One public defender. Six cases. One year in the Philadelphia criminal courts. Harry Whitman has spent nineteen years standing beside the people no one chose to stand beside. He is better at trying a case than at pleading one out, and this year six clients cross his desk, each one a life pressed down into […]

She escaped her toxic marriage. But she can’t escape the devastating weight of the past. Josie knows how to build an illusion. As a successful Hollywood costume designer, she spent years hiding the emotional bruises of a manipulative marriage. When she finally walks away from her husband, she returns to the only sanctuary she has […]

In Daniel Kord’s stories, the characters never end up where you’d think… A student visits his family’s cabin in the mountains only to discover it hides more than his parents’ estate; in the 60s, a family enjoys a well-earned vacation in Chile when the world crumbles around them; and in the titular story, a Boston […]

Mollie Crowley Reid, a schoolteacher, lives in rural Michigan with her husband, Tom, a store owner and farmer, and their adopted daughter, Cecilia, an art student. In the depths of the Great Depression, Mollie receives unexpected news that impacts the future of her family and makes the threats to their economic well-being even more daunting. […]

“Peace wasn’t meant to be hoarded; it was meant to be carried.” Marcus Dives was a legendary General who conquered nations, but in retirement, the silence of his home has become a deafening prison. Haunted by the ghosts of his past and standing on the brink of despair, he embarks on a final, desperate journey […]

She survived the Romans. Now she must save her people. 62 CE. Young Bruria is thrust into adulthood when Roman legions attack her hometown of Gamla. Heeding her father’s dying words, she escapes to Jerusalem, where she is adopted by the visionary rabbi Yohanan ben Zakai. But even in Jerusalem, Bruria and her people are […]