Fiction - Women

The first time I hear the miraculous thud of my baby's heartbeat, I'm clutching my sister's hand. I was so happy when she offered to be our surrogate. But then I see the look on her face and I'm flooded with fear. This precious...

Did you ever threaten to run away and join the circus?It's 1980, and Gail has decided to blow off her full college ride and become a trapeze artist.As she finds herself wandering the dysfunctional circus life, she realizes the safety net of the existence...

Wedding fever creates plenty of opportunity for heat in Helena S. Paige's sexy and funny A Girl Walks Into a Wedding--the interactive erotic novel in which YOU, the reader, make all the rules . . .Your best friend is getting married, and she's asked...

"Tough Trail Home is a delightful read about a family coming to terms with each other and their new lives." -Pamela Stockwell, author of A Boundless PlaceThe Dunwhitty family is flying high until their carefully choreographed life falls apart during the 2008 Great Recession....

EDGAR AWARD FINALIST - "Epstein's page-turning historical novel--an indictment of the medical establishment's manipulation of women--remains eerily relevant and timely."--Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Spectacular Two women fall under the influence of a powerful doctor in Paris's notorious nineteenth-century women's...

Marianne gets the call while attending a conference in San Francisco: laid off, department dissolved. Two days later, she's back home in the dicey Kansas City neighborhood she moved to after a reversal of fortune two years ago. After all this time rebuilding her...

The first year of November eighteenth is coming to a close, and Tara Selter has returned to her hotel room in Paris, the place where it all began. As if perched at the edge of a precipice, she readies herself to leap into November...

Tara Selter, the heroine of On the Calculation of Volume, has involuntarily stepped off the train of time: in her world, November eighteenth repeats itself endlessly. We meet Tara on her 122nd November 18th: she no longer experiences the changes of days, weeks, months,...

Author: Penelope JanuISBN-10: 1867256053ISBN-13: 9781867256052Publisher: HQ FictionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/04/2024Pages: 368Format: Paperback

From New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble comes a thrilling historical novel about the inception of the Colony Club, the first women's club of its kind, set against the dazzling backdrop of Gilded Age New York. When young Gilded Age society matron Daisy...

How long would you let someone else's secret control your life?Eliza has lived two lives - one before she fell into an obsessive teenage friendship with Eric and Maggie, and the one after it was destroyed in a single afternoon. To Eliza, Eric and...

Not yet twenty, Claire wakes up in a green field to learn these three things: she is dead, the memories of her life are gone, and she and her new friend, Nobu, will be sent to Paris as Helpers. Apparently, she's supposed to just...

A young woman with the extraordinary power to bring soulmates together searches for her own true love in this tender, lyrical standalone novel inspired by the "bona fide international hit" (The New York Times Book Review) The Little Paris Bookshop In Nina George's New...

A Recommended Book From: The Washington Post * Today * Sunset Magazine * Country Living * Good Housekeeping A wry, tender novel about a Peruvian immigrant mother and a millennial daughter who have one final chance to find common groundThirtysomething Flores and her mother,...

Josie has felt invisible for most of her life-first as the only lesbian at her high school in the '90s, then in a secret relationship with her closeted girlfriend, and now in a closet of her own as an English teacher at a suburban...

Tabitha is a lonely fifty-year-old biographer who, in order to restore her self-respect and pay her rent, attempts to write two biographies simultaneously: one about an actor so famous his face is on the side of buses, and the other about a popular writer...

'Julia's writing is a sparkling delight.' Sophie HannahViv, Janet and Zelda know all about facing the wobbly first year of becoming a widow as their friendship was forged when they ran away from the same dreary support group. Forming instead the much more lively...

From Jody Kaye, bestselling author and the creator of the Kingsbrier Quintuplets, comes an emotional story of the common bond between a struggling former soldier turned animal trainer and his much younger coworker, who is caught in the past by the lingering repercussions of...

The New York Times bestseller from iconic Emmy-nominated actress and producer MILLIE BOBBY BROWN: Nineteen Steps "My inner history-loving teenage geek clapped her hands in ecstasy at the thought of a historical novel penned by Enola Holmes, and she wasn't disappointed!"--Kate QuinnLove blooms in...

From Jody Kaye, bestselling author and the creator of the Kingsbrier Quintuplets, comes Holding Onto Hope, the follow-up short story to Splinter of Hope. Fear and doubt strain Trig and Kimber's relationship as they struggle to conceive a second baby. Will getting pregnant be...

"A wonderful, provocative novel . . . I stepped into the stream of the narrative and didn't look up until I came to the last page." -Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Tom Lake As character actress Edie O'Dare finishes the final...

Her sweetest mistake . . . tastes so, so good.Cool as a Chicago winter, private events planner Cara DeLuca is a model of self-control . . . until she meets the one temptation she can't resist: Shane Doyle. The sexy, Irish pastry chef is...

A fire they can't put out . . .Although her baby boy keeps her plate full, Jules Kilroy is ready to take her love life off the back burner-which means getting back into the dating scene. And while she might wish her best friend,...

From the author of The Christmas Wager comes a charming holiday rom com about a young, recently heartbroken woman who is tasked by her sister to complete Advent calendar challenges in the lead up to Christmas to reignite her belief in herself, the holidays,...

A tragicomic, intimate American story of two precocious sisters coming of age during the Midwestern farm crisis of the 1980s. Joanne and Bernadette Fareown are raised on their family farm in rural Illinois, keenly affected by their parents' volatile relationship and mounting financial debt,...

When your old life ceases to exist, it's time to build a new one...It's early summer on the French Riviera when Vivienne Wilson arrives for a one-woman writers' retreat after learning that her philandering husband of 30 years, wants a divorce.There to collect the...

USA Today BestsellerA Debutiful "Best Debuts of the Year""Rich and wise, humming with confidence." -New York Times Book Review"A knockout. Eleven knockouts. One KO for every story."-Elizabeth McCracken"Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare is a frontrunner for Book of the Year." -Debutiful Megan Kamalei...

Embark on a Journey Through Twilight Whispers and Ancestral TiesStep into the enchanting hills of Pennsylvania, where the quaint whispers of a country village promise more than just the beauty of its rolling landscapes. In "Sunset and Secrets: The Country Girl's Legacy," you are...

A beat-cute for the ages . . .What Lili DeLuca meant to do: investigate the mysterious light in her family restaurant's kitchen. What she actually did: brained a famous chef with a frying pan. Between her family's failing restaurant, her soggy-bottomed love life, and...

Mia is telling me a story. It's about a princess, who lives in a castle, on a street that bears a remarkable resemblance to ours. About a kind old lady who's the queen. I'm distracted for a moment by her little hand softly slipping...

Caitlyn Shaw has it all. Surrounded by loving friends and family, she is excited to begin training for her dream job and become a primary school teacher.But after suffering a traumatic event, Caitlyn's idyllic life is shattered. She finds herself spiralling into an abyss...

Recommended by BookLife (Editor's Pick), Readers' Favorite, Indies Today, The Book Commentary, & IndieReader! When Anne Strafford wakes from a coma in a New York City hospital, she has no memory of who she is, how she got there, or why the handsome movie...

Steps Whispered on a Country BreezeStep into Emily's well-worn boots once again as the rustling pages of "Footprints in the Valley: A Country Girl's Tale, Continues" escort you through a journey woven with the tender fabric of country living. Following the beloved "Barefoot in...

A witty, warmhearted novel about coming to terms with grief, taking a chance on unexpected connections, and finding family in time for the holidays For wedding singer Mel Hart, the holidays have always retained a certain magic. Her mother, Connie, always managed to pull...

The author of the beloved international hit The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot returns with a funny, uplifting story about the power of friendship and finding love in unexpected places.Eddie Winston is 90 years old. He has lived and he has loved,...

"Evocative... Astonishing, strange, and wonderful" - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A trio of surreal, dazzlingly imaginative short stories set in contemporary Japan that explore desire and loss, talking animals, and odd disappearances Sensual, yearning, and filled with the tricks of memory and grief, from...

For readers of Finlay Donovan is Killing It and The Bandit Queens comes a bright and biting thriller following Cordelia Black, a best friend, a businesswoman, and, in her spare time, a killer of bad men.Ask Cordelia Black why she did it. The answer...

In USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Long's latest installment in the Palace of Rogues series, a notorious rake meets his match in a lovely girl from the country, changing the course of both of their futures...A London season is the chance of a...

From the critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling author of When No One Is Watching comes a riveting thriller about the new caretaker of a historic estate who finds herself trapped on an island with a murderer--and the ghosts of her past. Years...

Posey Jarvis knows she's the rightful Empress of Cooke County . . . she just needs to make everyone else realize it too.Thirty-eight-year-old Posey Jarvis is the self-appointed "Empress" of rural Spark, in Cooke County, Tennessee. She spends her days following every word about...

A stunning, heartwrenching new novel from Abi Daré, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl with the Louding VoiceWhen Tia accidentally overhears a whispered conversation between her mother--terminally ill and lying in a hospital bed in Port Harcourt, Nigeria--and her aunt, the repercussions...

From the author of Mister Hockey--the Hellions are back, this time with a scorching-hot enemies-to-lovers romance between a championship winning NHL coach and a no-nonsense sports reporter...Neve Angel's life is all work and no play, but she wouldn't have it any other way. One...

Kelly yearns for a family connection despite being surrounded by siblings, parents, and extended relations. She let chance choose her destiny and ended up in Granite Cove searching for a home.A contrary celebrity ensnares her in the turmoil embroiling his life and makes her...

From the Giller Prize-winning author comes a novel, witty and wise, about thwarted ambition, unrealized dreams, the enduring bonds of female friendship, and love's capacity to surprise us at any age. In the winter of 2008, as snow falls without interruption, an actor in...

Anna Karenina is a timeless masterpiece by Russian author Leo Tolstoy. Set in nineteenth-century Russia, it tells the story of Anna Karenina, a beautiful and charismatic socialite who risks everything for a passionate love affair. The novel explores themes of love, marriage, societal expectations,...

A treasured necklace that could unlock a family mystery. But why has it been hidden away for sixty years?With her thirtieth birthday on the horizon, Anna Kotze has accepted that there are some family secrets she'll never know. While her mother's Zimbabwean roots are...

An unforgettable story of baby abduction, which examines motherhood, grief and the legacy of melancholy. Val, a widow living in Weston-super-Mare, spends lonely evenings dressing up as the movie star Elizabeth Taylor. It seems to be a way of coping with the loss and...

Did you ever threaten to run away and join the circus?It's 1980, and Gail has decided to blow off her full college ride and become a trapeze artist.As she finds herself wandering the dysfunctional circus life, she realizes the safety net of the existence...

Life crushes us with its weight sometimes.Fiona's father abandoned her when she was twelve. So when she learns that he's the groom's father in the wedding she's been assigned to manage, all the old hurts resurface. Maybe if he'd just explain himself and ask...

Molly Melissa Alvin was only two-years-old when her physicist/professor father discovered Molly's memory skill was well beyond her age. Growing up in Nana's library was the perfect place for this young mind who loved sharing what she'd learned with her classmates, all benefiting greatly....