Fiction - Women

Secrets and lies shadow a woman on the run in the second novel in the No More trilogy by Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kerry Lonsdale.Jenna Mason's life seems perfect: a successful career as an animator, a town house near the...

This collection of eighteen short tales, a novelette and a short novel takes the reader inside the dark imagination of Elizabeth Engstrom, author of acclaimed horror classics like When Darkness Loves Us. In these stories, you will read about a woman asked to be...

Sometimes a wish is only heard by the heart...Widow, Ruby Hallet, has almost adjusted to living life on her own. She has her knitting friends in The Yarn Society-they call themselves The Yarnies. Her son, Ben, drops in often to see her-and he's dating...

Sometimes not everything is exactly as it seems... When her aunt is injured, Sara hurries back to Belle Island to help out at Charming Inn. She's sure she can run the inn and work remotely for her job back in Boston. If only she...

"Evocative writing, a delightful Scottish setting, and fully realized characters made this a joy to read. This spy hero and writer heroine touched my heart." --New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries From rising star Susanna Craig comes a fresh new series filled with...

Like Homer's The Iliad, Ida Egli's new novel, Krisanthi's War, is an antiwar epic that brings together the personal and the political and wanders back and forth from the 1930s to the 1980s. The war is World War II. Krisanthi is a modern-day Greek...

Every secret has its price. Anna Clark and Lia Clay were unlikely best friends in high school, but their yin-and-yang personalities drew them together in a sister-like bond. Then during college, Lia inexplicably walked out on their friendship and disappeared, leaving Anna hurt, confused,...

Autumn's reds and golds make tiny Prosper picture-perfect, but under the surface lies a startling truth: Not everything is what it seems. Melinda throws herself into plans for the rural community's first-ever fall festival, and all the seasonal tasks around her small farm. But...

A Paranormal Women's Fiction with a bit of class, and a lot of sass, for anyone who feels like age is just a number Who says you can't live the rock and roll life after forty?You just need a lot more vitamins and a...

Finalist for the 2021 Rasmussen & Co. Indigenous Peoples' Writing AwardThe Narrows of Fear (Wapawikoscikanik) weaves the stories of a group of women committed to helping one another. Despite abuse experienced by some, both in their own community and in residential schools, these women...

Take the ride of your life with the Torpedo Ink motorcycle club in this thrilling romance novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan. Torpedo Ink is Aleksei "Absinthe" Solokov's whole life. They're his brothers, his family--his everything. But that doesn't stop...

A "gutsy, modern, deeply entertaining" debut about a love affair cut short, and how lonely it is to live inside a secret (The Observer UK). Ana Kelly can deal with death. As an estate lawyer, an unfortunate part of her day-to-day is phone calls...

A missing young woman, ten years gone. A town still held in the grip of an unsolved mystery. A breathtaking novel of psychological suspense by the bestselling author of We Were Mothers.A decade ago in upstate New York, art student Emma McCullough walked into...

"Moving." --Booklist (starred review) At Hatters Museum of the Wide Wide World, where the animals never age but time takes its toll, one woman must find the courage to overcome the greatest loss of her life. Four years after her husband Richard's death, Cate...

This is a book that champions older women's stories and challenges the limiting outcomes we seem to hold for them. The Book of Old Ladies introduces readers to thirty stories featuring fictional "women of a certain age" who increasingly become their truest selves. Their...

Three generations of women--and the love, loss, sacrifice, and secrets that can bind them forever or tear them apart.Millicent Glenn is self-sufficient and contentedly alone in the Cincinnati suburbs. As she nears her ninety-first birthday, her daughter Jane, with whom she's weathered a shaky...

A brand new sizzling contemporary romance from New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author Katy Evans.When the wedding of your dreams is just around the corner, everything needs to go as planned. Only problem is, the groom didn't get the...

Follow the eccentric, cantankerous, utterly charming Professor Chandra as he tries to answer the biggest question of all: What makes us happy? "Searingly funny, uplifting, and wonderful . . . Professor Chandra is as unbending a curmudgeon as one could wish to find scowling...

Perfect for fans of Me Before You and One Day--a striking, powerful, and moving love story following an ambitious lawyer who experiences an astonishing vision that could change her life forever. Where do you see yourself in five years? When Type-A Manhattan lawyer Dannie...

Finalist for the Desmond Elliott Prize A "superb debut"* novel--based on the story of the author's grandmother--following an aristocratic woman who abandons her family and her money in search of a life she can claim as her own. (*The Guardian) Enid Campbell, granddaughter of...

You know about Victoria Square thanks to the Victoria Square Mysteries. Artisans Alley takes center stage in those books, but the merchants--and their businesses--are just as intriguing. They all have stories to tell ... and that's what the Life on Victoria Square companion series...

A "captivating and bittersweet" novel by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Summer of '69: Their secret love affair has lasted for decades--but this could be the summer that changes everything (People). When Mallory Blessing's son, Link, receives deathbed instructions from his...

From the winner of the 2016 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction comes a tender and funny debut novel, set over one emotionally charged weekend at an animal sanctuary in western Kansas, where maternal, romantic, and community bonds are tested in the wake of...

From the author of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick Wrong Place, Wrong Time and Just Another Missing Person comes a captivating, ingenious novel about a woman who must make an impossible decision...."A Sliding Doors thriller with a moral dilemma at its heart. Brilliant."--Claire...

Set during the splendid summer days of 1960s Martha's Vineyard, this page-turning debut novel pulls back the curtain on one mysterious and wealthy family as seen through the eyes of their nanny--a college student who, while falling in love on the elegant island, is...

A gorgeously romantic novel you will fall in love with and tell all your friends about!One love. Two people. Twenty Years.From the moment their eyes met across the room at a house party, Erin and Dom were meant to be.If only it could be...

A recovering alcoholic's dark secrets catch up with her in this gripping novel of psychological suspense from the internationally bestselling author of The Rumor. "Instantly immersive, then intriguing, then insanely suspenseful, then . . . the truth. Believe me, Lesley Kara knows what she's...

For fans of Jodi Picoult and Anita Shreve comes an exhilarating debut novel of one woman's courage in the face of catastrophe. She'll do anything to save them.But what will she do to save herself? When Kat Jamison retreats to the Blue Ridge Mountains,...

Tammy Greenwood's haunting novel is the beautifully evoked story of a good man who has done a terrible thing, the events leading up to it, and the demons born from it. It is at once a love story set against the backdrop of the...

Set at the iconic 1939 New York World's Fair, Susie Orman Schnall's We Came Here to Shine is historical fiction featuring two bold and ambitious women who navigate a world of possibility and find out what they're truly made of during a glorious summer...

To Sarah Dove, books live, breathe, and sometimes they even speak. When Sarah becomes the librarian in her quaint Southern town of Dove Pond, her gift helps place every book in the hands of the perfect reader. Recently, however, the books have been whispering...

A journey into the carefree, today-centric generation of Japan's economic boom years, as they enjoy the cosmopolitan lifestyle of Tokyo while exploring new dimensions in Japanese society and self-image. It won the coveted Bungei Prize partly because it was so completely different from the...

One of Goodreads Top 25 Feel-Good and Escapist Books to Read in Quarantine as seen in USA Today " A] funny, winning debut."--People "Delightfully quirky and endearing...an absolute pleasure to read "--#1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Giffin Meet Duffy, an old curmudgeon...

The name of the game is revenge--no matter the cost--in this emotionally charged thriller reminiscent of The Wife Between Us and The Perfect Nanny. Kerrie O'Malley, jobless and in an unfulfilling relationship, can isolate the singular moment in her life when things veered off...

Cathy Harlow, a brilliant young painter, has at last given in to the pressures around her and agreed to marry rock musician superstar, Paul Devlin, and to keep his baby. But Cathy is still filled with doubts, for her art is the most important...

"Humiliation is a brilliant book that captures the volatility of misunderstandings, the moment when failures matter less than the need to share them." --Alejandro Zambra, author of Multiple Choice The nine mesmerizing stories in Humiliation, translated from the Spanish by Man Booker International Prize...

What does it take to realize that you need to talk to someone? Is it an anxiety attack... maybe several anxiety attacks? But you're fine, going to a shrink is ridiculous. Is it feeling really high, then crashing to a low? You didn't wake...

A dozen days-and nights-to explore all the possibilities...Tobias "Slim" Jackson has the perfect life as a pilot on Gansett Island in the summer and in Florida in the winter. He's happiest when he's in the air, or at least that was the case before...

Winner of Sweden's most prestigious literary prize for young readers, Girls Lost is a thriller featuring three teenage girls: Kim, Bella, and Momo. The three occupy a challenging limbo between childhood and adulthood, made only more difficult by the steady provocation of their malicious...

Lore arrives at the hospital alone--no husband, no partner, no friends. Her birth plan is explicit: she wants no fetal monitor, no IV, no epidural. Franckline, a nurse in the maternity ward--herself on the verge of showing--is patient with the young woman. She knows...

A major work from Merc Rodoreda's early, realistic period, Camellia Street is set in war-torn Barcelona of the 1940s and 50s and tells the story of Cecilia, who, abandoned as an infant, ends up fleeing her adoptive family in favor of a more unsettled...

Broke and stranded in a half-finished tract house in a swamp, Ida Overdorff discovers the strange community around her-a millionaire living in a tree house, two feral child theives. Ida clings to her dream of returning to New York while weathering storms both meteorological...

Recovered for a new generation of feminist readers, this revolutionary depiction of the American working poor was one of the first literary critiques of industrial capitalism by a nineteenth-century proletarian. Originally published in 1861 in the Atlantic Monthly, "Life in the Iron Mills" remains...

No one is good enough for her son... As a single mother, Annie has an especially close relationship with her son, Ben. They have always been together. Just the two of them. So, when Ben brings home his mysterious beautiful new wife, Daisy, immediately...

A hilarious feel good read about finding your feet when life pulls the rug out from under you. Poppy Bloom planned to finish her PhD and walk straight into a job at her university. But here she is, unemployed, unceremoniously dumped by her boyfriend,...

Blissfield, North Carolina is a dead end town in the heart of empty. Yet days after her 15th birthday, Bethany Celeste Castle arrives in Blissfield, a fugitive from Copley Castle, her alcoholic, viciously abusive father. A witness from her earliest childhood of her father's...

As Christmas approaches, Molly Harding and her business partner and best friend Betty Bowman are swept up in the annual holiday rush at Willoughby s Fine Food and Catering. With the business on shaky financial ground this year, the stakes are high. Suddenly, Betty...

When Caroline wakes up in a Paris hospital with no memory of her past, she's confused to learn that for years she's lived a sad, reclusive life in a sprawling apartment on the rue Cler. Slowly regaining vague memories of a man and young...

Caitlin trusted the Lord to lead her--right place, right time. She expected the best after college--ideal job, great husband, time of her life. Living with dad and mourning mom was not what she had in mind. No amazing job-find puzzled her too. And now...

An "acute portrayal of failed relationships and struggles to transcend social norms,"--New York Times Book Review (editor's choice) "Readers can detect deadpan realism influences of Lorrie Moore and the feminism of Angela Carter in these stories, but the work is distinctly and originally Cohen's...