Under The Heights

John I Leggett

The DeWitt Studio

It’s 1958 … four thirteen-year-olds are on a simple mission to retrieve twenty cartons of stolen cigarettes. Jimmy McGreevy … one of the four, and the paperboy who delivers the daily newspaper to residents in The Heights. Sherrie Calder … a curvaceous seductress in apartment 42A who has a cover girl face and enjoys relationships with men who are good-looking and married. Richard Ashton … good-looking and married. Jessie Hasselbart… the apartment superintendent who oversees The Heights … with an unscrupulous hand. All of them cross paths when McGreevy and his friends learn of a plot involving blackmail, a hired assassin, murder, and millions of dollars. Hearing the plan during their own covert activity eliminates any thoughts of police involvement. The boys’ question is not, should they intervene, but how should they intervene.

The Footstool

Kit Remsen

Independently Published

In a coastal town in Maine an ordinary act changes everything. Remy wins a footstool at a fundraiser, her thank-you note the maker - an inmate at the county jail - pulls her into a world of secrets that set the town silent years before.“First of all, take out the Kleenex. Remsen has done it her first time around. The Footstool is as beautiful as it is heart-wrenching—a masterfully crafted emotional journey. Her characters are so realistically pas- passionate, and inspiring. An amazing read that will stay with you after the last page is turned.” — Beth Storey, Maine Media

Thicker Than Water

K.B. Vaughan

Kindle Direct Publishing

When Matty Swift, an ancestry buff from a small town in coastal Maine, wins a prestigious scholarship to the state university honors program, she and her friend Rachel become curious about her benefactor's background. Their inquiry starts innocently enough but soon escalates as they uncover disturbing clues to the man’s family secrets and a tarnished legacy that could tank his political plans. They also discover he is a very real present-day menace to their beloved hometown. But their sleuthing does not go unnoticed. As they delve deeper, unseen forces make themselves known in a string of frightening incidents. And when their parents head off to a family cabin, the two find themselves alone in the dangerous crosshairs of those who would stop at nothing to keep the family skeletons safely in the ground. (Book Two in the Matty Swift Mystery series.)

Threshold

Deborah Cummins

She Writes Press 

Deborah Cummins is “a stranger to death”—until, in 2007, she learns that her brother, Joe, is dying. In the months that follow, as Joe’s health declines, Deborah confronts hidden truths in an attempt to make sense of her brother’s death while he’s still alive—truths that, in retrospect, where perhaps not so hidden after all.But before she’s able to fully grasp her brother’s worsening condition, Deborah is confronted with another family crisis: between complications following a recent surgery and her heartbreak over her son’s condition, Deborah’s mother’s health is waning as well. After the death of her brother at only forty-five years old, her mother’s death shortly follows, and Deborah must navigate grief compounded. Spanning the country from a small town in Maine to the sprawling metropolises of Chicago and Phoenix, Threshold skillfully and poignantly examines familial relationships between child, parent, and siblings, providing evocative portraits of each.

Aquatica The Diaries: Fragments

Anna Drzewiecki

Bottlecap Press

AQUATICA / THE DIARIES / FRAGMENTS assembles scraps, lists, remains—fragments—from a voice/persona/spirit ‘Aquatica.’ A partial study. Like montage, fragments appear in relation but not always touching as Aquatica bears witness to a new ‘life on land’ and its knot of relationships made strange. ‘Where am I and how did I get here?’ ‘What will a living take?’ Aquatica is a siren and not-a-siren; a messy diarist; a newcomer and a depth; a scribe and a scribbler; reluctant and responsive; sick and sane; buoyant and sunken; near and far; mollusk and murk; interior and ulterior; an organism and an essence. Aquatica summons and collapses her own arenas for surfacing. In her account, bodies are sharp and shifting, ‘unreliable.’ Aquatica searches and side-eyes language as she quests for voice.

Echoes in the Fog: Literary Reflections on the Liminal Spaces of Maine’s Coast

Edited by Steven Long

12 Willows Press

Echoes in the Fog: Literary Reflections on the Liminal Spaces of Maine’s Coast is the third volume in the "Literary Reflections On" series. This anthology brings together 58 Maine-based poets, essayists, storytellers, and photographers to explore the coast as a place of transition, where land, sea, weather, memory, and time blur at the edges. Through essays, fiction, poetry, and black-and-white photography, the collection examines working harbors, quiet islands, tidal flats, and fogbound shorelines, capturing both the physical landscape and the inner lives shaped by it. As with the earlier volumes in the series, the book is rooted in place and community, pairing creative work with environmental stewardship. Proceeds from the sale support the Maine Coast Heritage Trust, helping to conserve and protect the very coastal spaces that inspire these reflections.