Finders Keepers

Karin Kallmaker

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Dear Mom:

Thank you again for the generous gift of a week-long cruise in Tahiti. It’s not your fault the ship sank. Instead of all those years of computer science courses, I wish I had paid more attention to reality TV shows about turning bugs into breakfast.

I’m sure I’ll be fine, and when I get home you can bet I’ll listen to the rest of your advice about what I ought to do with my life, since this has worked out so well.

Love, Marissa

P.S. I don’t think I’ll make it home in time for the club’s summer ball.

P.P.S. Please make my apologies to the blind date I’m sure you arranged.

P.P.P.S. I’m a lesbian.

By the Author

Writing as Karin Kallmaker:

Just Like That

Sugar

One Degree of Separation

Maybe Next Time

Substitute for Love

Frosting on the Cake

Unforgettable

Watermark

Making Up for Lost Time

Embrace in Motion

Wild Things

Painted Moon

Car Pool

Paperback Romance

Touchwood

In Every Port

Writing for Bella After Dark:

18th & Castro

All the Wrong Places

Stake through the Heart: New Exploits of Twilight Lesbians

Bell, Book and Dyke: New Exploits of Magical Lesbians

Once Upon a Dyke: New Exploits of Fairy Tale Lesbians

Writing as Laura Adams:

The Tunnel of Light Trilogy:

Sleight of Hand

Seeds of Fire

Feel free to visit www.kallmaker.com

Bella Books, Inc.
P.O. Box 10543
Tallahassee, FL 32302

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, without permission in writing from the publisher.

Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper

First Edition 2008

Editor: Anna Chinappi

Cover designer: LA Callaghan

ISBN-10: 1-59493-072-4

Dedication

For Maria, who watched me inflate and deflate, and pointed out the efficacy of sweatbands.

Dedicated to all the women who struggle, and those who encourage, especially MJ, Reese and Romy for their examples of determination, and the denizens of Thud, where seldom is heard a discouraging word.

Nineteen, on the edge

About the Author

Karin Kallmaker, the author of more than twenty romances and fantasy-science fiction novels, began her writing career with the venerable Naiad Press and continues with Bella Books. Her works include the award-winning Just Like That, Maybe Next Time and Sugar. Short stories have appeared in anthologies from publishers like Alyson, Bold Strokes, Circlet and Haworth, as well as novellas and short stories with Bella Books.

All of Karin’s work can now be found at Bella Books. Details and background about her novels and her other pen name, Laura Adams, can be found at www.kallmaker.com.

She and her partner are the mothers of two and live in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is descended from Lady Godiva, a fact which she’ll share with anyone who will listen. She likes her Internet fast, her iPod loud and her chocolate real.

For more information about the health, fitness and nutrition resources used while researching this novel, go to Kallmaker.com and visit the page for Finders Keepers.