Fiction - Women

'A darkly atmospheric coming of age story so haunting it kept me riveted until the very last page' JANE HENNIGAN, AUTHOR OF MOTHS'Immersive and beautifully rendered' LOUISE FINCH, CARNEGIE PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE ETERNAL RETURN OF CLARA HART'Emotive, tender, funny, intriguing, and brilliantly...

Claire LeBrint Metzger is a real person and also the fictional narrator of Twists and Turns animagined memoir based on Claire's life. Fictional Claire writes her memoir in 1994 at the age of80. The historical backdrop for her life story includes major twentieth century...

In 1969, seven-year-old Madge Whelan's world changes when her mother becomes matron of a nursing home. Madge and her family suddenly find themselves in a strange new environment, full of characters and chaos. What follows is an uplifting story of how a close-knit family...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife weaves a mesmerizing tale of Paris above and below--where a woman's quest for artistic freedom in 1664 intertwines with a doctor's dangerous mission during the German occupation in the 1940s, revealing a story of...

Don't miss the start of a BRAND NEW emotional, heartwarming, life-affirming series from Jo Bartlett, the BESTSELLING author of The Cornish Midwife and The Cornish Country Hospital Sometimes the only way forward is to go back. When Rowan Bellamy s marriage collapses in spectacular...

The daughter of an automotive magnate escapes to an artistic retreat that holds more secrets--and more intrigue--than she could have ever imagined, in this Prohibition-era novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Salt to the Sea. Detroit, 1927. A city of...

When teenager Nadine Harvey helps her best friend hide a disturbing secret, she's also concealing her own deepest truth: she'll do almost anything to be wanted. Five years and three thousand miles later, Nadine is thrilled when her idol, Celeste-- a rock singer known...

Ava Hardy yearns for more than her job as a Tulsa Herald reporter. Her life, though comfortable, leaves questions about her future. Seeking clarity, she embarks on a sabbatical to a remote cabin in the mountains of Eastern Oklahoma. Surrounded by the breathtaking landscape,...

Two women living centuries apart are bound by the same dark secret in this haunting horror novel by Jacquie Walters, author of Dearest and "a talent to watch" (Sarah Langan). The Devil enters through doors left open... On the isolated Eastern Shore of Virginia,...

Twenty-seven-year-old Dani Sommer is spiraling and drowning her grief in all the wrong things. She's reeling from the death of a loved one, motivated to honor his legacy, and reluctant to prioritize herself.Enter Auden Smith: a British reporter with a calm demeanor and a...

The Devil Wears Prada meets White Lotus in a story of colliding egos and shocking betrayal, as intoxicatingly ice-cold as the pink Prosecco that flows all weekend.Everything needs to be just right for bestselling mystery writer Faye Wader's first ever fan weekend. Her sales...

The stage is set. An epic battle of barbecue roasts ignites down the East Coast when a peck of Delaware peaches lands at the feet of cannabis chef Charlotte Bennett.The fires roar to life as Clinton Tuckerman sets her up in a culinary showdown...

It's never too late to find your voice. Especially when magic gets involved.48-year-old Simone Bardot's life is a junk drawer of a mess. Her husband is having an affair. Her son barely talks to her. And her therapy clinic is failing. But a mysterious...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Christina Baker Kline comes a boldly original reimagining of an astonishing true story: two sisters in nineteenth-century North Carolina--Kline's own distant relatives--who married world-famous conjoined twins from Siam.When Chang and Eng Bunker arrive in Wilkes County in...

In time for the 250th Anniversary of the birth of the United States comes a sweeping, intimate portrayal of Abigail Adams--wife of one president and mother to another--whose wit, willpower, and wisdom helped shape the fledgling republic. A stunning historical novel with modern-day implications...

Synopsis: Tangie Collins sits at the park on her lunch break, enjoying her lunch. Ronald Mack, a homeless man, sits beside her and asks for a few of her potato chips. Tangie has no idea that helping this young man would change her life,...

Curl up with this warm, witty, surprising and romantic read from the award-winning author... ❤️] For all fans of Katie Fforde, Beth Moran and Veronica Henry.Is your love life a bit of a disaster? You're not alone...When Fee finds herself drunk, dumped and directionless...

A BRAND-NEW joyously whimsical, utterly enchanting and totally heart-tugging tale of magic, mischief and modern-day fairytales. Perfect for fans of Sarah Addison Allen, Ali McNamara and Jenny Colgan ✨Author: Jaimie AdmansISBN-10: 1804839027ISBN-13: 9781804839027Publisher: Boldwood Books LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/13/2025Pages: 272Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...

A Zibby Owens "Summer Read" * A Jordy's Book Club "Most Anticipated Book of 2025" * An Oprah Daily "Best Summer Reads" "It stole my breath and my heart. It's a grand story of science and startups, and a simple story of first love...

A forgotten inheritance. A remote Maine lighthouse. A family secret that could change everything.When exhausted ER nurse Maya Sinclair receives an unexpected letter naming her the sole heir to a century-old lighthouse in Beacon Bay, Maine, she plans only a brief visit to sign...

Bestselling author Julia Spiro's Such a Good Mom is a brilliant standalone mystery that's the perfect beach read. In the heat of summer, a murder on Martha's Vineyard rocks one new mom to the core, leaving her to search for answers. With a healthy...

"FRESH AND FUN AS HELL -- Katelyn Doyle is absolutely an author to watch." --People Magazine From the author of Just Some Stupid Love Story, an IRRESISTIBLE ROM-COM about what happens when a cruise ship romance goes...overboard Hope Lanover needs a vacation. Her relationship...

Winner of the 2024 Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize, Entomology of the Pin-Up Girl delivers a terrific play on the "monstrous feminine"--captivating stories of women shedding their skins and exoskeletons and blurring the boundaries between predator and prey.A dissatisfied wife wraps herself in a...

Gustave Flaubert's classic novel of a bored French housewife who goes to great lengths to escape the staleness of provincial life, freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Editions line. Beautiful and bored, housewife Emma Bovary is trapped in her marriage to...

Straitlaced Tally Tisdale and her free spirited sixteen-year-old sister Ivy arrive in Sutton Creek, Colorado, in 1863 to take over their missing father's homestead. Land Agent Goodnight Pettyjohn warns them of days of backbreaking work, deadly mountain storms, dangerous wild animals, and trigger-happy outlaws....

Fate is a statistics-addict's worst nightmare, which is exactly why Charlotte Rosen is dedicating the last year of her twenties to getting back in the game.Charlotte, a programmer in Los Angeles, develops an algorithm to connect businesses with social media standouts, but soon realizes...

Abigail Adams, Queen Charlotte, and Marie Antoinette--three women form an unlikely sisterhood, navigating revolutions, royal pressures, and personal losses as they shape their own legacies.After the end of the American Revolutionary War, Abigail Adams crosses the Atlantic to reunite with her husband, John, after...

A poignant and darkly witty portrait of aging, memory, and multigenerational caretaking from the first female Faroese writer to ever appear in English.I'm a woman in my early sixties. Somewhere between late and never. No longer the career woman, mother, housewife, and lover doing...

A debut collection of interconnected fiction that delivers a frothy, philosophical take on modern female archetypes.In elementary school math, she was given a worksheet with six connected squares in the shape of a T, so she drew one girl in each box. When Jeanne...

A middle-aged woman's unlikely and hilarious tardy coming-of-age.Meet Laura Harrigan. Depending on who Laura is talking to, she's a psychiatrist, a business consultant, or a mother of twin boys at Yale. That last one is a new lie she's trying on for size. In...

With astonishing existential acuity, Polly Barton's formidable debut novel renders the paradoxes of modern life in all its complexity, in deliriously self-conscious prose that is at once propulsive, titillating and bitingly funny. What does it mean to lose yourself - and is that something...

Two-time Lambda Literary Award winner Ann McMan presents a lyrical, multi-voiced novel that explores the fragile architecture of the lives we build, the resilience it takes to reimagine them, and the enduring power of friendship that carries us through it all.Told through the interwoven...

Leonora Carrington meets Angela Carter in these outlandish surrealist tales."Mansour saw in the erotic the possibilities for individual and collective freedom. Inside the void, a reimagining of the self and the world can occur, illuminating new ways to live that contrast with the default...

There is, in America, a subculture we never talk about: the military community in peacetime, where the Brass God imposes an ancient code of honor; where the officer-as-a-gentleman returns to his lady-the most invisible woman in America, his waiting wife; and where the bedroom...

The true story, woven with fiction, of Eileen O'Connor--Australia's saint-in-waitingIn this inspirational novel, a family traumatized by addiction and catastrophe discover their great-grandmother's lost account of Australia's saint-in-waiting--a severely disabled woman who barely survived childhood but defied the Catholic Church and provided free nursing...

Joss Wood's Harlequin Romance debut, an age gap, billionaire, hidden identity, workplace romance! In his billion-dollar bed--again? Interior designer Calla is rebuilding the career her ex-husband almost trashed. So she's back on the Caribbean island of St. Croix for a prestigious commission revamping the...

The latest Harlequin Romance by Jenny Lane, a hidden identity, second chance, sapphic billionaire romance! A weeklong getaway to the past... Travel writer Blake's latest assignment is a sun-drenched stay at a luxury Napa Valley resort. Lush landscapes, decadent food and wine--what's not to...

The latest Harlequin Romance by Hana Sheik, a fake relationship, opposites attract, second chance story! Her groom-to-be...until the wedding! Lulu's off-grid lifestyle in the Canadian Rockies suits her perfectly after her disastrous marriage ended. Then, with her savings rapidly depleting, fate intervenes... Longtime family...

The latest Harlequin Romance by Kate Hardy, a second chance, opposites attract, workplace romance! Going back for seconds? Livi is not impressed that her family has hired marketing CEO Josh to take their restaurant to the next level. Years ago, her attempts to comfort...

A sweeping novel of siblings, steeped in love, heart-rending loss, and sacrifice, the story of twins who meet shockingly different fates, but whose bond will last forever Twins Tessa and Theo are roots of the same tree, in tune with one another's every thought...

A secret princess and her assassin-turned-bodyguard... what could possibly go wrong?NINA Becoming the queen of a country is not part of Nina's otherwise perfect ten-year plan.She may have graduated at the top of her linguistics program, but everything quickly unravels after that--and her cheating...

A must-read for fans of character-driven suspense like Liz Moore's Long Bright River and A. J. Finn's The Woman in the Window, One Beautiful Year of Normal is a gripping psychological thriller about a woman's dangerous decision to unearth her family's darkest secrets. Some...

A mouth-watering home run of a beach read, this lighthearted romantic comedy featuring a newly widowed fortysomething takes the reader on a joyful romp through-out some of Chicago's finest eateries--with a dash of Cubs baseball on the side. In the heart of Chicago, forty-five-year-old...

When Noel Enfield is offered a secondment at a museum in London, it's a chance for her career aspirations to finally come to fruition--but also leads to the opening of some old wounds--in this story of art, love lost, and second chances, perfect for...

A heartrending journey unfolds in a romance series where love is tested by the unthinkable. Witness a tale of resilience, commitment, and integrity based on a true story that's sure to captivate.Meet Matthew Abernathy, a modern-day Adonis with a dash of playboy charm. His...

"Violet Lemon" is a heart-wrenching, life-affirming journey through five decades of pain, survival, and ultimately-peace.It begins in December 1970, when young Violet and her brother are torn from their home and the loving father they once knew. Thrust into a world of instability, abuse,...

A lucky encounter in the crystal-lake splendor of Wisconsin leads to love in this Americana romance from the New York Times bestselling author. Born and raised in small, picturesque Cable, Wisconsin, shy music teacher Eve Rowland thinks she's perfectly fulfilled--generous parents, a devoted community...

The New York Times bestselling author continues her beloved Americana series with a brokenhearted young woman finding passion on the Great Plains. Discover romance across America with Janet Dailey's classic series featuring a love story set in each of the fifty states. Growing up...

In the aftermath of the hurricane, Aloria and Benjamin are united in love and vision. Their business expansion is underway when something happens that could upend it all. Amidst the challenges of innovation and new beginnings, their bond deepens, showcasing the strength of their...

Aloria Rose's beloved flower shop is under threat from a looming development project, while Benjamin Barns faces a mysterious pest infestation that could devastate his bee colonies. As their personal and professional lives are thrown into turmoil, Aloria and Benjamin must rely on each...