What would Camelia think about that? I wanted to tell Dr. Crazy that I couldn't be bothered with what Camelia would think, or want, or do. But every time I practiced the speech I crawled further inside what was left of my wilted, frayed cocoon and tried to block out the light. I'd betrayed her. I'd betrayed us both. And anyway, who's to say she wouldn't agree with me? Why is suicide a dirty word? Why aren't we allowed to speak it without being shuffled off to the institution and put on round-the-clock loony watch and forced to sleep without sheets and wear slippers without laces? It's...

It was always Magnolia. Only Magnolia would do... 2016 National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist, Literary Fiction 23rd Annual Writer's Digest Self-published Book Awards Honorable Mention, mainstream/literary category 2015 Royal Palm Literary Awards First Place, Women's Fiction 2015 Eric Hoffer Award Category Finalist Bobby Jack Beaumont has been forgetting for as long as Magnolia has known him. It was easy to let him do it--nobody wanted to remember those things. Now he's out in the scrub by the railroad tracks, lost and empty. He's forgotten all of it--everything. Even Magnolia. If she...

2016 Eric Hoffer Book Award Honorable Mention, Commercial Fiction Six months after being dumped by the love of her life, Sophie Childers just wants to go back to her old life. She was happy spending her days at her grandfather's shop, Bookish, and her nights curled up with her cats and a good book. But once Reese Fuller stumbles into her life-or she tumbles into his-she is suddenly caught up in the social life, brunching with the Downtown Divas (the boss girls she never considered friendship material before), playing matchmaker to nerds, starting up The Great Antiques War of Historic Downtown...