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“Kate,” Detective Joe Cameron said, “there was always the possibility—”“—that like most threats they were just threats,” Kate finished for him. She knew better. Had known from the start this was as real as death.Death is now on her doorstep. Not even her loyal LAPD colleagues can protect her from an attack that may come from anywhere, anytime.Four years retired, Kate Delafield has a twenty-year old case roaring back on her, a case from which she had recoiled, withdrawn herself. A homophobic homicide far too reminiscent of a recent, haunting, life-changing investigation of the murder of a young lesbian at the Nightwood Bar. Now she suffers in secret, knowing she is personally culpable for the mishandling of evidence.She has also begun to understand how the roads she has traveled have led her to this day. The key decisions about the conduct of her life and her police career that have brought her directly to this time, this place in the high desert where she has taken herself. All she can do now, she resolves, is protect as best she can the people she loves most, especially Aimee, from this threat. And, until her time runs out, she can go back and investigate, determine who actually ended the life of fifteen-year-old April Shuster.But events, people, intervene. New people in her present life, some from her past. And they will take her in the most unexpected of directions.

Kate Delafield sieht sich mit völlig neuen Herausforderungen konfrontiert: Seit einigen Monaten ist sie raus aus dem Polizeidienst und im Ruhestand, doch von Ruhe kann keine Rede sein. Kate fühlt sich rastlos und getrieben. Und kommt vom Scotch nicht los. Ihre Geliebte, Aimee Grant, hat sie verlassen – endgültig? Und Kates langjährige beste Freundin Maggie, die ehemalige Betreiberin der Nightwood Bar, kommt ins Hospitz. Da bittet Carolina Walcott, Kates ehemalige Chefin, sie um Hilfe. Kates früherer Partner beim L. A. Police Department, Joe Cameron, ist wie vom Erdboden verschwunden. Die Spur führt in das kalifornische Wüstenhochland. Dort muss Kate Entscheidungen fällen, die ihre unmittelbare Gegenwart wie auch ihre Zukunft betreffen.

In this long-awaited new installment of the legendary Kate Delafield mystery series, Kate is forced to confront her most formidable opponent: herself. Five months into mandated retirement from LAPD, her long term on-again off-again relationship with Aimee Grant off again, hopelessly dependent on the only substance that can drown her pain over Aimee and the illness of her best friend, lost without her police career, beset by terrifying dreams, Kate Delafield is in a world of trouble. Into this world walks Captain Carolina Walcott of the LAPD, with a request that Kate quietly and secretly try to locate Kate’s former police partner, Joe Cameron, who has vanished. She also offers Kate a business card--the name on it a woman from Kate’s past who may be able offer a lifeline back to the self Kate once was. Even as she deals with a shocking and inexplicable homicide, Kate simultaneously pursues a trail of evidence toward Cameron that leads her into the high desert. Here in the high desert she will find challenges to the truth of everything she ever believed in as a principled police officer. Here in the high desert she must decide what it is she still believes: about her past, her present, her future.

Detective and mystery stories. Gay & Lesbian. When Detective Kate Delafield and her partner, Detective Joe Cameron, get the call to investigate a homicide in the secluded, old-money neighbourhood of Hancock Park, Kate has the feeling it's not going to be murder as usual. Her hunch is correct. A cultured, refined mother of three, Victoria Talbot is the last person you'd expect to die by gunshot, execution-style. At first the finger of guilt seems to point at the victim's ex-husband Douglas, and everyone involved-from the authorities to his own children-are more than willing to suspect him. But for Kate, the easy way has rarely been proven the right way, and there are too many unanswered questions that suggest not all is at it seems with this dysfunctional family. Now, Douglas Talbot is on trial for his life, Kate's lover Aimee has disappeared to God-knows-where, and Kate must piece together a deadly puzzle of secrets and lies.

Eine Gruppe Halbterranerinnen gründet auf Maternas eine Frauenwelt, während ihre Schwestern auf der Erde bleiben. In Amerikas Wüste schaffen sie einen unterirdischen Lebensraum, doch als Frauen verschwinden, wird Diktator Theo Zedera misstrauisch. Africa Contrera muss ihre Entscheidungen überdenken. Eine Fortsetzung von "Schwestern der Morgenröte".

In "Töchter der Morgenröte" von Katherine V. Forrest heiratet eine Frau von Verna III einen Terraner und bringt neun Töchter zur Welt. Diese Frauen sind Spezialistinnen in verschiedenen Fachgebieten. Als sie einen fernen Planeten besiedeln wollen, schicken die Terraner eine Raumpatrouille hinterher, doch die Frauen haben einen genialen Plan.

Wo vor vierzigtausend Jahren Teergruben zur tückischen Falle für Bisons und Säbelzahntiger wurden, steht heute – mitten in L. A. – das Museum von Rancho La Brea. Touristen und Schülergruppen pilgern in Scharen zu den Grabungsstellen, wo Wissenschaftler perfekt konservierte Knochen zu Tage fördern. Doch die Idylle wird empfindlich gestört, als eines Morgens ein Toter auf dem Gelände liegt. Ein Mord aus Willkür? So scheint es – bis Detective Kate Delafield und ihr neuer Partner noch am gleichen Tag zu einem weiteren Aufsehen erregenden Fund bei den Teergruben gerufen werden: hominide Fossilien, die für diese Gegend ein paar Millionen Jahre zu alt sind? Auf die hart gesottene Kate Delafield wartet ein Knochenjob, der ihre Loyalität auf die Probe stellt. Und dies nicht nur in beruflicher Hinsicht.