Deep in her drunken, womanizing past, Peg Ryan made a terrible mistake. Eighteen years later, she’s sober, a respected lawyer, and in love for the first time. When she takes a call from a former colleague, the distance collapses between her ugly past and her hopeful present. Suddenly, everything she values is under attack.

When Allison Mitchell meets Peg, she knows what she wants right away. She breaks up with the woman she’s dating to be with her only to discover Camille won’t go away easily; she’s on a mission to destroy Peg and get Allison back.

Allison and Peg’s new love is threatened from all directions. How will they fight back?

BIO:Anne Laughlin is the author of three novels from Bold Strokes: Veritas, The Collectors (under a pen name), and Runaway. Veritas won a Goldie award for lesbian mystery in 2010, and The Collectors was shortlisted for a Lammy Award in lesbian erotica in 2012, won a Goldie award, and was produced as an audio book through Audible.com. Runaway has been shortlisted for a 2013 Lammy Award.

Anne’s short fiction has appeared in a number of anthologies. She is a finalist in the 2013 short fiction contest of the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival.

Anne was named a fellow in the Lambda Literary Foundation’s Emerging Writer program in 2008. She has attended writing residencies at Ragdale and Vermont Studio Center for the Arts. She lives in Chicago with her partner, Linda.