Fiction, Contemporary Women
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Mam and Chase - Forgotten Stories
by Marguerite Nardone Gruen
In their nineties and married for sixty-nine years, Mam and Chase have had an incredible life, full of love, laughter, and family, and enjoyed an almost magical bond that has helped get them through all the various tragedies and traumas that have ...
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The Pink Blanket
by J. Lynn Ady
After a four-month hiatus to Padua, Italy, thirty-seven-year-old Taya Stone arrives home to Chicago, alone and afraid. Alone—because she has left her abusive husband. Afraid—because he has no idea, and she would like to keep it that way until she ...
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Anna's Place
by Carol Eckhardt
Anna Royer and her daughter Elizabeth are haunted by the raw Wyoming landscape they left behind years before. Their memories of the immensity of sky, the breadth of distance, the demons of weather and spirits of the "Old Ones" conspire to draw them ...
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The Blackstone Project
by Dalia Rahm
When an escaped felon turns up at the local hospital with a concussion, the local sheriff’s office believes she is the victim of a violent assault. Unable to remember her past, where she came from or who hurt her, Sarah Blackstone is returned to ...
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Looking for Daisy
by Maria de Andrade
Sixty-two-year-old Marguerite has just had her second breast cancer diagnosis following a routine mammogram—and this time she will have to undergo a full mastectomy. Scared and discouraged, she keeps the news to herself so she doesn’t spoil an ...
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The Little Sect
by Maria de Andrade
The Little Sect is the story of Michelle and her close-knit extended family in Montreal. Though not without their troubles, they’re mostly happy, until the arrival of her brother’s second child creates the need for a live-in nanny, Lita. Lita’s ...
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Nightrunner
by Thomas F. Miller
Set in East Africa in the late 1990s, NIGHTRUNNER, is part love story, part road adventure, part quest. After escaping an abusive relationship and surviving a difficult and dangerous journey through Uganda and across the border into Nairobi, Sarra ...
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Love Find Me
by E.P. Stasz
Sandy Summers is living her life to the fullest—teaching art at a local college, enjoying long runs in the forest, and exploring the depths of her faith. Then, her world is turned upside down when she takes in an abandoned teenage girl. Soon she ...
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Culture Shock
Living and Working in China at Age 68 by Marlene Ritchie
Marlene Ritchie is off to teach in China at age 68. She’s just divorced and retired from the auction business she and her husband founded, and is now examining her past and finding the self-confidence to start anew. She’ll be embedded in the commune ...
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The Blasted Tower
by Catti-Ann Belle
Andee Pearce has just celebrated her fifty-fifth birthday alone in her beachfront California home. Divorced and grieving a shattering loss, she is given a tarot card reading from a stranger on a plane that changes the trajectory of her life forever. ...
