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 […]

Carefree, commitment-shy travel vlogger Thomas Bernard has just arrived in Venice with his girlfriend Emma. Their plan is to record the sights and sample the delights of the ancient city, yet an encounter with an old friend catapults him on a different journey entirely. Thomas is drawn into a world he could never have imagined, […]