Fiction - Women

When her Hollywood career goes haywire, a young woman must say good-bye to all that . . . or must she? Raquel Azorian has worked her way from temp to executive assistant and is this close to a promotion to junior marketing exec at...

"I really thought I had a handle on life--then it broke off."Divorced since her daughter, Amber, was young, forty-something Tee has been "handling her business"--supporting herself after her would-be songwriter husband took off for L.A.--and she's done all right. But then everything changes. First,...

'Charming and relatable' SOPHIE COUSENSTotally relatable, totally uplifting, totally a must-read' TRACY BLOOM'Brilliantly funny and engaging' NICOLA GILL'The perfect escapist read' EMMA MURRAY'Hilarious, uplifting and relatable' JESSICA RYN'Fabulously funny... a perfect escapist read' ANNA BELL'Heartwarming, funny and completely relatable, I couldn't put it down!'...

'A burst of warmth and wit, twists and turns' MARIAN KEYES'This is Cathy Kelly on top form writing about warm, believable women with real, messy lives' RACHEL HORE'Other Women captures the stories of three modern women... A real feel-good read' HEAT'The brilliant storyteller is...

An exquisite historical thriller from the author of the electrifying The Poison Bed. Three sisters. Three secrets. Three ways to fall . . . Forcibly seduced by George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham and King's favorite, doctor's daughter Hester was cast aside to raise her...

A vivid, character-driven historical saga set in Greece at the end of WWII and on the verge of the Greek Civil War. Fans of Ariel Lawhon's books about little-known history will love this sweeping, multigenerational story of familial love and loyalty against all odds.Corfu,...

She thought they had the perfect family...For eighteen years Serena Soltanis has poured herself into her family, making every effort to please her husband and to protect her daughters from the evils of the world. Respected and admired for her obvious parenting success, she...

She believed a lie and left him. Will she now stay and face the truth? Dinny gave Grant back his ring and married the man who was accusing him of fraud. Now widowed, she attends a wedding on Sinclair Island and unexpectedly runs into...

Anna's perfect life has become a category 5 disaster. A hurricane destroying her home is only the beginning of Anna's troubles. Her ex, Eric, plasters private photos of her on billboards all over the city and across the internet. The backlash against her makes...

They say home is where the heart is...unless you're running away from something.Hope is home, back where she belongs. All her familiar surroundings, all the parts of her life that made her who she was before she met Slade, but coming home is a...

Love Under Construction . . .Retired Army sniper Hank Freeman has relearned how to be alone. In a world gone colorless with grief, the widower views life in varying shades of gray. Until bumping into Annie, a mysterious woman fighting a lonely battle. When...

Slade saved her life...but none of that matters anymore... Torn between her love for Slade and her own existence, Hope has to fight to keep one while battling to save the other. They say it all falls apart in the end. Walking away isn't...

A sizzling billionaire romance from USA Today bestseller Ember Casey. This is my game. And she has no idea how far I'll go to win the ultimate prize...her. When Lily Frazer shows up at my family's estate making demands, I can't help myself. I...

BESTSELLING AUTHOR COLLECTIONReader-favorite romances in collectible volumes from our bestselling authors. A Soldier's Secret by New York Times bestselling author RaeAnne Thayne To find out who was claiming ownership of the only place he'd ever called home, Harry Maxwell knew he'd have to do...

Join the Calhouns for two more classic stories of sisters, secrets and sweet romance! For the Love of Lilah While two of her sisters are set up with their own happily-ever-afters, laid-back Lilah Calhoun would rather focus on her connection to Great-Grandma Bianca and...

At the heart of these eleven stories is one question: are women the rational beings we mean to be?Some are ruled by reason, while others allow passion to suppress good sense. In the search for balance, they find their best selves. Or not.Meet the...

Jo's journey up from poverty was never certain, nor easy.Born to a single mother in the 1960's South, her life as a woman of color is burdened with disappointments, heartbreak and tragedy, but she always finds a way to persevere and rise above. Well,...

Heritage Reclaimed, eagerly anticipated second book of the Caroline's Heritage Series, continues Caroline Engbert's compelling story of redemption. You will find yourself at home with Caroline in the elegant residence she inherited from the grandparents she never knew, while her heart finds its true...

When Caroline Engbert inherits her grandparents' home, she is not only surprised and grateful, but also deeply hurt and angry at God. Following her parents' deaths, she'd grown up in a series of foster homes with no knowledge of her grandparents' existence. Why had...

Annabeth is a hopeless romantic who believes in soul mates. In fact, she's been writing to hers each year on her birthday since she was 16. Now, at 34, she's still holding out hope of finding Mr. Right even though he'd be fighting an...

American Tango is a comic novel about men and women, love and loss, refinding passion and, of course, the tango. Rosalind Plumley needs something. She's a thirtysomething artist in Portland, Oregon whose output has dwindled to decorative paintings of hummingbirds for the upscale children's...

Belle McKenzie is obsessed with finding the best apple anyone ever bit into and determined to rekindle the love this obsession has nearly destroyed. Scarred by betrayal, Belle mellows from bitterly unforgiving, to a woman willing to swallow her pride to win back the...

In Marilyn Brant's smart, wildly inventive fiction debut, one modern woman in search of herself receives advice from the ultimate expert in matters of the heart: Jane Austen. It begins one day in sophomore English class, just as Ellie Barnett's teacher is assigning Jane...

Nurse Sunny Iles, whose ex-husband died leaving her to bring up her disabled daughter alone, thinks she's found a handsome prince. She hopes he'll give her a Cinderella life far from her troubled childhood. But when she finds out he's a wolf, she flees...

Jessica Blake, the entertainment reporter for a small Vegas newspaper, is aching to sink her teeth into a juicy story and become a serious journalist. With her career and sex life at a stalemate, she takes matters into her own hands and decides to...

Stuck in a dead-end relationship, Erica Bennett finds herself daydreaming of her first holiday romance. She was fifteen, it was exciting, new and full of possibilities...and Jack Lawson was hot as hell. That kind of thing leaves a mark. So when her friends suggest...

This unforgettable book shows how empowerment transforms lives tackling issues of race, class and culture past and present in a way not done before and with hope for the future.Precious Mukosi swaps rural Kenya for cosmopolitan London, only to find her new home as...

An ex-husband, two potential lovers, one reckless decision. Will Connie ever be happy in love?When Connie Stone leaves behind a cheating husband and heartache in the UK for her aunt's beach retreat, the last thing she wants is for her life to once again...

Sophie's life is perfect. Three years after moving to Cephalonia with her baby daughter, she's in love with a handsome man and her creative business is thriving. But returning to the UK for her mum's hen party introduces unwanted feelings, memories and people. When...

Can a holiday romance really turn into true love?Cephalonia, early summer, and a chance sighting of handsome Greek, Alekos, on a sailing boat turns Sophie's life upside down. The next day she says hello; the day after they kiss; the day after that she...

Four years ago life for Sophie Keech was perfect. A new start in Greece with Alekos, her boyfriend of just six weeks, removes Sophie from a mundane 9-5 job, takes her away from the difficult relationship she has with her mum, and gives her...

We sing songs about birds. They can't understand them. There's a song about us we can't understand. Some of us hear it. To each it's a different song and a different singer. I hear a bird that can't sing. I hear the raven. Josephine...

On this particular sun-and-shade April morning at Fairmount Manor, Stella Ryman no more entertained the idea of becoming an amateur sleuth than she did of entering next spring's Boston Marathon. For not only was Stella eighty-two years old, but she had lately sold her...

Jessie Martin believes that when it comes to love there are three types of people: the skimmers, the bottom dwellers and the ones who dive for pearls. Jessie is a pearl diver. She had thought her husband William was a pearl diver too. But...

In India, one woman is murdered every hour by her husband's family for a dowry. The Burning Bride follows the story of Uma, a newlywed woman. She starts her new life with many dreams. However, her dreams turn into nightmares when her parents are...

Kirkcudbright-based crime writer Fergus Learmonth is determined to find a way to extricate his wife, Belle, from the influence of her sinister friend, Remi McGregor. After he agrees to help DI Tom Ellis solve the mystery of three people who have vanished from the...

Cathy is riding high in her brand-new job at a (surprisingly bitchy) top London advertising agency working with best friend Rosa. But when Rosa's pregnancy goes amiss and enemies sabotage her new career, she finds herself leading a chaotic double life of lies and...

Hennessy Greypath is a twenty-two year old serial screw-up who doesn't know how to take care of herself, let alone anyone else. But, when her older, and far more perfect sister, Lara, dies Hennessy is granted guardianship of her three young kids. Reluctantly, she...

Princess, Southern belle, and spoiled-rotten social climber Searcy Roberts swore on a stack of Bibles she'd never return home to Fairhope, Alabama. After marrying her high school sweetheart and moving to Atlanta, Searcy embraces big-city life-Carrie Bradshaw style.But now, Searcy has a teeny, tiny...

Newly separated empty-nester Heather Harrison knows how to answer difficult everyday life questions. After all, she's been a successful advice columnist for fifteen years. But what would Dear Abby say about Heather's romantic interest in a younger man?After years of a lonely, failing marriage,...

Callie Lambert is the hottest starlet in Hollywood. With a hit TV show under her belt, the tabloid-targeted actress--christened one of "The 20 Most Tantalizing Angelenos"--leads a charmed life, hobnobbing with fashionistas in Paris and industry bigwigs in Los Angeles . She's sexy, sassy,...

A love so strong, even eternity can't separate them. Evie Starling has lived a relatively uneventful life hanging out with friends, gossiping about boys, and driving her 1966 Mustang. All of that changes when she moves to Gunnison, Colorado, to start college and meets...

How could she know at age eighteen that he is the one love she will never forget? Betrayed in marriage, confused and reluctant to face the future, Anna pauses before the mirror. As she runs her fingers over the fine laugh lines radiating from...

A single mother fights poverty. She believes she can win.Sara has worked her entire life to overcome the name Barefield. To be a Barefield in the Appalchian town where she grew up means that you are the poorest of the poor, that you are...

The publishing world has secrets...The Clymer Workshop, one of the oldest writers' conferences in the country, has successfully hidden a shameful history. It has a lofty reputation that attracts aspiring writers like Laura Belmont.Laura has been unable to get a literary agent for her...

"The book is by turns humorous, witty, moving, upbeat. Jenny is a warm, sensitive heroine. It's a pleasure to watch her and a privilege to eavesdrop on her thoughts. Highly recommended..." LIBRARY JOURNALJenny Weaver is smart and funny and so lonely it hurts.Jenny and...

A novel in seven stories These stories trace the arc of a family narrative in which mothers abandon their children for the best of reasons, fierce daughters reclaim their heritage, and the gap between spiritual health and the expectations of LDS culture affects the...

Tully's first marriage ended badly, and then she lost the true love of her life in a motorcycle accident. She longs to have a family, but knows she won't get a third chance at happily-ever-after. Mack's wife died two years ago, and he's determined...

Summer Demure - a police officer on stress leave because of a brutal abduction that nearly took her life - is elated when her abductor is finally captured and she's called upon to ID him. Everything seems about to come to an end. However,...

It was supposed to be a perfect night; a romantic anniversary dinner, candlelight, excellent food and wine. It was supposed to be a time to talk about the future; a house, maybe even a wedding. It was supposed to be that perfect moment after...