Risking-me = Risking Time Out From it All = 358 pages
Not a Risk At All. Only a Refreshing, Re-creative Break.
Your buttons will be pushed!
You won’t just finish the last page and toss this book out of sight, out of mind: the characters, these new friends with whom you’ve just shared moments of heightened emotional intensity, will stay in your thoughts well after you’ve put the book down.
Grab a copy of Risking-me, the [lesbian] romance novel that flags the issue of same-gender domestic violence and you won’t just be turning pages: you will think and you will empathize.
Risking-me was the first [lesbian] romance novel in which I embedded a societal issue.
Its real focus is domestic violence in our midst. In the days I wrote it, in too many lesbian communities, the topic of abusive partners was kept conveniently loose and intangible through a Don’t Ask/Don’t tell code of silence.
It is now estimated that the instances of DV within same-sex relationships match fairly closely the frequency and intensity experienced by the heterosexual segment of the population.
Why would it be any different? As lesbians, gays or straights, we are all products of the ‘greater western world society’ and its stressors.
Besides, there is commonality when it comes to our parents and the emotional baggage that was passed on to them before they passed it on to us.
Enjoy, dear Reader,
CC
