Adult & Contemporary Fiction

Fleeing a nameless war, a soldier emerges from the Mediterranean scrubland, filthy, exhausted and seeking refuge. A chance meeting forces him to rethink his journey, and the price he puts on a life. On 11 September 2001, aboard a small cruise ship near...

'I like eating cold, clammy wraps from big pharmacies that are open late and sell just a few foods like protein bars and powders.' Flower is a book of realistic admissions, likes, dislikes, memories and no-brainer observations, treating...

What If It's Us meets They Both Die at the End in this postapocalyptic, queer YA adventure romance from debut author Erik J. Brown. Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera, Alex London, and Heartstopper by Alice Oseman.   When...

We've seen the musical, watched the movie, and re-read the original novel dozens of times. Finally, this is the origin story we've all been waiting for. Get to know the girl behind the witch in this dazzling coming-of-age tale. What happened to young...

Short, sharp and layered with haunts, this is a deeply thematic and darkly satisfying horror story that lingers like the ghosts that walk its pages.The USA Today bestseller!   Stephen Graham Jones, the New York Times bestselling...

If the point of plot is to keep the pages turning, then there are few, if any, plots more thrilling than this. A man's murdered mistress lands him on the suspect list, and it's up to his wife to defend him. There's love, betrayal and justice in this...

"He may be the big bad villain in my story. Too bad, he doesn’t know just how villainous I am.”RosalieMatches are made in heavenExcept mine was custom made in hell.Scorched in the flames of hate, sown in the seed of deception and cursed with...

"He calls me his ruination but he forgot to tell he was mine first."   BIANCA   A fairytale wedding is every girl's dream. Isn't it. Well not mine. Seven years ago, I locked my dead heart in a cage after it was shattered into pieces. It wasn't...

“Wow, I loved this one so much! I didn’t want it to be over because I was enjoying it so much, but I couldn’t stop turning pages! House of Glass is a gripping thriller that was packed with surprises and compelling characters...

What would you do if you thought your coworker was getting away with murder—literally?Dolores dela Cruz has been dying to spot one in the wild, and he fits the mold perfectly: strangler gloves, calculated charm, dashing good looks that give a leg...

A gorgeously illustrated picture book for adults—with two gatefold pages inside—by Nobelist Olga Tokarczuk and illustrator Joanna Concejo, creators of The Lost Soul.A devastating putdown of our self-obsessed, superficial social media...

Jackie is back where it all began, but with romantic angst stewing, her summer with the Walter boys may be more than she bargained for.The highly anticipated sequel to My Life with the Walter Boys, the internationally bestselling novel that inspired...

“A harrowing portrait of sexual violence and its thunderous reverberations. Through Jenna Tang’s incisive translation, the reader is brought along a heartbreaking and unflinching journey.”—Crystal Hana Kim, author of If You...

Daisy Jones and the Six meets Patricia Highsmith in this addictive, intense novel about the brutal and ferocious road to glory, from the award-winning author of My Husband.  Ever since she was a child, Cléo, the French-American...

What if you could enter the mind of the person you love the most?Enka meets Mathilde in art school and is instantly drawn to her. Mathilde makes art that feels truly original, and Enka—trying hard to prove herself in this fiercely competitive...

Two strangers find themselves stranded at sea together in this epic new love story by bestselling author Beth O’Leary.What if you were lost at sea…with your one-night stand?Zeke and Lexi thought it would just be a night of fun. They had no...

"Sparkling banter, hilarious side characters, two cats I would foster in a heartbeat, and some truly hot moments."—Alicia Thompson, USA Today bestselling author.A small-town waitress and a big-city Broadway press agent swap homes to...

A darkly comic coming-of-age set on the west coast of Ireland, Fun and Games follows seventeen-year-old John Masterson's journey into adulthood, mining questions of class, love and manhood with both raw honesty and tenderness. A stunning...

A raucous, macabre tale of failure from the filmmaker-turned-writer whose work has garnered cultish attention in recent years. Georges Maman is a down-and-out actor sinking into despair and no longer able to scrape by, failing to make his mark even in...

“Tawada’s slender accounts of alienation achieve a remarkable potency.”—Michael Porter, The New York Times. A precocious Vietnamese high school student — known as the pupil with “the iron blouse”—in Ho...