Fiction - Women

Kazim Ali introduces five autofiction novellas by Kristjana Gunnars--available in the U.S. for the first time, in a single, handsome volume "Between the late eighties and late nineties, Kristjana Gunnars published five transgeneric novels comprised of a scintillating blend of fiction, autobiography, literary theory,...

When Lily was eleven years old, her mother, Swee Hua, walked away from the family, never to be seen or heard from again. Now, as a new mother herself, Lily becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to Swee Hua. She recalls the spring...

It is the dawn of the Second World War, but life in the small town of Fielding carries on in its uncomplicated way. For young Eva, life is about to change, as her dearest friend Annie vanishes and people claim to have never known...

Countless years after the destruction of Earth, the last survivors of humankind struggle for survival in the distant colony of Bona Dea.Young psychic Axandra is the matriarch of the colony, and host to a powerful entity known only as the Goddess. Trying to protect...

Everything can change - In Just One DayFlora has always adored her brother Billy. Born just eighteen months apart, their childhood was spent like two peas in a pod - no one could separate them. Now, as adults, they remain the best of friends....

Edinburgh, 1804.Dorothea Flockhart is hiding her past. A woman alone, she avoids men; even the personable Captain Rogers fails to stir her heart despite all his efforts.While Napoleon's armies threaten invasion, Scotland's capital still hosts balls, although the atmosphere is hectic and men don...

With Scotland's clans divided by war, strong-willed heiress Jeannie Tweedie is kidnapped by a band of marauders and imprisoned deep in the Borderland.When she comes face-to-face with sworn family rival, Hugh Veitch, Jeannie must decide where her loyalties lie. Amid danger and desire, Jeannie...

An "engrossing debut" novel (Laura Dave, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me) about a couple whose dreams of adoption push them to do the unthinkable when their baby's birth family steps into the picture. HOW FAR WOULD YOU...

Lovable but flawed Jane Mercer struggles with her self-image while reaching for the stars in the cutthroat world of Los Angeles marketing. As she claws her way up the ladder at the agency, Warren Mitchell & Associates, she is driven into fierce competition with...

Lying on her job application wasn't the best way to kick off her fresh start in a small town, but Heather Smith is out of options. She desperately needs the job, or she will soon be without a place to live. Even so, Heather...

This book contains graphic sex and violence, and is not suitable for readers under the age of 18.Times are changing around Roxie and Mattie.The two are barely surviving the bitter winters in the unforgiving American frontier. With Mattie's help, Roxie is moving forward and...

For years, Clair has wanted to end her life.To her, death seems like a rational solution to her problems. Clair is convinced there are no rainbows in the sky, and certain the greener grass does not exist on the other side.With many suicide attempts...

"Profoundly moving and beautifully written . . . each story is its own universe that transports the reader through the characters' joy and pain." -- Amy Stuart The nineteen stories in No Stars in the Sky feature strong but damaged female characters in crisis....

Twenty years after Penny's Hawaiian adventure, she and her husband are moving to Las Vegas, Nevada.But when they run out of gas in the Mojave Desert, the couple is rescued by a famous painter. The eccentric artist hires Penny to redecorate his property, while...

Twelve-year-old Aggie has never manned a steamboat until she is forced to the wheel. When she reunites with her younger sisters aboard the IRENE, their sixty-foot steamboat, the sisters are trapped with thugs intending to steal their boat. As Aggie pilots port to port,...

When her bohemian life in Paris falls flat at the beginning of the First World War, Sally Lunton returns to the care of her guardian in Little Crampton to find a husband. With some encouragement from the local busybody, she makes a play for...

It's less than a year after the accident when Peyton meets the therapist's nephew, Noah.Peyton has already endured more than anyone should. A widow at twenty-four, she's constantly fighting an inner battle with her emotions, convinced that she's never going to be loved -...

After being incarcerated for countless years, Chelsea Grey is reunited with her mother and daughter, and begins her search of self. Finding reconnection with the world difficult, Chelsea seeks the freedom and finds it while working at the Wildlife Center.But soon, a burglary, a...

Come on a whirlwind ride across time and place with one of the most recognizable figures of Western history - Joan of Arc.We all know of her, but few know the details of her life. Travel back in time with The Maid, in a...

Rosie has no time for boys. She's focused on finishing up school and working at her mother's bakery, and makes sure to avoid any and all distractions.But when a rather handsome distraction walks through the bakery door, there isn't much she can do except...

Polar bear shapeshifter Russell is happy with his isolated life in a small Alaskan town. That is, until the arrival of a kindergarten teacher from the lower 48 blows Russell's comfortable world to pieces.One whiff of Riley Jenkins' compelling scent, and Russ is a...

For archaeologist Fiona Carver, the Caribbean glistens with untold menace in a heart-racing novel by Rachel Grant, USA Today bestselling author of Dangerous Ground.Fiona Carver has landed a dream assignment: conducting an archaeological inventory of Ruby Island, a privately owned, pristine gem in the...

Born and raised in Australia, Martha longs to return to Nadwodom, in a country called Czawa, where her parents and family grew up. As she stumbles upon the works of Marion Porter, an Australian photographer who once photographed the countryside in Czawa, Martha's own...

She wants to go places. He's got the car. If only things were that simple.Widowed father Adrian Adams isn't looking to change his life. He just wants to keep his seven-year-old daughter Charlie safe and happy. The last thing he expects is to suddenly...

Winner of the 2020 Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize In Water and Blood, the nameless narrator, a survivor of abuse, tries on other women's stories like she is trying on their clothes. There is the nun who learns to swim decades after witnessing her...

The year is 1974 and Susan Barron has finished her PhD in psychology. She looks forward to moving from graduate student to assistant professor. After months of an unsuccessful job search, she faces another unexpected transition---a move from New York City to another country....

Kristie is dead. Those haunting words are now Piper's reality. And she isn't sure she has any reason to continue on. Kristie once gifted Piper with the best role on earth: mother. But now that she's gone, so is Piper's identity. As Piper kneels...

A Quest For LoveAt just 4 years old, Evelyn Gundrum's happy world is turned upside down.Abandoned by her mother, she is shipped to an orphanage run by the terrifying Sister Honora.Evelyn grows up amidst hardship and heartbreak, plagued by unresolved emotions that follow her...

How does a fated love rise from a pleasant note to a passionate symphony?Budding musician Erin James knows all too well the noise of neglect and tragedy, and that her infatuation with her best friend Sheridan's brother, Sean, is doomed never to blossom.For his...

I love to read, as do many other women in this life, especially fiction. Turning the pages of a good novel is like chocolate for the mind, each page filled with sweet, creamy adventure. Wrap some music around the words and I'm hooked twice.The...

Bounty hunter Jesse West is on the run from his own heartbreak. That is, until a final request of a dying friend brings Jesse into contact with Adeline McCoy; a stoic mountain girl who awakens his long-dormant desire.Jesse has no intention of forming a...

From the bestselling author of GILDED SUMMERS comes a powerful novel of the last eight years of the American Women's fight for suffrage.The battle for the vote is on fire in America. The powerful and rich women of Newport, Rhode Island, are not only...

From the bestselling author of GILDED SUMMERS comes a powerful novel of the last eight years of the American Women's fight for suffrage.The battle for the vote is on fire in America. The powerful and rich women of Newport, Rhode Island, are not only...

The Book Club meets Hocus Pocus in this paranormal women's fantasy!"I'm leaving." Two shocking words, torching a marriage of over twenty years. Totally blind-sided, Shannon, a middle-aged, stay-at-home Mom, is traded in for a newer model.One of the few possessions her cheating EX didn't...

In this riveting and immersive novel, bestselling author Thrity Umrigar tells the story of two couples and the sometimes dangerous and heartbreaking challenges of love across a cultural divide.Indian American journalist Smita has returned to India to cover a story, but reluctantly: long ago...

In Fanny Fern's novel Ruth Hall, Miss Ruth Hall must learn to navigate life without her husband, Harry, after he unexpectantly dies from typhoid fever. This follows the death of Harry and Ruth's eldest daughter, Daisy, who passed tragically by contracting a respiratory illness....

Pearl and Ginevra grow up in the era known as the Gilded Age in Newport, Rhode Island. One lives above the stairs, the other below.Surrounded by Astors and Vanderbilts, Pearl fills her days with teatime and shallow friendships, yearning for something more. A chance...

Pearl and Ginevra grow up in the era known as the Gilded Age in Newport, Rhode Island. One lives above the stairs, the other below.Surrounded by Astors and Vanderbilts, Pearl fills her days with teatime and shallow friendships, yearning for something more. A chance...

"Charming characters, emotion galore, a small town--you're going to love Donna Kauffman!" --Lori FosterFord Maddox was running from his past when he came back to Blueberry Cove, Maine, where he'd tasted both heartache and comfort. With feisty Delia O'Reilly there to cheer him on,...

February 1554, Guildhall, London. Queen Mary the 1st, England's first queen regnant, is about to make the most important, rallying speech of her life.Her good friend and advisor, Sir Francis Englefield, is with her all the way, supporting her Roman heritage. Mary plans to...

After a bitter divorce from his childhood sweetheart, Chase moves to a new town in Texas to start over. There, he encounters Baylee: pretty, fragile, and completely uninterested in Chase. Or is she?Chase soon realizes that there is more to the haunted-looking brunette than...

This Pride and Prejudice sequel is a Regency coming-of-age adventure/clean romance that includes some of literature's most beloved characters, along with a cast of new friends, young and old.KITTY BENNET MUST MARRY WELL but she also means to marry for love. Longbourn holds no...

Often times the burden we carry as women derives from the erroneous decision taken when choosing our lifetime partners. The connection we make with these men leads us to believing that we have found our "perfect-match" or soul-mate! Then without hesitation, we disregard contemplating...

Ghosts trail after us. They are our fears and the shape of our hates. We bring them into our lives and into our homes.Poltergeists and the spirits of drowned girls; malicious presences and portents; cat vampires and roaming bushrangers. These ghosts haunt Canberra -...

The Soul of Lilith (1892) is a novel by Marie Corelli. Published at the height of Corelli's career as one of the most successful writers of her generation, The Soul of Lilith combines science fiction, spirituality, and romance to tell a cautionary tale of...

Home is where your heart leads you...Louise "Lulu" Kingsley is thrilled to discover after years of wishing for a sibling, Cami Chandler is her half-sister. When Cami invites her to live at Chandler Hill, Lulu jumps at the chance to leave behind all the...

"Oh how I love this book. I finished Edie Richter Is Not Alone in one sitting, then reread it immediately. Hilariously heartbreakingly honest on every page, Rebecca Handler's novel is that rare thing: a perfect book." --Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of LessFunny,...

A lot can happen in three years. Welcome back to Mulberry Lane! In just three years, the life of sixty-two-year-old Louise had irrevocably changed. Diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's, what the next three years would bring, remained to be seen.Kate's ex-husband has a new...

GOLD: NAUTILUS BOOK AWARD, FICTION, LARGE PUBLISHER (2016)GOLD: SARTON WOMEN'S BOOK AWARD, CONTEMPORARY FICTION (2016) GOLD: INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER BOOK AWARDS (IPPYS), BEST FICTION, AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND (2016)SILVER: READERS' FAVORITE INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD, WOMEN'S FICTION On her 49th birthday, Anna Fergusson, Boston neuroscientist and dedicated introvert,...

In sixth-century Kent, lightning only strikes when wicked women will it.A dead man's body lies in a lake. Seventeen-year-old Ardelle stands accused of murdering him. She has not yet shed the innocence of childhood, yet the dark boatman in the realm of the dead...