Dispatches from Berlin is a historical thriller by Carol J. Williams, the second novel in the Iron Curtain Chronicles. On the night the Berlin Wall opens in November 1989, veteran foreign correspondent Natalie Chester expects the story of a lifetime. Instead her editor sidelines her and pairs her with a photographer who wants nothing to do with her — and a name in an East German guidebook turns the assignment personal.

What is the true meaning of family? 

Imogene Good finds herself wrestling with these questions when, still grieving her mother’s death, she abandons a promising teaching career to open a boarding house in the near-lawless oil boomtown of Borger, Texas. Alone. 

A young woman on the run. A life built in the shadows. A story that refuses to be forgotten. At fifteen, Frankie ran from an abusive home with nothing but her wits and a gambler’s promise of escape. What she found was a world of speakeasies, bootlegging, and survival on the edge of the law. Now, decades later, her story is ready to be told—one of grit, defiance, and a woman who refused to be broken.

A vivid and deeply personal tale of loss and belonging, Dagmar Grieder’s memoir of life as a refugee in the aftermath of World War II sheds light on a seldom-discussed struggle during Europe’s long road to recovery.

2026 Spur Award-Winning Finalist for Best Western Contemporary novel. 

Everyone knows who killed Maggie Schneider. But why? Inspired by true events, novelist Cynthia Leal Massey weaves an intricate tale that spans the decades from the Great Depression to the crippling drought of the fifties. This is not a whodunnit. The mystery here is more profound: Why did he do it?