Dark Legacy by E M Schorb is told through the unfinished memoir of Jessie Judas, a celebrated biologist whose childhood on North Carolina’s Fortune Island is something of a mystery to her younger brother, David. As a girl, Jessie lives in the household of Reverend...

My Island Secret by Bernard Harris centers on Brian Phillips, a correctional officer whose life is imploding. His eighteen-year marriage to Stacey is ice-cold, causing him so much panic that he ends up in the emergency room with a serious heart condition called A-Fib. While...

In D J Colbert’s If That Was Lunch, We’ve Had It, two friends, Will and Rodney, hatch a plan on a beach as teenagers: write a book to dodge regular jobs. They spend decades avoiding traditional labor, bouncing between high-country sheep farming, hospital shifts, retail...

Linda Dooks’ Land of Opportunity, Book Three begins in New York in 1914, when war in Europe sends desperate mothers and their children through Ellis Island. Rose Blackwood has spent years helping newcomers establish themselves in America, but the numbers now overwhelm the charitable houses...

Aged in Secrets by Joana Ventura is set in the Portuguese coastal city of Porto and the vineyards along the Douro River. Catarina Sousa is a forensic accountant sent by her high-flying London firm to audit Valdeira & Filhos, known for their vintage port wines....

In Joe Paul’s The Trouble with Troop 94, fourteen-year-old Robbie McDaniel moves to Seattle with his mother in 1999, two and a half years after his father’s death. At Queen Anne High, Robbie finds himself alone until he discovers a photo album documenting his father’s...

Spanning most of the 20th century, Thirty Grains of Love by Anette Rosen covers the love stories of two women, beginning when three couples discover an unoccupied mansion on the Black Sea up for sale. They have no idea one of the wives has ties...

In Çağlar Bingöl’s Longing, we follow an Indigenous woman named Hehewuti and her grandson, Huka, through a series of very dramatic historical events. The backdrop is a cold, dangerous frontier where military raids fracture families. After her first home is destroyed by soldiers, young Hehewuti...

Are you ready for some short stories that will give you food for thought? In The Diversity Bridesmaid by Lilian George, that’s exactly what you’ll get. Here is a taste of what you’ll find in these pages. The bridesmaid in the title story has a...

Phantom’s Revenge: The Adventures of Air Angel by John Witcher tells the story of Angela Carter, who suddenly becomes a superhero overnight. One stormy night at the Wilmont University lab, Angela is deep in researching a strange artifact covered in odd markings. Suddenly, lightning hits...