Fiction - Women

Vitoria Miene lives in New York-on the opposite side of the country as her best friend. After careful thought, she decides to pack everything up and move to Seattle. There is only one problem with her plan-Wes Novak. He hates her and does everything...

One mistake shattered our marriage. One determined husband refuses to let it end.For years, I told myself my marriage was simply going through a busy season. We had two kids. I had endless responsibilities, and a husband whose career always seemed to need a...

Emmaline Novak just wants to forget she ever loved Colt. When he broke her heart, she swore off men and gave up on her dream job as a physical therapist for the football team he plays for. But when a second chance at her...

Dallas Novak swore off women after his fiancée broke their engagement. His plans change when he becomes responsible for his family and their ranch, Novak Springs. Resigned to his new life, he throws himself into making the ranch successful. Ginnifer Zeiss is a well-established...

A ruthless billionaire. A marriage contract. A bride who refuses to be owned.Marrying Lucian Ashcroft was never part of Mara Ellison's plan.But when a ruthless billionaire offers a contract that could protect them both, Mara agrees to become his temporary bride. The rules are...

THE MENOPAUSE MAFIAFive Women. Five Stories. One Unforgettable Sisterhood.They thought they were losing themselves... until they found each other.Diane had always been the woman with the answers - until her own body started asking questions she could not ignore.Stephanie was rebuilding her life after...

I can save anything with a balance sheet and ninety days. It was the one thing I'd ever been sure of - right up until the morning my own firm walked me out with my life in a too-small box and a younger, cheaper...

Everyone remembers the wrong life.After a minor car accident, Mara wakes to a reality she doesn't recognize. Her family insists she's confused. Her doctors call it trauma. Every record around her confirms a past she knows she never lived.Then Mara meets an elderly man...

"You didn't break me. You just lost me."Elena has spent a decade living in a "glass museum." As a world-renowned musician married to a legendary architect, her life on Park Avenue is a masterpiece of curated perfection. But perfection has a price. When the...

A language class is supposed to teach people how to speak. Elena's students are about to discover when they must act.At a senior center in California, an unlikely circle gathers each week to practice Italian. They are widows, travelers, skeptics, dreamers, and friends who...

The first time Charlene Dinatale said no, she was ten years old, standing on a wall at recess, and the boy asking was Marc.Two decades later, she's saying yes to a much bigger stage: Director at Media Connect Corp, one of Toronto's most storied...

The annual Classics Dinner is in full swing. Professor Hadley MacNamara - formidable, silver-haired, sixty-five, the kind of man rooms arrange themselves around - is holding court on the veranda of the Scholar's Table above the Swan. His toastis is genuinely brilliant. It moves...

If Violet Temple has learned anything in her almost 60 years, it's how to set a boundary.Well, she's trying anyway. When Kyle Garner and Josh Albans ask to rent kayaks from her Juneau, Alaska guiding business, she says no. After all, they want to...

Despite the subject matter, "Relentless Pursuit" is a heart-warming story filled with goodpeople and events, but abuse is no joke. Kat falls for Damon's charm, but soon after marryinghim, he becomes abusive and controlling. Unlike many victims of abuse, one beating is all ittakes...

A fall on the beach, a new beginning...Aubrey Benson joins her three best friends for a beach house getaway on the Gulf Coast of Florida over the 4th of July holiday. She's a caretaker for her mother suffering from dementia and desperately needs this...

Three women at a crossroads. Three wishes. One unforgettable summer.Heartbroken, broke, and sworn off men, Grace Valentine rolls into Cornwall in a battered old campervan, determined to build a new life for herself and her children. The last thing she needs is a handsome...

December 2010. Two vehicles collide on an icy patch on a Toronto highway. Shoma Basu, trapped inside the wreckage of her car is barely alive yet she senses a presence, smells roses, and, her tortured breathing relaxes. When help arrives, Shoma is alone. In...

Francine Jackson has spent years captivating audiences as one of the world's most celebrated ballerinas. Graceful, disciplined, and admired around the world, she has devoted her life to the stage, finding purpose in movement and beauty in discipline. Yet behind the applause lies a...

Juliet is prepared to face the life-changing event of her twin daughters' inevitable departure for university, but when her husband walks out the same day, she is left behind to pick up the pieces of what she once thought was a perfect life. After...

This XpressRead Cram Edition of This marrying pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic. In "This Marrying," Margaret Culkin Banning explores the complexities of marriage and relationships with a keen eye. Set against the...

This XpressRead Cram Edition of Angelica pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic. Elizabeth Sanxay Holding's "Angelica" is a compelling work of psychological fiction exploring the complex realities of motherhood and family relationships. This...

This XpressRead Cram Edition of Mrs. Ames pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic. E.F. Benson's "Mrs. Ames" offers a window into the intricacies of middle-class English life, exploring the social expectations and quiet...

This XpressRead Cram Edition of Roland Whately pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic. Alec Waugh's "Roland Whately: A Novel" offers a compelling glimpse into the world of English boarding schools. This character study,...

This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Devourers pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic. Annie Vivanti Chartres's "The Devourers" delves into the psychological complexities of women's lives in early 20th century Italy. This rediscovered...

This XpressRead Cram Edition of Yonder pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic. E. H. Young's "Yonder" offers a compelling glimpse into the intricate tapestry of family life and relationships within a small English...

This XpressRead Cram Edition of Manslaughter pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic. Alice Duer Miller's "Manslaughter" is a compelling courtroom drama exploring themes of social justice and romance through the lens of a...

This XpressRead Cram Edition of A Woman for Mayor pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic. In "A Woman for Mayor: A Novel of To-day," Helen M. Winslow crafts a compelling story centered on...

This XpressRead Cram Edition of Katie Robertson pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic. Step back into the heart of the Industrial Revolution with Margaret E. Winslow's "Katie Robertson: A Girls Story of Factory...

This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Tinder-Box pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic. In Maria Thompson Daviess's "The Tinder-Box," explore the complexities of gender roles and social expectations in a charming, early 20th-century...

This XpressRead Cram Edition of Saxe Holm's Stories pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic. "Saxe Holm's Stories" offers a captivating glimpse into 19th-century American domestic life. Penned by Helen Hunt Jackson, this collection...

This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Precipice pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic. Explore the complexities of marriage, moral dilemmas, and social issues in Elia Wilkinson Peattie's "The Precipice," a powerful work of...

When everything familiar is taken from her, Rosie Winterbourne does the only thing she knows how to do: she sails off alone.A gifted naval sailor with a fierce will to endure, Rosie is already fractured by loss when her life begins to unravel-her career...

Amina Rahman has spent her life knowing one painful truth: in some families, a daughter's worth is measured before her heart is ever heard.When a proposal arrives from the respected Chowdhury family, everyone calls it a blessing. Rayan Chowdhury is educated, quiet, honorable, and...

Fake it till you make it, right?Meg Beckett has packed up everything she has, which isn't much, and left her life in Georgia behind for a new start in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. She knows how lucky she is to have gotten...

Every Picture Tells.If Olivia hadn't done what she did, would Drew still be alive?Twenty years after the love affair Olivia never got over, Drew dies suddenly on a shoot in Iceland, taking with him the promise to guard their intimate photos.When the images resurface...

Sutton Jones built her life one small victory at a time: a horse named Lucy, late-night waitressing, classes at the community college, and a best friend who would do anything for her. But everything unravels the night her father, drunk and broken, destroys the...

KATHERINE WALTERS wants nothing more than solitude and a place to write, but the cottage she buys in wild, remote Dartmoor is not the haven she expected.A stranger is out there on the moor, watching her from afar, and his constant presence has her...

The performance of a lifetime... by the wrong woman.June 1956. The world is overjoyed when reclusive superstar Luella Vining announces she'll appear on a press tour for her new film--a movie she wrote and starred in--after nearly a decade out of the public eye...

The complete trilogy - united for the first time in one definitive volume: Crown Prince - Lord Emperor - Best of ThreePrincess by birth, rebel by heart. But can she escape the crown-or wield it to save a kingdom?Princess Teressa of Vorashen has had...

"Until the lion tells the story, the hunter will always be the hero." At thirty-two, wildlife photographer Cassie Eskelson has perfected her exit strategy, leaving every relationship before the walls close in. Labeled ""unstable"" by her family and ""broken"" by a string of exes,...

When Brenda's world is turned upside down by an unexpected divorce after decades of marriage, she refuses to let heartbreak define her future. Instead of dwelling on betrayal, she chooses a new path-one filled with courage, friendship, and the dream of building something entirely...

When Marianne, a retired doctor of sixty, returns to her dead mother's house in a small town on the Danish Limfjord, she expects to sort through a life and leave. Instead she finds a box of letters in the attic, decades of correspondence from...

My husband slept with the doctor who supervised my license. They thought they held all the leverage.For eighteen years, I've been a nurse practitioner. For twelve of them, I've worked at the same internal medicine clinic, caring for six hundred patients and building a...

She spent her life trying to earn God's love-until she discovered it had already been given.To her community, her legalistic mother, and the congregation at Grace Covenant Church, Sophia Matthews is the absolute gold standard of spiritual discipline. As a high-achieving ministry leader, her...

To the outside world, Hannah Carter is the woman who has it all together.She is the dependable daughter, the high-performing corporate manager at Harrison Logistics, and the faithful church volunteer who always wears a perfect smile. But behind the polished veneer of her successful...

She never expected a stranger to become the most important person in her life.What began as an unlikely friendship slowly blossomed into something neither of them saw coming. But just as everything seemed perfect, he began to pull away.Their conversations grew quieter. The distance...

What begins as a celebration of new beginnings soon becomes a journey marked by love, loyalty, secrets, and life-altering choices.Clara and Tara Mathews may be identical twins, but their lives are heading in very different directions. Tara is the brilliant valedictorian bound for Harvard,...

It is never the grand betrayal we imagine. It is a scarf. A cardigan. A quiet shift that changes everything.In The Scarf, The Cardigan, London-based writer Denise Lauren Brims delivers a piercing, beautifully observed debut novella about the subtle, unspoken tensions that can unravel...

Emily Parks has finally found a home in the sleepy village of Mountain Grove-a place where dawn breaks over the mountains like a daily miracle and neighbors feel more like family. Between helping run Cooke's Sweet Shoppe, caring for her beloved Miss Mattie, and...

Online, you can be anyone you want. If only real life was that simple.Kate's determined to learn how to be an independent woman. For too long, she's let herself be pushed around - sometimes literally - by men. For the first time in her...