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The Bibliography

Two Weeks in August (2010)

Nina Christie was warned, but Hazy Duncan is even worse than she expected.
Nina’s new home on Chincoteague Island would be perfect but for the blight of Hazy’s perpetual rudeness. The island’s other inhabitants welcome her back as a prodigal daughter of the community and the idyllic summer breezes soothe her wounded heart. All she wants is peace, quiet and her books. Hazy’s experience with beautiful women like Nina is that they’re easily bored and always looking for something better. Just when CC is finally out of Hazy’s life and she can hear the heartbeat of the ocean again, here was another beautiful woman on her doorstep. Nina is even more dangerous than CC because Nina is nice.

Comments: “With both Nina and Hazy suspicious of anything that might be romance, it’s surprising when their hearts—and the enchantment of the island—seem to have other plans for them.”

“Newcomer Nat Burns weaves a classic story of summer love set on the beautiful Delmarva Peninsula and the Chesapeake Bay.”

Nat Burns: 2011 recognition to promising new writer from the Alice B Committee of Arizona.

“Just About Write”- “Burns describes an idyllic place complete with wild ponies, white sand, and lovely water views. She also describes the delicate approach and retreat of Nina and Hazy as their chemistry draws them together even as their past hurts urge each woman to turn and run.”

November 2010: “The characters are appealing, especially Hazy. It also features some beautiful scenery and interesting glimpses of the small town life that develops in an island community.

House of Cards (2010)

The reason for gathering may be cards, but the game is really gossip.
Widow Kaylen Stauder is more or less content with her non-dating status. She’s listened for decades to the hateful gossip bandied by the women of the Freshwater Magnolia Club—and she wants none of it to be about her.

Coping with domineering men all her life, she didn’t count on falling for gentle Eda Byrne. She didn’t plan for love, let alone passion, especially with another woman. She’s never believed in irresistible attraction, until now.

Past the time of life when she ever thought she’d have to make such choices, Kaylen must decide which she needs more: her community or a woman’s love.

Comments: Nat Burns peels away the civilized veneer of a small North Carolina town in this passionate story of a mature woman discovering the price and value of love for the first time.

House of Cards – Goldie Finalist, Lesbian General/Dramatic Fiction

2011 Lavender Certificate –Nat Burns: 2011 recognition to promising new writer from the Alice B Committee of Arizona.

Lambda Literary.org-House of Cards is a superb novel. More than just a standard formula lesbian romance novel, Burns’ story takes the reader through the sometimes comforting, sometimes perilous claustrophobia of small-town life, while also telling the tale of a middle-aged woman’s sexual and romantic awakening.

Just About Write-Burns gives us an unapologetic rendition of life in a small North Carolinian town with all its warts. But she also gives us a promise of love for someone entering the summer of her life.

 November 2010: Burns does a wonderful job of showing the emotional path Kaylen takes as she looks at her life. Burns has also skillfully shown the character of Eda, as she and Kaylen do their delicate dance toward each other…

House of Cards is a richly detailed book showing the growth of main characters as well as life in a small town.

The Quality of Blue (2012)

River Tyler leaves her rural life in Virginia behind, setting out for the high-stakes paradise of the Florida Keys. As a gifted jewelry designer, she’s been hired to manage a high-end jewelry store partially owned by one of the area’s wealthiest and most influential men.

She doesn’t understand that he has other plans for her—plans that become impossible to contemplate once she meets store buyer Larken Moore. The jaded Larken is determined never to be burned again, but Key West sunsets are hot and the passion that blazes between Larken and River burns ever higher each time they meet…

Comments: This edition of Nat Burns heartfelt tale of surprising love and high stakes is the author’s revised and edited version.

Identity (2012)

Shay Raynor doesn’t need to learn anything twice. After a three-year disastrous relationship she now knows what happens when you let someone inside your heart, body and mind—they take everything. Her career as a prominent D.C. dog trainer is in tatters, but that pales next to the wounds she carries inside and out.

Liza Hughes has left her business in Montgomery for the even smaller Maypearl, Alabama, to care for her ailing father. Distance from her clinging ex is also welcome. She’s not expecting to meet someone like Shay, but the attractive newcomer in the small town is clearly keeping her distance from life.

Shay might eventually open up to Liza’s friendship and more, but the arrival of a woman named Pepper changes everything. Clearly, she wants Shay back. Finally, facing Shay’s terror, Liza understands what it will take for the two of them to have a future—they must deal with Shay’s past.

Comments: Identity is a story of survival, tenacity and the strength of true love.

The Book of Eleanor (2012)

On the list of things that Grey Graham thought she’d never do is hire a psychic. Her new bookstore on South Padre Island, however, appears to be haunted. Unable to explain why, she’s convinced that the restless ghost is her late partner, Mary. The locals tell her that psychic Angie June is the real deal, though, and she seeks out the young woman for help.

Angie is desperate to save her local youth program, and a paying client is essential. There is definitely something off about the bookstore too, and she can sense that the spirit won’t be easy to vanquish.

As the days go by she also finds that the ghost isn’t the only reason she’s drawn to the bookstore, but Grey is far more interested in the dead than the living.

Comments: Nat Burns brings the south Texas world alive as two women confront a haunting secret and their feelings for each other.

GCLS Goldie Awards–The Book of Eleanor — Winner, Paranormal Romance.

Poison Flowers (2013)

Dorry Wood is notorious in Schuyler Point. Her antagonism plagues Marya Brock from the day they meet. Having left Seattle in favor of the small South Carolina town, Marya is finding it hard enough to settle without butting heads with the town crank.

When Dorry finds out that Marya is the new reporter, it gets worse. Five years ago, the town paper led the charge in branding Dorry a pariah for being a lesbian and accused her of being complicit in her lover’s death. Peace might have finally been possible, but Dorry’s brother-in-law’s body is discovered on Marya’s front lawn.

Under equal suspicion they both know that the only ones who will help them is themselves. With hostilities set aside they are confronted with the other feelings that smolder below the surface, but Marya finds no comfort in them. She read the reports from years ago—how can she care for a woman that she doesn’t trust?

Gospel (2013)

Gospel, using erotic poetry and prose, takes the reader on a journey into the mysterious world of woman-to-woman relationships.

The first part, Genesis (We Desire), focuses on that initial, all-consuming attraction two women can feel for one another. Beginning with the phrase “you steal across me like twilight” and progressing to the physical awe portrayed in “Wet Panties”, Genesis propels the reader into the passion of part two.

The second section, Psalms (We Love), shares the intense sensuality experienced by new lovers. “I feel a sort of hum, electric in nature” lays a path to “aching, hesitant, I limp emotion closer” as women explore issues of passion and deep need, abandon and trust.

In the third part, Revelation (We Lose), lovers separate on emotional and physical levels. The words “you take my love yet deny my passion” reveal the frustration caused by the machinations of a lover and the phrase “a loneliness seeps through, saturating a living sponge grown of flesh and blood” deals with indifference. In summary, Genesis is the burgeoning of love, Psalms, the fruition of passion, and Revelation, the grief of loss.

Family Issue (2014)

Vandalism and violence at Fortune Farm have pulled investigator Denni Hope home to Southern Louisiana. Her insistent ex-girlfriend, Patty Price, expects Denni to get to the bottom of an endless nightmare of trouble. For Denni, it means watching Patty with Yolanda Elliott, the creepy, conniving lowlife who stole Patty away.

Denni had hoped Patty was exaggerating, but the chaos at the farm borders on evil. The Price family is well-loved but nothing has been right since the death of Patty’s mother. A war-crazy neighbor and a business competitor are just the beginning of the list of suspects.

But just as Denni feels she’s making progress, Yolanda asks for help from an old friend of her own: police officer Bonita Corcaran. The move is so typical of Yolanda—it’s an already difficult situation, but now Denni must deal with the most attractive, seductive woman she has ever met.

Nether Regions (2015)

Delora November is a survivor—ask anyone in Redstar, Alabama, and they will tell you that. Her ex-husband put her in a burn ward and she came fighting back. She works three jobs and on the surface she’s keeping it together.

Redstar itself works its own magic. When the thought of yet another hospital is too much, Delora turns to healer women she’s heard might help. In the quiet, breathing depths of Bayou Lisse she meets Sophie Cofe.

It seems like magic indeed when Delora finds answers to questions she had yet to ask and cures for ills she had thought beyond fixing. But underneath her happiness there is still a lurking evil that can take away everything Delora—and Sophie—hold dear.

Lights of the Heart (2016)

Physician Corinthia Madsen Salas—Dr. Maddie—has a flourishing practice in the tiny southern town of Maypearl, Alabama. Although she’s on call for her eclectic patients 24/7, she keeps her personal life private—most notably the fact that she is in love with her new receptionist, Ella Lewis. To reveal the truth could be an ethical disaster for her career and her impeccable standing as a civic leader in the small town. Yet, even so, she wonders often if Ella’s sly, shy glances indicate a return of affection or just workplace courtesy.

Then the incredible happens, the two are thrust into revealing their feelings and Ella offers to change jobs so that they may have a relationship. Throwing caution to the wind, Maddie agrees. After a blissful evening, Dr. Maddie is called out to a late night emergency and soon the worlds of both women turn completely upside down.

Now Ella is faced with life changing choices. Should she turn away from the challenges a life with Corinthia would bring? Or allow the power of devotion, time and persistence to bring her beloved Maddie back to her arms…

This new romance by award-winning author Nat Burns is filled with quirky patients, comedic office staff and, oh yes—love. Lots of love.

The Wittering Way (2016)

The Meab have lived peacefully in the forest surrounding Lake Feidlimed for millions of centuries. Even when the humans arrived in their silver sky ships, the Meab had stayed strong, if hidden. Now, human technology has taken over the Brinc clan and Cleome, eldest daughter of the Widdershin join, finds she must avenge her slaughtered parents and rescue her captured sister.

Getting onto Brinc lands won’t be easy. To get there she, and her ragtag band of young peers, must deal with the elementals of nature who try to prevent their passage, as well as trying to blend into a society now as much metal as magic. At the citadel of Signe Ray, Cleome faces her greatest challenge and her greatest grief. Will she take the next, dangerous step and summon the darkest forces of evil to fight at her side? Or will she admit defeat against such overwhelming odds?

This story, the first in the Tales of the Meab series introduces us to the many magical joins of the nature-based Witta clan and the oh-so-rational joins of the machine-based Brinc clan and the ongoing differences between them.

The Rustle of Leaves (2017)

This horror novel by romance writer, Nat Burns, shows the darker side of a beloved author.

Just because Lacey has won the election to become sheriff of Queens Lot doesn’t mean that people will believe in her. Especially when she sees a pattern of deaths in her small town and has a gut feeling that the so-called natural deaths are much more sinister. Without evidence and possible perpetrators, her hands are tied and she is viewed as hysterical by all but a precious few.
But when the deaths hit too close to home, Lacey almost gives up in despair. That is, until the crazy woman is found walking down Central Avenue—without a stitch of clothing on.

The Liaison: Book One in the Desert Willow Series (2018)

When Lily Dawson’s estranged father passes away, she’s forced to return to her childhood home in New Mexico to settle his affairs and prepare the sprawling cattle ranch for sale.

Once there, Lily is dumbfounded by what she discovers. It seems that her Air Force father has been assisting the federal government in protecting the United States from alien threats—threats from other worlds.

Lily has no intention of taking her father’s place in his work. But when a new menace emerges, she reluctantly steps in to fill his shoes.

Airman Hunter Moon has been assigned to bring Lily Dawson safely to the President. Their attraction is immediate and when Lily is hurt, Hunter is there. And Hunter will always be there.

This is the first adventure in the Desert Willow Series.

By the Wind’s Will (2018)

Fidelia Grace Nelson, nicknamed Foxy for her thick, red hair and wild nature, came to America in the 1700s to help populate the new settlement of Savannah, Georgia. Though disappointment reigned supreme in this new land, Foxy’s good nature as she grew buoyed everyone. Then, she fell in love with her best friend, Maggie.

It was a difficult love, as a relationship between two women would not further their two families’ plans for success, but Foxy was determined to make it happen. But such a love was not to be.

Foxy, brokenhearted, escapes into the wilderness of uncharted lands. This sets in motion a life of hard work, tragic love among the native Cree people and eventual prosperity. Her plantation, Trapper’s Folly, near the port of New Orleans, becomes well respected for its humanitarian ethics and excellent management.

Though doing well, Foxy, middle-aged, realizes that she is lonely. To escape this, she travels back to Georgia to find everything very different than before. Will love be waiting there for her?

This epic novel takes the reader to the early days of America and shares the adventures of a powerful frontier woman who summarily beats the odds and thrives despite adversity.

 

The Heavensent   (2019)

Set in a dystopian future. Nathan Casy escapes the mines of Mars while working on a shanghaiing mission to Earth. On the run, he encounters a band of people with telepathy, a mutation spawned by War Four. They believe he is the Heavensent of prophecy who will deliver their people from Phillip Pope, the despotic NewMerica ruler who is trying to wipe them out. Nathan, though doubtful, joins forces with the rebels and they soon invade the seat of empire where Pope resides. During this invasion, Nathan discovers a profound evil that must be overcome if the rebels and, indeed, the entire world can survive. This evil greedily inhabits the minds of all who encounter it, preying upon their weaknesses. Nathan, though taken to his knees, realizes something about this too close to home evil that may just allow him to vanquish it.

 

Rosemary  (2023)

In this highly anticipated second book in The Desert Willow Series, the Grey aliens are back and Lily Dawson, the government liaison to the Interdimensional Beings who protect Earth, is called back into action. Only this time, it is her half-IDB daughter, Birdie, and another hybrid teen, Rosemary, who will be called upon to create a treaty to save Earth from certain destruction.

Soon life is further complicated by an unknown earthly threat, a human, who seeks revenge. Will Lily be strong enough to deal with the consequences of protecting the Earth from the Greys? Is she willing to give up everything she loves to protect her home planet and fulfill her duties as a government liaison? Only time will tell, and time is swiftly running out.

Rosemary follows The Liaison in The Desert Willow Series.

Stepping Through  (2023)

Is there another dimension? Can we go there? “Stepping Through” is made up of twenty-six stories about ordinary people who encounter situations that aren’t easily explained, such as the abused wife who falls in love with a dimension engineer. Or the real estate agent who dives naked right into a not-so-solid dimension of Earth.

These tales spread across different genres, from apocalyptic drama all the way to a classic haunted chair possession story. There’s also a bit of science fiction, psychological horror and fantasy.

Simply “Stepping Through” into another world for a brief moment can be as exciting and as terrifying as imagination allows. Losing yourself for just a little while as you step through into another dimension becomes an unstoppable force that can lead to immense satisfaction.

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Pony Dakota   (2024)

When redheaded computer whiz, Emma Vernon, arrives at The Workflow Editorial Initiative to be their coding troubleshooter, she is forced to temporarily share an office with quiet, serious, senior editor, Barbara Simmons. Scholarly Barbara, nicknamed Bebe, fascinates Emma. They soon find common ground in long lunch discussions and their mutual dislike of predatory floor manager, Ralph Browning.

 

When threats from an abusive ex move Bebe to rescue Emma. They flee Albuquerque and escape to Emma’s family home in rural Virginia. Bebe finds herself suddenly surrounded by dogs, children, comical adults, and Emma. Especially Emma. Will Bebe be able to endure Emma’s rowdy, fun-filled but chaotic life as the powerful attraction grows between them? Or will she ignore the chance at love and turn away, retreating back into the safety of her bookish, antisocial life.

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