A Victorian lesbian tale. This is the story of Annie Smith, a prostitute living in the Covent Garden area in London. It's the mid-1800s and the area was rife with prostitution during this era and held no exception to Annie's plight. Forced by her mother to work in this trade, she is determined to find a way out of this life and at any cost. When she meets a married man quite by sheer accident, she is offered an unusual way to leave this sordid existence behind her. Annie is extremely grateful for her new found role in life and for a while she accepts this to be the right choice. But soon her...

Continuing the Jillian Scott saga, a new murder case has been handed to her. Julie Swanson, a young trashy type of woman has been found brutally murdered and her body crucified on a cross. During the case, Jillian's ego is tested, as Olivia Grayson, her equal from another station, is brought in as her partner. Jillian holds resentment, but her role as Detective brings her to her senses, and while the mystery of the murderer's identity is unravelled, her personal life takes a knock when a new kind of threat presents itself.

In 2001 Jessie Wheeler has experienced the wrong side of love when Kelly, her long-term girlfriend, didn't think twice about cheating on her with one of her own co-workers. She's been living in Vancouver for the past few years but her Grandpa, or Pop-pops, as she has always called him, has been killed in a car accident-one that was caused by a drunk driver, Gus Jackson. Jessie has inherited his ranch, his dog Blue and everything else that goes with it. Now she has the chance to make drastic changes in her life. A moody type of character, she doesn't let people into her life so easily, but...

Now in her mid-forties, Cricket has found herself existing with the unexpected loss of her long-time lover Gerry. With the support of her circle of friends and the love of her Bernese Mountain Dog, Monkey, she continues to live, breathe, and hope for the emptiness to fade. Resigned to believing the hurt will stay, an unforeseen possibility of a new love interest breezes into her life through meeting new friends. Can Cricket lower her guard and allow another person into her heart, or will she push them away and forever struggle with the constant heartbreak? A touching story that portrays every...