Maternas...A world of pristine beauty discovered by women led by a charismatic leader named Megan. Rebellious women with confidence and resilience who call themselves the Unity.

Cybele...The home they build on Maternas. Where they create a community, a society, a culture.

In a world without men.

But worlds collide. Men find Maternas. And the women of Maternas face a profound moral dilemma: what they will do now.

Daughters of a Coral Dawn is the futuristic story that has become a classic of lesbian literature. Discover for yourself this exhilarating, erotic, hauntingly beautiful depiction of a world women might build given their female nature, if left to their own devices.

"Daughters of a Coral Dawn is a love song to the strength, beauty, and ingenuity of women."
Ann Bannon

"The novel is beautifully erotic in a setting of almost theatrical splendor..."
Bay Windows

"The book we have all been waiting for. And the women in it are the women we have all longed to become."
Lesbian Inciter

Alyson Publications
ISBN 1-55583-662-3
Price $13.95

Amateur City

Ellen O'Neil has antagonized her lover by taking a job in a Los Angeles highrise office building -- only to find herself sole witness to events surrounding a baffling murder.

LAPD Detective Kate Delafield, tough and demanding leader of the homicide investigation team, soon discovers strong motives for the killing of Fergus Parker in an office united in its hatred of the murdred man. And with her own personal life in crisis, she finds her path increasingly intersecting with that of Ellen O'Neil.

Murder at the Nightwood Bar

Dory Quillin, nineteen years old, her white-blonde hair ruffled by the gentle breezes of a June evening, lies dead in the parking lot of a lesbian bar. Her bewildered silver-blue eyes stare beseechingly into the mind and soul of the woman who kneels beside her: LAPD homicide detective, Kate Delafield.

The investigation into the murder of Dory Quillin is far from a simple matter. Traveling in a circuitous path that leads into the "gay city" of West Hollywood, Kate uncovers shocking facts about the brief life of the murdered young lesbian.

Who killed Dory Quillin? And why? Accompany Kate Delafield on her electrifying, emotional journey to that answer, an answer you will never forget.

The Beverly Malibu

On Thanksgiving Day, LAPD homicide detective Kate Delafield and her partner, Ed Taylor, are called to an apartment on the edge of Beverly Hills to investigate a premeditated and pitiless murder.
Kate sifts through tantalizing clues: a set of handcuffs fastening the murdered man to his bed of death; an album of a Wagner opera; a bourbon bottle lightly dosed with arsenic; a silver frame missing its photo.
She is also in a quandary over her fascination with Paula Grant, who discovered the murdered man and is suddenly confounded by a wholly new aspect of herself uncovered by Aimee Grant, Paula Grant's remarkably beautiful young niece.

Murder by Tradition

Young Teddie Crawford is found dead from multiple stab wounds in a restaurant kitchen awash with blood. LAPD homicide detective Kate Delafield is relentless in her pursuit and capture of his killer. But bringing that killer to justice presents a whole new set of obstacles.
Kate finds herself increasingly isolated as she tries to shield her young lover from the brutal realities of this case. And to develop proof of first degree murder, she must find clear answers to mystifying questions for the prosecuting attorney -- a woman who has never before prosecuted a homicide case.
Kate, herself, has a personal stake in the trial: the defense attorney is a man from her past. A man with the power to expose the private life she has kept so separate from her life as a police officer.

Coming from Alice Street Editions in 2005

Women of Mystery

An anthology featuring some of our best lesbian mystery writers.

Coming in 2005 from Bywater Books

All in the Seasoning : and other holiday stories
edited by Katherine V. Forrest

Celebrate the holidays...lesbian style!

Celebrate solstice with women journeying along California's rugged north coast...With a firefighter on the job in New York City...Overlooking a plain, filled with waiting children, north of Los Angeles. Experience Thanksgiving with a lesbian border patrol agent along the Arizona-Mexico border. Celebrate Hanukah, in all its ceremony and meaning, at a lesbian bar. Celebrate Christmas with a lesbian couple in South Africa...in Death Valley...in Los Angeles, in San Francisco.

Here are the stories that celebrate our own traditions. Our diversity and strength. Stories about our love and our families and our connections. Our own holiday stories.

Indulge yourself and those you love with this sinfully rich assortment of holiday-themed tales by authors tried and true--Jane Rule, Lee Lynch, Katherine V. Forrest, Leslea Newman--and by the new writers you'll be glad you found.

Celebrate!