Jake is a starry-eyed adolescent, who is so much in love with Erika that he cannot see that they are drifting apart. He is caught up with school and work and planning a life in their little Illinois town, with its bandstand park and its...

It started as any other normal day for Saul Becker, until something happened that would change his life forever. It started with an innocent Jane Doe found hiding in a tree, a woman with no name and no memory. Little did he know that trying...

In "Painted Skies", Nova Denver is an ethnobotanist with a special gift and a special friend named Stephen, who she views as her guardian angel. After her mother’s sudden death, secrets start to unravel regarding Nova’s past. As she discovers more about herself and her...

What an absolute gem! Continuing with his Sheriff Sylvester Tilghman stories, author J.R. Lindermuth takes us to the year 1898. In "Sooner than Gold," we find the Sheriff baffled by a murder in the local mine. Several suspects come to mind but none...

In "Bangkok Rules" by Harlan Wolff, Carl Engel is an ex-pat Londoner who has been in Bangkok, Thailand, for over 30 years working as a private investigator surviving through the twists and turns of Thailand’s chaotic political history. Engel is an interesting character and I...

What is a girl to do when she finds her grandfather's dead body just hours before her favorite cousin's wedding? Well, that is just the predicament that Carlina Mantoni finds herself in just hours before her cousin Emma's wedding. The thing is, Emma is with...

"The Condor Song" was written by Darryl Nyznyk. It is a tale of survival of the condor bird, a member of an endangered species, as well as an attorney-at-law beaten by the trials of life. This intriguing story surrounds an environmentalist Buck Anderson who stumbled...

Markos Adams, a well-known Jazz musician, has just committed yet another suicide attempt and it is all over the news. A year later, he is back on stage while struggling to shape up, trying to straighten out his life. Through his ordeals to keep his...

Even though Darci Shelton's husband Wade is as healthy as a horse it has always been her greatest fear that she would wind up like her mother, a widow forced to work two jobs to support her nine year old son Paxton. This fear was...

Robert Grey, an ordinary building contractor, overheard a priceless information from a couple of petty criminals - about Wilson the accountant and Nietrop building - while dining at his favorite restaurant. His income was enough, but the building trade was going through its economic downturn,...