Adult & Contemporary Fiction

A crafty second chance love story cloaked in mystery. This imaginative layered read brimming with buried secrets and unexpected twists unravels the fragile nature of life. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A July Indie Next Pick • "A strikingly...

A stunning new novel of power, desire and the secrets all families carry, from the acclaimed author of Nightingale, Marina Kemp.When fledgling writer Zoe arrives at the Sicilian holiday home of famed novelist Don Travers, she feels that she has made...

This is the kind of book that will hold on to your heartstrings. Time-travel, romance and shadows of history are bundled into one sweeping tale of memory and identity.A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK!For fans of The Ministry of...

In this epic and immersive Viking-inspired romantic fantasy, a woman fleeing a ruthless assassin accidentally joins forces with a group of mercenaries and must use all her cunning to escape with her life—and heart—intact.Silla Nordvig is...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   “Her best book yet.” —Harlan Coben The million-copy bestselling Queen of Twists Alice Feeney returns with a gripping and deliciously dark thriller about marriage. . . . . . and...

GOLDIE AWARD WINNER DEBUT NOVEL 2025.GOLDIE AWARD WINNER HISTORICAL FICTION 2025.June, 1852.A preacher’s daughter with a secret.An outlaw running from the gallows.A love story spanning oceans and deserts and years.When Abby Proctor is kidnapped...

An elegantly hair-raising collection of Edith Wharton's ghost stories, selected and with a preface written by the author herself.No history of the American uncanny tale would be complete without mention of Edith Wharton, yet many of Wharton’s most...

From the author of The Door, a beloved coming-of-age tale set in WWII-era Hungary.Abigail, the story of a headstrong teenager growing up during World War II, is the most beloved of Magda Szabó’s books in her native Hungary. Gina is the...

This #1 New York Times bestseller is a highly addicting enemies-to-lovers Romantasy with razor-sharp banter, heart-stopping action, and blistering hot romance.Do not touch the sword. Do not turn the key. Do not open the gate...

Despite Rosha's efforts, she will never fit in. To her classmates, she is forever an outsider, a girl from the fringes of the empire just lucky enough to have well-off parents. To her teachers, she is either a charity case or an exception to the rule...

'Brilliant, like nobody else' Elizabeth McCracken'Beard's curiosity and amazement are contagious' Financial TimesWeaving a complex tapestry drawn from interviews, anecdotes, moments from Beard's own life, and sheer imagination, these extraordinary pieces...

In the shadows and flames, Primals will fall...And from the blood and ash, new gods will rise.What was dreamt.Poppy was never meant to awaken, and the consequences are devastating and far-reaching, stirring ancient powers from their slumber and...

To the Lighthouse is Woolf's most autobiographical and best-known novel, and this new edition provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of its appeal. David Bradshaw is a well-known and respected Woolf scholar whose OWC edition...

Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence. As its narrator lurches despairingly from city to city in a surreal sexual and mental nightmare of squalor,...

Hannah Grace took forced proximity into the rink in Icebreaker, amped up the heat in Wildfire and turned friends into lovers in Daydream — now she’s about to deck our bookshelves with a brand-new holiday romance...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey is back with an all-new enemies-to-lovers, fake-dating sports romance about a playboy hockey rookie and the disciplined softball pitcher completely immune to his charms. Boston Bearcats rookie...

She yearned for freedom and solace from her familial home. He wished for companionship after a life of isolation. After a chance encounter at a masquerade ball, a deal is struck between the two to provide what the other desires. But as the horror behind...

A magical house. A secret past. A summons that could change everything. The number one New York Times bestselling sequel to TJ Klune’s The House in the Cerulean Sea.**ALL first-run paperbacks include a beautiful sprayed edge of the Phoenix's...

Selected & Introduced by David Stuart Davies. Traumatised by ghost stories in her youth, Pulitzer Prize winning author Edith Wharton (1862 -1937) channelled her fear and obsession into creating a series of spine-tingling tales filled with spirits...

A rediscovered gothic classic with a groundbreaking, gender-nonconforming protagonist at its heart.‘I do not sin,’ he smiled. ‘I am Sin’In a quiet medieval city, alone in his shadowy chambers, Dirk Renswoude worships the devil...