Packets of Hope: A Journey of Healing and Rediscovery by Jill Siegal Chalsty is a story of finding a new path in life after personal loss and serious health challenges. Jill had been caring for her husband, John, who had dementia, when she was diagnosed...

Heidi Richards Mooney covers all the stages of publishing in her book The Expectant Author. Mooney developed a trimester-by-trimester publishing framework containing three key phases: conception and early growth, development, and delivery. But just because publishing has clear phases doesn't mean the journey is easy....

All That Was Left Unsaid by Danielle Dragona is a compelling, heart-rending, and deeply emotional portrayal of love, betrayal, family dynamics, and secrets left untold. Katrina Johnson, at seventy years old, is at a crossroads. Her beloved husband Sam has just died of cancer. She...

Craig Brown’s Dignity follows an unnamed boy in Petone, New Zealand, who first approaches Malcolm Beaumont, the council binman everyone calls Bogie, after classmates dare him to steal the man’s Coke. What begins as a childish test turns into an unlikely attachment, formed on a...

In The Secret Life of Sonia Davey by N.S. Scholl, Michelle Brock is an accountant who has always put her family’s needs before her own and believed that was her role in life. When her husband announces he is leaving and wants a divorce, her...

The Night of Samhain: A Halloween Fairy Scary Story is part of The Everkind Tales by Gael J. B. Orr. It’s Samhain night, and there’s a full moon. Emlyn the tawny owl sits in the hickory tree. The fairy sisters Willa and Violet are tucked...

The Tenacious Leader: Your Map to Overcome Change Fatigue by Michelle Smeby is a business guide for executives and managers stuck trying to drive transformation through teams exhausted by too much of it. The book opens with a personal moment on a hiking trail in...

Lakeside Murder by Katherine Fletcher opens with two small wrongs. Dot Halstead, who runs the archive at Kettle Creek’s Historical Society, spots a donated photograph that does not match the shoreline she knows. Around the same time, the town’s sealed 50th-anniversary time capsule is opened...

Life with a reactive dog is no easy venture. Maintaining your love for that reactive dog can be very difficult at times, especially when all the hard training over the past few months has proved futile in practice and your reactive dog, on a leash,...

Edmond Thornfield’s Atalanta of the Wild follows Atalanta, an Arkadian huntress raised in the mountain wilds, after the father who abandoned her returns seeking forgiveness. Lord Iásios invites her into the royal house of Tegea, where she meets siblings she once believed she would never...

Firecrackers is a riveting action thriller by A.W. Baldwin. Fourteen-year-old Nash and his friends live near Denver, at the base of the Rocky Mountains. It is summer, and the friends enjoy mischievous pirate games and all sorts of adventures. Once, walking through the woods, Nash...

Dear Sam is the first book in The Jilted Ex Series by Beth Carter. Dr. Sam Jennings is a kind-hearted veterinarian who receives the shock of his life when his fiancée, Gabby, unexpectedly leaves him a couple of months before their planned wedding. While his...

FBI profiler Tom Milner has an uncanny knack for identifying criminals. His success depends not only on his deductive powers but also on a rare psychic ability. All this traces back to a traumatic childhood experience during his family’s stay at Betonville. Here, during a...

Bernard Doucette’s The Seasonal Killer opens with retired Brett Dubois agreeing to tell journalist Monroe Jackson what happened in New Valley during the summer of 1981. At twelve, Brett spent his days roaming the suburban woods with four close friends who called themselves the Subpar...

Salvatore A Trancucci III’s Sonny and Teresa begins in postwar Leavenworth, Kansas, where Sebastian “Sonny” Grasso has returned from Army service in Japan to play for the minor league Leavenworth Braves. Teresa is an Iowa-born student nurse at St. Mary’s when a baseball game introduces...

In Samantha Kolber’s What She Stole, adult Eloise Goldstein discovers during bodywork that childhood experiences may still be stored in her body. That takes her back to seventeen, when she is caught stealing a gold sequined purse from Macy’s during prom shopping with best friend...

Tara Lynn Masih’s The Silent Women is set during World War II, when sixteen-year-old Song Holloway lives with her widowed mother in Andover, Massachusetts, after the Dust Bowl drove them east from Oklahoma. As local farming moves toward civilian wartime labor, Song takes a job...

Jean Thesquare’s second book, Re: Claim: A Sultryverse Story, introduces eighteen-year-old Parisian heiress Manon de Rochemaure, who fights off an attempted assault from a classmate, only to watch the elite school side with him. She is exiled to Le Rolle Academy in Switzerland under the...

Sometimes the hardest part of finding the right person is figuring out what kind of love you really want. In Chasing the Perfect Spark by Dana Lucka, Daniella “Dani” Babich is starting over after a broken engagement leaves her questioning what comes next. She starts...

In Collateral Wife: A True Con Marriage by Anne Stark Gallagher, Anne’s life spirals into a nightmare after her marriage. Anne married Ben, a man who appeared to be sincere, impulsive, and guided by his heart. Anne did not know her charming husband was a...