Character-driven novels with women you'll root for.
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J. T. Tierney

About

After decades of college teaching, J. T. Tierney retired into the best job he's ever had: writing novels. His books range from historical sagas to psychological thrillers to workplace rom-coms and literary romance. Yet, they're all bound by a single preoccupation: how smart people (especially the female characters) navigate messy, complicated lives with resilience and wit.

His novel "Perfect Plans" received a 2025 Reedsy Discovery Editor’s Choice Award. His work has also been praised by Foreword Clarion Reviews and The U.S. Review of Books.

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The Butcher on Colfax

Denver, 1890. Four young Irish immigrants step off the train at Union Depot into a city booming with promise—and hungry for cheap labor. Alice Butler arrives with her sister Nora, determined to build a life bigger than the one they left behind. Thomas Quinn, a skilled carpenter, brings his craft and a fierce belief in dignity for working people....

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Love, Literally

Hallie Bancroft is 42, freshly unemployed, newly single, and about to lose her apartment. When the early days of the pandemic upend normal life, her best friend intervenes with an unusual solution—a month in a sprawling Cape Cod mansion with five strangers. Hallie figures she has nothing left to lose.

Then she meets Quinn O'Neill.

He's a widowed...

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Extreme Malice

Amy Wilson made one mistake: she believed in doing what she thought was right.

When she votes for pandemic safety measures as a member of her local school board, the backlash is immediate—vandalism, stalking, anonymous threats that know too much about her daily routine. What starts as online rage becomes something far more dangerous: coordinated,...

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