Intaglio Publications
P O Box 794
Walker, LA 70785
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Lynn Ames
Lynn Ames is the best-selling author of
The Price of Fame (which was short-listed for the first annual GCLS award in the category of lesbian romance) and
The Cost of Commitment. She is also a contributing author to
Infinite Pleasures: An Anthology of Lesbian Erotica, Telltale Kisses and
Call of the Dark: Erotic Lesbian Tales of the Supernatural.
For more than half a decade, Ms. Ames was an award winning broadcast journalist. These days she is a nationally recognized speaker and public relations professional with a particular expertise in image, crisis communications planning, and crisis management.
Ms. Ames resides in the southwestern U.S. with her favorite guys (relax, they’re dogs): a golden retriever named Alex, who bears a remarkable resemblance to a character in her books, and Parker, another golden and the newest edition to the family.
For additional information, short stories, etc., please visit her website at
www.lynnames.com, or e-mail her at
authorlynnames@cox.net.
Current Works
The
Price OF Fame
by Lynn
Ames
ISBN:
1-933113-04-9
Price:
$16.75
Release
Date: March 2004
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2005 GCLS 'Goldie' Award
Finalist
When local
television news anchor Katherine Kyle is thrust into the national
spotlight, it sets in motion a chain of events that will change
her life forever. Jamison “Jay” Parker is an intensely
career-driven Time magazine reporter; she has experienced
love once, from afar, and given up on finding it again...That is,
until circumstance and an assignment bring her into contact with
her past.
Kate and
Jay’s lives intertwine, leading them on a journey to love and
happiness, until fate and fame threaten to tear them apart. What
is the price of fame? For Kate the cost just might be everything.
For Jay, the price could be the other half of her soul.
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The
Cost Of Commitment
by Lynn
Ames
ISBN:
1-933113-02-2
Price:
$16.95
Release
Date: October 2004
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“ABSORBING”
Lynn Ame’s first novel, The Price of Fame, has been called
“absorbing and filled with romance” (Lori. L. Lake, Midwest Book
Review). Now Ames is back with the second installment in the
lives of Katherine Kyle and Jamison Parker.
SPINE-TINGLING SUSPENSE
Kate and Jay want nothing more than to focus on their love. But
as Kate settles in to a new profession, she and Jay become caught
up in the middle of a deadly scheme—pawns in a larger game in
which the stakes are nothing less than control of the country.
OUTSTANDING ACTION
In her new novel of corruption, greed, romance, and danger, Lynn
Ames takes us on an unforgettable journey of harrowing
conspiracy—and establishes herself as a mistress of suspense.
THE COST OF COMMITMENT
It could be everything...
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The
Value of Valor
by Lynn
Ames
ISBN:
1-933113-46-4
Price:
$ 16.75
Release
Date: October 2005
Lynn Ames, author of the best-selling, critically acclaimed novels
The Price of Fame and The Cost of Commitment, is back with
The Value of Valor, the third book in the celebrated Kate & Jay trilogy.
Katherine Kyle is the press secretary to the president of the United States. Her lover, Jamison Parker, is a respected writer for
Time magazine. Separated by unthinkable tragedy, the two must struggle to survive against impossible odds…
A powerful, shadowy organization wants to advance its own global agenda. To succeed, the president must be eliminated. Only one person knows the truth and can put a stop to the scheme.
It will take every ounce of courage and strength Kate possesses to stay alive long enough to expose the plot. Meanwhile, Jay must cheat death and race across continents to be by her lover’s side…
This hair-raising thriller will grip you from the start and won’t let you go until the ride is over.
The Value of Valor—it’s priceless.
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The Flip Side
Of Desire
by Lynn Ames
ISBN:
978-1-933113-60-9
Price: $
16.95
Release Date:
June 2006
Trystan Lightfoot allowed
herself to love once in her life; the experience broke
her heart and strengthened her resolve never to fall in
love again. At forty, however, she still longs for the
comfort of a woman’s arms. She finds temporary solace in
meaningless, albeit adventuresome encounters, burying her
pain and her emotions deep inside where no one can reach.
No one, that is, until she meets C.J. Winslow.
C.J. Winslow is the model-pretty-but-aging professional
tennis star the Women’s Tennis Federation is counting on
to dispel the image that all great female tennis players
are lesbians. And her lesbianism isn’t the only secret
she’s hiding. A traumatic event from her childhood is
taking its toll both on and off the court.
Together Trystan and C.J. must overcome their challenges
to find the flip side of desire.
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Heartsong
by Lynn Ames
ISBN: 978-1-933113-74-6
Price: $16.95
Release Date: October 15, 2007
After three years spent mourning the death of her
partner in a tragic climbing accident, Danica Warren
has re-emerged in the public eye. With a best-selling
memoir, a blockbuster movie about her heroic efforts
to save three other climbers, and a successful career
on the motivational speaking circuit, Danica has
convinced herself that her life can be full without
love.
When Chase Crosley walks into Danica’s field of vision
everything changes. Danica is suddenly faced with
questions she’s never pondered.
Is
there really one love that transcends all concepts of
space and time? One great love that joins two hearts
so that they beat as one? One moment of recognition
when twin flames join and burn together?
Will Danica and Chase be able to overcome the barriers
standing between them and find forever? And can that
love be sustained, even in the face of cruel
circumstances and fate?
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The Value of
Valor
Katherine
Kyle, Press Secretary to the President, and Jamison Parker,
Time magazine writer, return for the third installment
of Lynn Ames’ immensely popular Kate and Jay trilogy. The
unthinkable has happened and our two lovers’ once happy
existence has been irrevocably affected. Or has it? A
diabolical organization has set its sights on the advancement
of its global timetable which necessitates, at any cost, the
elimination of the President of the United States. Will this
tragedy occur? Add to the mix a riveting series of
unexpected plot twists, suspenseful turns of events, and
fascinating secondary characters, and you have an
entertaining, gripping, and romantic race to the finish
line.
Lynn Ames’
focus in her novels has been to create a socially relevant
and thoroughly entertaining reading experience. The first
two novels in the series, The Price of Fame and
The Cost of Commitment, delivered both in an engaging
and timely way. Here with The Value of Valor, Ames has
taken a giant leap forward. This is her best work thus far.
The action sequences rocket along at incredible speed, the
intimacy depicted is both exciting and steamy, and the
characters display a depth of credibility. That necessary
element to any good piece of fiction, the suspension of
disbelief, is so masterfully developed and sustained that the
reader becomes engaged and completely submersed in the
storyline. The author has achieved this effect so seamlessly,
which is a credit to both the writing and the editing, that
the reader, indeed, will not want to put the book down until
that last word has been read.
Another
hallmark of this novel is the Ames’ creative ability to make
the political events seem not only possible but plausible.
Perhaps, twenty or even ten years ago the storyline would
appear too fantastic to sustain the interest of the
discerning reader. However, with Ames’ insider savvy
regarding political machinations and the not too distant
events all have experienced, any sort of global agenda
directed toward the country and its leaders is not beyond the
realm of reality. It is with both this knowledge and
understanding that Ames has fashioned a work of fiction which
can be understood on several conceptual levels. The Value
of Valor is so much more than just another adventurous
romantic story. It is a suspenseful and absorbing novel that
provides the reader with many issues to ponder long after the
cover has been closed. This novel emphatically
represents
the impressive
growth in the author’s writing style and technique. It is
for all these attributes that this reader eagerly awaits the
next installment in this series.
Arlene Germain
Book Reviewer/Editorr
(The Independent Gay Writer, the Midwest Book Review, the
Golden Crown Literary Society newsletter, The Crown, the
JustAboutWrite Newsletter and E-zine, and the Outlook Press.)
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