Women’s Fiction Club
Bea Clark has issues. The kinds of issues that make her feel as if she is being smothered by her own thoughts. Even when things are going well for Bea, she’s always waiting for something to trigger the darkness to take over. And when it comes, this deep, black heaviness, everything – including getting out of bed – becomes a struggle. Ending her life seems like the right thing for Bea to do and it’s where her thoughts carry her, so she tried it…once. She also tried running from Trinidad to live in Boston.
In Jackson, the state capitol of Mississippi, the bill moving through the legislature to impose a restrictive regulation on the state’s only abortion clinic is causing controversy. But the temperature in this debate is turned up one early morning when the Reverend Jimmy Aldridge is shot to death while preparing to protest at that same clinic.
Juania Books is happy to introduce our next creative writer to host the Women’s Fiction Club’s Help Write a Novella series. M.A. Kear will be writing a Sci-Fi/Fantasy starting April 5th. Now time out for a quick reminder: Even though it’s called Women’s Fiction Club, it’s not a reference to the gender of the author or reader or genre. The only rules for the WFC are that stories are fiction and the main character is female. Outside of that, WFC readers just want to know if the book is good!
It was a split second decision that saved her, that guided her destiny and led to the moment when she controlled the rise or fall of a nation with the stroke of her sword. Alexa Hollen saw the fire consume her parents and her home. She watched as the sorcerer destroyed life as she knew it. The only thing she had left was her twin brother Marcel and he was urging her to move quickly.
In the novel Running Against TrafficWhat do you do when your life takes a big, unexpected and unwelcome turn? A life coach would say “Turn those lemons into lemonade” or “Setbacks are really opportunities in disguise” However, Paige Scott, who grew up living the rich life, married into the rich life and then is dumped by her husband- literally and figuratively-into the “not so rich life by a long shot,” has no use for such optimistic mottoes. In the real world she has hit rock bottom and it’s going to take more than a few positive slogans to help her sort out her life.
In the novel Inhuman, the primary civilization is the United States of America, or at least half of it. The half of the US east of the Mississippi has been decimated by a pandemic. Everyone that wasn’t infected evacuated to the West, leaving the East barren, and a huge wall now runs along the Mississippi keeping the uninfected West separated from the infected East. At least that’s what the government of the West tells its inhabitants, and what it teaches to its students.
Even before the birth of their great niece Celestina, the four Silvenfare sisters, who were also powerful elemental sorceresses, knew they had been entrusted with someone of great importance. All indicators pointed to Celestina being the child who would fulfill the prophecy, and save the land and all of its inhabitants from the dark powers.
When five year-old Maximillian Bennett Williams III is kidnapped from the airport, the FBI knows it’s a race against the clock to get him home safely. Adding to the pressure is the titillating detail that the child is the son of a wealthy businessman and a famous super model, making it a high profile case in a hungry twenty four hour news cycle. Because of his past personal relationship with new FBI agent Liv Bergen, the father, Max Jr., uses his considerable clout to put her on the case despite her inexperience.
Camp Kinsonu. It’s beautiful landscape off the coast of Maine, fresh air and shimmering lake is the perfect place to renew one’s spirit. It’s the perfect retreat for suddenly single women hoping to discover new beginnings and a way to get their lives back on track.
Catherine Boyd had already been through a lot in her life. She marries young after an unplanned pregnancy, buries one of her infant sons, watches her husband erroneously stand trial for murder and then separates from him to spare him from sacrificing more of his life to her. It was her life, but Catherine had never really been in control, she had never fought for what she wanted – until now.
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God Doesn't Love Us All The Same, by Nina Guilbeau
Janine Harris never really thought about homeless people. She barely even notices them as she passes them by on her way to work in downtown Washington D.C. All Janine can focus on is the shambles of her own young life, afraid that she will never be able to get past the painful mistakes she has made. However, all of that changes on a snowy evening in December when Janine unexpectedly finds herself alone with Vera, an old, homeless woman who seems to need her help. Now Janie wants to know what could have possibly happened to Vera to leave her so broken and alone.
As Vera shares her life story with Janine, the two women form an unusual bond and begin a journey that changes both of their lives forever. Reluctantly, they each confront their own past and, in the process, discover the true meaning of sacrifice, family and love. Although to truly move forward in their lives, they must fast the most difficult challenge of all – forgiving themselves.
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