An astonishing new novel from the author of Searching for Spring...

It is 1974 in the California coastal town of Santa Clarinda.  With the women's movement beginning to erupt all around her, Cara Doherty becomes the administrator of the university's fledgling Women's Center.

Neil Norman, 18 years old, is pumping gas and dealing drugs in Santa Clarinda.  A customer gives Neil a gun for drugs, an d Neil exults in his newfound power--an unimagined power that can make his most cherished fantasies real.

Marti McDavid is a new divorcee, new to the women's movement, new to her love for Cara.  She is not new to drugs.  She is a customer of Neil's.

Young women vanish from the streets of Santa Clarinda.  And the lives of Cara, Marti, and Neil explode in the events that transform their lives and galvanize the entire city.

You will not soon forget Patricia A. Murphy's completely riveting portrait of Neil Norman, and you will not soon forget We Walk the Back of the Tiger.

A finalist for the Chapters/Robertson Davies First Novel Award, Burning Ground has established Pearl Luke as a fresh, original voice and a writer to be watched. Burning Ground is the story of Percy, a fire watcher ensconced in the cocoon of her tower, scanning the horizon for "smokes." Completely alone, and wrapping herself in a fire-proof blanket of routine, Percy tries to insulate herself from the much more dangerous fires that burn from within.

It's the intrusion of the past that haunts her, as she struggles to escape disturbing family secrets, and the loss of Marlea, her best friend and sometime lover.  As she reaches out to a new friendship, Percy faces a searing battle of the elements -- both emotional and physical -- that will redefine her whole life, her loves and losses. Cinematic in its style, erotic in tone, Burning Ground boldly explores desire, sexual identity and emotional risk, rising to a powerful ending, not easily forgotten.

Kay and her life partner lead six very dissimilar women on a two-week trek into the Ozark mountains, a trek designed to teach basic survival skills to these tenderfoots.

Lu and Desiree have been together twelve years.  Desiree plans to use the occasion of this trip to reveal a secret that will change both their lives...

Poppy Dillworth has lost her precious Irma after thirty-six years of happiness.  She sees no reason to go on living, and has chosen this trip for her own special purpose....

Marcie is a fledgling missionary out to prove her worthiness for assignment to South America.  She has deep concerns about Poppy....

And there's Jane and Ramona.  Conventional women who have led the most conventional of lives.  Until they share the intimacy of a tent in the wilderness.  Then Jane discovers a passion so far beyond anything she has ever dreamed that she flees Ramona in panic....

Meet all these engaging women in this sensual, suspenseful, highly entertaining story.  Accompany them all on their Wilderness Trek...

"First thing you learn on welfare, you don't need meat if you have rice and beans." --Mama Ruiz

Marty has lost her job.  Unable to find work, she has no option other than to apply for welfare.

She meets lively, intelligent Thea in the crowded waiting room of Tucson's unemployment office.  Thea's optimism brings Marty out of her depression, and the two women decide to pool their resources.  They wind up in a barrio apartment with no hot water, no refrigerator, no bathtub.  But they have a diverse assortment of new neighbors, including the matriarchal Mama Ruiz.  And they have each other...

Love grows between Thea and Marty.  Until Joan arrives in her eighteen-wheeler, and Marty's life is once again turned upside down...

Pioneer lesbian writer Valerie Taylor, author of Prism as well as the Erica Frohmann series, returns to us with an authentic story of women struggling to find their place in a world of uncertain attachments.

Sarah Bodman has two equally exotic professions: Certified Video Specialist, and balloon pilot. Called to an assignment in a Louisiana prison, Sarah finds herself in a tiny, closely guarded prison room with two federal lawyers. The lawyers will be questioning a man in the witness protection program whose sworn deposition Sarah will film, a witness who is key to the prosecution of notorious gangland boss Vinnie Scalio.

Despite every precaution, the witness is murdered, along with one of the lawyers. Scalio, determined to eradicate every trace of evidence against him, employs all of his resources to track down Margaret Paige, the other lawyer, as well as Sarah and her filmed deposition.

Fleeing, the two women crash-land in Louisiana's Manchac swamp. Even this deadly landscape provides little cover from Scalio's planes and guns, and offers up its own formidable challenges to their survival.

The fireworks between Sarah and Margaret are as hot as the danger they are in. And Margaret is keeping her own secret. A secret that may well be as insurmountable a problem as Scalio.