In North Western by Jordan Elizabeth, readers meet Adair, a woman living in Utica who has recently lost her husband. Shortly after his death, she decides to take her daughter, Edith, and return to her childhood home in the small village of North Western. Upon...

Shakespeare’s Vengeance by Ion Parreah opens in 1929 New York, where Thomas Barese, a former actor burdened by doubt and past choices, is drawn back into the theater by an unusual, secretive acting fraternity. The novel blends historical atmosphere with psychological tension, following Thomas as...

In A Trail to Love by Joanne Kiersarsky, the story begins in the early 19th century with a young soldier named Rex who falls for Felicity, the daughter of a powerful and rather ruthless senator. After her father tries to force her into a marriage...

In Nicholas Teeguarden’s The Boy from the Vines, in Paris, Ruth finds a journal written by Joseph Durand, a young man living on a French vineyard during the German occupation of 1940, and begins tracing his movements to determine whether he was a real person....

In Ion Parreah’s The Cost of Knowing, after the death of his childhood friend Karen O’Neil and a public declaration that unsettles his parish, Father David Callaghan leaves Newcastle West and travels to Namibia in search of an answer to a question that has begun...

Breathe Easy by Tammy Donahue is a touching story about Ann Montgomery, who was brought up in the countryside of Southern West Virginia. She married her childhood sweetheart, Bobby, and just as they were celebrating that they were soon going to be parents, tragedy struck....

Gershwin’s Bess by Lisa K. Winkler follows the ascent of Anne Wiggins Brown, a gifted soprano moving from Baltimore to the intense, competitive music world of New York. Starting with her childhood performances for WWI soldiers, the narrative tracks her through the 1920s as she...

Black Widow White Horse by Carmine B. Littleworth follows the story of two women from very different backgrounds who form an unexpected bond. It's been a year since Mari lost her husband, Cedric, to Boston PD's brutality. Jean Stinson Lloyd, an elderly White woman, had...

A Faithful Companion by Kasey Stockton is a delightful example of one of my favorite genres. Emma Darling was deeply in love with her neighbor’s nephew, Owen Buckley. When he visited his aunt and uncle in Derbyshire, he and Emma experienced an idyllic summer filled...

Cicero James, Ardent Fool by Hal Emerson is a continuation of a dark urban fantasy surrounding Cicero, a reluctant immortal hero, and his evil-fighting cohorts, the Order of the Magi. When Cicero’s mentor and longtime father figure Marlowe dies, Cicero is bereft. He is also...