Nancy Reil Riojas: 9 books

A man craves revenge against a young woman but indirectly uses his enormous canine that ultimately wants to kill her. Which one survives?EXCERPT: "Feeling safe because he’s tied with what looks like large-scale dungeon chain, I gently set the bowl down a distance away. In my downward view, he grew...

The story's informal tone broadens into a twisted, underlying theme, both immoral and political: fiends created by man achieve man’s detestable covert scheme under auspices of two mega corporations. The first credible child victims do not escape from unpredictable beasts that conduct devious interactions...

Solo dias hasta la Navidad, un nina de diez anos se siente un dolor en su corazon, como nunca antes.

Early 1900s Anglo-Saxon society redirects Angela's life. Minimally daunted by hardship, a fiery character based on a real Texas woman faces obstacles with gritty conviction while struggling to reach a near impossible dream on the land of her murdered father. A huge silver wolf's unconditional love...

Rare books in Rabbi Stadt's office reveal Jewish Holocaust truths not taught in schools, and thirty years later she lives to see it happen. Excerpt: As I was greatly intrigued by the facts of the Holocaust for so many years, I waited for weeks, hoping for the right opportunity to ask...

Steven and Andrew find a tiny bird that falls out of its nest, and as it turns out, he is far, far from ordinary.

(Chosen by 4 newspaper editors in Texas) Days before Christmas in 1959, a 10 year old daughter and distraught mother walk to visit the mother's best friend Mary. While the mother tells Mary she is packed and ready to leave her husband, the saddened daughter listens and suddenly finds a framed photo of her once happy parents in Mary's parlor. Mary convinces the mother to.......

During wee hours of morn, a panicked family tries to escape from home where violent flood waters engulf the entire subdivision. While struggling for their lives, the realization of how much they mean to each other dominates terror. "Our neighbors' distant, bloodcurdling screams bounce off the water's...

Some friends are more memorable than others, such as Steven and Linda. After the Priest gave Steven his last rites, he continued to live. And not until decades later, we understood why. Excerpt: “Mother snapped her fingers. ‘Get down on your knees,’ she said while pointing to the floor....