Love Stories

Escape for an hour or two in the tender, passionate pages of Love Stories. In her first collection of lesbian romantic short stories, Natalie Vivien offers nine romantic tales of love found and broken hearts mended. Each story features a woman who finds herself altered--and empowered--by love.

Cast your cares aside and submerge yourself in these nine, heartstopping journeys of romantic discovery. Love Stories includes these nine short stories:

- After the Fall: A high-powered attorney meets her match in a warm, gorgeous, enigmatic woman who happens along just in time to rescue her from a bad fall from her horse.

- Long Walks on the Beach: Kate Taylor is having a rotten day at the newspaper when they introduce a new Personals ad section. That is, until a woman named Marie calls in...

- The Speeding Ticket: Long ago, Claire lost the woman of her dreams. Now, twenty years later, Claire finds herself on a dark, snowy road careening out of control, until she's pulled over by a familiar cop...

- A Matter of Convenience: Swamp City, Georgia, is no place for a woman ready for a fresh start, but it has surprises in store for Melanie, including a woman who may pursuade her to see the glass as half-full...

- Don't Feed the Penguins: As penguin trainer at Blue World Aquarium, Gwen Jones spends over eight hours every day with the pickiest flock of penguins in the country--her dream job. But even her beloved flock is no substitute for the companionship of the girlfriend who left her six months ago. Enter Dana Morris, the incredibly attractive new sea lion trainer...

- The Flower Seller: Sally has been buying herself flowers since she was diagnosed with cancer and her girlfriend left her to face it alone. Now in remission, she’s never forgotten the things that cancer has taught her. And she still buys herself flowers. Until one beautiful autumn morning...

- And Then Came Marriage: Meet Becky Sanders. She and her girlfriend, Jen, are on vacation in Washington, D.C., and Becky has been looking for the perfect opportunity to propose to the love of her life. But strange (and funny) mischief and mishaps keep happening, until...

- Recipe for Love: When her dog runs into an abandoned house on the edge of town, teacher Nicole Bradford follows and is utterly surprised--and delighted--to meet the beautiful Lucy Thomas, who just bought the old house as headquarters for her cookie business. Can Nicole, after suffering heartbreak in the past, summon the bravery to get closer to the stunning Lucy?

- The Pizza Quest: Emily Capella is in her late forties and has been on so many bad blind dates--all set up by her best friend, Anna--that she's had enough. When Anna promises her that this new woman isn't like the others, Emily finds it hard to believe...

Love Stories is approximately 50,000 words (providing many hours or a few days of romantic reading).