Category: Literature & Fiction

Juleón “Jude” Tholet has survival in his DNA. His father lived through imprisonment and torture during Pinochet’s coup in Chile. His mother risked everything to gain her husband’s freedom and flee the country with their newborn son. As a closeted gay teenager growing up in Vancouver, Jude is targeted by a neighborhood bully, culminating in a vicious hate crime that forces the Tholets to flee their country again. Jude cautiously rebuilds his life in Seattle, becoming an ... [Read More...]

Tony is dead. He killed himself Monday night. Three thousand miles away. Brian Listo is going home. Five days. Four best friends who don’t forgive him. Three women who can’t stand him. Two parents who don’t trust him. One unforgivable sin he can’t hide from anymore. Brian is back in Virginia despite the craters he left at New Year’s. Back to eat crow. To beg forgiveness. To explain himself to anyone who will listen. Except for the one person who can no longer hear him. $0.99 on Kindle... [Read More...]

Christmas is always special, but even more so if your birthday falls on the same day. As William Spencer celebrates his birthday each year on December 25–first as a child in rural America in the 1930s, and then as a World War II veteran, husband, and father–he learns that, no matter what his circumstances, happiness is an attitude, not a condition. But as a solitary old man living in a one-bedroom apartment, William Spencer expects this Christmas birthday to be his last. His holiday... [Read More...]

A hidden, sacred canyon. Eight women. Twelve centuries. And a mystical song that connects them all. This is the layout of Robert DeMayo’s new novel, “The Sirens of Oak Creek”, a gripping tale that intertwines local myths with historical facts and the author’s vibrant imagination. The story is populated by vastly different people who passed through Arizona’s magical Oak Creek Canyon over the centuries: Ancient hunter-gatherers, Mayan visitors, Spanish conquistadors,... [Read More...]

“Be careful what you wish for!” When Terry encounters his double, shadowy wife Gudrun avoids hearing the amazing news. What is she hiding, and why? Soon both have some awkward secrets. Terry’s search traps him into increasingly bizarre situations. Bizarre can be funny, sad, alarming or thought-provoking and this novel offers all, as well as a large caste of complex characters and a gripping mystery. Will Terry ever discover what he really needs to know? Is Gudrun a heroine, a victim or a ... [Read More...]

Katherine wouldn’t have believed it if she hadn’t found the letter… In the summer of 1905 Katherine Arthur’s mother arrives on her doorstep, dying, forcing her to relive a past she wanted to forget. When Katherine was young, the Arthur family had been affluent city dwellers until shame sent them running for the prairie, into the unknown. $0.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

She had her entire life planned until the Great War began and everything changed. April 1914. Barrie, Ontario. Hettie Steward is feisty, educated, ambitious and stubborn. Her fiancé, Geoffrey Bartlette, the love of her life since childhood, has been a patient man. He waited while she attended nursing school and worked a year, but now it is time to wed. While Hettie is thrilled to be starting her life with Geoffrey, she laments that marriage means sacrificing her beloved nursing career, and dom... [Read More...]