Augustino Lee Cumpton grew up in the coal mining town of Jeweltown, West Virginia, living a life not too different from many of the middle-class families he lived alongside in the late 1960s. He enjoyed summers at Grandpa Salvatore's camp, worked after school at the...

A Different Kind of Angel by Paulette Mahurin commences with the reader's introduction to Klara, an immigrant who has fled Russia from the pogroms of the late 1880s. She arrives in New York, alone, having lost her father, her last living relative, on the long...

A Journey Along The Mormon Trail is the thirteenth entry in a series of Westerns by Raymond Cook, a tantalizing read with memorable characters and powerful plot points. A miner in Marble, Colorado, Jim Liley lost the sight in his left eye due to an...

A Broken Reality by Robert Kaufman is a blend of crime and thriller with strong psychological hints. After Danny Madsen has been missing for four days, Danny’s godfather, Jesse Carlton, sets out in his car in search for him in very inclement weather. An accident...

In A Child is a Piece of Paper by Lance Crossley, the year is 1960 in an Indian reserve in Ontario and six-year-old Wally’s (Wanisin) life is about to change forever. Wally and his elder sister, Mabel, are offered the opportunity to receive an education...

Lucia Mann says, 'Parents abused by adult children suffer silently, shamed to the marrow by words, moods, acts, and blows that pierce through their imagined bubble of safety and kidnap any notions they had of sharing a mutually loving relationship with their children.' In Addicted...

Ain’t Always Been a Preacher by Casey McDonald is a short but lively story of a man who tries desperately to keep his past from reclaiming his life since he has chosen to lead a now reformed existence as the preacher in a small town....

“These long hours were for them, not for his ego.” Dave Thompson works hard to provide for his family, sacrificing his time with them. It causes a strain in his relationship with his wife of 18 years, Debbie. He’s aware of the problem, and he’s...

Approaching Footsteps is an anthology of suspense novellas written by Patricia Flaherty Pagan, Rita Banerjee, Donna Hill, Jennifer Leeper and Megan Steusloff. In The Reiger File, by Jennifer Leeper, Tom Reiger, a small-town young man with dreams of becoming a private investigator, takes his leave...

Armageddon: An Apache Story by Pablo Omar Zaragoza and Susan Giffin is a wildly imagined yet mesmerizing supernatural adventure of the Prince of Hell in his quest to return to heaven. For Bal’am to be redeemed he must become human, that is, he must dwell...