Bywater Books imprint: 75 books

“Marianne K. Martin is a wonderful storyteller and a graceful writer with a light, witty touch with language and a sensitivity to the emotions of people in love. There is a tenderness and brightness to her characterizations that make the personalities quite beguiling.”-Ann Bannon, author of the groundbreaking...

"Marianne Martin is a wonderful storyteller and a graceful writer with a light, witty touch with language and a sensitivity to the emotions of people in love. There is a tenderness and brightness to her characterizations that make the personalities quite beguiling."-Ann Bannon"Marianne Martin is a skilled...

After inheriting an old plantation house from an aunt she didn’t know existed, Dhari Weston heads 800 miles south to see the place and meets intriguing Dr. Erin Hughes, a local history professor with a passion for old houses. Dhari’s life is complicated enough without meeting such an attractive...

“Marianne Martin is a wonderful storyteller and a graceful writer with a light, witty touch with language and a sensitivity to the emotions of people in love.”—Ann Bannon, author of the Beebo Brinker novelsRenee Parker is no stranger to love. At only seventeen, she fought social services...

Kentucky was only ever going to be a summer job. Come fall, Blue Riley would be back in North Carolina, in college. But one job led to another, one town led to another, and one woman led to another. Now, after twenty years Blue faces the hardest question of all-is it time to go home?

"Jesse Blackadder has all the hallmarks of a great historical fiction writer, achieving a fine balance of thoroughly researched atmospheric detail and suspenseful story. . . . In The Raven's Heart she doesn't hit one wrong note."—The Sunday Telegraph Scotland, 1561, and a ship comes across the...

Explores the roles of women in the workforce during World War II. Set in and around the Willow Run assembly plant in Michigan—home of the B-24 Bomber, also known as "The Liberator." Explores issues related to sexism, homophobia, and racism in America during World War II. Author...

Fay Jacobs is back! Again! The author of the trilogy of humorous memoirs As I Lay Frying, Fried & True and For Frying Out Loud returns with more wise and witty recollections about contemporary life in general and more specifically life in Rehoboth Beach, a small resort town on the Delaware Coast. It’s provocative, political, occasionally heartwarming, and reliably hilarious.

In 1995, writer Fay Jacobs cruised into Rehoboth Beach, and discovered the unique charm of this seaside community. Almost immediately, she began chronicling life in Rehoboth in a regular column for the magazine Letters from CAMP Rehoboth. The essays in As I Lay Frying tell a story that is sometimes provocative, sometimes political, occasionally heartwarming, and always hilarious.

When a CPA is forced to hire help for tax season, she resents the presence of her brash, young intern. The intern only wants to complete the internship so she can chase her dream job in D.C. Will the CPA's past and the intern's future add up to something greater than the sum of their escalating attraction?

Sometimes, I think my story is about addiction and adultery. Other times, I think it's about bad luck with the Avon lady. And not just one-one I could chalk up to chance. Two rotten Avon ladies feel more like a curse.So begins the story of Poppy Koslowski. She's trying to recover from a hysterectomy,...

As the author of four humorous memoirs, activist and comedian Fay Jacobs returns with her newest tall tales, Fried & Convicted, Rehoboth Beach Uncorked. And, as you’d expect, It’s chock-full of Fay’s signature witty, wise, and often laugh-out-loud commentary about the craziness of contemporary...

Fay Jacobs returns with more wise and witty recollections about life in Rehoboth Beach. For Frying Out Loud is a collection of Fay s latest columns plus some new, never published material. It's provocative, political, occasionally heartwarming and reliably hilarious. Jacobs' utterly unique voice will keep you laughing, smiling and relating page after page.

Each month for a full year, the holiday parties and theme nights at Sappho's Bar & Grill spin lonely Hannah Stern into the past when she least expects it. Through her sexy encounters with foremothers ranging from Lilith to Sappho, through Radclyffe Hall to the All American Girls Baseball League, Hannah learns much about herself and women’s survival across time.