Adult & Contemporary Fiction

Whatever you do, never, ever blow your cover in front of a devil....I traded my dress shoes for leather boots, my badge for a hog, and my friends for the club. It's supposed to be temporary, but if I don't live, breathe, and bleed Devil's Pointe MC for...

In a world of shadows, her love is the light that refuses to let me fall. The bullet should have killed me, but it didn’t. I woke up to her tear-streaked face, my body broken but alive. Free from that hell, but not from the darkness that clung to...

In the shadows of captivity, desire is the most dangerous weapon of all. I woke up in a nightmare—a place where survival came at a cost. They demanded everything: my will, my body, my soul. Pain became my constant companion, and with it, acceptance...

From the author of the USA Today bestselling Priest and New Camelot series comes the second in a high-heat, gothic, dark academia fairy tale full of lantern-lit rituals, foggy moors, and obsessions that last for a lifetime.   He's an...

Three months on a private island. Two men. One million dollars. All she has to do is tame Nash Wilde.   Two years after Zara's sister and her boyfriend were killed in a plane crash, the last person Zara expected to show up on her doorstep was...

The type of book that demands to be annotated and shared, Enigma is a dark and decadent tale that just soared to the top of our TBRs. A twisted Hades and Persephone meets the enthralling suspense of The Secret History in a new...

New in Paperback.“A postmodern literary masterpiece.” –The Times Literary Supplement.Two hundred years after civilization ended in an event known as the Blast, Benedikt isn’t one to complain. He’s got a...

In a small town in Switzerland, Franz—ex-clergyman, ex-husband, current counselor of locals at loose ends— is being haunted by his recently deceased father, Klement. In life, Franz was caught cheating on his wife and defrocked, after which...

A thrilling, inventive, playful, and unorthodox detective and caper novel, the latest work by a French master.“Fans of Jean-Patrick Manchette's deadpan irony will appreciate Command Performance, Echenoz's vibrant, playful homage to the...

Also known as Journey to the West, Wu Ch'êng-ên's Monkey is one of the Four Great Classical Novels in Chinese literature, translated by Arthur Waley in Penguin Classics. Monkey depicts the adventures of Prince Tripitaka, a...

They were always in mourning at Carne; the small boys because they must stay and the big boys because they must leave, the masters because respectability was underpaid; and now, as the Lent Half (as the Easter term was called) drew to its end, the cloud...

“A masterwork…mesmerizing…We come away troubled, unsettled — and in some subtle way changed.”–The New York Times."The perfect steamy read for those hot summer nights." –People.A thrilling new novel from...

This is a hilarious meditation on the power of art and language to unite people. Full of heart, humor and history, Ferdia Lennon reminds us that there’s nothing a show-stopping performance can’t fix.An utterly original celebration of that...

"The List of Suspicious Things somehow manages to be heartwarming yet heartbreaking, a story of innocence lost that will make you feel innocent again, and beautifully nostalgic while being an unflinching portrait of the past. I loved it...

Kotaro Isaka might not be a familiar name to you. Yet, what could be more fun than trained assassins looking for each other while looking for a much coveted briefcase? On a train! That’s what could be more fun! Like a locked room mystery, the...

Kamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows is a story for our time by "a writer of immense ambition and strength. . . . This is an absorbing novel that commands in the reader a powerful emotional and intellectual response" -Salman Rushdie.   Winner of...

From Tove Ditlevsen, the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, comes The Faces, a searing, haunting novel of a woman on the edge, portrayed with all the vividness of lived experience.   Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children’s book...

The first novella in Jack Kerouac's Duluoz Legend, detailing the writer’s early life as refracted through the prism of the untimely loss of his brother.“The earliest and most heartfelt chapter of Kerouac’s fictionalized autobiography...

'She understands Karma, she says: "What I do, I reap."' Her name means sadness, yet Tristessa, a prostitute and morphine addict, lives without cares in her shabby room with a menagerie of pets and an altar to the Virgin Mary. Based on Jack Kerouac's...

The heat burns and the scandal thickens between this single dad and the daughter of his worst enemy."I always enjoyed the broken in the fairy tales better. The apple always looked shinier because I knew it could destroy me."   Hard, cold, and...