Fiction - Women

***This is a special edition of Dear Grumpy Boss*** I've spent the better part of the last few years successfully avoiding my brother's best friend, Weston Aldrich. As CEO of Andes Inc, the infuriatingly handsome and incessantly grumpy Weston also happens to be my...

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba--the catastrophe that led to the displacement and exile of some 700,000 people--and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers murder an...

Alma Cruz wishes her willful teenage daughter, Luz, could know the truth about her past, but there are things Luz can never know about the journey Alma took to the US to find her missing father. In 2000--three years after the disappearance of her...

From one of our most acclaimed writers comes this dramatic tale of a well-born Southern woman whose life is forever changed by the betrayal of her mother and by the man she loves. Growing up, the only place tomboy Thayer Wentworth felt at home...

Author: Jennifer Knox ShanahanISBN-13: 9798894410777Publisher: Library Tales PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/17/2026Pages: 276Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbs

Author: Claudia VanceISBN-10: 1956320415ISBN-13: 9781956320411Publisher: Claudia VanceLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/04/2026Pages: 182Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.42d

Claire has spent her career helping other people save their marriages.Then hers ends.After twenty years, two teenage boys, and a life built around doing everything exactly right, the newly divorced marriage counselor finds herself starting over-and she has absolutely no idea what she's doing.One...

PIECES OF HERAt forty-two, Julie has everything a woman is supposed to want-a beautiful home, a successful husband, grown children finding their own way, and a career she loves.And yet, somewhere along the way, she has quietly disappeared from her own life.Haunted by the...

Stuck on what to write? Start with this book, where we put our hearts.Creative Writing Ideas To Open Your Minds is a warm invitation to pick up a pen, literally. Four authors from different generations and different parts of the world share 80 prompts...

A novel about Love, Family history and how it all comes together.Kaylee's life got turned upside down. Her grandmother's passing became the final blow in her previously happy life. If that wasn't enough a painful secret hurts her relationship with her long time boyfriend,...

She came to Los Angeles looking for a new beginning. She found a badge, a calling-and a life she never could have imagined.Tessa Bright is a single mother with a young daughter, a failed marriage behind her, and no idea just how much her...

Life misfires sometimes. Spinning, Liv has fled to a seemingly abandoned captain's house along the Nova Scotian seaside-where two figures equally impossible to reconcile emerge from the distant past through a cloud of plaster and sawdust. One is all too real, sledgehammer in hand....

"They can burn books, steal art, destroy buildings, but the human memory and the human spirit - they can never break. And I believed it with all my heart.״1943, Paris. Sophie Label has devoted her life to protecting the Louvre's priceless masterpieces. By day,...

They crossed an ocean to build a new life. Now they must discover whether the roots they planted are strong enough to hold them.London, 1962.For Rose, Del, Lucy and Mirry, England was supposed to be the beginning. They have survived separation, hardship and the...

The extraordinary story of a remarkable woman of the Revolution... Elizabeth Burgin is a happily married, young mother of three in New York City when the American Revolution erupts. As a staunch loyalist, Elizabeth is disgusted when George Washington and the Continental Army arrive...

By the time I realize Ralph isn't the man he claims to be, it's already too late.I didn't want to come out tonight. The wine bar is too loud. Too crowded. And I'm still not over my ex.Then I see him. Tall. Silver-haired. Watchful....

"Eck has a talent for highlighting the quiet moments where life truly happens-the befores and the afters-which she weaves into the narrative with precision. Our Verdict: GET IT" -Kirkus Reviews (Recommended Review)When Merritt Hamilton, the daughter of a rigid and sickly, small-town southern gentlewoman,...

True Bearings is a lyrical work of literary fiction about a young woman's quest for identity, purpose, and the vulnerability she risks in seeking it.Standing at the stern of the disabled Tortua in choppy South Pacific seas, Kimi Weber presses binoculars to her eyes....

Between 1979 and 2015, China enforced a one-child policy on families. This novel imagines the profound impacts of this policy, told through the voices of six women who are each forever changed by forces beyond their control. It is a heartfelt, sometimes heartbreaking journey...

They heard her voice. They thought it was his.In a town shadowed by war and increasing repression, thirteen-year-old Jamila commits a forbidden act. As suspicion intensifies and danger moves through the streets, the world that once shaped her begins closing in.Years later, under a...

Annie Piffaknee's Cowboy Reckoning: Whispers Across the PlainsFrom the rain-slick streets of Chicago and Seattle, Annie has spent a lifetime running-from childhood sexual abuse she never named, from a family that made silence a religion, and from a marriage unraveling one unspoken truth at...

One text. One decision. One moment that changes everything.Ava McClain had the title, the income, and twenty years of proof that doing everything right actually works. Then a text message on her anniversary cruise ended all three at once. No meeting. No warning. No...

One text. One decision. One moment that changes everything.Ava McClain had the title, the income, and twenty years of proof that doing everything right actually works. Then a text message on her anniversary cruise ended all three at once. No meeting. No warning. No...

For forty years, Ruth has answered every question with the same word: fine.Fine when the children needed her. Fine when the marriage went quiet. Fine at the mirror; on the mornings she cannot remember the last time she felt anything at all. The flatness...

Eve Mercer is fine.Or at least that's what she keeps telling herself.Five months after her marriage ends, she's balancing a demanding career, shared custody of two teenagers, and a life that runs best when everyone-including Eve-sticks to the schedule. Starting over wasn't the plan....

Monique Carter knows how to look successful.She has the beautiful clothes, the polished appearance, the luxury vehicle, and the confidence of a woman who seems to have everything under control. From the outside, she has built the kind of life people notice.But behind closed...

Brown's landmark novel follows Currer and her daughters Clotel and Althesa, women whose lives are devastated by slavery, racial hierarchy, sale, and family separation. Drawing on nineteenth-century claims and public discussion surrounding Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, Brown creates a fictional family story that...

Dr. Pamela Teoni has finally built the life she once feared was out of reach: a meaningful career as a veterinarian, two loyal rescue dogs, a found family, and the promise of new romance. After a difficult childhood, she has begun to feel the...

When 22-year-old Elizabeth moves to Los Angeles, dreaming of becoming an actress, she believes she's stepping into a new beginning. The city dazzles her with its promise - new love, glittering parties, and the intoxicating illusion that anything is possible.But when heartbreak leaves her...

My Garden is a spiritually driven allegorical novel that blends women's fiction, trauma recovery, and tarot symbolism to depict a woman's reconstruction of identity after divorce, emotional abuse, childhood trauma, and abandonment. Structured around the four tarot suits-Wands, Swords, Cups, and Pentacles-each demanding an...

Welcome back to Zorba's hilarious taverna.Telios has survived weddings, storms, gossip, power cuts, bad fish, family arguments, and a goat with strong opinions about paperwork.But nothing has prepared the village for official recognition.When a cream envelope arrives from Athens naming Telios a Village of...

A BRAND NEW life-affirming, joyful and inspiring tale of second chances and new beginnings from MILLION COPY bestselling author Judy Leigh. Time to step out of the shadows and seize the day. Sixty-five-year-old Francie Molloy is stuck in a rut. Divorced and quietly running...

A shattered past. An enduring love. A future reclaimed.Leaving Lucas behind was the hardest thing Glory had ever done.She returns to Toronto to help her family heal, but instead, finds herself caught in the middle of old wounds that refuse to mend.Yet even with...

A weekend getaway. A ritzy estate with secrets. And two hairstylists who can't stop tripping over bodies.Victoria Fanning is done with murder. After surviving her first brush with a killer, she and her best friend Maxine are determined to spend their weekend at the...

A quiet salon. A dead body. And a pair of scissors where they don't belong.Victoria Fanning thought her biggest worry was the usual small-town gossip at her beloved seaside salon, Affair with Hair. But when she stumbles upon a dead body in the middle...

Scotland, 1797.Catherine Fraser has the hands of a surgeon-and the misfortune to have been born a woman.Trained from childhood by her physician father, Catherine has spent years treating the sick, setting broken limbs and delivering children. But when she is suddenly left alone in...

Can this empty-nester fight the island's powerful new resident to achieve her life's dream?Melanie Davis has never put herself first. Lacking purpose once her daughter leaves home, the single mom has time to sharpen her photography skills that have been on the back burner...

Author: A. L. ToddISBN-13: 9798182762168Publisher: Kitsap PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2026Pages: 280Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d

What if choosing the man who feels like home could cost you the family that became your own? Orphaned at nineteen and forced to start over, Desiree Richardson built her life from the ground up. Now the COO of a booming Black-owned wellness brand,...

Athena's rule is simple: men are unreliable, untrustworthy, and best admired from a safe distance. And with her career to focus on, it's a rule she's perfectly happy sticking to - much to her mother's dismay. Until work sends her to Cape Town, and...

Some loves don't stay. But they change you forever.Julia Molini has built a life that looks perfect on paper. A beautiful home in Boston. A career she loves. A devoted husband who brings her flowers. Two children who are her whole world. She wasn't...

A July 2026 Indie Next Pick What happens when the person you thought you knew your whole life has a completely unknown past? Valérie Perrin's first new novel since her breakout bestseller Fresh Water for Flowers is a compelling story about a woman determined to...

No one is supposed to know harmless office worker Gwen Tanner is the vanished daughter of serial killer Abel Haggerty. But a low profile and a new name aren't going to cut it when an obsessive new killer starts targeting her, in this lively...

Some truths wait beneath the surface. Some loves do, too.Nora Bennett built a brilliant museum career by keeping her own wants in storage. Now, back in Paris for one last painting workshop before the biggest promotion of her life, she buys a flea-market landscape...

The family presented here is far from ordinary. Life in their Manhattan townhouse includes a ballroom, four servants, five children, and their happily married parents. Trips to Palm Beach, Florida and foreign countries make for a change of scenery, as does a summer home...

"An absolute treat of a New York City holiday tale, as told by intrepid gal reporter Lara Smith. Full of sass and secrets, in addition to well-researched history, whimsy, and, yes, joy."-NYT Bestselling Author, Susan Elia MacNealInspired by true Christmas and holiday events that...

Heartwarming and frank, Rachel Marks's US debut, The Life Edit, poses the question we've asked ourselves a million times before: If you could go back and do it all over again, would you? Beth is staring down forty, her marriage is on the rocks,...

Expressed through the pages of a fictional journal, this novel welcomes readers into the world of Ruth Rucyn, a woman striving to maintain tranquility in her life while raising two very different children. This story offers a window into what some families experience when...

For lovers of Coco Mellor's Blue Sisters and the Oscar-nominated Sentimental Value, Mermaid is a piercing, multi-generational saga of shared tragedy, the jagged edges of sisterhood, and the secrets that surface when the past refuses to stay submerged. They were the girls who didn't...

What happens when unpacking your emotional baggage reveals more than you bargained for?On Chicago's South Side, in the fictional close-knit community of Ebondale, four Black women and longtime friends join a unique therapy group. But as secrets and long-hidden truths rise to the surface,...