Category: excerpt

New Release & Excerpt – Mother May I by Harry Hunsicker

  Synopsis She lost everything. Except the will to fight. When former CIA operative Meg Dalton learns a shocking clue suggests her long-missing daughter might still be alive, she’s forced into a desperate, high-stakes search for the truth. Fifteen years after little Ivy vanished without a trace at a Texas fair, Meg has built a […]

New Release & Excerpt – Birds Beyond Reach by Dwayne Ulliac

  Synopsis Peter thought his life would look different at thirty-two. Instead, he’s stuck bartending in Thunder Bay, drinking too much, and watching his ambitions slip away. But when an opportunity to relocate to Ottawa arises, Peter sees a chance to reinvent himself. He meets like-minded Ruby one night in a pub, and before long […]

New Release & Excerpt – Red Seal by Rosa Kwon Easton

  Synopsis A Korean mother and son navigate wars, displacement, and identity across decades and borders in a moving multigenerational saga by the author of White Mulberry. In 1943 Japan, the Pacific War rages on. Miyoung, a Korean-born single mother and nurse, defies an order to serve in the Imperial Japanese Army and instead flees […]

New Release & Excerpt – Tristan 4 America by Bruce Overby

  Synopsis One man. Zero chance of winning. Nothing left to lose.   After the pandemic costs him his career—and his sense of purpose—Tristan Heller makes an unthinkable decision: he runs for president of the United States. Not to win, but to say what no one else will. Backed by a scrappy crew of Silicon […]

New Release & Excerpt – The Nurse at Baker Hospital by Jocelyn Cullity

  Synopsis A new nurse at America’s famous cancer-cure hospital becomes caught in one of the Ozarks’ greatest scams in this mystery based on a true story set in 1939. After her father’s death, nurse Della King is on the brink of homelessness—until she lands a job at the prestigious Baker Hospital in Eureka Springs, […]

New Release & Excerpt – Horse Girl by Terri Farley

  Synopsis The American mustang—wild, wind-tossed, and thundering across the open West—might have vanished into myth if not for Velma Bronn Johnston. A shy woman who was left with physical effects from a childhood battle with polio, Johnston was living a quiet life on a struggling ranch near Reno, Nevada, when she discovered wild horses […]

New Release & Excerpt – The Ferryman’s Daughter by Yasmin Angoe

  Synopsis The daughter of an infamous murderer gets caught up in a copycat’s sick game in this thriller about legacy, self-determination, and corrosive secrecy from the bestselling author of Not What She Seems. Forensic science teacher Sanaa Karrem buried her past as deep as she could. When her serial killer father, known as “the […]

New Release & Excerpt – Living in the Long Shadow by Suzanne Sherman

  Synopsis This poignant and compelling memoir, set in ’60s–’70s Los Angeles, traces a daughter’s experience of her mother’s schizophrenia and its lasting fallout before she ultimately reckons with her mother’s suicide and trusts in enduring love. When Suzanne Sherman is four, her musically gifted mother is struck by sudden-onset schizophrenia, altering the course of […]

New Release & Excerpt – Rough Cuts by Glenn R. Miller

  Synopsis It’s 1926, and the world of film is about to change forever. On the cusp of “talkies,” directors and actors fear their greatest days might soon be behind them. Patrick J. Shepard, a director at the end of his career, has just completed his masterpiece, his vehicle for eternal fame. But there’s one […]

New Release & Excerpt – Every Room Remembers by Tara Badstubner

  Synopsis After losing her husband Wyatt to a sudden accident, interior designer SJ believes she is alone with her crushing grief. Meanwhile, Wyatt, trapped in a liminal state, must watch in silence as the woman he loves mourns all that remained unresolved in their marriage – the children they never had, the depression that […]