In 1905, in the town of Bisbee in the Arizona Territory, a married woman aided by her Mexican maid gives birth to a baby girl named Sara. Thus we are introduced to the first of many intriguing characters in Josephine DeFalco’s novel, The Nightbird’s Song....

Discretion is an Adult Contemporary Romance novel written by Ruby Foxx. While reading on her Kindle at the local cafe, Paige Belmont finds herself flirting with well-dressed cafe patron, Alex Turner, who is seated at the next table. The flirting becomes mutual and, before long,...

Oh, wow. Just, wow. That’s exactly what I thought when I finished reading Dust and Ashes by author Al Kalima. So realistic and timely that it could have been ripped out of current day headlines, this book tells the story of nineteen young women who...

In a thrilling and adventurous read by author Ian Patrick, Plain Dealing: The Ryder Quartet, Book Three, readers will again be treated to a murder story and a police procedural that they won't be able to put down once they start reading. Follow the story...

While fulfilling his job description with a delivery to Princeton University, our narrator realizes the beauty and rich culture apparent on an Ivy League campus. A longing for a better life is ignited and Thurston Green is born. With no real strategy in mind, “Thurston”...

Mantle Convection by Sava Buncic is an inspiring tale of a man on a quest to reconcile with his past and create a life that matters. Mark has been broken by life in lots of ways; he has loved and lost, and as he struggles...

When stay-at-home mother Holly exhausts a seemingly never-ending collection of self-help manuals, she is content to spend her days indulging in long, gossipy, alcohol-infused lunches with her gang of gal pal friends. Every day brings the same challenges and anticlimactic events. That is until she...

Will There Be Watermelons on Mars? is a short story written by Debbie Manber Kupfer. Susie wakes with a hangover beside her very noisy cat, Cici. Earth was supposed to come to an end but it hadn’t. It takes a while for it to sink...

Samia’s realistic fiction When I Grow up I Want to be a Prostitute: Stories of Broken Promises and Shattered Dreams is a sad but inspiring story about how child abuse affects three different young girls. It shows how they are exposed to sexual abuse during...

Adam Gussow’s realistic fiction, Busker's Holiday, is a novel (that reads like a memoir) about two young men busking their way through Europe for a summer. McKay Chernoff is a Columbia University grad student coming out of a bad breakup. He desperately needs a fresh...