Tough Trail Home is a thought-provoking work of women’s fiction. If you like deeply realized heroines, characters who grow and change, and ties that bind, then you’ll love Marie W. Watts’s captivating novel.

Rapture By Revenge: Warriors for Equal Rights is the 2023 Gold Winner for Contemporary Realistic Fiction Human Relations Indie Book.

Praise for Rapture By Revenge:

"With a ripped from the headlines quality, Watt's offers an insider's peek into a complicated and controversial quest to right past wrongs in workplace conditions, as well as prevent new blocks to equality. Her characters are complex and never stereotyped and show readers the complexity and "ordinariness" of the problems. Because working for equality on all levels has never been a straight uphill climb, the characters themselves are buffeted about by the politics of the moment. I just became aware of the previous books in the series, but this book is a standalone, and the characters will hook you from page one.  Highly recommended for readers interested in contemporary novels about contemporary struggles."

Virginia McCullough, author of Amber Light

All Alice wants is to make it to retirement.  Her boss has other ideas.

As Alice’s team celebrates significant victories in bringing workplace discriminators to justice, their federal investigative unit is served a one-two punch.  The head of the agency, angry that Alice plunged the EEOC into a brutal House subcommittee hearing, suspends her indefinitely without pay and closes the office, sending the staff to the four winds.

Alice begins a self-spiral of regret and recriminations: her reputation in tatters—her self-esteem at an all-time low.  Paralyzed, she watches as her coworkers struggle to pull themselves out of the pit of Alice’s making and forge a path to redemption and self-fulfillment.

Will Alice manage to exact the revenge she needs to begin to live again?

Only A Pawn: Warriors for Equal Rights is the 2023 Gold Winner for Multicultural Realistic Fiction Human Relations Indie Book.

All Alice wants is to do the right thing.  But the powers that be have other ideas.

Alice’s struggles to meld her dysfunctional team into a crack federal investigative unit bringing workplace discriminators to justice have paid off.  She doesn’t regret the corners she cut to mete out justice.  But one egregious offender continues to elude her.  As she fights to nail the affluent, arrogant sex harasser, obstacles appear.

To make matters worse, a new employee, Royce, sends the office into chaos all the while the staff’s personal problems distract from their essential work.  The stress and anxiety send Alice into rehab.  Meanwhile, her team attempts to fend off the federal auditor bent on ending Alice’s career over her shoddy recordkeeping and failure to adhere to the rules.  Barely surviving a brutal grilling from a House subcommittee, Alice feels the harasser will go free.

 Will a white knight arrive in time to rescue Alice from checkmate?

All Alice wants is to retire. Until the call for justice gets in the way.

Alice Arden can’t wait to retire in eighteen months, but her boss at the federal discrimination and harassment agency she works at has other ideas. She assigns Alice to head a newly created task force responsible for catching more lawbreakers, and Alice can’t refuse.

Already burned out and suffering from a worsening disability that might put her in a wheelchair, Alice finds more than she had bargained for in her new team with racism, a sociophobe, and hidden agendas at play. Threats on their lives because of a case they’re working on drive Alice to the bottle until she discovers an unnerving secret.

Forget retirement. Alice is about to embark on delivering justice in the sexual harassment case of her career, and if she goes down, it’ll be with guns blazing.