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Alice "Al" Hoffman and her childhood friends leave the potato farms of 1940s Long Island to follow their dream of making it on Broadway., but dreams come at a price. They soon realize that nothing will go as they planned.

Al meets Juliana, a singer who is everything this farm girl isn't. When her friendship with the glamorous starlet turns to something more, Al must decide if she'll follow her feelings into the gay underground or maintain a life that's normal by society standards.

Follow Al and Juliana's heart wrenching saga in this special collection of the Juliana series, a captivating work of LGBT historical romance. If you like spell-binding storytelling, characters you can’t help but fall for, and walking through the streets of 1940s New York City as if you are really there then get this bundle and escape into the story today!

Juliana is a romance that takes place in 1941. Alice "Al"Huffman comes from the potato fields of Long Island with her beau, her best girlfriend and her girlfriend's beau to make it on the Broadway stage only to find she has no talent. On the kids' first day in New York City, they meet Maxwell P. Hartwell III, a failed nightclub owner, Broadway producer, and possible con man who, according to Al, looks a little like Clark Gable. He invites them to a nightclub where Al hears Juliana, the glamorous, perpetually-on-the-brink-of stardom nightclub singer, sing for the first time. She thinks Juliana's voice sounds like, "warm milk slipping down the whole of my body."

Through Max and Juliana Al is increasingly pulled into a secret gay underworld of men who wear hula skirts and women who smoke cigars, while her childhood friends continue in their "normal" lives. Al glides easily between the two worlds until these worlds begin to collide.

In a world where same-sex relationships are illegal, can Alice and Juliana’s love survive?

What would your life be like if your love was illegal? It’s 1945. Juliana wants to be a star and she has the singing voice to do it. Alice (Al) is determined to make Juliana into the star she wants to be.

The worst thing that could happen to Juliana is to be discovered as gay. The worst thing that could happen to Al is to lose Juliana. Al must guard their secret at all costs. Will the gossip columnists and the new laws destroy them?

If you like stories about 1950s Manhattan and behind-the-scenes drama in theater and nightclubs, you’ll love Olympus Nights on the Square: Book 3 of the Juliana Series. It’s sexy, funny, and deadly serious; it’s full of mobsters, the FBI, McCarthyism, gay bashing, lesbian pulp, a beginning awareness of transgender persons, and “cures” for homosexuality. A lot like now.Get your copy today!

She wanted a safe harbor for their love. But rough waters could destroy any hope of starting over…

Paris-bound, 1955. Alice “Al” Huffman can’t wait to reach the City of Light. As soon as their ship arrives, Juliana’s singing career will get the spotlight it deserves and the two women will finally bring their relationship out of the shadows. Or so Al thinks.

Before the SS United States hits land, a stranger approaches Al with a Broadway contract for Juliana. But the offer comes with a threat that can’t be ignored. And unless Al can find a way out, Juliana’s comeback could come crashing down before it even begins…

As she hides the awful truth from Juliana, Al searches for an answer before another obstacle destroys their last chance for happiness…

Paris, Adrift, 1955 is Book 3 in a breathtaking LGBT historical romance series. If you like pulse-pounding suspense, characters who tug at your heartstrings, and true-to-life portrayals of 1950s Paris, then you’ll love award-winning writer Vanda’s stunning series of novels.

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How far would you go to save the person you loved?

It’s 1956. In Heaven is to Your Left (Book 4 of the Juliana Series) Alice (Al) and Juliana arrive home from a successful run at Le Lido in Paris, only to be greeted by Dan Schuyler who has threatened to reveal to the world the nature of their “immoral” relationship.

Under this threat Schuyler has gotten Juliana to sign a contract with him to be in a Broadway play. Now, the control and manipulation begins. Al seeks a way to free Juliana from this man’s clutches. She turns to Max, accomplished businessman, owner of two night clubs, to help her. There must be something he can do; he has friends who are gangsters. Still, Max does nothing. Or does he?

Al knows she has to act. She knows gangsters too.

Can Aging Drag Queens Save a Night Club from Going Under?

It’s 1956. TV is stealing Al’s (Alice) nightclub audience. The mob is planning a takeover of her crippled club to turn it into a strip club. Al has no revenue to bring her usual crowds back. Her one solace: Juliana.

But ever since Juliana’s husband discovered them in bed together, they have not seen each other. On the brink of losing her love and her livelihood Al makes a bold decision. Go into debt by producing a costly extravaganza with aging female impersonators. Once she has succeeded, she will find her way back to Juliana.

Can be read as a standalone.