Ninety minutes, twice a day. Five days a week.
Car pool heaven turns into car pool hell when Anthea Rossignole realizes her lover is having an affair with the other woman sharing their daily commute. It seems that Anthea's succesfanul career as a cost analyst at an oil refinery is the only thing she can really count on these days. Now she's looking for someone to share the long drive.
Shay Sumoto desperately needs a car pool. Though wildly overqualified, the environmental biologist takes a low-paying job testing well samples to keep body and soul together. The debt from her father's...

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CJ Roshe knows she can never relax her vigilance, especially when her grip on her secrets begins to slip. Contact with the good-hearted Karita Hanssen leaves CJ wishing for impossible things--friends, roots, a lover who knows her real name.
With a life cheerfully balanced between all the things that she loves, Karita gives freely of her time and affection. She isn't looking for more until something in CJ's eyes suggests that there could be feelings deeper, stronger--and more dangerous--than any she has ever felt.
CJ is committed to only...

Twenty-nine-year-old Rayann, betrayed by her lover, flees in grief and rage. She meets a woman many years her senior who offers a loving place in her life. This is an erotic exploration of love, and of that landscape of the mind known as age.

The motion picture industry is the backdrop for this novel of taking chances by Golden Crown and Lambda Literary Award-winning author Kallmaker.

Two very different reasons brought Laura Izmani and Helen Baynor to the Beach Boardwalk for a symbolic ride on the biggest wooden roller coaster on the west coast. They part strangers, but only after sharing an experience that shifted both of their lives onto new tracks.
Their paths cross again decades later when Laura interviews with Helen to become the private chef for the Baynor household. Given what Laura revealed during that fateful coaster ride, she's relieved that Helen seems to have forgotten her.
Fiercely protective of her children, Helen--now a famous stage actress and widow...

For Kip Barrett, a secret commission from her boss's boss's boss, CEO Tamara Sterling, shows that the respect she's earned for her integrity and intelligence is justified. All she has to do is what she's done successfully before: Follow the money, find the high-tech thief, and document it so the culprit gets the justice they deserve.
This case is different, though. This time the embezzler is someone inside Sterling Proof, the financial industry's most-trusted investigation firm. That one of their own could turn out to be a thief is bad enough, but that it wasn't detected and dealt with...