Category: fiction

Excerpt – Last Bite by Amy S. Peele

  Synopsis A mouth-watering home run of a beach read, this lighthearted romantic comedy featuring a newly widowed fortysomething takes the reader on a joyful romp through-out some of Chicago’s finest eateries—with a dash of Cubs baseball on the side. In the heart of Chicago, forty-five-year-old Angie Sortino finds herself at a crossroads. Recently widowed, […]

New Release – Should Have Told You Sooner by Jane Ward

  Synopsis When Noel Enfield is offered a secondment at a museum in London, it’s a chance for her career aspirations to finally come to fruition—but also leads to the opening of some old wounds—in this story of art, love lost, and second chances, perfect for fans of David Nicholls and Claire Lombardo. While studying […]

Excerpt – One Alpen Day by Michele Davenport-Dutton

    Rather than unfolding through grand gestures, One Alpen Day by Michele Davenport-Dutton follows a quieter path, tracing how ordinary days can shift everything when two people, each shaped by loss, find themselves unexpectedly connected. Angela Sutton has retreated from the life she once knew, carrying the weight of divorce and repeated pregnancy losses. […]

Excerpt – Winter’s Season by R.J. Koreto

    A single death sets the events of Winter’s Season in motion, drawing Captain Winter into an investigation shaped by secrecy and divided allegiances. Written by R.J. Koreto, the story examines how truth emerges slowly when power has a vested interest in silence. The murder of a young woman exposes fault lines running beneath […]

Excerpt – The Below by Scott T. Miller

  Synopsis Humankind rose from the carcass of a dead world. Lifetimes later, billions of people live in superstructures constructed atop the only habitable lands left, the Hawaiian Islands. Kilohana “Kilo” Ressler lives in Hawai’i City (known to the people as Big City) along with his illegal Digital Psychological Manifestation (DPM), EO, a pseudo-twin only […]

Excerpt – America by Mike Bond

      A defining chapter of national history unfolds through intimate lives in America by Mike Bond. Cultural transformation and personal discovery move together as young people respond to a rapidly changing world. As unrest and possibility reshape the country, four young lives begin to diverge and intertwine. Troy, orphaned early, finds belonging and […]

Excerpt – The Radical Radiance of the Fishing Fly by Lewis K. Schrager

    Set against the remote wilderness of Alaska, The Radical Radiance of the Fishing Fly by Lewis K. Schrager unfolds as a story of dislocation and emotional reckoning, where unfamiliar landscapes mirror a man’s internal struggle to reconcile reason with forces he cannot control. A carefully ordered life begins to unravel when certainty can […]

Excerpt – The Montana Gold Mine by Tim Piper

  Synopsis In Spring 1874, the American economy is descending into a depression, following the collapse of Jay Cooke’s financial empire. Amid the chain of bank and business failures set off by Cooke’s bankruptcy, Jubilee Walker struggles to keep Warner and Walker Outfitters solvent. Jubil’s grand plans for developing Yellowstone National Park into a popular […]

Coming of Age Spotlight – Take a Look at Me Now by Robert Crane

      Take a Look at Me Now by Robert Crane focuses on a stretch of life marked by uncertainty. The story unfolds as a family adjusts to changes that affect how they see themselves and each other. When Bubby Welter is fifteen, his family life is quietly dismantled. His mother Carrie’s mental breakdown […]

Review – Destiny of Chenille by Sally Dallas

  Synopsis Chenille tries to rebuild a safe life for herself and her son in Australia, while running from the remnants of her cybercrime past. Enter Jack – a hard working family man whom Chenille can’t resist. He can’t possibly be a criminal, can he? Love, grief, and moral compromise collide in this culmination of […]