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Sometimes the choice is to love safely or to love bravely.

Some secrets are meant to be told. Some never should. The four years since William Castle's death have been a roller coaster ride for Alex Castle and Tyler Falling. In the beginning, they soared as life partners and business owners. Then the worldwide economy crashed, and so did their idyllic life. Alex has spent every waking hour since to keep Castle Resorts afloat, letting her relationship with Tyler take a backseat. Just when Alex and Tyler commit to getting back on track, decades-old dark secrets surrounding a scandalous affair, rape, abandonment, and confidential adoptions come to light. Someone in the Castle family's past with a deep grudge holds the oldest secret of them all and intends on exacting revenge. The tsunami of secrets converges and threatens to tear apart their families and tear down the businesses of every Castle child. No one close to Alex and Tyler is left untouched. Can Alex and Tyler pull each other through? Will their love be enough to keep everything they'd built from coming undone?

Can love thrive in the shadow of a secret?

Great White Sharks are the second most dangerous creatures lurking along Queensland's coast. Australian intelligence agent Denise Cleever is about to meet the first. An ambitious agent with the Australian Security Intelligence Organization, Denise Cleever welcomes the prospect of a special assignment on an island paradise. But, deep undercover at an exclusive family-owned resort off the Great Barrier Reef, Denise finds nothing out of the ordinary. In fact, the most intriguing thing she encounters is the owner's rebellious--and dangerously attractive--daughter, Roanna. Until the killing begins... First in the Denise Cleever Series. Originally published by Naiad Press 1999.

Can you protect someone and still protect the one thing you cares more about than anything else?

When Lauren Keegan met Cassie Burkett on a Yangtze River cruise, they immediately clicked, but romance was not to be. Meeting again ten years later things have changed, but the time still seems wrong. Can they put aside their troubles to come together and find love after all?

Global finance in tatters, Amanda McIntyre's career is toast.What better then than a trip to Australia? The only dark cloud on that horizon is Clancy. There's history between Amanda and Clancy, and it's not the good sort. But there's a saying - every dark cloud has a silver lining - and it might even be true, if Amanda and Clancy can stop raining on each other's parade long enough to find out. Diana Simmonds is the author of Forty Love and Heart on Fire, and returns to lesbian romance with this irreverent tale of looking for--and finding--the silver lining in the darkest clouds.

It's the hottest city in the U.S., and it's not just the weather that's heating up.Kim Gatlin, ambitious archaeologist and college professor, is taking the spring semester off to do a survey of a remarkable rock art site in Yuma, Arizona. The wild remote desert also holds gun-toting locals and desperate refugees, but the biggest hazard proves to be Bureau of Land Management geologist Claudine "Randi" Randall. Their mutual appreciation of the petroglyphs ought to bring them together, but Kim's academic goals and Randi's sense of ownership have them clashing from the word go. Randi, a tough girl whose fears about her past haunt her every move, is reluctant to acknowledge the other type of sparks that fly whenever she and Kim are forced into each other's company. Professional resentment seems only to fan the heat threatens to burn them both. The beauty and mystery of the Sonoran Desert provide the vibrant backdrop for Robbi McCoy's (Waltzing at Midnight, Songs Without Words) passionate story of two women forced to question everything they thought they knew about themselves before they can risk their fiery hearts on the biggest gamble of all.

Two women have a passionate interest in the same piece of land... Elaine Thomas has a sworn duty to protect National Forest Service land, especially from vicious and destructive poachers. About to soundly scold a thoughtless squatter for camping out in rapidly approaching winter conditions, she's flummoxed when she's the one who gets a lecture about tromping on precious seedlings from a woman as beautiful--and possibly forbidding--as the high country itself. Botanist Devon McKinney has permission to be camping in the protected area as part of her report on the area's recovery from a toxic spill, but Ranger Elaine is not at all the ham-fisted voice of authority she'd expected in the Pacific Northwest high country. Nevertheless, she bristles at the suggestion that she doesn't know how to survive the conditions. Neither woman has any professional intention of tolerating the least deviation from her assignment. Fortunately, working together gets easier and easier, though both women may yet learn that a fire running wild will burn.

Carrie Tomlinson's life is short on rewards and long on challenges. Even she admits that she's probably not coping the best she can, but her still grieving heart over the death of her lover only leaves her so much energy for her special needs students and her own self-control. Audra Malone understands Carrie too well, but that doesn't stop her from hoping that her role as Best Friend will become something more. Not much changes about life at Sterling Road High School until one of Audra's students, Elizabeth, decides to tell the school she wants to marry another student, Melissa. Suddenly, what ought to be a simple case of love is the center of attention in Charlottesville, then Virginia. Then everybody has an opinion about who gets to love whom. While Audra struggles to protect her charges, Carrie likewise tries to climb above a seething flood of Biblical proportions, because it looks like they are all in the hot water together. "Ruth Perkinson weaves a romantic, tender story of real women and everyday America. From the author of Piper's Someday and Vera's Still Point.

The country house has a secret... Washed up by a storm at the gates of the local estate, young Agnes Headey has a first impression of brooding silence and faded elegance. When she learns that Master Netherfield's sister is not dead, as all had presumed, she undertakes secret visits to the gentle but troubled woman. Soon Agnes would rather travel the miles between home and Netherfield than countenance the suit by the ardent James Thornton. Lily Netherfield accepts her imprisonment, for her own good. Her sickness has caused enough grief and loss in her family. Just as she hopes perhaps she has grown out of her illness, the sound of light laughter, a kind word and a sweet smile brings it all back, and this time Lily does not want to be cured.With social convention pressuring Agnes to marry for the security of her own future, only unwanted journeys lie ahead, and none of the roads lead to where her heart has finally found a home. In this richly detailed story of Victorian and Regency England, debut author Elizabeth Hart asks the tantalizing question: What if Jane Eyre had lost her heart not to Rochester, but to the woman in the tower?

On the longest day of the year, anything can happen... Sam Delaney has all she asks from life: a job and a place of her own arranged exactly the way she likes it. The death of her older brother, and her parents' denial, have left her shaken and grateful her simple needs are being met. She's not looking for the future--today is all she needs. It's the last summer Emily MacKenzie will get to spend hanging out with friends, soaking up the sun and checking out the women on Seattle's sporting fields. Come fall, she's an assistant soccer coach with responsibilities. She's planning on making every day of summer count. When their paths cross, Emily is surprised Sam remembers her. Years ago, they played soccer on the same high school team, only Sam was the star and Emily the new kid. Their youthful camaraderie had been simple, but under the warm Seattle sun, simple is the last word that describes their feelings. In this rich story of long days and hot nights, newcomer Kate Christie follows the collision course of two women during the summer that changes their lives.

Meg Klein has two enduring loves--horses and Nicky Hennessey. When Meg buys a house with a barn and a few acres, her plans to convert it to a profitable stable go downhill with the economy. She finds it impossible to turn away horses whose owners can no longer afford them. Her bank account, however, is no match to her huge heart. Nicky Hennessey is having financial and personal problems of her own. Her photography business has fallen off the economic cliff. Her relationship with Beth Forrester is in deeper trouble than she knows. Spending time with Meg at the stable is much easier than going home. When Meg is thrown from her new horse, Nicky is there to get her help--but Dr. Tina Rodriguez proves to be a wild card. Faced with losing everything she's worked for, Meg realizes she may not be the only one at the end of the rope. Jackie Calhoun's long-time fans may recognize Meg and Nicky from Triple Exposure and Wrong Turns. In this romantic tale, two women who ought to have sorted out their futures long ago may finally get it right.