Lisa Bonner Books

Susan is a forty-one year old Bostonian lesbian. Mae is a thirty-six year old cowgirl with strong family ties. Their first meeting takes place on a desolate country road and is an hilarious event. Their first date is even more unique. During the course of the next few months they continue seeing each other. As Susan meets and gets to know Mae's friends, she is forced to question some of her oldest and most sacred beliefs about how families, friendships and relationships should work. Along the way, Susan is introduced (not always subtly) to a truly Texas style of life. She experiences passionate sex, Super Bowl fever, poker nights, front porch magic under the moonlight, cigars, guns, a secret midnight rendezvous and many other Texas traditions as they are lived out through the eyes and hearts of Texas lesbians. Mae, a real cowgirl, begins to learn to trust love again, something she never thought would happen to her. But times are not always happy, as together Mae and Susan must find middle ground when confronted with issues concerning drugs, guns, domestic violence and a death that shakes Mae to the bone.

Sydney is a white, forty one-year-old lesbian who was born and raised in Dallas. She owns a lucrative real estate agency. Adrian, her African American partner, is a psychologist specializing in holistic medicine within the Dallas gay and lesbian community. Sydney receives a phone call from her great Aunt Belle's attorney in Slidesville, North Carolinain forming her that her aunt has died. Sydney has been left as executor of Belle's estate. While Sydney and Adrian are at Aunt Belle's house, the tail end of a hurricane sweeps through Slidesville. When Sydney goes out to check on the condition of the barn, she finds more than she bargained for. There mains of her Uncle Charley, who has been missing for 50 years, have washed to the surface. With Adrian's help, Sydney decides to try to learn more about the lives of Belle and Charley Denton and hopefully, how Charley ended up buried in his own barn. Sydney starts asking questions around town. She meets Lettie Ann Patterson, close friend and colleague of Belle's. It is with Lettie Ann that Sydney begins a spiraling journey into the real life story of the aunt she had mistakenly believed she knew quite well.