For Kip, a secret commission from her boss's boss's boss, CEO Tamara Sterling, shows that the respect she's earned for her integrity and intelligence is justified. But this time the embezzler is someone inside Sterling Proof, the financial industry's most-trusted investigation firm.

The motion picture industry is the backdrop for this novel of taking chances by Golden Crown and Lambda Literary Award-winning author Kallmaker.

Women flock to Key West for beaches, margaritas and other women. Anidyr Bycall is there because it's 5000 miles away from Fairbanks. Tending bar by night, she spends her days immersed in the research of her only remaining passion in life: the ice fields of Alaska.

"Don't miss this Lammy Award Winner!!!" CJ Roshe knows she can never relax her vigilance, especially when her grip on her secrets begins to slip. Contact with the good-hearted Karita Hanssen leaves CJ wishing for impossible thingsfriends, roots, a lover who knows her real name. With a life cheerfully balanced between all the things that she loves, Karita gives freely of her time and affection. She isn't looking for more until something in CJ's eyes suggests that there could be feelings deeper, strongerand more dangerousthan any she has ever felt. CJ is committed to only tonight with her body and certainly no tomorrows when it comes to her heart. Karita has always lived for today while she waits for tomorrow to happen. One kiss couldn't change all thatunless it's the kiss that counted. "Golden Crown and Lambda Literary award-winning author Karin Kallmaker's tale of two women, two outlooks and two futures trying to become one adds to her long list of best-selling and critically acclaimed lesbian romance novels.""

Second helpings--you know you want some. Join the Undisputed Mistress of Lesbian Romance in a literary dessert buffet with short stories featuring characters you fell in love with.
Inspired by classics like "Touchwood, Painted Moon and Unforgettable, " as well as bestsellers and award winners like "The Kiss That Counted, Warming Trend and Substitute for Love," Karin's second volume of follow-up stories is sure to satisfy your craving for more.
Karin Kallmaker is a three-time winner of the Lambda Literary Award for both novels and short stories, as well as numerous other accolades over her twenty-year devotion to lesbian romance.

Marian, the lesbian librarian, works in the library in Iowa City. Being a librarian means being a keeper of dreams. Her life's passion is books and history, though she'd like to find a woman to feel passionate about and sets out on a regimen of dating.

Surfing high on the wave of lesbian chic, author/screenwriter Melissa Hartley is deliciously dangerous. When she meets the quiet, elegant Sarah MacNeil at a hotel bar, Melissa makes all the right moves to get Sarah into bed.

Struggling to make ends meet, Sugar has invested everything into her home business of supplying Sugar's Cakes and Pastries to local Denver eateries. A friend suggests she enter a local bakeoff with a $10,000 grand prize and oodles of free publicity. The money would make a world of difference to Sugar's future. Working--and baking--night and day to perfect her business and her chances of winning, she's not prepared when the apartment oven starts a fire. Within a few hours she's got no place to live, no clothes and no business, not even a bag of flour and a measuring cup. Support arrives in the form of a Victim's Advocate social worker named Tree, a sympathetic firefighter named Charlie, and the local TV producer coordinating the bakeoff competition. She's Emily, and the first one of the trio to make a serious play for Sugar in the morning, Sugar in the evening, and Sugar in the afternoon. After nine years as a single lesbian who couldn't seem to get a heartbeat from any woman anywhere, all this attention has Sugar's head spinning. Forced to live with her ailing, homophobic grandmother, she finds it difficult to openly date any of these new women in her life. They all offer changed circumstances, stability and a hope at forever. But which one will she choose?

When environmental biologist Shay Sumoto and cost analyst Anthea Rossignole begin carpooling together, they find that first impressions of each other don't bode well, and second impressions don't improve their chemistry much. But when Shay uncovers alarming test results in her work - information that could cost both of them their jobs - Anthea is the only person she trusts for advice. Can two very different women find common ground?

Twenty-nine-year-old Rayann, betrayed by her lover, flees in grief and rage. She meets a woman many years her senior who offers a loving place in her life. This is an erotic exploration of love, and of that landscape of the mind known as age.