Fiction - Women

When Maddy Gold returns to New York in 1969 after a two-year stint in the Peace Corps in Kenya, she must adjust to a rapidly changing culture. Overwhelmed, she connects with friends on Fire Island for a revolutionary summer of free love, drugs and...

Escaping from a disastrous relationship, Kathleen Devine flees to an isolated lighthouse off the Victorian coastline. Taking up the position of Head Teacher to the lighthouse keepers' children, she is ensnared in the lives of those marooned on the lonely outpost and soon realises...

Elma is Gen Z, her Dad is Gen X and Gran - well Gran is just a plain old pain in the butt. At least that's how Elma sees it. Being seventeen is not easy. What will she do now the school holidays are...

Nell O'Leary sees the world in a logical way, and she's content managing her friend, Pippa's eco-resort. She holds a secret from her past and is painfully insecure around the opposite sex. When Nell runs into a technical problem at the resort, she contacts...

After being dumped by her fiancé, and haunted by the shame of her father's crimes, Evelyn Meriwether makes the only move she can: that is, leaving her home in Melbourne to journey to remote Far North Queensland. Having all but given up on the...

The Darkest Ocean has called Áine in the past, is it to call her again?Her life is filled with secrets that she cannot withhold any longer. Jase is eager to commit but the secrets hold her back. Áine must find the real truth, a...

It's February 1992 and Joy thinks she's in love. Tom is seemingly perfect and has their future - with marriage and kids - all mapped out.But Tom doesn't know Joy as well as he thought.All she wants is a quiet life as an artist...

Loretta was forced into an arranged marriage to a much older man who she did not love, by her strict Italian father. She suffered under his abusive control until World War II intervened and the handsome Italian Prisoner of War arrived on their farm...

The Reef - Book TwoKasie reflects on the dichotomy in nature that is her reef. Deep, dark and secretive on one side. On the other, a marvel of colours and creatives exposed in its clear waters, Much like her life.Her present, secure and familiar....

The List - Book OneA complex family tradition spanning generations and a fortune so vast that marriage for this island bachelor is predetermined by a carefully selected list of candidates.But what if there is only the one woman who can fill the void of...

Kidnapped, held in chains, beaten and without hope. Wealthy businessman James 'North' Northam believes he's a dead man, until his daring rescue by a woman who disappears before he can thank her. Unable to forget his mysterious saviour, he vows to find her. Omega...

A story of belonging, love and friendship with a generous sprinkling of magic. Emma returns to her childhood home, on the bend of the river, and falls in love with the valley again. This becomes problematic for her relationship with James. Ali and Adam...

From multi award nominated author, Tamara Martin, comes a new story in the Harrington series. Jo Walsh lost herself in grief but after three years, it's time to move forward. With the help of travelling meditation guru, Bodhi, she finds her strength again but...

From Romantic Book of the Year finalist, Tamara Martin, ccomes a brand new standalone story about love and friendship. I've been alone a long time, even when I'm not alone, I'm alone. I have too many secrets. On paper I don't even exist. I've...

When Sarah Franklin's boyfriend of three years proposes, she is delighted he's going to put more time into their relationship. Can he finally give her what she needs? Sarah's sister, Katie, is terrible at relationships. After years of one night stands she yearns for...

Everything Knill thought he knew was false. Now he must search for where he belongs...1921. Central Victoria. Knill McMillan's life is perfectly ordinary: a country upbringing, caring parents, cousins who are his best mates. He is a young man with the world before him....

Noah convinces Mia that they are meant to be together, and despite numerous setbacks their forever is in sight, when their worst nightmare comes true. Can they conquer their demons and get their eternity or does fate have another plan? Noah and Mia have...

Life for Madison Anderson is red and white.Until her swirling ambition of a stellar winemaking career leads to the charming vineyards of Margaret River.In this beautiful setting Maddie navigates work and relationships drawing us deep behind the scenes into the dynamic world of wine;...

Mackenzie is an almost 30 year old woman living through her second battle with cancer. Her teenage years were put on hold whilst she endured a gruelling chemotherapy regime. While other girls her age were going on their first dates, Mackenzie just hoped her...

1968. After her father gambles away the family home, seven-year-old Kate and her mother, Nora Wallace, move to Chidley House, a quaint boarding house in Fremantle, where Nora is employed. Alice Chidley occasionally allows Kate to watch the newly acquired TV, presenting an illusory...

The highs and lows of family life in South London as remembered by an aging Eleanor. This journey explores family life through the first and second World Wars, challenging events, tragedies and an unexpected fortune that changed Eleanor's life. Eleanor transports us for a...

Could an historic house hold the key to their happiness?The small seaside town of Rivers End is abuzz with an upcoming wedding, to be held at historic Palmerston House. Once home to Christie Ryan's ancestors but lost in a poker game in the 1850s,...

Danger lurks in the sea... with a storm of the heart and a storm of the sky.Christie has never been so happy. She adores living in Rivers End and every day her relationship with Martin grows stronger. But a last-minute job in Melbourne puts...

Women's experiences are unique. Our connections, our trauma and our strength all deserve a voice.Rosie Lane has endured enough tragedy and loss for one lifetime. And yet her plans to live peacefully in the splendour of farm life and write her first novel are...

It's midnight. Bridget Galloway is spending her sixteenth birthday at the local cemetery-the only place free from the brutal bullying of her alcoholic father. Alone and friendless, in dark clothes with over-dyed black hair, she is Shadow Girl at school. Bridget misses her mother....

Five women friends, five pretty cafés. Two marriages on the brink, one life adrift, an 'imaginary' new beau, a 'trophy' girlfriend, and a smattering of guilty secrets....In the style of The Jane Austen Book Club comes a tasty slice of suburban life.When five Aussie...

Primary school teacher Annie Yates has a great job and friends she can count on, but her love life has never worked out the way she wanted. If it wasn't bad enough that, years ago, she fell madly in love with Jack Delaney before...

In 18th century Isle of Man eleven-year-old Alice Moore, was seemingly abandoned by her mother, then thrown, penniless, into the street by the landlord and left fend for herself.In her struggle to survive, she slept wherever she could find a bit of shelter and...

Yorkshire 1941Bravery is another word for endurance; love is another word for sacrifice.A German fighter plane is shot down over rural Yorkshire; the pilot has vanished.In an old farmhouse on the outskirts of Leeds, war-widow Jessica is raising her children and running a small...

Yorkshire 1808When 14 year old Alexandra meets Patrick, her handsome and notorious step-brother, she is confused and resentful as he shakes the foundations of everything she has ever known. Driving a wedge between Alex and her brother Simon, he tears apart the fabric of...

How do you take care of them after you're gone?Evie Danvers has three beautiful, if slightly out of control, children; a stray cat named Dr. Moxley and a best friend who drinks unapologetically at 9 a.m. Evie also has stage four bone cancer and...

Two people learn what it really means to give up control in the sizzling new novel from the author of Blush and Surrender to Temptation.... When business mogul Elijah Masterson travels to the Mexican coast for his chain of luxury resorts, he purchases an...

A gorgeously written, sharp debut novel about three middle-aged couples who find themselves unmoored in the prime of their lives Three couples in San Diego--best friends, empty nesters living the California dream--have reached a tipping point. With the blurry years of child rearing and...

Payback, a delicious page-turner, follows three naïve but ambitious young women chasing their professional dreams in late twentieth-century corporate America. Over the years, their growing friendship forms a tight-knit, supportive bond that sees them through challenges related to gender bias, assault, and racism-as well...

Holiday Bay is a charming seaside town where every season brings a celebration-and healing comes when you least expect it.After a heartbreaking loss, Abby Sullivan never imagined she'd find solace in a quaint seaside inn in Holiday Bay, Maine. But surrounded by new friends,...

One queen exiled. Another headed for the gallows. Both hungry for revenge. England's most infamous queens unite in vengeance against Henry VIII. Anne Boleyn is going to die, and neither her cleverness nor her witchery can save her. So when her late rival, Catalina...

Beloved New York Times bestselling author Lisa See draws on the vibrancy and turmoil of post-Civil War Los Angeles to tell the story of three Chinese women who managed to survive and, eventually, thrive, despite all odds. In 1870, three Chinese women arrive in...

Author: Jax FreyISBN-10: 1733158235ISBN-13: 9781733158237Publisher: Jax Frey LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/15/2023Pages: 216Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.49d

From the New York Times bestselling author of Children on the Hill comes a queer folk horror in which a woman must confront decades of secrecy and superstition to learn the truth about her mother's death. Some towns stay isolated for a reason. 1919:...

In the vein of Pineapple Street and Such a Fun Age, a smart, heartfelt debut novel about two expecting mothers navigating motherhood, family life, and female friendship, whose bond is threatened by a shocking revelation. Victoria and Liz barely breathe the same air, but...

Jennifer Chiaverini's bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series continues with The Winding Ways Quilt, in which the arrival of newcomers into the circle of quilters heralds unexpected journeys down pathways near and far. Quilters have flocked to Elm Creek Manor to learn from Master Quilter...

A woman adrift finds a unique path forward in a charming and heartfelt novel about memories, identity, and the wonderful mysteries of life by the author of Olivia Strauss Is Running Out of Time.Grace Whittaker's life is coming apart.In the wake of her mother's...

In this bold and provocative exploration of modern motherhood, three women cross paths on the road to self-discovery, grappling with the uncertainty of whether they can accept what they find.Gwen Fisher is suffering from postpartum stress. Angeni Luna is thriving in her social media...

An ambitious young woman insinuates herself into a tight-knit social set, shaking up friendships and marriages in a small seaside town. A frothy novel of love, money, sex, and friendship, from the New York Times bestselling author of Pineapple Street ("Laugh-out-loud-good." --Harper's Bazaar) When...

One woman's luck changes in an instant when she hits her head and wakes up in Ireland, in this whimsical, whirlwind romance from USA Today bestselling author Alicia Thompson. After yet another disastrous date where Jess is too awkward, too earnest, too whatever, she's...

Old gods, new rules. New York Times bestselling author Katharine McGee puts a modern-day twist on ancient mythology in this bold reimagining of the Greek gods as a family of billionaires--with all the messy drama that entails. Love hit Julia Dodds like a lightning...

The rediscovered second novel from National Book Critics Circle Award-winning writer Joan Silber--a wry, exquisitely told story of self-invention in 1920s New York Like all young people who move to Manhattan from elsewhere, Pauline sees her arrival in the city as an escape from...

Two sisters face the real consequences of a fake marriage scheme in an emotional yet hilarious novel about immigration, healing, and family from USA Today bestselling author Sonali Dev.Two sisters. One fake marriage. Zero chance of keeping the truth hidden.The Naik sisters escaped their...

A page-turning adventure of female friendship and sweet revenge, book 2 in The Sisterhood - one of the most iconic and longest-running women's fiction series of the past two decades - is now in trade paperback for the first time. Some Women Get Angry....

The thrilling third installment in #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels' iconic series of female empowerment, adventure, and vigilante justice is back with a fresh new look, as The Sisterhood glams up to take down their enemies. They're fearless. They're loyal. They...