Fiction - Women

He dreams of saving his ancestral home. She longs to escape hers.Persephone is the youngest Penryn, and she's always felt like an afterthought. As her siblings ventured out one by one, she was left behind, learning to rely on herself. Now that they've all...

A divorced criminal lawyer. Her first love. The island she abandoned for a better life over twenty years ago.Susan Sheridan knows Martha's Vineyard like the back of her hand. She grew up there as the eldest of the three Sheridan Sisters, their father the...

Sometimes at the lowest point in your life, fate will slip you a gift. Exotic adventure and a quest for redemption collide in this stunning new novel from Jane Johnson.Kate Fordham, escaping terrible personal trauma, has fled to the beautiful sunlit city of Granada,...

The wedding of the year versus the storm of the century. Who will win?Things are finally looking up for the Benson family. After a year of tough choices and big leaps of faith, it seems like love, success, and happiness are right in their...

The Benson family needs a fresh start. Can they find peace and happiness on the beaches of Nantucket?Last summer, a storm blew the Benson family's lives to bits. It's been almost a year since that fateful day, since they learned that life at the...

Nantucket was her paradise--until reality came barging in.Mae Benson was happy--a beloved wife, beloved mother, beloved neighbor. But even she wasn't ready for the tragedy looming around the corner. The accident that claims her husband's life rocks the whole family. And it's not the...

When an editing pen has the power not only to change stories but also to change livesBook editor Emily Bryant finds herself unexpectedly in the charming town of Cascata on California's Lost Coast, holding the keys to her grandmother's rambling Victorian mansion. While sorting...

Catastrophically ill-suited for each other, and forever straddling a line between relative calm and explosive confrontation, Neve and her husband, Edwyn, live together in London. For the moment they have reached a place of peace in their relationship, but past battles have left scars....

A hostile mother-daughter relationship stands at the center of this astonishing, blackly humorous novel by the acclaimed author of First Love.Helen Grant is a mystery to her daughter. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong places, a twice-divorced mother...

Margaret always dreamed the baby she gave up for adoption decades ago would one day track her down. When she receives an unexpected wedding invitation, she discovers her long-lost daughter has been fed a pack of lies about the circumstances surrounding her pregnancy. What...

Perfect late summer escapism. --New York Journal of Books on Love Sold Separately Only one thing stands in the way of Laurel Applebaum's happiness...Doug Appelbaum. In this darkly comic novel about a wife whose rope is so frayed it's about to snap, Laurel gets...

From the author of The Matzah Ball comes a pitch-perfect romcom following a third-generation Jewish matchmaker who unwittingly finds her own search for love thrust into the spotlight... The perfect Jewish husband should be: A doctor or lawyer (preferably a doctor)Baggage-free (no previous marriages,...

Bestselling author Viola Shipman delights with this captivating summertime escape set along the sparkling shores of Lake Michigan, where a woman searches for clues to her secretive mother's past.Devastated by the sudden death of her mother--a quiet, loving and intensely private Southern seamstress called...

Kat's almost-full-time job has become dodging the embarrassing tsunami of male attention aimed at her mother Ellie, a social butterfly who bears an uncanny resemblance to film star Marilyn Monroe. To add to Kat's woes, her step-father, Roy, has lately grown irrationally jealous of...

Named One of the 12 Best Romance Novels for Beach Read Season by Tertulia Independent Publishers Book Awards, Gold Medal - US Northeast: Best Regional Fiction In this sparkling, heartwarming debut set at an iconic Vermont spa, massage therapist Joan Johnston struggles with grief....

"As lush and inviting as the gardens created by its heroine, this novel...will wrap you in captivating, high-stakes drama."-People Magazine (Best Books Summer 2023) "A great portion of [Hedge's] magic lies in how it turns a radical corner, gaining speed and burning urgency-then slowly...

Longlisted for the 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize Winner, Independent Publisher Book Awards, Silver Medal - Literary Fiction Featured on PBS NewsHour Named by Good Morning America, New York Post, and Los Angeles Daily News as one of the Best Books of Spring 2023...

In this wildly addictive novel, three overlooked women take on the charming, manipulative tech CEO who wrote them out of his startup's history. Anna Sarnoff is still reeling from her quickie divorce from tech wunderkind Jake Sarnoff. Forced out of the company that she...

A thousand eyes were watching me. Nobody in the room was talking, and the only sound was a muffled cough from the darkness in the back of the auditorium. Why wasn't everyone whispering to their neighbors? Shouldn't they be playing on their cell phones...

A match made on Aisle 5...Once she finishes these renovations, Lila can finally sell the money pit she'd been living in and get back on her feet. But on box store wages, that'll take decades. Then her friend Pierre proposes the perfect solution.Pierre needs...

Have you ever dreamed of running away?Life hasn't always been easy for Bernice, but she is reasonably content at the ripe age of eighty-one. She has raised two children, buried both her husband and son, and is doing okay despite a few minor health...

Whiskers Abroad is a lively and charming travelogue featuring a trip to Japan shared by two main characters, Audrey and Ashi, who alternate recounting their versions of events. Audrey, having won the chance to write a magazine article about traveling in Japan, takes along...

Wings & Other Things is a book of migrations. Its characters flutter and flap, take off and land, then take off again as they seek the places they belong. These are characters caught in transition: a widow searching for a past self on an...

Starting over means figuring out where you are, how you got there, and where to go from here.When Jane's life falls apart in a most spectacular fashion, she questions how she got to this point. How did she manage to choose a best friend...

Author: Nora RobertsISBN-10: 0593545710ISBN-13: 9780593545713Publisher: Berkley BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/04/2022Pages: 496Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.30d

A woman expecting to spend the holidays alone finds warmth in the iciest man she knows in this steamy and charming later-in-life romance by New York Times bestselling author Jane Porter. It's been five years since Andi McDermott lost her husband, and she's finally...

"Reveals on every page how love can persevere and take shape over time and space."--Boston Globe "Transporting and deeply emotional."--Glamour "One of the most inventive and talented stylists of her generation." --Vulture From the award-winning author of Land of Love and Drowning, an electric...

A pitch-perfect holiday rom com about two oil-and-water reality-star country singers who must fake a relationship in order to win the opportunity of a lifetime, perfect for fans of Sally Thorne's The Hating Game and Christina Lauren's In a Holidaze. Will they hit the...

"A beautifully crafted novel that sits at the intersection of race and class, that flags the frank truth of the life of migrant workers for whom a flight to freedom can become the most finely woven trap."--JODI PICOULT, #1 New York Times bestselling author...

One of PureWow's 9 Books We Can't Wait to Read in October! A chilling look into an alternate near future where a woman and her daughter seek refuge in a women-only colony, only to find that the safe haven they were hoping for is...

In the summer of 1936, while the Nazis make secret plans for World War II, a courageous and daring young woman struggles to expose the lies behind the dazzling spectacle of the Berlin Olympics. German power is rising again, threatening a war that will...

It should have been the best summer of their lives - unfortunately, life doesn't always go according to plan.Summer in the Hamptons should be filled with cocktails by the pool, bonfires on the beach, and sunset clam bakes. Instead, Nora, Megan, and Courtney are...

She's had hit after hit with Janet Evanovich. Now this New York Times bestselling author begins a series that readers will go crazy for. Psychologist Kate Holly's own life has become the stuff of intensive therapy. She's divorcing her gorgeous firefighter husband, she has...

When two estranged sisters inherit a Hamptons beach house, they search for fortune but find love instead. Cassie and Peck are half sisters with little in common beyond a shared last name--that is, until their beloved aunt Lydia bequeaths them equal shares of her...

From the New York Times bestselling author of On Dublin Street comes a seductive story of forgiving the past and making up for lost time.... Shannon MacLeod has always gone for the wrong type of man. After she drifted from one toxic relationship to...

Ethan West is giving his girlfriend Mira something special for her birthday: her never-before-explored fantasy. He's recruited one of his cop friends to join them for a romantic weekend. But the three of them cross boundries they never expected.Author: Lacey AlexanderISBN-10: 0451235746ISBN-13: 9780451235749Publisher: Penguin...

A tragedy on a cold Adirondack day robbed country doctor Enoch Farrell of his three oldest children. Then all his hopes rested with his son, Martin, who dreamed of becoming a doctor too. Intelligent, gifted Martin could have a brilliant future. All that stood...

He's a Harley-riding ex-thief...she's a gun-toting ex-socialite. Together they'll take the ride of a lifetime in this erotic romance from "an undoubted master."* Mac Canfield was the last man Lily West expected to see again, never mind aim her gun at. But there he...

An instant New York Times bestseller! Return to the house on Tradd Street one last time in this hauntingly spectacular finale to the bestselling series featuring psychic medium Melanie Trenholm. After the devastating events of the past few months, the last thing Melanie Trenholm...

A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2021 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE 2021 READS AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A BEST BOOK OF 2021 FROM Washington Post, Vogue, Time, Oprah Daily, New York Times,...

An explosive encounter leads to . . . After Mary Kate Bennett becomes a young widow, she's left to fend for herself without a penny. When she is in a terrible carriage accident, Mary Kate awakens in the bed of the mysterious Archer St....

Life is hectic enough for suburban single mom Jane Jeffrey this Christmas season--what with her having to survive cutthroat church bazaar politics and finish knitting the afghan from Hell at the same time. The last thing the harried homemaker needs is an unwelcome visit...

A bold, provocative "pioneering novel" (Los Angeles Times) about family, womanhood, and growing up Set on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Enchantment is narrated by Hannah Lehmann, the wry survivor of a troubled childhood. Hannah's perceptions of her Orthodox German Jewish heritage--her five brothers and...

A cosy, heartwarming Christmas read about the growing friendship between a young journalist and an old woman who lives in a house teetering on the edge of the Devon cliffs, by the bestselling author of The Vets of Hope Green and The Petshop on...

Perfect for readers of Jodi Picoult, Diane Chamberlain, and Heather Gudenkauf, No Place to Hide is an intimate and deeply moving story of one woman's desperate attempt to escape a troubled past--and the haunting mystery she's forced to confront. Fleeing her native England with...

This "stunning" (USA Today) debut novel brings to life World War II-era and modern-day Greece--and tells the story of a vibrant family and the tragic secret kept hidden for generations. Boston, 2000: Calliope Notaris Brown receives a shocking phone call. Her beloved uncle Nestor...

The instant New York Times bestseller is "a fun, delightful, un-putdownable novel" about two identical twin sisters who couldn't look more alike . . . or live more differently (PopSugar). Nantucket is only eleven miles away from Martha's Vineyard. But they may as well...

From the bestselling author of Girls in White Dresses, this funny and tender novel is "an engaging exploration of a thoroughly modern family dynamic" (People) and the ways in which we never really grow up, and the people we turn to when things go...

Des is a good husband, a good father - a good man. He encourages his wife's artistic endeavours, reads bedtime stories to his children every night, and holds down a well-paid job. But appearances can be deceptive. His wife seems to be forgetting that...

In the tradition of Memoirs of a Geisha and The Piano Teacher, a heart-wrenching debut novel of family, forgiveness, and the exquisite pain of love When Amaterasu Takahashi opens the door of her Philadelphia home to a badly scarred man claiming to be her...