Dark chocolate / Nancy Pickard -- Offer / Patricia Smiley -- E-male / Kristine Kathryn Rusch -- Enough to stay the winter / Gillian Linscott -- Playing powerball / Elizabeth Engstrom -- Can you hear me now? / Marcia Talley -- Gold fever / Dana Stabenow -- Your turn / Carolyn Hart -- A capitol obsession / Allison Brennan -- Contemporary insanity / Marcia Muller -- Violinist / Wendy Hornsby -- Cougar / Lara Lippman -- Lusting for Jenny, inverted / Elizabeth George -- Other people's clothing / Susan Wiggs -- Bump in the night / Stephanie Bond -- Invasion / Julie Barrett -- Cold, hard facts / S. J. Rozan -- Catch your death / Linda Barnes -- Runaway camel / Barbara Fryer -- A madness of two / Peggy Hesketh -- Anything helps / Z. Kelley -- Back to school essay / Patricia Fogarty -- Paddy O'Grady's thigh / Lisa Alber