Drift through ghost-lit towns, forest thrones, crumbling cities, and midnight diners. Blending surrealism and emotional depth, Sun Come Back follows a wandering narrator who moves like a shadow at the edge of other people’s lives, providing dispatches from the outskirts of humanity. This is a book of love stories without names, letters from the trash, hallucinated towns, wolves with meat bouquets, and the ghosts who remain with us. Stories that are both absurd and intimately human...

Short Story Press Presents Along The Prairie Winds by Daniel NewcomerTyler and Caroline live an almost perfect life of love and marriage after buying a farm and taking on the many challenges that farm life provides. Everything was going well for more than ten years, until one night at the end of another terrible harvest brought on by drought when the entire foundation of Tyler and Caroline's relationship was tested after a sudden accident in the field. Their prized and most beloved...

Tyler and Caroline live an almost perfect life of love and marriage after buying a farm and taking on the many challenges that farm life provides. Everything was going well for more than ten years, until one night at the end of another terrible harvest brought on by drought when the entire foundation of Tyler and Caroline’s relationship was tested after a sudden accident in the field.Their prized and most beloved horse, Marquis de Sade, collapsed without any explanation, and upon b...

Tyler Hard has wanted Eliza for a long time. But taking over his father's business, building his home, and most of all not knowing what she wanted, meant he never acted on his feelings for her. When she accidentally leaves her diary after dropping her car off to be repaired, he has no intention of reading it—but the temptation is too much, and now at last he has the key to her desires.Eliza has always had a crush on the town mechanic. He'd been the star guy in high school, and feat...

Was it possible Cassandra had a son, even though she'd been married for less than twenty-four hours before she was widowed? Her brother-in-law, Enrique de Montoya was caught off-guard.He couldn't forget that he'd tried to stop the short-lived marriage between Cassandra and his brother—by seducing her himself….

I thought I knew what hell was. After years as a cop, I was sure I'd seen the worst humanity had to offer.I had no f*cking idea.Now I know I've seen hell. Hell is the basement of an industrial warehouse where the rich, bored and psychotic buy their pleasure at the cost of innocent men and women.I will take these bastards down, but first, I have to let myself be sold…My life as a sexual slave should destroy me. Maybe I'm made for hell because as much...

Daphne Maddox passed up a plum corporate job in Boston to follow the love of her life to Miami. Three years later—the girl and her dreams long gone—Daphne is eking out a living as a coordinator for a nonprofit home builder. Heaven help the next woman who dangles empty promises. \r\nMaribel Tirado Leóns “anger issues” have earned her community service on Daphnes jobsite, and their mutual misery draws them together. Daphne cant help her fascination with the exotic Mari, who moves in th...

"Brimming with rich descriptions of a beautiful country…. The News From Paraguay evolves from a quirky, elegant tale of an unconventional love affair into a sweeping epic." — Fort Worth Star-TelegramLily Tuck's impressive novel offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of 19th century Paraguay, a largely untouched wilderness where European and American figures mix with the Spanish aristocracy of the capital and the indigenous peoples from the surrou...

A woman wonders if she can trust her heart to mysterious newcomer who settles in her small western frontier town in this inspirational historical romance.Traveling through the Wyoming wilderness, all Bridger Jamison wants is a job and a safe haven for his brother. Finding work with the lovely Lola Martin solves at least one of his problems. And the charming town of Quiver Creek seems like the perfect place to start a new life.A string of mysterious deaths has...

A young woman is plucked from the American Midwest and whisked into a wild and wicked Oz called Havana during the early days of the Cuban Revolution, there to find first love and Carmen Miranda.

"Vlad" is Vlad the Impaler, of course, whose mythic cruelty was an inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula. In this sly sequel, Vlad really is undead: dispossessed after centuries of mayhem by Eastern European wars and rampant blood shortages. More than a postmodern riff on "the vampire craze," Vlad is also an anatomy of the Mexican bourgeoisie, as well as our culture's ways of dealing with death. For—as in Dracula—Vlad has need of both a lawyer and a real-estate agent in o...

Games of the rich and famous, love, lust, and forbidden passions weave this tale that play out through decades and the world. The close ties the Alcalas have to the royal house of Spain provide them with an unspoken untouchable policy. Their passions and their secrets are about to come to light with a force that cannot be stopped. In this whirlwind is Cristina Uraca Alacala who is searching for a truth that has been denied to her most of her life and she must find. She is not unlike her fa...