Women in the Shadows by Ann Bannon

Cover copy reads: 'Their dark and troubled loves could flourish only in secret.'

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A guarded look across the room. That was all she dared fo, and this was Greenwich Village where almost anything goes.. She was a slim, lovely girl with silky hair and a shy, sweet smile. She had learned long ago she sould never love a man - that only another woman could excite here. And Laura found the strange sloe-eyes girl exciting. But did she belong to Laura's secret world of would she shrink awway from the first tentative smile, the first meeting of hands?

The third novel in the Beebo Brinker series, and one of the few that examines interracial affairs.