Category: fiction

Interview – The Copper Scroll by Nicholas Teeguarden

    Synopsis The Copper Scroll follows historian Joshua “Masa” Bennett as he journeys into the heart of the Middle East in an attempt to unlock the secrets hidden within the legendary Copper Scroll. Just as he begins making progress, disturbing warnings and shadowy sightings reveal that other powerful forces are also closing in: Templars, […]

Review – Sorry for Your Loss by Georgia McVeigh

  Synopsis The story of two people, both as magnetic as they are dangerous, who get caught in an electric game of cat and mouse The question is, Who is the predator and who is the prey? Meet Iris: a dark soul with a propensity for obsession, still reeling from a recent loss, who relies on […]

Excerpt – Stockbroken by Billy Hemby & Jan Hemby

    Long careers often produce a kind of instinct that can’t be explained through data alone. Stockbroken by Billy and Jan Hemby follows an experienced investment advisor who begins to sense that something beneath the surface of the financial world isn’t adding up. For decades, Bo Parrott has built his reputation on carefully analyzing […]

Excerpt – An Impossibility of Crows by Kirsten Kaschock

  Synopsis In this daring and evocative tale, Agnes Krahn, a chemist trained in Philadelphia, returns to her childhood home after the death of her father. Just a stone’s throw from the haunted fields of Gettysburg, the small town of Letort, Pennsylvania is where the Krahn family has lived for six generations bound by twisted […]

Excerpt – Words for Patty Jo by Jill Arlene Culiner

  Synopsis A passion for books creates a lasting bond between teenage Patty Jo and David, but small-town prejudice and social differences doom their romance. After a summer of reading and falling in love, David heads for university, foreign adventure, and a dazzling career; Patty Jo marries slick, over-confident Don Ried. Yet plans can go […]

Excerpt – New Harmony by Leon E. Pettiway

  Synopsis In the small Southern town of New Harmony, history is not something distant or abstract. It lives in front porches, church pews, family kitchens, and in the quiet lessons passed from mother to child. Margaret grows up learning the unspoken rules of the Jim Crow South, carrying both the weight of those boundaries and the […]

Review – You & Me and You & Me and You & Me by Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees

  Synopsis Meet Adam and Jules. Married for nearly twenty-five years and stuck in a rut, their future looks, well, boring. Then Adam stumbles across a box of old mixtapes he and Jules made for each other when they were young and falling in love. He dusts off his vintage stereo, inserts one of the […]

Spotlight – The Good Mother Test by Michael R. French

  Synopsis When Emily, a bright but impulsive UCLA student, gives birth to her daughter Violet, she vows to be the kind of mother she never had: endlessly loving and fiercely protective. But single motherhood is a test with no right answers. As Violet’s brilliance and independence unfold, Emily’s instincts clash with a world obsessed […]