Cotton Barrington is a twenty-something woman recently married to LonnieGordon, a widower with a young son. She would like to have a baby but but fears passing down undesirable traits since she doesn't know the identity of her birth father. Her mother, Vivian Brice a famous stage actress, has told her she couldn't be sure of the paternity. In the meantime, Charlotte Brigham, Cotton's best friend, needed her to do a favor at the rectory of Father Henry...

Kate Benning and Tom Cole, both members of neighbourly households known locally as The Three Families, had always known they would marry each other.However, Tom was stifling her, and Kate was determined to free herself of these marital expectations before the New Year began.She dreamed of getting herself a new hero in the New Year.And a dog. She'd always wanted a dog.But nothing ever goes according to plan...

Four women find humor, truth, and a better path forward by deconstructing memory and emotion. Hunter is lost. Her husband left her for her best friend, she's unemployed with no prospects, and the San Francisco flea market she's wandering on a weekday is so foggy that she literally doesn't know where she is. But after a helpful visit and a gift from a stranger, Hunter resolves to find her way. She begins a support group for women looking for new...

While treasure-hunting, Graysen Foxx and his friends cross paths with a secret society of super-smart nerds called the Illuminerdy who will do anything to protect a bone-rattling secret.

Helping her popular next-door neighbor Gayil set up what she thinks are harmless pranks, 12-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl Shaindy must figure out how to stop them before she becomes the next target when the pranks escalate and turn malicious. "Shaindy is a twelve-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl who struggles in school and has no good friends. She watches with envy as her next-door neighbor, Gayil, excels socially and academically. They have little...

There are worse fates than growing up knowing that you will one day inherit a vast and magnificent Cotswolds country estate, but for Rhys Travers it has always felt like a huge responsibility. Juniper Meadows is home to much of his extended family, not to mention the many local businesses that operate on the estate, so there's no time to sit back and enjoy the view. Juniper Meadows is a full-time job, and that doesn't leave much time for romance… Tasha...

A runaway working a dead-end job in Pennsylvania must fight to return home when an intense, otherworldly summer storm arrives bringing a mind-bending monster that enslaves the residents in the new novel by the author of Queen of Teeth. Three years after running away from home, Olivia is stuck with a dead-end job in nowhere town Chapel Hill, Pennsylvania. At least she has her best friend, Sunflower. Then a summer night storm crashes into town-- with...

Ariel grapples with her fear of her own mind and violent fantasies, driven by her desire to meet her parents' expectations and societal norms, until a summer job at a carnival leads her to new friends who help her discover her struggle with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and find acceptance and support for her true self.

When she becomes physically and emotionally abusive to her own children, Irma Miller, struggling with her own childhood trauma, reaches out to her friend Doretta for prayer and wisdom, learning that to save her family, she must admit she needs professional help.

To breathe the poet has no choice. Here is my journey from age ten to seventy.