Taking a Chance on Love

Officer Quincy Adams is a hero. She pulled eleven people from burning cars and risked her own life to save the twelfth--a woman trapped in a car that could explode at any moment. But the event begins to trigger flashbacks to another time. Another tragedy. Trying to avoid the depression that she's certain is just around the corner, Quincy heads to the local lesbian bar in search of light and life.

Lindy James is a loner. She's only at the bar to celebrate her best friend's birthday. But something about the bedraggled woman, whose image is Breaking News on the TV, touches her heart and she agrees to drive the stranger home.

But Quincy doesn't want to be alone and Lindy agrees to stay as long as Quincy doesn't expect sex or ask personal questions. One night turns into three intimate but sexless nights. Then Monday morning Quincy asks Lindy for a date. And Lindy flees.

Thrown together by a devastating accident, but kept apart by fears from the past--will Quincy and Lindy take a chance on love?

About the Author
Maiorisi, Catherine: - Catherine Maiorisi lives in New York City and often writes under the watchful eye of Edgar Allan Poe, in Edgar's Café near the apartment she shares with her partner, now wife, of thirty-eight years.

In the seventies and eighties while working in corporate technology then running her own technology consulting company, Catherine moaned to her artistic friends that she was the only lesbian in New York City who wasn't creative, the only one without the imagination or the talent to write poetry or novels, play the guitar, act, or sing.

Since she found her imagination, writing has been like meditating for Catherine and it is what she most loves to do. But she also reads voraciously, loves to cook, especially Italian, and enjoys hanging out with her wife of thirty-nine years and friends.

When she wrote a short story to create the backstory for the love interest in her two unpublished NYPD Detective Chiara Corelli mysteries, Catherine had never read any romance and hadn't considered writing it. To her surprise, "The Fan Club" turned out to be a romance and was included in the Best Lesbian Romance of 2014 edited by Radclyffe.

Another surprise was hearing the voices of two characters, Andrea and Darcy, chatting in her head every night, making it difficult to sleep. Reassured by her wife that she wasn't losing it, Catherine paid attention and those conversations led to her first romance novel, Matters of the Heart.

Catherine has also had two mystery short stories published in the Murder New York Style Anthologies, "Justice for All" in Fresh Slices and "Murder Italian Style" in Family Matters.

An active member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America, Catherine is also a member of Romance Writers of America and Rainbow Romance Writers.