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Tales From the Irish Garden: The Missing Pieces by Sally Cronin @sgc58

A heartwarming collection that celebrates healing, hope, friendship, and the quiet magic found in compassion. Sally Cronin has created a timeless sanctuary readers will gladly revisit again and again.

Tales From the Irish Garden: The Missing Pieces is a book that restores something in the reader. Sally Cronin invites you into an enchanting sanctuary where magic exists not to dazzle but to heal. Within the Irish Garden, fantasy intertwines with everyday humanity, friendship blossoms as naturally as the flowers, and love (whether romantic, familial, or compassionate) becomes the force that binds every story together.

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The Immigrant and the Outlaw: A Collection of Stories from America’s Heartland @JoyNealKidney

Where ordinary lives become unforgettable stories.

The Immigrant and the Outlaw: A Collection of Stories from America’s Heartland by Joy Neal Kidney is a moving collection of true stories rooted in Iowa but echoing far beyond its borders. Every family has a story. These are worth remembering. I loved them all!

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One Morning in Provence by Lorna Fergusson, When You Need to Choose Change

One Morning in Provence by Lorna Fergusson

There are books that slip in quietly, carrying with them the warmth of distant sun and the faint hum of memory. One Morning in Provence, Lorna Fergusson’s collection of literary short stories, is such a read. When you see yourself in need to choose change, how do you know if you’re ready for it?

Lorna Fergusson also wove her voice into our new anthology Courage, Tales of History, Mystery and Hope, writing its introduction with a sensibility attuned to the fragile intersections between place and person.

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The King’s Intelligencer by Elizabeth St John: Beneath Velvet and Bone

There are courts that glitter and courts that conceal. In the long shadow of Restoration England, the line between the two grows dangerously thin. Beneath silk and ceremony, beneath measured speech and carefully maintained appearances, the past does not remain buried. It waits. But when truth threatens the stability of power, is it allowed to emerge fully… or only tolerated in fragments?

Elizabeth St John lends her voice to our historical fiction anthology Courage: Tales of History, Mystery and Hope.

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