A Dangerous Friendship by Robin Merle is a novel about grief, obsession, and the strange hunger for connection after loss. The narrator, Tina, begins the story in emotional turmoil, newly divorced and exhausted by a series of endings. Seeking distraction and a reset, she throws...

Vesper by Evan Marks follows the titular Vesper, who lives in New York and works as a senior consultant. After a chance meeting overseas leads to a second encounter in the city, Vesper begins seeing Caspian, a man whose life operates on a scale far...

Therein Lies the Pearl by Catherine Hughes is one of those historical novels that I devour with great pleasure. Set in Normandy and England in the eleventh century, in the years leading up to the Norman Conquest in 1066, it focuses not so much on...

Life in the West was tough in the early days of pioneering. In C.C. Harrison’s The Women of Bandit Bend, this life is particularly tough for the women struggling to make a life for themselves on an isolated homestead. Tally and Ivy Tisdale live on...

In The Lost Ballerina by Deanna Lynn Sletten, seventeen-year-old Maddie Carlson needs to earn money fast. Her boyfriend, Caden, crashed her car, and her father insists she pay for the repairs herself. Maddie takes a job mowing and weeding the lawn at a big, mysterious...

Terri Depue's Beginnings, the second book in the Magnolia Creek Series, is for fans of romance, drama, and women's fiction. Harrison Walsh, a prominent lawyer, comes to the cozy little town of Magnolia Creek from San Francisco to persuade his son, Tom, whom he considers...

Olivia, who has found meaning in teaching law, rather than practicing law, is happy with her situation. If only her boyfriend, Josh, could let her be, but he is driven by ambition and status and looks down on her teaching job. When he organizes...

Runika “Run” Long, a young woman born and raised in the Lower East Side of New York, knew what it felt like to exist and not be seen and heard. It was the reason she had chosen life in foster care over one with her...

In Smoky Blue Sunrise by Lucille Guarino, Jolie-Mae Buckley leaves her South Carolina hometown in the aftermath of her sister Katy-June's death in a car accident. Jolie takes a live-in nanny position with Amanda and Jesse, a physician and an attorney with two young children...

Luna and Mark had been married for seven years when he suddenly said he no longer loved her. What follows is the dissolution of the marriage, which devastates Luna. She feels empty and lost, having done everything to make her marriage work. During the packing...