Ashley Manley’s The Difference Between follows Reese Conway, a forty-year-old private equity partner in Chicago who has spent years measuring her life by goals she set as a teenager. When her mother undergoes brain surgery in North Carolina on the same day Reese presents the...

The Last Pirouette: A Novel in Three Acts by Janette DeFelice is an artistically crafted work of literary fiction, chronicling Delia and her mother, Victoria. Victoria’s dreams have always dominated Delia’s life. Having failed as a dancer, Victoria returns to her small hometown and takes...

Amanda Sung’s How to Break a Girl follows the unbreakable bond between three Asian-Canadian best friends—Elizabeth Park, Aurora Zhang, and Lily Kuo—as they face loss, love, and survival in Vancouver and other places, including Silicon Valley. The story begins as a graduation-day reunion and unfolds...

Love in a Hurry by Mari Jane Law introduces Miranda Morton, a thirty-nine-year-old single mother desperate to give her son, Oscar, a sibling. She conceived through a turkey baster with her gay friend Luke. She has never been kissed, and her romantic prospects are slim...

Echoes from the River by Kathryn Lane follows Francesca Morales de la Garza, an eighteen-year-old bride from Mexico, who is thrust into an arranged marriage and moves to a remote part of Australia in the 1970s. What begins as the story of a young bride...

Entangled Frequencies by Long Temple follows Maya, Zaria, Imani, and Nia, four successful Black women whose lives intersect through a close group chat named Frequency. While managing high-powered careers in the city, their controlled lives are upended when they join Sync’d, a behavioral dating app...

Tara Lynn Masih’s The Silent Women is set during World War II, when sixteen-year-old Song Holloway lives with her widowed mother in Andover, Massachusetts, after the Dust Bowl drove them east from Oklahoma. As local farming moves toward civilian wartime labor, Song takes a job...

K. M. Cookie’s Song of Hummingbird Highway starts when Terri, a music lover, gets rid of her boyfriend. She refuses to shed a tear and cannot imagine that one impulsive night at a Santa Monica reggae club will change her life. Enter Reynold, a beguilingly...

In All We Keep Buried by Pamela Ungashick, a friendship is tested when Kiera is caught up in the disappearance of her friend Naomi’s ten-year-old nephew, Scottie. Everyone suspects Reggie Parks. Reggie’s brother Evan disappeared years ago, and he was the prime suspect. After all...

Eva Bennick has just been offered to become the youngest partner in seventy-three years at Morrison Keene, a top-tier consulting firm. Her goal was to make partner by the age of forty, and she has achieved it; she isn’t thirty-five yet. But before she signs...