Small Town & Rural

Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival....

After a wild bet, gourmet grilled-cheese sandwich, and cuddle with a baby goat, Alexis Montgomery has had her world turned upside down. The cause: Daniel Grant, a ridiculously hot carpenter who’s ten years younger than her and as casual as they come....

Knox lives alone, and he likes it that way. Unfortunately, runaway bride Naomi is about to have her life implode on his doorstep.

Grace Evans, an overworked New Yorker looking for a total escape from her busy life, books an Airbnb on a ranch in the middle of Wyoming. When she arrives at the idyllic getaway, she’s pleased to find that the owner is a handsome man by the name of Calvin Wells....

Set amid Colorado’s wild beauty, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story of a resilient young woman whose life is changed forever by one chance encounter....

The year 1996 was the one that changed everything for Maggie Dawes. Sent away at 16 to live with an aunt she barely knew in Ocracoke, a remote village on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, she could think only of the friends and family she left behind - until she met Bryce Trickett....

Hear this history-making serial novel - from cliffhanger to cliffhanger - in its entirety. When it first appeared, one volume per month...

Leland Gaunt opens a new shop in Castle Rock called Needful Things. Anyone who enters his store finds the object of his or her lifelong dreams and desires....

A Black sheriff. A serial killer. A small town ready to combust....

People say Beartown is finished. A tiny community nestled deep in the forest, it is slowly losing ground to the ever encroaching trees. But down by the lake stands an old ice rink....

Summer Sullivan, the youngest founding member of Elm Creek Quilts, has spent the last two years pursuing a master’s degree in history at the University of Chicago. Her unexpected return home to the celebrated quilter’s retreat is met with delight but also concern....

The beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author brings her Nantucket novels to a brilliant finish: when rich strangers move to the island, social mayhem and a possible murder follow....

In the highly-anticipated sequel to the national best seller The Life We Bury, Joe Talbert returns to investigate the murder of the father he never knew, and to reckon with his own family's past....

Revisit the packhorse librarians of Kentucky with this stunning companion to the New York Times best seller The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek....

Celebrating its 75th anniversary, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men remains one of America's most widely read and beloved novels. Here is Steinbeck’s dramatic adaptation of his novel-as-play, which received the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play in 1937-1938....

He proposed . . . and I said yes. Normally a jovial occasion for a couple in love, but this proposal has a very different feel. Because the man that I'll be calling my husband blew into town with one thing on his mind . . . to make my life a living nightmare....

From bestselling author Kelly Irvin, the compelling Every Amish Season novels are now available in one audiobook collection....

The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything - everything except books, that is. Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter. She's also the last of her kind, her skin a shade of blue unlike most anyone else....

Maggie is 36, recently divorced and embarrassingly unemployed. With a bank account nearing zero, she does the only thing she can think of: make a business proposition to her gorgeous and successful estranged mother. To Maggie’s utter surprise, her mother agrees....

A bold, heartfelt tale of life at Green Gables...before Anne: A marvelously entertaining and moving historical novel, set in rural Prince Edward Island in the 19th century, that imagines the young life of spinster Marilla Cuthbert....

Sasha Whiskey is done being the good girl. She's ready to wrangle in the one man not looking to be caught and give him a taste of Whiskey. With any luck, one taste wont be nearly enough. Come along for the steamy, emotional ride in this forbidden single-father, friends-to-lovers, workplace romance.

Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step....

When life took an unexpected turn, I decided to get out of New York for a while. What better place to go than the idyllic small town my father spoke about so fondly when I was growing up? Laurel Lake held the title America’s Friendliest Town for seventeen years running....

In the romantic tradition of Dear John, an injured Navy doctor meets two extremely important women whose secrets will change the course of his life in this number one New York Times best seller....

The scent of flowers and change is in the air for the Wingate sisters. With her husband gone for weeks at a stretch, Rose's unwavering enthusiasm is tested, forcing her to remove her famous rose-colored glasses and face a family crisis....

Tattooed and troubled are not the top qualities I am looking for in a man, but that is exactly what I found… Luke Whitmore, youngest of the billionaire Branson Brothers, is a troublemaker—just ask anyone in this small town. When an injured horse forces us together, we butt heads right away. But soon, his unexpected sweet side reels me in. The way he cares for the horse; I can’t help imagining him caring for me and my baby the same way. But Luke has a seedy past and his friends from that life won’t let him forget it. Can I have that kind of man around me and my baby? Can he leave his...

Rabbi Heidi Gold is ready to bless her best friend's big day and, at the same time, duck her mother's match-making missiles. But the she looks across the room and sees heaven personified in a handsome stranger. Pastor Sam White, dedicated heart and soul to his calling, never imagined his faith being tested by a stunning Rabbi. Yet, there's Heidi, making him wonder if perhaps there's room for one more in his heart.

Taylor Hunt is all in for the Army life, craving adventure and eager to prove herself. But Anchorage? It's hardly the adrenaline-charged backdrop she had in mind. Enter Noah Rockwell. He's the epitome of laid-back, content with his retail job, quality time with his cat, and his uncomplicated single life.

Josephine Hannah, Hollywood's sparkling gem, might dazzle on screen, but off-camera? She's more tongue-tied damsel than daring diva, especially with those pesky paparazzi flashing in her face. Enter Dan Rockwell: not an action star, but a real-life, pulse-pounding firefighter-paramedic. His world doesn't have room for scripts - every day is a high-stakes improv scene. So, when a twist of fate (and an ankle) throws Josephine into Dan's dashing arms, both are left wondering if this unexpected pairing is the plot twist they've been waiting for.

Merry Noel is a busy woman with no time or patience to celebrate holidays. But when she's fired after going berserk at the office Christmas party, she goes back to Wisconsin to visit her mom for the first time in years.

Traveling nurse Bellamy Chase is only back in Eden's Ridge for the reading of her great aunt's will, then it's back to work in Savannah. The last thing she expects to find when she stops to assist at an accident scene is her globetrotting best friend who's been gone for years. Five years and thousands of miles haven't dimmed the attraction Graham Northrop feels for his best friend, and he's through running. That he made it in time to back her up against her hateful, money-grubbing family was just a bonus.

Raising a family was always Adam Mills’ dream, although solo parenting and moving back to tiny Garnet Run certainly were not. After a messy breakup, Adam is doing his best to give his young daughter the life she deserves. Even if this means accepting help from their new, reclusive, neighbour to fulfil her Christmas wish.

Two places I never thought I'd be: a church and my little brother's funeral. I was the one who was supposed to die first. Not Hayes. He hadn't chosen my path. I took lives but Hayes had wanted to save souls. Yet here I was drinking from a flask, around people that hated me, unable to take my eyes off the fiancé he'd left behind.

Call me Cy. I’m ten an’ live with Mama an’ Daddy on our farm outside o’ town. Don’t much happen around here, s’you probly ain’t never heard of it. I ain’t got no other family, but in 1921 I got me a friend who moved here. We b’came friends on account o’ us havin’ the same first name. They ain’t too many people name o’ Cyril. He was born on a plantation an’ when his mama an’ him was freed, they left. But he come back after his wife passed an’ he retired.

Sadie Barnhart, a tenacious dancer longing for the limelight of Broadway, discovers that sometimes, the path to success leads back to where it all began. When her beloved grandparents need her help, Sadie must return to her hometown of Fontana, Kansas. Guided by her unwavering determination and the memories of her late parents, she sets off on an adventure to save her family farm that will change her life forever.

Connie Mulligan, daughter of a fourth-generation Tasmanian dairy farmer, feels like she doesn't belong–anywhere. She's got big dreams and big ideas, but she made a mess of her university degree and has been sent home in disgrace. The man who was responsible for her failure won't get out of her nightmares, her father won't listen to any of her ideas on how to make environmentally positive changes to the way the dairy farm is being run, her mom thinks she should go on anti-depressants, and she keeps having what her psychologist calls 'episodes'.

In the aftermath of devastating bushfires that destroyed the property where she grew up, Eve Nicholls finds herself grappling with the smouldering ruins of her life. It might be possible to rebuild a house, but what about her dream of renewing friendships and becoming part of her home-town community of Yarrabee? Haunted by loss, Eve discovers a glimmer of hope when she learns that new life is growing within her – a fragile and unexpected beacon of renewal, and an added complication in her blossoming relationship with the local vet, Hugh.

Connie Mulligan, daughter of a fourth-generation Tasmanian dairy farmer, feels like she doesn't belong–anywhere. She's got big dreams and big ideas, but she made a mess of her university degree and has been sent home in disgrace. The man who was responsible for her failure won't get out of her nightmares, her father won't listen to any of her ideas on how to make environmentally positive changes to the way the dairy farm is being run, her mom thinks she should go on anti-depressants, and she keeps having what her psychologist calls 'episodes'.

After losing her family in a tragic fire when she was a child, Amelia Price has battled to put the shattered pieces of her life back together. Even so, she's never felt like she belongs anywhere, and she longs for stability and love. When a mysterious letter turns up at her apartment with hints that she'll uncover the truth behind what happened all those years ago if she goes to the sleepy, picturesque town of Riverside, she sets off on a journey to tropical Far North Queensland.

After losing her family in a tragic fire when she was a child, Amelia Price has battled to put the shattered pieces of her life back together. Even so, she's never felt like she belongs anywhere, and she longs for stability and love. When a mysterious letter turns up at her apartment with hints that she'll uncover the truth behind what happened all those years ago if she goes to the sleepy, picturesque town of Riverside, she sets off on a journey to tropical Far North Queensland.