Determined to become an author of western Penny Dreadful novels like her idol, Ned Buntline, a young San Francisco newspaper editor christens herself Valentine Lovelace (after a floozie acquaintance of her father's) and heads east for the Wild West. She finds it in spades in the Texas Big Bend when she is kidnapped from a mule train by Comanches and ends up the guest of a ruthless comanchero, a sort of wild west warlord, after the Comanches are, distracted...

A gay bar's business is getting killed-along with its clientele-in the final novel of this beloved mystery series set in early-eighties Boston. Daniel Valentine is Boston's most fabulous gay bartender. Clarisse Lovelace is his straight-yet glorious-pal and business partner. Together they run Lovelace's bar. And also, when necessary, solve the occasional murder. Lovelace's bar, once the darling of Boston's gay brigade, is losing money like crazy-mostly...

Daniel Valentine is a gay bartender. Clarisse Lovelace is his straight pal. From Boston's gay underground to the fabulous beaches of Provincetown, they do everything together (well, okay, not everything). And between it all, they still find time to solve a few murders. When Clarissa is gifted a run-down building by her gay uncle Noah, she and Daniel decide to make a dream come true: opening their own gay bar. While Clarissa heads off to law school,...

"Recently divorced Tina Durham is trying to be self-sufficient, but her personal-training career is floundering, her closest friends are swept up in new relationships, and her washing machine has just flooded her kitchen. It?s enough to make a girl cry. Instead, she calls a plumbing service, and Joanne ?Joe Mama? Delario comes to the rescue. Joe is sweet, funny, and good at fixing things. She also sees something special in Tina and invites her to...