Enter a collection of new Literary Fiction where no life moves in a straight line. These stories explore characters slightly out of sync with their worlds — navigating change, uncertainty, and the quiet disorientation of becoming someone new. From contemplative domestic dramas to reflective tales of reinvention and loss, each book captures the tension of lives unfolding just beyond balance. Perfect for readers who appreciate character-driven storytelling with emotional depth and complexity.
Barbados Jack
by Damian Bonsall
Release Date: May 1, 2026
In 1833, the master’s family, all the machinery, and a selection of choice slaves all moved to South Carolina and set up a new enterprise in the slave-holding state. Although slavery ended in Barbados in 1834, Jack endured many more years in servitude, all the while honing his craft and skills. During the Civil War, he became known as Barbados Jack.
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Westbound (A Shadow in History Book 1)
by Kerry H. Kimball
Release Date: May 26, 2026
Louise Kayser was on top of the world in October of 1860. She had wonderful parents, sweet little siblings, lived with them on an established farm, and was even proposed to by her true love, Gideon. But that world came crashing down when a letter arrived from her elderly grandparents.
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So This Is Love (The Bridge Series Book 2)
by Ashley N. Rostek
Release Date: May 23, 2026
I was supposed to die. It was all supposed to end. The pain. The fear. As I felt myself fading, I didn’t fight it. I was ready. But Mother wouldn’t let me go. Not because she cared about me. Because I was worth more to her alive.
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The Shippers
by Katherine Center
Release Date: May 19, 2026
After a whole lifetime of being bad at love, JoJo Burton decides to solve her intimacy issues once and for all at her sister’s destination wedding on a cruise ship. With the help of a little pop psychology, she diagnoses herself with a fixation on the neighborhood guy who was her first crush and first kiss (and who just happens to be a newly divorced wedding guest), and she decides to woo him...
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Come Back to the World
by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Release Date: May 5, 2026
Amelia Booker, a journalist and expert in American literature, receives a photograph leading to the possible whereabouts of E. L. Swann, an author who vanished forty years ago after the success of her first and only novel. It’s too intriguing a literary mystery for Amelia not to follow.
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The Nowhere Sisters
by Jan Casey
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Berlin, 1938. She’ll do anything to protect the only family she has left. Twelve-year-old Margarete has lost everything — her parents, her home, and the fragile safety of the orphanage she once knew. When the Nazis target Jewish families across Germany, Margarete is placed on a Kindertransport train bound for England. She expects to face the terrifying journey alone.
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