Fiction - Women

A beautiful and affecting novel -- bittersweet and comic -- on the elusive nature of happinessMaggie is in her early thirties, gainfully employed, between relationships, and ready for a change. But when she takes a quiz in a magazine that promises to predict the...

Tamara Contreras will never again settle for unmemorable sex. Her long-time boyfriend may look perfect to her traditional Mexican-American parents -- something Tamara has never been -- but at twenty-six she wants more from life than marriage and motherhood. So in front of everyone,...

Another great tale of love gone wild from author Michelle Cunnah, a favourite voice of Avon Trade fans whose loveable characters are creating a stir.A good relationship is like a pair of comfortable shoes, right?At first, they may pinch and squeeze, but with time...

'I devoured it.' Erin Kelly'An exhilarating voice' Adele Parks'Unbelievably tense and twisty.' Laura MarshallLuckyRachel EdwardsThe more she wins, the more she loses...'Absorbing, unsettling, unflinching. I've been thinking about it for days and I'll be recommending it to everyone.' Caz Frear, author of Sweet Little...

'Wow! This book cast suspicion on so many characters that I had no idea how it would turn out! The definition of the perfect suspense novel!' NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐I promised her I'd protect him... and I'll do anything to keep him safe. Five years...

'The ideal summer escape' Woman's Weekly'Gorgeous...' WomanPraise for the Cornish Cream Tea series: 'Gorgeous!' Phillipa Ashley'Perfect' Cathy Bramley'Warm-hearted fun with a sprinkle of love' Holly MartinIt's going to be an unforgettable Cornish summer...Thea Rushwood was looking forward to exploring the beautiful Cornish tourist spot...

'Wow wow wow. Loved this from page one' NetGalley review⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Absolutely wonderful. The perfect escape to Cornwall' NetGalley review⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Totally loved this book... Couldn't put it down... Brilliant' NetGalley review⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Under the golden Cornish sun, buried treasure and family secrets will change Emma's life forever...Emma loved her...

On the evening of their wedding anniversary, Ali and Matthew are involved in a fatal car accident.Grief-stricken, Ali can't bring herself to believe that her beloved Matthew is gone...The smell of his aftershave lingers in their bedroom. His voice still rings out on their...

'Sexy, fun and full of heart.' Beth O'Leary, author of The Flatshare'A charming, uplifting contemporary romance - this is Laura Jane Williams at her best!' Sophie Cousens, author of This Time Next Year'I have three words of advice: ADD TO CART.' Hannah Doyle, author...

A page-turning story about new friendships, motherhood and heart-breaking secrets....'I couldn't put it down' Lorraine Kelly'A relatable, wryly funny tale' Red'Every new mum will want to read this' Adele Parks'Gripping...A great read' HeatAisha Moore is eight months pregnant. She's thrilled, and a little scared....

Fell in love with Alastair and Lia in Catch My Breath? Don't miss this, the next installment in their love story...Perfect for fans of EL James and Sylvia Day!Lia's meant to be on cloud nine: ever since she and Alastair finally confessed their love...

Blood lust and sexual desire; for vampires the two are inseparable.Prepare to devour 'Red Grow the Roses', an explicit vampire erotica novel with plenty of bite.There are six vampires in the city. Ageless, terrifyingly beautiful and always hungry - not just for blood but...

From USA Today bestselling author of The Hating Game Sally Thorne comes something a little unexpected... a historical rom-com that imagines Victor Frankenstein's sheltered younger sister, and her attempts to create the perfect man. For generations, every Frankenstein has found their true love and...

From USA Today bestselling author of The Hating Game Sally Thorne comes something a little unexpected... a historical rom-com that imagines Victor Frankenstein's sheltered younger sister, and her attempts to create the perfect man. For generations, every Frankenstein has found their true love and...

The debut novel from wholly original (Vogue) memoirist Amy Fusselman, a tragicomic family saga that skewers contemporary issues of money, motherhood, and class through a well-to-do woman's quest to buy a Hamptons beach house. Shelly Means, a wealthy stay-at-home mom and disgraced former PTA...

The debut novel from wholly original (Vogue) memoirist Amy Fusselman, a tragicomic family saga that skewers contemporary issues of money, motherhood, and class through a well-to-do woman's quest to buy a Hamptons beach house. Shelly Means, a wealthy stay-at-home mom and disgraced former PTA...

When a house party goes terribly wrong, a suburban town fractures, exposing disturbing truths about the community--perfect for fans of Little Fires Everywhere and Ask Again, Yes.It's the party of the year. Afterward, nothing will ever be the same.Maja Jensen is smart, stylish, and...

From the bestselling author of The Lost Vintage, a rare and dazzling portrait of Jacqueline Bouvier's college year abroad in postwar Paris, an intimate and electrifying story of love and betrayal, and the coming-of-age of an American icon - before the world knew her...

From the bestselling author of The Lost Vintage, a rare and dazzling portrait of Jacqueline Bouvier's college year abroad in postwar Paris, an intimate and electrifying story of love and betrayal, and the coming-of-age of an American icon - before the world knew her...

The "CATCH" No One Wants-is the story of Veronica Dawson a PK (pastor's kid), who frantically searches for potential husbands in all the wrong places-a 32-year-old successful millennial, who is obsessed with getting married because she has already missed her original goal... to be...

After eight years in the Marines, Jacob Lorde returns to Blessings, Georgia, with no plans other than to hole up in his empty house and heal what's left of his soul. But with a charming next door neighbor and a town full of friendly...

Perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty's The Husband's Secret and Linda Holmes's Evvie Drake Starts Over."A touching novel charting two women's parallel lives, tied together by mysteries, transformation, and a cabin." -BookLife"Chrysteen Braun creates a masterpiece with smooth storytelling that juxtaposes the serenity of...

"Somewhere in the gap between correct answers and questions that can't be formulated, girls are learning math. They aspire to seeing without taking notes. Girls go blind, do math, wage hunger strikes, weigh themselves, take field trips, do more math, eat or don't eat,...

Once a boy player in Shakespeare's company, Sander Cooke is now a hired man playing female roles. When Frances Field reveals she is pregnant by Sander's brother, Johnny, a fellow actor and aspiring playwright, Johnny makes it clear that marriage is not in his...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and It Ends with Us--the heartwarming conclusion to the Hopeless series that illustrates the power of following a difficult journey to discover what happens next. Friends Daniel, Six, Holder, Sky, and...

Homeland Security took her son. She'll risk everything to get him back...When three-year-old Ricardo Garcia is wrenched away from his uncle and placed in an unaccompanied minor shelter at the US border, his mother Carmelina is half a world away in El Salvador.A day...

F.E.A.R. Your Sanity is a brilliant body of work. Among many atrocities, the main character, Rasheedah-Keitha Taylor, is impacted by violent childhood sexual trauma and struggles her entire life trying to reconcile her experiences. Her pain, however, is merely a small piece of this...

These nine stories span half a century of contemporary writing in Korea (1970s-2010s), bringing together some of the most famous twentieth-century women writers with a new generation of young, bold voices. Their work explores a world not often seen in the West, taking us...

A zookeeper always on the fringe learns to go after her wildest dreams--including a certain television star--in this charming and laugh-out-loud romantic comedy by Kerry Rea, author of The Wedding Ringer. Lucy Rourke has two great loves in her life: the gorilla troop she...

"[an] imaginative debut..." - The New York Times "The Strange Inheritance of Leah Fern is a bittersweet and achingly tender coming of age novel. Like V. E. Schwab and Audrey Niffenegger, Rita Zoey Chin is an expert guide to that territory in which magic,...

Ever since the former rich girl-turned-Cleveland cemetery tour guide banged her head on a headstone, she sees dead people. Worse still, she hears them--and they won't shut up Now it's Didi Bowman, a poodle-skirted relic from the Great Beyond, who's bending Pepper's ear, complaining...

Reading the West Longlist for Debut Fiction Seventeen-year-old Jessa Campbell thrives on the Shinnery, her family's homestead in 1890s Texas, bordered by acres of shin oaks on the rolling plains. Without explanation her father sends her away to settle a family debt. A better...

A woman learns to expand the boundaries of her small world and let love inside it in this sparkling and unforgettable novel by Audrey Burges. From her attic in the Arizona mountains, thirty-four-year-old Myra Malone blogs about a dollhouse mansion that captivates thousands of...

A new mother chases the secrets her partner left behind after his sudden disappearance in this pulse-pounding domestic thriller from the author of The Perfect Escape. Janie needs a break: her baby won't sleep, she's struggling with motherhood, and a secret from her past...

Robyn Crandall thought she had the life she'd always dreamed of, with her childhood sweetheart, until he asked for a divorce. Gone with him are her hopes of a perfect home and family. Moving back in with her mother, broke and broken, Robyn has...

No one wants to be single at the holidays. Even Little Miss Grinch, Nikki, a successful and independent woman, must face her bachelorette status at the most horrible time of the year. December is her personal version of holly-jolly hell: a merry torture made...

Three women. One reunion. A town forever changed.Fans of Sherryl Woods' Sweet Magnolia Netflix series, Debbie Macomber's It's Better this Way, and Sharon Garlough Brown's Sensible Shoes series will relate to this "coming of age" tale about three former friends, now age 57, getting...

Get swept away in a whirlwind adventure about love, hope, perseverance, and healing.What starts out as a fun-filled beach getaway, quickly turns into a dramatic series of events that lead to changes in the lives of four dynamic women. Leslie Cartwright, Carrie Hargrove, Sandra...

VIETNAM, 1939. Sarah, an expat, working as an Archivist for the French Colonial Government in Hanoi, is devastated when she finds a Vietnamese co-worker murdered. As Sarah seeks the murderer, she becomes more entangled in the Vietnamese people's struggle for independence. When the Japanese...

Have you ever wondered what the characters of Thirteen Stops and Thirteen Stops Later were getting up to before you met them . . .? Well, time (and the Luas tram) obligingly rolls back two years for us, to where we see Laura falling...

A dedicated CIA agent becomes an unexpected ally to a woman haunted by the kidnapping of her family, in this thrilling novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel.Theodora Morgan is fashion royalty. Founder of a wildly popular online shopping service, she...

He's my brother's best mate, and he's totally out of bounds... It's been a tough year.I'm an athlete, and although I won a silver medal at the Olympics, I really wanted to win a gold for my mom. I'm determined to do it next...

"Good for what ails you," this quick, feel-good mystery is sure to chase away the gloom and doom, and challenge your 'whodunit' skills. ER Nurse Laurel Benson and Police Detective Cade Resnick have a sure cure for boredom. There's never a dull moment in...

"Who hasn't wondered what alternate versions of their lives might look like?...As relatable as it is suspenseful cleverly exploring adulthood, identity, and shifting realities."--Margarita Montimore, USA Today bestselling author of Oona Out of Order An inventive page-turner about the choices we make and the...

"From the author of the award-winning Fugitive Colors and The Unbreakables, a gripping tale of a young, ambitious journalist embroiled in an international art scandal centered around a Nazi-looted masterpiece--forcing the ultimate showdown between passion and possession, lovers and liars, history and truth. After...

A six-million-dollar inheritance, and a chance at a new life...At 52, Claire Cooke gets the shock of a lifetime when she's named the sole heir of a distant uncle. As a single mom, she's already had to watch her kids grow up and leave...

National BestsellerCanadian Indies BestsellerIndigo Top Ten Canadian ReadsIndigo's Most Anticipated Books of 2022Finalist Saskatchewan Book Awards, Book of the Year Finalist City of Saskatoon Book AwardVictorian Canada: Touring circuses, seances, and a world powered by steam engines. But in Belleville, Ontario, a twenty-eight-year old...

ER Nurse Laurel Bennett is fully dedicated to her job. She may be petite, but she'll take on any behemoth who threatens her patients' safety and well-being. Her feisty protectiveness creates problems when police detective Cade Resnick comes around, investigating a hit and run....

"I love a good will-they-or-won't-they romance, and this one turned out to be unexpectedly deep, tackling really important issues that impact so many."--New York Times bestselling author Emily Giffin on the TODAY show Is it possible to love someone you've never met? A young...

Coracarries secrets her daughter can't know. Freyais frightened by what her mother leaves unsaid. Angelwill only bury the past if it means putting her abusers into the ground. Angel is working in a wolf sanctuary in Canada when an abandoned dog isbrought in -...