General-Literary-Historical-Womens Fiction
Welcome, Reluctant Stranger Featured
What happened to her father, and why was her family forced to flee? For years, these questions plagued Leilani. Eighteen years ago, her mother whisked her children from their privileged life on a Pacific island, without their father and without explanation. Now, all Leilani wants is to dedicate h ...
A newlywed in the Scottish highlands reaches back in time to unearth the story of a lass from hundreds of years earlier. 1695 - Tess Campbell is frantic to escape the arranged marriage her father is forcing upon her. When a galleon docks at the pier where she's to board a boat to her demise, she ...
The Love That Haunts Us Featured
Emilia Brauer, pregnant at sixteen and sent away from the only home she has ever known leaves behind her beloved Liam, gives her newborn up for adoption and forges a new uncertain future alone. Settling for a loveless marriage to the abusive Abraham Meier, manager of the Gem Theater, a bawdy burl ...
Your Words Your Love is a symphony of captivating poetry intertwined with exquisite photographs.
Insightful collection that speaks directly to your heart and soul about God and His love.
Intriguing story poems where faith, hope, salvation, and trust in Him a ...
My WAR WITH HEMINGWAY Featured
Zach, a young veteran, contemplates suicide after a horrific tour in Afghanistan when Ernest Hemingway appears and stops him. He enrolls in college where he falls in love with Jessica, a young woman from a wealthy family. Her love stabilizes him, and Hemingway’s appearances become less frequent, ...
Between Two Dreams Featured
Can Eddy and Harriett Kepler keep their marriage together, despite his lies, transgressions, and abandonment? The answer lies Between Two Dreams. S. Lee Fisher, the multi-award-winning author of Becoming Olive W. masterfully weaves the Women of Campbell County saga to an end! The anticipated, Betwee ...
Not Alone Featured
Jane-two-seven works in restoration: a dangerous, brutal process that helps people reclaim their humanity after centuries of numb survival.
It is the most intimate work in her world. Jane sits beside strangers while their defences are torn down, holds their hands when they shake and stays ...
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Suddenly That Summer Featured
Set during the same tumultuous era as THE WOMEN
1967: They called it the Summer of Love . . .
For small-town Wisconsin siblings Billy and Jay Johnson, it’s a summer of change, confusion, and self-discovery.
Bil ...
MISTLETOE MAGIC AND OTHER HOLIDAY TALES (Unsolicited Press) is about the wonder and excitement of the holiday season, as shown through the experiences of the characters in these eight heartwarming stories. Lucinda and the Christmas List— A young woman needs a dose of elf magic to regain her Christm ...
Angels at Moonglow Featured
The small Montana town of Timberton has always provided a joyful Christmas retreat for visitors as well as those who live in the area. When guests check into the hotel for the holidays, they’re often unaware that resident chef and artist, Mist, has a way of working mag ...
Chocolate at Midnight Box Set Featured
Drama, regrets, and heartache. Falling in love almost seems easy in comparison though she hasn’t allowed herself to even consider the possibility in years.
Her life as a full-time mother is behind her—Can 50-year-old Rita start over and reinvent herself?
Is fifty too old to start over and reinvent yourself?
That's what Rita Reynolds has to decide after a series of unwelcome occurrences arrive in time for he ...
A Social War Featured
91 BC — A forgotten well in an old olive grove somewhere along the Via Aurelia
Still seething after a volatile parley with rebellious Italic tribes, General Sulla whirls at the sound of footsteps—only to find Helena, a naïve teenager in search of water. Pre ...
All That is Hidden Featured
Are secrets worth the price they cost to keep? Ten-year-old Tina Hamilton learns the hard way. In 1968, trouble erupts as northern exploitation threatens her southern Appalachian town. Her father’s hidden past collides with the present, mirroring the clash of progressive ideas and small town valu ...
Assassins And Angels Book 1 Featured
In the aftermath of a conflict with Russia in the arctic. Canada has fragmented. Its provinces, now on their own, live on the edge of chaos and anarchy due to rampant and violent criminal activity. The Premier of Ontario makes a bold but controversial decision. She hires professional security con ...
Devoted in Time Featured
A chilling discovery of a skull catapults TJ and Emma into a web of secrets surrounding the Man-in-the-Field, known as Gideon. Who was he? Why was he laid to rest in an unmarked grave more than a century ago? As Emma seeks answers, she uncovers a labyrinth of betrayal spanning from the Civil War e ...
The Brickbox Featured
Jude Zander is a shy, inexperienced small-town girl who has disguised herself as a boy and is on the run from an abusive father. She desperately wants to find her mother who left her without warning. Jude has never been in a city before. Soon after she arrives she is confronted by hookers, bikers ...
The Wanderer Scorned Featured
I could never kill my brother. Or could I?
Kayin lives in the shadow of his parents' expulsion from the Garden of Eden and its lingering cloud of shame. He believes in the Creator but struggles to understand his place in the world. When suffering comes and siblin ...
Penelope of Ithaka Featured
She was the overlooked daughter and cousin, dark and small when her cousins were tall and golden. A princess, she would be sacrificed in marriage to buy peace for her uncle's kingdom. A v ...
In the Deluge Featured
Words flow across the page like water flows down a stream. Rain, thunderstorms, hail, and hurricanes. There is no life without water, but water can also take life away. The sound of thunder is never far away, Rumbling like distant beating drums. I am still waiting for the rain. Like being swept up i ...
The Pelican Hotel Featured
In the luxurious Pelican Hotel, Dr. Nassrin Fahadi finds herself at a crossroads. Once a dedicated physician, she dreams of a simpler life with the charming barten ...
He shattered her dreams. But not her spirit. It’s 1990. With a leap of faith and three bulging suitcases, New Yorker Jayne Boland abandons her rent-controlled apartment and fashion career to join her almost-fiancé-boyfriend in Como, Italy, and start la dolce vita. That is until her stilettos s ...
Katarina's Dark Journey Featured
Katarina's Dark Journey takes readers on a haunting journey through war-torn Ukraine in 1918 with a parallel story set in post-war Munich. When darkness falls, faith prevails. 1918: Southern Ukraine. When the Bolshevik Army sets fire to the German Mennonite villages, seventeen-year-old Katarina and ...
Equinox Featured
"Beautiful messages of love, hope, and unity."
"A how-to for living your life with compassion."
"A seriously beautiful book about endings and new beginnings."
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And I was like November Featured
In a world where so much is glossy and curated for social media, these stories are a glimpse of darker realities. They’re what happens to the women that didn't get their happy ending, the ones who don't buy the cliché that family is everything, and who know that live, laugh, love isn't the cure all. ...
A Wedding at Blue Hydrangeas Featured
Five days until the Fourth of July wedding of her dreams! Sara Harmon, the heart and soul behind the charming Blue Hydrangeas bed and breakfast on Cape Cod, is determined to orchestrate the perfect celebration for her son, David, and his bride, Anne. This is the dream wedding she's always envisio ...
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The Romanov Heiress Featured
With her parents and brother missing and presumed dead, Grand Duchess Olga Romanova must keep her younger sisters safe. The Bolsheviks are determined to eliminate any remaining holdovers from the tsarist regime, hunting down the last Romanovs and putting them to death. Now living in England, the ...
In a desperate moment of hope, a single number saved her life. Then a complete stranger opened his home offering safety, yet Grace knew danger surrounded them...when the pain allowed her to think clearly. But she knew she needed him to stay alive because someone wanted her dead.
Bended Loyalty Featured
For Tristen Levisay, guitarist of The Seethers, life is finally coming together. The band is on the brink of stardom, and soon he'll be a rock star instead of the poor, small-town boy from Kentucky. But when his twin brother Talon, the band's frontman, abruptly leaves to join another band, Triste ...
That Kind of Girl Featured
She’s struggling to raise two kids, nurture a marriage, and manage a demanding career. Will she sacrifice herself to keep everyone she loves happy?
Doctor Opal Collins is anxious and overwhelmed. So when her husband threatens to leave her unless she finds the time to add a baby to the cha ...
Welcome to Willow Ponds cemetery, or, as the locals call it, Forest of the Dead, a secluded 500-acre forested paradise occupied only by the spirits of those laid to rest there. Hidden within its magnificent trees are their stories. Samuel Jones finds himself on an unexpected expedition through Willo ...
Even a well-planned vacation can go astray… With week-long plans at the beach, Brash deCordova makes it clear to his wife Madison: no snooping, no stirring up trouble, and absolutely no mysteries. This week is about resting, relaxing, and spending time with family. They’re staying at The Mermaid’s ...
Hill House Divided Featured
Newlyweds separated by war. A bride left behind. Can she achieve greatness on her own? 1951. Harriett Bailey desperately wants her happily ever after. Shocking her small town by marrying a well-known womanizer, the shy girl’s plans are shot down when her groom is immediately drafted and sent to figh ...
21 Tattoos Featured
What if your deepest, darkest fears were inked on your skin for the world to see? Famous plastic surgeon Derek Hollinger has it all: money, success, luxury cars, and an L.A. penthouse near the beach. Who cares if he has no friends or lovers? He doesn’t need anyone. But Derek’s seemingly perfect l ...
Eleanor & Sam Featured
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Sea legends and pirate adventures charm eight-year-old Swift, until an encounter with the deadly power of the ocean shocks him into reality. Swift struggles to hang onto his childhood fantasies, but his new grasp of the fragile nature of life a ...
Atomic Secrets Featured
Eighteen-year-old Alice has always lived in the shadow of her beautiful, bossy cousin Betty. So when she is forced to move with her family out west to work for the war effort, Alice wants to prove her worth almost as much as she wants to make enough money to move back home to Wisconsin. As a typist ...
Three books in one. Three loyal dogs. A merciless war. When the thirsty desert craves their humans' blood, can these brave K-9s defend their partners, or will they pay with their lives? Guinness may be the runt of the litter, but she scoffs at being a pet. So when her siblings join their forever hom ...
Brenda Lockhart’s family is already living beyond their means in Huntington Beach, California when her husband announces he’s leaving her for a coworker at the post office—an older and (in Brenda’s opinion) less attractive woman. He drops this bombshell on June 17, 1994, the night of O. J. Simpson’s ...
Isaiah Moss was one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. His illegitimate son Oscar Kendall wasn't. Living in Isaiah's inescapable shadow, Oscar has become an inveterate quitter who hides his own literary work from the world rather than suffer the pain of failure or rejection. When ...
In search of something she can’t quite put a name to Mary Lane returns to the place her family has called home for almost two hundred years. Some would say she was looking for a new beginning, and others who thought they knew her better than she knew herself would insist she was starting over. All t ...
Each holiday season is unique in the small Montana town of Timberton. New and returning guests bring their dreams, cares, and worries, and always leave with lighter hearts and renewed hope for the future. But no season has ever been as special as this one. Because, to everyone’s delight, wedding ...
Forced to choose between cultivating a satisfying life for himself and rescuing his dysfunctional family members from their certain demise causes Markus to question the importance of family. Does he save his relatives from their ill-fated lives, or save himself from entering into a life of self-s ...
It’s 243 B.C. and Greece is ready for a revolution. Eighty years have passed since the death of Alexander the Great, the man who first cowed free Hellas into submission. His successors to the Macedonian throne have only tightened their grip in the interim, the present king no exception. Spartan rebe ...
The Andersen Saga is a story of family that will touch your heart. It is about the twists and turns every family deals with, the conflicts from within, joy and loss, hope and sorrow…and unconditional forgiveness. Livia Andersen was a woman who held her family together with a quiet smile and an iron ...
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The story opens in Newcastle, Northern England, and we meet J.B. Sutherland—brewer and eventually the owner of the Victorian pub by the River Tyne, The Barley Mow. The family saga is told by his middle daughter, Elizabeth, whose childhood is wonderful until her father suddenly dies, ...
The Angels Always Near poetry collection offers an experimental take on the timeless emotions of adolescence, capturing moments of imagination and being while exploring the universal theme of love through emotional wordscapes. In this re-edited collection, the mysteries of teenage love and ideals of ...
A GRIPPING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER Can a psychologist, still grieving the loss of her husband, save a traumatized war veteran who is planning his own death? Stories Untold explores the devastation of loss, the struggle to find meaning in life, and the enduring power of love that transcends boundaries ...
Zobie Marsh hides the fearsome talent of prophecy. Young, poor and grieving the loss of her beloved Black Gram, she leaves home suddenly to avoid the advances of her mother’s latest boyfriend. Her decision to travel to South Carolina sets in motion Heavenscribe, a spiritual transformation devi ...
When it’s your 10th year of fundraising for charity it’s hard to find a new idea. The women come up with a scheme to benefit the local hospice but it goes way past their comfort zone. Can they, should they, go ahead? Then there’s the matter of the Board of Trustees – men who are bound to op ...
A collection of poems to celebrate National Poetry Month; a poem a day for 30 days. Themes of nature, people and observations are covered here- from the quirky to the ephemeral. There's no doubt a poem in here for every mood, every thought and unspoken sigh.
Fans of Jodi Picoult and Elin Hilderbrand will fall in love with this new series that sets the stage for her upcoming novel, Stillwater Rising, from NY Times bestselling author Steena Holmes. Before the first shots are fired within the walls of Stillwater Elementary School, life went on as normal fo ...
#1 Best Seller in Teen & Young Adult Poetry eBooks, Amazon, Sept. 2019 #1 Best Seller in Poetry About Death, Amazon, Sept. 2019 #1 New Release in Poetry About Love, Amazon, Sept. 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "With the style of E ...
Stowaways in lifeboats? Germans claiming deckchairs? When passengers from many places are together on a cruiseship, there's gotta be fun – through 10 countries, 15 ports, across 17 seas. Readers say: “a very amusing fiction-from-fact traveling journal…sailing through seventeen seas, stopping at exot ...
2015 Rainbow Awards Finalist. When Carly Rosen is jilted on the eve of her wedding, she embarks on a startling journey of self-discovery. This gender-bending, risque retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in sizzling West Hollywood, echoes the ancient story of the lovers in the Un ...
Ireland in 1919 is seething with violence, tension and divided loyalties - and so is the heart of the beautiful, wilful heiress Catherine O'Connell-Gort. For Catherine, by heritage, is a glittering symbol of British rule and oppression - yet by inclination she is a traitor to her class. A fervent su ...
A cheating lover and a failing career—Fran is facing a midlife mess!
Once a best-selling romance novelist, 55-year-old Fran Carter is now dealing with a slow but steady drop in book sales and a major case of writer’s block, complicated by the knowledge that her l ...
They Called Him Marvin: A History of Love, War and Family by Roger Stark “They were the fathers we never knew, the uncles we never met, the friends who never returned, the heroes we can never repay. They gave us our world. And those simple sounds of freedom we hear today are their voices speaking to ...
Do the decisions we make define us?
Sam Taylor is stuck. Her house is falling apart, the bills are piling up, and her daughter is hiding something from her. This is not the life she imagined, living on the idyllic east coast of Tasmania.
Brooke Choi-Sco ...
1942, Europe: Based on the true story of female fighter pilots in the Second World War, this is a totally heartbreaking and unforgettable story about sacrifice, sisterhood and a love that transcends war. When the love of Tasha’s life, Luca, joins the air force to fight against the evil Nazi invad ...
Poland’s looming defeat forces an American teacher to escape with children wanted by the Nazis. It’s late August, 1939, and the world is on the brink of war. The Nazis are threatening Poland, but American teacher Irena Simmons refuses to flee to safety. She’s dedicated her life to serving in her ...
Something is deeply wrong in the Belaugh household, and Madeline Brooks is about to step right into it. When her beloved pianist father dies, Madeline loses everything - her family, her friends and home. But she never abandons hope. She dreams passionately of following in her father’s footsteps a ...
Everyone remembers their first love... But sometimes its the second love that lasts This book weaves together the heart of Nicholas Sparks, the romance of Nora Roberts, and the charm of Debbie Macomber. Fleeing her picture-perfect marriage among the privileged set of Brentwood and the wreck ...
Why did Claire have to drink so much at a small gathering of old friends, and how will she get home now that the host has kicked her out of his house? Hungover and ashamed, Claire begins a harrowing journey back to her apartment. Songs blend into the narrative and reveal harsh truths Claire would ...
Butterflies are often used as symbols of physical or spiritual transformation. At a time when women continue the quest for the Holy Grail of “equality,” the prospect of such a transformation remains tantalizingly out of reach for the Muslim women that dominate these series of short stories set in Pa ...
Featuring real life historical intrigue and real characters, Ruby Redlick investigates murder and occult doings in a thrilling high society mystery. This third in the series is another absorbing mashup of true life and fictional set in Golden Age London. 1913 Ruby has returned to London with anarchi ...
It was all Samuel Adams's fault. Ruth Haynes uses the pen name Honorius when she writes for her father’s newspaper. Boston has changed beyond recognition, and her Loyalist views soon get her in trouble. With war looming, what will their family do? Jonathan Russell hides a guilty secret. The Battl ...
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Troubled family relations, modern social justice issues, deeply personal choi ...
Business owner Paige West misses the closeness she had with her now-deceased father. Jessivel Salter, a single mother on the brink of becoming homeless, also misses her dead father, but for very different reasons. When fate unites the two women, Paige is drawn to Jessivel from the start and wants ...
On his best days, Zero Slade is the worst man you can imagine. He has to be. It's the only way to save the Lost Girls. During his seven years on a team fighting sex trafficking, Zero's become quite good at schmoozing with pimps, getting handcuffed by cops and pretending not to care about the young g ...
Annie Campbell has made a good life for her young son in the mountain town of Tidal Falls. She's dating the sheriff, owns a successful business, and has the support of the community. So why isn't it quite enough? Jared Martin left Tidal Falls a hotheaded youth. Eight years in the military has ...
From the writer of the ‘Engaging and Uplifting’ (Daily Mail) HELEN AND THE GRANDBEES… Bernie is plunged into turmoil when her step-brother is born, too vulnerable to leave, too vulnerable to risk loving. And she is confused when she falls into love with mosaicist Robin, his soulful artworks and t ...
Two co-workers seek the same information. One wants to publish it; the other has good reasons to keep it hidden.
As Leslie Wickersham, Raymond University grants officer, seeks information to unravel a family mystery, English professor Gregory Stafford seeks an elusiv ...
'Tis the Season for Chaos Wedding bells will soon be ringing in the Lowcountry. All Sam Sweeney wants is to marry her man on Christmas Eve surrounded by family and friends. But emerging complications, some humorous and some not so humorous, threaten to converge and derail the best-laid plans during ...
Miriam paints the future...but can she change it? Chicago, 1891 Miriam watches the people jostle their way below the windows of her warehouse home, never thinking to look up at her as she paints their faces. But Miriam's gift as an artist goes beyond a mere recording of what is: Miriam paints their ...
When light shines on something, it casts a shadow. This novel is about the shadow cast on a family and a country when light shines on its past. Lena Larsson, a young American student and aspiring writer, at the Sorbonne in Paris, was raised by her domineering Swedish immigrant Grandmother, Helga, an ...
Nothing Forgotten, Winner of Next Generation Indie Book Award. "An intricately layered, deeply heartfelt, and bittersweet novel," Starred Review, Booklist. "Delicious insights into Italian life," San Francisco Chronicle. When Anna is contacted by the Italian lover she knew decades before, she recall ...
Christmas is a time for family. How does a family rebound from an unbearable loss at the holiday?
The Montgomerys once cherished Christmas above all other holidays—until an unimaginable death transformed their season of joy into one of heartbreak. Now, as another crisis grips the famil ...
Do you believe in love at first sight?
A laconic novel fraught with exquisite tension and arresting beauty, The Sun Never Dies is the unforgettable story of one woman's journey back to self after encountering a strange yo ...
*This is General-Literary fiction and Magical Realism or Science Fiction. Death parts us all. A magical real quest to find home in a place no one can see. When a combat cameraman falls into a coma, the military takes advantage of his state by implanting new technology into his brain—technology that ...
Uqnitum is a singer from a famous musical lineage in the kingdom of Mitanni. When the fall of their city to the Assyrians costs her the life of her husband and her youngest child, she and her pregnant, widowed daughter flee to the court of Ugarit. Haunted by guilt over her part in her husbands death ...
Marie Foubert grew up in an orphanage and struggles with feelings of rejection. As a Red Cross recreation worker, she interacts with the American men based in Iceland during World War II. Her growing attraction to seaplane pilot Stef ...
In Clouds on the Ground, poet Autumn Williams takes you on a journey through the seasons of life, love, and loss. With poignant reflections, she offers an invitation to find respite in the serenity of nature, and escape into the realm of dreams. This collection is a testament to the tran ...
THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE AND OTHER STORIES is about all types of love relationships: the ones that exist between parent and child as well as between generations, the bonds that grow between new lovers as well as those between long-settled couples.
The 20-story collection captures every stage ...
THE BROKEN CIRCLE is about the renewal of three childhood friendships. It’s written from the viewpoint of two sixtyish year old women. Together they seek acceptance, love, hope, and happiness as they look ahead to the next excerpt in their lives. While doing so, they realize that a friend who had be ...
Holy Parrot is a captivating mystery that seamlessly weaves elements of culture, religion, science, and human emotion. Set in the idyllic Caribbean coast, the novel resonates with truths that may be lies and secrets potentially never revealed. Australian scientist, Leo, must either protect Maria and ...
Our earth mother, Gaia, foresaw a definitive epoch when the survival of humankind and her precious planet would be at issue. That day is upon us. Earth is enveloped in environmental and social crises. Unless humankind serves as stewards for Earth and themselves the planet may be despoiled. Gaia coul ...
2019 Selah Awards Finalist John Russell's heart aches from the loss of his wife, but the Shenandoah Valley frontiersman needs to marry again for his daughter's sake. At first he believes he has found the right young woman, but his faith falters when time reveals she isn't quite what she seemed. Can ...
Librarian Janet Johnson is puzzled when she is invited—and practically dragged—to her first meeting of the Rejected Writers’ Book Club. This quirky group of women would much rather celebrate one another’s rejected manuscripts over cups of tea and slices of lemon cake than actually publish a book. Bu ...
A powerful, unrelenting page-turner. Highly recommended Wishing Shelf Awards
Sad, uplifting, shocking, funny, hopeful and frustrating. Bookmuse
A wonderful book...Helen Baggott
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Jeff Bailey is turning 40. Settled and happily married, he spends his nights writing unsold screenplays while working security at a remote desert nuclear power plant after 9/11. Surfing the web one night, he sees the name of his first love, Shelley Dawson, pop up on a high school website. Bailey off ...
Kasey Phillips thinks her biggest problem is deciding whether to photograph Cody Tuggle’s honky-tonkin’ tour, until an accident on Route 58 claims the life of her husband. In a desperate race against time as a hurricane threatens the eastern seaboard, they search for her three-year-old son who is ...
Embark on a journey through eleven heartwarming tales: You will meet a young boy who transforms his community with a mystical and meaningful Christmas, a woman who uncovers a mysterious pink gift card brimming with unexpected wonders, and a troubled young man who discovers the enchanting sound of sn ...
What if the only way to escape your troubled life was through a secret portal?
In “J.J. Fowler,” a middle school outcast stumbles upon a door hidden in the blackberry bushes. On the other side is a room that shouldn’t exist—one that shifts and reshapes each time he e ...
From WILLA Award winning author Kim Taylor Blakemore... “lends credence to the millions of historical and contemporary girls who dare to dream in the face of extraordinary challenges.” - Starred Review, Kirkus “compelling, gritty, and sometimes brutal view of life on the streets.” - Barnes and Noble ...
Collin Griffin has changed. His wife, Jolene, suspects infidelity. His mother sees him lash out at his beloved dog and wonders what could be wrong. His father sees Collin as a disappointment for refusing to live up to his view of what a “man” should be. But no one suspects his downward spiral will l ...
