The storyline of We Fell Apart  revolves around a fiercely independent eighteen-year-old gamer girl, Matilda, who was not only abandoned by her father before birth but has also recently been abandoned by her mother (two years prior) and her boyfriend (days prior). While deep in a funk over these setbacks, she receives a tantalizing email from the father she has never seen or corresponded with. He is inviting her to meet at his isolated and remote artist-colony-like wooden cas

I am occasionally delighted by a discovery in the little free library down the road (and grateful for the crowd-sourced curation of this...

Bildungsroman. Hah! A term/genre new to me, anyway. Recently a reviewer called the Vox Oculis series "a true bildungsroman." I am not...

The Jackal’s Mistress  is an American Civil War novel inspired by a true event wherein a woman in the Confederate state of Virginia hid a...