Neanderthal Sunset is a historical fiction novella by Steven Burgauer. Strong Arms is the leader of his increasingly depleting clan. He strives to fulfill his duties as mate to Big Curl, father to Wide Smiles, Fast Foot, and their siblings, as well as hunting and...

Wayne Clark’s El Gordo follows a veteran private investigator, Humph, as he attempts to unravel a highly complex and troubling criminal conspiracy operating in New York’s post-war jazz community. Everything starts when a talented neighborhood musician and painter named Roberto turns up dead. The murder...

Orange and White by Richard J. Reese is a short story about the Holocaust. In 1943, Reinhardt Schroeder was member of the SS, someone who took great pleasure in killing Jews for the Nazi regime. Schroeder was tasked by his superiors to dismantle "Chamber II"...

Queer Justice by Alex Charns is a historical legal novel that blends fiction with real figures and events from the turbulent political climate of the 1960s. The story centers on a young attorney, Mitch Pilsudski, who is assigned to represent George Smith, a teenage defendant...

The Laboratory Assistant by Natalia Loya introduces us to the Solokova sisters, Mariya, Sophia, and Darya. Former aristocrats, they have fallen on hard times after the death of their father. Consumption is running high in the city, and their mother is a victim. In a...

It is the summer of 1984. Instead of sending his fourteen-year-old son, William “Will” Timmons Junior, to summer camp like his peers, William Sr., a high-flying executive at Walton B. Woodward’s Sons, a brokerage firm in the heart of Philadelphia, brings him to his workplace....

What happens when duty forces two strangers together? In The Gamble by Karen Black, readers are taken to Texas in 1895, where Emily chooses to honor her father by agreeing to an arranged marriage, hoping to save his struggling ranch. She’s spent years working like...

In Looking for Henry Turner by W.L. Liberman, Mo and Birdie, Gold Investigations’ partners, have several tasks to complete. When the story opens, they have just located a card dealer, employed by a local racketeer, John Fat Gai, dead in an alley. Gold’s brother, Eli,...

In The Library: Victorian Virtues Book 3 by Edwina Kiernan, Irene uses books to escape the fear she experiences at home. It’s the 1850s in England, and news spreads across the village of Lindenfell that they may soon get their own public library. Irene clings...

Shakespeare once wrote, “The course of true love never did run smooth.” That quote perfectly captures the heartbreak, betrayal, and lasting love at the center of Sarah by Shanna Hatfield. This World War I historical romance centers on Sarah, her longtime love Brett, and his...