The Scent of Home by Marco Magiolo is a quietly moving novel told by the most unlikely narrator: a street dog named Dexter who once had everything and lost it all. The story opens in a busy city, where Dexter survives by his wits —...

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...

Nubia Johnson is a disciplined, principled USCIS officer who discovers that her case files and digital badge are weapons in a hidden war in David L. Wadley’s Passport Bro. She has always believed in justice and fairness, even if it is difficult to find justice...

When Georgia Thayer, a medical social worker in Columbia, South Carolina, urges her sixteen-year-old foster daughter, Tessa, to attend a nighttime party hosted by her classmate, she has no idea how much trouble awaits the kids. Working the night shift, Georgia is shocked when Sara...

Have you ever had to start your life over again? In Forever Kind of Love by Susan Elizabeth Bagby, Willow Mason heads back to her small Ohio hometown to do just that. Once there, she’s forced to take a job managing a local bookstore after...

In Teri M. Brown's novel, Peg, Unhinged, Peg and her husband have split. He left her. She credits the decline of her marriage to many things – his lack of contribution, both emotional and financial – but also to her change of life. Her son...

Nothing Left to Lose by Len Joy is a moving, multi-generational tale of love, loss, reconnection, and family. When Clover Lane was just a young teenager, she ran away and headed to the bright lights of San Francisco, to Haight-Ashbury, where the anti-war, summer-of-love, hippie...

Anne Shaw Heinrich's House of Teeth is set in the small town of Poulson, where the ending of one marriage begins pulling several families into the same orbit. Judy Saunders spends years trapped in a bitter relationship with truck driver John, while he quietly builds...

Loved in Chaos by Long Temple is an engaging psychological drama that tells the story of Kia, a talented actress. She has always felt that she has been playing many characters throughout her life. Growing up in an unpredictable environment, Kia was raised by a...

In Brad Graber's Friends for A Season, after eighty-three-year-old former novelist Helena Greenblatt collapses alone inside her Phoenix home, she leaves the isolation of her gated community and moves into Ventana, a retirement residence connected to Arizona State University, where older residents live alongside college...