Fiction - Women

Sweet with Heat: Seaside Summers features a group of fun, flirty, and emotional friends who gather each summer at their Cape Cod cottages. They're sassy, flawed, and so easy to relate to, you'll be begging to enter their circle of friends Nights at Seaside...

The fourteen stories in Piranhas & Quicksand & Love are clear and profound . . . . Read this book to savor its beautiful language, to drink in its gentle defiance. Piranhas & Quicksand & Love calls readers to ride the waves of a...

"In her terrific debut, Baby's on Fire, Liz Prato pulls off the ultimate balancing act: the stories are at once beautifully written and tremendously compelling-not to mention filled with characters so full of life that they feel as real as people we know. A...

Curvy wedding florist Elly Jordan has had quite a year. First, she had to design her ex-husband's wedding to the mistress who split them up, and then she broke up with the hottest musician this side of St. Louis. Three months have passed since...

Surrounded by lush flowers and neurotic brides, Elly Jordan has carved out a sweet life for herself as the owner of Posies, a boutique florist in St. Louis. Not bad for a woman who drove away from her life two years earlier when she...

Veronica Buccino has a plan: marry John DelMonico and quit her soul-sucking job as a lawyer. And when he tells her he has big news, she's certain he'll pop the question. But instead of proposing, John informs her that he's moving to London. Heartbroken,...

The Fine Art of Fucking Up is the story of a weekend in the life of Nina Lanning, former graduate of the prestigious School of Visual Arts, or SVA, who has built a career for herself not as an artist, but as the school's...

Ava Larson is going to bring all the other brides to tears. Engaged to a wealthy NYC socialite's son, Ava is ready to set the city abuzz with her glamorous wedding. At least until she realizes her relationship isn't what it should be. Then,...

She's not just a random homeless girl. Lorelei is street smart, elusive and manipulative. She's a survivor, always on the move. Always one step ahead of the danger in her past. Emily's a hard-partying bartender in downtown Austin with problems of her own. When...

Like the braiding of three strands of brioche, the lives of three women--Sophie Zab駘 Sullivan, Marcelle Pourrette Zab駘, and Kate Barrington--become inextricably intertwined as each struggles to resolve issues from past wars that have profoundly impacted their lives. Sophie believed her childhood nightmares were...

Overcome with guilt over her estranged father's death, psychotherapist Rebecca Lev leaves her Chicago practice for the Bay Area to investigate, convinced his abusive wife killed him--but before she can find out what happened to her father, she has to deal with her own...

Her giant pup drags her across town, right into the arms of the football coach.Abby Tyler welcomes you to the witty, well-meaning busybodies of Applebottom, Missouri, where the community takes its pies -- and its matchmaking -- very seriously.Ginny Page arrives in Applebottom with...

The answering machine picked up after the fourth ring. "Are you my father?" On the day Allison Morehouse walks off her job, her sister Mina calls from Korea, frantic and in tears. Determined to discover the truth about her adopted sister, Allison flies to...

Alyssa Romriell's life is spiraling out of control. Her real estate career is going well, but her love life is a nightmare. Something needs to change--but what? After the death of her parents, she and her sisters decide to convert the lake house--a place...

When Mary and Ann agree to a surrogacy partnership everything goes awry. Ann, a pre-school teacher, is desperate for the children she physically can't have. Mary, a 50-year-old pagan jeweler, hopes to make amends for years of maternal neglect. Together, they plunge into the...

Chasing Butterflies in the Magical Garden, is a story of enchanting friendships and magical bonds. After following her first love to the foothills of the Carolina's, Lizzy returns to her small southern town to start a life without her childhood sweetheart. Everything she imagined...

Thirty-five-year-old Samantha acts without thinking. Her heart is huge while her sense of purpose is small; she's willing to fight for those she loves, but she's never learned to fight for herself. Eighteen-year-old Melody is cold and calculating, and she's driven by the desire...

Robin wanted to win The Holdout, a cutthroat reality TV show, so she gave it her all, challenge after challenge. Then she fell for Grant, with his irresistible eyes and heartbreaking life story. But Grant was only using Robin as they competed for a...

Arona Henderson, a Canadian born author, attended McGill University and the University of British Columbia. She received her medical degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. After a forty-year career as a beloved family practitioner, Arona faced her own devastating illness. Out of...

Join Cassidy Callahan in a three part tracking adventure with trouble at every turn. In Part 1, Trouble Time, all Cassidy Callahan wants to do is get her life back on track, but it seems an impossible task when she gets carjacked at gunpoint....

Captain Sean Foster came back from war broken from the inside out. And he doesn't care about being fixed. Not even by a woman who followed him halfway around the world due to some misguided loyalty.Jenna Kowalczyk had two weeks with a man who...

Through this anthology Retreat West Books is proud to support Hestia and the UK Says No More campaign against domestic abuse and sexual violence.A collection of 24 short stories celebrating a hundred years of women' suffrage, from both established and emerging authors, all of...

It's London in the mid-noughties before Facebook, iPhones and ubiquitous wifi, and One? follows the highs and lows of a group of twenty-somethings living in leafy SW4.Zara has just moved to London for her first real job and struggles to find her feet in...

'I was hooked ...my feel good read of 2016!' The Writing Garnet She wanted a new life and true love. But the grass isn't always greener on the other side... All Polly has to her name is a string of failed relationships and a...

Three Novellas set in Dublin's Georgian Terraces after the 2008 financial collapse. CHRISTMAS 2013 - Herbert Place: A lovingly restored townhouse - on the street where Elizabeth Bowen lived - becomes a testing burden for a young family after the financial crash. GEORGE WASHINGTON'S...

Three Novellas set in Dublin's Georgian Terraces after the 2008 financial collapse. 1. CHRISTMAS 2013 - Herbert Place: A lovingly restored townhouse - on the street where Elizabeth Bowen lived - becomes a testing burden for a young family after the financial crash. 2....

A brilliantly authentic, well-crafted tale of naivety, betrayal and personal resolution, set against the colourful backdrop of bustling souks, Moroccan sunsets and dust-filled streets... An engrossing read. Polly CourtneyMaia is leaving London to paint in the bright sunlight and exotic setting of Morocco. Working...

Sometimes the decisions we make can last a lifetime . . . and sometimes we cannot shake off the shackles of decisions made by others in the past. Kate Flynn has spent her whole life running away. She reckons the best decision she ever...

My life is like one of those cheap snow globes my twins collected when they were younger. Shiny and pretty on the outside, blurred beyond recognition when shaken. Ever since her twin girls left home, Marisa has felt there's something missing from her life....

Darby and Abby's hazy landing brings up some interesting surprises and new danger. Foreign strangers try to save them from Daniella's urge to kill, but in turn one becomes a passionate ally to La Capo. An old allusive love of Darby's tries to reignite...

Roone... She's gone. Someone took her from me.I knew I wasn't supposed to fall in love. But I did it anyway. And now it might have cost my princess - the princess - her life. I won't stop until I find her. But when...

Moving abroad isn't just about packing bags and driving 3,000 miles cross country.There is an emotional twist to moving and this is a journey that encompasses far more than bags and boxes. A lesson in life for all of us, a heartfelt story with...

There's more than one way to ride shotgun.A serious error in judgment sends actress Steffi Corden spiraling from A-list sweetheart to Hollywood pariah. Her TV show is canceled, her ex-boyfriend has married somebody else, and not only can she not eat lunch in this...

To submit or not to submit? She wants to, but is afraid. When she acts out, he barges through her barriers. Taking it all. And more.Rebecca is submissive at heart, and deep down craves to find a Dom she can submit to. But after...

Sydney was being coerced into marrying a man she didn't love. Then Caleb crashed into her life and one little white lie turned her universe upside down.Sydney Bennett has a bit of a problem. Blackmailed into marrying a man she doesn't love in order...

Meet Eliza Bloom: she is funny without realising it, she loves watching old movies and for the past fourteen years she's been keeping some pretty big secrets. And last night her teenage daughter found something in a hidden shoebox that no-one was supposed to...

Fans of Jenny Oliver, Cathy Bramley and Debbie Johnson will love this hilarious and heart-warming romantic comedy A storm is brewing on the stunning Cornish coast - but will sunshine follow the rain? When Annie Trebarwith unexpectedly inherits Tregavara House, her much-loved family home...

Sun, spaghetti and sparkling prosecco. When it comes to finding love, there's no place like Rome... Kate is living the dream with her gorgeous boyfriend Alessandro in his native city, but the reality is sometimes a little less romantic than she'd hoped. Every day...

Lucy Maud Montgomery was born in Clifton, Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. Her mother died when she was a toddler and her devastated father asked her grandparents to raise her. Her childhood years in Cavendish were very lonely. Lucy's solution at...

Betrayal, lost babies, and terrifying nightmares follow Jade Montgomery to James Island, North Carolina. Damaged and devastated by her third miscarriage and deteriorating marriage, she drives to the strip of sand north of Wilmington to end her life. This was her happy place, the...

Flight attendant Rebecca Williamson is surrounded by happy endings. Her flight crew friends enjoy life with an abandon Rebecca doesn't share, while her college girlfriends are busy living out their own fairy tales. And now that her longtime crush Jake has officially slipped through...

M.J. Pullen follows up her debut novel, The Marriage Pact, with this fast-paced and charming sequel, centering on Marci's famously finicky best friend, Suzanne. Readers who enjoyed the first will love this addition, while those who haven't read the first will find REGRETS ONLY...

As a child, all Courtney ever wanted was to own Riverview Terrace. As an adult, that was the farthest thing from her mind. Following a near-fatal accident and court-approved windfall, Courtney gains the funds to buy her ancestors' colonial-era house, complete with rotting beams...

Gwen is the oldest of four children in the Aaldenberg family, and the one who seems to have it all. She's also most desperate to escape. Betta, having nursed their dying grandpa for the past three years, is anxious for Gwen to go, so...

During an anniversary trip, Terrence and Casey's marriage spirals into an unlikely abyss the moment he does the unthinkable. After eight years of occasional wedded bliss and with this violation weighing on them, Casey leaves the bedroom, then their home, and sets an immediate...

I was having dinner at Bucky's bar at the Grand Hotel in Point Clear, Alabama, when I saw an older distinguished man sipping a martini and staring through the back window at the horizon of the Gulf of Mexico as the sun set. And...

'The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude' When 'The Awakening' was first published in 1899, charges of sordidness and immorality seemed to consign it into obscurity and...

Fantasies - we all have them.For some it's their dream job; others want the wedding, the 2.5 kids, the white picket fence.My fantasies are a bit more...depraved.Dark and sinful, they have destroyed relationships and my livelihood, yet I still submit to them like a...

As Molly Watts balances her relationship with Zack Preston and life as the sole owner of Moose Pond Lodge, an approaching storm threatens to leave irreparable damage in its wake. The storm not only threatens all she has created at the Maine resort that...

Spanish blood flows through Maddy's veins, and she cherishes the memory of flamenco dancing on a beach with Kitto, a boy with a boat in Cornwall. Twenty years later she leaves her philanderer husband Rod and two grown-up children in London for a new...