In The Story of Sassy Sweetwater, Vera Jane Cook presents a powerful family saga that follows the passion, pain and quest for happiness of a brilliant young woman over a 50-year lifespan. The daughter of an unwed, teenage mother, Sassy’s life began in secrecy near...

Andy Friessen, his wife Laura, and their children have packed up and moved to Montana to escape his blue-blooded mother. In The Deadline, Andy and Laura learn that their five-year-old, Gabriel, is sick and needs a bone marrow transplant, which opens up a can of...

Too Much Left Unsaid profiles the lives of two American women from 1917 through 1969. Lee Collins’ characters, Mattie and Kathy, share similar childhood losses that have an emotional impact on their adult lives and their decision making. Both women dream of becoming well-educated and...

In The Last Virgin Alive, Stephanie Crosby tells the story of a young girl with very low self-esteem, among other issues. Symphony has experienced rejection and criticism from those closest to her to the point that she even rejects herself. One of the problems that...

Dany Madrid and her father, Dante, move to a ranch in Montana after her mother, Ellen, died. Dany is free spirited and stubborn, and prefers to wear cowboy clothing instead of dresses, much to the disapproval of some townsfolk. Dany becomes involved with a cowboy...

In The Willow Tree, Elan Carson spins a picturesque tale filled with torn emotion. We meet our young protagonist at the impressionable age of fourteen when life is anything but tender. Recurring abuse at the hands of her step-father are mingled with the image of...

Deplorable living and working conditions, low pay and diseases are just a few things the lower classes endure in Manchester, England. These attributed to Thomas Berry’s death and his grieving widow, Sarah, finds herself struggling to survive with five children. She’s a talented dressmaker who...

What is it like after you die? That is a question that burns in many peoples’ minds and in The End: A Story of Love and War in the Afterlife by Paul Bryan Roach, the answer is simple – whatever you want. For Fran O’Rourke,...

Chris Ballentine, a troubled youth, has recently lost his beloved grandfather, a dear old man who had lived with Chris and his family for four years, long enough to create a bond and traditions that too suddenly ceased to be. With Christmas approaching, the boy...

Twisted, by Lola Smirnova, is a nightmare journey into the life of Julia, a young woman from Ukraine who, struggling for a future, follows her sister's path into the sex trade. In the post-Soviet break-up world, there is little to offer in the way of...