The heavy metal band, Warlord, is in need of a new guitarist. Only one applicant stands out - a jewel in the very rough - Torrin Smith. She has the ability to make her guitar sing her soul - a sinister and shattered cry. 
Sonny Middlestead, little sister to a member of the band, is making her way through high school in accelerated learning classes. Her days are filled with education, her nights with rock and roll. An aspiring journalist, she spends a good deal of her free time writing in her diary. 
The two meet - dark and light, anger and love - with both disastrous and remarkable potential. Will Torrin be swept away by her substance abuse, unable to release her fury or accept the brightness of another's heart? Can Sonny find a way to heal a broken childhood, to make up for a lifetime of injustice and hate? 
Only time will tell.

Warlord Metal

LGBTQ+ Books

Redhawk, D. Jordan

Literature & Fiction

Fortitude Press, Inc.

Despite the questions of her roommates and the objections of her fiancé, Jamie Evans persists in enrolling in a college course that seems an odd choice for a young woman of her background. What no one can know is that the course, The Psychology of the Lesbian Experience, will propel Jamie onto a journey of self-awareness and realization. 
For the required fieldwork, Jamie is paired with the darkly beautiful Ryan O'Flaherty—a boldly "out" and sexually adventurous lesbian. This somewhat unlikely pair slowly, and sometimes painfully become aware that what they feel for each other is more than just friendship. 
The temptation to live life on her own terms is great, but so are the costs, as Jamie struggles to break out of her establishment-fashioned, pre-ordained mold. If she can summon the courage, however, she might find out that love, and life, have so much more to offer than she had ever dreamed.

I Found My Heart in San Francisco

Susan X. Meagher

Real love is not for the faint of heart, and the courage it takes to survive its loss, and love again, is more than the average soul can bear. 
Rae Crenshaw does not lack for companionship. The tall beauty radiates charm and confidence, but this attractive combination conceals a vulnerable heart that has known far too much pain. She finds solace for her emptiness in casual trysts, maintaining a severe emotional distance, all the while seeking that which she feels can never be found again. 
Evon Lagace's young life has been one of extremes - a failed dance career, a precious, beautiful relationship, and a traumatic, crippling loss. Once full of exuberance and happiness, she must now struggle to find peace amidst despair and loneliness. 
Share the tears and the triumphs of these two remarkable women as you celebrate their journey to the realization that perhaps, for a lucky few, second chances do exist.

The Life in Her Eyes

Barry, Deborah

Bailey Cameron is a woman with secrets. The reclusive owner of a successful corporation, she is also hostage to a covert life she neither wanted nor asked for. One that refuses to become a part of her past. 
Blackmailed into a return to her deadly role as the Wraith, a frightening entity in the world that lives in the shadows, Bailey decides to break free. She settles in for a brutal game of chess with her former employers, prepared for every eventuality but one -- Piper Tate, her new assistant, who decides that the dark, mysterious Bailey is someone she wants to know better. A lot better. 
The stakes continue to rise, as Piper discovers in Bailey a gentle, innocent heart. A heart that beats within the body of a killer who can’t be tamed and who is prepared to do whatever it takes to preserve the new world Piper has introduced her to.

Engravings of Wraith

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Dellacroix, Kiera

Thrillers & Suspense

The quest for the stolen chalice is a sham - her family's way to banish Tevi from the island without causing a scandal. She soon discovers that the outside world is a dangerous and confusing place. Bandits and monsters are the least of her problems. Someone is prying into a long hidden secret and Tevi is about to get caught up in the deadly consequences. 
Jemeryl has her future planned out. A future that will, hopefully, involve the minimum contact with ordinary folk who do not understand sorcerers. Her ambition lies with the Coven and the study of magic. Her goal is to rise up the Coven hierarchy and someday become ruler of the Protectorate. It is all very straightforward - until she meets Tevi. 
The fate of the greatest civilisation the world has known is at stake. Tevi and Jemeryl will have to risk their lives in the race to uncover the traitor and retrieve the chalice. If this is not enough, they will both have to re-evaluate their assumptions about society and their places in it, and then figure out exactly what they want from life and each other.

Lorimal's Chalice

Fletcher, Jane

Emily Thomas is a successful New York attorney who enjoys a happy homelife with her beautiful partner. Beth Sayers was the childhood best friend with whom she shared big dreams as they grew up in Pueblo, Colorado. Inseparable by age nine, together they learned about life, each other, themselves, and most importantly love. 
When Emily hears of Beth's death at the age of 34, after more than a decade of estrangement, she must piece together her tumultuous past and come to terms with the defining relationship in her life. Why had her friendship with Beth deteriorated and what part of herself had she lost with it? 
First is Emily's journey back to Colorado, back to her childhood, and back to face the ghost of a woman who had captured her heart and never really let it go.

First

Pritekel, Kimberly

Genre Fiction

Where "Survivor" meets "Gilligan’s Island" in "The Twilight Zone." Sixteen men and women are stranded on a tropical island–with an intrusive camera crew and a psychotic producer, where they fight for survival, TV ratings, and a million dollar prize. The winner is anyone who loves thrill-a-minute misadventures, gut-busting laughs, and ‘broad’-minded women.  The premise may be familiar, though the contestants are anything but, when a desperate network owner is hell-bent on blockbuster ratings and casts the show accordingly. Shannon, a budding novelist and former network employee, falls deeply in lust with tall, dark, paranoid Ryan, a Kentucky survivalist who is determined to win. "The course of true love never did run smooth," Shakespeare said. Even he couldn’t have imagined the road bumps Shannon and Ryan will encounter en route to love and hot monkey sex.  The women are not only star-crossed, but insect infested and sand crab bitten. In this irreverent spoof, which focuses on an industry where nothing is as it seems, and no one can be trusted, Shannon and Ryan pull out all the stops to ‘get the girl’ – and win the prize. Join them as they discover the best thing about ‘Paradise’ is each other.

Castaway, Second Edition

Cooper, Blayne

Daly, Ryan

Devlin Kerry has a very bad feeling about this Thanksgiving: Cassandra Wolfe is taking her home to meet her parents. Dev doesn't want to go. But her demon does...and so does Cassie's. That's going to mean trouble. 
And that's not even counting Cassie's family, including a loathsome brother-in-law, three savage preschoolers, and a dog named Buster. The dog has a crush on Dev. 
As for what happens at Thanksgiving dinner ... Well, more than just the turkey may be DOA this year. 
Then it's Christmas, and it's Dev's turn to take Cassie home to meet the family. Unfortunately, that means taking the demons again, too. Monica and Vanessa are no angels-herald or otherwise-but they're full of holiday spirit. Dev knows that can mean nothing good. 
But even demons at Christmas aren't as bad as Dev's family. And even the family isn't as bad as the giant snake in the kitchen, which isn't as bad as the bats in church, which aren't as bad as Aunt Kitty at the dinner table... 
You get the idea. There's no place like Hell for the holidays.

Hell for the Holidays

Simpson, K.

Buried deep under the ice of Antarctica is something that interests the U.S. government. Secretly, and in violation of international treaty, a team of scientists and military personnel have been working deep underground to reach it. Lieutenant Commander Malory Lovecraft, an irreverent career officer, has been reassigned to take command of the station. A decorated officer, Lovecraft is considering resigning her commission and trying to make a life outside of the Navy. This tour of duty in the Antarctic darkness is to be her last. Dr. Corky Rivers is no fan of the military. The station’s only other woman is aghast at Lovecraft’s language, tactics and hat choice. Instantly deciding to dislike the Commander, she slowly comes to appreciate Lovecraft’s unique charms. Unfortunately, time might not be on their side when the team finds what it’s been looking for. And, even worse, something more.

Icehole

Princess Sabine Katerina Annaatje of Dulce is on the run outside the castle walls from a vicious invader who has killed her entire family and usurped her father’s throne. With only one man at arms and a faithful handmaiden, she barely escapes the invader’s clutches as he has vowed to leave no blood heir alive. 
Stumbling into a camp of itinerant performers, Sabine hides her identity, becoming Katerin of Aimsbury. She learns to trust the leader of the traveling circus, Ros Adamsson, a bawdy woman who is half-rogue and half-gentlewoman. Trust may eventually blossom into more if Katerin can overcome her fear and conservative upbringing. 
Meanwhile, the invader is still searching for her. A rumored uprising in the Dulce Province, a royal summons for the Adamsson Circus, and a traitorous servant all collide to reveal a secret even deeper than Katerin’s identity.

Castle Walls

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