The Secrets We Carry by Annette G. Anders is the first book in the Soul Sisters series that starts with warmth, depth, and real emotional intelligence. Four college friends, Rebecca, Caitlin, Ensley, and Hope, have arranged their annual girls' week at a rental house called...

The Magic of Robola by Effie Kammenou is an emotionally-driven story of loss, love, and homecoming. New York event planner Eleni Pangalos left Kefalonia, Greece, thirteen years ago, severing every tie and promising herself never to return after she lost her parents and brother in...

In Beth Brookhart's The Four Queens of the Buttonbush Museum, Irene Pickett joins the board of the Buttonbush Museum after losing her newspaper role, stepping into a neglected area where Odilia Delgado is already using her political access to secure control. Their opposing decisions drive...

The Gossip Chronicles of Gladys Ouellette by Marie Shannon is a story about starting over, with a little help from new friends. Abby has moved north to Maine to get away from the unhappiness of a messy divorce. She buys an old house that belonged...

In Kristen A. Peters's The Shape of His World, Holding Them Both, a mother fights for her boys because the world will not listen to them. Iris is a mother raising two autistic sons, Dylan and Jesse, in a home arranged around routine, sensory needs,...

The Music Room by Margaret Farrell Kirby centers on Cath, a fifty-two-year-old nurse who starts to feel like something in her life just isn’t working anymore. After losing her mother at a young age, she pushed aside her dream of becoming a writer, and now...

In Emily Camp’s book, Torn, the main characters, Sierra and Luke, struggle to rekindle a relationship torn apart by Luke’s father four years earlier. Their interest in each other rekindles when Sierra reappears in Luke’s life, burdened with marital issues and a three-year-old child in...

Set in the late 17th century in Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony, The Witch Hunter's Wife by Jessica Lunt follows the ordeal of a young, married woman during the Salem Witch Trials. It's been ten years since Caroline Choate moved to Salem with her husband, John,...

Sydney Hughes goes to Dickens, New England, to help her Aunt Irma recover from hip surgery. Sydney works as an insurance actuary and lives a very structured life, so she figures the trip to her aunt’s place will be calm and uneventful. However, that plan...

In The Boy with the Butterfly Mind by Lorelei Brush, readers meet Julie, a math teacher juggling her job, marriage, and the nonstop energy of her four-year-old son, Patrick. She feels deeply proud of him, but also worried. His moods range from exuberant curiosity to...