Fiction - Women

Return To Sender At seventeen, Rosalind "Lin" Townsend found herself pregnant and alone. Her deeply religious father threw her out of the house, and Nick Pemberton, her baby's father, refused to marry her. Yet even at the lowest point in her life, Lin vowed...

The Seven Lands of Velspar put their faith in the Intercessors, a psychic priesthood responsible for the purification of the spirit. Where passion flares, they soothe its intent. Those who cannot be soothed, are cast out, their spirits destroyed by fire. The Intercessors are...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! From the author of Dear Edward comes a "powerfully affecting" (People) family story that asks: Can love make a broken person whole? "Another tender tearjerker . . ....

"Jessica Joyce is a new and forever fave!"--Ali Hazelwood A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!One of Amazon's Best Romances of July Two high school enemies must reunite for a road trip inspired by their grandparents' broken engagement in this electric debut romance. Noelle Shepard is unemployed,...

"I love, love, love Lizzy Dent."--Emily Henry, author of People We Meet on Vacation and Happy Place Bridesmaids meets Emily in Paris--in London--in this hilarious and heartfelt story of one handsome neighbor, one no-good ex, and the summer Amy Duffy makes the comeback of...

People We Meet on Vacation meets The Unhoneymooners in this sparkling debut romantic comedy about two near strangers--and complete opposites--who win a radio contest for a trip around the world. Love's about to take flight. Feeling stuck at work and tired of London's dreary...

"Bursting with the magic of first love, it's everything I want in a summer romance." --Carley Fortune, #1 New York Times bestselling author of EVERY SUMMER AFTER Named a Best Book of Summer by Real Simple - Reader's Digest - Country Living - The...

A LibraryReads Pick Be careful who you sleep with...They've already made their bed. Lucy and her husband, Adam, have been best friends with another couple, Cora and Scott, for years. The four are practically family--they vacation together, co-own a beach cottage, and their children...

AN EARTH SHATTERING SECRET. A LIFE-CHANGING LOVE STORY. "Nobody writes angst and joy and hope like Paige Toon."--CHRISTINA LAUREN, author of LOVE AND OTHER WORDS For fans of Colleen Hoover, an unforgettable and heartbreaking love story with an earth-shattering secret at its core that...

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The scorching new thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train. "A Slow Fire Burning twists and turns like a great thriller should, but it's also deep, intelligent and intensely...

To break out of a 24-hour time loop, all Jack needs is for Gemma to fall in love with him in a single day. All Gemma needs is to remember him first . . . Gemma Peters is doing fine. She's making a name...

"Super cinematic and every bit as Agatha Christie-esque as its sounds... ifyou like murder mysteries, pick this one up!" -Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers Named A Most Anticipated Mystery of Summer by Betches, Essence, Crime Reads and more!...

No help.No cell coverage. No one to hear them scream. Burned-out by both her marriage and work, Liz is desperate for an escape. More than that, she craves an adventure, a total reset. So, when she plans a vacation with her three best friends,...

After a shocking phone call from her mother, Reeva Mehta's life starts to sound like the plot of a Bollywood drama. From the outlandishly funny author of 30 Things I Love About Myself comes a hilarious, heartwarming novel about love, family, and new beginnings....

A heartwarming and hilarious novel about swinging, marriage, and complexities of the heart. "This book is fun as hell. Hilarious, addictive, moving, and sexy. I lost track of time reading it, and I couldn't get enough!" --Jasmine Guillory, bestselling author of While We Were...

As sizzling and sexy as its predecessors, Texas Sunrise shares the final chapter of the Coleman family, whose lifelong drama of heartbreak and triumph has captivated millions of readers. Billie Coleman Kingsley, beloved matriarch of the clan and founder of a fabulously successful fashion...

Author: Fern MichaelsISBN-10: 0345313755ISBN-13: 9780345313751Publisher: Ballantine BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/13/1989Pages: 512Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 6.96h x 4.20w x 1.13d

This New York Times bestselling novel tells an exhilarating World War II epic that chronicles an extraordinary young woman's heroic frontline service in the Red Cross. "Urrea's touch is sure, his exuberance carries you through . . . He is a generous writer, not...

In this newest suspense novel from New York Times bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub, three friends' lives terrifyingly unravel when they win a billion-dollar lottery jackpot--and one goes missing. Perfect for fans of novels like Taylor Adams' No Exit and The Club by Ellery...

"A wonderful, heartwarming read." -- Ruth Hogan, author of Keeper of Lost ThingsFrom the USA Today bestselling author of The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett comes a heartwarming story of found family, love, and making connections through books set against the bombing of London...

New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan takes us to the gloriously windswept islands of northern Scotland, where we meet young Morag McGinty, who runs the puddle-jumper flights that serve the islands' tiny but proudly feisty population.Morag MacIntyre is a Scottish lass from the...

The first book in this USA Today bestselling author's delicious new Hidden Royals series, in which a princess in exile searches for her lost brother--and falls for the devastatingly charming scoundrel sent to thwart her.A hidden princess...Princess Regine Elise Adelaide d'Orleans is no longer...

New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan takes us to the gloriously windswept islands of northern Scotland, where we meet young Morag McGinty, who runs the puddle-jumper flights that serve the islands' tiny but proudly feisty population.Morag MacIntyre is a Scottish lass from the...

Beloved New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs returns with a compulsively readable tale of an idyllic California beach town forced to reckon with scandal when a high school valedictorian's speech reveals secrets that shake the town to its core."Readers will savor sunny skies...

An orphan. A fortune. A choice.When Hannah Northrop arrives at Archer Hall as the new governess, she doesn't have high hopes for being happy with the Barclay family. She never understood why her guardian, Lord Putnam, kept her in an orphanage for fifteen years...

Johanna, an artist, and Matt, a music critic, couldn't be more different, but by a simple twist of fate, she plucks him from a crowd at a Dylan concert. What follows is a heady and intense relationship buffeted by the usual suspects that gently...

Secrets-long forgotten and newly discovered-converge at a gathering of family and friends at Otyrburn, a worn-at-the-edges family estate in Scotland, where three women shake the past, rattle the future, and redefine the meaning of family.Author: Jo BruniniISBN-10: 898612050XISBN-13: 9798986120508Publisher: Idle Ridge PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/15/2022Pages:...

What could possibly go wrong when a one-night stand returns? When Coast Guard Lt. Mike Stark's ex-wife leaves their two daughters on his doorstep, he quickly realizes he is in over his head. He goes home to Rescue Bay in an attempt to provide...

Sometimes all you need is a second chance...The sunny weather and sandy beaches of Rescue Bay, Florida, are just what Olivia Linscott needs after leaving a bad relationship and a lousy job. Her late mother, a woman Olivia never knew, has left her an...

THE MORTALITY SHOT is a hybrid collection of stories, essays, and experimental stage text that meditates directly or indirectly on mortality. Julia wrote the earlier work in the collection about grieving others' deaths; more recent pieces include facing her own mortality thanks to long-haul...

Police officer Jack Meyers is fighting PTSD, depression and a history of emotional wounds from his childhood and time at war that he can't let heal. When he receives a call for an eighteen-year-old making suicidal threats he has a choice, listen to his...

Crazy is always in season, especially when you live in the burbs. Epic yard wars (Because it's always a good day when you call tell the HOA to suck it.), a PTA take down (Spoiler alert - lice is a great way to clear...

Their American Dream was simply to survive. They managed considerably more than that.With its cast of obedient romantics, mystical nutbags, and adorable cynics, Sister Liberty is the rollicking, thunderous introductory volume to The Stables Family Chronicles.In 1885, murderous circumstances force two lesbian widows and...

When a newspaper reporter's fiancé dies abruptly, she questions how he could just cease to be.Dogged by unbidden thoughts, odd coincidences and unexplained phenomena, Ann Stewart becomes obsessed with finding out what really happens after we die and whether her beloved Gregory is still...

Following on the heels of her critically acclaimed first collection Hot Town and Other Stories an examination of relationships within communities continues in this new collection of short fiction, Something's Burning. The twenty-first century speeds ahead with fast-changing ideas about culture and identity, and...

"Superbly written and spellbinding...This well-plotted novel explores betrayal and trust, and the many facets of love-even its humorous side-that emerge when a family struggles with profound change. Author Ceone Fenn has created a memorable character showing us how to reclaim a life worth living....

Growing up with an absent father and an exhausted, single mother who was trying to work and raise four children, Rose was left to essentially raise herself. She unknowingly repeated her mom's pattern by marrying young and becoming a divorced, uneducated mother of two....

A childhood tragedy followed her into adult life. Will she ever claim real happiness again?Kind and generous, twenty-seven-year-old Orchid Paige will never forget that day. Living as best she can after witnessing her parents' fatal accident, the beauty industry marketer yearns to win a...

Kira Marie McCullough has woven together a series of brilliantly crafted short stories that are like peering through a window into the soul of another, but you've been invited to do so. The opening story of a minister and the wife who will never...

No one knows you like a sister.Ava has always been poor, so she doesn't think the Great Depression will change anything. But when her mother dies and her coal miner husband loses his job, Ava's certainty falters. The last thing she needs is a...

Casey's hopes are high for a marriage proposal. Luke hints one is coming soon, but he has different plans for their future together. When he finally pops the question, Casey must choose between Luke and her new family and dream career. The trouble in...

Rosemount Cottage was exactly as her grandmother left it...Hat on the coat stand.Slippers by the chair.Poisoned tea leaves in the strainer... Tamsyn Pride knows someone - or something - killed her grandmother. But every attempt she makes to catch the killer is met with...

The Roseland Peninsula, 1513. A child born during an eclipse.Constance believes the timing of the birth is a bad omen and her grandchild will bring misfortune and shame to the family. Sparing no affection for the sweet little girl, Constance blames her for every...

Beyond The Garden WallMike accuses Chloe of jumping to conclusions, creating chaos and dragging others along with her. Annoyingly he's right. Geoff's in no rush to tackle the wisteria. They've got all the time in the world for that - which is precisely what's...

'An utterly gorgeous romantic read. It made me want to pack my bags for Paris!' Sandy Barker Irena and Sacha come from two very different worlds.An heiress to a fortune, Ren's home-from-home is the Ritz, while the handsome and brooding Sacha has grown up...

My child means everything to me. But saving his life means destroying my best friend's family... I didn't plan to fall pregnant, but when I found out, I was overjoyed. Even though I'd be going it alone, I swore I'd give my baby everything...

1943, Nazi-occupied France. Clinging to her little girl's hand, a young woman runs through the forest and stumbles in the dark. Behind her there are angry shouts in German and shots ringing through the pine trees. Her heart in her mouth, she prays desperately...

Winter has arrived in Primrose Woods bringing with it new loves, new adventures and warm hugs on cold days.Abbey Carter, her boyfriend Sam and their trusty canine companion Lady, relish living in the picturesque village of Wishwell at the edge of their beloved Primrose...

A young woman moves abroad to discover that cultural differences lay in the mundanity of life. Normally, Mareike Korn would find a lengthy visit to a foreign land thrilling. Making the trip when she's twenty-six weeks pregnant is another matter. But when her husband's...

"Every historical fiction novel should strive to be this compelling, well-researched and just flat-out good." -- Associated PressFor fans of The Nightingale and The Handmaid's Tale, Cradles of the Reich uncovers a topic rarely explored in fiction: the Lebensborn project, a Nazi breeding program...