Fiction Drama

Macbeth is one of William Shakespeare's more brilliantly populated plays and remains among the most widely read. Award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom investigates Macbeth's interiority and unthinkable actions with razor-sharp insight, agility, and compassion. He also explores his own personal relationship to the character. The book also becomes an extraordinarily moving argument for literature as a path to and a measure of our humanity.

Meet Rain, a chick who grew up in the game, watching her parents go from bossin' to strugglin' with addiction. She lost her mom, bro, and almost her own life in a drug deal gone wrong. But in her world, that's just the norm - fast lives, early deaths, and stompin' on competition. Rain's life was wild from jump, knowin' too much about the drug game from a young age. But she figured out she could use her curves and beauty to get ahead. She even caught the eye of a Colombian drug lord's son, but he didn't know what hit him till she showed him her power. She learned to use what she got to rise ...

Ruby Hudson thought she knew how to handle grief. Until she lost someone who held a piece of her soul. At fifty, Ruby’s no stranger to life’s heartbreaks. She’s been a mother, a First Lady, and a widow. She’s weathered public scandals, private betrayals, and the messy, beautiful business of starting over. But nothing prepares her for this latest loss—unexpected, intimate, and earth-shifting. As she works through her grief, Ruby finds herself facing an uncomfortable truth: there was so much she didn’t know about the person she loved. Secrets. Stories. Sides of them she somehow ...

The couples we all fell in love with are back with more drama. Ever since Jazzie left Dezmond, his life hasn’t been right. He’s developed a heavy drug addiction, he’s on the run from the police, and he’s also on Maine’s most-wanted list. Will the love and hope he has to win Jazzie’s heart back be enough to risk his life for? Jazzie is stuck in a dilemma. She’s madly in love with Maine and wants nothing more than to be his wife, but will her past heartbreak interfere with their future? Maine's little sis, Trinity, and Hollywood are hanging tight and they both feel that Jazzie ...

TO BE RELEASED IN PAPERBACK ON 7 SEPTEMBER 2024 A sceptre is haunting Delhi. Powerful forces appear to have colluded to perpetuate its domination. A killer is on the loose in New Delhi. He is no ordinary killer, and for the past few years, for some unaccountable reason goes on a relentless killing spree, every year in the month of November. Always elegantly dressed in a grey suit and a red tie, our assassin is a stylish, soft-spoken man, fond of Western music. He carries a guitar with him and performs to an often-unwilling audience of victims. On occasions he has been spotted by witnesses ...

A hilarious tropical romp: When stagnation threatens the future of her beloved island, mayor Holly goes head-to-head with the community’s elderly retirees. With secrets swirling, family drama brewing, and an ex-boyfriend hanging around, can Holly find a way to save her slice of paradise? With her beloved island's future on the line, Mayor Holly Baxter must choose between progress and the status quo, and she'll go up against a small army of golf cart driving retirees to do it. Throw in some major family drama, long-kept secrets, and the complication of a new romance that sparks under the ...

America during the Gilded Age. Incredible wealth, shameful squalor. Half of all Americans, whether on farms or in cities, live in dire poverty. Labor strife. Robber Barons control the nation's economy. Government corruption at all levels. A new middle class seeks reform. This novel tells the story of a magazine, a family, and the men and women associated with both as they seek to restore democracy. Drama, humor, a sense of place and time. Despite setbacks, optimism prevails.

From USA Today Bestselling author Kathryn Gauci comes a thrilling and emotional story of bravery and self-sacrifice, heartbreak, and revenge, set in one of the most dangerous and difficult WWII escape routes. A compelling portrait of life, love, courage, and retribution. FIRST PLACE in the CIBA 2023 Chanticleer Hemingway Award for 20th-Century Wartime Fiction “A beautiful dark-haired woman dressed in the latest Parisian fashion stepped onto the platform. She was holding a small boy in one arm and her small suitcase and false documents in the other. A girl, about six years old, stood by ...

Only two can survive in each family. Could you make that devastating choice? Whose life would you choose? In a world ravaged by a lethal pandemic and environmental collapse, humanity faces its darkest hour. A miraculous vaccine offers hope, but with a devastating catch: only two members per family can be saved. Witness the heart-wrenching choices families must make in "Life And Death, The Rule Of Two," a gripping drama where love and survival collide. When an even more brutal option emerges – the chance to save one more by condemning another – the lines of morality blur, and paranoia ...

She gave up the spotlight to protect her heart. Now the past is demanding an encore. Once destined for Broadway stardom, Francesca “Frankie” Lombardi left New York—and dancing—behind after a devastating betrayal stole her spark. Reinvented as the glamorous wife of NASA astronaut Ed Maxwell, Frankie plays the role of confident hostess and loyal friend in Stardust Beach. But behind her flawless façade is a woman still aching from loss… and terrified to hope for more. Her marriage is quietly unraveling under the weight of unspoken grief, and the life she’s built feels as fragile ...

My first love. A Valentine’s Day Masquerade Ball. And a secret that could ruin everything. The day of my divorce, I don’t feel free—I'm broken. A single mom, barely holding it together, with no idea how to start over. Then a masked stranger kisses me like he owns me. And I let him—because for one reckless moment, I want to forget. But when the mask comes off, I’m staring into the eyes of the man who shattered me in another life. Callum Reid. My first love. My greatest heartbreak. Six years ago, he walked away to chase his rock-and-roll dreams. And I ran straight into the arms of ...

KREON finds himself hunted by not only Odette’s deranged husband, CARLOS, but her gangster rapper ex-boyfriend, D.DOT, as well. The Sudden disappearance of JAEKWON draws more heat to OMAR’S drug operation. Spiteful Federal Agents Bland and Burton are relentless in their pursuit of justice against the dopeman, and they won’t stop until he’s in the gas chamber. Meanwhile, ODETTE is dealing with a life changing situation, and the only person that can help her through it is Kreon. Will Kreon be there to weather the storm with the love of his life, or will his lover’s exes murder him ...

Outnumbered and outgunned by those who are out to kill him, TIAZ finds an ally in a very unlikely person. Together, they dare to go up against a gangsta whose power is enough to leave them both dead and leaking blood in the streets. Will their courage help them prevail? Or will it ultimately lead to their demise? WICKED has his marker called in by a band of Shottas back in prison. To pay off his debt to them, he must execute a man with due prejudice. Failure to comply with this demand will put his own head on the gauntlet. Will Wicked kill in cold blood or will he renege on his blood debt ...

Skilled surgeon Veronica Mallick runs her London hospital department like she runs her surgeries: with hawkish efficiency. Then her perfect world is turned upside down by the arrival of a new Head of Trauma. Cassie Taylor is a brash, no-nonsense army surgeon, fresh from the front lines, and trying to find her way in civilian life. She's all action and sharp edges, not too interested in rules. She's even less interested in bureaucracy, or playing nice with her uptight, paper-pushing colleague, Veronica.

Kole Black reignites the pages with part four of The Chance Series. This next installment finds Rayqelle face to face with the horrifying truth, as she is forced to confront her worst fears in the midst of complete mayhem and all out drama. And, old terrors rise from the dead.

Now it comes down to it. I am coming to my final years, perhaps even my final days. Within these pages is the the last record I have the mental strength to add my reflections to. The ninth edition of the eighth publication of a study that spanned decades and reshaped the galaxy as I, and we, all knew it. I wish I could say I had all the answers, but I didn't then and I don't now. Perhaps you can succeed where I failed, and find them. If nothing else, these are a glimpse, one final glimpse, into lives well lived, and I hope you cherish them as I have, whether you have the lifespan of a human...

What if you were at your favorite watering hole, and the man sitting next to you started telling you about the research that he is doing, transferring consciousness into cloned bodies and that he was looking for volunteers for his research? Would you do it? Nick Adams, a vice squad detective in San Francisco, said no, he didn’t want to be a guinea pig. Maybe later, when they have perfected the procedure, but he changes his mind when his wife (Sandy) was shot and is now lying in the hospital in a coma. This would be a great way to go undercover and catch the SOB that did it, or would it be...

When Mia mysteriously disappears from her college campus, her mother Joyce fears the worst — and a warning from Mia’s ex-boyfriend reveals she may have left the country to join a cult. Joyce impulsively launches a cross-continental trip to rescue her, gradually learning more about the seductive cult leader via audio tapes her daughter left behind.

Would you survive a show like Naked and Afraid? What if the real dangers happened when the cameras were turned off? An awkward neophyte, without warning, is asked to go on a jungle TV reality show. He joins a group of survival experts made up of beautiful women and macho men. They have no food or clothing, and worst of all, they do everything possible to make him leave.. Yet, there are more terrifying threats than arrogant survivalists and a lack of food. At the end of the show, will anyone be left to extract? This clean fiction story is a mild satire of reality TV series, and is about ...

On her wedding day in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1968, Rafaela Acuña y Daubón has mild misgivings, but she marries Peter Brennan Jr. anyway in a blaze of romantic optimism. She has no way of knowing how dramatically her life will change when she uproots her young family to start over in the American Midwest, unleashing a fleet of disappointments. In the 1980s, against the backdrop of her mother’s isolation in St. Louis, Missouri, Rafaela’s daughter, Ruth, wants only to belong. Eager to fit in, Ruth lets go of her language, habits, and childhood memories of Puerto Rico. I