Curve balls have many forms, and so do the ways we handle the ones that life pitches at us.
Praise for Enough!
"Caroline Taylor's stories are taut, pointed, and consistently intriguing--not to mention potent reminders of the dramatic arcs that shape even the most ordinary lives."--Louis Bayard, author of Lucky Strike.
"Attention is the rare and pure form of generosity. In ENOUGH!, Caroline Taylor pays attention to the small heroes of our everyday lives: those important cogs that surround us. She presents them with both wit and grace."--Ruth Moose, professor emeritus of creative writing at the University of Carolina, and author of Neighbors and Other Strangers as well as two other short story collections and two mystery novels
In Enough! Thirty Stories of Fielding Life's Little Curve Balls, Caroline Taylor has compiled some of the best of her short stories into one captivating, memorable volume.--Colorado Book Review

Enough! Thirty Stories of Fielding Life's Little Curve Balls

Caroline Taylor

Literary Wanderlust

When Los Angeles news photographer Lucy Vega's uncle, a formidable Hispanic businessman, is killed in a car accident in Malibu during a violent El Niño storm, Lucy and reporter-colleague Beatrice Middleton are out to prove murder.
Lucy discovers secret underworld involvement by Mexican cartel members, and bent on finding answers, she travels to Mexico, where she meets a handsome but burned out CNN war correspondent. Trailing the cartel deep into their own territory, they soon find that corruption and brutality are rampant, and Lucy must risk all to find the truth behind her uncle's murder.

Deadly Focus (Vega & Middleton Novel)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Hinkin, Sue

Mystery

Left with a huge debt by her runaway ex-husband, Lexi Taylor is out of money and out of luck. In search of a new beginning and determined to be on her own, she moves back home to sleepy Graaff Reinet to run the inn at Apricot Farm. Free of the problems of her old life, Lexi finally feels she's getting back on track--until American Carter O'Brien arrives in town. South Africa is a long way from his home in Texas, but it's the fresh start Carter needs--and his last chance. A former musician and the wayward son of an oil industry tycoon, he has been sent to the Karoo Basin to search for shale gas, and is expected to succeed. Harboring some serious mistakes in his past with his work and his ex, Carter can't afford any distractions, no matter how beautiful. Carter was prepared for potential problems--fracking protests, angry farmers, violent resistance to his presence--but fighting his attraction to Lexi wasn't one of them. But as Lexi gets drawn in to Carter's work and his life, the pair must confront danger from an unknown enemy in the Karoo . . . and from their own hearts.

A Fractured Land

Melissa A. Volker

Don't you hate it when you may (or may not) be trapped endlessly in a Village Inn with your ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend, coincidentally your ex-best friend? That's the kind of day Cassandra is having. In a homogenized world that is left mostly empty so everyone can feel comfortable, The Garden of Good and Evil Pancakes explores the fictions we tell ourselves and the fictions we tell ourselves about the fictions we tell ourselves.

The Garden of Good and Evil Pancakes

Literature & Fiction

Atkinson, David S.

Humor & Satire

Los Angeles TV journalist Beatrice Middleton has lost her job. With a possible employment offer in Atlanta, she heads home to Savannah, Georgia, to reconnect with her contentious African-American family, arriving to find that her 15-year-old nephew has been murdered.
This begins the unraveling of a cloak of family secrets surrounding another devastating crime, one that shattered Bea's world when she was a teen. The traumatic memory has been buried so deep it almost feels like it never happened--Almost. Humiliated by Bea years earlier, a psychotic Special Ops vet who makes his living moving heroin and specializing in "wet work" has returned to seek retribution.
Meanwhile, Bea's son Dexter, an aspiring documentary filmmaker, and his friend discover an eye-witness connection to his cousin's homicide. After a rookie attempt at surveilling the perpetrator, the youngsters disappear.
Bea and her brother, Sheriff Luther Middleton--along with their quirky friends and family--work together to find the killer, stop a major drug deal, and rescue Bea's son held hostage in a nightmarish landscape of black water rivers, tidal creeks, and drug-fueled cruelty.

Low Country Blood (Vega & Middleton Mystery)

When Brandy Tanner fails a cooking show audition and her one chance to make it big as a TV chef...and breaks up with her boyfriend...and his apartment, she ends up on her sister's doorstep with little more than her mixer and dog in tow. But her sister's life takes an unexpected detour with a job half-way around the world, and Brandy is out of options--again. Forced to move back in with her parents, Brandy's life is stacking up like a three-tiered disaster cake frosted with disappointment.
One bright spot appears in her life in the form of a delicious new guy named Jer. Thoughtful, good-looking, and attentive, Jer seems to be everything Brandy has looked for in a partner. But her self-doubt and fear threaten her chance at a real relationship with him.
As Brandy struggles to regain her footing with a new business venture, she botches a YouTube "how to" baking tutorial, flinging her into viral stardom. Can she overcome her flaws and summon the courage to face her mistakes or will this last crisis leave her dreams desserted?

Crisis Desserted

Romance

Katherine Laurin

Contemporary

Only by looking into the past can Audrey save her future.
 Audrey Eames is happy living the wanderer's life. After a near-death experience in her teens, Audrey can see people's past lives whenever her skin touches theirs, and afraid of being labeled delusional, she's never stayed in one place too long or made any deep connections.
So, when Audrey's estranged aunt dies and leaves her the historic Soberly Inn and Public House on the scenic Oregon coast, Audrey wants nothing to do with it. She is determined to sell the inn and leave town before someone discovers the power she's been hiding from the world, but clauses in her aunt's will seem to block her at every turn.
Yet once ensconced in Soberly's small town life, the people--particularly the bartender, Kellen Greene--start to grow on her, and she begins to feel that maybe she's finally found a place of her own. As accepting as the townspeople seem, Audrey fears their reactions--and Kellen's rejection--and decides to keep her visions a secret. But all is not well in Soberly. Soon after Audrey arrives, people in town start dying in the same manner as in their past lives--but in this lifetime it's murder. When suspicion starts to fall on Audrey and her new beau Kellen, Audrey vows to use her gift to find the murderer and protect the people she loves--before it's too late.

Past Presence

Bross, Nicole

Thrillers & Suspense

Their love could set the kitchen on fire.
Melanie is a broken-hearted chef who has a passion for fine food, but without any other job prospects, she's stuck at the Jivin' Diner, where grease is the main ingredient on the menu. She's desperate to get a new job so she can start cooking the food of her dreams, and when her best friend calls her about an opportunity as a live-in chef, Melanie jumps at the chance. Not once did she consider that her boss would be hotter than her oven. Growing up in foster care, Erik had a rough start. He escaped to Arizona to save himself and his foster brother from their abusive foster father. Now the owner of a successful app development company, Erik has more money than he knows what to do with. He has a huge home, fast cars, and even faster relationships. His life seemed perfect, but something was missing. That is...until he hires Melanie. This little chef makes Erik's blood sizzle more than the oil in her frying pan.
The fire between them burns hot, and though they try to resist the delicious temptation, the attraction proves to be too much. Emotions flare up, but the past hangs around like the smell of burnt popcorn, and neither can fully trust the other. Will Melanie and Erik overcome their past fears and embrace what is bubbling up between them? Or will their romance flop like a ruined soufflé?

Dirty Cooking

Mercedes, Carley

Erotica

Origins: Song of the King's Heart

Sallak Anderson, Nicole

Historical

Lucy thought she'd seen her uncle's murderer die in Guerrero. He was incinerated in a Jeep explosion while trying to put a bullet through her head. She didn't know officials had never found the body.Now, Gary Mercer, Hollywood bad boy, drug czar and psychopathic murderer, is back from the dead with a new face, literally. This time his perverted sights are set on Bea's beautiful, na ve teenage daughter, Alyssa. Trafficking her into the porn industry would be the perfect instrument of revenge against Bea and Lucy, whom he blames for his horrific condition.As Mercer continues to recover from traumatic burn injuries, with the help of a stunning sociopathic transvestite with a penchant for sewing roadkill, he must also fight to claim undisputed leadership of the black tar heroin cartel which has been badly shaken by the death of its long-time jefe, General Luis Alvarez.As Bea's daughter sneaks off to audition for the music video that will result in her ruin, Mercer's henchmen start a brush fire on Lucy's Malibu ranch. She and Bea struggle to save Alyssa, the ranch, and end Mercer's reign of terror before it's too late.

The Burn Patient: A Vega and Middleton Novel

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