8 Authors. 8 Stories. Endless Understanding.Mental health is often whispered about—tucked behind closed doors or hidden in plain sight. In Beautiful Minds, eight talented authors come together to shed light on the unseen battles we all face.Through gripping fiction and unforgettable characters, these stories explore a range of mental health experiences: from anxiety that spirals into obsession to the quiet ache of depression to the threads of I'm not enough to the quiet res...

Emma Thornton is back in The Redemption, C.L. Tolbert's second novel in the Thornton Mystery Series.When two men are murdered one muggy September night in a New Orleans housing project, an eye witness identifies only one suspect-Louis Bishop-a homeless sixteen-year-old. Louis is arrested the next day and thrown into Orleans Parish Prison. Emma Thornton, a law professor and director of the Homeless Law Clinic at St. Stanislaus Law School, agrees to represent him.When they ta...

Emma Thornton is back in Sanctuary, C. L. Tolbert's third novel in the Thornton Mystery Series. This time, she's agreed to represent a former client accused of killing the leader of a suspicious cult in New Orleans.James Crosby, the charismatic leader of the Japaprajnas, is found dead one late afternoon, his body draped over an iron fence in the courtyard of the nineteenth-century house where he and several cult members work and live. Although they initially presumed the f...