Remy O’Malley has a special gift. The seventeen year old can heal people’s injuries with her magical touch. But even though she has this uncanny ability, her own life is broken and flawed from years of abuse at the hands of her stepfather, who beats...

When we first meet Philip Adler he is in session with a troubled patient, a young woman with whom Adler is playing a sort of chess game. Who will speak first? What is the appropriate position to take in response? If you have ever wondered...

The tough mountain man called Preacher was once a young boy named Art back in those times of the mid-1800's when this country was young. Preacher learned by experience how to fight off the Blackfoot Native Americans who were highly hostile to white men's intrusion...

"The Illusion of Secondhand Smoke" by Janice M. Van Dyck is about Maria DeLuca, a successful motivational speaker, whose personal life is anything but happy. She is into drugs and is having an affair with a married man. She is not without her reasons for...

The year is 1980 and Alicia Barron is back in her hometown in Chicago. She is attending the funeral service of her childhood friend whose whole family perished in an automobile accident. This is a close community but Alicia feels like an outsider even to...

"The Middle of Nowhere" begins back in the early twenties. We meet Lucy Malinda Chapman, also known as Skitchy, the fifteen year old daughter of a rancher family in West Texas. When Skitchy falls in love with Pinkney Campbell, a cotton farmer,who is several years...

"The Girl from Long Guyland" by Lara Reznik takes us into the world of successful IT executive Laila Levin. Laila seems to have it all; the great job, a great marriage, and overall just a great life. Suddenly life starts to seem not so perfect....

“The Last Supper Catering Company” by Michaelene McElroy is a book with a different flavor. This is the first novel by the author. I certainly hope it will not be her last. I have nothing to compare the plot to; it is unique, imaginative and...

One-time crackerjack Chicago police detective, Maggie Quinn, is on permanent leave from the force and is plagued by nightmares. She dreams that she discovers the body of a young woman who has been strangled and her torso sliced. In this same dream, a man in...

Forty year old Keene Mason, who describes himself as a "boring engineer", has died. He wishes to have his casket filled with 2005 Saint Emilion wine which costs over 50 dollars a bottle and he wants to lie in his casket, now wine-filled, for a...