Secret Transgressions
In Secret Transgressions, willful Jan’s marriage turns raw. Jan’s hospital PR job expands with Bea as her associate. Jan comes ‘out’ to her trusted boss. The lovers buy their home. Trumped-up rules force Bea’s dismissal. Bea submits to a sexual encounter, loses it in Las Vegas, tries sobriety. Known now as lesbians, they are free to be themselves and create Mother Courage Bookstore. Jan is aggressively harassed to quit her hospital job but she persists and excels.
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In The Whistling Girls & Crowing Hens Series, two straight married women risk families and careers, leave society’s compulsory heterosexuality in 1972, and boldly survive in an uncharted, intimate relationship.Jan and Bea experience historic events in the women’s movement and gay/lesbian world in their 39 years together. Each book presents deeper levels on major topics and adventures.