Overview

Rose, a detective with the NYPD, tries to battle her frustration from a family visit in New Orleans the only way she knows how: With a one-night-stand. She doesn’t find out until later that the other woman is New York-based designer Payton Smith. They see each other again and the attraction flares once more, but things soon get complicated: Rose isn’t out in her workplace and doesn’t want to be. Payton is out and proud, but she carries issues with her she evades with the help of beautiful designs, and sometimes, a bottle. They both have a long way to go. Can they make it together?

About Barbara Winkes

Barbara Winkes writes suspense and romance with lesbian characters at the center. She has always loved stories in which women persevere and lift each other up. Expect high drama and happy endings.

Discover a variety of genres, serial and standalone. Women loving women always take the lead.

Thriller & Suspense: The Carpenter/Harding thrillers (ongoing series), Amber Alert, The Amnesia Project, Secrets, Jayce & Emma romantic suspense (series now complete), the Joanna Mitchell Thrillers (Killer Instinct, Exit Strategy & Original Sin)

Killer Instinct and The Amnesia Project are also available as audiobooks, narrated by TJ Richards.

Romance: Venus & Aphrodite, The Interpretation of Love and the Truth, Open Spaces, The Design of Everything Perfect, the Callie & Rebecca series (complete), Bells Will Be Ringing (A Sweet Lesbian Christmas Romance)

Speculative Fiction: RISE, CYPHER, The Exodus Strategy