Laura DeHart Young, Author
Laura DeHart Young is the author of seven novels including best sellers, Love on the Line, Love Speaks Her Name, and Forever and the Night.
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Ms. Young is also the author of many short stories including: "Southern Nights," "Now or Never," "Hearts of Summer," and "Night Watch."
In addition, Ms. Young has written over a hundred poems with contemporary themes of love, loss, city life and humor.
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Novels by Laura DeHart Young
Love on the Line
A National Park Service Ranger in Fairbanks, Alaska, Kay Westmore has all the drama she can handle right now. In addition to escalating problems within her own family, she has become the target of a series of harassing letters and phone calls that she suspects are the work of her abusive ex-lover.
To complicate matters, she’s about to embark on a dangerous survival mission to Northern Alaska at the worst time of the year with her new boss, Grace Perry. Grace is an ambitious (but very attractive) government official, who seems to take pleasure in making Kay’s life even more miserable by being intent on constantly running the show—an act which could get them both killed.
Leaving behind the only thing that seems to bring her peace, Kay wonders if she’s making the worst mistake of her life. Letting go of Stef Kramer, a beautiful, alluring woman determined to win Kay’s heart, plagues her thoughts. Should it matter that Stef is still in college and 10 years Kays junior? What could someone that young possibly know about love?
Forever and the Night
Desire and passion ignite the frozen Arctic in this exciting sequel to the classic romantic adventure Love on the Line…
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Kay Westmore knew from the beginning that getting involved with a woman fifteen years younger was asking for heartbreak. Now that Stef was leaving her, Kay wasn’t surprised—just heartsick, disillusioned, and embarrassed by the end of yet another relationship. When her boss, Secretary of the Interior Grace Perry, suddenly sends Kay on a special assignment, she welcomes the opportunity—even though the trip will require spending several weeks in Barrow, Alaska, in the dead of winter, when the Arctic Ocean town lies in total darkness and devastating cold. But Kay can’t imagine a better way to numb herself to the pain of Stef’s departure.
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In Barrow, Kay works with Lela Newlin, an attorney with the Bureau of Land Management and a full-blooded Inupiat trusted by her people as a liaison to the government. As Lela and Kay begin to trust each other, Kay struggles against their growing attraction, afraid of yet another romantic mess. But Lela draws Kay inexorably to her, like the hottest fire on the coldest night.
Deep in the Arctic darkness, as the two women discover unexpected threats to the Alaskan wilderness, sensuous Lela provides an unexpected threat to the frozen tundra of Kay’s heart.
Love Speaks Her Name
Love and friendship, desire and intrigue—combined with a perilous journey into the wilderness of Alaska—spark this exciting sequel to Forever and the Night…
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Kay Westmore is adjusting to life in Anchorage, Alaska, and a demanding new job as director of Denali National Park and Preserve, one of the country’s last wilderness frontiers. She and her partner of two years, Lela Newlin, are also caring for a dear friend who is fighting a life-threatening disease.
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Just when life seems challenging enough, Kay’s former boss, Grace Perry, barges back into her world—bringing with her the intrigue of Washington D.C politics. Now a high paid consultant for the Senate sub-committee on environmental affairs, Perry recruits Kay for a perilous mission into the Alaskan wilderness Kay knows so well. It is a journey that involves danger, subterfuge and the tracking of an enemy prepared to use an unspeakable weapon.
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As the adventure unfolds before her, Kay meets Tory Mitchell, a government agent assigned to track a deadly weapon and a determined enemy. Sparks fly when the two women’s strong-willed personalities clash…and then a romantic attraction grows, threatening not just their mission, but Kay’s relationship with Lela…and everything else Kay believes in—including herself.
The exciting follow-up to Forever and the Night!
There Will Be No Goodbyes
Liz (Buddie) Callow is a radio news reporter in Washington, D.C. These days, she is caring for her closest friend, Chris, who lives on a horse farm in Virginia and has never needed Buddie more—Chris’s health is increasingly precarious.
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Accompanied to a gay rights rally by a homophobic colleague, Buddie interviews high-powered organizer Kate McGowan…And Buddie’s already complicated life turns a new corner.
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Kate is alluring, charming, talented—but anguish from the past festers: a brother, dead in a boating tragedy in which Kate was involved…And, beautiful, dangerous first love Rachel, whose behavior in the past does not deter her plans for Kate’s future…
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Buddie, somehow, must use the health of her own life to contend with homophobia in her job, to bring strength to Kate—and to Chris.
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This potent, utterly believable story of contemporary lesbian life and love and friendship will touch you to the core.
"Young's characters are well-developed, the dialogue particular to each of them. She offers a well-written novel, with credible characters and a compelling plot line."
Bay Area Reporter
Critical Acclaim
“Laura DeHart Young is skilled at building to dramatic finishes and telling two parallel stories. Young creates likable heroines who leave the reader rooting for their survival."
MegaScene
"There is plenty to keep your interest in Young's writing. These are engaging books fraught with tension that will keep you turning the pages."
Broadsheet