Marianne K. Martin | Author

Marianne K. Martin
Author of lesbian fiction

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PUBLISHED: Mar.01.2011

The Indelible Heart

Twelve years ago, Charlie Crawford shot dead his two lesbian neighbors. Now he's terminally ill and requesting early release from prison. Back then, Sharon and her friends fought to bring him to justice. Now she has to find the strength to fight again. But the man who killed her friends also took her sobriety. And with it he took her partner, Laura. Sober again, all Sharon has...

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PUBLISHED: Feb.02.2004

Under the Witness Tree

An aunt she didn't know existed leaves Dhari Weston with a plantation she knows she doesn't want. Dhari's life is complicated enough without an antebellum albatross around her neck. Complicated enough without the beautiful Erin Hughes and her passion for historical houses, without Nessie Tinker, whose family breathed the smoke of General Sherman's march and who knows the secrets...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.09.2007

For Now, For Always

Renee Parker knows what love is and what love does. She was only seventeen when she fought social services for the right to raise her four younger siblings. Fought and won. Now the challenge is to parent kids scarred by a step-dad's suicide and a mother's imprisonment. But Renee doesn't think twice about sacrificing her own future to give her brothers and sisters their best shot at...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.01.2006

Dance in the Key of Love

Paige Flemming is on the run. From the police, from her history, and from love itself. After sixteen years looking over her shoulder, she realizes it's time to run again. But when she pauses in her headlong flight to catch her breath with old friends, she crashes straight into another ghost from her past. And this time, it's not one she can easily escape. Marissa Langford is a...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.01.2005

Dawn of the Dance

When Moni Matteson fell for Paige Flemming she thought her lonely days had come to an end. Paige, the sleek athlete with the mysterious past, taught Moni what it felt like to want, and to need, and finally to love. She also taught Moni what it felt like to be left - a devastation that shook Moni to the core and one that she wants never to repeat. At college, Moni concentrates on...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.01.2001

Mirrors

Dedication. Passion. Commitment. Best friends, Jean and Shayna, have each constructed their lives carefully. Jean Carson is that special teacher, the one who makes a difference to her students. Attorney Shayna Bradley is driven heart and soul by a profound and deeply personal sense of justice to help lesbian mothers keep their kids. When feelings obscured by friendship catch them...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.01.1999

Never Ending

Sage Bristo is a woman of conviction and determination. Deanne Demore is a woman of understanding and reconciliation. For four years they made their relationship work. But now Sage and Deanne face the limits of love, trust, and commitment and the emotions run strong when they find themselves torn apart by the very things that first brought them together. Trying to find out more...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.01.1998

Love in the Balance

Accountant Connie Bradford feels her life is changing for the better. Riding the crest of a big promotion, she has finally ended an unsatisfying relationship with her boyfriend. Everything is moving in logical transition, thatis, until she meets Kasy Hollander. Carpenter Kasy Hollander lives a life of work-centered exclusion. The owner of a successful renovation company, she hires...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.01.1997

Legacy of Love

What is it about Sage Bristo that drew women to her? Maybe it was the tall, toned body and androgynous good looks. Perhaps they liked her confidence - her movements and manner so sure and decisive. Or was it the air of mystery, the temptation of a challenge to unravel? Sage couldn't explain the attraction, but she had certainly benefited from it, at least physically. Women would do...

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Marianne's Latest Blogs

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Oct.23.2011 - 8:56 pm

Double Edged Blessing

A DOUBLE-EDGED BLESSING Like so many things now days, it began with a message on my Face Book page. Film maker, Brian Alexander, had read Love in...

Jul.05.2011 - 7:58 am

I am excited to introduce a talented new Bywater author, Sally Bellerose!

BIO Sally Bellerose’s book The Girls Club won the Bywater Prize and is forthcoming from Bywater Books In September. Bellerose was awarded a Fellowship in Literature from the...

Jun.21.2011 - 8:35 am

A Visit With Australian mystery writer, Lindy Cameron

Secret Agents, Spies and Miss Pussy Galore I spend my life in a world of fiction, making things up and writing them down so others can share the wild action-filled places of my...

May.30.2011 - 7:40 pm

This Week's Special Guest is Stella Duffy.

I am thrilled to introduce a very talented author, Stella Duffy, as my guest this week. Here's Stella: I’ve written twelve novels (including the five novels of the mystery...

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Under the Witness Tree

Published by Katherine V. Forrest

Under the Witness Tree is a multi-dimensional love story woven with rich themes of family and the search for roots. This is a novel of discovery that reaches into the deeply...

About Marianne

A graduate of Eastern Michigan University, Ms Martin taught in the Michigan public school system for twenty-five years, has worked as a photo-journalist, a photographer, and coached both high school and collegiate teams as well as amateur ASA teams. Her...

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Connections

Causes Marianne Martin Supports

HRC, Michigan Equality, Gay & Lesbian Task Force, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, ASPCA, HSUS

Marianne’s Favorite Books

To Kill A Mockingbird, Fried Green Tomatoes, Deloris Claiborne,Little Women,Silence of the Lambs, really too many to list.