Graduate
student Lizzie Petrie feels more comfortable around books than
people. Although an expert in the Hitler Youth, she’s a novice in
love. Her former lesbian lover is blackmailing her, and not even
those closest to Lizzie know the full story of their abusive
relationship.
When
visiting high school English teacher Sarah crosses Lizzie’s path at
the campus, their attraction is instant, but not without
complications. As they start to spend more time together, suspicions
arise from both women in this sexy piece of LGBT fiction.
Plenty
of good-natured teasing takes place between lovers as well as between
PhD students in this lesbian contemporary romance. No relationship
path ever runs smoothly, and oftentimes, those who can’t keep their
mouth shut hasten necessary confrontation.
Lizzie
finds herself buried in a mess of lies in this romantic comedy. The
harder she tries to keep Sarah and the rest of her friends from
finding out the truth about her first girlfriend, the more
endearingly clueless she becomes.
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T.
B. Markinson is an American writer, living in England. When she isn’t
writing, she’s traveling the world, watching sports on the telly,
visiting pubs, or taking the dog for a walk. Not necessarily in that
order.
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Excerpt:
“Well,
well, well. What do we have here?” If Meg hadn’t been standing
right in front of me, I would have recognized her snide tone, even
despite the fact that she’d dyed her once-blonde hair a rich, fiery
red. “Getting drunk on a school night. Shame on you, Lizzie. What
would Dr. Marcel say?” Meg’s companion helped her slip into a
coat. Hopefully, that meant they were leaving and pronto.
Approximately
150,000 people lived in Fort Collins, and the one person I didn’t
want to bump into ever, let alone with Sarah, was peering down at us.
“Hello,”
was all I could force out.
Meg’s
gaze wandered over Sarah’s face and upper body before settling on
me. “What happened to only drinking at home?” She crossed her
arms.
“I’m
afraid I’m a bad influence.” Sarah came to my defense.
“I
see.” An older man tugged on Meg’s arm. She wore a tight
dress—not her usual jeans and J. Crew sweater. And she was with a
man—very unusual. “Have a good night, Lizzie.”
She turned each Z in my name into a weapon. “Oh, I’ll be calling
you to discuss that financial situation you brought up last time.”
She gave Sarah a final glare and rolled her eyes. Red-hot anger raged
through my mind and body as I clamped my lips together to keep
everything bottled inside. How dare she treat Sarah so flippantly?
I
counted to ten before I said, “I’m so sorry.”
Sarah’s
eyes darted across the room to where Meg and her companion were
exiting into the darkness. “Is she a friend?”
I
snorted. “Former ...” I’d been about to say girlfriend, but
instead added, “acquaintance.”
“I’d
use another word for her.”
I
let out a rush of air. “Really? What would that be?”
* * * * *
Each
heartbeat leads Joss closer a shocking truth that will change
everything.
Joss
Olstad wins the fight to switch from her private school to a public
high to “find her pieces” she lost when the Indian artist father
she never knew died. There, Joss struggles with a slutty friend, who
flirts with her new love; Indian Culture Club girls who press her on
her past, as well as her stoner mother’s lies back at home. Armed
only with her handmade heart boxes that hold private messages, Joss’s
search for identity leads her to a scary industrial section of
Queens, and a shocking family secret that changes everything.
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An ancient prophecy. A doorway
between realities. A woman destined to save a world—or destroy it.
When Kate Ryan discovers an
ancient artifact at a dig site, her life is changed forever. Swept across the
boundaries of dimension, she’s plunged into an alternate world of magic,
shape-shifting cats—and a prophecy calling for her death at the hands of the
Guardian.
Draven, Guardian of Telesma,
took an oath to kill the Outsider whom the legend warns will destroy his world.
He hesitates as his attraction to this woman proves stronger than his sense of
duty. Now he must protect his sworn enemy against his own people as he
struggles to prove the prophecy wrong.
Kate faces an impossible
choice. Stay and try to save those who refuse to accept her, or turn her back
on them and the man who’s captured her heart? If she makes the wrong decision,
will it bring about their destruction?
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