Alison Kaine, lesbian cop, enters the world of leather-dykes after a woman is brutally murdered at a Denver bar. In this fast-paced, yet slyly humorous novel, Allen confronts the sensitive issues of S/M, queer-bashers and women-identified sex workers.ReviewA book in which you don't have to pick out just the good parts - because the rest of it is a must read, too. --Marie Tharp, Bad AttitudeWhat drives this book is Kate Allen's excellent writing. She creates powerful, passionate women... --Mary E. Bradish, The Washington BladeAllen's well-written murder mystery sports a heart-pounding ending. --Marie Kuda, Booklist About the AuthorKate Allen writes about the complexities and contradictions of lesbian life with a unique and wonderful style. The perfect writer for readers who are hungry for something new, for something humorous and erotic.

Helping to build an adobe house on lesbian land sounds like a fine change of pace to Denver cop Alison Kaine. She knows that she has some differences of philosophy with the land dykes, but they can work it out for one weekend, right? WRONG! Especially when her dominatrix lover, Stacy, shows up unexpectedly.ReviewWhile slicing and dicing enough dyke sacred cows to fill a refrigerator truck, Kate Allen sends poor Alison through eighteen kinds of mayhem, but still finds time to investigate the real allegiances we owe to our friends and to our communities. By turns harrowing and hilarious, this intricate puzzler is Allens best yet. --Linnea Due Express Weekly About the AuthorKate Allen writes about the complexities and contradictions of lesbian life with a unique and wonderful style. The perfect writer for readers who are hungry for something new for something humorous and erotic.

Heartbreaking but also filled with wit and hope, The Line Tender is the story of Lucy, the daughter of a marine biologist and a rescue diver, and the summer that changes her life. If she ever wants to lift the cloud of grief over her family and community, she must complete the research her late mother began. She must follow the sharks.Wherever the sharks led, Lucy Everhart's marine-biologist mother was sure to follow. In fact, she was on a boat far off the coast of Massachusetts, preparing to swim with a great white, when she died suddenly. Lucy was seven. Since then Lucy and her father have done okay—thanks in large part to her best friend, Fred, and a few close friends and neighbors. But June of her twelfth summer brings more than the end of school and a heat wave to sleepy Rockport. On one steamy day, the tide brings a great white—and then another tragedy, cutting short a friendship everyone insists was "meaningful" but no one can tell Lucy what it...

Lesbian cop Alison Kaine and her friend Michelle find an author of steamy lesbian romances dead in her bathtub. She and her riotous extended family, including her very sexy girlfriend, Stacy, are back and eager to help investigate - that is, unless they're busy helping Liz compete for the title of Ms. Leather Colorado.ReviewAllens well-written murder mystery sports a heart-pounding ending on the way to it exploring both polarization in the lesbian communtiy over S/M and issues of violence towards women. --Marie Kuda - BooklistErotic and fast-paced, its a great read. It is refreshing to hear a writer whose voice comes through so strongly and with such unapologetic conviction. One of the finest looks in the S/M community and one long overdue. --Cris Newport - Bay WindowsKate Allen presents issues facing the lesbian community with a humor and a humanity seldom seen in books today. --Marie Tharp - Bad Attitudes More intricate, powerfully writeen, and realistic than most lesbian mysteries. A compelling read for the lesbian mystery buff. --Mary Huebscher, WLW Journal --Marie Tharp and Mary Huebscher About the AuthorKate Allen writes about the complexities and contradictions of lesbian life with a unique and wonderful style. The perfect writer for readers who are hungry for something new or for something humorous and erotic.

You promised No Dead Bodies! Mistress Anastasia, the lovely leather femme has every right to be irritated with her butch girlfriend, Alison Kaine. A mystery is the last thing she needs at her leather event. On leave from the Denver PD and relegated to driving the airport shuttle, Alison cannot ignore the undercurrent of malice and deception beneath the bantering and blatant sexuality. Can Alison work quickly enough to uncover old feuds and secrets - or will someone go home as cargo?ReviewCool characters, kinky sex and a neat little plot twist. --Boston Gay PaperThese books function a bit like Bechdel's comic strip, Dykes to Watch Out For - messy love affairs, volatile community issues - the basic stuff of dyke drama. --SojournerGood dialogue, believable characters, humor and insight-sounds like a quadruple threat to me. --Bay Area Reporter About the AuthorKate Allen writes about the complexities and contradictions of lesbian life with a unique and wonderful style. The perfect writer for readers who are hungry for something new for something humorous and erotic.