Adult & Contemporary Fiction

Three tight-knit friends embark on an extravagant divorce trip to the Maldives where they can unwind and celebrate a new chapter in midlife—until they realize the resort of their dreams is harboring a killer.Best friends Darcy, Camilla, and Kate...

The new enemies-to-lovers romcom from Lindsey Kelk. She’s a small-town schoolteacher, he’s a hotshot creative director. Together, it’s hate at first sight. Sophie Taylor has a secret and Joe Walsh is the last person she'd tell...

A strikingly original and absorbing mystery about a white-passing bookbinder in Victorian England and the secrets lurking on the estate where we she works, for fans of Fingersmith andThe Confessions of Frannie LangtonThe library is under lock and key...

A vivid, thrilling, and moving World War II art-heist-adventure tale where enemies become heroes, allies become villains, and a child learns what it means to become an adult—that “has the ring of truth and the echo of myth...[deserving of]...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong delivers a fun romantic comedy about a woman writing under a male pseudonym and the man she hires to play the role in public.Daphne McFadden already knows that as a female author, the cards...

A tender feat of humanity, loyalty and hope, Familiaris is a quietly stunning, atmospheric prequel story that explores the history of mankind’s ambition (and the millennia-long interspecies bond that got us here).The follow-up to the beloved #1 New...

This nuanced and compassionate period novel from the author of The Sealwoman's Giftexplores late-blooming love and rekindled ambition in the shadow of the nineteenth-century Highland Clearances. Jamesina Ross is long finished with men. But one night a...

From the beloved author of The Old Place comes a tender, funny, and fresh novel about a gay writer in New York City whose life is irrevocably altered, and then again thirty years later.In 1992, on his thirtieth birthday, Artie Anderson meets the man who...

“A Da Vinci Code–style thriller for teens? Yes please.”—TeenVogue.com.Two weeks. That’s how long it took for Avery West’s ordinary life to change forever. In two weeks, she discovered she was heiress to a powerful...

A fast-paced international escapade, laced with adrenaline, glamour, and romance--perfect for fans of Ally Carter.Avery West's newfound family can shut down Prada when they want to shop in peace, and can just as easily order a bombing when they want to...

A high-powered Manhattan attorney finds love, purpose, and the promise of a simpler life in her grandmother's hometown.Ellen Branford is going to fulfill her grandmother's dying wish — to find the hometown boy she once loved, and give him her last...

A blackly comic tale about two children you would never want to meet. Set in the Cornish town of Fowey, all is not as idyllic as the beautiful seaside town might seem. The body of a young woman is discovered in the nets of a fishing boat. It is...

These remarkable short stories from the 1940s and 50s depict women and men caught between the pull of personal desires and profound social change. From a remote peninsula in Cornwall to the drawing rooms of the British Raj, domestic arrangements are...

Four Chinese women, four America daughters - can they learn to understand each other? In 1949 a group of Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and...

Discover the haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic tale of female friendship and intimacy set in a deserted world. Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, these women have no memory of how they got there,...

“A raucous novel, narrated in deadpan voice-over by Ramesh, a self-described ‘lower lower middle class’ 24-year-old scammer. . . . His perspective is a delight. . . . a tartly entertaining novel, a potential summer blockbuster.”...

A lyrical, exquisitely constructed exploration of the complex bonds of family from the author of The Stranding, Sawyer's nuanced novel is set across one summer's day as Mary's relations gather for her wedding. Mary has raised her daughters in this house...

*A BBC 2 BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK**SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2024*'Vivid, sensuous ... A subtle tale of loss, loneliness and disconnection'PAUL LYNCH, IRISH INDEPENDENT'Lush, lyrical and cleverly-constructed. A beautiful book'LOUISE...

A devastating mix of beauty and brutality, McCarthy's sly and disquieting novella presents an unforgettable cast of characters in a fictional Welsh village and the dark secret that lies at the heart of the community. Tucked into the Welsh valleys and...

"Every time Laura Lippman comes out with a new book, I get chills because I know I am back in the hands of the master. She is simply a brilliant novelist, an unflinching chronicler of life in America right now, and Sunburn is her dark, gleaming noir gem...