Novels

A Novel Lani: Living with her large family in a squishy, stuffy basement for so many months, waiting for their new house to be completed, she is dismayed when construction grinds to a halt…on account of her very own sister. Riva: Victim of her...

A Novel “I’m sorry,” I said, wiping my eyes. “I guess I’m just really stressed.”“No need to apologize,” Mrs. Abrams said, a bit of firmness creeping into her gentle voice. “And you’re not stressed, hon.” Her blue eyes held mine. “You’re grieving.” Zahava Brody is so ready to...

A Short Story Collection An experienced principal at odds with the young, new teacher on her staff. There’s nothing she can learn from this new hire, with her unusual methods and outlandish ideas…or is there? An old woman in the clutches of dementia, dancing...

A Novella & Other Short Stories YOEL BRAND: Successful real estate mogul, he prides himself most on the beautiful, Torah-true family he has built. Then disaster strikes, and all that Yoel has worked so hard to construct begins to collapse… MILLIE: Half of her...

A Novel The figure follows me, a haunting smile on her face, one that sends shivers spinning up my spine. My heart stutters in my chest, blood thumping in my ears as I move back. But she follows. Why won’t she leave me alone?...

A Novel In the heart of the Jerusalem neighborhood of Rechavia, two estranged cousins meet in the Schocken Library to wrangle over their grandfather’s diary. One wants fame and revenge, the other seeks to cover his shame.  In the heart of Rechavia, a French...

A Novel They pulled over to the side of a wide road and Yaron killed the lights, hiding their black car under the inky dark night. Yaron pointed out the towering home down the street, surrounded by tall stone walls.“Not trying to fly beneath...

Eyal wrinkled his brow, still not understanding. “Can you please explain a little more?” The hangman is waiting? Execution? That’s a whole lot of drama for one guy... Yet, as much as he tried to cling to his sense of humor, he shuddered at...

Penniless and on the run with his family in a foreign land, betrayed and hunted by those once his closest allies, Eyal Gilboa is forced to start life afresh. When he’s offered a dream opportunity to investigate a chilling abduction case in exchange for...

A NovelThe Land of the Spirit Kehillah looks like a paradise on earth: a successful organic farm with a warm family atmosphere, under the charismatic leadership of Ofer Blum, whom everyone in the community calls ״Abba.” No one but Abba’s only child seems to...

A Novel Herschel is holding the yellow phone, his finger dialing one digit after another, the rotary dial deafening the room with the sound of trouble. The cord dangling from his shoulder looks to Etka like a hangman’s rope, Rachmana litzlan. The hangman’s rope for...

A Novel And then, without any prior warning, Hertha tossed the grenade.  “Ah,” she said to Annette. “So you’re the handicapped girl that Frau Charlotte brought back from Switzerland?” What??? Annette and I looked at the guest, completely flabbergasted. The handicapped girl that Frau...

A NovelDVORI FINKELSTEIN HAS A PROBLEM.LEAH DUNBAR HAS A SECRET.HOWARD CLAY HAS A PLAN. It’s not easy to be the new kid in class. Dvori’s family has just moved to Little Plain, and already Dvori’s classmates have rejected her, bullies are picking on her little brother, and...

Rabbi Noach Heller was very happy being the rabbi of the remote Canadian village of Port Iceberg. It gave him the opportunity to learn and teach Torah while providing his family with a simple but adequate livelihood. But then everything changed, and the Heller...

A Novel Anna couldn’t breathe. She couldn’t think. “Devorah…” she croaked. “Devorah, I never meant… I never thought…” She broke off, unable to continue. Suddenly, she got up and fled from the room. She ran all the way down the hall, nearly tripping on...

A Novel They say life isn’t black-and-white. And that people aren’t either.  But what about when it seems like they are? Or when we’re forced to choose between black and white, good and evil, light and darkness? The choices seem so clear, yet so hard at...

A NovelRav Elimelech Mintzer, an elderly Yerushalmi Yid, passes away and his Jerusalem apartment becomes the center of a family feud. The nonprofit set up from the proceeds of its sale seems like the perfect solution. Until it becomes a trap… A car accident...

A Novel The sky darkened, the hours passed, and the clearing grew quieter and quieter. A rustle sounded from between the trees. “Mr. K.?” Four of the guides stepped out into the clearing. “We’ve searched the forest, all the trails. I’m afraid that the...

A Novel Ma parks in the driveway but doesn’t get out. I wait in the passenger seat, not meeting her eyes.I feel…yuck. Like, I feel untrustworthy, even though I know I totally am trustworthy.“Ma,” I say. “I didn’t mean to end up there.”Ma coughs....

Based on a True Story Six million tragedies. And one more.  The tragedy of a life lived in the shadow of pain - the life of a survivor and the lives of the second and third generations.  In the turmoil and terror that was...