A gripping literary thriller set against the backdrop of the Iranian Revolution It all began with a line of Persian poetry… Anna and Nouri, both studying in Chicago, fall in love despite their very different backgrounds. Anna, who has never been close to her parents, is more than happy to return with Nouri to [...]
Tags: crime, international thriller, iran, Iranian Revolution, Islamic Republic, Libby Hellmann, Literary Thriller
Posted in Literary Fiction, Political Thriller, Thriller |
Noel Anderson, builder and businessman, has his life ripped apart when his family is brutally murdered. The three killers are eventually sentenced for their crime prompting Noel to set out on a religious crusade of forgiveness. Noel fast becomes a media darling and discovers love again in a damaged young woman who, like himself, [...]
Tags: Literary Fiction, mystery, romance, romantic suspense, thriller
Posted in Literary Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Romantic Suspense, Suspense, Thriller |
Storykeeper is a historical-literary novel, based on the translations of sixteenth-century Spanish documents, but told from the perspective of the people of the Mississippi River Valley, who lived and outlasted the invasion of Conquistadors in 1541. One-hundred years later, and prompted by a dream, Manaha, Mother-of-None, steps before the village fire. Rejecting the taboos [...]
Tags: adventure, coming of age, Conquistadors, De Soto, Native American, Pre-American History, Storytelling
Posted in General Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Young Adult |
Later generations would call it the Great Persecution. In 303 A.D., the Roman emperor Diocletian set out to destroy Christianity. Replenish the Earth is a riveting tale of a small Christian community that struggles to survive one of the most vicious assaults in human history. Editorial Review “…the author captures both the essence [...]
Tags: christian fiction, Christian historical fiction, fiction, General Fiction, historical, Literary Fiction
Posted in Christian Fiction, General Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Psychological Thriller, Thriller |
Esperanza wrapped her arms around his neck and whispered, “I wait only for you to make me a woman.” In 1698 laFlorida, Esperanza, a wildly independent Timucuan herbolaria, has a decision to make–surrender her whole being to Juan Francisco, a known rebel recently returned to the province, or fulfill her chosen mission as a [...]
Tags: Colonial Florida, Florida History, healers, Hispanic culture-historical, historical fiction, native americans, romance, Spanish colonial period, Spanish missions in Florida, Timucua Indians, U. S. History
Posted in Historical, Literary Fiction, Romance |
‘Some men don’t fall in love, they get lost. I was lost from the moment I saw Anastasia Romanov in the taxi club that first night …’ When Michael Sheridan jumped into the Whangpoa River to save a woman he had met in one of Shanghai’s taxi clubs, his life changed irrevocably. A Russian [...]
Tags: Anastasia, Berlin, Czar, London, Romanovs, Russia, Russian revolution, Shangai
Posted in General Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction |
A courageous voyage through destitution, intrigue and murder. Manasa is abandoned by the man she should marry. He swears to her that his wealthy father will give him anything he wants. Then he says nothing when their fathers agree to arrange a wedding for him with Manasa’s younger sister. Meanwhile Manasa finds herself pregnant [...]
Tags: Courage, india, love, murder, survival
Posted in General Fiction, Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction |
Set in Washington, D.C. and El Salvador, SWEETWATER AMERICAN is the story of an orphan and would-be filmmaker who is sent to live in a cursed town in El Salvador with her godmother, a woman whom she has never met and who may hold the secret to breaking the town’s curse: no babies have [...]
Tags: contemporary fiction, family, ghosts, Literary, maryland, paranormal, washington d.c., Women's Fiction
Posted in Literary Fiction, Paranormal, Women's Fiction |
YOU CAN ALWAYS COUNT ON FRIENDS Dianna Harrington is known throughout the world as “The Face”-the stunningly beautiful spokesmodel for her family’s fashion empire. She could probably have her pick of any man she wants. But Dianna would rather kick back and relax with a good friend-namely Alex Stewart, who she’s known, and harbored [...]
Tags: chic lit, contemporary romance, family drama, fashion, fiction, francis ray, iTunes, Kindle., law of attraction, Lawyer, male friendships, new york, nook, series
Posted in General Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance, Women's Fiction |
In the middle of a soccer drill, in an awful, awkward moment, Celia Bennett’s eight-year-old son Caleb lands on his face and chest in the grass. The diagnosis blindsides her, bringing her face-to-face with every parent’s worst nightmare. Desperate to save her son’s life, Celia pursues a cure through alternative medicine, but her quest [...]
Tags: cancer, childhood illness, faith, family reconciliation, forgiveness, hope, inspirational, Supernatural
Posted in Literary Fiction |
INTERVIEW with Denise DeSio – Author of Rose’s Will Tell us a bit about Rose’s Will – not only the plot but the important themes it addresses. Although the central character of Rose’s Will is Rose D’Orsi, a controlling, abusive divorcee, the story is told by and focuses on the three people whose lives [...]
Tags: Atheist, drama, family drama, fiction, Fictionalized Memoir, Holocaust, Jewish, Lesbian Fiction, Lesbian Novel, Literary Fiction, Women\'s Lit
Posted in General Fiction, Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction |
Time of Triumph is a collection of short stories that are both riveting and compelling, and poetry that sweetens the soul. Love poems that pull at your heart and make you sense the tensions, hurts and joys of sensual intrigue that compel you to fall in love, again. Time of Triumph was a Finalist [...]
Tags: drama, inspiration, love, Poetry, romance, short stories, war
Posted in Literary Fiction, Poetry, Short Stories (Anthology) |
Rita is a driven 37-year-old who has dedicated the last 15 years to her New York banking career. Raised by a hard-working woman who fled to the United States from Brazil, Rita’s foremost ambition is to succeed in the business world while sticking to a hectic, all-consuming routine in Manhattan. But when Rita receives a [...]
Tags: banker, Born in Rio, Brazil, Cassia Martins, love story, novel in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, soul searching, Woman in Rio
Posted in Literary Fiction |
When Brock, a wealthy lawyer in Atlanta, Georgia, loses a bet with his partners, he must take up the challenge to get a job in a Waffle House and work there after office hours in their law firm for a month. He has never worked so hard or learned so much about people. During [...]
Tags: Atlanta, Christmas, Georgia, lawyers, Literary Fiction, southern fiction, Waffle House
Posted in General Fiction, Literary Fiction |
Before the economic downturn James Scotesdale did all the right things: he went to school and studied the right things, he had all the right friends, he had the love of a good woman and the support of his family. And then the economic crisis began and his secure life was suddenly not so [...]
Tags: fiction, Literary, magical realism
Posted in Fantasy, Literary Fiction |
Whoever said love was exhilarating can stop this roller coaster ride now…because these five friends want off the ride! Soon, you will witness five women with loads of secrets. Can laundry get any dirtier? Skye and her girlfriends are forced to come face to face with their secret skeletons, which soon see the light [...]
Tags: airing out dirty laundry, dirty laundry, drama, latisha patterson, relationships, urban fiction, women fiction
Posted in General Fiction, Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction |
The Mercy Stone is a work of historical fiction revolving around the much heralded and maligned Terror of the Apaches, Geronimo. The author attempts to contrast the man’s fierce brutality with his code of honor in an effort to explore the dual nature that resides in all men. The novella is broken down into [...]
Tags: Geronimo, Medicine Park, Native Amercians, Oklahoma
Posted in Historical, Literary Fiction, Novella |
The FEAR OF THE PAST Trilogy is both a contemporary coming of age story and a family saga set in Sicily. Originally published in Italy by E.Romeo (2007) under the title Un Amore Dimenticato (Forgotten Love). The Trilogy follows the trials and tribulations of Tony, a precocious and gifted video game creator – he [...]
Tags: coming of age, family saga, historical, Literature, paranormal, romance, Sicily
Posted in Historical, Literary Fiction, Paranormal, Young Adult |