Touchwood Series by Karin Kallmaker
Touchwood #1
Touchwood
Karin Kallmaker
Twenty-nine-year-old Rayann Germaine, betrayed by her lover, flees in grief and rage. She meets rare book store owner Louisa Thatcher, a woman many years her senior, who offers shelter and work... and soon, passion, and a loving place in her life. But Rayann encounters challenges to this new love -- from friends who question its wisdom, from her mother who disapproves of this liaison with a woman her own contemporary, from Louisa's son who learns for the first time his mother's true sexuality. And there are profound differences between Rayann and Louisa themselves, two women who come from dramatically different places in the spectrum of age and life experience. The first page will draw you into this entertaining, erotic, thought-provoking exploration of love, and of that landscape of the mind known as age.ReviewAnd if you think older women can't keep up with younger women sexually, well, think again! -- Bay Area Reporter, 02/92Touchwood...addresses with wisdom, compassion and delight, the most profound questions of who we are. -- Deborah Peifer, February 7, 1992From the PublisherFrom the author of numerous best-selling and critically acclaimed lesbian novels comes a story like no other!
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Touchwood #2
Watermark
Karin Kallmaker
Teresa Mandrell's first encounter with advertising executive Rayann Germaine begins badly and goes downhill from there. Within minutes of their meeting, Rayann dubs Teresa a "bumbling amateur." The event changes the course of Teresa's life -- she abandons the corporate world for what she hopes is a more satisfying career in Fine Arts Management. When budget cuts leave her without work, Teresa gets a job as a design artist in another firm, only to discover that the new department head is ... Rayann! But the difference in the woman's demeanor is so startling that Teresa can't believe her eyes. Although the woman she'd fought with had been insensitive and rude, she was full of fire and passion. This Rayann is cold and withdrawn. To Teresa's chagrin, the woman doesn't even remember their fight. In fact, the two fall easily into an increasingly harmonious work relationship. As they grow even closer, Teresa slowly uncovers layer after layer of Rayann's hurtand pain. When she at last arrives at the terrible truth, Teresa is left with one burning question: How can she turn Rayann's heart away from grief and lead her back toward life and love?ReviewHer insightful portrayals of hot-headed Teresa and tormented Rayann pull us in, and her descriptive powers are impressive! -- Lambda Book Report, Feb 2000Kallmaker has always been a fine writer, but in Watermark she exhibits a depth that is gut-wrenching. -- Bay Area Reporter, May 2000From the PublisherA heartfelt sequel to the erotic classic Touchwood...it's been ten years and so much has changed...
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