Colored Waters
Colored Waters
Colored Waters is the first Michael Chamber's crime/mystery novel. Calloused and hardened as he…
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Merry Go Round
Is Tracy and Clay's love meant to be, or will they forever be on opposite sides of the merry-go-round?Her…
Enchanted Beast
Enchanted Beast
Doctors' visits and counseling bring no relief to 15-year-old Lyn. Then she has an exquisite…
Deadly Adagio
Emily Radly chafes at being a tag-along spouse while her husband tries out a Foreign Service career in Dakar,…
Grandpa’s Legacy
Grandpa's Legacy
Adam Trexler, growing up in an urban neighborhood in the middle years of the 20th century, yearns…
A Retrospect in Death
Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote: “After 60 years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that…
Clara’s Wish
Christian Lindgren has lost that which he holds most dear, his daughter. In a haunting dream she comes to him and…
Interview with Pat Bertram
Interview with Pat Bertram
What is your next big thing?
I’m not really working on anything of my own right…
Loving Lydia
Loving Lydia is a sweet, inspirationally touched romance, set during the Regency era. When Lady Lydia, a moral,…
Love Trumps Logic
When suitors are baffled by Miss Fiona's scientific turn of mind, her mother tearfully predicts that her daughter…
Love Notes – Excerpt
Love Notes - Excerpt
Hope Anderson’s heart is finally starting to thaw. Even Tommy Love’s is melting around the…
Excerpt: Light Bringer
Becka Johnson had been abandoned on the doorstep of a remote cabin in Chalcedony, Colorado when she was a baby.…
Fractured – Excerpt
Geophysicist Mark Cabot and his lover/fiancé Maura race against an impending, but unknowable, geological deadline…
Excerpt: Celia Whitfield’s Boy
Celia Whitfield’s Boy is a riveting, bittersweet, funny, and historically accurate account of a talented young man…
Come Home to Me, Child – Excerpt
Things don’t work out as intended for Elaine Randolph when her doctors send her, with her young family, to the…
Excerpt: Hand-Me-Down Bride
Sophie is far from her German city home, newly married and even more newly widowed. She is left virtually penniless…
Excerpt: January’s Thaw
Many people obsess over their past, but no one more than I. Perchance it’s because, as a man out of time, I left…
Excerpt: Just Between Friends
Emma's best friend Layne is getting married to Andy, the old friend Emma has always secretly loved. For the sake of…
Excerpt: Lacey Took a Holiday
She sold her soul for a bottle. He stole it back.Lacey Grady is “a woman of leisure” and an alcoholic. Andy…
Excerpt: It All Started With a Dog
When she finds a ragged stray dog on the streets of Georgetown and brings him home with her, she starts a sequence…
Indian Summer – Excerpt
Indian Summer - Excerpt
In the spring of 1739, Gabriella Deza stands poised on the verge of womanhood. A product…
Literary Judgment
Today was “Bookmarks” in Winston-Salem, North Carolina—our annual literary festival. Civic leaders bring in…
Excerpt: Images of Betrayal
Abandoned by her family, Tysan works as a waitress in a cheap diner. One cold evening, a beguiling, rugged young…
Ghost Mountain – Excerpt
Have you ever moved? Have you ever had an encounter you just can’t rationally explain away? Then you know exactly…
From Victim to Victory – Excerpt
Early on a Saturday morning, Regina Lane drove to her parking space in downtown Winston-Salem, got out of her car,…
Excerpt: Fate and Destiny
Discovering Destiny was the last thing Andrew Greer expected. Alone in a desolate cabin, Andrew Greer was perfectly…
Excerpt: False World
False World: The second book in the Joe Daniels' trilogy continues where False Positive ends as Joe continues his…
Excerpt: False Positive
Joe Daniels tried for years to put his military, special op, mercenary past behind him. He married a beautiful…
Donations to Clarity
The plan was simple: hoax Bigfoot, then sell tours to Bigfoot enthusiasts. The plan wasn’t brilliant, and neither…
Excerpt: Dear Emily
How could a fine institution, born in Europe and perfected in America, disappear in little more than 100 years?…
Excerpt: Celluloid Strangers
Celluloid Strangers tells the story of four brothers who have left their native northeast and converge in Los…
Excerpt: Dancing at all the Weddings
Dancing at all the WeddingsVivacious and talented Elaine Richman is faced with choices: A risky life in the New…
Carpet Ride – Excerpt
Carpet Ride - Excerpt
Near the end of their honeymoon trip across Oregon, Sam Stanley, his new wife Lynn, and her…
Daughter Am I
When twenty-five-year-old Mary Stuart learns she inherited a farm from her recently murdered grandparents --…
Second Wind Publishing Short Story Contest
Second Wind Publishing invites you to submit an entry to our holiday short story contest.Entries are to be…
Buried in Wolf Lake
When a family’s Golden Retriever brings home the dismembered leg of a young woman, the Winnebago County Sheriff’s…
Borrowed Trouble
Hollywood, 1941Ray Ward spends nights thinking about his brother's death and the blood-soaked days that followed. …
Badeaux Knights
Badeaux Knights is a medieval romance set in the new American South. Sonya escapes at last from her abusive…
Backstop: A Baseball Love Story in Nine Innings
Backstop: A Baseball Love Story in Nine Innings
Backstop chronicles the rookie season of the hero known only as…
An Altar by the River
A frantic man phones the Winnebago County Sheriff’s Department reporting his brother is armed with a large dagger…
A Spark of Heavenly Fire
In quarantined Colorado, where hundreds of thousands of people are dying from an unstoppable disease called the red…
A Love Out of Time
Olivia Vernon has thought a lot about the concept of soul-mates. All her life, she has been waiting for someone to…
A Gentleman Never Tells
Benjamin Wetherby, Earl of Glastonbury and heir to the Marquessate of Eastleigh, has just received an urgent letter…