Guys Like Romance, Too!: Helgaleena has a Fem side
Helgaleena’s lesbian loving stories are the feature !
Guys Like Romance, Too!: Helgaleena has a Fem side
Helgaleena’s lesbian loving stories are the feature !

Lost Indian Gold by Robert G. Rogers
Title: Lost Indian Gold
Author: Robert G. Rogers
Genre: YA Mystery
Released 5-3-2012
Length: 104 pages
ISBN: 9781621350262
Blurb: Spud, an eleven year old, gets hopelessly lost in the swamp, but makes himself a camp and sets out to survive. While he’s surviving, he has a confrontation with a hungry alligator and some close shaves with two bullies, even takes a swim in an underground river. But, his luck isn’t all bad. He makes friends with two girls his age, Laura and Suzy. Not only that, he overhears the bullies talk about gold buried someplace in the swamp, maybe on a sacred island. That gold would mean a new farm for his Mama and Papa. They had just been evicted.
The girls and Spud team up with an Indian man and his son, Cricket, to find the gold. Spud finds the “sacred island,” but no gold. Just some old leather skins marked with strange symbols. Then, thanks to the two bullies, he ends up in a traveling circus as a “wild boy.” And, something happens that makes him believe he knows exactly where that gold is buried. Laura and Suzy help rescue him and they head into the swamp to find the treasure. Unfortunately, the two bullies are close on their trail.

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Imperfect Beauty by E.A. West
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Heat Level: Sweet
Released: April 2012
Length: 64 Pages
ISBN: 978-1-62135-025-5
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Blurb: A visit to the Highland games goes awry for Alasdair Buchanan when his cousin abandons him in the crowd. His guide dog is terrible at describing the sights, but he does a great job of finding the river. Too bad Alasdair has no clue where that river is in relation to his cousin’s apartment.
When Trisha Wright stops to speak with him in her angelic voice, Alasdair is certain his cousin did him a favor by abandoning him. Trisha loves the Scot’s flirtatious ways and basks in his compliments, but she can’t shake the fear that he’ll hate her when he learns the truth about her—a truth everyone can see but him.
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By Molly Colton
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tags: all ages, paranormal, suspense, romance
summary:
Spirits of the restless dead seek Native American psychic Eli Janney’s help– to uncover a legacy of torture, murder and theft dating back to the Nazi era. This journey leads him and his estranged wife, Lisa to California wine country, where he not only solves a mystery, but the two of them rethink their relationship.
PG excerpt:
Lisa was in the middle of vacuuming the living room floor when Eli rang the doorbell. He was the last person she expected to see. And the only one she hoped to see.
She saw him through the front door glass, and absently glanced down at her faded jeans and striped cotton shirt. Oh, well, he’d seen her like this a thousand times.
She smiled and opened the door to let him in. “Hi. What’s up?”
He appeared a bit discombobulated as he scratched behind one ear. “I hear you got an invitation to Rene Samms’ engagement party.”
Her expression dropped to one of disappointment. “Yes, I did. Well, we did. She obviously thinks we’re still together,” she added dryly. Why did he care about Rene? Did he still have the hots for her after all these years? Or maybe this was a ploy to make her jealous? Lisa prayed it was the latter. She couldn’t deal with it if he was interested in someone else. She was a mental mess when he dated that waitress a few months back.
“I need to go to that party,” he said a little breathlessly, and she cringed.
Oh, sure, let him go see that tramp! He deserved what he got.
“Why?” she couldn’t help asking. Call it self-flagellation, but she had to know.
He looked around briefly for signs of other life. “Are the boys home?”
“No,” she answered curtly. “What’s this about?”
He hesitated as he wandered over to the sofa and sat down on the edge, bracing elbows on his knees. “I had a visitor yesterday.”
Real or other-wordly? She never knew, with Eli.
“Robin stopped by yesterday with an FBI agent.” he informed her. “Some guy named John. They’re going together.”
Lisa’s brows drew together in a deep frown as she continued to think about Rene. “Wow. What’d Rene do?”
“She didn’t do anything. It’s her future father-in-law.”
Now he was helping the FBI? Impressive. –No, it was mind-blowing! She never really thought him capable of cracking some heavy duty case. Maybe because she didn’t want to. Maybe she’d feared everyone else would be more important to him than his family, and she’d lose him for good.
Oh, hell!
Lisa sat beside him on the sofa, looking nonchalant. “Wow,” she repeated, still unsure what else to say.
Eli gave her a quizzical look. “Will you go with me?”
She blinked, amazed. And then smiled, coyly. “Are you asking me for a date?”
“It would look suspicious if I went alone,” he pointed out.
She hung onto her smile, when she really wanted to slap him. God, men could be insensitive! She had done nothing but pine for him for the last two years, while he had the nerve last year to date that trashy waitress. And pine? She really needed to stop reading those soppy historical novels.
Lisa slouched back on the sofa, propped one foot on the coffee table and sighed. “I wonder if she’s invited the entire graduating class.”
“So she can rub their noses in her good fortune?”
Lisa grinned. At least he had the decency to sound disturbed by the ditz! “She never had a lot of friends.”
“Just the football and wrestling teams.”
She chuckled. “You were among them, sweetie.”
Eli shrugged. “Call it temporary insanity,” he said dryly and turned his head, looking at her. “Are you coming with me, or do I go stag?”
She wanted to place a hand onto his shoulder, but refrained. “Is Robin pressuring you to go? You know she’d like to see us back together.”
“Since when?”
“You can’t tell me you’re surprised by that.”
“Oh, yes I can!” he retorted and stood, moving toward the front door. “It’s an overnight stay, you know. They’ve reserved hotel rooms.”
Was he looking uncomfortable? There was no reason for the awkwardness. They shared dinner with the boys on a few occasions, and she was collecting and doing his laundry. Aside from a few brief squabbles, they had survived.
She rose then, reached for the handle of the vacuum standing only a few feet away. She paused before pressing the ‘on’ button. “Didn’t you give your old tux to the thrift store?”
He nodded. “I’ll have to rent one.”
There was silence for a moment. She wondered what he was thinking. Eli always hid his feelings. A ‘man’ thing, of course. But just when she thought they were close to some kind of reunion, he pulled away. Or did he think she wasn’t interested?
“I’ll go!” she said quickly. That weekend just might lead to something else.
“I’ll see you then,” he said, gave her one last look and departed with the screen door rattling shut after him.
Exits were sometimes abrupt with Eli.
Leaving the vacuum where it was, Lisa ran across the hall to her bedroom and slid the closet doors wide open. She scrambled through her wardrobe, reached deep into the back and pulled out a dress still in the plastic bag. She pulled away the cover and stared at the black dress she’d bought last summer when it was on sale for $80.00.
“I knew there was a reason I wanted you.”
Also try vol. 1, Ghost of a Chance–
Eli Janney, a Native American psychic, is immediately annoyed by his sister’s new boyfriend Reece Massey, a womanizing professional ‘ghost-buster’. But the spirits have thrown them together for a purpose. Souls in torment are ripe for release, and Reece’s expedition to a historic psychic ‘hot spot’ in rural England could turn deadly without Eli’s help.
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Native American Eli Janney is a mechanic and tow-truck driver by trade. But there is a side many people don’t know. He has the ability to see the dead – and a heart and conscience to go with it. Unable to turn away from these souls, he often takes his work home with him. This time, with the help of auto accident victims, it might save the lives of his own sons, and bring a crooked mortician to justice.
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Krista D. Ball’s Tranquility’s Blaze
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“What will I do? What I do best. I’ll find him and I’ll kill him. And then I’ll kill Garran’s murderer.”
Even if the killer is my sister.
A half-breed and a female, Lady Bethany clawed her way to the ranks of the Elven Service’s top military elite. They only knew her as their champion against Magic, and not the daughter of a Goddess.
She’d expected a long, rewarding life protecting those under her care. But that was before her twin sister returned from exile, addicted to brutal Magic and human sacrifice, twisted inside, and abusing ancient prophecies to overthrow their mother and destroy everything Bethany holds sacred.
The world will burn in flames and innocents will die, unless Bethany can stop it. Unless she can take the life of her own sister.
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A Bright Particular Star by Elizabeth Hanbury
Genre: Regency Historical Romance
Heat Level: Sweet
Length: 213 Pages
Released: April 2012
Blurb: What happens when a rebel meets a runaway?
He’s not looking for love…
Confirmed bachelor Theo Cavanagh is dashing and free-spirited. Not for him a career in the clergy, the military or politics – he’s more interested in wine and horses. But when Theo happens upon a pretty but thoroughly exasperating young fugitive, he soon finds himself caught up in her adventures, and in a passion that can’t be denied.
She has to search her heart…
Unconventional Sophie Devereux is more comfortable climbing trees than the social ladder. An audacious escape from scheming relatives is only the start of Sophie’s mission to achieve a long-held dream, but Sophie carries a secret that inspires hatred, envy and greed. She can’t outrun the danger that stalks her, or her powerful response to Theo which leaves Sophie shaken to the core and questioning her deepest, most enduring desire.

Title: Mask of Shadows
Author: ERICK D. BURGESS
Publisher: Astraea Press
Genre: Mystery
Length: 222 Pages
Heat: sweet
ISBN: 978162135248
Released: April 2012
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Blurb: Michael Drake, a part-time private investigator and part-time jazz club owner, starts the day as he has many others, doing a favor for a friend. In doing so, he falls right into the middle of a torrid affair. As Michael tries to decide whether or not to tell his friend of his wife’s indiscretion, she is murdered.
Through no fault of his own, Michael is entangled in a murder plot that reaches back to his days in college. The problem lies in the fact that, in clearing himself, he may implicate the friend that he intended to help. That is only the beginning when murder and passion collide in a small south Louisiana town. When the true killer is revealed, Drake must deal with the consequences and the lives he helped destroy.
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Rufus has just lost his mother to lung cancer and pours out his emotions to Heidi.
At last he toppled over on to Beaver and me, sobbing and saying, “Oh, Ma, Ma, Ma…”
My lights were all sorts of bruised pink and purple colors when at last he subsided into sleep. And of course I went with him. How could I not be concerned about where he went with his dreams in such a condition?
He brought us to West Virginia. We were in one of those sloping hayfields hugging the hillsides that he associates with his growing up. He was drifting through the alfalfa with a breeze in his hair and I was trailing along behind when I heard a hssst!– of someone calling for my attention.
It was his mom. She wasn’t the huge monument size she sometimes is, only about as big as me, and oh so very scrawny. When I turned to her, she smiled and shimmied her shoulders, and the flesh fell off her as though it had gotten too large. I came closer, intrigued to see her mottled and smoked skeleton enclosing the flattened tarry balloons that used to be her lungs.
But she was friendly, not ghoulish. She beckoned me closer and said in a hoarse whisper, “Boy’s about got me as dry as a raisin from all that sucking. Thought he outgrew that. Here.” With a creak her ribcage swung open as if her spine were made of hinges. Inside was a wrinkled dark red globular mass of something meaty that looked as if it used to beat. It looked a lot like an old apple did once that was in the bottom of Steen’s refrigerator.
She put her fingers into it and pulled it apart. Inside it was a solid mass of seeds. “Take ‘em and water ‘em, woman,” she said.
I put out my white and pink mitten-like hands and took the mass, compressing it a bit so that not too many of them would spill out. It was very flattering to me to be called ‘woman’, because back then I wasn’t so sure about being one as I became later.
And then she crumbled. Even her long gray hair just fell into dust and blew away over the tall grass.
So here stood Heidi Wasabi, the inflatable comfort item, bobbing gently up and down in the middle of a hayfield in the sunshine with a wrinkled heart in my hands. Now what? And where had Rufus got to? After all, this was his dream!
I looked all around and finally spied something that could be him off in the distance. At the crest of a rise was a silhouette of him sitting down, under a tree with extremely pendulous branches that swayed, just like long hair. Since then I’ve found out that this is a tree associated with sorrow in folk songs, which is why he’d chosen it.
As I drifted closer I saw that it was Rufus, only he’d turned himself into a fixture. He was like a statue of himself made of metal pipes, and from his closed eyes the tears continued to flow steadily into a puddle that ran gently off downhill.
That solved the problem of how to wet the seeds, at any rate. How to get Rufus to abandon being a standpipe was a whole other problem that I sincerely hoped wouldn’t be up to me to fix. He’s a lot more forceful than I am in general, and I was still pretty new in the universe.Carefully I shook out a few of the seeds into the trickle. Then, growing bolder about the business, I followed the stream of tears downhill to where it finally was absorbed into the grass, scattering the seeds alongside.
I’d barely made a dent in the supply of them. As I turned to look back up toward Rufus, they were already sprouting into yard-high green shoots.The first one nearest to him began to develop a swelling bud until it had opened out at its top into an incredibly fragrant white flower.
When he smelled it, Rufus finally opened his eyes, his sky blue eyes.He looked at me and his mouth smiled, and the smile cracked the metal skin away from him and turned him back into the pink and gold freckled hunk of human man he is supposed to be.
He saw the dark wrinkled purse of seeds in my hands which I held so gingerly before me and said, “Jasmine.”Since I looked puzzled, he got up and came to help me carry the seeds with his much larger and less clumsy fingers.
“Naw, I know these aren’t real jasmine plants; jasmine’s a vine; but that was my ma’s name, honey. Jasmine. And she did good in this world. None of my business why she wanted to turn her insides black, because she did good.”




Blurb: The Season has only just begun, but already Ambrose Benson Earl of Hawthorne is bored. That is, until his brother offers him a challenge. Something worthy of his particular talents.
The object: The girl hiding behind the potted plants: the one in the horrible dress.
The Goal: Turn her into the envy of the ton. A lady suitable for a duke.
But there is just something about the lady. In spite of all her social misgivings, something inexplicably draws him in, making him want to waltz with the wallflower.
Title: Redemption of Lord Rawlings
Author: Rachel Van Dyken Genre: Regency Romance Heat Level: Sweet Released 3-29-2012 Length: 223 Pages ISBN: 978-1-62135-020-0 Buy Link: http://www.astraeapress.com/#ecwid:category=662245&mode=product&product=10046829 |


William Greenleaf’s The Tartarus Incident
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“Somebody get us the hell out of…”
This is the last transmission received from Caitlin Palamara’s audit team. What could never happen is now a terrifying fact. The five-person crew of the ISEA audit ship jack-a-dandy has vanished during a routine skip from sector ship Graywand to the planet Sierra.
Palamara and the others find themselves stranded on a hostile, undeveloped planet that bears no resemblance at all to Sierra. They’ve lost communication with Graywand, and their drive system is dead. Just when it seems that things can’t get worse, John Wheeler, who feels a connection with a mysterious alien presence, wanders off and stumbles upon the sprawling ruins of an ancient city. The others have no choice but to go after him.
The place is more than a little spooky. But there’s no real danger, right? The city is long dead, abandoned eons ago. Right?
Wrong.
For Caitlin Palamara’s small audit team, it’s the end of their comfortable routine, and the beginning of the interstellar nightmare that becomes known in ISEA archives as The Tartarus Incident.
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Dina James’ Light in a Dark World
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Kyle abhors the word “vampire.” He prefers the more accurate term “lost soul,” for that is how true vampires are made — through a damning bargain with the Devil. Kyle is unique among what could loosely be called his kind, for he not only wants the return of what was, he feels, stolen, but because he was once the demon lord Kailkiril’ron, servant of Lucifer.
Known as The Betrayer, Kyle is a powerful force to be reckoned with by any standard, both feared and shunned by every single vampire clan in existence, including the renegade Destrati. Why he would choose to assist one of their members — the very member sent to bring Kyle to justice — is his own affair. The better question is why anyone, let alone a Destrati, would accept the Betrayer’s help.
The Destrati differ from other vampire clans in that the whole of its members have turned away from the Darkness with whom they once dealt. Destrati feel that the parasitical cost of their cursed existence is too high, and have sworn to redeem the souls they bargained away for their immortality. They make it a fierce point to keep others from being coerced into trading their souls. This is seen as interference by the other vampire clans, and while most clans are at perpetual war with one another over such differences in philosophy, Clan Destrati members are among the most hated, for they, like Kyle, are seen as betrayers.
Among Ethereals, Clan Destrati’s reputation and exploits are as renowned as the associates it boasts. Within these pages are but a few of their legends.
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Kelly Lougheed’s Dormitory of the Dead
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Blood coming out of the bathroom faucets of Charity Hooper’s Hawthorn School dormitory doesn’t just mean Charity can’t wash her face to maintain her porcelain (well, kind of) complexion–it means there’s a dead body from 1923 buried in the plumbing, astonishingly well-preserved by the wet sewage conditions.
Well-preserved enough, in fact, for the dead girl’s vampire boyfriend to reanimate her as a zombie so they can live happily ever after, massacring innocent Hawthorn students side-by-side.
Faced with such homicidal creatures, Charity would ordinarily consult her English teacher, Ms. Van Tessel, whose knowledge of zombie extermination rivals only her knowledge of British literature. But Ms. Van Tessel has gone mysteriously missing. Can Charity track down her teacher before the annual midnight Capture the Flag tournament, which will be nothing more than an all-you-can-eat buffet for the vampire-zombie tag team?

Skyla Dawn Cameron’s “Whiskey Sour”
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One night without protection led to French-Canadian fae bartender Juliette Aubrey catching lycanthropy. Now half faerie, half werewolf, and entirely pissed off, Juliette has the chance for revenge when the last person she wants to see strolls into her bar needing help.
This short story download also contains two bonus stories.
A Vampire Walked Into a Bar: Pat knows there are vampires in his city, and now he has visual proof. He’s set up a meeting with someone who might be able to stop them…but there’s a vampire or two who might have something to say about that.
Zombie Faeries: When a vampire entered her territory uninvited, faerwolf Juliette Aubrey decided to teach her a lesson. Unfortunately for her, that vampire is Zara Lain. And unfortunately for the both of them, they aren’t the only big, bad creatures of the night in the cemetery when they meet. One night without protection led to French-Canadian fae bartender Juliette Aubrey catching lycanthropy. Now half faerie, half werewolf, and entirely pissed off, Juliette has the chance for revenge when the last person she wants to see strolls into her bar needing help.
Whiskey Sour originally appeared in the anthology Bad-Ass Faeries 2: Just Plain Bad.
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Skyla Dawn Cameron’s Lineage
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What’s a woman to do when her dad’s the antichrist, her grandma’s the devil, the end of the world is at her doorstep, and she’s out to avenge the murders of her husband and kids?
Kill everything in her way.
Quarter-demon Peri Takata exists with but one goal in mind: annihilate everyone responsible for the death of her family. Then—her need for vengeance quelled—she plans to take her own life.
Her mission brings her to vampire Zara Lain, the only known survivor of the event that destroyed Peri’s family five years ago. Hunting down a secret society of those who don’t want to be found has its challenges, however, especially when forces are working to keep the antichrist’s daughter very much alive. The apocalypse is closing in and Peri may be playing a role in it whether she wants to or not.
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Patricia Snodgrass’ The Man Who Loved Yolanda Dodson
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Vincent Cleburne, silent film actor and big game hunter conquered women as easily as he hunted tigers in India. Now, Vincent has set his sights on the exquisite beauty, actress and man eater, Yolanda Dodson
During an outburst at a popular nightclub, Yolanda challenges him to hunt and kill a white leopard and bring her the pelt.
He readily agrees. But what Vincent doesn’t realize when he gets to Nepal and begins his hunt, is that he will be marked by his quarry in ways that he never dreamed possible.
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Elaine Corvidae’s Hunter’s Crown
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Mermaids attack ships sailing to port. A magical plague caused by malevolent fae grips the countryside. The capital city of Dere is completely cut off from the rest of the kingdom. And Queen Dagmar is pregnant with her first child–and the heir to both the thrones of Niune and of the Faerie Realm.
Cut off from their friends and allies, Pook and Alex must battle their way across a kingdom besieged by forces most folk no longer even believe to be real. Will they survive long enough to discover what has brought on a war between Faerie and the mortal world? Or will the answers they seek come at too high a price?
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Lori T. Strongin’s Bite Me: Or the Obvious Title for a Novel About a Vampire and a Werewolf
This summer at Hedgehill University: take one totally screwed werewolf, a vegetarian vampire, and the psycho who wants to kill them both.
Surfer-boy werewolf Talbot Osbourne is under pressure to get a summer job, find an apartment, and make up for the classes he failed last semester. The fur will fly when Talbot is forced to partner with Julian St. George on a class assignment. Unfortunately, the vegetarian vampire brings more than just a set of fangs to the table when a stalker takes special interest in the unlikely duo.
Time is running out for the ParaNorms of New York as they’re picked off, one by one. Talbot and Julian will have to work together catch the ‘Slayer’ before the psycho finds them. If they don’t kill each other first, that is.
Throw in a shapeshifter with ferret envy, a wizard who makes people’s clothes disappear, and an apartment with cannibalistic furniture and zombie squirrels, and these boys are in for the summer of their lives. Or deaths.
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