The Girl He Left Behind by Lesley Hayes is the tale, told by Kat, of a relationship between two women in which she is the less dominant partner. She meets Alex, her lover, after a failed marriage and becomes part of the gay community in...

The Vines We Planted by Joanell Serra tells the story of a family facing struggles and their individual crisis. Uriel facing a rejected love and a wariness to re-commit; Amanda searching for acceptance and her place in the family; Gloria doing all she can to...

All Roads Home: A Collection of Short Stories by Lisa Diaz Meyer is the first book in the author's All Roads trilogy, followed by All Roads Destined and All Roads Shattered. This anthology begins with the onset of Meyer's wildly popular and highly rated saga,...

Running from Color: A Novel by Morenike' starts with a personal letter from the author which expresses a racist experience she had at Walmart, one that opened her eyes to the painful reality of racism. At the end of the letter, she states with a...

Patty Friedmann’s An Organized Panic takes the reader inside the workings of many families, but in this particular family the protagonists have no reason to suffer financially or spiritually from the power Ronald wields. Despite this, Cesca submits to the pressure he exerts after their...

Although I didn’t read the first book in the Miller Hoffman series by Zelmer Wilson, this second entry, Next Best Thing, reads so well and it is absorbing. I particularly enjoyed the fact that the book is character-driven, and the internal conflict is superbly explored....

A brilliantly plotted and beautifully written novel, Porcelain Faith: A Novel by Anthony Civiletti takes readers through a web of complex relationships in a world that has its own share of issues. Meet James, a man who is struggling to cope with the social changes...

Can love really happen between an eighty-eight-year-old woman and a forty-eight-year-old man? Richard Alther’s novel Roxie & Fred will make readers believe that age doesn’t matter when real love calls two souls to find themselves in each other. Meet 88-year-old Roxie, a woman who has...

Paranormal, intense, and deep, Of All Things, Great and Small by Jordan G. Farrell is a novel that follows a psychological phenomenon in the life of aspiring writer Justin. It begins with the flu that quickly takes a different toll on him, plunging him into...

The Disappearing Andersons of Loon Lake, written and narrated by Jess Wells, is a two-hour short story collection audio book that would appeal most to a mixed audience of young adults and adults who enjoy short stories that all share a common setting and a...