Roz Alexander

Where do dreams go to wait? Tali Blue is definitely going back to finish her last semester of rabbinical school...eventually. When she moved back to her hometown seven years ago to help her grandparents raise her younger sisters, she planned on it being temporary. Now though, she has a stable job and a stable life surrounded by the people she’s known forever. It’s all just fine - and then there’s the incredibly annoying surprise of Maple. Maple never meant to be successful. She just wanted to make weird art and practice her Ladino. And just like that, 15 years of adulthood has built a solid career, a great reputation as an art instructor, and a lackluster love life. It doesn’t help that she’s been spending all her free time consumed with making it as a Sephardic Jew into the Jewish art world that never seems to have space for her. And it definitely doesn’t help that she’s strictly a butch for butch lesbian. And then comes a sex goddess in the form of short, chunky, smoking hot, and incredibly nervous, butch, Tali Blue. When Tali’s love of family, Maple’s art ambitions, and a Rosh Hashanah effort to #savethebees force these two together, both of them may learn that the only way out is up, together. This new year the honey is dripping on a lot more than apples. Higher is a steamy, butch for butch, grump-sunshine sapphic romance about what happens when you choose to take your dreams higher. This is the sweet and sexy second volume in the "Hot for the Holidays" series, a collection of queer Jewish love stories that can be read in any order and all year round. Find all content notes on the author's site.

Does true love have an expiration date? What about forgiveness?Every year, tomboy-femme Liza plans the perfect party for Purim, and every year she goes alone. She's convinced her role as holiday host is enough to find happiness, but lately, the nights have gotten lonelier. Carrie, a.k.a. Liza's first love, a.k.a. the butch who broke her heart into a million pieces, is back in town and determined to win Liza back. Carrie has spent the last ten years unlearning the internalized ableism that reared its head after her diagnosis of progressive vision loss.And ten years of regretting leaving Liza. Their inexperience and inability to be vulnerable with one another may have driven them apart the first time, but has the last decade taught them both to be brave? Luckily, they have the whole megillah to figure it out. A Masc for Purim is an angsty, steamy, second chance romance novella between a bisexual butch and her tomboy lesbian. It's a standalone part of the "Hot for the Holidays" series.

After all these years, can two friends finally be honest with each other? Lauren and Shira, now both in their twenties, haven't seen each other since summer camp when Lauren constantly had salad in her braces and Shira hadn't grown into her limbs yet. Now, the mutual need for a roommate brings them back together and they both discover that a whole lot has changed. First of all, puberty worked its magic and Shira really fills out her wardrobe of tailored men's suits and work boots after dozens of hours in the gym. Lauren may still be the same timid girl who hid under the bleachers at her prom, but now she knows what she wants and it's spelled S-h-i-r-a. But will she be able to seduce her lifelong friend and gorgeous roommate? “Light My Candles” is a steamy short friends to lovers lesbian fiction featuring butch-femme Jewish love in the big city. Steamy Friday Night Shorts are fast-paced, right to the point romances that always deliver an HEA. They can each be enjoyed on their own (but isn't more always better?).

Samantha is still healing from heartbreak, but her best friend has decided she's taken long enough. With Passover just around the corner, will a surprise blind date, three celebrations in eight days, and approximately 100 glasses of wine be enough to finally move on? After one taste of the hard-bodied, immaculately dressed Jordan, it just might be time. Too bad Jordan has her own baggage to work through. Matzo Match is a scorching lesbian love story and the first entry in the "Hot for the Holidays" series.

Val's heart might finally be healed enough to get back out there, but her confidence is still in the gutter. So, like every good lesbian before her, she cries it all out to her friendly neighborhood bartender. It's just her luck that the bartender is a handsome butch with a heart of gold — and a thing for other butches. When they wake up together on Saturday morning, neither of them will be the same. “Bring Me Home” is an erotic romance short (~9,000 words) of two butches who just might find what they’re looking for in each other’s arms.

Jenna has been a P.I. since taking over the family business as a college dropout. Most of her time is spent chasing down deadbeat dads and people making a living off of insurance fraud. Then she's hired to find a missing woman and she knows her luck has changed - but even she can't she Lillian coming until it's too late. Lillian is a wealthy woman with a reason to run. Over one Shabbat dinner she'll give Jenna everything she needs to know ... and a whole lot more. Pour My Wine is a steamy tale of a smooth-talking female detective and the femme fatale who will take her down - to her knees. Steamy Friday Night Shorts can each be enjoyed on their own (but isn't more always better?).