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This anthology includes three full-length books in The Women of Valley View series.  **SAMANTHA ** Orphaned and innocent, Samantha Evans was easy prey for con man Louis Cantrell. He left her broke and pregnant, but she persevered. Four years later, surrounded by a loving family, Samantha's life...

This anthology includes Books 1 - 3 in The Women of Valley View series. CALLIE A baby is dead and Callie Stillman blames herself. Haunted by memories of a tiny coffin, Callie can't understand how God could expect her to put her heart on the line a second time. But the evasive little girl attending...

This exciting new anthology show-cases 21 of the best short stories by South Asian women under the age of 40. Ranging from the lyrical to the humourous to the darkly disturbing, this collection highlights the desires, concerns and obsessions of young women from the subcontinent. A new generation of writers...

In the lush North Carolina foothills, the Moon women have put down roots: matriarch Marvelle Moon, who’s losing her grip on the world after more than eighty years of life; her daughters, Ruth Ann and Cassandra; and Ruth Ann’s nineteen-year-old daughter, Ashley, fresh out of rehab, unmarried, and...

Growing up in a household scarred by domestic violence, Anna Robinson had sworn she would never marry a man like her father, that she would never be like her mother and engage in physical battle with a man twice her size. Her response to conflict, then, was to go along to get along, avoiding conflict...

Six women, one aim and the stories they never told. Each week, six women of different ages and from varying backgrounds come together at The Bluebell Inn. They form an unlikely and occasionally triumphant, ladies darts team, but it is there hidden stories of love and loss that in the end binds...

Designated the "Queen of Lesbian Pulp" for her landmark novels beginning in 1957, Ann Bannon’s work defined lesbian fiction for the pre-Stonewall generation. Following the release of Cleis Press’s new editions of Beebo Brinker and Odd Girl Out, Women in the Shadows picks up with Beebo’s relationship...

Elise didn’t want to be in the town at all–and certainly not in the scrapbooking shop… A month after Elise Shelton and her family arrive in Forest Falls, Oregon, she wanders into Rebekah Graham’s scrapbooking store. Elise deems Rebekah too perky and judges scrapbooking to be another...

Phyliss Price fell in love, bought what she thought would be a family home, became pregnant, her man ran off, she lost her job and now she struggles as a single mother. How much different is her situation from the woman living next door? Not very, because each of the five women living at the end of...

Indulge in the lustful short stories of four women with secret sex lives. Madeline is a lonely housewife who meets a sexy young stranger. He provides her with the satisfaction she can't get from her husband. After a devastating breakup, Julia transforms from a good mid-western girl to...

There is an epidemic of violence against women in Canada and the world. For many women physical and sexual assault, or the threat of such violence, is a daily reality. Walk Myself Home is an anthology of poetry, fiction, nonfiction and oral interviews on the subject of violence against women including...

A newly married woman burns to death. A mother is forced to kill her infant daughter. A young woman with a promising future becomes a slave to a holy man. A recently widowed woman is left on the bank of the river to die. I Exist. Therefore I Am takes you on a journey into the world of women and the...

"Intelligent, witty, and filled with true feeling, Second Acts is a meditation on resilience, second chances, and the unfaltering strength of women’s friendships." - Foreword ReviewsFrom midtown Manhattan to a Florida suburb, from coastal Savannah to the hills of Rome, the interwoven...

Number four in the Sammi Evans Mystery series as Sammi is once again called upon when police, FBI and CIA are all at a loss in seeking a serial murderer. Can Sammi succeed once again and save innocent women victims?Randy Baker discovers his wife murdered in the living room of their home, shot...