Socrates said, ‘The unexamined life is not worth living.' Starting from that premise, Donna Baier Stein creates characters who are questioning who they are and how they really fit into the world and families around them in her thought provoking anthology, Sympathetic People. Examining feelings...

Lisa Flyte woke up a few months ago rich, thin, and famous. What more could a girl want, right? Well, for starters it’d be nice to not be afraid of everything and it would be even nicer if she could find Jack Hawkins trekking his...

Sam’s Story: Book One (Skylar Trilogy) by Amy D. Crusan-Kramer is about 14-year-old Samantha Skylar from Boone County, West Virginia, who goes through a lot of life changing events in a very short time. The book starts out in the present and then goes back...

In Serendipity (Inevitable) by Janet Nissenson, Fate brings together Julia McKinnon and Nathan Atwood. Both Nathan and Julia were in love earlier and circumstances forced them apart when Nathan decided to leave Julia. It was heartbreaking for the both of them and the memories of...

Surviving 26th Street by Carol June Stover is a story that will transport you to life in the 1950s. Winton Justice moves his family from Memphis, Tennessee, looking for the American Dream. He opens his own advertising agency in New York City, leaving his wife,...

Mia has the tragic, although self-inflicted, story of a woman who thinks that the guy she loves will leave his wife for her. Like most dirty mistresses, she is left high and dry when the man chooses his wife over his mistress, and Mia is...

Siren Song by Kaitlin Bevis revolves around a woman and her story. "There is no uncertainty in my steps as I stride to the shore as the surf strikes mercilessly against the sand," and so Siren Song starts with the main character's narration. She is...

Sophie’s back and this time she has found her ‘thunder and lightning bolt man’ also known as the man of her dreams. Sophie knows that this is the man she wants to marry yet, as the prologue hinted at some type of betrayal, all we...

Sinful Purity by K. A. Standen, is a coming-of-age story of a young girl, Mary Elizabeth (Liz), who was orphaned at the age of four and placed under the care of Mary Immaculate Queen Orphanage. Not having remembered anything of her life before the age...

Sophie used to think she was a good girl with a solid moral compass but that was before hunky rock idol Dan reenters her life and decides she should be his wife. So in Sophie’s Turn, we find Sophie on tour with Dan and his...