Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #155787 in Books
• Published on: 2005-07-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 260 pages

Customer Reviews

Escapist romance meets sizzling eroticism. Nice!
Radclyffe's 'Provincetown' series of novels are amongst the finest in lesbian romantic fiction, and firmly in the tradition established by Katherine V. Forrest with her 1983 classic Curious Wine. These books are well constructed, engagingly written, and notable for both their intense romanticism and their focus on the devastating power of physical attraction between women. In other words, love and chemistry! As opposed to the rather pointless substitutes found in many other works of lesbian erotic fiction, such as fetishism, cynicism and other odd bits of psychological and silicone paraphernalia.

Radclyffe has created a wonderfully escapist universe set in the small coastal community of Cape Cod's Provincetown. Her cast of irresistable characters are emotionally intense and monogamously inclined, and the sex scenes between them are right off the scale of hotness. These books are so far up my street that I can even forgive Radclyffe for giving all of her best characters names like Reese and Tory.

If you're looking for hot romantic fiction which affirms the power, beauty and essential rightness of love between women, then look no further than Safe Harbor and its two sequels, Beyond the Breakwater, and Distant Shores, Silent Thunder.

Two attractive, intelligent women meet, fall in love, but...
Safe Harbour is a well written 'traditional' (in the best sense of the word) lesbian romance. The age old story of two people from vastly differing backgrounds meeting, finding themselves inexorably drawn to each other, and after a satisfying amount of heart-searching and angst, fall in love. There is the added bonus, so often missing in lesbian fiction today, of a happy ending. No this may not be social realism, it never pretends to be, it is ecapism of a high standard. Erotic, lesbian Mills & Boon with an edge. Complete with tall dark mysterious stranger, remote heroine with a tragic past, and a bit of mystery/action thrown in. I really liked this book because it fills a gap in lesbian fiction, no belaboured political/social lecturing, a simple, sexy good read. Recommended for romantics.

Radclyffe writes the best smushy romance stories,
Radclyffe is probably one of the best lesbian 'smushy romance' writers around. She handles (no pun intended) eroticia so well, it sizzles off the page while still retaining a wonderfully romantic magic. Okay, this is not Patricia Cornwell, but if a good dose of sexy escapism is the requirement, this is for you. I think it's well written, logically progressed, hey, just read it.