Карин Каллмейкер — новинки

As a behavioral scientist, Professor Nicole Hathaway’s work strips away the foolish mystique that surrounds the human mating dance. When her academic tome is treated as a viral “love manual” her ecstatic publisher books her to appear all over the U.S. and Europe. Worse yet, her quiet, managed life has been shattered by a series of incompetent assistants. And she’s certain this Lily Smith creature isn’t going to be any less a burden than the last assistant they sent her. Or the one before that. Or before that...

Lillian Linden-Smith needs this job. With a relentless TV lawyer and public mob still out for her blood for crimes committed by her “American royalty” parents, getting out of the country is her only hope for anonymity. If that means cleaning up and presenting an antisocial know-it-all Ph.D. for bookstores, clubs and lectures, fine. Dr. Hathaway may have succeeded in driving away all the others, but not this time.

From their first meeting the sparks fly, and each is thinking: She has no idea who she’s dealing with.

It’s hate at first sight in this love adventure from the author of Above Temptation, Roller Coaster and dozens of other best-selling, award-winning novels.

CJ ist cool. Erfolgreiche Immobilienmaklerin. Mit dunkler Vergangenheit und einem Faible für schöne Frauen. Doch bleibt es bei Affären. Verbindlichkeit ist ihre Sache nicht. Ihr Koffer ist stets gepackt.

Eines Tages gerät CJ in eine Polizeikontrolle. Und muss wegen eines Verkehrsvergehens Sozialstunden ableisten. In einem Frauenhaus. Dort begegnet sie Karita Hanssen, die sich ehrenamtlich engagiert. Die beiden Frauen verlieben sich ineinander. Doch kann CJ sich wirklich auf Karita einlassen? Wer ist CJ überhaupt? Wie lautet ihr richtiger Name? Und wovor ist sie stets auf der Flucht? Wird sie sich den dunklen Schatten ihrer Vergangenheit stellen und ihrer Liebe zu Karita eine Chance geben?

Anidyr Bycall lebt im sonnigen Key West, Florida, und jobbt als Barkeeperin im «On the Rocks», einem Lokal, das buchstäblich aus Eis besteht. Als die Bar vorübergehend schließen muss, kehrt Ani für einige Wochen in ihre Heimatstadt Fairbanks, Alaska, zurück. Begleitet wird sie von ihrer Kollegin, der Surferin Lisa – blond und sexy, mit frechem Humor und mehr Tiefgang, als es zunächst den Anschein hat. Dank Lisa gelingt es, die Intrige aufzudecken, die einige Jahre zuvor zu Anis Rauswurf aus der dortigen Universität geführt hat. Und Anis Begegnung mit Eve, ihrer damaligen großen Liebe, bringt die Erinnerung an einen sehr romantischen Tanz auf dem Eis zurück …

Nach einigen Jahren in Frankreich kehrt Syrah Ardani auf das Weingut ihrer Familie im sonnenverwöhnten Kalifornien zurück. Syrahs Vater, Anthony Ardani, ist ein renommierter Winzer, doch kein Geschäftsmann – das traditionsreiche Familienunternehmen steht vor dem Aus. In diesem Augenblick tritt Toni Blanchard auf den Plan. Die Finanzfachfrau von der Ostküste steht in dem Ruf, knallhart zu sein. Sie soll von Gerichts wegen prüfen, ob der Konkurs noch abzuwenden ist. Persönliche Rachefeldzüge und feingesponnene Intrigen verkomplizieren die Angelegenheit. Und dass Syrah und Toni sich zunächst nicht ausstehen können, macht die Dinge keineswegs einfacher …

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.

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 things—friends, 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, stronger—and more dangerous—than 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 that—unless 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.

Sign on for a class in love...

Ronica Black, Cheyenne Blue, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Crin Claxton, Amie Evans, Lynne Jamneck, Karin Kallmaker, Meghan O'Brien, Radclyffe...and over twenty more of the best lesbian erotica writers take us to "school" with stories of how to make passion an experience to remember. Visit a "butch-on-butch" bath house for an afternoon of discovery; trade secrets with a femme on how to strap-it-on; learn about what happens after the conference ends and the clothes come off; and watch a mistress instruct her pet in public. Matriculate for an education and sample the incendiary pleasures of women trading secrets between the sheets.

Sign on for a class in love...

Ronica Black, Cheyenne Blue, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Crin Claxton, Amie Evans, Lynne Jamneck, Karin Kallmaker, Meghan O'Brien, Radclyffe...and over twenty more of the best lesbian erotica writers take us to "school" with stories of how to make passion an experience to remember. Visit a "butch-on-butch" bath house for an afternoon of discovery; trade secrets with a femme on how to strap-it-on; learn about what happens after the conference ends and the clothes come off; and watch a mistress instruct her pet in public. Matriculate for an education and sample the incendiary pleasures of women trading secrets between the sheets.

Halloween Night, San Francisco...
...and it's a party like no other in the world. Welcome to the streets of the Castro, where the women aren't shy about what they want and how they'll get it. Crowds, costumes and parties - the apartment building at 18th & Castro is in the thick of it all.

First-time couplings and couples who know how to mix lust and love make 18th & Castro the hottest address in the city by the bay.

Take an erotic journey with Karin Kallmaker in this follow-up to the smash bestseller, All the Wrong Places. The award-winning Undisputed Mistress of Lesbian Romance demonstrates once again why "Mistress" is fitting as she invites, seduces and delights lesbians worldwide with her signature-brand of romantic erotica.

Syrah Ardani tried independence - but the call of the Napa Valley hills and rolling vineyards of her family’s winery have brought her home again. She is content with her ordered world until she learns that her father’s feckless management has put Ardani Vineyards into receivership.

Corporate turnaround specialist Toni Blanchard’s arrival is preceded by tales of her slash-and-burn techniques. Determined to meet this soulless corporate raider head on, Syrah proudly prepares to do battle for her home and family business.

Toni has reason to retreat from a high-pressure Manhattan lifestyle, not the least of which is a bitter break up. She’s been told that Syrah Ardani is attractive and single, but Toni never mixes business and pleasure.

Toni’s father wants her to save his old friend from bankruptcy. The court has appointed her to safeguard the creditors. The creditors clamor for a quick sale and payment. The beautiful—and hostile—Syrah wants Toni off her land and out of her life.

Their clashes smolder with distrust and resentment, but also threaten to light a completely different kind of fire. Most dangerous of all is the one thing Toni can’t control—the way her heart reacts when Syrah looks at her… just like that.

In this first installment of a planned annual series of New Exploits of... novellas, authors put a new twist on the classic fairy tales Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, Snow White, and Beauty and the Beast. Fish Out of Water (Kallmaker); Nobody believed the curse that the evil warlock put on Ariel until it came true. On her twenty-first birthday she awoke in a strange bed, next to a mortal woman, in a land that bore no resemblance to her own. She must not speak for a year, no matter the need, or she will never be able to go home again. And home has much to offer: her crown, her magic, and the endless pleasures of the Sidhe Court. The memories of the glorious, wonderfully irresponsible, luxurious days and nights keep her silent... until the love, and lovemaking, of that very mortal woman, leaves her yearning to say just one word: Yes. A Butch in Fairytale Land (Szymanski); Need help? Cody is there. Friends call her misguided. Ex-friends say stalker. Chided on every side for acting before she thinks, Cody is delighted to awaken in a fairy tale world where damsel after damsel not only needs help, but Cody is the only butch around to save the day. Daring deeds and dashing rescues can.

Teresa Mandrell's first encounter with advertising executive Rayann Germaine begins badly and goes downhill from there. Within minutes of their meeting, Rayann dubs Teresa a "bumbling amateur." The event changes the course of Teresa's life -- she abandons the corporate world for what she hopes is a more satisfying career in Fine Arts Management. When budget cuts leave her without work, Teresa gets a job as a design artist in another firm, only to discover that the new department head is ... Rayann! But the difference in the woman's demeanor is so startling that Teresa can't believe her eyes. Although the woman she'd fought with had been insensitive and rude, she was full of fire and passion. This Rayann is cold and withdrawn.
To Teresa's chagrin, the woman doesn't even remember their fight. In fact, the two fall easily into an increasingly harmonious work relationship. As they grow even closer, Teresa slowly uncovers layer after layer of Rayann's hurtand pain. When she at last arrives at the terrible truth, Teresa is left with one burning question: How can she turn Rayann's heart away from grief and lead her back toward life and love?

Twenty-nine-year-old Rayann Germaine, betrayed by her lover, flees in grief and rage. She meets rare book store owner Louisa Thatcher, a woman many years her senior, who offers shelter and work... and soon, passion, and a loving place in her life.
But Rayann encounters challenges to this new love -- from friends who question its wisdom, from her mother who disapproves of this liaison with a woman her own contemporary, from Louisa's son who learns for the first time his mother's true sexuality.

And there are profound differences between Rayann and Louisa themselves, two women who come from dramatically different places in the spectrum of age and life experience.

The first page will draw you into this entertaining, erotic, thought-provoking exploration of love, and of that landscape of the mind known as age.