In Amy S. Peele’s Last Bite, after the funeral of her husband, Vincent Carlo Sortino, in Chicago’s Little Italy, Angie Sortino expects to settle his affairs, but Mario Longetti takes control of his pension, forcing her to take a housekeeping job at City Hall to...

In Love Across Time, Beth Ford tells a heartfelt story about a woman named Ashley who is yanked out of her modern life and dropped into the middle of 14th-century England. She wakes up in 1377 Wiltshire and has to figure out how to survive...

In Kimberly Wenzler’s Letting Go, after Lucy Buchanan dies, her husband Max raises their son Sammy while attempting to resume his writing career. Lucy narrates as a silent witness to their daily routines, observing as Sammy insists she still visits him, and Max questions how...

Twenty-five-year-old Lena DeVine, a court reporter in Prescott, Arizona, had been celibate for two years, having had little luck with dating. When she meets Abner “Gat” Gatling, a tall, handsome airline pilot with whom she is helplessly smitten, she is tempted to think he might...

Lady of Lincoln by Rachel Elwiss Joyce is a compelling historical novel set in 12th-century England that highlights the exploits of one brave woman at a time when women were just chattels to be bargained off in advantageous marriages. Nicola is the daughter of the...

Lunch Tales: Teagan by Lucille Guarino is the second in a projected four-book series on sisters in a small-town suburb of New York City. The setting is contemporary, and the story covers a dramatic one-year-or-so period in Teagan’s life. She is an educated woman in...

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Little Amish Girl by Viola Estrella shares a similar thought process. It centers on Ivy, an Amish girl who must endure going from one foster home to another...

Life’s Like A Book by Christina McKenzie follows Kloey, a young woman whose life is shaken by chronic illness, heartbreak, and the devastating loss of her best friend, Brandi. At twenty-seven, she is caught between finishing law school, leaving a toxic long-term relationship, and rediscovering...

Let Me Go by Tricia T. LaRochelle is a mesmerizing second-chance romance that follows Jacob “JC” Sullivan, a prosperous city trader who inherits his beloved grandfather’s remote Vermont cabin and a one-month stay. After a one-month stay, he can decide whether to keep the property...

Love Decanted is the love story of Peter and Julie. He’s an almost-divorced father of two, and she is a formerly engaged woman of a certain age who desperately wants a baby. Together, they find the second chance they’re both looking for over many bottles...