Lesbian Romance

 

Lesbian Romance

 

 

 

Ninety minutes, twice a day. Five days a week.

Car pool heaven turns into car pool hell when Anthea Rossignole realizes her lover is having an affair with the other woman sharing their daily commute. It seems that Anthea's successful career as a cost analyst at an oil refinery is the only thing she can really count on these days. Now she's looking for someone to share the long drive.

Shay Sumoto desperately needs a car pool. Though wildly overqualified, the environmental biologist takes a low-paying job testing well samples to keep body and soul together. The debt from her father's terminal illness and the loss of the company she owned with her father have left her with no money, no time and no sense of humor.

When Shay and Anthea begin carpooling together, they find that first impressions of each other don't bode well, and second impressions don't improve their chemistry much. But when Shay uncovers alarming test results in her work - information that could cost both of them their jobs - Anthea is the only person she trusts for advice. Can two very different women find common ground?

It's Never an Easy Commute on the Freeway of Love.

© 1993

 
 
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An oil refinery in the Bay Area? To most people, the Golden Gate looks like this. But there are several refineries in operation on San Pablo Bay, which is why an oil tanker was in the bay to begin with when it struck the Bay Bridge in 2007.

 

Small Press Magazine

Car Pool is ... a delicious romance with just a hint of intrigue ... an uncommonly realistic romance, one that surmounts class, race and closets.


Bay Area Reporter

...A fine writer with a real gift for characterization and realistically humorous dialogue. Her erotic scenes are steamy and offer considerably more than mere narrative interruptus. She takes the most relentlessly heterosexist genre, the romance novel, and turns it on its head.


Transporte-moi

Anthea Rossignole est prête pour un nouveau départ : elle vient de mettre à la porte celle qui était sa compagne depuis plusieurs années et est bien décidée à se reprendre en main.
Pour Shay Sumoto, l’avenir semble s’éclaircir : elle a enfin décroché un poste dans son domaine, géologue dans une raffinerie.
La rencontre improbable de ces deux femmes aux univers antagonistes va se faire sous les auspices du service de covoiturage de leur entreprise. D’abord dubitatives quant à leurs points communs, elles vont bientôt être surprises. Mais elles seront encore plus étonnées de découvrir que les activités de leur employeur pourraient s’avérer moins inoffensives que prévues et se retrouver confrontées à un choix crucial.
Parviendront-elles à surmonter les blessures du passé, à dépasser les non-dits et à s’offrir un avenir sans se trahir ?


Si el destino quiere

Esta novela nos muestra la historia de dos mujeres, muy diferentes, en busca de su seguridad, de su independencia. ¿Una relación inverosímil?. Quizá, pero al destino se le antoja que una relación estrictamente laboral se convierta en una verdadera historia de amor, donde Anthea se verá forzada a tomar decisiones inmediatas respecto a qué tipo de persona quiere ser... y con quien desea compartir su vida.
La exploración de los sentimientos por parte de ambas, despojándose de sus claras convicciones, sin condicionamientos morales, les lleva a una necesidad imperiosa de apurar cada sensación que recorre sus cuerpos.
Una romántica y cautivadora historia de amor de la popular autora de Pintando la Luna. "La mejor narrativa para mujeres que les encanta ser mujeres" Jeanette Winterson.