Adult & Contemporary Fiction

In this epic and unforgettable love story, set in the wilds of Missouri and the glamour of high society Boston at the dawn of the Gilded Age, one woman’s life changes forever the day that a stranger turns up on her doorstep. Missouri, February...

'Perhaps that moment had been exceptional, but still, I felt alive. That pressure on my chest means being alive.'Forty-nine, with a kind face, no serious ailments (apart from varicose veins on his ankles), a good salary and three moody children, widowed...

An eerie, hypnotic debut about friendship, desire, and memory set against the sultry backdrop of Florida’s swamplands.“A mesmerizing, hallucinatory adrenaline rush of a novel.”—Claire Luchette, author of Agatha of Little...

This chilling, sizzling, and addictive thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Vi Keeland follows a New York psychiatrist’s dark descent into dangerous obsession. This isn’t a love story. It’s a story about...

If he's death, I crave oblivion. Elowen is cursed: she kills with a brush of her fingertips. Her worst fear is hurting the boy she cares for-and her second-worst is the attention of the Raven Lord. Maelor is the lethally beautiful leader of the...

He’s everything she has ever desired. But there’s only one way to keep her man alive: let him go.   With Nasir’s life on the line, Eva makes a deal with the devil. She slips away to return to Dimitri, the mob boss who held her...

*An Instant New York Times bestseller!*   A soul-crushing but heart-healing YA romance from the author of A Thousand Boy Kisses that asks, what if you found your forever…just when time was running out? Seventeen-year-old...

After being haunted by an elusive boy as a child, Autumn comes face-to-face with him years later, only now he is a brooding man running from his painful past — and afraid of his future. This gritty romance is perfect for fans of Catherine Cowles...

This mystery thriller by the bestselling author of The Inheritance Games is a gripping story of high stakes, betrayal, and unpredictable twists.   Knowledge is power, but secrets can kill . . . For Tess Kendrick, a student at the elite...

This mystery thriller by the bestselling author of The Inheritance Games is a gripping story of high stakes, betrayal, and unpredictable twists.   Any problem can be fixed for a price . . . When Tess Kendrick is sent to stay with her older...

If anyone knows how to tell a story from the heart — it’s Nicholas Sparks. We’ve been on countless tear-jerking journeys with him, and this story of family mythologies, love and an elusive white deer is our new favorite adventure...

Two centuries of literary homages to the fascinating feline: stories by writers of every stripe—from P.G. Wodehouse to Doris Lessing, from Damon Runyon to Steven Millhauser.The essential unknowableness of cats has inspired many flights of fancy:...

The text for this edition of Notes from Underground is Michael Katz’s acclaimed translation of the 1863 novel, which is introduced and annotated specifically for English-speaking readers. "Backgrounds and Sources" includes relevant...

** The new heart-stopping emotional thriller from the Queen of the Big Reveal and author of Beach Hut 512 **Robyn 'Avril' Managa was twelve when she witnessed her controlling and abusive father murder her mother. Put into care while her...

One of Baldwin's best known novels, often the first that readers discover; a classic of gay literature. A deluxe edition of James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel, with a new introduction by Kevin Young and special cover art designed by Baldwin's...

The Virgin Suicides meets I Have Some Questions For You in a dual timeline suspense following one woman as she begins to uncover the truth of the death of her estranged best friend and the Sylvia Plath adoring sad girls they attended...

'One of the great crime novels of all time' Tony Parsons, Express 'Nobody has ever quite pulled it off the way Cain does, not Hemingway, and not even Raymond Chandler' Tom Wolfe 'It is no accident that movies based on three [of Cain's novels] helped...

Elly Parker helped a perfect stranger. She didn’t know he was the perfect killer...in another “unguessable and unputdownable” (Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times bestselling author) psychological thriller from the author...

Now a USA TODAY Bestseller! Now a New York Times Bestseller!From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson comes Bastille vs. the Evil Librarians, the thrilling conclusion to the...

Is a fake boyfriend really just for Christmas? One fake romance. One magical Christmas. One chance to fall in love. Laura was all set for a quiet solo Christmas – just her, a bottle of wine, and flat-sitting for a stranger. But when the...