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Chris
Paynter
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| Chris
Paynter was born in a British hospital and happily lived the
life of an Air Force brat for the first thirteen years of her life. She
received a Bachelor's degree in journalism with a minor in her true first
love, history, from Indiana University. She worked as a general assignment
reporter and sports reporter before accepting her current position as editorial
specialist for a law journal. She lives in Indianapolis with her wife and their beagle, Buddy the Wonder Dog. She is a voracious reader and an aspiring writer. You can visit her website at www.ckpaynter.com |
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Playing for First |
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Lisa Collins feels she has it all as an Indianapolis sportswriter covering the city's minor league baseball team and as a freelancer for the newspaper. Her best friend, bar owner Frankie Dunkin, helps keep her grounded and sane. Her life is uncomplicated-that is until Amy Perry enters her world. Amy, the all-star first baseman for a professional women's baseball team, dreams the dream most boys do-to play in the major leagues. The Cincinnati Reds are about to give her that chance. While covering Amy's ascent through the minor league system, out-and-proud Lisa finds herself falling for the closeted first baseman. But as they begin a relationship, something unexpected happens: Lisa realizes her feelings for Frankie Dunkin run much deeper than friendship. With Amy facing harassment from her male teammates in her quest to break through the gender barrier, Lisa is torn between supporting her and exploring her feelings toward Frankie. Frankie has her own demons to face as painful physical and emotional scars from her past haunt her. Despite
the myriad conflicting emotions raging in Lisa's life, one thing is clear-Frankie
and Amy are Playing for First in her heart. |
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Two
for the Show
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| Amy
Perry's dreams have come true: she's the starting first baseman on a major
league baseball team. Unfortunately, not everyone accepts an out and proud
lesbian in the macho world of men's baseball. In addition to adapting to
life in the big leagues, Amy also has to learn to cope with harassment from
many sources. Thank goodness she can count on her loving relationship with
her partner, Stacy McCrady, and the friendship and support of sportswriter
Lisa Collins, who travels with the team to report on every game.
Then personal
tragedy strikes. Amy's game suffers badly, but her union with Stacy bears
the real damage. Help comes from some unexpected sources, including one
of Amy's male teammates and her former coach, as well as from Lisa, who
has just been through a crisis of her own with her partner, Frankie Dunkin. |
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Come
Back to Me
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Angie Cantinnini's agent convinces her she must use a pseudonym if she hopes
to land a contract with a mainstream publishing company-especially since
the protagonist of Angie's novels is a hard-boiled male detective. Neither
Angie nor her agent anticipate the raging success of the series of books
or the mountain of wealth that accompanies each new release. As a best-selling author, Angie should be delighted with her Bohemian life in Key West, but happiness is elusive because it's her alter-ego, Zach England, who's receiving the accolades, while Angie is relegated to anonymity. Meryl McClain, the recently hired book review editor at the prestigious New York Banner, wants to make a strong first impression with her readers, so she picks Zach England's latest novel for her debut column. She offers a scathing critique, unaware the real author behind the pseudonym is her long-lost true love, Angie. Heartrending choices separated the lovers eleven years earlier. Seeing Meryl's review overwhelms Angie with feelings she thought she'd laid to rest years ago. This stroke of fate beckons them to reunite, but Angie's secret identity and Meryl's struggle with a childhood trauma conspire to keep them apart. Torn from
a shared moment in their past, the words Come Back to Me have haunted
the two women for more than a decade. Is it too late for Angie and Meryl
to choose love again? |
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Survived
by her Longtime Companion
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| Hired
to work on a biography of the late film star, Daphne DeMonet, Bailey Hampton
arrives to conduct an interview with Eleanor Burnett, Daphne’s "longtime
companion." To Bailey’s dismay, she learns Eleanor has set up
a co-interview with Bailey’s ex-partner, Chelsea Parker.
Estranged for eleven months, the two women hide their painful memories and strain to be civil to one another. Eleanor startles them by insisting that they take turns reading aloud from Eleanor’s diaries of her life with Daphne DeMonet. Only after the diaries are read in her presence will Eleanor proceed with a full interview. Once Eleanor discovers that Bailey and Chelsea are ex-partners, the diary readings take on a new meaning for her. Can they learn from the mistakes she and Daphne made as young lovers? Will that knowledge bring Bailey and Chelsea together again? Or is it too late to mend their broken relationship? |