a glimpse of Hannah, Kate is reminded continually that her life couldn't be better. That is, until she arrives in Florida to begin shooting her next film. There she meets Dawn Brock, a beautiful, deeply spiritual artist, who sets off sparks that Kate cannot allow to ignite. But just how can she quell the attraction that burns so intensely and the growing connection that seems impossibly unavoidable? And what will happen when Hannah arrives in town for the movie shoot? From behind-the-scenes rendezvous to center-stage passions, Kate discovers that love on location doesn't always follow the script.

JUNE 2008 (back to top)

	Hotel Liaison JLee Meyer ISBN10: 1-60282-017-1 ISBN13: 978-1-60282-017-3 Price: $15.95 Pages: 240 Release: June 2008 Excerpt	Two women searching through a secret past discover that their brief hotel liaison is only the beginning. Laurel Hoffman, an associate professor of women's studies in Berkeley, struggles to stay on track for tenure while caught up in the last throes of a crumbling relationship with a senior colleague. When she hears of a hotel being renovated and a secret room full of papers about women who once stayed there, she knows she has a potential career-saving article. Stefanie Beresford, the hotel owner, is not exactly receptive when Laurel approaches her about researching the hotel's history, but that doesn't stop her from flirting with the alluring academic. She doesn't need the distraction, but for the first time in her life she wants to take a chance on more than a fleeting encounter. While Laurel can't deny her powerful feelings for Stefanie, she fears she's risking her heart as well as her future if she acts on her desires. But can a simple encounter between two rational adults really be all that dangerous?

	Word of Honor Radclyffe ISBN10: 1-60282-018-X ISBN13: 978-1-60282-018-0 Price: $15.95 Pages: 264 Release: June 2008 Excerpt	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.

	Finding Home Georgia Beers ISBN10: 1-60282-019-8 ISBN13: 978-1-60282-019-7 Price: $15.95 Pages: 248 Release: June 2008 Excerpt	"You're getting rigid and predictable." Sarah Buchanan would never have used those words to describe herself in a million years. Never. But it’s been almost a year since her long-time girlfriend left her for a man and she’s suddenly realized that those words now describe her with frightening accuracy, along with one more: boring. Deciding it’s time to escape her disaster of a life, at least long enough to turn it around, she takes a temporary position with her company overseas. The hardest part is leaving her blue-eyed dog, Bentley, but at least he’s in the capable hands of her family. She thinks. Natalie Fox is the exact opposite of Sarah. She’s flighty, spontaneous, and lives in The Now. It’s the way her parents raised her and for better or worse, Natalie loves her carefree life. When she finds a stray, skinny, terrified dog with blue eyes outside the bakery and decides to adopt him as her own, things seem just about perfect to her. Take two stubborn, polar opposites with an attraction for one another they’re trying desperately to ignore; throw in a couple of wise Italians, a handful of quirky friends, some homemade cannoli, and a far-too-observant dog; stir vigorously, then sit back, relax, and enjoy…

JULY 2008 (back to top)

	Warrior's Valor Gun Brooke ISBN10: 1-60282-020-1 ISBN13: 978-1-60282-020-3 Price: $15.95 Pages: TBA Release: July 2008	Environmental activist Dwyn Izsontro and law enforcement officer Emeron D'Artansis instinctively dislike everything about each other, even if the attraction between them is unmistakable. While Dwyn surveys an endangered region of a remote planet and Emeron acts as her security escort, Ambassador M'Ekar has bribed his guards to facilitate his escape from Jasin, 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 crashes to the surface close to where Dwyn and Emeron are working carrying an unexpected cargo, 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 search.

	A Place to Rest Erin Dutton ISBN10: 1-60282-021-X ISBN13: 978-1-60282-021-0 Price: $15.95 Pages: TBA Release: July 2008	Sawyer Drake has never known what she wants. She has spent most of her life bouncing from job to job in an effort to avoid taking her place running her family's restaurant. Nothing has ever kept her attention for very long. Nothing, that is, until she meets shy pastry chef, Jori Diamantina. Jori, on the other hand, has no intention of risking the job she loves, especially when Sawyer doesn't seem to know exactly what she wants from Jori. A Place to Rest is a touching romance about the beauty of finally discovering where you belong.

	Lethal Affairs Kim Baldwin & Xenia Alexiou ISBN10: 1-60282-022-8 ISBN13: 978-1-60282-022-7 Price: $15.95 Pages: TBA Release: July 2008	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 romantic suspense series: Elite Operatives.

	Falling Star Gill McKnight ISBN10: 1-60282-023-6 ISBN13: 978-1-60282-023-4 Price: $14.95 Pages: TBA Release: July 2008	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 brings her children to her sister Janie and partner Marsha’s beach house 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 as for Gin Ito, what private pain draws her inexorably toward the small family and the woman who protects it with the fierceness of a lioness?

AUGUST 2008 (back to top)

	Homecoming Nell Stark ISBN10: 1-60282-024-4 ISBN13: 978-1-60282-024-1 Price: $15.95 Pages: TBA Release: August 2008	Love is thicker than blood. When Yale student Sarah Storm comes out to her parents, they disown her and withdraw all support for her education. A few days later, Sarah's long-term girlfriend breaks up with her and Sarah loses everything that matters—family, future dreams, and love. Forced to leave Yale with only the contents of her dorm room and the boat of a car bequeathed to her by her grandmother, Sarah scrambles to get her life back on track at the University of Rhode Island. Burying her hurt and disappointment, Sarah throws herself into both her classes and social life. Struggling to put her last relationship behind her, Sarah dates, and frequently, but no one she meets is quite as intriguing as Rory, her new—an apparently straight—roommate. When it becomes clear that her attraction to Rory is mutual, however, Sarah begins to fear that history will repeat itself and she'll end up alone. Will Sarah be able to put aside the betrayals of those she loved and trust again? Or will the consequences of her own coming out experience get in the way of a new chance at happiness?