Scarlet Yearnings Beyond First Glance: Collector’s Edition by Scarlet Ibis James is a breath of fresh air. It’s a collection of short stories that includes popular romance tropes, like second-chance romance, fake dating, and marriages in trouble, but in a different and more emotionally satisfying...

In The Final Days of Wynter by Carolyne Lark Swayze, readers meet Wynter Lang, a tough, hundred-year-old woman whose comfortable life at a luxury retirement home north of Chicago gets turned upside down after a health scare. After surviving a near-death experience, Wynter decides to...

The Corporate Mute is a workplace series of stories inspired by the experiences of the author, Tiffany Gray Jackson, in healthcare management. The book has three parts: Freeze, Fawn, and Flight, based on the body's stress reactions. Each part introduces workplace personas the author encountered...

In All the Hidden Pieces by Dana Ridenour, Julia Chandler’s life is shattered. She wakes up to a phone call from the ER doctor, who told Julia that her husband, James, had died from injuries sustained in a car accident. Julia is heartbroken by James’s...

What Time Has Kept by Elizabeth Hutchison Bernard is a remarkable novel that weaves historical fiction with mystery. The story unfolds in Scotland, in the Victorian era. Sixty-year-old archaeology enthusiast Christian Maclagan indulges her fascination with prehistoric stones, paving her way to recognition by the...

This is a story of belonging as lifelong friendships continue to mature. In The Gray New Deal by Miriam Kuznets, Barry owns West House, where he and his family reunite. Doris, Ellen, Jane, Pearl, Tomas, Vihaan, and Barry have been friends since college, and now,...

Isabelle Marsden, "Belle" to everyone, is thirty-four and running from a Chicago life that has hollowed her out. In The Utterly Unacceptable Atrocity of Isabelle Marsden, Nan Sanders Pokerwinski drops her, fresh out of a job, into a Kansas town chosen almost by accident: a...

The Youngster by Bibi Berki is a story of love, belonging, and loss. Cherry has been diagnosed with dementia. She is a single mother with only one child, Georgie, and they are more like buddies than mother and daughter. Cherry is already showing signs of...

M. E. Lange’s Pause... and Effect follows Lyndsey Barnes, a fifty-two-year-old Oregon engineer who no longer recognizes what her body is doing to her. A sudden office outburst ends her thirty-year tech career. When she finally tells her husband Connor, the conversation exposes how far...

Long Temple’s When the Chat Paused follows the four women of the Ebony M. Elite, a friendship held together through a group chat built into the rhythm of their lives. Their time together moves easily from messages into nights out, where one video of them...