Lascarso’s writing is enthralling and stays true to the inner workings of a seventeen-year-old mind. Following the tumultuous, burgeoning relationship between two teenage boys in rural Texas, "The Bravest Thing", by Laura Lascarso, is... Read More

Violence in relationships can affect anyone, as "A Careful Heart" compellingly proves. "A Careful Heart" is a romance novel by way of domestic abuse. Sound improbable? Perhaps, but Ralph Josiah Bardsley takes on that often-neglected... Read More

"Hopeless Romantic" is an incredible, vibrant, timely romance that puts the emphasis on the T in LGBTQ. What happens when you fall in love with someone who defies everything you think you know about men, women, gender, queerness, and... Read More

Kate and Robert lustfully act out their passion in this addition to an explicit erotica series. Suzanne Eglington’s She’s Got the Jack is a jaunty and dialogue-driven story that is liberally doused with vivid sex scenes. In this... Read More

This amusing novel takes a fresh look at motherhood and at all the ways to make up a family. In Sonia Taitz’s "Great with Child", Abigail is pregnant—and determined not to let it stand in her way. With the father out of her mind and... Read More

Friendship and past challenges factor in to this romance novel that happily tests genre boundaries. Cricket Reynolds delves into the romantic life of a college professor with a troubled family past in The Highmore Circle, a novel that... Read More

This comical take on a woman’s second coming-of-age is breezy and whimsical. Heidi Mastrogiovanni demonstrates that even middle-age adults can come of age in the hilarious and uplifting Lala Pettibone’s Act Two. Its whimsical... Read More

Running throughout the narrative are strong threads about the untapped potential of women. In "The Mermaids of Lake Michigan", Suzanne Kamata explores one girl’s coming of age in the 1970s with heartbreaking detail. Trapped by her... Read More