Her Golden Coast

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>One is meek. The other brash. Can two broken souls find a place they belong?</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>San Francisco 2007. Laurie Lamont craves security. Having survived an abusive father and snared a job as admin for a Silicon Valley startup the twenty-something stays focused on the three H's - home husband and healthcare. But when she discovers her would-be spouse is secretly in love with another man Laurie fears her dreams are destined to crumble.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Malini Mal Kumar is unapologetically herself. Loud outspoken and direct the bold Indian woman flees her controlling family and their plan to force her into an arranged marriage. Facing a tough real estate market the fiercely independent woman accepts a roommate offer from a female techie she barely knows.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Thrown by unfamiliar feelings Laurie falls for Mal's extraordinary strength while Mal finds herself captivated by Laurie's loving kindness.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>With social forces conspiring against them can these emotional opposites find their forever?</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Returning to the boom-and-bust era of turn-of-the-21st-century California author Anat Deracine delivers a thought-provoking tale of unanticipated love. With gorgeous lyrical prose she explores the beauty and terror of sapphic awakening at a time when same-sex marriage was illegal and women were afterthoughts in the toxic tech-bro-dominated world of the emerging online economy.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Her Golden Coast</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is an uplifting work of LGBTQ+ historical fiction. If you like strong queer characters well-crafted turns of phrase and deep themes of liberation then you'll adore Anat Deracine's story of unexpected opportunity.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Buy </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Her Golden Coast</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> to follow a road less traveled today!</span></p>