Adult & Contemporary Fiction

Amelia Peabody is Elizabeth Peters' most brilliant and best-loved creation, a thoroughly Victorian feminist who takes the stuffy world of archaeology by storm with her shocking men's pants and no-nonsense attitude!In this first adventure, our headstrong...

"A female investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as Lisbeth Salander." —Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air, on Maisie DobbsMaisie Dobbs got her start as a maid in an aristocratic London household when she was thirteen. Her...

WINNER OF THE AGATHA • ARTHUR ELLIS • DILYS • DEBUT DAGGER AWARDS “Wonderfully entertaining . . . sure to be one of the most loved mysteries of the year . . . [Flavia is] a delightful, intrepid, acid-tongued...

A haunting ode to Cornish folklore and the secrets of the places we call home. EVERYTHING THAT COMES FROM THE GROUND HAS TO GO BACK DOWN, EVENTUALLY…Merryn grew up on the wilds of Bodmin moor, raised by her mother and her aunt in an old farmhouse...

Danae: Banished from her homeland thanks to a prophecy foretelling that her unborn child will one day cause the death of her father, the king of Argos, Danae finds herself stranded, pregnant, and alone in a remote fishing village. It's a harsh new world...

The bestselling author of A Fatal Crossing and The Murder Game returns with a delicious closed community thriller set on the shores of the Italian beauty spot, as a murderer strikes at a highly exclusive wedding. One happy couple.Two divided families...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries—from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize–winning, internationally...

Discover our collectable Puffin Clothbound Classic edition of Tales of the Greek Heroes. Puffin Clothbound Classics are stunning collectable gift editions of some of the best-loved classics in the world - including this striking edition of Tales of the...

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question comes a tenderly crafted exploration of the ever-changing nature of romantic love, as Lily and Sam meet, fall for each other and grow old in each other's company. Lily falls in love with Sam...

The Maid meets Top Chef in this first novel in a new cozy crime series, where at a Belgravia cookery school, murder is on the menu.At a Belgravia cookery school, murder is on the menuA recipe for disaster.When chef Paul Delamare agrees to help his old...

The most beloved Iranian novel of the twentieth century.“God forbid, I’ve fallen in love with Layli!” So begins the farce of our narrator’s life, one spent in a large extended Iranian family lorded over by the blustering, paranoid...

Gary Jennings's Aztec Autumn recreates a forgotten chapter of history in all its splendor and unforgettable passion. The magnificent Aztec empire has fallen beneath the brutal heal of the Spaniards. But one proud Aztec, Tenamaxtli, refuses to bow to his...

Gary Jennings's Aztec is the extraordinary story of the last and greatest native civilization of North America.Told in the words of one of the most robust and memorable characters in modern fiction, Mixtli-Dark Cloud, Aztec reveals the very depths of...

As my best friend’s brother, Dex Hardy has always been my downfall—older, forbidden, and completely irresistible.Our paths were never supposed to cross, but they tangled irrevocably during those summer nights where we exchanged forevers and I...

My father's business partner will do anything for the empire they built together... Even marry me.Declan Hardy, All-American heartthrob and retired NFL billionaire, is my complete opposite.He's commanding where I'm cooperative.Spontaneous while I am...

The seductively beautiful, street-smart, and powerful Lucky Santangelo, star of four of Jackie Collins's previous international bestsellers—Chances, Lucky, Lady Boss, and Vendetta: Lucky's Revenge—returns in Dangerous Kiss.In Chances, Lucky...

Most Anticipated by The Nerd Daily * The Everymom * Medium, and more! A charming opposites-attract romance, Love, Naturally by Sophie Sullivan is for anyone who ever stepped outside their comfort zone and found that all the best things can happen when...

What is love? Is it something spiritual or wholly physical? Can our feelings be explained and quantified? Or are we all actually two halves of a whole? Ask Alice and Luke and you’d receive vastly different answers. Despite her world having been...

Don’t miss this uplifting second-chance romance from the author of RNA award-shortlisted Playing for Love! ❤️   Five years ago, Alex met the man of her dreams on New Year’s Eve – but he never called. Years later, and after a string...

An unexpected inheritance is most people's dream, but not for Paula. Having put bad times behind her, she is now happy and secure in Western Australia with her own business. This is a complete contrast to her rootless childhood, and she has little...