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INFINITE STRANGER

by Wendy Skorupski

On a snowy morning in 1978, 18-year-old Leah Cavanagh meets Brother Matthew while on a Retreat with her girls’ school. The four days she spends at Greystones Abbey in the wilds of North Yorkshire will have a profound impact not only on her own life, but also on that of her single mother Molly, who never recovered from the murder of her fiancé in 1956. Brother Matthew and Leah start writing to each other and soon an unspoken attraction develops, shared vicariously by Molly. When Leah leaves h... more

Marie-Madeleine

by Kit Sergeant

Can one woman stop the Nazis’ advance? 1940: The air is dense with the thick, acrid smoke of German bombs as Marie-Madeleine departs Paris, utterly alone in the world. Her destination is hundreds of kilometers away, where Navarre told her to meet him. Surely he would have a plan to get back at the Boches and fight for their freedom… But is she willing to sacrifice everything for the cause? Torn between defending her country and safeguarding those closest to her, a startling twist of fate f... more

Waiting for Aegina

by Effie Kammenou

Book Two in The Gift Saga: The continuation of Evanthia’s Gift… In 1961, five little girls moved into a suburban neighborhood and became inseparable, lifelong friends. They called themselves the ‘Honey Hill Girls,’ named after the street on which they lived. As teenagers they shared one another’s ambitions and dreams, secrets and heartaches. Now, more than thirty years later, they remain devoted and loyal, supporting each other through triumphs and sorrows. Evanthia's Gift follows the life... more

Nancy Wake

by Kit Sergeant

Can she defeat the Nazis to save the man she loves? 1937: The streets of Berlin are tense with fear as swastika banners flutter ominously from buildings and brown-shirted men stalk the streets. The atrocities Nancy witnesses firsthand at the hands of the Nazis spark an unwavering resolve to do whatever it takes to stop Hitler. With northern France under siege, Nancy joins the Resistance and earns the nickname 'The White Mouse' for her ability to evade capture. But when Hitler's forces take c... more

Stone Mother

by Malve S. Burns

Imagine growing up in a German family right after WWII with no knowledge of your country's horrendous Nazi past or an understanding of your own family's fierce internal struggles. Marie is a dreamy child of a doctor whose family is offered refuge within the walls of Falkenburg Castle after the war. Within the safety of this thousand-year-old "stone mother," Marie begins her coming-of-age journey dominated by her troubled, often violent mother and comforted by her beloved father. Soon, Mari... more

Courageous Wild Heart

by Jane Catherine Rozek

Dark hardships play out against the brilliant purity of nature in this achingly poignant novel of survival, love, and loyalty. Dave’s goal to build a cattle ranch in the pristine Canadian wilderness hampers Kate’s desire for tender romance. Her search for spiritual empowerment opposes his old-fashioned religion. With grit and ingenuity, they learn how to be poor and proud of it while being rich with potential.

Blue Wild Indigo

by James Jennings

It’s 1954 in the red rock country town of Serafina, Oklahoma, where racial tensions are mounting in the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision declaring segregation in schools unconstitutional. When two White hoodlums sexually assault a Mexican girl and pin the blame on Woody Coats, a young Black man, they nearly get him lynched. Bachelor rancher Harry True knows Woody didn’t do it. So does his best friend’s wife, Bliss Stone, the woman Harry would have married if war hadn’t intervened. They... more

Agnes Treading Water

by Charlotte French

LOVE IS BLIND. LIES RUN DEEP. SECRETS CAN SINK A WEDDING.

Small town recluse Agnes Andersson is financially secure but emotionally adrift. After a rippling romance with an Australian sailor and a subsequent betrayal by him, Agnes is back in Sweden determined to mend her broken heart. Today she'll settle for Thomas, the man her late parents detested, whom she's dated on and off for years.

That she's never met his family matters not. She knows him.

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Resurgius, a Sex Comedy

by E.M. Schorb

Serge Bering-Strait, a young poet living with his activist mother and aunties has just been employed as copywriter for “Women’s Omnibus” magazine. His boss is out to deflower him. On the sly, he’s writing Resurgius, a novel set in a universe governed by women, where the Dongs are in revolt. Serge would rather remain in his garret room writing poetry, but his mother and his aunties have insisted th... more

Bad Sugar Baby

by Erin Carere

In Bad Sugar Baby, a blunt, cash-strapped 31-year-old aspiring writer finds herself pink-slipped from her gig as the social media manager (read: de facto personal lackey) to a reality TV diva, all because she grew tired of sugarcoating the truth. With bills piling high and dreams on hold, she hatches a scheme to dive into the sugar baby lifestyle, intending to chronicle her misadventures for publication and maybe make a quick buck along the way. But with a serious allergy to nonsense and a talen... more

Trifocals: One Man's View

by Ron Stultz

31 “pieces” between the beginning and the end, all different in size, presentation and flavor: from required genetic testing before pregnancy to the “sleep-sees” and “visions” from the time of early man, to the trial of a Holocaust criminal. Presentations of personal epiphanies, both large and small, to muses or ponders that explore and ask more questions than they answer. Machine-gun-burp style storytelling of: staring through a turning airplane propeller; hunting the horned one and the life o... more

Caravan of Specters

by Carlos García Saúl

It is 1898, the Spanish-American War is raging in the Caribbean and the U.S. Army is in the process of seizing Puerto Rico from the Spanish Empire. 24-year-old medical graduate Bailey Ashford has just been assigned to the invasion force's Medical Corps. Lieutenant Ashford quickly realizes that behind all the idyllic tropical beauty, an ugly and mysterious force is hard at work killing thousands of coffee plantation laborers. Faced with an urgent medical emergency, the charismatic and resourceful... more

Life and Death in Suburbia

by Robb Skidmore

In seven penetrating and vivid stories, Life and Death in Suburbia takes you back to a place and time where much was promised. Beneath the conformity and optimism of the American suburbs of the late 20th Century simmered a clash of generations, of economic classes, of childhood and adulthood. These emotionally resonant and keenly crafted stories will powerfully pull you into the dreams and desperation of the souls who inhabit these places: a nine-year-old struggles with a severe spee... more

The Patriots

by John A. Heldt

In The Patriots, two young brothers from the present travel to the Philadelphia of 1776, where they befriend the lovely, spirited daughters of a furniture maker at the start of the American Revolution.

Escaping Hell

by Cindy Horrell Ramsey

Sonya Gail Taylor faces a life-altering decision when her secret past threatens her idyllic present. A successful attorney, wife, and mother living in Georgia with her husband and three teenage children, Sonya thought she was safe from the terrifying childhood she bled onto the pages of a senior writing project trying to leave the pain and fear in her past when she left for college on a basketball scholarship. But thirty years later, her high school English teacher from back home in Mississippi ... more

Savage To Savvy

by Kate Rigby

Psychology graduate, Heidi Harper is appointed to work with Professor Mala, pioneer of a new project to rehabilitate dog-reared feral child, Nicki. Heidi is soon asking questions and her mission takes on sinister overtones. As the truth outs, the lives of all concerned begin to unravel. Savage To Savvy is a psychological novel. Savage To Savvy is a psychological multi-narrated novel following the structure of an academic paper: Abstract, Introduction, Method & Results, Discussion, Conclusions.

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