Category: Womens Fiction

They were still charting in pen when Vanessa left her nursing career to stay home with her profoundly autistic son. Fifteen years later she’s thrust back into the workforce due to a family crisis, and everything has changed. As the older new-hire, she must get up-to-speed on technology, all while navigating hot flashes and a much younger colleague that is making her life miserable. Will she win her coworker over and succeed? Or will Vanessa lose her job, and along with it her family’... [Read More...]

Violet Sellers is blue, and for good reason. She’s repressing a shocking secret she won’t tell anyone, especially her comfortably middle-class parents. When she makes a new friend in school, Jules Marks, who lives on the “other side of the tracks” with his five little sisters, she is introduced to a dark world of self-abuse. As Violet learns about Jules and his shifty mother, Lee, she retreats further into her shell. Her parents, Gloria and Skip, are horrified and do their best to find ... [Read More...]

Mary Kline has always confronted the challenges of her obesity and infertility with unyielding determination, but she desires a child of her own. When her vulnerable friend Pearl unexpectedly finds herself pregnant, Mary steps forward as both caregiver to Pearl and guardian to her child, Elizabeth, but Elizabeth resents Mary, finding her repulsive and her upbringing stifling. As the years pass, Elizabeth grapples with unresolved anger and struggles with her mental health, seemingly destined to ... [Read More...]

Mary Kline has always confronted the challenges of her obesity and infertility with unyielding determination, but she desires a child of her own. When her vulnerable friend Pearl unexpectedly finds herself pregnant, Mary steps forward as both caregiver to Pearl and guardian to her child, Elizabeth, but Elizabeth resents Mary, finding her repulsive and her upbringing stifling. As the years pass, Elizabeth grapples with unresolved anger and struggles with her mental health, seemingly destined to ... [Read More...]

Violet Sellers is blue, and for good reason. She’s repressing a shocking secret she won’t tell anyone, especially her comfortably middle-class parents. When she makes a new friend in school, Jules Marks, who lives on the “other side of the tracks” with his five little sisters, she is introduced to a dark world of self-abuse. As Violet learns about Jules and his shifty mother, Lee, she retreats further into her shell. Her parents, Gloria and Skip, are horrified and do their best to find ... [Read More...]

Two co-workers seek the same information. One wants to publish it; the other has good reasons to keep it hidden. Step into 2015 and a 1950s small town where family secrets and thwarted academic aspirations converge. Join Leslie on a discovery of the truth behind every whispered secret. $0.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

A tender, uplifting women’s fiction novel about friendship, second chances, and the quiet courage to begin again. When Kat’s twenty-year marriage ends and her twin sons leave for a summer in Alaska, she returns to her small hometown of Criss Creek, Illinois, where her best friend Jess is hiding a crumbling marriage and a life-changing secret. Together they create a summer bucket list to reclaim joy, freedom, and the parts of themselves they thought were lost—until Kat’s first love, Dann... [Read More...]