Literary Fiction

A Philosophy of Scars

Mark is a philosopher of pain, a self-proclaimed scholar of suffering, and a man whose thoughts burn brighter than the cigarette between his fingers. Ronan is the friend who tries to pull him back from the abyss. And Emma? Emma sees the scars beneath the cynicism, the poetry behind the madness.

Set against the backdrop of university nights filled with deep conversations, rooftop confessions, and the slow unraveling of what it means to love and be loved, A Philosophy of Scars is a book for the lost, the broken, and those who think too much.

Frail Blood

Robert, a recently divorced journalist from Los Angeles, arrives in Buenos Aires seeking to escape his past. There he meets Gabriela — a woman as alluring as she is enigmatic. Their fierce passion consumes them both, but Gabriela's family harbors a dark and elusive past that could separate the lovers. Entangled in a legacy of the military regime's most brutal days, they guard secrets that even she does not know. ​As threats against him grow, Robert faces an agonizing choice: to escape the country or risk everything for Gabriela.

The Postcard

When April Ashcroft stumbles upon a cryptic confession on PostSecret.com—“Everyone who knew me before 9/11 believes I’m dead”—she’s shaken to her core. Could her identical twin, Lara, who supposedly perished in the attacks, still be alive? April's search uncovers a hidden life: Lara faked her death, changed her identity, and started a family in Seattle. As the sisters reunite, long-buried secrets unravel—Lara's sexuality, her struggle with depression, and the reasons behind her disappearance.

Splenditude

Deirdre Collins has a driving passion: to be a published writer. When she is unable to publish her first novel, depression lands her on suicide watch in a psych hospital. There she meets Max Fletcher, a handsome young man with drive and genius who is battling demons of his own. After discharge, they move to different parts of the country and lose track of each other. Max becomes a successful entertainment producer in New York City. Deirdre teacher behaviorally challenged children in a rural Illinois town. She begins to reimagine her struggles through the students she teaches.

The Day Aunt Gina Came To Town

Set in a time that is simultaneously now and the early 1900s, the novel tests the pretensions and aspirations of its four main characters: Matalulu, poised to make her long-awaited debut on the cabaret stage; Bapa Jim, her husband, a quiet family man about to start World War I; Saho, their secretive son, offered a job as a subterranean mole man; and dull Bahena, emerging as the locus of a telepathic alien communications network. Then there’s Aunt Gina. Who is or isn’t she? Is that her on a wintry beach in an old photograph? Is she the girl in the polka dot dress?

Little Bit of Faith

As a traumatic brain injury survivor, Saverio Monachino struggled to reconstruct the ‘here and now’ within his head. The memory silos devoted to personal experiences had broken down and without their structured database in play he had to go searching for reality. TBI is unique to every individual, and some of those experiences defy explanation. When there is a disarray in the system it sometimes becomes impossible to separate fact from fiction or any form of temporal progression.

Still Doing Time

Former minor-league baseball player Jimmy Bailey leaves prison after serving time for a crime he didn't commit. He can't wait to smell freedom again, to get his life back on track. On the day his sister, Debbie, picks him up, one of the prison guards attempts to harass her. She shuts him down, embarrassing him in front of other guards. This incident has a domino effect on both Jimmy's and her lives, leading to crime, kidnapping, stalking, and even murder. Will Jimmy ever get back to playing baseball? And will Debbie's professional life be the way she'd planned?

A Cracked Egg - Book Two - "A New Son Rises"

Private Investigator, Jimmy Quinn, rescues a child from a predator, posing as a pastor of an unaccredited church. With the child being safe and with his assailant behind bars, Jimmy thinks "open and shut", but...not really. Jimmy gets to know the child's mother and takes a special interest in the child himself, a 10 year-old boy, Tommy. Others notice more than a passing resemblance between the two of them, and while getting to better know Tommy's mother, Brenda, he unfurls a tangled web of lies, scandal malicious mischief and deceit.

The Bright Freight of Memory

"In the end I believe our faults define us more than our virtues. Shakespeare’s greatest plays, the tragedies, revolved around their heroes’ flaws rather than their glories." Matthew Cooney and Donal Mannion shared their time as boys in a rundown neighborhood, without fathers, without comfort, without a sense of tomorrow, then went their separate ways, one to chase the trappings of maturity, the other to the streets.

Chandelier

At the height of the Cold War, Sienna Barrett was an unremarkable and otherwise anonymous child.
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She would spend the next two years participating in the most closely guarded secret in human history. No president, prime minister, or general knew of the project’s existence until 30 years after every piece of it had been disassembled and the pieces incinerated.
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And then she was abruptly sent home and given the impossible task of resuming her life as if nothing had happened.
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