Fiction - Women

Wishes in branches tied with string. Someone's hopes. Another's dreams. Pam Olson's talent for remodeling sets her onto an unexpected path. When the terrain gets rocky, love interest Steve Turner steps in to help. But will his presence smooth the way or make the...

Convent is a debut work of historical fantasy exploring the world of witchcraft in New Orleans across both a modern and colonial timeline. The Southern Gothic revival begins following Mac LeBlanc, in modern times, on a journey through motherhood that evolves into a spiritual...

What would you do if you found yourself in a dangerous situationof even perhaps losing your life? For Monica, it wasn't only her she was worried about, but about the tiny life she was carrying in her womb. She had no other alternative but...

Letters to What Was is a collection of poetry about the quiet ache of loving someone who couldn't stay. Through poems on distance, heartbreak, and the beauty of letting go, Willow Rena captures the bittersweet lessons hidden in what wasn't meant to be. Written...

Large Print EditionHow far outside the law would you go to save a child?Sunny Day, a fiercely protective single mother, has one priority: keeping her six-year-old son, Sam, safe. But her world unravels when a cryptic message reveals that one of her late sister's...

Love can make even the most fragile person bloom...Misty Owen escapes Florida and comes home to Lilac Lake following a disastrous relationship with an emotionally and physically abusive man. David Graham runs a landscaping business with his father and has created a memorial park...

How far would a mother go to regain control?Vivien is a master manipulator. She inherited the behavior from her own mother, Joyce, who endured a problematic childhood creating emotional issues that grew stronger and more challenging as she aged.Vivien had always been desperate to...

A stunning hardcover Deluxe Collector's Edition of When He Was Wicked, the sixth novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn's beloved Bridgerton series, featuring beautiful endpapers, a ribbon marker, and a gorgeous, decorated spine. Collect all 8 in the series to...

The story you are about to read is neither accurate nor factual. This tale examines the experience of a naïve young African woman seduced by a mature yet immature married African man who fails to honor his empty promises. This leads to the heart-wrenching...

She's 36, a mom of one, and her life is about as exciting as the artisanal cat litter she markets for a living... until she decides to become a pirate.Anne Devereaux is adrift. One year post-divorce, stuck in a soul-crushing marketing job in sunny...

The Ones Who Stayed is a poetic, emotionally resonant novella about motherhood, memory, and the sacred ordinary. Set in a quiet Northern Michigan town, it follows Blue - a woman navigating grief, love, and transformation - through a series of intimate, lyrical vignettes.As seasons...

In this sheet gripping toe-curling erotica, Lyia Inez, a nymphomaniac caught between her long list of lovers and her insatiable craving of neediness for orgasmic passionate releases, battles to evolve her personal life to the next level. When she builds a life of luxury...

She was a prodigy born to perform, until her world collapsed in silence.Madeline Willis was destined for greatness. A piano virtuoso discovered at just five years old, raised by a mother who fled Poland with dreams as fierce as her daughter's talent. But when...

Old Girls and Palm Trees by Meg Pokrass is an illustrated collection about iconoclasts, perpetual dreamers, tightrope walkers, living room magicians, cat lovers, and female friendship. The "old girls" in these linked hybrid pieces are women of a certain age who, in an alternate...

The All-NEW escapist read from bestselling author Kate Frost as she transports us to the beautiful island paradise of Sardinia. When the beginning of the end is just the start... Newly single Lola Wild has had her fill of well-intentioned matchmaking friends. Her best...

What I'm about to say is going to blow our lives apart. But there's nothing else for it. I've tried so hard to keep it from you, not wanting to cause you pain. But I can't hide it any longer. You deserve the truth....

Abigail Hastings, Lora Fitzgerald, and David Houston are orphans, two now in their late teens, having been taken as children to the Dearling Ranch, in Eastern Oregon, in different seasons, by attorney Mason Kile. When one of the kitchen help, a local farm girl,...

From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author W. Winters, comes a sexy second-chance MC romance.I took the fall for a crime I didn't commit, and it cost me everything. Including the only woman I ever loved.I'm not the man she fell in...

Reggie Cumberland got fired, and her man "done her wrong". Now she doesn't care what it takes to keep her new job as a Los Angeles talk show host, even if it means stealing someone else's idea. When that idea gets Della, a co-worker,...

Chasing after each other wasn't what we did. We excelled in letting each other go...I just never expected her not to come back.When Matti fell for Nessa, they did everything right. They fell in love young but gave each other time to grow up....

Just as Margaret Atwoods's Handmaid's Tale prophesied a repressive dystopian future, Kim Dempster's The Color of Mourning takes us on an intensely emotional journey into the very real world of today where women are confronted by fanatic religious fundamentalists in an existential fight for...

It is 1879 Germany, and we hear the story of how three generations of Schmidt men have successfully supported their families making buttons. Each father teaches his trade to his eldest son. Along with the trade, the Schmidt men teach their sons to have...

A charming literary-themed novel about a young woman determined to save her great-aunt's beloved bookshop from extinction by the shiny new competition--which also happens to be run by the handsome son of her family's rivals.The cute, seaside town of Portneath has been the home...

A stirring novel from the author of I Couldn't Love You More and Hideous Kinky: the story of two sisters who couldn't be more different and the great love that holds them together throughout a tumultuous youthFor as long as Lucy can remember, she's...

"Stunning: so clever, so gripping, so timely." -- Lucy FoleyWhen four influential members are poisoned at London's most exclusive private club, a young waitress is charged with their murder. Her personal life and upbringing are dissected, and five men begin to question how well...

For fans of Kate Quinn and The Nightingale, a gripping story of a young Jewish girl who joins an elite Russian sniper unit and embarks on a mission targeting the highest prize of World War II: Adolph Hitler.With the Nazi invasion of the Soviet...

In this imaginative cozy mystery, the search for a missing maid leads Miss Caroline Bingley from Jane Austen's beloved Pride & Prejudice into murder and mayhem in the gritty underbelly of Regency London.Two years after her brother Charles Bingley weds Miss Jane Bennett, Miss...

For fans of Kate Quinn and The Nightingale, a gripping story of a young Jewish girl who joins an elite Russian sniper unit and embarks on a mission targeting the highest prize of World War II: Adolph Hitler.With the Nazi invasion of the Soviet...

A Journey Through Time, Love, and Secrets"Love Child" is a poignant tale of love, loss, and redemption, capturing the struggles and triumphs of a woman bound by societal norms and personal regrets. It is a journey through time that highlights the enduring power of...

September, 1821. When her father announces that she must marry the ancient, grim-faced vicar, Lucy decides upon a desperate plan. Stealing his prized stallion, she escapes across the moors, only to fall into the hands of notorious horse thieves and the cheating arms of...

"Shouldn't we introduce ourselves before we get divorced?"With these words, American grad student Breanne Smith secures the attraction of Nicolas Brassard, French banker.Through tragedy, heartbreak and fear, Nick and Breanne forge a bond that takes them from the American Midwest to the shores of...

Secrets age like wine... and this one is ready to be uncorked.Elko, Nevada, 1955Seventy-six-year-old Meg Bruno has spent decades in quiet exile, keeping the past buried where it belongs. Once known as the infamous Bootlegging Queen, she smuggled sacramental wine during Prohibition-until the law...

What if Daisy Miller had survived? Lawrence Kessenich's captivating novella, boldly reimagines Henry James's classic tale, rescuing Daisy from the clutches of Roman fever and plunging her into vibrant new adventures in Paris.Free-spirited and fiercely independent, Daisy continues to defy the rigid norms of...

She barely escaped with her life. He's hellbent on helping lost souls. When a marriage of convenience leads to love, can their hearts keep them safe?Brynn Smith hides her battle scars well. On the run and in hiding from a dangerous cult, she's terrified...

In The Burning City, Alaya Dawn Johnson continues the trilogy begun with her debut, Racing the Dark, delving deeper into the world of magic wielded by women who understand the dark trade-offs of power and sacrifice. Lana, the heroine, has become the black ange...

A Quill & Quire Best Book of the YearA Globe & Mail Best Short Fiction TitleA National Post Best Short Fiction TitleA January Magazine Best Book of the YearShortlisted for the 2014 Ethel Wilson Fiction PrizeLonglisted for the 2014 Frank O'Connor Award "Complicated, passionate,...

"If Colette Maitland were a musician, you'd say she had perfect pitch."--Isabel Huggan A soldier's wife struggles to reconnect with her daughter after her husband is killed overseas. A baby abandoned at the rectory door inflames a town with gossip. A dog is shot....

A classic work of award-winning Atlantic fiction Leah is haunted: by the things she's done, and the things she has failed to do. And then there's the the ghost of her brother. She has to learn to let go of the past if she,...

Kess Hawkins just wants to play video games, eat pizza rolls, and hang out with her cat. But when a determined journalist comes asking about Kess' past, she is drawn into a thirty-year old mystery. A childhood photo sparks Kess's memories of an abandoned...

In the 'middle of life' Lavinia reviews her frustrations, her solitariness, the grief and the rapture, her seeming companions in a pageant presided over, as it were, by the masks of Owl, for winter, and Cuckoo, for erotic love. Dreaming of Dead People, first...

Escape to the sunshine with the queen of Greek romance, Mandy Baggot! An unexpected gift... A home in paradise? When Molly Adams finds out she's inherited an apartment in Kassiopi, Corfu, she's left thinking there must be some mistake. She doesn't know anyone in...

The BRAND NEW hilarious, feel-good read from #1 bestselling author Fiona Gibson Is it ever too late to bloom? Meet Celia. Life hasn't worked out quite how she'd planned. Since her son left for university, Celia has felt stuck at home - battling with...

1939. Bombs threaten London and five small children step onto a rickety train, clutching their gas masks, heading to an uncertain future...When the war with Nazi Germany sends five displaced children to her door, Dodie Fitznorton knows life in her quiet village will never...

Life--and love--is better with a bulldog...right?Everything is changing for Tiffany. Things used to be simple--Friendship Friday nights with her besties, Mackenzie and Molly, meeting up for late afternoon lattes and just enjoying the single life in Seattle. Now Molly is engaged. Can their friendship...

He's a famous rock star...and an irresistible Dom. She might be his submissive but she'll be damned if she's going to let him think he's better than her. Evie Lloyd was heartbroken when an injury ended her promising career as a ballet dancer. But...

The tale begins in the sacred city of Machu Picchu when a temple virgin is immaculately impregnated by Inti, the Sun God, during the June Solstice of 1511. Her child will become a prophet and will be a boy, because all children conceived in...

A Century Later, Mrs. Dalloway Still Exposes the Fragile Nature of IdentityBeneath the refined surface of Mrs. Dalloway lies a startling exploration of mental illness, time, and the unseen battles we all fight. Virginia Woolf masterfully dismantles the ordinary, revealing the fractures beneath-how memories...

Betty meets Queenie in a courageous debut novel about a mixed-race Black girl fighting for recognition in a Cherokee Indian community that refuses to accept her ancestry as legitimate.Ophelia Blue Rivers is the specificity of her circumstance. She's not just mixed in the American...

Wedding fever hits Abbotsville and several of Miss Julia's friends have plans to tie the knot. But, as usual, nothing is so simple. Christy Hargrove suddenly gives up a lifelong dream and drops out of medical school to marry, Helen Stroud and Thurlow Jones...

An empowering and heartfelt novel about the complexities of family, the power of sisterhood, and the bravery it takes to choose happiness when all seems lost.My life is perfectly fine.Alex has pretended this for years--despite an emotionally absent father, a best friend drifting away,...