Meg Stryker is an attorney with a civil practice that turns deadly un-civil when she agrees to represent one hundred sick people cheated out of health care. A series of strange, threatening events finally convinces Meg that in order to do her joband save her own life, as well as her new lover'sshe must first solve a murder.
Complicating her efforts are a large group of contentious clients, one very seductive client, and an old friendship that suddenly blossoms into a lesbian romance. Meg is challenged physically, professionally, emotionally, and ethically, but in the end it’s her familiar skills as a lawyer that lead her through this perilous new terrain to a ragged but satisfying justice.
What happens to all those characters a novelist creates? Could it be that they exist in an alternate plane? Could they be capable of returning to the writer, demanding a better, more fulfilling existence? This seems to be reality for Emily Decker, lauded mystery writer, when she is confronted by Milicent Baylor.
In her effort to get Milicent's existence past the burgeoning state, Emily writes a series of erotic stories, set in varying localesfrom Alaska to Timbuktu. Each word, each sentence that Emily writes, makes Milicent stronger, more viable, more real. Emily places herself in these torrid tales and follows her character's regeneration. As Milicent grows in strength and character, Emily realizes she is falling in love with her own creation.
But all is not well in the real world...
The book opens with a police investigation into a pile of bones found in the woods. Detective Laura McCallister intends to solve the riddle. Whose bones are they? What do they have to do with Emily? What do they have to do with Milicent? How do Emily's father and housekeeper fit into this twisted scenario? Is anything as it appears to be?
Rosalyn Wraight has written more than just an engrossing novel. She has managed to weave three storylines into one seamless tale: a murder mystery, a love story, and an erotic adventure that stretches all over the globe.
ISBN: 1928973043
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Is she merely a freak of nature...or is she from another world?
Deanna Dorak suddenly finds herself alone in the world, and begins to realize that it may not even be her world. With confusing images forcing their way into her consciousness, she struggles to understand who she is and why she's here. She elicits the help of her best friend and former lover, Kate, who believes that all of Deanna's problems stem from her inability to accept her mother's death. That is until she sees the gills that have begun to form on Deanna's sides. Kate brings Deanna to Dr. Jason Alexander who vows to help her and protect her from government scientists.
Soon after, Kate's body is pulled from the riversomeone broke her neck.
A frantic search for answers takes Deanna on the quest of her life. Is she the reason her friend was killed? Is Jason friend or foe...is he holding her captive for his own scientific research? Is she really from another planet, an underwater world inhabited only by women? Can she trust the detective assigned to solve Kate's murder? Can she trust her own self?
ISBN: 1928973329
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The daughter will return and avenge the death of her mother
and those innocents killed here today.
Dorak Deanna has come home to claim her birthright. Home, to a planet she remembers only through the implanted memories of her mother, Miktra. Home to a planet still occupied by the same Empyrean forces that forced her departure nearly thirty years ago.
The Day of Ascension is fast approaching and the Empyrean Governor of Nedamla grows more fearful of Aneesha’s Prophecy with each passing day. Especially since each day seems to bring another unexplained, violent death of at least one of this soldiers. Yet the Empyror refuses his requests for more troops, assuring him that since Aneesha’s child was killed during the invasion, there is no heir to ascend to the throne.
By accident Deanna discovers she has the ability to communicate, with at least one Nedamlan, by using only her thoughts. Is it possible that there are others among her people with this ability? Perhaps it will be the secret weapon she needs.
Even with the ability to mind-talk, how can one woman turn a population of women, known for their pacifism, into warriors? And if she and her warriors take Nedamla from the troops now occupying her, how will they maintain their freedom? The Empyror has more than enough troops to simply send another invasion force.
As if fighting the Empyre weren’t enough to worry about, Deanna has another problemshe has fallen in love.
Will Deanna fulfill Aneesha’s Prophecy? Can she return her people to a time when they were fierce warriors, asking no quarter and giving none? Will Jorsta agree to join with her?
ISBN: 1928973256
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Judy and Barbara have both sworn off falling in lovethat is, until they meet each other. The two women become so involved with one another they are totally unaware of how their budding relationship is affecting those around them.
Carol, who recently left Judy for another woman, decides she wants Judy back. Judy declines Carol’s offer for an encore.
Gerald, Barbara’s assistant, thinks that Judy might be after Barbara’s business. But he can’t tell Barbara his suspicions without tipping his own hand.
Martha, the woman who really is after Barbara’s business, decides that bugging Judy’s apartment is the route to finding out what she needs to know about the whole situation.
Everything is moving along nicely until Carol is murdered. An anonymous tip leads the police to the murder weapon in Barbara’s freezer.
Did Barbara kill Carol? Did Judy kill Carol and frame Barbara? Who has the most to gain from Carol’s death? Or should the question be: Who has the most to gain from Barbara’s conviction for murder?
ISBN: 1928973477
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There are bad days, and then there are really bad days. Therapist Dace McKendrick is having one of the really bad ones.
It was tough enough helping her client Joanne deal with the news of her husband’s suicide. Then Dace’s friend Ginger calls, distraught because her lover jumped off the Lions Gate Bridge to his death. Dace had no idea Ginger was having an affair with a married man, much less Joanne's husband, lawyer Judd Nelson.
As she helps the two women cope with their feelings of guilt over Judd’s death, Dace begins to suspect that Judd was murdered. She believes that his death had something to do with a controversial sexual abuse case he was handlingand the clandestine relationship between the victim’s father and a partner in Judd’s firm.
Dace meets with the victim’s new lawyer, Jen Solero, and sparks fly. There’s an immediate attraction between the two women, but their opinions are poles apart. Dace is a soft-hearted idealist; Jen a clear-thinking cynic.
When Dace and Jen join forces to investigate Judd’s death, each provides a reality check for the other. Their investigation becomes a journey of discovery as they explore their differing values as well as their feelings for each other.
It also becomes a journey toward danger, when they attract the attention of a killer.