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A woman, imprisoned for manslaughter, disappears without a trace during transport between states and it’s all up to Dana to find her. Sheila Ford traveled to Tennessee planning to commit an act of pre-meditated murder on her husband. Her lone shot at him misses and kills his lover instead. After pleading guilty to a manslaughter charge, she’s locked away in a Tennessee prison for women. Everyone back home in Ohio wrote her off. She wasn’t eligible for a parole hearing for seven years. When Jennifer Coventry calls begging Sheriff Mel Crane to bring her ailing mother home to Ohio to ...

Home for the holidays never felt so complicated. When Joelle returns home to the little Michigan town of Butternut for the holidays after many years away, romance is the last thing on her mind, but a planned encounter to confront her best friend from high school, her first girlfriend, stirs up long-buried feelings. Sid is now a successful romance author, and Joelle believes Sid's latest Christmas book slanders her. Yet as they spend more time together decorating the town and helping Sid's family foundation, Joelle starts falling for Sid all over again. Just when it seems they may find a way...

Clients hide things from their lawyers all the time. Pam Wilson makes it an art form. Pam’s been on the run from the law for years and she was getting away with it. The statute of limitations ran out on most of her crimes. For her spouse Charlotte? Not so much. Though they were aging, they looked forward to enjoying their golden years and, hopefully, forgetting about the past. Life got complicated when Charlotte became gravely ill, their daughter got pregnant with the child of a married man…a married man someone took shots at from a rare motorcycle Pam happens to own. When the man was ...

Short Stories of Romance, Love, and Chocolate Four complete, Sapphic short stories and a novel preview featuring women falling in love, and realizing love at long last, all in a world of chocolate. Some are sweet. Some have a little heat… Revel in food and fun with Amy and Rox in ‘Chocolate Fond of You.’ Dance with Etta and Corgyn in ‘Cruise Grooves.’ Ache with Quinn and Carlotta in ‘Cake Ache.’ Sweat it out with Charlene and Sierra in ‘Fit Benefit.’ Finally, meet Mandy, and the woman who changed her life without even knowing it, Lisette, in the preview of Anne’s future ...

If you want to be in the c-suite, don’t fall for a social worker. When Sophia Vaca’s family immigrated from Ecuador to the U.S. many people helped them along their way. Her parents taught her to always pay every kindness forward. On the verge of completing college with a degree in social work, her mind is filled with dreams for the future despite the sometimes grim realities of her chosen field. Lacie Lindly has her eye on the Chief Technology Officer position at the Denver tech company where she works. She’s not about to let the fallout from a night of indiscretion that resulted in ...

Is it the Christmas season or the ‘silly season’? All Sheriff Mel wants to do is close out the year and spend a joyful first Christmas with Dana and with their extended families. She’s even hired a new detective, Janet Mason, to ease some of the workload for her and her only other detective, Shane Harding. Things were shaping up great for her and Dana for a relaxing holiday season. Too bad it just wasn’t meant to be… The local criminals want it all too and a string of burglaries in high class county enclaves have Mel and both of her detectives stymied. Throw in a bunch of ...

A story of lingerie, lollipops, and love, where passion meets possibility. Mandy's life is a delicate recipe of motherhood, bookkeeping, and secret candy-making dreams. One unexpected night hosting a lingerie party changes everything when Lisette—a blast from her wild college past—walks back into her world. Between hilarious mishaps, stolen moments in stockrooms, and daring personal transformations, Mandy and Lisette discover that love rarely comes in predictable packages. As they each chase their deepest ambitions, a mysterious letter threatens to unravel everything they've carefully ...

Everything is not always as it seems... Rachel Bacar needs a job. She's a talented computer programmer and app developer but she has a visa problem. With only temporary working papers, she takes the only job offered, one as a courier for a posh Manhattan based company. If only Rachel could figure out what RHS actually does. That might appease her fiancee Amelie that her job and the company are legitimate and there's future potential for her. Alas, figuring it all out proves to be hard, even for a tech geek. When strange things start to happen, Rachel and Amelie get caught up in a high ...

A delayed honeymoon getaway takes a deadly turn for newlyweds Mel and Dana; meanwhile, two meddling mothers won't let sleeping fisherman lie in the latest Morelville Mystery. Does an unsolved shooting death far away from Morelville have local ties? Did a fisherman really drown or was there something more sinister afloat? All Mel and Dana wanted was to enjoy a nice, relaxing honeymoon in the Smokey Mountains, away from the strains of life in the public eye. Instead, they end up involved in a case local law enforcement has completely written off. In this prequel to The Morelville Cozies, ...

Barb and Janet were a couple…and then they weren’t. What now? They started a tentative relationship that led to sex a little too soon. Both shied away but their friends knew the two women belonged together. They conspired to put them together in a neutral place where they could talk it out and it worked. They talked. They started slow, with actually dating the second time around…but now what? They’ve both been shattered by love lost. They’re both wary of getting deeply involved again. It doesn’t help matters any when Barb’s focus gets drawn away from her own happiness to tend ...

Faye thinks Hattie’s a suspect. Chloe thinks she’s a kindred soul. Only Hattie knows for sure! Best friends Faye Crane and Chloe ‘Mama’ Rossi are deep into another historic building preservation project in the tiny village of Morelville. Money is tight and it gets even tighter when the rare coins one of their prospective donors, Bridget Novak, was going to auction off to benefit the project come up missing. Written out of a hit sitcom when she’s suspected of maliciously using witchcraft to further her career, Althea Dwyer, returns to using her given name, Hattie Novak, and moves ...

Chloe Rossi wants to retire with her husband and move away from suburban sprawl to bucolic Morelville; the only trouble is, Morelville is experiencing its worst crime wave ever and Marco Rossi wants no part of a move there. What to do? Faye Crane would like nothing more than to have her good friend Chloe move closer to her and to Chloe’s own daughter. She’s got Chloe convinced it’s a smart move but Marco is a tougher nut to crack. A string of brutal, ritualistic style murders around Halloween with no witnesses and little evidence to work with has Fayes’ Sheriff daughter and her ...

A collection of five lesbian romantic short stories by the author of Broken Women and Healing Embrace, mostly sweet with a little spice. Loving Blue in Red States: Sweetwater Texas Emmie Warren is a middle school teacher who is just trying not to rock the boat until she can finish her Master’s Degree and find the courage to move herself and her son away from sleepy Sweetwater to diverse, vibrant Austin, the only place in Texas she ever felt free to be herself. She’s been hiding her truth for years. She doesn’t see any reason to change that before she can make a clean break of things ...

All Mel and Dana wanted was a weekend break... Mel and Dana take a long weekend break with the family on a Lake Erie island, or so they planned. Things just never seem to work out as they plan because crime follows them everywhere. Will they ever get a break? Probably not, but maybe Mel will find the career spark that's been missing for a while. This is a short story featuring Mel and Dana that takes place sometime after Book 12 of the Morelville Mysteries series. You don't need to have read the series to enjoy this story, but it will certainly help you understand Mel and her motivations. ...

A long running wild west show brings two women with rocky histories together in an all-out, shootout. Liz Ventura is a semi-retired saddle and tack shop owner who just wants to get out of the house, out among people. Friends in community theater convince her to try out for a part in the summer long Jackson Hole Shootout show and she makes the cut. She was even willing to play understudy to the show’s female lead. After all, she thinks, Trudy had been playing the role forever and relished it. What could possibly go wrong? Jessica ‘Jess’ Davenport is a six-year veteran of the show. ...

Before Dana, long before Dana, Mel knew she was different. It would take her years to act on her desire for close female contact. When she did? Fire! A sexy prequel to the Morelville Mysteries series starring Sheriff Melissa ‘Mel’ Crane that stands alone. This short story originally appeared in the 'Sapphic Sizzle' anthology in its entirety.

Can two women, unlucky in love, find solace in each other? Where do you go when you lose everything? Who do you turn to next when nobody seems to want you for more than a casual fling? When death unexpectedly takes the love of your life, the best you can do is to try to cope and to hold on to the good memories. When your beloved’s family takes everything else you have, hope is all that’s left…if you can hang on to that. You’ve been smitten more than once. You’ve even been in love a time or two. The trouble is, your feelings are always only yours. Cupid’s arrow always fails to ...

An ancient evil lurks in a charming Ohio small town. Can the bond of two outsiders save their new home? When Willow and Jennifer move to the charming town of Zanesville, Ohio, they expect to find tranquility in their new home. But soon after arriving, Willow senses a sinister presence lurking in the shadows. Her suspicions are confirmed when she witnesses her eccentric boss at the library, Martha, leading a mysterious ritual at the decrepit Bane House on the edge of town. Determined to protect themselves and their new community, Willow and Jennifer begin unraveling the disturbing history of...

Halloween. Witches. A cold, dark cave that’s a hangout for bats. What’s not to like? Bethany surprises her girlfriend Renn with a special Halloween adventure looking for a long forgotten witch’s coven meeting room, deep in Crevice Cave. They’re both familiar with Crevice; the darkness, the cold, the damp, the narrow passages, and the habits of the bats that call it home for part of the year. Those things don’t scare them. The pair are less familiar with the other things that can happen when you’re hundreds of feet underground and the way you came in can’t be the way you get ...

Can you go home again? Barb knows she loves Janet, but she’s not sure she’s ready to take the next step and commit for life, not again, not so soon. No one is saying it, but she knows they’re all thinking she should just move on. Janet is in love with being in love and Barb is the object of her affection and devotion. She won’t stop until they’re married. Oh, she’ll be patient, or so she tells everyone who will listen. She’ll wait. How long will she have to, though, she wonders? Just when the two of them start to work things out, Janet is injured on the job and an old high ...