Stephanie L Smith: 12 books

               Lexi left the only town that she had ever known and headed to The Big Apple. Fueled by heartbreak and longing, she headed out into the world to prove to herself that she wasn’t as broken as she felt, that life could go on. ***               Ten Years Later…***               ...

+ After a long day of cranky customers, call offs, and a broken water main at her store, Brooke was completely spent. When she was finally able to lock the door to her store, the only thought in her head was cracking open the bottle of wine she had at home, and kicking her feet up for the night,...

This is the complete set of "The Orchard" Series Hot Bottom Homecoming: Lexi left New York and the husband who wanted nothing to do with them and headed for the one place she never thought she would return; home. After a failed marriage and a move across the country, Lexi was spent. She couldn’t...

Lexi Monroe finds her life getting more and more interesting by the minute. Just when she thinks she’s finally starting to settle in to her new life back at home on the ranch, something else happens to throw her off balance. Two days after Cole pointed out that their one night of passion...

               When Clara’s fiancé, Sherman, hits her in front of his colleagues, she vows that it will be the last time. In a little town in Nevada in the 1920’s, she knows going to the police will do her no good. Sherman is just too rich and too powerful. Her only choice is to...

After her reunion with Cole, Lexi finds herself spending all of her time intentionally avoiding him. She was having a tough time getting the memories from that night out of her head, and she had made a promise to herself that she wouldn’t give her heart back to the man who shattered it all those...

Mallory McCallen climbed up into the loft of her family's old barn to bring down a litter of kittens. The momma cat had come down to eat and was too scared to go back up. Just as she was getting ready to grab the kittens, she heard a voice from her past, one she hadn't heard in three years. It was...

The millennial generation is unique in various ways, particularly with regard to their career aspirations and expectations. Due to their reputation as “job hoppers,” recruiting millennials is not enough. Retention of a millennial workforce is imperative for organizational success and longevity....

Urban fantasy offers a diverse playground for some extremely powerful stories. Professional writer and editor Kerrie L. Hughes pulled some fantastic tales out of fourteen top writers for this fifth installment of Fiction River. Set in urban lands from modern Portland, to a future Detroit, to a wild...

The Cutting Edge of Modern Short Fiction A three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up eighteen fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern short fiction. No genre limitations, no topic limitations, just great stories. Attitude,...

The Winter 2015-16 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year's three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited.   The...

Tales of wise, ancient dragons hoarding treasure, terrorizing villages, and doing battle with noble heroes have long fascinated us. But dragons were not born old and wise, nor were heroes born brave and noble. Wings of Change gathers tales of young dragons growing into their scales and claws,...