Literary Fiction

A riveting and haunting tale of survival, love and redemption set against New York City's gritty landscape in the 1970s, The Bad Girl explores the darker side of humanity as seen through the eyes of an uppity cat, a 22-year old girl and the two men who try to save her.

Charlie Trager knows he’s lucky to have a successful career as a television producer, supportive friends and family, and Joshua — the man he loves. But Joshua is struggling with an election and a spiteful ex-wife threatening custody of his children. Can Charlie’s plan save their relationship?

Women on the Brink is being featured this month in support of National Siblings Day. In this stunning collection of loosely linked stories, which women aged thirteen to ninety must face the unwelcome realities of their lives and work through relationship problems of all kinds. Sometimes gritty, sometimes humorous, and always compassionate, G. Elizabeth Kretchmer’s prose takes the reader on a compelling ride alongside these ordinary women as they wrestle with family relationships, self-esteem, socioeconomic status, maternal obligations, and need for independence. Check out the book trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwMvgOMrwtA.

Polishing Jade is set in the 1960’s in rural Mississippi where the secrets are as sticky as the jams sold at Taylor’s General Store. Jade Gentry is a young girl whose past will not control her future even if it cost her everything. Gripping and suspenseful, Jade will leave you sighing when she sighs, running when she runs, and celebrating when she is triumphant!

Leon’s past is a labyrinth of truths, half-truths and untruths - not one story but many different stories at once, which Leon has been trying to put behind him. But ghost-writer Anna Tor knows much more about his history than he does, and when Leon reluctantly agrees to meet her, as they begin to trace together the two converging courses of their separate lives since their birth on the same September morning in 1973, the devastating secrets of the past are revealed one by one to bind them ever closer together.

A collection of inspirational, transformational, personal growth, spiritual awakening short stories that will leave you with a tune that you can hum in your daily life. Each story takes the reader to a different part of the world to see a crisis through the eyes of the protagonists. The characters struggle to live, love or even to die. But in the end they find Lizbang that births as a seed within them and ripples into eternity.