Category: Womens Fiction

Home Is Where the Heart Is

A photojournalist damaged by war. A web of family secrets. Can she untangle the past to save her future? CJ Beck’s career as an international photojournalist has been ripped from her by the sniper’s bullet that killed her husband. Forced to return stateside to deal with the resulting PTSD, CJ discovers home is anything but peaceful. Therapy forces her to relive the worst year of her life. Her family’s ancestral ranch is threatened by outside financial forces. Worst of all, the guy that br... [Read More...]

Welcome to Piney Falls

Winner of the Literary Titan Silver Award Lanie has no idea what awaits her in Piney Falls… Lanie Anders has a perfectly-ordered life. From her half-foam morning latte to her high-powered executive job – she controls every outcome. But when her house burns to the ground in mysterious circumstances, her life is thrown into confusion. Searching for some kind of purpose, she stumbles across a century-old mystery and flees to Piney Falls, Oregon, an oceanside hamlet with a curious past. ... [Read More...]

Free: World Without End, Amen: (Book 3, Edie in Love Trilogy)

She’s chasing her new life, but an unexpected tragedy brings him closer than ever before. Edie has nothing left in New York City. Her friends are married, her father has passed, and her big chance to change her life drifted off with the wind.When she overhears women talking about a far-off paradise where an American can live an inexpensive, luxurious life, Edie knows that this is the next step for the Carow women. Determined to make the best of her life, to explore the artist she could be, Ed... [Read More...]

Bridge to Freedom

A lot can happen in ten days. For ten days, look into the lives of Violet, a domestic day worker and her husband Everett, a Pullman porter. Their work days are long, often stretching into the night. The conditions are intense, their every word, every gesture is viewed under a microscope; dissected and critiqued. A wrong move could lead to termination or worse. Despite harsh realities they feel richly blessed, with love for one another, family, church and community. $0.99 each on Kindle. Learn M... [Read More...]

Free: The Spa at Lavender Lane

2020 American Fiction Awards Finalist – Women’s Fiction “This witty Roman a Clef makes for can’t put it down reading. Melhado’s fully formed characters bring to mind a more modern contemporary version of ‘The Women.'” –Jeffrey Banks, Author and Coty-Award Winning Fashion Designer ... [Read More...]

Jane Digby’s Diary: To Begin, Begin

Here is your chance to read someone else’s diary – with her permission, of course. Jane Digby was a woman ahead of her time. Born in 1807 to wealth and privilege in Dorset, England, she sacrificed respectability to travel the world in pursuit of true love, all the while sampling contenders along the way! Any reader of her diary (and yes, it is written as an actual diary) should love history and language and have an appreciation of independent women who chart their own paths. This vo... [Read More...]

The Julia Street Series

A segregated train ride is only the beginning. The Julia Street Series, including the prequel All’s Well That Ends, provides an intimate view into the lives of Sara Jameson and family. Join them as they make the move from the Southside of Chicago to Berkeley, California. Take a peek into an all-Black neighborhood as they navigate community, family traditions, and expectations. The cross-country ride on a segregated train signals life-changing endings and much-needed new beginnings. Along ... [Read More...]

Ten Thousand I Love Yous

In this second chances romance, Kimberly Braxton’s life becomes a wild adventure of self-discovery, lust, and love after Jay, her high school sweetheart husband, abandons her. Just as she falls for a talented young chef, Jay fights to win her back. The ten thousand I love yous that have passed Jay’s lips can’t be dismissed but nor can the exhilaration with her bold, new life. $2.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

You Can’t Blame the Flower

Introverted young attorney Lilyanna Rivers knew one day she would return to Whimser—the mysterious mansion in the middle-of-nowhere, Texas, where flowers don’t grow. She didn’t know her return would be with a select group of her corporate colleagues to quarantine at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The comedy of errors of the employees coexisting intertwines with a darker backstory of how Lilyanna came to inherit Whimser from the late William Whimsergarden, her former college profes... [Read More...]

The Family She Never Met

Jessica Russo knows nothing about her mother’s family or her Cuban culture. Every time she’s asked about it, her mother has shut down. But when the Cuban grandmother she’s never met sends her right-hand man, Luis, to offer Jessica the chance to come to Miami and meet her estranged family, she can’t help but say yes, even as she knows it will pain her mother. The woman that Jessica meets is nothing like what she expected. Her grandmother is successful, intelligent, determ... [Read More...]