Macee McNeill opens Everything I Never Wanted with a setup that could have come straight out of a sitcom. Defense attorney Connor Merritt is on a working vacation at Whispering Sands Island when he hears his new neighbor screaming through the wall. He rushes...

It has been five years since seventy-year-old Loretta Willis buried her husband and decided to remain single, only entertaining the company of family and friends. She enjoys hosting parties at her house in Lakeview, New Orleans, especially during the holidays. The festive season has arrived,...

Alina Vezinet, a thirty-one-year-old art appraiser, is having trouble keeping up with her demanding work and her personal life. Apart from teaching art history classes as a university professor, she has to juggle working at an auction house with spending time with her family: her...

No Climb Too High by Angela Haas starts with a woman running out of second chances. Roxanne Denning was struck by lightning in the Colorado mountains two years ago. It left her physically intact with some scars as a souvenir, but emotionally fractured. The accident...

In I Love You, Hypothetically by Stacy Goforth, Piper West is a witty writer for a men's health magazine who finds herself under constant pressure from her well-meaning parents to settle down and find the right man. In a moment of panic, she tells...

A is For Amy by Steven Crandell is the delightfully sweet tale of Amy Dellaconta Franklin, an independent mother of three who, at 26, never knew her life would turn into such a train wreck. Drowning in debt thanks to her late husband, Amy tries...

That McKenzie Girl by Jesse Gordon is a fun, lighthearted, slice-of-life story. Twenty-one-year-old Victor Navarro lives with his best friend, a gamer who livestreams in his underwear, called Brand. Victor isn't at a great stage in life, but Brand needs him—he's in free fall after...

We’re Survivors by Mona Risk opens with a gut punch. Angely Carlisle stands at the altar in her wedding dress, bouquet in hand, but the groom never comes. He sends his brother, Dr. Chris Tanner, instead. It is a beginning that tastes bitter before the...

In Mona Risk’s Her Cozy House, after Chicago resident surgeon Niles Wolf rents a basement apartment from widowed grandmother Carmen Eden, he becomes closely connected to Carmen’s granddaughter Jessica, a seventeen-year-old student planning a medical career while grieving her father’s death. Years later, Jessica completes...

Cruise Fling is the story of Andrea, who has been a single parent since losing her husband three years ago. She needs a vacation and books one, but when her family backs out, she decides to go anyway. She’s been stuck in grieving for so...