Lisa has just attended her ex-fiancé’s wedding, feeling lost, weepy, and humiliated. After all, her fiancé had just dumped Lisa for her friend, whom he had just married. She needs a change; she needs to get away from the past she spent with him. And...

Intrinsic by W.H.B. is a literary saga that follows the fall and redemption of Christopher Franklin. We meet Chris in the middle of his shift as a New York City taxi driver, steering his 2004 Ford Crown Victoria through Lower Manhattan, but he is a...

In Dust to Dust by John Hudson, Dr. Patrick Alexander leads BioGen, a private research company in Virginia that discovers a way to restore dead organisms to life through regeneration from skeletal remains. After scientists successfully revive a circus chimpanzee buried since 1926, Alexander gets...

In Finding Sutton's Choice by Brenda Haas, Charlotte Sutton returns to Lakeside, Ohio, after a phone call reveals her estranged father, former baseball writer Chuck Sutton, is developing Alzheimer’s disease. Charlotte plans to stay only long enough to help manage his medical appointments before returning...

How does one woman find purpose after heartbreak? This question is at the heart of The Cold Heart of War by Juliann Dorell. The story begins just before the Civil War, and centers on Beatrice Bradley, a strong-willed, thoughtful woman dealing with personal loss while...

How do you move forward when wounds from the past are still open? Crooked Lines by Sally Barclay Faddis begins as Dahlia Charles gets ready for a family reunion at her inn in Coyote Creek, hoping for the weekend to go well. As she organizes...

In Joshua Becker’s Soul Mission, Ephraim Saltzburg teaches Spanish in Milwaukee while living with mental health issues that detach him from his wife Rachel, their young son Ari, and the ordinary rhythm of daily life. After horrifying visions connected to the Holocaust death camps begin...

Vicky Oliver’s Firebrands takes place in 1908 Manhattan, where suffragist Helena James begins investigating Derrick Dupré, the wealthy fiancé of her younger sister Summer, after overhearing him discuss bomb construction shortly following an explosion in Union Square Park. Helena discovers that Derrick operates a labor...

Nursing Her Fractured Family by Louis Tong is an enthralling novel. Penny's father has just died, and from now on, she has to take care of her mother and younger sister. Penny, at twenty-four, thinks more about her sister, how to protect her from their mother, who...

Carry on Smartly by Wayne Westphal Barrow is a collection of six original short stories, where the characters experience moments that require immediate decisions, which define what follows. In The Kind-Hearted Stranger, a teenage real estate agent receives unexpected news and turns to Mr. Kippens,...