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I had everything a woman could want… My husband, James. The house on the lake. My life. Our perfect life. And then Alex came to visit. The first time I saw my husband's best friend, I didn't like him. Didn't like how James changed when he was around, didn't like how his penetrating eyes followed me everywhere. But that didn't stop me from wanting him. And, surprisingly, James didn't seem to mind. It was meant... (more)

Grin and Bear it (Harlequin Next)

by Leslie LaFoy

"Stacy Kavanaugh's life has been the pits lately. Six months ago -- okay, six months, one week and two days, but who's counting? -- her husband left her for an exotic dancer. The property settlement negotiations have been downright ugly. And exhausting. Stacy has had enough. She's ready to throw in the towel. And the pasta machine, too. But you know what they say about the best laid plans. Her... (more)

Friday Nights: A Novel

by Joanna Trollope

From the master of literary domestic drama, a page-turning novel that dissects the complexities of female friendship and the choices that define women’s lives. It is Eleanor who starts the Friday night get-togethers. From her window she sees two young women, with small children, separate, struggling, and plainly lonely—and decides to ask them in. What began as a lark soon becomes a ritual, and the circle widens to... (more)

Off Season

by Ann Rivers Siddons

Acclaimed novelist Anne Rivers Siddons's new novel is a stunning tale of love and loss. For as long as she can remember, they were Cam and Lilly--happily married, totally in love with each other, parents of a beautiful family, and partners in life. Then, after decades of marriage, it ended as every great love story does...in loss. After Cam's death, Lilly takes a lone road trip to her and Cam's favorite spot... (more)

Belong to Me: A Novel

by Marisa De los Santos

Everyone has secrets. Some we keep to protect ourselves, others we keep to protect those we love. A devoted city dweller, Cornelia Brown surprised no one more than herself when she was gripped by the sudden, inescapable desire to leave urban life behind and head for an idyllic suburb. Though she knows she and her beloved husband, Teo, have made the right move, she approaches her new life with trepidation and... (more)

Kate Holly Case: Book 1

What Looks Like Crazy

by Charlotte Hughes

She's had hit after hit with Janet Evanovich. Now this New York Times bestselling author begins a series that readers will go crazy for. Psychologist Kate Holly's own life has become the stuff of intensive therapy. She's divorcing her gorgeous firefighter husband, she has an eccentric secretary, her mother and aunt have erected a vaguely sexual sculpture in her front yard, and her psychiatrist... (more)

Wife Goes On

by Leslie Lehr

WIfe Goes On is the story of four women with nothing in common but divorce, who learn that it's more than enough to become friends - and spend one life-changing summer helping each other live happier ever after. Wife Goes On celebrates the second acts of today's women with humor, heartbreak, and hope. Husbands may come and go, but friends are forever.

The House on Fortune Street: A Novel

by Margot Livesey

It seems like mutual good luck for Abigail Taylor and Dara MacLeod when they meet at St. Andrews University and, despite their differences, become fast friends. Years later they remain an unlikely pair. Abigail, an actress who confidently uses her charms both on- and offstage, believes herself immune to love. Dara, a counselor, is convinced that everyone is inescapably marked by childhood; she throws herself into... (more)

Toss the Bride

by Jennifer Manske Fenske

Professional wedding planner Macie Fuller is having trouble saying -I do.+ White doves and wedding bells are all in a day+s work, as is the occasional difficult client. But when her wealthy boyfriend Avery proposes, Macie+s reaction shocks everyone. Will she become a monster in a white veil, she wonders? More importantly, how can she be herself in Avery+s purebred family? When Macie comes around, it+s not for the... (more)

Unpredictable

by Eileen Cook

Sophie isn't crazy, she just wants her guy back. And posing as a psychic to give his new girlfriend a fake reading designed to break them up isn't going overboard, is it? Don't answer that. Faking psychic powers turns out to be fun, especially after a few lessons from Nick, the cute skeptic, who teaches her all the tricks of the trade. But her readings do a lot more than she could have predicted. Now she must... (more)

Keep Your Mouth Shut and Wear Beige

by Kathleen Gilles Seidel

The best advice for the mother of the groom? Keep your mouth shut and wear beige! “It’s bad enough when two mothers plan an event as fraught as a wedding, but what happens when the ex-husband’s new girlfriend elbows her way in? Keep Your Mouth Shut and Wear Beige adds the mother of the groom to literature’s rich collection of long-suffering women. When Seidel’s heroine refuses to suffer in silence, the results... (more)

The Golden Unicorn

by Phyllis A. Whitney

Courtney had been the perfect adopted child. But around her neck hung a time bomb on a chain--a tiny gold unicorn that brought her face-to-face with the violent intrigues of the past--and the murderer her real mother had not escaped....

Nurses

by Marcia Rose

"A fast-paced, unabashedly soap-operatic tale of love and betrayal in a hectic Manhattan clinic." --Kirkus Reviews As director of New York's first and only nurse-run inner-city clinic, Marty Lamb wages the daily fight to keep the clinic running and makes the hard medical choices--about high-risk pregnancies, drug addicts with AIDS, premature babies--that come with serving a poor community. But Marty's problems... (more)

MoonPies and Movie Stars

by Amy Wallen

A laugh-out-loud romp across America pits a feisty Texas momma against the Hollywood machine Ruby Kincaid is busy these days—running her late husband’s bowling alley, wrangling her pistol of a sister, and chasing after the two grandchildren her daughter abandoned. When she sees her runaway daughter Violet starring in a TV commercial, there’s only one choice and Ruby knows it—Hollywood or bust. Ruby... (more)

Pieces of My Sister's Life

by Elizabeth Joy Arnold

Beautiful, heartbreaking and insightful, this captivating debut novel explores the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood in a story that will resonate with readers of Judy Blume's Summer Sister , Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper and Elisabeth Robinson's The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters . In Pieces of My Sister's Life , Elizabeth Joy Arnold paints a wise and sensitive portrait of... (more)

The Richest Season

by Maryann McFadden

"In Maryann McFadden's brave and carefully made novel, The Richest Season , two women set out on open-ended odysseys, one to find her life, one to find meaning in her death. Lonely Joanna gives up all she knows for a single chance at all she needs. When they meet, Grace relinquishes her aloof solitude to embrace life at its end, banking on the borrowed courage of a stranger. McFadden is out of the gate and on her... (more)

Betty Sweet Tells All

by Judith Minthorn Stacy

Scandal has rocked the small Southern town of Poplar Grove, and it all seems to be about Betty Sweet's daughter, Maggie. She's gone and left her husband of nineteen years and taken a job in the local beauty shop...and she's reconnected with her old high school sweetheart! No one is more shocked by Maggie's behavior than her tight-knit Southern family. Her twin seventeen-year-old daughters are mortified, and her... (more)

Lost Highways

by Curtiss Ann Matlock

As her mother always said, nothing happens by coincidence . . . Meet Rainey Valentine: thirty-five, twice divorced, a woman with broken dreams but irrepressible hope. When her mother dies, she inherits a truck, an old barrel-racing mare named Lulu and a lifetime supply of Mary Kay cosmetics. So taking a page from her mother's life, Rainey packs it all up and heads off, leaving Valentine, Oklahoma, in her... (more)

The Frog Prince (Chp Fairy Tale Series)

by Jane Porter

Holly Bishop is the proverbial, small-town good girl. She always follows the rules, thinks of others first, and she never, ever makes mistakes. Until she marries the man she thought was her Prince Charming, who confesses on their honeymoon that he’s not sexually attracted to her. Now, 14 months later, Holly’s marriage is in the toilet, along with her self-esteem. Determined to start over, she moves to San... (more)

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by Marcia Rose

by Megan Hart

by Leslie LaFoy

by Joanna Trollope

by Ann Rivers Siddons

by Marisa De los Santos

by Charlotte Hughes

by Leslie Lehr

by Margot Livesey

by Jennifer Manske Fenske

by Eileen Cook

by Kathleen Gilles Seidel

by Phyllis A. Whitney

by Marcia Rose

by Amy Wallen

by Elizabeth Joy Arnold

by Maryann McFadden

by Judith Minthorn Stacy

by Curtiss Ann Matlock

by Jane Porter