Donna Jones Alward: New York Times and Canadian Fiction Bestselling Author
About the Author: Since 2006, New York Times bestseller Donna Jones Alward has enchanted readers with stories of happy endings and homecomings that have won several awards and been translated into over a dozen languages. She’s worked as an administrative assistant,...
Viva Violetta & Verdi by Howard Jay Smith
ABOUT: A Love Affair Inspiring the World's Most Unforgettable Operas Experience the intense, lifelong love affair between Giuseppe Verdi and Giuseppina Strepponi, the brilliant and seductive soprano who shaped his legacy. As his muse, lover, and wife, Strepponi was...
Susan Meissner: USA Today Bestselling Author
About the Author: Susan Meissner is the critically-acclaimed author of 27 novels for adults and two children’s books. Her engaging novels feature memorable characters facing unique and complex circumstances, often against a backdrop of historical significance. A...
Everything We Thought Was True by Lisa Montanaro
ABOUT: Los Angeles lawyer Lena Antinori has dedicated her career to fighting discrimination, including for the LGBTQ community, but her own family's secret haunts her. At thirteen years old, she made the startling discovery that her father, Frank, was gay and her...
Sharon J. Wishnow: Author of The Pelican Tide
About the Author: Armed with an MFA, publications certification, and a BA, Sharon J. Wishnow, a New Englander now in Northern Virginia, crafts upmarket fiction with environmental themes. As a former VP of Communications for the Women’s Fiction Writers Association, she...
The Memory Ward by Jon Bassoff
ABOUT: From critically acclaimed author Jon Bassoff, The Memory Ward is a haunting Russian doll of a novel about one man's attempt to discover what's real and what isn't ... They say it's always beautiful in Bethlam, Nevada. No place you'd rather live. The...
Erin Bledsoe: Author of Mob Queen
About the Author: Erin has published both The Forty Elephants and Mob Queen with Blackstone! Her hope is to continue to expand my genre of ‘bad girls’ of history and reach more readers. Erin Bledsoe was told in middle school that her essay on Marie Antoinette showed...
Light to the Hills by Bonnie Blaylock
ABOUT: A richly rewarding novel about family bonds, the power of words, and the resilience of mothers and daughters in 1930s Appalachia. The folks in the Kentucky Appalachians are scraping by. Coal mining and hardscrabble know-how are a way of life for these isolated...
Jon Deam: Author of Unbreakable You
About the Author: From the author's website: Jon Deam, MD, is a board-certified psychiatrist, addiction specialist, and founder of Aveo Wellness, a concierge psychiatry and wellness practice. Find out more about Aveo Wellness at www.AveoWell.com. Dr. Jon has worn...
What Darkness Does by Jennifer Graeser Dornbush
ABOUT: Dr. Emily Hartford finds herself dredging the depths of Lake Isabella--and her own past relationship--in What Darkness Does, the next thrilling mystery from Jennifer Graeser Dornbush. Called in to investigate the body of a young mother found floating in a...
Brian Freeman: New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Thriller Author of Photograph
About the Author: From the author's website: Brian Freeman is the bestselling author of thirty novels that have been sold around the world and translated into 23 languages. His novel SPILLED BLOOD won the award for Best Hardcover Novel in the...
Sit, Cinderella, Sit by Lisa Cheek
ABOUT: A debut memoir and (sort of) Cinderella story about a woman who'd been told she was "too old" to create magic who flew to rural China, edited a film without speaking a word of Mandarin, and discovered her own power. Lisa Cheek...
Charles B. Fancher: Historical Novelist
About the Author: Charles B. Fancher is the author of Red Clay, the popular historical novel from Blackstone Publishing. The novel, which covers the final months of the Civil War, Reconstruction and the early years of Jim Crow in the American South, is the latest turn...
Close Call by Elise Hart Kipness
ABOUT: An instant USA Today bestseller. In a hard-hitting thriller from the author of Lights Out and Dangerous Play, reporter Kate Green courts danger once again when the famous subject of her next story is kidnapped during the US Open. With a...
Karen White: New York Times Bestselling Author
About the Author: With almost two million books in print in fifteen different languages, Karen White is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 36 novels. Her latest releases include The Author’s Guide to Murder (November 2024), a collaboration with...
Mob Queen by Erin Bledsoe
ABOUT: Set in the 1930s, Mob Queen follows one woman's rapid rise through the Mafia as she searches for the truth about what happened to her friend and navigates a perilous relationship with the infamous Bugsy Siegel. All Virginia Hill wanted was a better...
Audrey Steidl: Award-Winning Author
About the Author: Audrey Steidl is the author of “The Fallen,” a globe-trotting romantic thriller full of mystery and paranormal intrigue, which won the International Impact Award for Best Fantasy, Mystery/Thriller for 2024 and has been shortlisted for the prestigious...
The Lost Baker of Vienna by Sharon Kurtzman
ABOUT: An historical novel inspired by the experiences of the author’s own family after the Holocaust, a sweeping saga about survival, loss, love, and the reverberating effects of warIn 2018, Zoe Rosenzweig is reeling after the loss of her beloved grandfather, a...
Brenda Coffee: Writer, Photographer, Filmmaker
About the Author: From the author's website: BRENDA COFFEE is a published writer, photographer, and filmmaker with a BA in journalism and film. She’s the creator of two Top 10 websites, including 1010PARKPLACE.COM, home to the popular BRENDA’S BLOG, where you’ll find...
Narrow the Road by James Wade
ABOUT: In this gripping coming-of-age odyssey, a young man's quest to reunite his family takes him on a life-altering journey through the wilds of 1930s East Texas, where both danger and opportunity grow as thick as the pines. With his father missing and his mother...