At the tender age of twenty-two, Rani Sada Kaur became a widow when her husband, Sardar Gurbaksh Singh, fell in battle. She had one daughter, Mehtab Kaur, and no son to succeed her husband. Her father-in-law, Jai Singh, needed an heir to preserve the integrity...

Maiden of Flowers is the first novel in The Flower Saga by Makayla Love. Princess Orchid and her brother Prince Jasper are orphaned and living under the care of Beauregard Claude, the Comte du Papilio. Now that Jasper is the King, Orchid’s only concern is...

It was the beginning of the nineteenth century and ruthless pirates ruled the seas surrounding China and South East Asia. Just as Europeans were trying to exert their naval and cultural power on the Chinese and others in the region, one group was determined to...

Primarily set in early eighteenth-century London, The Adventures of Tom Finch, Gentleman by Lucy May Lennox is a picaresque tale of a blind music master who triumphs over his disability to lead a thoroughly (dis)honorable life. It is a merry romp from start to finish....

In Ken Gordon’s Bad Dogs: A Black Cadet in Dixie, we first meet the protagonist Jon H. Quest as the CEO of a mega-successful company. He’s late for the monthly dinner get-together of his mega-successful Black family at their mega-amazing family compound. We will get...

Three Tamales for the Señor and Other Stories by James Tipton is a collection of the late author and former literature and writing professor's work. Tipton zeroes in on his retirement in Mexico as the inspiration for each of the seventeen pieces in this anthology,...

Sinister Intent by Linda Dowling is the sequel to her incredible debut novel Splintered Heart and is a sweeping story of love, loss, and tragedy in the Australian outback. Lisa O’Connor was just thirteen when she was savagely and brutally raped by her future brother-in-law....

Young Mother with Red Hair by M.A. Dunn is a masterpiece. The author set up a writing challenge, which—if completed successfully—could be nothing else but miraculous. The chosen form, however, is daring. The woman with red hair (and freckles) is Jane Smith, an English teacher...

No Birds Sing Here by Daniel V. Meier Jr. is the story of a road trip taken by Beckman and a lady he meets by the name of Malany. Both are running from a life they no longer want to lead, and both are frustrated...

To write The Perfect 10, Eric O’Keefe had to know and master the game of polo—horses, players, technique, culture—also, U.S. and British political structures, the stock market, media techniques, police investigative procedures, communications hacking, Palm Beach locale and culture, Argentina, upper-class morals and manners, fine...