Melissa Hart is a shy, mousy introvert, afraid to step out of her comfort zone until she dons a mask and leather as the dominatrix persona Mistress Heart. Living a double life, she develops an intimate relationship with a mysterious client who chips away the wall separating Ms. Hart from Mistress Heart to show Melissa the woman she really is.

Golden Hughes had one goal, to turn her passion for dance into a professional career. Then tragedy strikes and Golden sets her dreams aside for a regular job and steady paycheck. Now that she has everything she needs, her passion for dance is reignited in burlesque performance, putting her in the path of two unique and sexy women.
Zoe Grant has spent most of her adult life putting her wants and needs on the back burner to focus on raising her daughter, her career as a beautician, and expanding her family’s natural hair care products business. When a woman running from a painful past comes to the salon for a life-changing haircut, Zoe finds what she wants and needs in the most unexpected way.
Three friends, each on their own path, discover love could lead to happily ever after.

Anne Shade loves writing stories featuring strong, beautiful BIPOC women who love women, from her idyllic suburban home in West Orange, NJ. Anne is the author of four novels:Femme Tales, queered retellings of three classic fairy tales, short-listed for a 2021 Lambda Literary Award;Masquerade, a roaring twenties historical romance; Love and Lotus Blossoms, a coming-of-age and coming-out story, included inPublishers Weekly’sBest Books of 2021; andHer Heart’s Desire, a coming-out romance. Anne has also collaborated with editor Victoria Villaseor on the Bold Strokes Books anthologyIn Our Words: Queer Stories from Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Writersand with Bold Strokes Books authors Julie Cannon and Erin Dutton for the novella collectionMy Secret Valentine. When Anne isn’t busy writing, she’s crafting and making plans for her future bed-and-breakfast.

• Publisher:Bold Strokes Books
• Publish Date: April 09, 2024
• Pages: 312
• Dimensions: 5.4 X 8.4 X 0.8 inches | 0.8 pounds
• Language: English
• Type: Paperback
• EAN/UPC: 9781636795294
• BISAC Categories: Romance – LGBT – Lesbian