Cheating Chance by James Buchanan

Nick is an agent for the Eletronic Services for Gaming Control at Las Vegas and he is also a goth guy with long black hair, fangs like a vampire and an heaser for car. If not for his tanned skin of Native American descendant, he would be the perfect vampire. At a goth convention he meets Brandon, a cop from North California. After a night of passion Brandon says they can see again but that he is in the closet at home and he is not ready or willing to correct this position. And Nick is rebounding after a bad breakup with his last lover. Not the best fundaments for starting a lasting relationship but they try.

But Brandon's attitude when they are in public, his continuing flirting with girls, and the murder of one of Nick's former colleague, soon after they spoke on phone, puts Nick on top of suspects.

Both Brandon and Nick are difficult characters. They are not typical, not full good heroes and not at all bad boy. In looks they are maybe more bad boy, but Nick is also a sentimental character. He is jelaous and he is still trying to overcome the inferiority's feeling left him by his former lover. And the reaction he has when said former lover pissed him off is a clearly proof of his sentimental and hot nature.

Brandon instead is like Dr Jeckill and Mr Hyde: he can be soo sweet and loving when he is alone with Nick, and then so cold and detached when he is in public. Maybe not the right choice for one like Nick that in this moment would need a bit of reassurance. But still Brandon manages to outweight the bad moments with the good ones: in the end not having him is a lot worst than having him with some issue they have to overcome.

Cheating Chance is a good thriller, more adventure than romance, and even if the sex is a bit kink and there is a good bondage scene, it's not overly erotic (and it's not a complaint, I want to say that there is a good mix of sex and story...)

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Amazon: Cheating Chance

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Inland Empire by James Buchanan

There are two worlds in this novel and Brandon behaves in a different way according to the world he is in that moment. Inland Empire is the sequel of Cheating Chance; the first book takes place in Nicky's world (so maybe the worlds are actually three), Las Vegas, where Nicky is out and proud and has no problem with that. He has a tight circle of friends and Brandon, his new boyfriend, enters the circle. It's always Brandon who comes to visit Nicky, since Brandon is not out: he is a Los Angeles police officer, and he stated from the first moment with Nicky that he has no intention to come out. But in the first book Nicky was in danger, Brandon had to call for some favor, and in a way, he came out a bit from the closet. Now, at the beginning of the second book, Nicky is coming to visit and Brandon can't avoid to present him to his friends. It's actually the Pink Elephant who tries to hide in a glass shop, since Nicky is obviously gay, he is staying with Brandon, and you can say seeing them together that they are not only buddy friends. I actually found almost irritating Brandon's stubbornness in insisting that he is in the closet... that closet has bigger hole that a wrecked ship.

And so we read of Brandon who tries to live a double life: the mostly submissive partner for Nicky, when they are alone, and the bad big straight cop, when they are among other people. It's quite a contrast since Brandon doesn't change so much in attitude, and so it's strange, but interesting, to see him as the bottom in their relationship, seeking Nicky's comforting body and almost begging his love, without actually saying the word, and maintaining that facade of strong and untouchable man; and it's even more strange to see him denying that Nicky is someone special in his life, when it's obvious that Nicky is among the more important person in his life.

Another nice contrast is seeing as Brandon, all straight attitude, is mostly the bottom in their relationship, and Nicky, not exactly flamboyant, but almost, turns a dominant lover in their intimacy. There is a reason for Nicky's behavior, a bad experience with a past lover that makes difficult for him to submit to a lover, so the contrast is not so strange; basically Nicky was a submissive lover, but he got hurt, and now it's difficult to trust again. And Brandon's attitude doesn't help, since, trying to "hide" Nicly with him in the closet, he isn't proving to Nicky that he accepts him like he is, he is forcing Nicky to do something he doesn't like, and ab absurdo, he is behaving like his former lover, taking advantage of Nicky's trust to force him to do something unhealthy for him.

In the end I would like to spend some words on the setting, the LAPD. It's not a "romance" perspective that we have of the job, there are not lonely hero who arrives and burst into a scene alone and almighty, routing the enemies. Oh yes, Nicky and Brandon can play on how sexy can be Brandon with his former motorbike cop uniform, but all in all, Brandon's job is dangerous and underpaid, brought on in poor neighborhoods and among petty criminals, and at the end of the day, the only reward he has is a small apartment and a take out dinner. And Brandon himself is not some perfect hero, who can live as he wants without facing the consequences of his actions. Only if you meet someone special like Nicky, you can have something more, but you need to have the courage to be true with yourself and the world, knowing that there will be no rainbow flags cheering for you.

http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2010 (ebook)

http://www.mlrbooks.com/ShowBook.php?book=INLAND01 (print book)

Amazon: Inland Empire

Series: Taking the Odds
1) Cheating Chance: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/260732.html
2) Inland Empire

Reading List:

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Cover Art by Pluto

Cheating Chance by James Buchanan

Nick is an agent for the Eletronic Services for Gaming Control at Las Vegas and he is also a goth guy with long black hair, fangs like a vampire and an heaser for car. If not for his tanned skin of Native American descendant, he would be the perfect vampire. At a goth convention he meets Brandon, a cop from North California. After a night of passion Brandon says they can see again but that he is in the closet at home and he is not ready or willing to correct this position. And Nick is rebounding after a bad breakup with his last lover. Not the best fundaments for starting a lasting relationship but they try.

But Brandon's attitude when they are in public, his continuing flirting with girls, and the murder of one of Nick's former colleague, soon after they spoke on phone, puts Nick on top of suspects.

Both Brandon and Nick are difficult characters. They are not typical, not full good heroes and not at all bad boy. In looks they are maybe more bad boy, but Nick is also a sentimental character. He is jelaous and he is still trying to overcome the inferiority's feeling left him by his former lover. And the reaction he has when said former lover pissed him off is a clearly proof of his sentimental and hot nature.

Brandon instead is like Dr Jeckill and Mr Hyde: he can be soo sweet and loving when he is alone with Nick, and then so cold and detached when he is in public. Maybe not the right choice for one like Nick that in this moment would need a bit of reassurance. But still Brandon manages to outweight the bad moments with the good ones: in the end not having him is a lot worst than having him with some issue they have to overcome.

Cheating Chance is a good thriller, more adventure than romance, and even if the sex is a bit kink and there is a good bondage scene, it's not overly erotic (and it's not a complaint, I want to say that there is a good mix of sex and story...)

http://www.mlrbooks.com/ShowBook.php?book=CHCHANCE

Amazon: Cheating Chance

Amazon Kindle: Cheating Chance

Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading+list&view=elisa.rolle


Cover Art by Pluto

Inland Empire by James Buchanan

There are two worlds in this novel and Brandon behaves in a different way according to the world he is in that moment. Inland Empire is the sequel of Cheating Chance; the first book takes place in Nicky's world (so maybe the worlds are actually three), Las Vegas, where Nicky is out and proud and has no problem with that. He has a tight circle of friends and Brandon, his new boyfriend, enters the circle. It's always Brandon who comes to visit Nicky, since Brandon is not out: he is a Los Angeles police officer, and he stated from the first moment with Nicky that he has no intention to come out. But in the first book Nicky was in danger, Brandon had to call for some favor, and in a way, he came out a bit from the closet. Now, at the beginning of the second book, Nicky is coming to visit and Brandon can't avoid to present him to his friends. It's actually the Pink Elephant who tries to hide in a glass shop, since Nicky is obviously gay, he is staying with Brandon, and you can say seeing them together that they are not only buddy friends. I actually found almost irritating Brandon's stubbornness in insisting that he is in the closet... that closet has bigger hole that a wrecked ship.

And so we read of Brandon who tries to live a double life: the mostly submissive partner for Nicky, when they are alone, and the bad big straight cop, when they are among other people. It's quite a contrast since Brandon doesn't change so much in attitude, and so it's strange, but interesting, to see him as the bottom in their relationship, seeking Nicky's comforting body and almost begging his love, without actually saying the word, and maintaining that facade of strong and untouchable man; and it's even more strange to see him denying that Nicky is someone special in his life, when it's obvious that Nicky is among the more important person in his life.

Another nice contrast is seeing as Brandon, all straight attitude, is mostly the bottom in their relationship, and Nicky, not exactly flamboyant, but almost, turns a dominant lover in their intimacy. There is a reason for Nicky's behavior, a bad experience with a past lover that makes difficult for him to submit to a lover, so the contrast is not so strange; basically Nicky was a submissive lover, but he got hurt, and now it's difficult to trust again. And Brandon's attitude doesn't help, since, trying to "hide" Nicly with him in the closet, he isn't proving to Nicky that he accepts him like he is, he is forcing Nicky to do something he doesn't like, and ab absurdo, he is behaving like his former lover, taking advantage of Nicky's trust to force him to do something unhealthy for him.

In the end I would like to spend some words on the setting, the LAPD. It's not a "romance" perspective that we have of the job, there are not lonely hero who arrives and burst into a scene alone and almighty, routing the enemies. Oh yes, Nicky and Brandon can play on how sexy can be Brandon with his former motorbike cop uniform, but all in all, Brandon's job is dangerous and underpaid, brought on in poor neighborhoods and among petty criminals, and at the end of the day, the only reward he has is a small apartment and a take out dinner. And Brandon himself is not some perfect hero, who can live as he wants without facing the consequences of his actions. Only if you meet someone special like Nicky, you can have something more, but you need to have the courage to be true with yourself and the world, knowing that there will be no rainbow flags cheering for you.

http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2010 (ebook)

http://www.mlrbooks.com/ShowBook.php?book=INLAND01 (print book)

Amazon: Inland Empire

Series: Taking the Odds
1) Cheating Chance: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/260732.html
2) Inland Empire

Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading list&view=elisa.rolle


Cover Art by Pluto

Reading List

I have already posted in the past my reading list, or better the soon to be reading list since the real one is more than 1.000 titles long, and I didn't like the pressure it gave me. But I realize also that, if you send me a book, you'd like to know when, more or less, I will read it. So this is my reading list, you can consider it like the books on my bedside table waiting to be picked up, one each night. I will not assure you it's a definitive one, sometime I pick a book out of mood, or I test taste a new publishers/authors, so please don't consider it binding.

Nine-tenths of the Law by L.A. Witt
Unleashing Angel by Mel Spenser
Normal Miguel by Erik Orrantia
Word On A Wing by Jamie Craig
The Temple of Skanda by Roland Graeme
Master Bear by Angelia Sparrow and Naomi Brooks
The Hadrian Enigma by George Gardiner
A Loving Hart by Leiland Dale
Achan's Peace by Jade Buchanan
Letter Z by Marie Sexton
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Reading List

I have already posted in the past my reading list, or better the soon to be reading list since the real one is more than 1.000 titles long, and I didn't like the pressure it gave me. But I realize also that, if you send me a book, you'd like to know when, more or less, I will read it. So this is my reading list, you can consider it like the books on my bedside table waiting to be picked up, one each night. I will not assure you it's a definitive one, sometime I pick a book out of mood, or I test taste a new publishers/authors, so please don't consider it binding.

Nine-tenths of the Law by L.A. Witt
Unleashing Angel by Mel Spenser
Normal Miguel by Erik Orrantia
Word On A Wing by Jamie Craig
The Temple of Skanda by Roland Graeme
Master Bear by Angelia Sparrow and Naomi Brooks
The Hadrian Enigma by George Gardiner
A Loving Hart by Leiland Dale
Achan's Peace by Jade Buchanan
Letter Z by Marie Sexton
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The Inside Reader: Anthony Bidulka

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends - Silas Weir Mitchell

Last night I was talking with an LGBT Italian publisher; in Italy the only LGBT titles you can find are some known by everyone Young Adult, or some mainstream title like Jamie O'Neill or Andre Aciman or David Leavitt. So our conversation was me asking: "do you know?" and him saying "no" until we arrived to Anthony Bidulka... "Oh yes! the Canadian mystery writer!". Anthony Bidulka has managed what very few did, to have his name famous abroad even if his books are not yet translated (at least not in Italy). Anthony Bidulka is also a name readers of sophisticated mystery novels always have in their list. Anthony Bidulka has also granted me the great honor to have his latest novel submitted to the Rainbow Awards, not only, he also agreed to compile an Inside Reader List. So it's with great pleasure that I welcome him today on my LiveJournal.

10 Fave Books

I can’t remember the last time I reviewed my favourite gay books. So this was a treat. I deliberately skipped over some usual suspects, and some of my contemporary faves, in favour of some oldies but goodies, and a couple secret finds. I also lean heavily on mystery series – as that is my genre – but I do love these books. Just don’t ask me to rank them from most to least favourite – couldn’t do it.

1) The Burning Plain – Michael Nava. Without doubt, Michael Nava's entire Henry Rios series was a powerful motivator to me. It began my understanding that a mystery series with a gay protagonist could be about more than sex and snarky one-liners (not that there is anything wrong with that). It could be smart, serious, the hero could be flawed in many ways, and still draw in readers. Before I began writing my own series, I'd read all of the Rios books and thought: yeah, this is the kind of writing I want to do. As it turns out, I was wrong. My character, Russell Quant, is no where even close to being a Henry Rios wannabe. My voice on the page turned out to be something entirely different. Thinking about it now, I think I was attracted to the fact that there could be so many different perspectives on how to tell a story within the gay genre. That still excites me today.

Paperback: 305 pages
Publisher: Alyson Books (April 1, 2004)
Publisher Link: http://www.alyson.com/9781555838133.html
ISBN-10: 1555838138
ISBN-13: 978-1555838133
Amazon: The Burning Plain

Still devastated by the death of Josh, Henry nonetheless falls for a young actor he successfully defended against burglary charges. When the young man is murdered after leaving Henry's house, Henry finds himself the target of a murder investigation. But the murders don't stop, and with his life in desperate danger, Henry follows the trail of evidence, ever upward to the top levels of Los Angeles politics and Hollywood power. Michael Nava is the author of seven Henry Rios novels, five of which (Goldenboy, Howtown, The Hidden Law, The Death of Friends, and Rag and Bone) have been Lambda Literary Award winners. He is an attorney in private practice in San Francisco.

2) 1st Impressions – Kate Calloway. The Cassidy James books were one of the first mystery series I’d read with a lesbian protagonist. I can't even remember how I came upon it, but it likely was because it was one of the few books of its kind on the shelves at my local bookstore at the time. Calloway has a way of creating this very lovely world for her characters to live in. I really felt like I was part of a family reunion or homecoming with each successive book. I looked forward to spending time with these characters and finding out what had happened to them since I'd last read about them, the adventures they'd have, the loves and losses, the friends, the pets. My attempt to create the same kind of familial-like environment in my books most certainly came, in part, from my time spent with Cassidy James.

Paperback: 198 pages
Publisher: Naiad Pr; 1st edition (March 1996)
ISBN-10: 1562801333
ISBN-13: 978-1562801335
Amazon: 1st Impressions

Rookie PI Cassidy James is hired to find a murdered man's killer in a quiet Oregon lakeside resort -- but the town's sexist police sergeant doesn't care to have an uppity lesbian gumshoe on the case. He's keen to arrest the victim's beautiful niece, who has Cassidy head over heels in love -- and in danger. This series, with its tough, tender, appealing heroine and realistic love scenes, is a fresh and welcome alternative to "straight" mystery fiction.

( books from 3 to 10 )

About Anthony Bidulka: Anthony Bidulka has enjoyed time well-spent and misspent in the worlds of academia, accounting, footwear, food services and farming. In 1999 Anthony Bidulka, BA, BEd, BComm, CA left a decade long career as a Chartered Accountant to pursue writing.
 
In 2003, Quill & Quire described Amuse Bouche: A Russell Quant Mystery, as “…an effervescent first novel that is much like the tasty French hors d’oeuvres from which it takes its name”, earning Bidulka a nomination for the Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award.
With sharp writing, descriptive flair and wry humour, Bidulka’s mystery series tells the story of the first, and perhaps only, half-Ukrainian, half-Irish, gay, ex-farmboy, ex-cop, Canadian, Saskatchewan, prairie, world-travelling private detective being written about today anywhere.
The Russell Quant series has been nominated for a Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards, a ReLit award and Flight of Aquavit was awarded the Lambda Literary Award for Best Men’s Mystery, making Bidulka the first Canadian to win in that category.

New York’s Mystery Scene Magazine proclaimed: “Quant makes for a riveting hero…the kind of friend you want to have—unless you’re a killer.” From the StarPhoenix: "Truly amazing is Bidulka’s sense of sights, sounds and smells. Like a good journalist, he gives exquisitely detailed descriptions of the settings and provides history lessons...” And Sherbrooke Record said: “...Bidulka brings a fresh voice to Canadian crime fiction, with a sense of humour that is often outrageous and always original; he provides his readers with a cleverly-crafted tale full of twists and turns, and challenges readers to broaden their perspectives.”

Like his protagonist, Anthony lives a big life in a small city on the Canadian prairie. He also loves to travel the world—meeting people, sampling food and wine, walking sun-drenched streets, making good use of swim-up bars, and being awed.

Anthony has toured extensively in both Canada and the United States. A great believer in community involvement, he has sat on many boards and committees including those of Persephone Theatre, the Institute of Chartered Accountants, AIDS Saskatoon, the Saskatchewan Writers Guild, the International Association of Crime Writers, Ubuntu Purse, Camp fYrefly Saskatchewan, and Crime Writers of Canada.

He lives in Saskatoon where he is at work on his next novel.

Date with a Sheesha: A Russell Quant Mystery by Anthony Bidulka
Paperback: 262 pages
Publisher: Insomniac Press (May 27, 2010)
Publisher Link: http://www.insomniacpress.com/title.php?id=978-1-897178-90-4
ISBN-10: 1897178905
ISBN-13: 978-1897178904
Amazon: Date with a Sheesha

Neil Gupta went to the Middle East looking for antique carpets. He found something equally timeless: murder.
When Neil is found stabbed to death in Dubai's spice souk, his distraught father wants revenge. He hires private investigator Russell Quant to catch the killer. In his greatest case to date, Quant goes undercover to match wits with a wily museum curator, shifty souk merchants, corrupt carpet experts, and the denizens of an underground club for "fabulous" men. From the flamboyant glitz of Dubai to the scorching sand dunes of Saudi Arabia, Quant risks his life as he wades further and further into the shadows cast by the desert sun.

As Russell's spicy international adventure heats up, he learns a valuable lesson about love, life, and learning to seize the moment ... before it's gone. On the verge of making the biggest personal decision of his life, Russell discovers that endings sometimes come before beginnings.

Nine-tenths of the Law by L.A. Witt

Nine-tenths of the Law is for sure an erotic gay romance, plenty of hot sex and two men who enjoy doing it, but it has the merit to not being “only” that.

The starting point of the new relationship between Zach and Nathan is pretty risky and almost fated: Nathan finds out that his boyfriend is cheating him with Zach; to be true with Zach, he didn’t know “his” boyfriend was of someone else, and when Nathan tells him so, he doesn’t think twice to dump the man and actually go after Nathan himself.

The first night together, the same night when Nathan tells Zach about Jake, it’s all about sex; and why not, even if a cheater, Jake was pretty good in bed, and Zach doesn’t see any wrong in having indeed his night of sex, even if the once to give it to him is not the same man. I like this side of the story, even Zach finds out that Jake is a liar; he doesn’t let it “contaminate” all the other memories he has of the man. Jake was indeed a good lover, and a good boyfriend, problem is he was not exclusive. And on the other side, if he was so bad, the reader should have questioned how it was possible for him to lure two fine men like Zach and Nathan… if an ex is pretty bad, well, you have to question also the other side of the apple. So no, the author doesn’t try to describe him as a total loser, only a cheater and a liar.

Anyway he is soon forgotten when Zach has his test taste of Nathan: he is way better suited for him than Jake, he even likes his cats, who apparently rule over the house. In the first three meetings they have, Zach and Nathan apparently have problem to take the hands off each other, and the sex is plenty, good and hot. The rage both of them had the first night soon dissipated, but the sex remains hot. Not Zach or Nathan have problem to admit they are plenty of compatible in bed, and that they like sex; the problem is when their relationship can’t be only about sex: date after date they need to do something else beside searching for the nearest flat surface, and then the trust issue appears: how can Nathan trusts Zach, when he was the man who stole him his boyfriend? Let alone that Jake was not the first bad experience Nathan had in love.

There is the possibility to read Nathan also in a different way, like being a bit insecure and maybe giving to Jake a reason to not being faithful; please now don’t misunderstand what I’m saying, I’m not trying to find an excuse to what Jake did, it was wrong, and the author gave us also other reasons to dislike Jake, but maybe he was not the right man for Nathan. Jake was not able to inspire trust in Nathan, and indeed Nathan was right in not trusting him, but I think that he really never begun with.

While with Nathan, Jake had a relationship, even if faulted and fated from the beginning, with Zach I think he had more a fling, a mutual exchange relationship of sort: Zach likes sex, Jake is good at it, equal they have something; I don’t think Zach really cared a lot of Jake, and for this reason he was able to forget it almost immediately. For Zach there is not the problem to mistake Nathan for true love when instead he is a rebounding, since Zach has never to rebound.

http://samhainpublishing.com/romance/nine-tenths-of-the-law

Amazon Kindle: Nine-Tenths of the Law

Reading List:

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Nine-tenths of the Law by L.A. Witt

Nine-tenths of the Law is for sure an erotic gay romance, plenty of hot sex and two men who enjoy doing it, but it has the merit to not being “only” that.

The starting point of the new relationship between Zach and Nathan is pretty risky and almost fated: Nathan finds out that his boyfriend is cheating him with Zach; to be true with Zach, he didn’t know “his” boyfriend was of someone else, and when Nathan tells him so, he doesn’t think twice to dump the man and actually go after Nathan himself.

The first night together, the same night when Nathan tells Zach about Jake, it’s all about sex; and why not, even if a cheater, Jake was pretty good in bed, and Zach doesn’t see any wrong in having indeed his night of sex, even if the once to give it to him is not the same man. I like this side of the story, even Zach finds out that Jake is a liar; he doesn’t let it “contaminate” all the other memories he has of the man. Jake was indeed a good lover, and a good boyfriend, problem is he was not exclusive. And on the other side, if he was so bad, the reader should have questioned how it was possible for him to lure two fine men like Zach and Nathan… if an ex is pretty bad, well, you have to question also the other side of the apple. So no, the author doesn’t try to describe him as a total loser, only a cheater and a liar.

Anyway he is soon forgotten when Zach has his test taste of Nathan: he is way better suited for him than Jake, he even likes his cats, who apparently rule over the house. In the first three meetings they have, Zach and Nathan apparently have problem to take the hands off each other, and the sex is plenty, good and hot. The rage both of them had the first night soon dissipated, but the sex remains hot. Not Zach or Nathan have problem to admit they are plenty of compatible in bed, and that they like sex; the problem is when their relationship can’t be only about sex: date after date they need to do something else beside searching for the nearest flat surface, and then the trust issue appears: how can Nathan trusts Zach, when he was the man who stole him his boyfriend? Let alone that Jake was not the first bad experience Nathan had in love.

There is the possibility to read Nathan also in a different way, like being a bit insecure and maybe giving to Jake a reason to not being faithful; please now don’t misunderstand what I’m saying, I’m not trying to find an excuse to what Jake did, it was wrong, and the author gave us also other reasons to dislike Jake, but maybe he was not the right man for Nathan. Jake was not able to inspire trust in Nathan, and indeed Nathan was right in not trusting him, but I think that he really never begun with.

While with Nathan, Jake had a relationship, even if faulted and fated from the beginning, with Zach I think he had more a fling, a mutual exchange relationship of sort: Zach likes sex, Jake is good at it, equal they have something; I don’t think Zach really cared a lot of Jake, and for this reason he was able to forget it almost immediately. For Zach there is not the problem to mistake Nathan for true love when instead he is a rebounding, since Zach has never to rebound.

http://samhainpublishing.com/romance/nine-tenths-of-the-law

Amazon Kindle: Nine-Tenths of the Law

Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading list&view=elisa.rolle