In Deep Waters 2: Cruising the Strip

In Deep Waters #2

by Radclyffe, Karin Kallmaker

Games of chance, games of passion, games of love - roll the dice for a week in Las Vegas with games mistresses Radclyffe and Karin Kallmaker. Whether a public table or a back room invitational, the players want to score and everybody can't wait to go all in.

Genres: Erotica, Lesbian, Lesbian Fiction, Anthologies, LGBT, Romance, Lesbian Romance

288 pages, Paperback

First published September 17, 2007

About the author

Radclyffe has written over forty-five romance and romantic intrigue novels, dozens of short stories, and, writing as L.L. Raand, has authored a paranormal romance series, The Midnight Hunters. She has also edited Best Lesbian Romance 2009 through 2015 as well as multiple other anthologies. She is an eight-time Lambda Literary Award finalist in romance, mystery, and erotica—winning in both romance and erotica. A member of the Saints and Sinners Literary Hall of Fame, she is also an RWA Prism, Lories, Beanpot, Aspen Gold, and Laurel Wreath winner in multiple mainstream romance categories. In 2014, she received the Dr. James Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist award from the Lambda Literary Foundation. In 2004, she founded Bold Strokes Books, an independent LGBTQ publishing company, and in 2013, she founded the Flax Mill Creek Writers Retreat offering writing workshops to authors in all stages of their careers.

She states, “I began reading lesbian fiction at the age of twelve when I found a copy of Ann Bannon’s Beebo Brinker. That book and others like it convinced me that I was not alone, that there were other women who felt like I did. Our literature provides support and validation and very often, a lifeline, for members of our community throughout the world. I am proud and honored to be able to publish the many fine authors at Bold Strokes Books and to contribute in some small way to the words that celebrate the LGBTQ experience.”

Radclyffe lives with her partner, Lee, in New York state.

Reviews

[Joc · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good collection of erotic shorts from Radclyffe and Kallmaker. In the first installment they were set on a cruise ship, this time they're set in Las Vegas, a conference destination. The hotel is hosting conference for escorts, librarians and romance novelists as well as a poker tournament mixed in with holiday makers.

I'm a fan of short stories, erotica, Radclyffe and Kallmaker so it was a fairly good bet that I would like this. There are quite a few established relationships mixed in with casual hook-ups and even one story featuring Dr Saxon Sinclair and Jude Castle from Passion's Bright Fury (which is probably my favourite of Radclyffe's books).

[Kathryn · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is definitely butch erotica. Told entirely from a butch perspective with most characters wearing fake dicks in their pants. I love feminine women. There is nothing hotter than a woman in a skirt and blouse with a little cleavage showing...Mmmm. I am a fem myself so I don't understand the need for fake dicks. To each her own, I guess.

[Jo Ben-What · Rating 5 out of 5]

Most of the stories are really great.

[La Tricia Ransom · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not bad. But you’d think such creative writers would be a little more creative with the size, age and color of women encountered in this setting: conventions in Las Vegas. Fit, able-bodied, youngish (25-40ish) white women got real old, real fast.

[Gertrudis Fortinbras · Rating 4 out of 5]

La verdad es que me gusto mucho más el primer volumen. Y en algunas ocasiones me ha parecido un poco aburridillo. Aunque claro no es un libro como para leértelo de una sentada (o por lo menos yo no podría). En general, cumple con las expectativas. Es entretenido y disfruton. punch🥸

[Mónica Carra · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tan explícito como el primero. Emocionante.

[Heidi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another steamy book of short stories.. Cold shower please!

[Judy Folger · Rating 5 out of 5]

Radclyffe & Karin Kallmaker have scored another winner. I enjoyed the writing and the setting for this story.

[Acbabry · Rating 3 out of 5]

part of my 'must read everything that kallmaker has ever written' list