Anya’s Song by Laura Mills is a beautifully sweet historical romance set in a small Californian town in the 1880s. When Anya and Robert Redding’s parents were gunned down in a bank robbery, the siblings were determined to continue their parents’ legacy and ensure their...

Achak of the Sequoia Tribe by Alex Coppin tells the story of a boy coming of age in an indigenous Native American tribe, right before outside forces began to alter their world. Achak is at the age where he has to prove he’s a man....

In A Walk Among Heroes by James McDevitt, T.J. Montgomery had loved Magdalyn for as long as he could remember. When T.J. saw Magdalyn standing beside another man, smiling in a way he thought belonged only to him, his world shattered. T.J. searched for something...

In A Breathtaking Life Lived in Daydreams, Sergio Silveira tells the story of Laura, a Victorian wife and mother who spends much of her inner life in detailed daydreams where she is bold, admired, and free. Outside of her imagination, Laura lives a very quiet...

J.R.R. Tolkien’s quote, “Not all those who wander are lost,” really captures the heart of A Wrong Turn Right by Karen Lopez. It opens with an exhausted Dr. Preston McClendon heading home from his wealthy fiancée’s family event. Things take a sudden twist when his...

A Wooden Heart in Plotlands by Dawn Knox is a historical novel that follows the intertwined lives of Miriam and Rebekah, two Jewish sisters, as they navigate the challenges of survival during World War II. The story begins in Nazi Germany, where the sisters face...

A Dangerous Friendship by Robin Merle is a novel about grief, obsession, and the strange hunger for connection after loss. The narrator, Tina, begins the story in emotional turmoil, newly divorced and exhausted by a series of endings. Seeking distraction and a reset, she throws...

At twenty-one, Alice had left college behind and was working at a restaurant, trying to make sense of her life. Her father, John, has accepted her choices, but he worried that she was never going to be an independent and responsible young adult. Alice was...

A Serpent’s Pursuit by M. P. McBride follows the life of George Abiola, also called Blos. It begins with a violent threat against his village in Nigeria and shows the events that shaped him over the years. The tale covers his childhood, where his kindness...

After the Quiet: Stories to the Edge and Back, Volume Two by Carl Lakeland is a collection that leans into the tension of lives lived under pressure, where consequences arrive before anyone is ready to name them. The opening story, Bagels and a White Rose,...