by Lyn Gardner
Choices made create the paths on which we travel. Down some, friendships are born, and down others love is found, and during those journeys, lives change, truths are discovered, secrets are revealed, and high school crushes…can sometimes walk back into your life.
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Born Out of Wedlock
WINNER – 2017 International Book Awards – LGBTQ Fiction
SILVER MEDAL – 2017 Global Ebook Awards – Gay/Lesbian/LGBT Fiction
SILVER MEDAL – 2017 eLit Book Awards – LGBTQ Fiction
FINALIST – 2017 National Indie Excellence Award – LGBTQ Fiction
DISTINGUISHED FAVORITE – 2017 Independent Press Award – LGBTQ Fiction
FINALIST – 2017 International Author Network Book of the Year – Romance
DISTINGUISHED FAVORITE – 2017 NYC Big Book Awards – LGBTQ Fiction
RUNNER-UP – 2017 Rainbow Book Awards – Best Lesbian Contemporary Romance
Two women. Two worlds. Two problems...and two attitudes.
Addison Kane does not want for much. With a touch equaling that of Midas and a confidence overstepping the borders of arrogance, Addison’s ability is vast, yet her focus is narrow. Her vision tunneled by haunting memories of her youth, she is blinded to the peripheral. She doesn’t care that life is passing her by. She doesn’t notice as friends fall to the wayside, and the finery that comes from wealth holds no importance for Addison is single-minded. Her goal is the ultimate of paybacks. She needs to succeed like no other before her and prove someone wrong.
Joanna Sheppard lives a simple life because she can afford no other. At the age of seventeen, her father falls ill, and for the next eleven years, Joanna’s sole focus is providing for the only parent she has ever known. For the man she loves with all her heart, she gives up her dreams and doesn’t look back. She goes about her days with no complaints, working three jobs so she can pay off her father’s creditors, but there is no light at the end of Joanna’s tunnel...or so she thinks.
When an edict from the grave threatens all Addison holds dear, two women from two different worlds are brought together, and a deal is struck. In exchange for uttering a few words, both get what they need...but not what they bargained for.
There is a thin line, as they say, but when it is crossed, can love survive when more family secrets are revealed?
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Give Me A Reason
WINNER – 2015 National Indie Excellence Awards – LGBT Fiction
SILVER MEDAL – 2014 Global Ebook Awards – Gay/Lesbian/LGBT Fiction
SILVER MEDAL – 2014 eLit Book Awards – Lesbian Fiction
FINALIST – 2017 – International Network Book of the Year – Romance
FINALIST – 2015 International Book Awards – Fiction: Gay & Lesbian
FINALIST – 2014 GCLS Ann Bannon Popular Choice Awards
FINALIST – 2014 GCLS Awards for Contemporary Lesbian Fiction
Intelligent, confident and beautiful, Antoinette Vaughn had it all until one night she went to help a friend and paid for it...with a life sentence in hell.
Four years later, Toni’s judgment is overturned, but the damage is already done. She walks from the prison a free woman, but she’s hardly free. Actually, she’s hardly alive. A prison without rules can do that to a person.
She was raised amidst garden parties, stables and tennis courts, but now a dingy flat in a decrepit building is what Toni calls home. It’s cold, dark and barren just like her heart, but it suits her. She doesn’t want to leave much behind when she’s gone, but the simplicity of her sheltered existence begins to unravel when a beautiful stranger comes into her life.
How does anyone survive in a world that terrifies them? How do you learn to trust again when everyone is your enemy? How do you take your next breath and not wish it were your last? And if your past returned...what would you do
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Ice
GOLD MEDAL – 2014 Global Ebook Awards – Gay/Lesbian/LGBT Fiction
WINNER – Indie Book of the Day – April 19, 2013
FINALIST – 2015 National Indie Excellence Book Awards – LGBT Fiction
Ice begins when a boy is kidnapped from a London park and Detective Inspectors Alex Blake and Maggie Campbell are brought together to work on the case. While their goal is the same, their work ethics are not. Intelligent, perceptive and at times disobedient, Alex Blake does what she believes it takes to do her job. Maggie Campbell has a slightly different approach. She believes that rule books were written for a reason.
Unexpectedly, their dynamics mesh, but when her feelings for Alex become stronger than she wants to admit, Maggie provokes the worst in Alex to ensure that they will never be partners again.
Three years later, fate brings them together again. Their assignment is simple, but a plane crash gets in their way. Now, in the middle of a blizzard, they have to try to survive...and fight the feelings that refuse to die.
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Mistletoe
WINNER – Indie Book of the Day – December 28, 2013
Four-year-old Diana Clarke sends her wish to Santa Claus, but lost in the lining of a sack, it isn't discovered for thirty years. Now, Santa has a problem. No child's wish has ever gone unanswered, but the child isn't a child anymore.
Believing there is nothing in Santa's Village to satisfy the little girl's wish now that she's an adult, he calls on a Higher Power and is given a suggestion. Although most of Santa's workshops contain only toys for boys and girls, there is one that holds a possible solution to his problem. Learning that Diana will be attending three upcoming Christmas parties, Santa calls on his lead elf to deliver three sprigs of mistletoe, hoping that under one, Diana Clarke will find what she asked for thirty years before.