A Devon lacemaker dies of a fever in 1770, leaving her children to fend for themselves. With a crippled younger brother, Peter, eleven year old Susannah must find the determination and the means to keep them alive. Their love for each other and the kindness of strangers creates an inspiring story of the goodness and bond of humanity.

The Lacemaker's Daughter

Literature & Fiction

Robertson, Diane Keziah

Genre Fiction

Cactus Rain Publishing, LLC

JENNIFER ROBERTS has a full life: a corporate executive husband, two young daughters and a teaching career she enjoys. When she discovers her mother is struggling to care for her dying father, she returns to the MacAulay household to help. She sees her mother hide something in the base of the old clock, and unease about her parents' unconventional relationship resurfaces. The secret she uncovers calls into question her view of her parents and of herself. Grappling with impending death, each recalls the past. Their memories differ; some are unreliable, others are contrived. Love is a constant, but it comes at a price.

How We Danced

Serravalle, Deborah

Remember that desperate time after university when career choices are made intertwined with mating matters? Love, desire, work, all jostle for time and space in a swirl of emotion and choice, set on South Africa's 1970s stage with the grim backdrop of apartheid's security police looming.Deborah Morley is an intern on a Cape Town newspaper. She’s told to shadow Charlie, the political reporter, and she gets to listen to the Prime Minister’s shocking speech and observe the reporting of it. She begins to have doubts about her choice of a news journalist career. What she really wants is a fairy tale wedding and a picket fence future in the suburbs. But her country is being torn apart by unrest and she’s in love with Chris, a Politics lecturer at the university.

Under The African Sun

Gilbride, Gail

The O'Donovans' affluent lifestyle is mostly unaffected by simmering tensions for Home Rule in Ireland. Change intrudes upon their lives when Grace O'Donovan welcomes her older sister, Deirdre, home from her year abroad. Grace expects to find her sister worldlier, more sophisticated after her sojourn in Europe. Instead, Deirdre is moody and listless. Unbeknownst to Grace, Deirdre is concealing a well-guarded secret. When their childhood friend and neighbor Cecil Sloane discovers Deirdre's hidden past, he demands her hand in marriage in return for his silence. A price so dear it shakes the O'Donovan family to its core, tests Grace’s courage and loyalty.

Corrib Red

Hopper, Patricia

HORN is the fast-paced story of the rhino poaching scourge in Kruger National Park. Vietnam syndicates are enticing the impoverished African locals to risk their lives for a few dollars, while they make millions. The South African government appoints Eduardo Ruiz to head the Kruger anti-poaching unit. The rhino holds a powerful lure for the anti-poaching patrol, a London journalist, a Hong Kong society lady, a syndicate boss, and an Interpol agent who are all chasing the horn; on the living beast or as a powdered placebo.

Horn

Kuhnert, Peter

Action & Adventure

Vancouver Island, September 2003. In a family where the need to be loved has always outweighed the need to conform, further developments are taking place. A new baby is welcomed, which Kate Wilder embraces with her usual optimism, but which also creates a need within that her husband David does not share; their son is healthy, they know who they are, where is the need to prove anything more?Kate cannot settle and when the details of her father's birth begin to encroach on their relatively peaceful unit, she rises to a challenge which proves potentially damaging to more than one relationship. To her, there are amends to be made and hearts to be salved, and Kate is not alone in this particular quest. For one person time is running out.

The Promised Journey

Morris, Barbara

When Emily's morning sickness is not eased through homeopathy, and desperate to finish writing her first novel before the birth of her child, she is persuaded by her husband Laurence to try thalidomide to ease her symptoms, blissfully unaware of the devastating effects on her unborn baby. Abandoned by Laurence, Emily flees with her baby to her parents' house on Regency Square, Brighton, where she is persuaded to follow her parents' ideas on alternative medicine. Gradually, she starts to believe that despite her son's disability, he could still live a full life. Then, she befriends Sylvia and Chris, parents of a similarly affected daughter, and the long battle for compensation from Distillers begins.

Trust Me On This One, Emily

Barnett, Kathryn

PAUL FENTON is retired, disgruntled, and lonely. He takes a day trip north of his home in search of a community connection that harkens back to his earlier days. When Paul stops for breakfast in a small town, WILLOW'S END, he gets more than he bargained for in the process. Something is amiss in the quiet town of WILLOW'S END and Paul can't let it go.

Willow's End

Burton, Neil D.

Stephen Gotlar, a first-grade engineer and security strategist, is summoned by government officials to build a wall around a city to protect it from a molecular epidemic that originated along the Mexican coastline. Time is against him. Stephen and ten thousand others build the wall to protect those inside the city as the epidemic spreads towards them. The city known as DOK 16 becomes the last outpost of humanity as they race to save the RUINED EARTH.

Ruined Earth

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Gilwood, Michael

Science Fiction

My Dear Grandfather

Rai, Barsha

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

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