A filmmaker and her subject push past their cynicism to form an intoxicating bond in the international novel The Perfumer’s Secret. In Neroli Lacey’s novel The Perfumer’s Secret, a documentary filmmaker makes tough decisions... Read More

Taking on the dark, difficult subject matter of a father’s enduring grief, "His Final Answer" is a gripping novel. Christopher D. White and Jennifer Curran’s novel "His Final Answer" explores the ripple effect of prolonged grief and... Read More

With the support of others, an abused woman comes into her own in the revealing bildungsroman "Where Love Lies". A loving family, financial privilege, fashionable clothes, and academic success offer no protection against insecurity and a... Read More

A wounded woman is assisted in the search for the truth about her late father in the empathetic novel "Threads of Us". Christie Havey Smith weaves together four entwined perspectives in "Threads of Us", a novel about grieving a parent... Read More

In the reassuring epistolary novel "Letters to Annie", a grandmother writes fairy tale–evocative letters to her granddaughter, drawing parallels between the child’s woes and the stories of Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Ariel. In Monika... Read More

Historical tensions are vivified in the novel "The Girl of Many Crowns", in which a noblewoman fights for self-determination. D. H. Morris’s historical novel "The Girl of Many Crowns" covers seven years in the life of Judith of... Read More

A scarred art therapist who’s hungry for personal healing returns to her hometown to confront troubling memories in the cathartic novel "What Was Lost". In Melissa Connelly’s evocative novel "What Was Lost", a woman’s pursuit of... Read More

Harmony and clarity are found as four men pursue happiness in tandem in the endearing novel "The Overexamined Life of Jacob Hart". In Jerry Wald’s soulful novel "The Overexamined Life of Jacob Hart", the longtime friendships between... Read More