Emerson always believed that the women in her family were different, based on the eccentricities of Amelia, her grandmother. Yet, she could not forget the fateful evening when Amelia predicted her daughter’s imminent death. Five years have passed since her mother’s suicide, but Emerson hasn’t...

Life After is a work of fiction in the interpersonal drama, grief and loss, and coming-of-age subgenres. It is intended for the young adult reading audience but can also be enjoyed by adult readers as it deals with strong themes of death, loss, pain, and...

Serafino da Ferrara by Paolo Grossi is an interesting take on the coming-of-age of two young gay men, some 500 years apart. In the early 16th century, a brilliant and incredibly talented young artist, Serafino, is tutored by one of the masters, Mastro Filargiro. His...

An End to Etcetera by B. Robert Conklin is a thrilling murder mystery. Selena Harris is a therapist with OCD, and her latest patient is a 14-year-old boy who says he drowned an autistic child. Unfortunately, he only confessed it in a text and mistakenly...

Burned Out is a medical thriller by Dean Mafako. Eric Philson’s life is perfect on the surface. However, he feels too comfortable in his profession and unchallenged. Eric is offered a job at the Children’s Hospital of Biloxi; he has to build the cardiac intensive...

Two Lives is a romance mystery novel by Freya Zalvidar. Natasha Lewis is an artist living a humdrum life with her husband, Joshua, and their two children, Samuel and Emily. However, when a family camping trip results in a terrible accident, Natasha's life turns upside...

Nora is a forty-year-old woman who enjoys the same routine. She, her husband, Brad, and their two children vacation in the same place every year. However, this year her husband decides to disrupt their routine. Brad confesses to Nora that he wants a separation. He...

If you're in the mood for laughs, grab a copy of Community Klepto, a dark comedy novel by Kelly I. Hitchcock. Twenty-five-year-old Ann Josephson hates having to do anything involving people. A compulsive kleptomaniac, she often visits the local community center to work out and...

James Hutson-Wiley's Merchant From Sepharad follows Joshua ben Elazar's adventures and his attempt to understand commerce, love, and religion during the Commercial Revolution in the 12th century. Though his people live between Edom and Ishmael, Joshua embarks on various perilous journeys that involve dealing as...

In James P. Usavage’s thoughtful novella, On These Shores, a man reflects on his life and finds hope just when his life is about to fall apart. Burdened by excessive debt, Benedict Barns dreads going to work. His job has become an unfulfilling chore...