by Melissa Good
The sound of the land was completely absent out here. Only the waves rustled and the rigging softly clanked in the wind, and the city was a blur of light on the horizon that seemed remote and unimportant.
Kerry closed her eyes and drank in the scent of the sea. The breeze blew against her, and she could almost feel the tang of salt in it as it brushed across her skin. She let it take away the stench of the day’s stress as she leaned back against Dar and soaked in her partner’s loving warmth instead. “You think I was wrong?”
Dar was quiet for a bit. “No,” she answered finally. “You were actually more tolerant than I’d have been.”
“I kind of pushed her into it,” Kerry admitted. “She heard me talking to you on the phone.”
“Did you say anything you wouldn’t have if she hadn’t been there?”
“Mm, no.” Kerry sighed. “But I keep thinking there should have been some way for me to turn that around. To come to an understanding with her.”
“She wasn’t thinking with her brain cells, Ker,” Dar said pragmatically. “Ovaries don’t generally do well on their SATs.”
Kerry chuckled wryly. “I guess.”
“No guess.” Dar rested her chin on Kerry’s shoulder and blew lightly in her ear. “No regrets. You did the right thing.”
Kerry leaned her head against her partner’s. “Thanks, boss.”
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Dar bit her ear, then licked it, making Kerry jump slightly. “I love you,” she murmured. “We have something in common now, y’know.”
Kerry enjoyed the sensation before the words percolated through it.
“Only one thing?” she asked, tilting her head back and kissing Dar on the lips.
Dar let the kiss linger, then she rubbed her cheek against Kerry’s.
“Another thing. Now I know what it’s like to do something because it’s the right thing, not because it’s what I want.”
“You mean, with the Navy?”
Dar nodded. “It was a club, one that I really wanted to belong to once upon a time.”
Kerry hugged her.
“And then at some point in this, I realized I never would have belonged even if they’d taken me,” Dar continued softly. “I never would have been one of them, Kerry. Never. Not and been true to myself.”
No. Kerry kissed her again. “You might have ended up like Thunderbuns,” she sighed. “I’m glad you didn’t.”
“Me, too,” Dar agreed.
Kerry slowly unzipped the pullover Dar was wearing, exposing her chest. She planted a kiss on her partner’s collarbone and put the day behind her. Tomorrow would bring what it would, but the important thing was that they’d face it together.
“Hey.” Dar nuzzled her neck. “You mad at me?”
Huh? Kerry paused in mid lick. “Oh, about my father?”
“Mm-hmm.”
“Um, no.” Kerry found herself smiling slightly. “It’ll be interesting to see what choice he makes.”
Dar pulled her down onto the padded bench, unzipping her shorts.
“Yes, it will.” She heard the chuckle of the sea behind her. “Some other time.”
Some other time. Kerry released herself to the moment, responding with abandon to Dar’s touch. God had brought them together—and left them together for His own, good reasons. Now she could accept that and take whatever came next without fear.
No matter what it was.
Dar cradled Kerry’s head, and their lips met as their bodies tangled together in rhythm with the motion of the sea.
The moon smiled benignly on them, ready to light a path home, not realizing it wasn’t needed for two souls already there.
OTHER MELISSA GOOD TITLES
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Tropical Storm—The story that began the beloved, long-running Dar and Kerry series, it is a tale of heartache, longing, family strife, lust for love, and redemption. Tropical Storm took the lesbian reading world by storm when it was first written...don’t miss this exciting revised “author’s cut” edition.
Eye of the Storm—Just when it looks like Dar Roberts and Kerry Stuart are settling into their lives together they discover that life is never simple—especially around them. Surrounded by endless corporate and political intrigue, Dar experiences personal discoveries that force her to deal with issues she had buried long ago and Kerry finally faces the consequences of her own actions.
Red Sky At Morning—This fourth chronicle in the Dar and Kerry series continues where Eye of the Storm ended. The lives of Dar Roberts and Kerry Stuart seem to get more complex rather than moving toward the simpler lifestyle they both dream of.
Thicker Than Water—The fifth entry in the continuing saga of Dar Roberts and Kerry Stuart finds Kerry forced to acknowledge her feelings toward and experience with her folks and Dar determined to support Kerry in the face of grief and hatred. They must face down Kerry’s extended family with a little help from their own.
Terrors of the High Seas—After the stress of a long Navy project and Kerry’s father's death, Dar and Kerry decide to take their first long vacation together. A cruise in the eastern Caribbean is just the nice, peaceful time they need - until they get involved in a family feud, an old murder, and come face to face with pirates as their vacation turns into a race to find the key to a decades old puzzle.
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HURRICANE WATCH
In this sequel to Tropical Storm, Dar and Kerry are back and making their relationship permanent. But an ambitious new colleague threatens to divide them—and out them. He wants Dar's head and her job, and he's willing to use Kerry to do it.
Can their home life survive the office power play? Dar and Kerry are redefining themselves and their priorities to build a life and a family together. But with the scheming colleagues and old flames trying to drive them apart and bring them down, the two women must overcome fear, prejudice, and their own pasts to protect the company and each other. Does their relationship have enough trust to survive the storm? Enter the lives of two captivating characters and their world that Melissa Good's thousands of fans already know and love. Your heart will be touched by the poignant realism of the story. Your senses and emotions will be electrified by the intensity of their problems.
You will care about these characters before you are far into the story...and you will demand justice be done.
Don’t miss this “author’s cut” edition, with revisions and additions never before seen.
Coming in 2007
MOVING TARGET
While attending a high technology show, Dar and Kerry are approached by an aggressive entrepreneur who owns the only American based cruise line. He challenges them to compete with an old arch rival on a contract to network his ships and gain a foothold in a new industry. Question is—are they ready to compromise their standards to win?
Coming in 2008
FORTHCOMING TITLES
published by
Yellow Rose Books
SOLACE
by Jennifer Fulton
Rebel Monroe is a Californian yachtswoman sailing solo around the world. When her yacht— Solace—capsizes in a perfect storm near the Cook Islands group, she puts to sea in a lifeboat expecting she is not going to make it. Eventually she washes up half-dead on the shores of Moon Island, where she is found by ex-nun Althea Kennedy.
Althea, who entered a Poor Clare order at 20, has recently turned her back on religious life after a traumatic experience in Africa. Questioning both her faith and the church, she is on Moon Island recuperating from malaria and pondering her options.
Rebel, considered a hero by the island's owners, is invited to stay a while and she forms an unlikely friendship with Althea.
When this blossoms into something more each woman must rethink her identity, her demons, and her life choices before she can find real happiness.
Avaialble May 2007
BREAKING JAIE
by Renee Be
ss
Jaie Baxter, an African-American Ph.D candidate at Philadelphia's Allerton University, is determined to win a prestigious writing grant. In order to win the Adamson Grant, Jaie initially plans to take advantage of one of the competition's judges, Jennifer Renfrew, who is also a University official.
Jennifer has spent the past ten years alone following the murder of her lover, Patricia Adamson, in whose honor the grant is named. Jennifer is at first susceptible to Jaie's flirtation, but is later vengeful when she discovers the real reason for Jaie's sudden romantic interest in her. A lunch with an old cop friend reveals that Jaie may very well have ties to Adamson's death.
Jaie is confronted with painful memories as she prepares an autobiographical essay for the grant application. She recalls the emotional trauma of her older brother's death, the murder of a police detective, her dismissal from her "dream" high school, and her victimization at the hands of hateful homophobic students.
She remembers her constant struggles with her mother's alcohol-fueled jealousies and physical abuse she had to endure. This wake-up call causes her to look at her life in new ways.
But Jaie is not the only student applying for the grant. Terez Overton, a wealthy Boston woman, is Jaie's chief competitor. Jaie is drawn to the New Englander immediately but is also unnerved by her. She has no clue that Terez is trying to decide whether she wants to accept an opportunity to write an investigative article about an unsolved murder. Writing that article could put her budding relationship with Jaie in jeopardy.
And just when the angst of old memories and the uncertainty of her future with Terez are complicating Jaie's life, her manipulative ex, Seneca Wilson, returns to Philadelphia to reclaim Jaie using emotional blackmail. Senecas actions serve to wound and break Jaie in many ways. Will Seneca drive the final wedge between Jaie and Terez? Who will win the Adamson grant? And what did Jaie have to do with the death of Patricia Adamson?
Available July 2007
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