Modern and contemporary fiction Books

Miguel doesn't belong to him anymore. Not this Miguel...Cold. Unfeeling. A shell of his former self, demented and reformed into a ruthless drug dealer. Javier doesn't know when things went so wrong.He loved Miguel. So much. Enough to tear out his heart...

Miguel González doesn't have any memories that don't include cruel fists raining down on him...The only light in his life had been his younger sister Valeria, who was slaughtered during a drug run by the Gulf cartels.Vengeance is the only answer.War is...

Is passionate love reserved exclusively for the young? Can a mature woman in the second act of her life not only shed old skins but can she utterly transform like a caterpillar into a butterfly? Is intimacy a spiritual journey? This is a modern retelling...

The world wants him. But God wants him more.Dropped back into the real world with a newfound faith following a lengthy prison sentence, 23-year-old Dallas Malone is bombarded by the tantalizations of secular society and all the changes that seem to have...

Despite a traumatic and difficult childhood, 39-year-old Boston sales executive, David Kelly, seems to have it all. While building a life of achievement, material success, and professional respect, an unexpected friendship with Tom Fitzpatrick starts him...

Downchild is a collection of short stories about residents of a homeless shelter. We meet them one by one as they come to stand in line for admission to the shelter at the end of the day. Each has a story. We meet Gordy, the punch drunk fighter. We...

This is the city tourists don't see and most New Yorkers - the ones with jobs, the ones with money, the ones who own homes - don't even know about. It's the city where the hookers and pimps and strippers live and survive, where the predators exist and...

A women's fiction where time, distance, and chance play a major part of two souls coming together. If you like instalove meet cutes with a sports hero, and a warm heroine that create a fiery spark on the page, you'll love this story.  College...

Nathan Whitehurst is a married and devoted pastor who loves the people of his church and the Lord he serves. But he also loves Sumiko, a woman who is not his wife, who has become the passion in his every breath and heartbeat. He no longer wants Jolene,...

Malik Toole rose to the top of the drug game in the 80's selling cocaine when the crack cocaine epidemic hit. He took everything he learned from being born and raised in the streets to become a millionaire by the time he was eighteen years old. It wasn't...

Milo is out of the dope game, running a successful Sports Bar & Lounge. But when his close friend is murdered by Midnight, the leader of Dirt Gang Crips, it ignites a gang war that pulls him right back in. Milo partners up with Billy Bob, who...

Charly is the only daughter of notorious gangster Charlie Brinks. Following in her father's footsteps, Charly carves out her own reputation in the streets, as a woman to be respected and feared. She has no problem keeping her emotions in check and...

Ya'll ever wonder why we call this a game? Think about it, no one ever comes out as a winner, and it's not always fun.That's why I never wanted to play. Sadly, I didn't have a choice. My Papi was an international mogul. He ran all sorts of businesses,...

BABYGURL is out for revenge, but with the men on her squad being locked up, she must rely on her girls to help her paint the city red and prove that they are still a force to be reckoned with. While looking for a new plug and quick way to take over San...

Francine Maria Capellini was named after her grandmother, and carried with her many of the same personality traits and physical features. As a child, young Frannie would sit enthralled as the elder Francine, Gram to Frannie, regaled her with wild tales...

The story follows Jim Viejo, a recently retired Marine colonel, as he struggles with depression and disillusionment after losing his wife Betti and son Michael years apart. By most standards, highly decorated Marine Colonel Jim Viejo would be considered...

Clara's CourtshipBook Two of the Clara Engelman Series Having consented to a tentative courtship with her bishop, Vernon, Clara still thinks love will never be part of any other relationship she might have. Still, as a Beachy Amish Mennonite woman,...

"God won't give me more than I can handle? I'm pretty sure He just did."After a year of loss and bad choices distance Emma Reynolds from her lifelong beliefs, she finds herself pregnant and alone at a twenty-week ultrasound, hearing the words...

Can Love survive when a big city doctor is invited to her Amish boyfriend's family wedding?April Monroe is convinced she'll never find her perfect match-besides, with her crazy schedule as a family practice doctor at busy Lenox Hospital in New York City,...

There’s more to 24 year-old Sdia Mitchell than looks. This native Washingtonian has brains and brawn to match, but not without baggage. She was sexually abused as a child, which is more than a load for this beauty to carry.Just when Sdia begins to...

Juan continues to juggle three women, Deja, Melanie, and Dawn, and work their emotions with his smooth words so he can get the money he is owed, get released from prison early, and secure a happy future once he gets out.However, one of the women is...

Kate Montclair is dying. She has arrived at late middle age loveless, childless, and having failed to achieve the career dreams of her youth. Now diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, she sees the next fourteen months of suffering as an intolerable...

Two Atlanta misfits in debt to notorious dog fighter and drug dealer Boots Tumbler are coerced into handling his dirty work. Phobos and Chuck, desperate to pay him back, go elbow deep in blood, dirt, and gristle, cleaning up dog fights, delivering drugs,...

A lovely portrait. A shocking discovery. Faith put to the ultimate test ... A glass ketchup bottle crashing through the window of a DC restaurant saves a life-and sparks the friendship of surgical nurse Jenny Thomas and FBI agent Joe Peterson. When a...

"She should have known. The signs were there, right under her nose, plain as day. Only now she's meant to look the other way. Bury the pain and the shame as if nothing ever happened.But what has rooted instead is the fine line between hate and...

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‘The Charlton Men', the first part of a trilogy set in South London, follows two "Charlton Men" as their lives become intertwined with the fortunes of their local football club.

"'Are we not living proof of God's story?' To See God certainly is. It is highly recommended for spiritual readers-especially those who familiar with the prior books in the trilogy, who will find this concluding volume thought-provoking, essential...

Years after losing his parents, Akil's brother Milt sent him off to college to fulfill his parents' dying wishes. After graduating law school, Akil's career propelled tremendously after winning his brother Milt's highly publicized criminal case. With...

In many areas of the southern United States, the South, any plant with thorns is referred to as a stickabriar. The blackberry vine is one such plant. Many aspects of life, such as the under belly of the streets, is also a barb-laden place. The blackberry...

AFTER ESCAPES, LOVE LOST, HOPELESSNESS AND COUNTLESS MOVES, THE COUPLES REUNITE IN DESTINY TO TAKE ON THEIR NEXT CHAPTERS.Fallow Creek, a once male ran-religious-polygamous town, has been left virtually deserted. A mass exodus prompted by a shift in...

I’ve Got tickets to Heaven is meant to be, as the author claims, no more than reproductions of café style conversations amongst friends about themes well familiar to humans. These conversations, at one stage of their friendly encounters,...

One of the most anticipated 2020 fall reads: Buzzfeed l Parade l Travel+Leisure. Winner: 2020 American Fiction Award l Pinnacle Achievement Award."Page-turner" "Breath of awe" "Tugs on your soul"Can love blossom after life changes in an instant?One July...

ଭୀମ ପୃଷ୍ଟିଙ୍କ 'ସମୁଦ୍ର ମଣିଷ' ବହିଟିକୁ ନପଢ଼ିଲେ, ଆପଣ ଜାଣିପାରିବେନି ସମସାମୟିକ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ସାହିତ୍ୟର ବାସ୍ତବ ରୂପରେଖଟି କ\'ଣ? ଜାଣିପାରିବେନି, ଉପନ୍ୟାସ ରଚନାରେ ପ୍ରାମାଣିକ ତଥ୍ୟ ଓ କଳ୍ପନାର ସମନ୍ୱୟ କିପରି ତାହାର ଶୈଳୀ ଓ ଭାବବସ୍ତୁ ନିର୍ମାଣରେ ଏକ ନୂଆ ପରିଚୟ ସୃଷ୍ଟି କରିପାରିଛି? ସମୁଦ୍ର ମଣିଷ ହେଉଛି,...

Born in western Odisha on 6th October 1958, Rohit Dash is a multilingual poet, novelist and writer. He writes in Oriya, English and his mother tongue Sambalpuri/Koshli. So far, he has twenty-five published books to his credit. His works are too...

The stories in this collection make an effort to examine the manifold aspects of human behaviour that appears normal in normal circumstances but can change inexplicably under pressure exercised either by the society or the people around us or by an...

Fantasy and prudence are like a swing door through which imagination and creativity move without any effort. Devdas Chhotray acknowledges that the stories are tantamount to falsehood though it is perceptible at a certain point.'Five Ways to Kill Ramaa'...

"Chick Bassist is utterly savage. Lockhart's style waxes poetic as a modern Beat giving us a glimpse into Rock & Roll hell." - Laird Barron, Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of Occultation and The CroningErin Locke, the Queen of Rock, wakes up at the...

Midnight creeping sometimes bring upon early morning weeping. Why? Because the villain in this story, Gaylin Harris, receives more than what he bargains for when he decides to cheat on his Christian paralyzed wife with scandalous homewrecking women. Gail...

Fourteen-year-old Nikki Robinson is shocked and terrified when she sees the positive pregnancy test. An immigrant to Canada from the West Indies, all she wanted was to fit in and feel like she belonged at her new school, but her desperate attempts to be...

<p><i>One woman finds herself bound to a past she cannot forget.</i></p><p><i>Another, driven by past choices she can neither change nor accept.</i></p> <p>It’s been over a year. That...

Ever since Khalif Kendrix was little, he has played his cards like a king. Labeled as gifted until he transforms into a rebel while in high school, seventeen-year-old Khalif shuns everything he has ever been taught, drops out of high school, and journeys...

Joshua Jericho Battle is no stranger to adversity. An attorney who happily gave up his flourishing criminal law practice two years ago, JJ is trying a routine case when he uncovers the largest land swindle in Detroit history. It appears to have been...

This early work by Sherwood Anderson was originally published in 1921 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Triumph of the Egg: A Book of Impressions From American Life in Tales and Poems' is one of Anderson's...

From the author of the highly rated, hilariously, seductive novel How Do I Know I Love You comes The Blood of IsraelEvelution delivers yet again with this thought provoking, street savvy novel! Israel"If only she knew...

THE STORY CONTINUES Ms. Della Will Not Stop Until Her Promiscuous Notions Gets Her What She Wants...or Not.Della Sordido Holloway packed up and left her home in Manhattan, New York in Search of a new home for her and newborn daughter, She finds...

The Teflon Queen is back and better than ever. All Angela wants to do is disappear and live a quiet life. All is well until she bumps into an innocent eight year old child by the name of Ashley. Before witnessing her father's head get blown off right in...

Ant Sanford has quit the hustle. He was never a major player in Memphis's illegal drug trade, but he's still leaving the streets behind to pursue a lifelong dream. And after a harrowing experience during a police raid, Ant truly decides he's had enough...