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Now for a brief peek at this month's newsletter offerings and of course, our new novels available in print and eBook formats (which can be purchased at www.boldstrokesbooks.com right now).

 

 
 
  • ISBN: 978-1-60282-871-1
  • pp. 240
  • $16.95
  • eprice: $9.99
  • Lesbian Romantic Intrigue/Thriller
  • 1
Battle Axe by Carsen Taite
Bounty hunter Luca Bennett is back and so is a woman from her past, asking for favors. Unable to resist a woman in need, Luca barrels headlong into an intricate web of organized crime. Just when she thinks she’s found what she’s looking for, the stakes are raised and she learns she can trust no one.
While Luca tries to unravel the mystery related to her latest job, her personal life has its share of puzzles, from the enigmatic woman on the arm of her pal, police officer Jessica Chance, to a family reunion centered on an unlikely wedding. As her personal and professional lives collide, will Luca discover what she’s looking for is closer than she thinks?
  • ISBN: 978-1-60282-872-8
  • pp. 192
  • $16.95
  • eprice: $9.99
  • Lesbian Romance
  • 1
Improvisationby Karis Walsh
After a lifetime of moving and change, Jan Carroll wants nothing more than to settle down and build a home. Then her father gets sick, and the stable—if solitary—life she’s made as a high school geometry teacher in Spokane, Washington, threatens to crumble around her. She wants little to do with newcomer Tina Nelson, a shallow and unreliable playgirl. Especially since their mutual friend Brooke Stanton has been not-so-subtly matchmaking…
Tina, a graphic artist and musician, has vowed to spend her life free from the obligations that characterized her youth. No ties, no long-term commitments. But she agrees to travel to Spokane to help her cousin promote his business and, in a second moment of weakness, promises to contact Jan. Tina is certain her acquaintance with the too-logical and inflexible woman will be a short one.

Sometimes, though, love makes you throw away life’s careful script. Can these women learn to improvise?
  • ISBN: 978-1-60282-873-5
  • pp.312
  • $16.95
  • eprice: $9.99
  • Lesbian Romantic Fantasy
  • 1
 For Want of a Fiend by Barbara Ann Wright
Princess Katya Nar Umbriel’s uncle Roland rose from the grave, kidnapped her cousin, and stripped her of her greatest weapon—her Fiendish power. Without her Fiend, Katya doubts her ability to weather the storm her uncle is brewing. When she lacks what even the children in her family possess, can she even call herself an Umbriel?
In only a short time, Starbride has become the princess consort, a pyradisté, and a member of a secret order in charge of protecting the crown. Even steeped in responsibility, she’s still an outsider. While wading through court intrigue and resisting schemes to break her bond with Katya, Starbride must prepare for a covert war. Roland is waiting, watching, ready for any chink in their armor, and he doesn't care who knows their secrets.
  • ISBN: 978-1-60282-874-2
  • pp.192
  • $11.95
  • eprice: $7.99
  • Young Adult
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Swans & Klons by Nora Olsen
What does it take to survive in a world built on lies?
Sixteen-year-old Rubric loves her pampered life in the Academy dormitory. She’s dating Salmon Jo, a brilliant and unpredictable girl. In their all-female world, non-human slaves called Klons do all the work. But when Rubric and Salmon Jo break into the laboratory where human and Klon babies are grown in vats, they uncover a terrifying secret that tears their idyllic world apart.
Their friends won’t believe them, and their teachers won’t help them. The Doctors who rule Society want to silence Rubric and Salmon Jo. The two girls must flee for their lives. As they face the unthinkable, the only thing they have left to believe in is their love for each other.
  • ISBN: 978-1-60282-875-9
  • pp.264
  • $16.95
  • eprice: $9.99
  • Gay Romance
    1
In His Secret Life by Mel Bossa
When Allan's boyfriend leaves him for a younger man, Allan lets him go without a grudge. When his sister, Elsie, gets pregnant and ditched, he becomes her support system and father figure to his niece.
Then Elsie becomes engaged to Dayton, and Allan meets Dayton's older brother, Davinder—a fierce and exceptionally gifted artist with a thousand secrets breathing in his eyes. But Davinder is a married man and father of two young boys.
From the moment they meet, and for over four decades, Allan and Davinder will walk along the edge of their secret lives, never allowed to push open the gates. And though their love is a head-on collision, a meeting of the minds, a fusing of two lost souls, both men know that it is also, and above all...impossible.
  • ISBN: 978-1-60282-876-6
  • pp.240
  • $16.95
  • eprice: $9.99
  • Lesbian General Fiction
  • 1
Broken in Soft Places by Fiona Zedde
  • Some mornings, Sara Chambers wakes in bed next to her girlfriend and her girlfriend’s lover wondering how she ended up there. Beautiful, successful, and a force to be reckoned with at her Atlanta law firm, Sara is still powerless in her attraction to the rebellious and reckless, Rille Thompson.
  • As college girlfriends, Sara and Rille’s relationship had been incendiary, burning away Sara’s innocence and self-respect even as it widened her world beyond her wildest imagination. Now, almost twenty years later, Rille still pushes Sara beyond her limits, bringing a third lover into their bed and domestic lives when their monogamy gets stale. The hold Rille has over Sara—and their new lover—becomes as powerful as it is dangerous. Can Sara pull herself free in time, or will her life turn to cinders in the wake of Rille’s powerful flame?
  • ISBN: 978-1-60282-877-3
  • pp.240
  • $16.95
  • eprice: $9.99
  • Lesbian Romance
  • 1

 
Healing Hearts by Donna K. Ford         
Christian Sutter is a broken woman. After the loss of her lover, she is plagued by survivor guilt and struggles to engage contact with others in the simplest relationships. Seeking refuge, she turns to the solitude of Willow Springs, an all-women retreat in the mountains of East Tennessee. When Christian meets a reclusive artist, her world is turned upside down again.
Elaine Barber is on the run. She is no fugitive but the victim of a vicious crime that keeps her in constant fear. A once renowned FBI profiler and psychologist, Elaine has turned her back on her career, her home, and her lover to escape the unbearable fear that someone is still out there waiting to finish what they started.
Both women will begin the journey toward healing, a journey that will take them on a collision course with the very person who can destroy them all. Can love heal all wounds? One thing is certain: the lives of the women of Willow Springs will never be the same.
  • ISBN: 978-1-60282-937-4
  • pp.216
  • $16.95
  • eprice: $9.99
  • Gay Erotic Anthology
  • 1
Pay For Play edited by R. Talent
Where the man of your dreams is yours for the right price.
Pay For Play features a collection of well-crafted stories for those men who choose to stay on the legal side of the sex trade by vicariously dabbling into the seedy world of men who pay for their sexual favors from other men.
  • ISBN: 978-1-62639-030-0
  • $16.95
  • eprice: $9.99
  • Lesbian & Gay Fiction
  • 1
Saints & Sinners: New fiction from the Festival 2013 edited by Paul Willis and Amie Evans
An anthology of short fiction featuring the finalist selections from the 2013 Saints + Sinners Literary Festival.
For the May issue of the Bold Strokes Books Newsletter, click here.