August in Savannah by Safiyyah Ar-Raheem is a heartwarming coming-of-age novel that captures the magic of summer discovery and first love. The story follows Symone, a newcomer to Savannah, who embarks on adventures with Arius that spark growth, self-discovery, and enchantment. Set against a backdrop...

All Money Ain’t Good Money by Tracey Lampley is book one of the Jinx Curry Mystery series. An amateur private investigator, Jinx Curry spends her days spying on and photographing cheating partners. Capricorn Hayes, Jinx's boss and love interest, assigns her the case of Elena,...

A Ribbon of Sand by Mike Shannon is a gripping coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of a small island off the coast of South Carolina in 1982. Fifteen-year-old Ash Howe is unique in his neighborhood. He has long hair, loves heavy metal music, and...

A Real Southern Lady is a work of fiction in the interpersonal drama, literary, and women’s fiction subgenres, and forms the third novel in the Bobbie Lamont series. Penned by author Zelmer Wilson, it is best suited to the general adult reading audience. As we...

At Trails End: Homecoming by John Strother tells the story of four unlucky sophomore boys who attend Trails End’s high school. Unfortunately, in their first days, each boy has a fateful encounter with Assistant Coach Anders, earning themselves their respective monikers: Ink, Dusty, Smoke, and...

Temperatures may run hot during summertime in Meadow Lake, Texas, but the heat in A Summer Place by Ann DeFee is more potent than the weather. It’s 1973 and recent high school graduates Jazzy and Charlie fall in love amid a scandal that rocks their...

Amelia Beach is a strong woman for a southerner. Already in her twenties, her younger sister, Lucy, taunts her that she is no longer of marriageable age. Growing up in the wealth and privilege of a Savannah home, pampered by slaves, during the Civil War,...

Archer: A Novel by Mira Jeffreys takes us to the small-town Deep South where even today, prejudice and hatred are rampant and small towns are often ruled by dynastic despots. Lena, a 39-year-old, African-American freelance photographer and her 23-year-old daughter, Nadia, are living in Kansas...

A Summer at Camp Floridian by Nancy B. Miller is the story of a first-year camp counselor who is having a hard time deciding what she should do. The moment the camp begins, she realizes that her work is cut for her by five feisty...

Jendi Reiter’s An Incomplete List of My Wishes comprises several Southern tales (specifically, the state of Georgia) amongst others, some set in the Reagan era of the 1980s, as well as others in the '90s. Important as the South is, however, it really serves as...