Physician Corinthia Madsen Salas—Dr. Maddie—has a flourishing practice in the tiny southern town of Maypearl, Alabama. Although she’s on call for her eclectic patients 24/7, she keeps her personal life private—most notably the fact that she is in love with her new receptionist, Ella Lewis. To reveal the truth could be an ethical disaster for her career and her impeccable standing as a civic leader in the small town. Yet, even so, she wonders often if Ella’s sly, shy glances indicate a retu...

Delora November is a survivor—ask anyone in Redstar, Alabama, and they will tell you that. Her ex-husband put her in a burn ward and she came fighting back. She works three jobs and on the surface she’s keeping it together.Redstar itself works its own magic. When the thought of yet another hospital is too much, Delora turns to healer women she’s heard might help. In the quiet, breathing depths of Bayou Lisse she meets Sophie Cofe.It seems like magic indeed when Delora finds...

Vandalism and violence at Fortune Farm have pulled investigator Denni Hope home to Southern Louisiana. Her insistent ex-girlfriend, Patty Price, expects Denni to get to the bottom of an endless nightmare of trouble. For Denni, it means watching Patty with Yolanda Elliott, the creepy, conniving lowlife who stole Patty away.Denni had hoped Patty was exaggerating, but the chaos at the farm borders on evil. The Price family is well-loved but nothing has been right since the death of Pa...

A Finalist for the 2025 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQIA+ AnthologyThrough essays, short stories, and poems, Swagger documents the butch experience by highlighting butch stories and butch voices, which often go unheard or are misunderstood. Books can be mirrors and windows—reflecting our lives back to us or opening them up to others. The writers featured in the pages inside have bravely shared their stories and their hearts with the intent that this antho...

When red-headed tech genius Emma Vernon lands a trouble-shooting job at The Workflow Editorial Initiative, she has to share an office with quiet senior editor Barbara Simmons. Emma finds herself fascinated by the scholarly and reserved woman nicknamed Bebe, and they soon find common ground during long lunches and lively discussions that bridge their two worlds.When Bebe steps in to protect Emma from an abusive ex, the pair make a hasty retreat to the sanctuary of Emma’s family home...

When Lily Dawson’s estranged father passes away, she’s forced to return to her childhood home in New Mexico to settle his affairs and prepare the sprawling cattle ranch for sale.Once there, Lily is dumbfounded by what she discovers. It seems that her Air Force father has been assisting the federal government in protecting the United States from alien threats—threats from other worlds.Lily has no intention of taking her father’s place in his work. But when a new menace emerg...

Love Is in the Air, a collection of romantic short stories about love that comes to us in different ways, different forms, and in ways we might never suspect. Whether we feel worthy or not, love is there. And it will find us all.

Nine authors. Nine short stories. These prequels and sequels will lead you further into the characters and stories you have loved.Nat Burns−And to the ChildRae D. Magdon−Bombs Just HappenKellie Doherty−Dangers in the DaylightAnn Tonnell−Family of ChoiceToni Draper−Miracle on 34th StreetJanis E. Miles−Out and AboutJazzy Mitchell−Scheduling HappinessEllen Hoil−Stand by Your GirlS.L. Kassidy−Warrior Class Claiming the Stars

In this highly anticipated second book in The Desert Willow Series, the Grey aliens are back and Lily Dawson, the government liaison to the Interdimensional Beings who protect Earth, is called back into action. Only this time, it is her half IDB daughter, Birdie, and another hybrid teen, Rosemary, who will be called upon to create a treaty to save Earth from certain destruction.Soon life is further complicated by an unknown earthly threat, a human, who seeks revenge. Will Lily be s...

Nathan Casy escapes the mines of Mars while working on a shanghaiing mission to Earth. On the run, he encounters a band of people with telepathy, a mutation spawned by War Four. They believe he is the Heavensent of prophecy who will deliver their people from Phillip Pope, the despotic NewMerica ruler who is trying to wipe them out. Nathan, though doubtful, joins forces with the rebels and they soon invade the seat of empire where Pope resides. During this invasion, Nathan discovers a profo...

This new horror novel by romance writer, Nat Burns, shows the darker side of a beloved author. Just because Lacey has won the election to become sheriff of Queens Lot doesn't mean that people will believe in her. Especially when she sees a pattern of deaths in her small town and has a gut feeling that the so-called natural deaths are much more sinister. Without evidence and possible perpetrators, her hands are tied and she is viewed as hysterical by all but a precious few.But when t...

Shay Raynor doesnt need to learn anything twice. After a three-year disastrous relationship she now knows what happens when you let someone inside your heart, body and mindthey take everything. Her career as a prominent D.C. dog trainer is in tatters, but that pales next to the wounds she carries inside and out. Liza Hughes has left her business in Montgomery for the even smaller Maypearl, Alabama, to care for her ailing father. Distance from her clinging ex is also welcome. Shes not ...