Adult & Contemporary Fiction

What would you do if the world started crumbling around you? Emma Pattee explores humanity, desperation, love and survival in this breathtaking read.Set over the course of a single day, an electrifying debut novel from “a powerful new literary...

From the author of Broken Country, a captivating drama about how one man’s quest to uncover the truth about his adoption changes everything he knows about love, loss, and the unbreakable bonds of family.Luke and Hannah live a happy and stable...

“Fierce, fun, wild, and enraging. A deeply accomplished debut.” —Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of All the Colors of the Dark. Darkly funny and provocative, this edge-of-your-seat thrill ride...

Love, family, and food collide in this sparkling Romeo and Juliet-inspired romance.   Julie Wu and Randall Hur used to be best friends. Now they only see each other on Saturdays at the Pasadena Farmers Market where their once close families are...

The international bestselling author of Better Off Friends returns to form with a love story that's Once meets The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight. Evie is heartbroken and betrayed when a video of her confronting her...

These ten classic stories are masterful depictions of the underside of life, deep in the American South. On receiving an early copy, Evelyn Waugh remarked 'If these stories are in fact the work of a young lady, they are indeed remarkable. 'She's...

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.Well, thought Belacqua, it's a quick death, God help us all.It is not.'Dante and the Lobster' is the first of the...

By turns melancholic and humorous, this collection of stories from the Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro is an exquisite meditation on love, the power of music and the passing of time. The lyrical, intimate stories of Nocturnes resound sometimes...

The path from A Discovery of Witches to The Black Bird Oracle has been a long, twisted, and delightful one. Prepare to discover even more layers to the world of magic and dark academia we already love.#1 NEW YORK...

Vampires, dark romance and political intrigue make this a winner that's perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas.AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER! The Serpent & the Wings of Night meets Shadow and...

From the best-selling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes a story about a woman's journey to discover the father she never knew and a love she never thought possible. Rose is called to Kyoto for the reading of her estranged...

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...