Karin Kallmaker

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  • Bibliography:
    53 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1991
  • Latest Book:
    January 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Frosting on the Cake

1 - Frosting on the Cake (Oct-2003)
2 - Second Helpings (Nov-2010)

Touchwood

1 - Touchwood (May-1991)
2 - Watermark (Dec-2003)

Book List in Order: 53 titles

  • Touchwood

    Touchwood - 1

    Twenty-nine-year-old Rayann Germaine, betrayed by her lover, flees in grief and rage. She meets rare book store owner Louisa Thatcher, a woman many years her senior, who offers shelter and work... and soon, passion, and a loving place in her life. ...

  • In Every Port

    Jessica has it all. An expensive condo in the city of dreams, San Francisco. A high-powered, prestigious career as a management consultant that takes her all over the country... To passionate Roberta, in Chicago. To delicious Marilyn, in San Antonio....

  • Seeds of Fire

    Autumn Bradley used the magic in her hands to save Ursula Columbine from the darkness that hunts for her. But the ordeal of her rescue has left Ursula's mind blank and her powers dimmed. Autumn only knows that it is up to her to hide the defenseless ...

  • One Degree of Separation

  • Maybe Next Time

  • Frosting on the Cake

    Frosting on the Cake - 1

    Good books are like good desserts--satisfying and tasty. But who doesn't want more whipped cream or another dollop of chocolate? "More" is exactly what Karin Kallmaker whips up in Frosting on the Cake. It's a baker's dozen of goodies featuring the ch...

  • Painted Moon

  • Watermark

    Touchwood - 2

    Teresa Mandrell’s first encounter with advertising executive Rayann Germaine begins badly and goes downhill from there. Within minutes of their meeting, Rayann dubs Teresa a ” bumbling amateur” . The event changes the course of Tere...

  • Unforgettable



  • All the Wrong Places

  • Wild Things

    Scholar and award-winning author Faith Fiztgerald has every reason to be happy: a wealthy, charming man who adores her and a family cheering her marriage prospects. But from the moment she meets Eric’s sister, Sydney Van Allen, she knows her safe, ...

  • Sugar

  • Paperback Romance

  • Car Pool

    Ninety minutes, twice a day. Five days a week.Car pool heaven turns into car pool hell when Anthea Rossignole realizes her lover is having an affair with the other woman sharing their daily commute. It seems that Anthea’s succesfanul career as a co...

  • Bell, Book and Dyke

  • Just Like That

  • 18th & Castro

  • Finders Keepers

    Setting out on the vacation of a lifetime, Marissa Chabot is well-provisioned with sun block, rum and a stack of good books. As one of the founders of the successful, high-tech “soul-mate matching service” Finders Keepers, Marissa knows from expe...

  • In Deep Waters

    Book passage on a deliciously sensual Mediterranean cruise with tour guides Radclyffe and Karin Kallmaker. Poolside, topside, below deck and ship-to-shore"grab a deck chair and feel the temperature climb.

    From honeymooning couples to stran...



  • Christabel

    Deeper than the city streets, the subways, even the dry riverbeds that no longer flow, are the roots of a tree that remembers love and tragedy... Financier Dina Rowland's assignment is to make fashion designer Leo Goranson a lot of money. But the mor...

  • The Kiss That Counted

    Don't miss this Lammy Award Winner!!!CJ Roshe knows she can never relax her vigilance, especially when her grip on her secrets begins to slip. Contact with the good-hearted Karita Hanssen leaves CJ wishing for impossible things -- friends, roots, a l...

  • Night Vision

    Julia Madison is having nightmares. Every night. All night. Painful and perplexing, the nightmares of a woman in captivity calling for help escalate until she is having them during the day, wide awake. Doctors prescribe pills. Therapists theorize abo...

  • The Dawning

    13 years have passed since the fiery explosion that killed seven people, but Amanda is unable to forgive herself for her part in the tragedy. During a terrible storm, she goes to the aid of a woman caught in a flood. After a daring rescue that nearly...

  • Warming Trend

    Anidyr Bycall is frozen in her past, regretting words never spoken to the woman she loves and the one impulsive act that cost her all her dreams. Running from the courts of public and academic opinion in Fairbanks, she has landed in Key West. The nig...

  • Forge of Virgins

  • Stepping Stone

  • Above Temptation

    For Kip Barrett, a secret commission from her boss’s boss’s boss, CEO Tamara Sterling, shows that the respect she’s earned for her integrity and intelligence is justified. All she has to do is what she’s done successfully before: Follow the m...

  • Second Helpings

    Frosting on the Cake - 2

  • Substitute for Love



  • Roller Coaster

  • Rollercoaster

    Two very different reasons brought Laura Izmani and Helen Baynor to the Beach Boardwalk for a symbolic ride on the biggest wooden roller coaster on the west coast. They part strangers, but only after sharing an experience that shifted both of their l...

  • 16 Shades of Lesbian Love

  • Love by the Numbers

  • Comfort and Joy

    Home for the holidays from service in the Middle East, Milla expects Mom's good food and the bliss of a quiet, peaceful hometown Christmas. Romance is not on her mind, but after a chance meeting with a woman unlike any she's ever known before, she is...

  • Do Overs and Two More Stories of Lesbian Love and Sensuality

  • Captain of Industry

    The world is at Jennifer Lamont’s feet -- right where she wants it. She has made breaking hearts a blood sport, and the cool, calculated use of other people’s backs has led to the stardom she has craved from the first time she heard applause. Lus...

  • Steam Across the Hall

  • Castle Wrath

  • A Fish Out of Water

    An above sea hunt for the pleasure and song of human women turns disastrous when Ariel, 77th daughter of the Mer Queen, shares human passion with the forbidden Erica. Court rivals quickly report her transgression and Ariel finds herself an example of...



  • Unbeliever - Love is Magic is Love

    Professor Hayley Carnegie has no time to figure out why a large book full of blank pages has been delivered to her doorstep. University politics don't matter, her research doesn't matter. Her entire life is wrapped around caring f...

  • My Lady Lipstick

    Anita Topaz, Queen of the Bodice Rippers, is deliberately a woman of mystery. But pressure is mounting for Anita to reveal herself to her clamoring public. It’s scrutiny that writer Paris Ellison can’t allow, especially since the glamorous “Ani...

  • The Velvet Anthology

    Into every generation there is a Chosen One.She alone will wield the stamina and dashing good looks to stand firm against the vamps, the vixens, and the smokin’ hot damsels in distress; to stop the spread of their yearning and extinguish the swell ...

  • Because I Said So

    Kesa Sapiro had to grow up fast. With her parents gone and a little sister to protect, Kesa has spent over a decade of her life trying to keep a roof over their heads. She’s learned the hard way that love is a luxury and that the price is way too h...

  • Simply the Best

    Simply the Best… Giselle Otero needs a win in her life, and being personal assistant to Helene Jolie, the socialite founder of SimplytheBest.com, is finally it. The hours are long, and keeping Helene happy is more than a full-time job. That Helene ...

  • Cowboys and Kisses

    A one-way stage ticket to the frontier leaves a young woman penniless and alone in Long Grass, Wyoming. With no other hope than to survive another day, she takes up the only profession open to her. Years later she encounters the cowboy she can love, ...

  • Velvet in Venice

    The Coin of Love Series: Women get the push they need at just the right moment to find the love they deserve.Artie Bryson came to Venice to finish her PhD. Five years later the PhD still isn't done, but life is okay. Leading guided tours of the magni...

  • Knight of Nights

    The Coin of Love Series: Women are gifted the magic they need to find the love they deserve.Left in charge of clan and lands while menfolk sail away to the Crusades, Lady Kirstine rides to the aid of the local Green Woman whose medicines once saved K...

  • Wind in Her Hair

  • Checked Out



  • Frosting on the Cake 3

    From a red-carpet Halloween costume to the fireworks of New Year’s, Karin Kallmaker is adding a holiday layer to her literary cake with short stories inspired by her classics and recent novels. It’s a baker’s dozen buffet of pure ho...

  • Checked Out: Big City Grumpy Meets Small Town Charm

    • / Fantasy
    • Buy Buy

    Peri Garritsen thought it was a simple assignment: get a small-town librarian to answer a few questions. Easy is what everyone tells her she needs right now. She'll make it a quick trip, prove she's fit for duty, and get back to doing something actua...

  • Embrace in Motion

    • / Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Sarah MacNeil is about to put her heart in the hands of a beautiful woman who could be her salvation . . . or her ruin! Surfing high on the wave of lesbian chic, author/ screenwriter Melissa Hartley is deliciously dangerous. She knows all the righ...

  • Making Up for Lost Time

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

Award-Winning Books by Karin Kallmaker

The Kiss That Counted
2008 Lambda Literary Award -- Lesbian Romance
Maybe Next Time
2003 Lambda Literary Award -- Romance


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Karin Kallmaker has published 53 books.

The next book by Karin Kallmaker, Frosting on the Cake 3, will be published in January 2025.

The first book by Karin Kallmaker, Touchwood, was published in May 1991.

Yes. Karin Kallmaker has 2 series.
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