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Is it ever too late for a love story?

Shadowed by masks and etched with scars, can love bloom b

Kalili has Faith. Heaven and Hell don't approve. Their trials have only begun. Kalili and Faith - the last of the Thirteens - have found the passionate partner they craved, leaving lonely lives behind. Their love might be forbidden, even scandalous to their peers, but they don't care. They'll brazen it out. But if they thought they were done with their former employers, they were mistaken. Just because they've fought free of the first efforts to bring them back into the fold doesn't mean they're in the clear.

"No Medicine for Falling in Love" takes place five years after the first volume of the trilogy. Tomoko has left her husband and living on her own she is now working for Yumiko who in turn has become CEO of a lifestyle company. While Tomoko is flirting with Yumiko’s new female secretary, Yumiko herself is initiating a steamy office romance with one of her young male employees. Unfortunately, professional headwinds are blowing her way because she stood her ground against an influential but sexist politician, Mr. Kuroda, hellbent on harassing her after being rejected.

"Ripples in the Waters by Lake Kawaguchi" traces the sexual road trip of the lonely and neglected Japanese housewife, Tomoko, and the young, vibrant and spontaneous college girl, Ai, who is her counterpart on that riveting journey. It also introduces us to the depressed and suicidal CTO, Takeda, a “sarariman” (salaryman) who, having been made redundant, has lost his raison d’être and is struggling to shield his family from the financial fallout of his failure.

Progressive Protestant denominations ordain gays and lesbians and celebrate LGBTQ weddings, but it hasn't always been so. In the recent past, the principal ecumenical denominations--the Lutherans, the Presbyterians, the Episcopalians, and earlier the United Church of Christ--have adopted inclusive policies that have reversed long-standing exclusions that barred gays and lesbians from ordination and marriage. This book chronicles the journey from exclusion to inclusion.

Run. Don’t stop. And don’t look down. Stranded in a human-ruled land that has no mercy for an elf, Vala has two goals: protect her baby girl and follow her wife to a place where there is no fear of slavery. But will this new world allow her to slip through their grip?

Stripped of her inheritance as a child by a greedy stepmother, Alla’s future hovers between drudgery and slavery. Having spent years toiling in the mansion that was once her happy home, tending to her stepmother’s every whim, she has long since put aside any thoughts of a better future. When a chance encounter in the marketplace leaves her with an invitation to the upcoming ball, her only opportunity to play out an old dream of seeing inside the palace walls is by being someone she’s not. A farce that could see her executed or sold.

A story of the Russian Revolution. Tsarist Russia, 1904: a time of war, shortages, and uprisings. Anna enrols at university and is befriended by twins, Rosa and Boris, who draw her into the revolutionary movement. As Anna finds new purpose to her life and falls in love, the violent campaign against the Tsar escalates. On 9 January 1905, a workers' protest is massacred by Tsarist soldiers, with tragic results. Now Anna must continue the revolutionary struggle, knowing that to do so will mean sacrificing everything she holds dear.