"Will have readers bouncing on the edge of their comfortable chairs."
-Night Owl Reviews

What would you do if you found out your husband had been unfaithful?

Divorce him? Take him back?

Kill him?

Mark Monroe becomes the victim of option "C" after his wife, Kelly, discovers evidence of an illicit affair and stabs him to death. In a panic, she flees, deciding she will turn herself in the next day.

But before she

...

Ama is a 17-year-old high school senior on the edge of adulthood. Maybe a little too mature for her age, knowing more about the darkness that stirs within her than most, Ama is determined to cross the bridge of her last year in high school and into the uncertain terrain of adulthood. All of that changes the day she realizes something is very off about a mark that appears on her face. Strange things begin to happen, and although Ama resists any possibility...

Ernst Kohl has spent nearly half his life in prison after being convicted of murder as a young man. Upon his release, with nowhere else to go, Kohl returns to his old family home on the outskirts of a small Michigan town, hoping for redemption, or at least understanding. He finds a dog, a girlfriend, and a job in quick succession, and it seems as if he might finally be able to leave the past behind and make a quiet life for himself. But some of the...

This true crime biography details the remarkable rise of the 19th century mob boss who ran Chicago from the streets to the mayor’s office.
 
Michael Cassius McDonald arrived in Chicago as a teenage gambler and scam artist who quickly hustled his way into running the city through its criminal underworld. Long before the reign of Al Capone, McDonald was Chicago’s original mob boss. He procured presidential

...

"After all the times my mom told me to save for a rainy day…Who would've thought the rainy day would come in the form of a dead guy named Donnie?"Roxy Horne is a process server-not that tracking down people and giving them paperwork is her life dream-but it feeds her cake obsession. Oh, and it pays the bills. Her dream of being a Private Investigator is far out of reach. But never once, even when serving to a slime ball who wouldn't pay child support,...

Anna & Nouri fall in love, move to Tehran, and marry. Four months later, the shah is deposed.Anna, a young American studying in Chicago falls in love with fellow-student Nouri, the son of a wealthy Iranian business executive. Anna, whose parents are divorced and remote, eagerly moves to Tehran where she marries and is embraced by Nouri's family. A few months later, however, in February 1978, the Shah is deposed and the Islamic Republic of Iran is...

Don’t like poetry? Don’t read poetry? You are invited to consider a more pleasurable way of revisiting the genre you may have enjoyed in the past. Poems for Those Averse to Poetry delivers accessible and enjoyable poetry celebrating such topics as love (obligatory in all poetry books—no?), dating, death, parenting, children, school, humor, frogs and dogs. This irreverent, playful, and inventive collection delivers poems that are not only painless—but...

Quill Pen Ink Publishing presents The Five-Star Review: A Collection of Cat Ellington’s Top-Rated Book Reviews from 1981-2021. Spanning 40 years of Cat Ellington’s work as a critic of literature, the reference features an alphabetized list highlighting all of her five-star reviews composed throughout that time. Part of the Cat Ellington Literary Collection, this stand-alone selection is an excellent read for both reviewers and book lovers alike....

In an age when the old sorceries have mostly died out, a single unexpected burst of magic upends the lives of three households. Selfish heiress Vespasia Marchand berates an ill woman in the street, a woman who was once a renowned spell-caster. Her granddaughter Melu has inherited her gift, though it has not been nurtured. In a fit of anger, the girl impulsively transforms Vespasia into a wasp, doomed to live out an ordinary wasp's life unless she...

"Don't turn back. Begin anew."

Thirty-six-year-old Amanda Reynolds has it all. She has a loving, successful husband, two beautiful daughters and a perfect, manicured home in a quaint suburb of Chicago.

But demons hide where no one looks and Amanda's past is full of them—she's addicted to alcohol. The reasons for her addiction have been buried for years.

One horrifying day, suppressed memories resurface and Amanda

...