Contemporary Fiction

Before and After. That’s how Rowan Areno sees her life now. Before: she was a normal sixteen-year-old—a little too sheltered by her police officer father and her mother. After: everything she once believed has been destroyed in the wake of a shattering tragedy, and every day is there to be survived…

When Karl stumbles upon a time-traveling wormhole, he develops a business selling access to people who want to go back in time to hear their favorite bands. It’s a pretty ingenious plan. Until, that is, he mistakenly transports best friend Wayne to 980 Mannahattan instead of 1980 Manhattan…

Love and resentment, fear and hope intersect for two sisters as their desire to help an abandoned child forces them to face their past and decide their future. Delia has had it. Though she loves her job at the child services agency, its frustrations have left her burned out. Then the call comes: a 5-year-old girl has been found at the side of the road…