What Once Was Promised by Louis Trubiano What One Was Promised is a multi-generational family saga that chronicles the diverse paths taken by three young Italian immigrants and one American-born Italian as they navigate the challenges presented them in early 20th century Boston. Love, friendship, treachery and betrayal are intertwined against a backdrop of political […]
Sons of the Sphinx by Cheryl Carpinello
Abroad: A Novel of Cross-Cultural Encounters by Greyson Bryan
Abroad: A Novel of Cross-Cultural Encounters by Greyson Bryan Come along for the ride with this “supremely readable” coming-of-age story about clashing cultures and complicated relationships. ABROAD follows Skip, Maddie, and Rex as they travel overseas and navigate romantic loves and friendships during the cultural upheaval and sexual revolution of the 1960s and 70s. Booklife […]
The Oldest Word by Johnny Firic
The Oldest Word by Johnny Firic The story opens with the discovery of a mysterious box from the distant past. Its makers are five orphaned friends who hope to help civilizational knowledge survive disruptive climate change centuries in the future: the ending of the Ice Age. The bar is continuously raised as the box traverses […]
The Oldest Word by Johnny Firic
The Oldest Word by Johnny Firic “Plural identity is where respectful practice begins.” Who are you? Just the one body and mind? Does your story begin with your birth? Or how far back would you go? The Oldest Word spans ten thousand years and more than a dozen settings. Human contradictions are reconciled time and […]
Lafitte’s Chance by Michael Roberts
Lafitte’s Chance by Michael Roberts Thomas Cain puts it all on the line again in this exhilarating alternative American History time travel adventure novel! Thomas has managed to rescue Aden, but his futuristic gear is still missing while the Pirate King, Jean Lafitte, is breathing down his neck. In his efforts to track his items […]
The Maiden of the Storm by Michelle Deerwester-Dalrymple
The Maiden of the Storm by Michelle Deerwester-Dalrymple When the power of love is stronger than the chains of bondage . . . She’s a powerful Scottish Highland Celtic woman. He’s a Roman warrior, captive in her village. When their passion for each other grows, can they find a way to be together? Or will […]
Beyond the Song by Carol Selick
Beyond the Song by Carol Selick “Beyond the Song” is an autobiographical novel, based on the author’s coming of age in the ‘sixties and early ‘seventies. A singer-songwriter like her alter-ego Carol Marks, Carol Selick begins each chapter with lyrics she wrote and still performs today. There’s a lot of nostalgia for that time period. […]
Phantom in the Pines by R.K. Latch
Phantom in the Pines by R.K. Latch Henry Lawton is a young man in 1930’s Mississippi. He works for his father in the family moonshining business and is one of the best bootleggers around. He is secretly in love with the granddaughter of a woman the locals consider a true-to-life witch. So he has plenty […]
All the Colors of My Soul by Leta McCurry
All the Colors of My Soul by Leta McCurry What could drive a loving wife and mother to commit cold-blooded murder? Growing up in the 1930s Santa Clara Valley, California, Neva Holiday wanted nothing more than to reach eighteen, have a beau, get married and mother a houseful of kids. Simple, quiet, peaceful. As […]
The Essence of Nathan Biddle by J. William Lewis
The Essence of Nathan Biddle by J. William Lewis Protagonist Kit Biddle is a rising prep school senior who finds himself tangled in a web of spiritual quandaries and intellectual absurdities. Kit’s angst is compounded by a unique psychological burden he is forced to carry: his intelligent but unstable Uncle Nat has committed an unspeakable […]
The Shipyard Man by Ann Streetman
Angel of Mercy by Melina Druga
Angel of Mercy by Melina Druga She had her entire life planned until the Great War began and everything changed. April 1914. Barrie, Ontario. Hettie Steward is feisty, educated, ambitious and stubborn. Her fiancé, Geoffrey Bartlette, the love of her life since childhood, has been a patient man. He waited while she attended nursing school […]
Flowers by Night by Lucy May Lennox
Flowers by Night by Lucy May Lennox Japan, 1825: Low-ranking samurai Uchida Tomonosuke is a devotee of the way of manly love, but he has never pledged himself to another man. Until one day he accidentally crosses paths with Ichi, a beautiful blind masseur who challenges everything he thought he knew about love between men. […]
A Poor Man’s Supper by Jim Gulledge
A Poor Man’s Supper by Jim Gulledge In the North Carolina mountains two people, destined to love each other, are doomed to be apart. Vancie Keller is trying to survive on her mother’s failing farm when her life is forever altered by the arrival of two men, Josiah Buckland and Jagger Hill. One, she will […]
Lief by Celeste Barclay
Lief by Celeste Barclay Fate brought them together. Free will binds them. Leif Ivarrson wants nothing more than to enjoy the comforts of home after sailing for months. When a neighboring jarl arrives bearing news of a threat to their land and security, Leif knows there will be no rest for him. Tasked with finding […]
His Highland Lass by Celeste Barclay
His Highland Lass by Celeste Barclay An undeniable love… an unexpected match… Faced with a feud with the Sinclairs that is growing deadly, Laird Tristan Mackay is bound by duty to his clan to make peace with the enemy. Tristan arranges a marriage for his stepbrother, Sir Alan, but never imagines that he would meet […]
A Spinster at the Highland Court by Celeste Barclay
A Spinster at the Highland Court by Celeste Barclay A spinster lady in waiting… After four broken betrothals, Elizabeth Fraser believes her father’s political ambitions will keep her from ever finding a husband. Content to be considered on the shelf, Elizabeth would rather be left in peace as one of the queen’s ladies in waiting […]
The Heart of a Hussar by Griffin Brady
The Heart of a Hussar by Griffin Brady Exploiting Muscovy’s Time of Troubles, Poland has invaded the chaotic country. Twenty-two-year-old Jacek Dąbrowski is an honorable, ferocious warrior in a company of winged hussars—an unrivaled, lethal cavalry. When his lieutenant dies in battle, Jacek is promoted to replace him, against the wishes of his superior, Mateusz, […]
Echo from Mount Royal by Dave Riese
Echo from Mount Royal by Dave Riese Imagine you are 18 and fall in love with a handsome, wealthy young man. Your romantic dreams have come true – except his family hates you! Montreal, 1951. Rebecca Wiseman, 18, a bright college student, lives with her working-class parents. At a local dance, she meets a handsome […]
