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Maiden Leap
CM Harris

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Bink Books
252 pp. ● 6×9
$16.95 (pb) ● $9.99 (eb)
ISBN 978-1-949290-43-1  (pb)
FICTION / LGBT / General
FICTION / Small Town & Rural
FICTION / Family Life / General
FICTION / literature
Publication date: September 2020

Kate, a devoted wife and mother, has lived her whole life under the mythic bluff called Maiden Leap in a scenic river town. Her contented life is turned inside out when her former high school girlfriend Lucy returns to town as a graduate of a gay conversion therapy program. Now Kate must cope with her guilt and anger over how she and Lucy parted.
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As Kate struggles to balance her marriage to her reliable husband and her friendship with mercurial Lucy, their old flame is rekindled and a town secret is uncovered. Kate must learn how to navigate a new world of possibilities, confront her moral conundrums, and solve the age-old mystery surrounding Maiden Leap.

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Rainbow Award
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2020-2021 Bisexual Contemporary General Fiction and Mystery/Thilller

Praise

“Complex, witty, moving.” — Lavender Magazine

“What makes this story so poignant is Harris’ tenderness toward her characters. They are all decent people who love one another and are trying their best.” — Twin Cities Pioneer Press

“Harris has written a really good book . . . It’s an interesting exploration of relationships, feelings about the past, small town life and revenge. There’s also an interesting twist I didn’t see until just before it happened.” — LGBTQ+ Reader

“Many forms of love play out in CM Harris’ new novel, Maiden Leap. Set in a river town, it captures a moment in time—the early 2000s—before gay marriage was legal, as transgender teens became more common, and when punk rock still held sway. It shows how all these issues mix in a small community where your in-laws think gays can be fixed with conversion therapy and you disagree but still make them a quilt. It is in this complexity of issues that this book shines, asking the bold question who gets to define love. A thoughtful, engaging novel, it is a love story, a small-town saga, capturing a time when so many things were shifting under our feet. I loved every page of this book.” — Mary Logue, author of The Streel and Clair Watkins Mysteries
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“The strong opening, tension, world-building, scene-setting move us into the book with ease. The characters are all easy to like, they keep the reader interested, and they have a valuable story to tell.” — Andrew Gifford, director of the Santa Fe Writers Project

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