Category: Contemporary Fiction

Darling Descent

A university psychiatrist. A curious undergrad. A dangerous attraction. When Kenna O’Callaghan visits Dr. Dayton Merino to propose a mentorship, she freezes. There’s something familiar about him. His scars. His black eyes and hollow stare. She’s seen him once before, emerging from the confessional ahead of Christmas Eve Mass. Kenna soon learns he had plenty to confess when an acquaintance divulges a dark truth and in a quest for answers she finds herself tangled in a web of his strange be... [Read More...]

Breathe

She’s a hunted hacker and former CIA informant. He’s a small-town pediatrician who long ago fell in love with the girl next door. When she moved away, she never looked back. Now, she can’t stop looking over her shoulder. There are whispers of an attack on the US power grid and suspicions of double agents. She’s determined to do her part for her country and her team. But one thing she won’t do is risk another person she loves. The one thing she can never give him, or her enemy, is a se... [Read More...]

Small Town, Big Rumors

He tasted like tequila and the fake name I gave him was Rose. Four years ago, I decided to get over one man, by getting under another. A single night and nothing more. I found my handsome stranger with a shot glass and charming but devilish smile at the end of the bar. The desire that hit his eyes the second they landed on me ignited a spark inside me, instant and hot. He was perfect and everything I didn’t know I needed. That one night may have ended, but I left with much more than a memory.... [Read More...]

Mail Duty

Captain Dustin Reed escaped from an understaffed psychiatric hospital. Three years later, he was Justin Rowe, the Crazy-Town mailman—a lovable, eager to please, nerd. He knew his customers: when their bills were late, when their adult-toys arrived, when they went on vacation, and when their cars were parked at the church, while they were at the bar or motel. He knew them, but they did not know him. They didn’t know he was an ex-soldier whose untreated PTSD forced him to relive missions. The... [Read More...]

Meat

In the murky wake of the financial crisis a string of establishments pop up across Europe catering to a hedonistic underground, its clientele beholden to a strange, hallucinatory meat. Stoked by the fleshy and charismatic Hugo and fuelled by voracious consumption of ecstasy, the craze spreads from the heart of Europe all the way to the Mediterranean, where in Athens the financial elite begin to turn on each other. Murder, barbecue and apocalyptic raving ensues, culminating in the most savage pa... [Read More...]

HIS Mess, HIS Stress: Rod and Maris

Rod blindsides his family by revealing something none of them are prepared to hear. But wanting to call it quits on a 20-year marriage is not easy for Maris, and she struggles with what to do with the everyday new normal that has now taken over her family and has it in complete dysfunction that everyone is now talking about. $3.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Free: Dr. Hot Stuff

Racing heart? Check. Damp palms? Check. All signs indicate I’ve got it bad for Lady Isabella Blankenship. It could be contagious, since Iz shows all the same symptoms. But what’s got her pulling back anytime things blaze between us? I know a modern-day duchess might have baggage from finding out she’s the illegitimate child of a dead American philanderer with more kids than morals. But Izzy’s on edge, and there’s more to it than run-of-the-mill culture shock. Turns out I’m not the o... [Read More...]

Love, Chocolate, and a Dog Named Al Capone

Capone, the newly acquired puppy of Miss Josephine St. Clair, owner of Bartleby’s Books, is a literature loving Labrador. Obsessed with Jane Austen, and cursed with a terrible name, Capone hopes to change his doggie karma and prove he’s just as much a gentleman as the heroes in his favorite books, by finding the perfect Mr. Darcy for the lonely and bookishly adorable Miss Josie. Unfortunately, the only men Miss Josie seems to encounter aren’t Darcys at all. They’re Wickh... [Read More...]