Category: Contemporary Fiction

Free: The Christmas Stocking

How a Christmas Stocking helps keep a family’s special memories alive. For those who are missing someone they love. ***** Review Made me almost cry. Made me smile. A warm tender story about loss and love and Christmas mending broken hearts ***** Review I loved reading this book. It is short but powerful. Sad when we lose someone we love. Even sadder when we try to not remember them just so we don’t get emotional. This book made me cry. Happy tears of course! ***** Review This was a grea... [Read More...]

Father Time

Unravel the Twisted Humor and Heartache in ‘Father Time’ Dive into the darkly comedic world of ‘Father Time’, penned by the talented Torthell Robinson. Here, protagonist Trevor Russell grapples with the ghosts of a tumultuous Black American childhood, only to find that his emerging literary success brings with it a host of new demons. As Trevor’s estranged father resurfaces to seek forgiveness, and as Trevor faces impending fatherhood himself sans matrimonial bliss... [Read More...]

The Person Who Hated People

SHORT DESCRIPTION: C.D. Beekman is a respected history professor. Respected but not liked. For he hates people and doesn’t suffer fools gladly. But will an unlikely romance with the lovely Trudee and a strange twist of fate change the professor’s curmudgeonly attitude towards the human race? Or will he remain the person who hates people? LONG DESCRIPTION: Retired History professor C.D. Beekman is known by the townspeople of Madison, California, as “the nicest man.” He’s always friendl... [Read More...]

Such a Bad Influence: A Novel

In this humorous and heartfelt novel, a blueberry farmer teams up with a teenager in need to start a revenge business. What could possibly go wrong?In rural Ohio, the last connections lonesome Felicity Lavigne has to her late mom are the blueberry farm she inherited and her mom’s old phone number—which Felicity still calls every day. Until she gets a call back. It’s the number’s new owner, Alex Norse, a surly, homeless teenager who has aged out of the foster care system with no one to t... [Read More...]

The Escape Clause

Written for adults and told with a light and clean sense of humor, this is not a gruesome zombie tale. It’s part comedy horror, part legal procedural and part sci-fi mystery. A zombie, a vampire and their probate attorney embark on a quest to have the zombie legally identified as the deceased, Clay Douglas, so he can keep his property. As they stumble upon an increasingly intricate criminal conspiracy, people begin to die under mysterious circumstances. Greed and betrayal lurch from the shado... [Read More...]

Principals: A post-K-pop novel

As the teenage Agati struggles to feed her adopted sister in a poverty-stricken dictatorship, a mysterious figure arrives to offer them a way out. Taken to a competitive pop-star academy they only know from whispered rumour, Agati and Jün-Fi find that the life of stardom is not what it seems. And nor is the iron hand of the government.In the struggle to become idols, Agati must adapt to survive in an environment more punishing than life on the streets. But other forces are abroad in the Democr... [Read More...]