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‘Web of Obsessions’ by Diane Wood

Posted on November 26, 2013 by in Mystery, Romance

Jordan MacKenzie is a social worker who has recently fled a job at a medium security women’s prison to a position in a maximum security facility to get away from a relationship-gone-bad with a coworker. When she starts her new job, she has no idea of the Web of Obsessions in which she will become unwittingly entangled. Meeting Danielle Veillard, assistant superintendent of operations, proves to be a bright light in a rather dismal atmosphere, and Jordan is immediately taken with Danielle’s professionalism, beauty and friendliness as Danielle extends a warm welcome and the two women begin a tentative working relationship. But as the association continues, each woman is forced to acknowledge an attraction that their individual struggles cannot keep at bay. (more…)

Romance Writers Engaged!

Posted on November 25, 2013 by in Interviews, Romance

Best-selling gay romance writer T. J. (Travis John) Klune (Bear, Otter, and the Kid) recently popped the question to fellow popular romance author Eric Arvin (Woke Up in a Strange Place) at the 2013 GayRomLit conference (GRL) in Atlanta, Georgia. (more…)

‘Simple Pleasures’ by Kenna White

Posted on November 17, 2013 by in Reviews, Romance

The story, Simple Pleasures (Bella Books), starts out benignly enough, with avid softball player Dale Kinsel participating in a charity game. As the account begins, we find that Dale is annoyed, even irate, over the presence of one Taren Dorsey, who has joined the opposing team, but who couldn’t play a decent game of softball if her life depended on it. Why Dale is so put out by Taren’s presence slowly begins to come to light as the story unfolds. Years before, there was a confrontation between Dale and Taren. Words were exchanged, and an unpleasant awkwardness surrounded by anger ensued. As a result Dale has kept her distance from the woman, in spite of the fact that Taren’s sister was Dale’s partner, Sydney, who succumbed to cancer several years before the story opens. (more…)

‘Show of Force’ by AJ Quinn

Posted on November 7, 2013 by in Romance

When Tate McKenna, a war correspondent assigned to the Middle East, meets the stunningly beautiful Commander Evan Kane, an ace pilot stationed on the aircraft carrier, USS Nimitz, Tate hesitates, but only briefly, before engaging the dashing flier in enticing conversation at an official dinner in Bahrain given for the US Secretary of State. From that meeting, the two women are drawn into an irresistible relationship in spite of the demands of each of their careers. With a bond that grows stronger and moves more and more toward a desire for a commitment with each passing day, the two women begin to make their plans for a future together back in the States.  Thus, Show of Force begins with a profound love affair surrounded by the ever-present danger of their location and circumstances. The two women struggle to carve out time together between each of their assignments, yet their feelings for one another continue to grow. (more…)

The Books of Mormons

Posted on October 31, 2013 by in Opinion, Romance

When I moved to Las Vegas from San Francisco, some said I was going from Sodom to Gomorrah. But just as the heart of San Francisco is a Catholic Sacred Heart of Jesus, so here in Las Vegas the sharp spires of the Mormon Church loom over every neighborhood. The city was originally founded as an outpost of the Mormon territory of Deseret and a sparkling white Mormon temple sits in the hills above the city like an atomic version of Cinderella’s castle. (more…)

‘Does She Love You?’ by Rachel Spangler

Posted on October 10, 2013 by in Reviews, Romance

Does She Love You? (Bold Strokes Books) gives new meaning to the eternal triangle. Annabelle Taylor is a devoted wife. However, she’s not without longings. She longs for more meaning in her life, and her interpretation of fulfillment would be to start a family with her wife of thirteen years, Nic McCoy. Belle, as Nic calls her, doesn’t care about the successes, the money, the fancy house or the country club membership Nic works so hard to provide for her. When Nic is away on company business, Belle tries to fill the loneliness with tennis dates with her sister and lunches at the club, but she’d leave it all behind for full time companionship with the woman she loves in her bed every night and a more modest life surrounded by simple pleasures and a family of their own. (more…)

Homecomings

Posted on September 29, 2013 by in Reviews, Romance

Welcome Back, Joe

Joe Harding has come home after an eighteen-month tour of duty in Vietnam in Elliott Mackle’s latest Joe Harding book, Welcome Home, Captain Harding from Lethe Press. Mackle has a way of opening our eyes to the present by remembering the past. Just as our Afghan troops are recycled in and out of country for multiple tours leading to record numbers of suicides in the military, so Mackle remembers that the ravages of the Vietnam war were just as deeply etched in drug-addicted troops, civilian massacres, the war-torn streets of Berkeley and suicidal showboating pilots. Mackle has captured the era with the genuineness of someone who has lived it rather than just researched it.  (more…)

‘First Down’ by JJ Greene

Posted on September 5, 2013 by in Mystery, Romance

Detective Rynn Callahan is stymied by the rather gruesome murder of a man in her district. The crime scene is devoid of clues and leads are non-existent, making the detective bewildered and frustrated. She’s been working alone since her partner was injured in the line of duty, and she’s not thrilled when her superior assigns her a new partner. The guy’s not very forthcoming about his past and Rynn’s not sure what to make of him. However, all that doesn’t hold a candle to the complications that arise when Toni Davis shows up at the precinct. Just as Rynn is about to call it a day, Toni offers confidential information that may be related to the murder and the encounter puts Rynn in a challenging position. With this new information, Rynn needs to figure out how much to divulge to her new partner and even how much to believe. Not only that, but as time goes by, she needs to reckon what to do with Toni’s bold invitations and her own feelings and responses to the woman who holds so much influence and so many secrets. (more…)

Dangerous Boys

Posted on August 29, 2013 by in Reviews, Romance

Sam Cameron’s Dangerous Boys Books

Hardy Boys move over, the Anderson Twins are diving to their next crime scene. Navy veteran Sam Cameron is well on her way to creating this generation’s most iconic YA mystery-adventure series in her award-winning “Fisher Key Adventure” novels from the Soliloquy imprint from Bold Strokes Books. Our young heroes are identical twins, Denny and Steven Anderson, and the first two mysteries in the series take place in the last summer of their youth. Denny is looking forward to entering the Coast Guard Academy in the fall, while Steven plans to become a Navy SEAL, but both boys have secrets that could jeopardize their futures in the uniform services–Denny likes boys and Steven is possibly color-blind.
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‘Battle Axe’ by Carsen Taite

Posted on August 21, 2013 by in Reviews, Romance

Luca Bennett always seems to be fighting something or someone. In Battle Axe, there are many battles to be fought on a professional and personal level. There are the minor criminals who have jumped bail. Hunting them down and turning them in forms the brunt of her work. However, voices from the past haunt her, and some of the voices are from a previous tale. Her old, established friendship with policewoman Jessica Chance has always come with some casual sex thrown in, but as Chance withdraws more and more from Luca’s life, their relationship seems to be morphing into something deeper—and more confusing. This is a big problem for Luca since she doesn’t do deep, and this throws her into an interior battle, something with which she is not familiar, nor does it attract her. (more…)

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