AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR SOLOS Turning the Page Melanie Larson is an attractive, extremely successful business executive who shocks herself by resigning from her job when her company merges with another and relocates. While trying to decide what to do with her life next and at the urging of her uncle, Melanie heads to Rochester, New York, to stay temporarily with her cousin Samantha. She hopes to use her business savvy in an attempt to help Sam sort out the financial woes of her small bookstore. During her stay, Melanie meets and becomes close to the family that owns the property on which Samantha lives, the charming Benjamin Rhodes, a distinguished, successful businessman, as well as his beautiful and intriguing daughter Taylor. Surprised by what and how she feels for each of them, Melanie is soon forced to face the facts and re- examine what's really important in her life, career and love. Buy from Bella Books Thy Neighbor’s Wife A chance meeting over a runaway dog is the start of a journey for Alex Foster and Jennifer Wainwright, two neighbors convinced they're content in their unsurprising lives. Alex is an ex-English teacher trying her hand as a writer. Jennifer is a wealthy suburbanite grappling with the image she's expected to project, but can't seem to get right. Over the course of one unbelievable summer set on the beautiful shores of Canandaigua Lake in upstate New York, these two women learn from one another, question their own beliefs and expectations, and unwittingly fall in love. Buy from Bella Books Life gets complicated when love turns out to be nothing like you expected - and the woman you want is too close to touch. Gretchen Kaiser is a workaholic, corporate honcho with issues - she's got daddy issues, she's got female-executive-in-a-man's-world issues, and she's got one-night-stand issues. What she doesn't have are love issues. She isn't looking for it, she doesn't feel she needs it, and she doesn't expect to find it…certainly not right under her nose. Kylie O'Brien is the kind of girl who believes in true love and is willing to wait until it shows up at her door. Her best friend Mick would sweep her off her feet given the chance, but Mick doesn't make Kylie feel the way true love should. Kylie's leery of her new boss - Gretchen Kaiser's icy reserve makes being her administrative assistant a challenge. It doesn't matter one damn bit that Gretchen is extremely attractive and has a voice as rich and smooth as melted chocolate. It absolutely doesn't… Too Close to Touch "Beers knows how to generate sexual tension so taut it could be cut with a knife." -Midwest Book Review Buy from Bella Books Seven women, seven days. A lot can happen. There are three things that Amy Forrester loves most in the world: Jo, her wife of fifteen years; spending time with her closest friends; and her cabin in the woods. What better way to spend the week between Christmas and New Year’s than having all three! When she invites her three best friends to join her and Jo in their mountain hideaway, all she expects is good food, fine wine, and lively conversation. Unfortunately for Amy, there are three things that she doesn’t count on: her best friend’s relationship is falling apart; her two other friends share a secret that causes nothing but conflict and discomfort; and the arrival of Jo’s fly-by-the-seat-of-her-pants niece Darby, who has a habit of leaving broken hearts in her wake. Childhood friends, new lovers, and old rivals share beginnings, endings, and the uncommon bonds of friendship in a story filled with romance and possibility. Buy from Bella Books "Beers gives a welcome expansion to the romance genre with her clear sympathetic writing.”  -Curve Magazine "This is more than simply a feel-good romance; it’s a romance with substance." -Story Circle Book Reviews Fresh Tracks LAMBDA LITERARY WINNER Mine "Mine is a novel that will stay with its readers long after the final chapter is read.” -Just About Write Buy from Bella Books What happens when you’ve already given your heart and love finds you again? Three years after Courtney McAllister loses her partner in a car accident, she’s finally trying to move forward. She’s even dated half-heartedly over the past year, but no one is able to penetrate her emotional barricades until she meets aggressive real estate broker Rachel Hart. Despite Rachel’s cool façade, Courtney is drawn to her—when she isn’t furious with her. Still, despite an undeniable attraction, Courtney has given her heart once and doesn’t have room for that kind of love in her life again. Rachel isn’t looking for love, especially not with a woman who belongs to someone else, and taking second place has never been her strong suit. Buy from Bella Books Finding Home Rigid. Structured. Predictable. Sarah Buchanan would never have used those words to describe herself in a million years. Never. But it’s been almost a year since her long-time girlfriend left her for a man and she’s suddenly realized that those words now describe her with frightening accuracy, along with one more: boring. After an unfortunate incident of drunk dialing, Sarah decides she will do anything to escape her disaster of a life, so she takes the offer of a temporary position with her company overseas. Leaving her belongings and her blue-eyed dog, Bentley, in what she thinks are the capable hands of her family, she flees as fast as she possibly can. Natalie Fox is the polar opposite of Sarah. She’s flighty, spontaneous, and lives in The Now. It’s the way her parents raised her and for better or worse, Natalie loves her modest life. She lives above a sweet little Italian bakery and coffee shop where she also works, she has friends who mean the world to her, and a heart that’s sometimes too big for her own good. When she finds a stray, skinny, terrified dog with blue eyes outside the bakery and decides to adopt him as her own, things seem just about perfect to her. Take two opposite women with two stubborn personalities and an attraction for one another they’re trying desperately to ignore; throw in a couple of wise Italians, a handful of quirky friends, some homemade cannoli, and a far-too-observant dog; stir vigorously, then sit back, relax, and enjoy… “Lambda Literary award winning author, Beers has mastered the formula for romance."  -Curve Magazine's 100 Great Books to Buy "Georgia Beers has written a romance that can only be called charming." -Just About Write LAMBDA LITERARY FINALIST Buy from Brisk Press Buy from Bella Books My name is Avery King and I’m probably a lot like you.  I’m a 34-year-old single lesbian and my heart belongs to my rescued mutt, Steve.  I work as a graphic designer and my life is quiet and comfortable.  I have a handful of very close friends who mean the world to me, and my beloved Grandma King is my only family.  Her apartment is a hop, skip, and jump from my place and we spend a lot of time together baking and drinking tea and talking about life.  All in all, I’m a pretty regular girl and for the most part, I lead a pretty regular life. Things I look forward to:  baking goodies and then sharing them; spending time with my grandmother; reading anything I can get my hands on; enjoying dinner with my friends; a quiet evening and a glass of wine; hiking new trails and exploring nature with Steve. Things I’d like to avoid at all costs: in-depth discussions with my ex; dealing with children; online dating; babysitting; falling for somebody’s mom; taking my perception of myself all the way back to square one. See that list of I’d like to avoid?  Yeah, guess who’s going to hit every single one of them this year... What happens when your life takes an unexpected turn?  What happens when you need to protect the one you love from the one you want to love?  What happens when you lose something you never knew you wanted? Lambda and Golden Crown Literary Award-winning author Georgia Beers brings to you her long-awaited seventh novel, Starting from Scratch, a story where learning , laughing, loving, and baked goods are just a few of life’s basic ingredients.  Starting from Scratch...where life is what you make it Starting from Scratch LAMBDA LITERARY FINALIST "What an amazing, joyous, tumultuous, triumphant ride. You write so much  more than romance."                                                                                     JD Glass, author/musician  "This is one of the best books published in 2010."  Pamela Bigelow, Lambda Literary Book Review  GCLS Multiple Award Winner Traditional Contemporary Romance & The  Ann Bannon Popular Choice Award 9/11. Numbers carved on the hearts of every American. Numbers that transformed millions of lives. Numbers that threw two women together. Erica Ryan is flying home from London after a disastrous business trip.  Free spirit Abby Hayes is flying into New York City to visit her mother before jetting off again when their flight is diverted to Gander, Newfoundland. The people of Gander are generous, and Erica and Abby are invited into a stranger’s home. It’s a simple act of kindness, and it draws the unlikely pair together.  For 96 hours Erica and Abby share a rollercoaster of emotions and eventually find themselves drawn to one another. Will their nascent connection survive everyday life when they return home? 96 Hours Buy from Bywater The Edge, gave “96 Hours” an amazing review!  Take a minute to read it here.