No Climb Too High by Angela Haas starts with a woman running out of second chances. Roxanne Denning was struck by lightning in the Colorado mountains two years ago. It left her physically intact with some scars as a souvenir, but emotionally fractured. The accident...

In I Love You, Hypothetically by Stacy Goforth, Piper West is a witty writer for a men's health magazine who finds herself under constant pressure from her well-meaning parents to settle down and find the right man. In a moment of panic, she tells...

A is For Amy by Steven Crandell is the delightfully sweet tale of Amy Dellaconta Franklin, an independent mother of three who, at 26, never knew her life would turn into such a train wreck. Drowning in debt thanks to her late husband, Amy tries...

Kira McCloud sells herself as a brilliant and successful decluttering guru with her “sunshine test” in Jenny Hogan's How to Clean Your Life with Sunshine, but her personal life and spaces are far from organized. On her plate are an unfinished book deal, a threatening...

That McKenzie Girl by Jesse Gordon is a fun, lighthearted, slice-of-life story. Twenty-one-year-old Victor Navarro lives with his best friend, a gamer who livestreams in his underwear, called Brand. Victor isn't at a great stage in life, but Brand needs him—he's in free fall after...

After catching the man she loved in a compromising position, Kristina Beckham fled her hometown of Amarillo, Texas, to make it big in New York City as a car model. Three years later, she returns to Amarillo to assist in her mom’s coffee shop as...

Lisa has just attended her ex-fiancé’s wedding, feeling lost, weepy, and humiliated. After all, her fiancé had just dumped Lisa for her friend, whom he had just married. She needs a change; she needs to get away from the past she spent with him. And...

Elizabeth Diane Adams' Fully Average is the story of Melissa Jolene Bonetti, who, in spite of her constant sense of dread, considers herself lucky. She has a long-term boyfriend and a steady accounting job, but her life implodes spectacularly when she discovers that her boyfriend...

We’re Survivors by Mona Risk opens with a gut punch. Angely Carlisle stands at the altar in her wedding dress, bouquet in hand, but the groom never comes. He sends his brother, Dr. Chris Tanner, instead. It is a beginning that tastes bitter before the...

In Mona Risk’s Her Cozy House, after Chicago resident surgeon Niles Wolf rents a basement apartment from widowed grandmother Carmen Eden, he becomes closely connected to Carmen’s granddaughter Jessica, a seventeen-year-old student planning a medical career while grieving her father’s death. Years later, Jessica completes...