Author Trish Egan has dedicated her book I Am Sunshine to survivors of childhood abuse. Her fictionalized heroine, Idalia, was sexually abused as a child and as a consequence developed coping and survival strategies that made her life appear perfect on the outside, but which...

Return to Me by Carolyn Menke is a historical romance taking place in America during World War II. On the way to basic training, James Pasko has an encounter that will forever change his life. Sadie Stark never expected to see the young boy who...

The Year Mrs. Cooper Got Out More by Meredith Marple describes a group of people in the Great Wharf area. Several characters have had traumatic experiences that shape their behaviors in the book. Jean lost her husband, Richie's father, to an accident. Mallory has a...

Following his divorce and recent redundancy, Ian moves into Bedsit Three in order to be closer to his young son, hoping he will be able to resurrect his failed relationship with his ex-wife. Across the hall from Ian lives Sandra, an unconventional single mother, who...

A Knight for Kallen by Lauren Linwood is the story of Kallen, a unique young woman with a special gift who was born in a convent and spent the first 18 years of her life there. After the deaths of two people that swore nobody...

When Maggie Anderson Davis inherited the Victorian home where she grew up, it was with the anticipation of continuing the family legacy of mingling the familiar with the unexpected. Small town Tilden, Nebraska, becomes ever smaller at Maggie’s table where stories grow, memories are rehashed,...

In Everybody Has a Story... These Are Ours... Audrey N Lewis offers seven stories of varying lengths on the theme of nobody’s life is perfect, all but one told by a female at some stage of her life. The Closet centres on a young married...

Beneath the Surface by Heather Nadine Lenz is freakishly surreal. Natalia awakes feeling trapped within herself. Everything is off, foggy, things are not right. Actually, almost nothing makes sense. Questions invade her mind. Why does she feel so terrible? Who are the children...

Fatal Whispers is the second book from the Megan Scott/Michael Elliott Mysteries by Sandra Nikolai. Michael Elliott, an investigative reporter, and his girlfriend, Megan Scott, find themselves probing the sudden death of Tiffany, the socialite wife of George Gray, while visiting Megan’s cousin Bianca in...

In an absolutely wonderful work of fiction with a very interesting true historical basis, Scarlet Letter Lives by author Maureen K. Wlodarczyk follows the story of the owners of three copies of an 1850s release of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The books start...