At forty-eight, Melissa McNulty Fairmont lives paycheck to paycheck, working a day job in Los Angeles. As a fine artist, she also sells commissioned paintings on the side and dreams of becoming a full-time artist. Her mother and two sisters, with whom she has had...

Mark Guillerman pens a sweeping historical novel in A Heart That’s True, set in the aftermath of the 19th-century Indian Wars. The novel follows two Lakota children, twelve-year-old Joseph Cross, named Blue Thunder at birth, and his cousin, White Cloud, as they are ripped away...

Donna M. Cramer’s Vegas Goodbye follows Debra Myers, a widow who arrives in Las Vegas alone after telling her daughter she is traveling with her friend Kathy. Debra has booked one week and brought the pills she intends to use before she leaves. In the...

Lifelines by Carla Marie Headlee is a story about love, loss, and the unpredictable nature of life. The story follows Carrie Hojem, a thirty-year-old artist and creative director. Her life began to unravel when her relationship with Jack Nielson started to break down as her...

The Vanity of Hope is the first book in the Apostle series by G.W. Langdon. The story follows Thomas Ryder and his fiancée, Sarra Chambers, as they are kidnapped by alien pirates in Alice Holt Forest in 1499. As a result, the lovers are separated...

The plan was simple: six-year-old Patrice Johnson was supposed to meet an untimely end, and Crossing, an aptly named crossing guard, was the one selected to chaperone Patrice to the afterlife. Crossing gets his assignment mixed up, and things go awry. Since Crossing needs to...

Wisteria Winter by Ann Swann is the compelling story of two sisters who lose everything they love on Christmas Eve. Woken by a premonition, Sasha Everly wakes up her older sister Linzy, only to find that it’s too late to save their parents from the...

E. Masson and Julie G. Henry’s Selecting My Soulmate centers around Amber, a hard-working mom who is doing everything she can to raise her son, Lucas, after a difficult divorce. Between her long hours and focusing on her household, finding a partner is the last...

Eliza Sky's attempt to create a new life for herself away from the orphanage she once called home looks to be yielding fruit. She has joined an odd group, young girls of different races with a zest for life she has never experienced and a...

“Over generations, the original idealism has been perverted and evolved into what we have now.” Idealism and lofty goals often become twisted, and Dystopian Paradise, a novella by Marvin Cook, is a perfect example of utopianism corrupted. The story begins simply enough, with 12-year-old Pilar...