Lee Lynch

From the Back Cover: Lee Lynch creates an entire town peopled with sympathetic straights, homophobes, lesbians, loggers, and new age dykes, Campers, goddess worshipers, freeloaders, softball players, artists and writers, blue collar dykes who pump gas and paint houses, and druggies all come to Waterfall Falls searching for a lesbian paradise in the Spirit Ridge and Dawn Farm lesbian communities. Two left over lesbian hippies, now in their 50's Donny and Chick run the vegetarian, Natural Woman Foods store. In Donny, a black lesbian and Chick, her lover, Lee Lynch continues to depict the struggles of working class butch lesbians and femmes. With names like Jeep, Solstice, Rattlesnake, and Pennylane, Lynch remember that generation of women who pulled up stakes in the various cities and town across the U.S. to attempt to create a communal ideal of lesbian life.

She's about to give everyone something to talk about!Nothing can put a damper on a wedding day quite like discovering your Mr. Right is Mr. Totally Beyond Wrong, which is why Kelly Atwood knocks him flat and boards a bus to a tiny Washington town. What Kelly doesn't know is that she's accidentally taken off with a suitcase full of lots of money and now some unsavory characters are determined to get it back.The townsfolk are unperturbed by the gorgeous outsider -- even if her skirts are too short and her hair is too big. In fact, the local busybodies are already trying to match her up with blue-eyed local hero -- upright attorney Sam Grayson.One look at Kelly, and Sam gets hot around his too-tight collar. This runaway bride is definitely disturbing his peace, and he's got enough problems. But now big trouble is heading to Paradise, right on Kelly's stiletto heels -- and passion may temporarily have to take a back seat to a more pressing pursuit -- running for her life.

Paris Collins - named for the city where she was conceived - changes teaching jobs every two years. Invariably she leaves behind an astonished lover who simply couldn't believe Paris's warnings that she would move on. Now Paris is the troubled New England hamlet of Morton River Valley. Here she meets Peg - whose sexy butch ways captivate her. Peg's independence seems a safe and perfect match for Paris's way of live - but is it? Paris finds herself embroiled in Morton River controversies - an environmentally destructive real estate proposal, and drastic budget cuts in the Valley's social programs. And she becomes entangled in the Scala family: with stubborn matriarch Sophia; with Maddie, Sophia's young lesbian daughter, whose sexual naivete awakens old pain and new protectiveness in Paris; and with Giulia, Maddie's fiery sister...so alluring, so contradictory..." --From back cover

Sue Slate is not only a feline private investigator in San Francisco, she's also a lesbian-- a "lesbicat." While investigating the "Case of the Kidnapped Kittens," Sue finds a human dead, which leads her to an AIDS clinic and a mystery involving new medical findings.

Greenwich Village ... Provincetown ... travel with Frenchie Tonneau through these gay meccas during the '60s and '70s when lesbian life changed forever. The Swashbuckler ... continuing in the tradition of Ann Bannon's classic novels.

Annie Heaphy, cab driving baby butch, lives a life of freedom in a shack on the Connecticut coast. Her dislike of "Yalies" and all they represent extends to beautiful, self-possessed Victoria Locke at first, and then they fall in love and both their worlds change forever. Toothpick House is their story, but it is also the story of the burgeoning women's movement, the changes it brings to traditional Lesbian lives, and the ways in which it affected all of the young women of the past decade. Lee Lynch, long known as a writer of fine short stories, offers is this, her first novel. We predict it will become a classic.

265 pages : 29 cm