On June 24, 1981, two Bosnian teenagers, Mirjana, then 16, and Ivanka, 15, were walking near their nondescript village of Medjugorje in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina, when Ivanka told her friend she could see an image of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Mirjana told...

Growing up, Victoria Woodhull — the sixth of ten children — knew nothing but abuse at the hands of her father, poverty, and all sorts of dysfunctional family ties. Her first marriage proves even worse than the family she was born into. In spite of...

Into the Mindfield by Steve Allen is a fast-paced mystery thriller. Millionaire Luke Monroe first met George Graf, aka Double G, at Carnegie Mellon University, where they both attended. While Luke focused his studies on technology and business, George had pursued his doctorate in neuroscience....

The Setup by Denise Montgomery is a beautiful and fast-paced inspirational story of a woman’s struggle to reconcile with an abusive relationship and to find freedom in her spiritual path, an engaging story of friendship, love, and hope in a most trying of times for...

Michael Sprankle’s Love and Theft is an intensely absorbing and ‬excellently written blend of fiction with true events.‭ The protagonist,‭ ‬Michael Malone,‭ ‬has a series of encounters with the ‬law,‭ ‬but he doesn’t necessarily see that as a‭ ‬bad thing.‭ ‬At some ‬point,‭ ‬he even...

Diana Paul’s novel, Things Unsaid, examines the dynamics of the family. It’s tough getting old — for you and those around you. As an elderly parent, how much do you have the right to expect from your children? As a child of an elderly parent,...

In Liberty and Means, Shannon Clark is introduced as a fairly straightforward, no-nonsense kind of gal who knows who she is, where she's going, and how to attain her goals and dreams. Author Kristin Dow takes a character who enjoys predictability and control and throws...

The Road To London by Adriano Bulla is the story of a troubled soul trapped in a life he could not wait to escape, but somehow just could not. From very young at grade school, all through the teenage years and beyond, the narrator struggled...

Tainted Love by Erin Cawood is a story that touches on domestic violence shared by the protagonist — Faith McKenzie — through letters to her younger brother. In her letters, Faith describes the slow decay of her marriage as her beloved psychiatrist husband, Calvin, ten...

The Life of Abe by J. Scaddon is a drama set in Britain that opens in Liverpool, an English city on the river Mersey dominated by the docks. The majority of the story centres on the seaside town of Rhyl in Wales. Abe begins with...