#women's fiction

Brooklyn Monti is dying. Or at least she thinks she is. Ever since she was diagnosed with Huntington's Disease at 19, she's used it to give up on herself. It has affected her career, friendships, and love life. But will she allow it to control her future? When Brooklyn meets the man of her dreams, she must decide if she is finally ready to take control and go after the one thing she's always wanted: a family.

Four girlfriends with an eclectic mix of vibrant personalities plan a trip around the world after drunkenly taking ancestry tests during a wine-filled girl's night. It all seems harmless until a long-standing secret is uncovered where they experience enlightenment and revelations in equal measure, joys and traumas, and sometimes madness.

While Theo longs for some guidance through the perils of adolescence, the guidance he knew his family wouldn’t give him, he isn’t prepared for Sprout to present herself and offer it to him. In fact, he doesn’t appear to have a choice since Sprout, sassy and confident about her presence, won’t go away.

Shackled to a controlling boyfriend by gold bracelets locked on her wrists, will she ever learn to live on her own terms? Chicago, 1984. Glory Bishop wishes to feel safe in love. Rescued by her unwanted fiancé from her abusive mother’s violence, the seventeen-year-old warily moves into his wealthy mom’s luxurious house to get away. Overwhelmed and confused by the kindness and grace her host shows, Glory struggles to know how to behave.

A sheltered church girl. A quiet, secret rebellion. Can she become the person she wants to be? In 1983 Chicago, Glory Bishop yearns to be normal. Under the strict thumb of her abusive and zealous mother, the anxious teenager finds relief in stolen moments and kisses with her boyfriend. But when she provides him an alibi against another girl’s disturbing accusation, she catches the eye of the preacher’s son – the twenty-seven-year-old youth minister.

Wrap your beautiful imagination around these 22 delightful stories filled with lovable, incorrigible, funny, impulsive characters who insist on taking life by the horns their way. Just try to stop them! - A four-time divorcee struggles with love addiction - A mournful songwriter is soulfully linked to a charming Irish taxi driver - Paybacks are hell when a woman is scorned - A zany gut-spilling massage therapist tells all - Spend a magical day with a zombie, two teens, and a couple of ghosts - Roll down the aisle to an outlandish grocery store scene

A love story of self, of past, of present, of future. One woman’s journey to put the pieces of her life together in the most meaningful way — at times chaotic, at times cathartic, but ultimately beautiful in all its imperfect pieces.

The darkest secrets hide in plain sight. When Freya Thorne finds a woman’s body on the beach, she is swept back into the nightmare of the past. She knows the similarities to her daughter’s tragic death cannot be coincidence, but nobody will believe her.

Allie, Mary, Valencia, and Sheila were pretty occupied with their lives. They were working, partying, and moving on, drama-free. Everything seemed to be going linear. At least that's what they thought. And for a while, it was even true. One night, Sheila has a very vivid dream about Allie. Not knowing who to talk to, she ends up telling Valencia, just for the sake of feeling lighter. But things took a different turn. Because little did she know, bad dreams sometimes come to reality.

Jackie Martin is a woman whose intelligence and ambition have earned her a coveted position as a judge on the Manhattan Family Court-and left her lonely at age 39. When she meets Lou Greenberg, Jackie thinks she's finally found someone who will accept her exactly as she is. But when Lou's own issues, including an unresolved yearning for his ex-wife, make him bolt without explanation, Jackie must finally put herself under the same microscope as the people she judges.