Fiction - Women

One sultry night, a young bride overhears an extraordinary conversation. The voices speak of a plot to murder a wife who has failed to produce a child and whose family has failed to produce the promised dowry... Megha is sick with horror when she...

In Bulletproof Girl, Quinn Dalton offers eleven raw and witty stories powered by a rich mix of women's voices. The stakes are high in these diverse narratives. "Dinner at Josette's" explores the nature of female friendships in the story of a woman whose best...

They've satisfied their biological clocks. They met six years ago in a mom's group. Deirdre, Juliette, Anne, and Lisa are each living The Dream in the suburbs outside of New York City: beautiful wedding, big house, picture perfect family. What more could a woman...

How do we become the people we dream -- and dare -- to be? Delilah is thirty-one years old and needs a plan. Still living with her parents in Key West with no career to speak of, and in a dull relationship with a...

This is the story of every Jane Doe who disappeared. This is what happens when anyone can be everywhere at once.When something terrible happens to Jane's ex-boyfriend Ben, and she must face his father, Rudy, her life--already a shambles--disintegrates.In this quasi-allegorical novel about the...

In the wake of her 49th birthday Carly has become a broke, divorced empty nester, no longer knowing her place in the glossy suburban bubble where she has carefully constructed a veneered existence. She thought she had left the uncertainty of a chaotic, drug-infused...

Julia Riley thinks she's happy. The executive director of Boston's Fledger Foundation, she and her wife, Carrie, are raising three children, one from Julia's first marriage...but being content is not the same as being happy. Katie Brennan is the popular host of a network...

Mia is a granola-eating, sensible shoe-wearing, carbon footprint-conscious twenty-something living in a multicultural neighborhood in Chicago. Her mother, Babs, is a stiletto-wearing Zsa Zsa Gabor type who works as an activities hostess on a Caribbean cruise line...and if you guessed there's some tension there,...

Time...those sequential relations to any other, as past, present, or future. None of the Bad Ass Girls are girls anymore, not since their freshman year in college when the eight of them formed a most unlikely bond. Diverse in personalities, the Bad Ass Girls...

Finding herself pregnant and alone, Audrey Stone goes to live with her sister, Adia, in Scotland and tries to start over. Closing her heart, she is determined not to be hurt again. She doesn't want to fall in love. Then she meets a Scotsman...

Straight A's and skilled test taking in high school did little to prepare Lita for the rigors and reality of college life. Six weeks in, and she knew she was out. Unfortunately, her parents had other ideas and offered her an ultimatum...go back to...

For the last year, Emma Owens has been quietly detached from everything and everyone. Desperate to escape the demons that chased her out of her hometown, she's learned that life here in Milwaukee is just less complicated and less tragic when it's a one-woman...

Hayden and Raine have a fierce love of family and each other. They have faced both triumphs and trials, and their love, strength and complete devotion to one another and their family proves that real love truly does defy all odds.Author: J. AdamsISBN-10: 0692416331ISBN-13:...

"One of the great truths in life is this: When it comes to love, there is no rhyme or reason and love is never planned. It just happens. It just is.Joy and pain, wonder, beauty, ecstasy, tenderness, completeness, hurt and healing, a feeling of...

A collection of romantic short stories. From a woman dealing with diagnosed breast cancer, to a man hoping to reclaim the heart of a lost love, to a woman surviving a tragic upbringing and discovering love, these short stories are uplifting and inspirational and...

Angelo De Luca is a man who has it all. As the owner and CEO of one of Orlando's five-star hotels, the twenty-three-year-old bachelor is wealthy and successful, possessing looks, charm, and a heart of gold. He is the perfect boss and a good...

Anna is a town of affluence nestled behind mature trees and hidden driveways. The place everyone wants to be. It has immaculate streets and is almost crime free. But because of an unspoken rule in Anna, all are not welcomed.Pearl Swanson has lived in...

It's tough to be the new kid in town when you're in the third grade. That is until you meet the girl next door. That is where the story of two best friends begins. Where it ends is someplace you probably won't believe. One...

Kay Sorenson is stuck. She is forty years old and still trying -- and failing -- to please her glamorous, willful, and indifferent parents. She abandoned a promising music career, settled into a loveless marriage, became a careless mother, and began to drink, smoke,...

1853. A fateful game of poker changed the fortunes of two families forever. A home was lost. But what was left behind? 2018. The wedding of Christie Ryan and Martin Blake is only weeks away and River's End is buzzing with excitement. But when...

"...a deliciously tangled plot and insight into life on the Persian Gulf." Kirkus Review When newlywed Abdulla loses his wife and unborn child in a car accident, the world seems to crumble beneath his feet. Thrust back into living in the family compound, he...

Six years after fleeing college and Thomas's betrayal, Maggie has nearly given up on love. Enter Izzie, a motherless eight year old, and every maternal instinct kicks-in. With Donald, Izzie's dad, Maggie waits for the thrill-for anything magic: a spark, a quickening, a quiver...

Fine's] ability to capture the universal humor in us all makes this book a fun and joyful ride. I saw myself in this book, and everyone else I know!--Susan Brooks, entrepreneur, author, and speaker.Author: Marcia FineISBN-10: 0615315135ISBN-13: 9780615315133Publisher: L'Image Press, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2010Pages: 342Format:...

From the seclusion of a tiny Caribbean village to the towering tenements of Brooklyn, New York, and finally to the calm riverbeds of the Seine in Paris, France, THE SEEDS OF GREEN MANGOES tells the unforgettable story of an enchanting girl who will travel...

Ally Brown has lost her creative voice as a comedian and is hiding her failure from Drew Stephens, her live-in boyfriend. She has a day job as a legal assistant at a prestigious New York law firm which she is not particularly good at...

Set in India, "The Overnight Palace is a gorgeous and sensual novel, one that readers of all kinds are sure to find enchanting," says San Francisco Book Review. In exotic Rajasthan, India, bookish Elena seeks the romance and transcendence that have been missing from...

"This is chick-lit at its best" - Readers' Favorite 5-star review.I started My New Life with a wild leap of faith and a screw driver in my back pocket. Turns out I needed a power tool arsenal...Nancy Myers is having a hard time. She's...

A young chef stumbles on a secret family recipe that might lead her to the love--and life--she's been looking for in this stunning novel from the New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December.A POPSUGAR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR When Iris...

After getting her heart broken by a player again, Whitney Porter is done with men. She's focusing on her future career and her first assignment at the college newspaper: Posing as a sports writer for an exposé on the extra perks jocks receive. But...

Meredith Moore is the perfect continuity girl. An on-set script supervisor, she is the error catcher, the one who makes sure every take matches seamlessly with the one that came before it. But when Meredith wakes up on her 35th birthday with a sudden...

A plastic Virgin Mary and a fortune teller are a girl's best friends in this laugh-out-loud novel about a superstitious young woman who doubts herself when it comes to finding love and living her life. Jessica Luna is your typical 26 year old: she...

Hannah Robinson is just about to open the doors to her new shop Cupcakes on the Corner when out of the blue her boyfriend Patrick announces that he's leaving her for another woman. Faced with starting a business on her own, Hannah begins to...

Some friends help us heal . . . If you ask her, Natasha Davila will tell you there's nothing more important to her than her kids. She'll do anything for her son and daughter-even play nice with her ex-husband. Only now she's facing a...

An aspiring young journalist stuck blogging for a gossip site stumbles across a story that gives new meaning to the word legendary from "master wordsmith" award-winning author, Gwendolyn Zepeda (Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, New York Times bestselling author of The Dirty Girls Social Club). If she...

Roxanne Callahan has always been her younger sister's caretaker. Now married, her happiness is threatened when beautiful and emotionally unstable Simone, suffering from crippling postpartum depression, commits an unforgivable crime for which Roxanne comes to believe she is partially responsible. In the glare of...

The award-winning author returns to her "wonderfully imaginative"* world of Heart Fire and Heart Fortune for an all-new Celta novel about a young woman's destiny, and the one man whose love could be her downfall. After the death of GrandLord Yew years ago, the...

She begins to realize that things aren't quite right in her life: her cozy trailer now seems shabby and small; a redecorating project rekindles her dream of a career in architecture; and just who was her husband kissing in the parking lot? As the...

For readers of J. Courtney Sullivan and Emma Straub, and for fans of Firefly Lane, comes a poignant and sweeping novel about life, love, and the ever-evolving nature of female friendship by the author of Waiting for a Star to Fall. The bottom of...

Bestselling author Fern Michaels has won the hearts of readers worldwide with her sweeping novels of women coping with the challenges of love. In To Have and to Hold, she tells the compelling story of a woman who harnesses tragedy and grows courageously--strong, independent,...

A darkly erotic novel about a good girl gone bad. When Irina -- Romanian by birth but brought up by American parents who have never understood her-arrives at college she quickly abandons ordinary student life for an affair with an older, mysterious Romanian man...

They were inseparable until an innocent mistake tore them apart.Growing up, Viola and Issy clung to each other in the wake of their mother's eccentricity, as she dragged them from a commune to a tiny Welsh village. They thought the three of them would...

A world of possibilities opens up for Joy Harkness when she sets out on a journey that's going to show her the importance of friendship, love, and what makes a house a home Coming-of-age can happen at any age. Joy Harkness had built a...

After Hazen Wood kidnaps twelve-year-old Gemma Sullivan, the two embark upon a cross-country journey that tests the limits of Gemma's endurance. In scenes of physical and sexual violence, Hazen tries to destroy the young girl's will. When she does manage to escape he drags...

Edgy Manhattan shutterbug Rachel Solomon can't wait to escape her difficult Midwestern Jewish family of doctors--and her crazy, condescending WASP friend and photography mentor, Elizabeth Mann. Not so easy when Elizabeth marries Rachel's surgeon-brother, moves to the Midwest, and becomes the daughter Rachel's mother...

From the author of Corner Shop and Bitter Sweets comes a luminous new novel about one woman's journey back home - to a past she once wanted only to forget. It's time to stop fighting, and go home. Those were the words, written by...

Even life in the greatest city in the world can sometimes feel like a little too much. For this New Yorker, running away to the Heartland may be just the antidote. When New York City native Desir馥 Christian-Cohen flees her sometime-boyfriend, unhappy mother, Nina...

With a breakneck pace and cat-and-mouse twists, Spring Break is the ultimate beach read. Help me . . . These are the last words Chanetelle hears from her friend Ashley, in a static-filled phone call that soon goes dead. Their trip to the island...

A laugh-out-loud novel about motherhood, life, and the quest for eight hours of sleep. Event planner and famous blogger Clare Finnegan expected to go back to work after her daughter was born. After all, she worked hard for her success...and it's not like now...

This is a story about what happens when you are twenty-four years old and it is 1999 and you are quite certain that everyone on the planet has been invited to super-fun New Year's Eve orgies, except you. There is sex, albeit awkward and...

Rachel Covington is twenty-five, sexy, single, and smug. Her life is a glorious whirl of looking fabulous and toying with gorgeous men. So it's obvious to everyone that she and the hottest guy in her office, Nick Maxwell, are destined to hook up--but what...