Gay rights activist Selena Winters is shot in the head while giving a speech at the Seattle Pride celebration. She is rushed to the hospital and a blood clot is removed from her brain. Family members gather to wait and see if she will ever regain consciousness. While Selena teeters on the edge of death, family conversations lead back to old conflicts and to memories of Marty's first wife, Maria, and his unreasonable obsession with her. The Wives of Marty Winters is a family saga covering half a century in the lives of Marty and his friends and family members.

Red Warner, a famous artist, vanishes at the height of his career. A childhood friend searches for him and tells the story of his family going back generations. Until the Dawn is a coming of age story, a coming out story, and a story that brings together two worlds: the New York art world of the 1980s and the racial strife of the Deep South in the 1960s.

Critical commentary and reviews of modern and post-modern art from Vincent Van Gogh and Piet Mondrian to the latest video and installation artists such as Bill Viola and Sandy Skoglund.

Love and betrayal coast-to-coast. A gay man who betrays his lover, a painter who gives up his art to serve the poor, a prostitute who hitch-hikes across the country to start a new life and a gallery owner in Seattle who comes to New York in search of her father and finds love.

ELDER ROMANCE AND SERIAL KILLINGS AT BARNEY'S WETSIDE PUB Romance blossoms at Barney's Pub between Alex, a leftwing Democrat, and Jim, a Libertarian-leaning Republican - old friends from half a century ago. Meantime, someone is killing off all the old drag queens, and Jim may be the only person who can catch the killer ... if he doesn't become the next victim.

Alec Clayton's Visual Liberties is the final book in the Freedom Trilogy, the saga of the little Bayou town of Freedom, Mississippi. The trilogy started with The Backside of Nowhere and was followed by Return to Freedom. In this final book, Molly Ashton is now a college student majoring in art. She is trying hard to grow up and find her way in the world, but it seems she does nothing but make bad choices ... until she makes friends with Francis Gossing, a socially awkward but an artistic genius. Francis is haunted by a frightening vision of his mother and a man with a gun. He can't tell if...