Fiction - Women

In the stratified world of ancient Rome, there are citizens and slaves, soldiers and senators, priests and priestesses--and Caesar Augustus rules them all. Yet his authority holds only as long as the people believe the gods of Rome support him, particularly the beloved goddess...

She looked to the sky for true north but found that home is where the heart is.When heartbroken Mallory Carter leaves home at graduation to live a free-spirited life at the beach, she decides to never burden her family or God with her choices...

"An extraordinary profile of immense courage and daring."--Chanel Cleeton, New York Times bestselling author of Before We Left Cuba "If you only read one WWII book this year, make it this one.--Natasha Lester, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Orphans In the...

A prequel novella for bestselling author Ashley Farley's upcoming Lowcountry series, Palmetto Island.Birdie Fuller's new year is off to a bad start. Her husband has mysteriously disappeared, leaving Birdie to cope with their unmarried daughter's unplanned pregnancy. Birdie and Hannah disagree about the baby....

The Cornish beach house creaked in the salty sea wind and, from the weathered wooden porch, Mara watched a lone magpie circle above. It was silly to think that her mother's spirit was still with her, but Mara felt as if there was something...

"I loved The Forever Bridge from its first beautiful sentence to its breathtaking final one." --Ann Hood With eloquent prose and lush imagery, T. Greenwood creates a heartfelt story of reconciliation and forgiveness, and of the deep, often unexpected connections that can bring you...

Sometimes is very, very hard to forget or forgive...Bree Stuart wants nothing more than to pack up her parents' cabin on Lone Elk Lake and get it ready to sell. One less reminder of her past.Jason Cassidy is thrilled to see his friend, Bree,...

The exciting new novel from the bestselling author of My Sister's Lies.Is her whole life built on a lie?Rose has always been close to her father. Her mother died soon after she was born, so it's been just the two of them for as...

The parcel arrived on an ordinary morning in the mailbox of her New York apartment, postmarked Paris. It was wrapped in brown paper and tied with a silk ribbon. Little did she know that the old brass key and letter it contained were about...

Take a step back in time to the 1930s in this semi-autobiographical series that chronicles the daily life of an upper-class lady. Presented as diary entries, this delightful volume delves into English countryside life and a provincial lady's many mishaps. In the depths of...

2021 Silver Medal IPPY Awards Winner for Best Regional Fiction!Rusty barbed wire and distant AM radio-Montana hid my secrets for almost fifty years.Then a young reporter arrived in a beat-up Impala. Her assignment, WWII Homecoming Memories, had uncovered a puzzling lead about several dead...

A love so strong that decades couldn't tear it apart. Poring over a dusty hatbox of photographs in her grandmother's closet, Emily Prentice is shocked to discover her father was married and divorced before meeting her mother. In the summer of 1968, Jack and...

The adventures of the Gumbeaux Sistahs continue Five, fiery Southern women wage wars against their unique problems using their improbable friendships, hilarious evil-genius schemes, strategy sessions with oh-so-many cocktails, and a shared passion for good gumbo.Single, Southern artist, Judith Lafferty, casually confesses to her...

The author of the "rich, dark, and intricately twisted" (Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author) The Family Upstairs returns with another taut and white-knuckled thriller following a group of people whose lives shockingly intersect when a young woman disappears. Owen Pick's life is...

Suddenly, it became hard to breathe and the sound of the engine throbbed in Eva's head. The plane crashed and skidded. She heard the wail of sirens. The last thing she remembered was pulling her body across the tarmac an inch at a time--before...

Sometimes four weeks is enough... and sometimes it's not...Lillian Charm is content running Charming Inn. She has everything she wants or needs. Well, she kind of regrets her purchase of the house next to the inn. She wants to turn it into a guest...

From New York Times bestselling author Heidi McLaughlin comes an uplifting story about two old friends finding new love. Rennie Wallace has it all: a boyfriend, a good job, a best friend who lives a stone's throw away...but something's missing. She isn't sure what...

After a traumatic head injury, Eve questions every memory and motive in this mind-bending psychological thriller.Eve Gold's birthdays are killers, and her twenty-seventh proves to be no different. But for the up-and-coming Vancouver artist, facing death isn't the real shock -- it's what comes...

After spending two years caring for her younger siblings, Maggie Fisher is forced to leave her Amish community in Tomah, Wisconsin to move to Pennsylvania. Has her Datt secretly made plans for her to live with her spinster aunts in hopes they'll use their...

Being with him would be too reckless. But maybe just this once... Having spent his college years and early twenties faithful to his sweetheart who ultimately dumped him for his brother, Jesse Kirby will never again be anyone's fool. He's been making up for...

Aileen was dead. At least she was supposed to be.When Aileen wakes up in the hospital after her plane crashes during a storm, everyone says it's a miracle. All Aileen cares about is seeing her husband and children again. Unfortunately, it doesn't take long...

Escaping her failing marriage in the United States, Grace Marisola has returned to Pondicherry to cremate her mother. Once there, she receives an unexpected inheritance--a house on the beaches of Madras--and discovers an older sister she never knew she had: Lucia, who has spent...

Instant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller"Compulsively readable...a gothic thriller laced with arsenic." --EW One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2021: CNN - Newsweek - Vulture - PopSugar - Parade - BuzzFeed - E Online - TimeOut - Woman's Day - Goodreads...

An emotional and unforgettable historical novel, perfect for fans of Natasha Lester and Lisa Wingate.We stand in the back of the hall as the children troop in. Big ones, little ones. Straggly hair, cropped hair, curls... the adults surge forward to choose and soon...

As seen in the New York Times Book Review. Set in the passionate, intense, and crumbling neighborhood known as the Spanish Quarter of Naples, comes a tale of two students searching for love and belonging in the city they so desperately want to call...

"I want to live my life as unapologetically as a man..."Entertainment columnist Yves Santiago leads a delightfully filthy life. Her day job keeps her flush with men and by night, she details her exploits on her anonymous blog, The Lust Diaries.Well, it was anonymous...

Love and friendship sustain two women who continue to run their upscale, beachside hotel in Florida as life continues to bring unexpected challenges...The Beach House Hotel, the seaside mansion Ann Rutherford and Rhonda DelMonte converted to an upscale, boutique hotel, continues to be a...

First appearing in 1899 The Awakening is regarded as work presaging both feminist fiction and literary modernism. The author's clear vision of a woman's internal and external conflicts continue to demand engagement and response from readers. The Awakening follows Edna Pontellier as she recognizes...

Lady Charlotte Whitaker is devoted to her family, particularly her sister's son, Freddie. Her late father, the Marquess of Lockhead, died without a male heir. But on his deathbed, her father requested that Freddie inherit the title. Consequently, Lottie's family has petitioned the Crown...

"May I ask your daughter's age?" "Nan is thirty-three." "A dangerous age." Rose Macaulay takes a lively and perceptive look at three generations of women within the same family and the 'dangers' faced at each of those stages in life. The book opens with...

If you love Susan Mallery, you won't want to miss this novel of three high school friends who find themselves emotionally fractured when tragedy strikes, so they go on a road trip they'll never forget and rediscover what made them "best friends forever." It...

Named by BuzzFeed as one of Winter 2021's Most Anticipated Historical Fiction Books and Top 10 New Books To Add To Your Reading List It's hot, Texas, and the year 1977. Jimmy Carter is in office.The Walters are a good, churchgoing family who stand...

When all else fails, you just have to leave it to Fate . . . Just as twenty-nine-year-old Ella loses her dream job after an unfortunate incident (it was just a bit of hot sauce, for goodness' sake - he totally overreacted ), her...

"A beautiful debut, funny, tender, and animated by a willingness to confront life's obstacles and find a way to survive. . . . It celebrates friendship, finds meaning in difficulty and lets the reader explore dark places while always allowing for the possibility of...

Breaking news: Hollywood's biggest heartthrob, Ryan Prince, was caught vacationing in his hometown, but who's the mystery girl?No, I hadn't heard that Ryan Prince was staying at the very resort I had just started working at.If I had, maybe I would have called in...

'Thoroughly entertaining. The characters are warm and well drawn. I thoroughly recommend this book if you are looking for a light-hearted read. ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐' SUE ROBERTS 'I loved spending time on Shetland with this story!' CHRISTINA COURTENAY If you love Lucy...

My Big, Fat, Greek Wedding meets Virgin River.Two rival families. Two competing wedding venues. One wedding of the season.Nick Katsalos has a foolproof plan to save his parents' floundering wedding venue. The last thing he expects is for Erin Patterson, the captivating daughter of...

Madison Price's plans have fallen to ashes. Instead of working in an Oregon library, she's back in Walker Beach, California-a town full of painful memories-running her late aunt's hardware store and falling for the gorgeous bad boy from high school. Again. Yes, the same...

Hope, healing, and happiness live here A grieving widow tries to find a new path forward. A young woman goes missing and a surprise visitor has nowhere to turn. Is a walk along the moonlit beach offering happiness or more loss? Lily is still...

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Helena Hunting comes an evocative small-town romance about family loyalty, finding oneself, and falling in love.When Dillion Stitch left her hometown, she had no intention of going back. But when her brother gets into trouble,...

"A novel about vineyard life and family, Linda Rosen's delightful and poignant Sisters of the Vine is for wine-lovers." -Laura Dave, author of Eight Hundred GrapesHousewife and mother with a loving husband to take care of her - that's all Liz, a Fifties gal,...

The Decorating Club shares the story of what happens when a group of women come together to help each other redesign their homes. In the process, they support each other through some of the challenges encountered by women today. While the primary focus is...

A story of inspiration and transformation for the really desperate housewife--now a TV series from the creator of Sex and the City, starring Sutton Foster and Hilary Duff She's old enough to be his mother. Alice has always looked young for her age, even...

raft (noun): when two or more otters rest together, holding hands, so they don't drift apart Hollie Porter has put her old gig as a 911 operator and sad single girl in an attic-bound box, right where it belongs. She's rebounded nicely from her...

Photographer Mary "Lou" Hunter has the life she's always dreamed of in Seattle-complete with a great job, doting boyfriend, and a fun-loving best friend. A free trip to Hawaii changes everything. Meeting Keoni changes everything. He makes her laugh. He makes her feel. He...

"Makes Game of Thrones look like a nursery rhyme." --Daisy Goodwin, New York Times bestselling author of The Fortune Hunter Before there was Catherine the Great, there was Catherine Alexeyevna: the first woman to rule Russia in her own right. Ellen Alpsten's rich, sweeping...

I fell in love with Mr. Darcy on a reality TV show. Cue the happily ever after. Can you believe it? Me, Emma Brady, the girl who managed to turn reality TV humiliation into a real-life fairy tale, has fallen head over heels for...

As the global COVID-19 pandemic reaches the shores of Aotearoa New Zealand, four women find themselves in novel circumstances as healthcare professionals, and in their personal lives. In these new fictional tales from the author of Admissions, we meet doctors, nurses and other workers...

While the Kettle Boils is a collection of 150 micro-fiction.Author: S. B. BorgersenISBN-10: 1950730743ISBN-13: 9781950730742Publisher: Unsolicited PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/09/2021Pages: 250Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.57d

When past secrets hold the only key to hope for the future... Caroline Chapman is reeling from a broken engagement. Determined to start again, she moves cross-country for her dream job of planning events in the historical mansions of Newport, Rhode Island. Just as...