Works by
Maria V. Ciletti
(Writer)

Novels

• Clinical Distance (In progress)
  Sequel to The Choice.

• The Choice (2007) -- Nominated 2007 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction; Nominated 2007 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction
  What if you had to risk losing the people you love to become your true self?
  
  What if you had to make the choice between losing everything or being true to yourself? The Choice explores the difficult struggle Mina Thomas, a nurse with a loving husband and a successful career, endures after meeting Regan Martin, an attractive new nurse she is assigned to mentor. Long-buried desires are awakened within Mina, pushing her toward the need to finally make the choice that, in one way or another, will forever change her world.
  
  Mina's life is comfortable and successful, though unfulfilling. She and her loving husband contemplate having a child, to help build a happy family. Regan enters her life, beautiful, intelligent--and incredibly desirable. Mina must somehow work through her own feelings to discover just who she is inside, and the choice she finds herself faced with threatens all she knows and has worked for. The Choice is a novel of love and loss--and surviving the tough journey one must take to be true to ourselves.

Stories

• Queer and Catholic (2008 release), Amie M. Evans and Trebor Healey, eds.
  Includes "Don't Sing: Growing Up in Lesbian Catholic School" by Maria V. Ciletti.

• Call Of The Dark: Erotic Lesbian Tales Of The Supernatural (2005),  Therese Szymanski, ed.
  "Jane Doe," is a handsome stone butch dyke, brought into the county morgue one night following a motorcycle accident. During the process, Deputy Coroner, Dr. Mina Caselli and morgue technician, Jenny Anderson are assigned to Jane's case and soon discover that this isn't your typical traffic fatality.

• Skin Deep 2: More Real-Life Lesbian Sex Stories (2004), Nicole Foster, ed.
  "The Things You Do For Love," shows what the power of love and desire can make you do.

• Awakening the Virgin 2 (2003), Nicole Foster, ed.
  "Unexpected Pleasures," are set in motion when a trip to the ladies room at a wedding reception result in a night to remember for Mina. During that short time, Mina meets up with one of her ex-husbands colleagues wives who is eager to experience 'life on the other side.'

• My Lover, My Friend: True-Life Stories of Lesbian Romance Between Friends (2003), Lindsey Elder, ed.
   "Summer 1985, The First Time" is set in a small town in Northeastern Ohio, where alternative lifestyles are not viewed as an honorable way of life. Although the two women became friends first, the unmistakable mutual attraction drew them to a place neither had been before.