Sad Drama

Plus One – A Fake Dating, Opposites-Attract Romance 💖 One night. One deal. One unexpected love story. 💖 Gerald Harrison doesn’t do relationships. As a sharp, no-nonsense businessman, his focus is on securing a major investment—and to impress his potential partners, he needs a polished, sophisticated date by his side. Asia Gates is bold, confident, and completely uninterested in playing the role of anyone’s arm candy. But when her sister’s injury leaves an unexpected job opening for a pretend girlfriend, Asia steps in, thinking it’s just easy money and one awkward evening. ...

Addie Royal never wanted power. Running a homeless shelter was her calling—until Ashton Rutherford proposed and swept her into the ruthless world of political Christianity. Under the tutelage of Ashton's mother Eva, a woman who built a dynasty from nothing, Addie learns to weaponize compassion, silence opposition, and justify wickedness in God's name. Ten years later, the empire begins to crack. Someone has been playing a long game, learning Eva's tactics and turning them into weapons. As the carefully constructed facade crumbles, three women—the architect, the apprentice, and the ...

“Clever, light and as welcoming as an ocean breeze” (People), James Patterson “dazzles” (Publishers Weekly) with his classic romantic mystery, Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas, now celebrating twenty-five years with a beautiful new anniversary edition. A powerfully moving novel of love...

Read by the author, Adam Kay. The multi-million copy bestseller Book of the Year at The National Book Awards ‘Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry Welcome to the life of a junior doctor...

She preached "radical honesty." She promised she would never hurt him. Then she destroyed him without making a sound. Ethan thought he had the perfect relationship. He and Sophie were an institution—bonded by intellectual debates, Sunday morning rituals, and a chemistry that felt electric. Sophie wasn't just his girlfriend; she was his moral compass. She spoke eloquently about "emotional hygiene," boundaries, and the cruelty of betrayal. She swore that if the end ever came, it would be clean. She lied. It starts with a "pause." A request for space. A claim of an existential crisis. Ethan,...

He traded nineteen years for a season. She traded her grief for a balance sheet. I used to believe that nineteen years made a marriage indestructible. I believed that endurance was the highest form of love. I was the anchor. I was the fixer. I was the devoted wife who managed the home, the finances, and the ego of a husband terrified of getting older. I was wrong. It started with a gym membership. Then came the mood swings. The aggression. The cold, dead look in his eyes when he told me I was suffocating him. He called it a mid-life crisis. He blamed it on the stress. He blamed it on the "...

I thought we were unshakable. I was wrong. Ethan and Chloe were the couple everyone envied. High school sweethearts, best friends, soulmates. They had a five-year plan, a shared apartment in Philadelphia, and a love that felt like concrete—solid, permanent, safe. Then came the internship in Los Angeles. It was supposed to be three months. Just one summer of long-distance to support Chloe’s screenwriting dream. But three thousand miles is a long way for a rubber band to stretch before it snaps. It started with missed calls. Then came the gaslighting. The accusations that Ethan was "...

Centuries ago Thomas Dyersen left behind the information needed to find Sanctuary…the safe refuge where he once took his family…Now hundreds of years later another Dyersen is in great need of the information that Thomas Dyersen left behind. In the twentieth century the danger is not from someone close as what his ancestor faced…but an unknown threat…still unnamed but dangerous to all he loves. Fury of the Storm continues the ongoing story of family, friends, and strangers who come together at a time when the unknown is their greatest enemy…and their hidden sanctuary is their ...

“A wise, mild and enviably lucid book about a chaotic scene.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times “Memoirs of fatherhood are rarely so honest or so blunt.” —Daniel Engber, The Atlantic “An instant classic.” —M. C. Mah, Romper NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 BY LIT HUB &...

It was all so unexpected. And now, she needs to fight the greatest battle of her life. Shirley is preoccupied with her non-stop daily routine: her demanding job at a law firm, raising her 18-month son and maintaining her loving relationship with her husband... Shirley’s busy life is turned upside down when her mother, who lives in Australia, comes over to visit and receives painful news – she has cancer. This terrible discovery is just the tip of the iceberg for Shirley, with many more struggles ahead, that she must face. Against all odds, and despite the challenges in her path, she ...

Four of the short stories in this collection (The Sad Picnic, Cats, At the Club, Saying Goodbye) were written over the last decade and appeared online on obscure websites. They are joined by nine new stories written for this anthology. “Where did do you get the ideas for stories?” That’s a question I get all the time. My stock answer is this: From everyone I meet, even you who has just asked me that question. Though unsatisfactory for some, that is the truth of the matter. Writers take what they see and hear and fashion it to create a stylized version of life. It’s as if when ...

I used to believe that if something didn’t break loudly, it didn’t count as broken. That belief kept me married to a coward longer than it should have. We were the perfect couple. The renovated house, the successful careers, the beautiful son. But underneath the surface, we were rotting. While I was drowning in the invisible labor of keeping our lives afloat—managing a budget crisis, a toddler with night terrors, and a sister fighting addiction—Mark was feeling neglected. He didn’t ask for a divorce. He didn’t scream. He simply found someone else to make him feel like a King. ...

Nightfall is when my body turns against me. To the outside world, Michael Vane is the perfect husband. A wealthy architect. A protector. An anchor. To his wife, Stacy, he is the man who saved her from a storm five years ago and promised to be her shelter. But shelter can quickly turn into a prison. It starts with a scent. A missed text. A coldness in the bed that no amount of heating can fix. When Stacy discovers the truth—a digital trail of infidelity on an iPad left behind by mistake—her reality shatters. She finds messages where he mocks her pain. She sees photos of him draping her ...

I learned the sound of abandonment before I learned his real name. To the world, Caleb Jackson is a visionary brand strategist. To me, he was the man who bought me first editions, held me when I cried, and promised me a future by the sea. He told me our love was "complicated" because it was deep. He told me my anxiety was "intensity" that I needed to manage. For three years, I molded myself to fit the space he left for me. I swallowed my needs. I apologized for his silence. Then he went to Italy for a six-week "reset." While I was home caring for my dying father, Caleb was rewriting reality...

"Stunningly performed by narrators Dion Graham and January LaVoy...together, they capture the propulsive motion and ominous atmosphere of this compelling story."- AudioFile Magazine (Earphones Award Winner) In this gripping and atmospheric reimagining of Antigone, #1 New York Times bestselling...

This final chapter in Daniel Woolrell's Ozark trilogy peels the lid back on a dysfunctional Missouri family as infidelity threatens to consume their world in violence and terror. Shug Akins is a lonely, overweight thirteen-year-old boy. His mother, Glenda, is the one person who loves him—she...

Molly Chapman, a mother of three, finds her once-loving marriage falling apart. Struggling with her mental health and neurodivergence, she seeks support from her psychiatrist. To escape her troubled home life, Molly walks her puppy along the beach, where she encounters a handsome stranger. One night, after another fight with her husband, Molly contemplates taking her own life but falls from the sea wall under mysterious circumstances. Injured and in a coma, Molly wakes up with no memory of her life and a stranger by her bedside. As Molly questions her new reality, will she uncover the truth...

Two girls go missing, decades apart. What would you do if one was your daughter? When eight-year-old Grace goes missing from a sweetshop on the way home from school, her mother Emma is plunged into a nightmare. Her family rallies around, but as the police hunt begins, cracks begin to emerge...

In the breathtaking waters of the Pacific Northwest, a sweeping love story unfolds—one that spans generations, and where saving the last wild orcas could mean saving themselves. Perfect for fans of Where the Crawdads Sing and Water for Elephants–this deeply atmospheric romance explores the lengths we go to for love and proves that some things are worth saving at any cost. Kassidy Karlson—a social media powerhouse—is fed up with throwaway trends and longs to turn her fame into something meaningful. But when a career-shattering mistake forces her to retreat from the spotlight, she ...

He was a prisoner of time. She was running out of it.Charlotte Pemberton has exactly ninety days to survive Blackwood Manor. Bankrupt, evicted, and exhausted from a lifetime of playing the perfect, agreeable daughter to a hyper-critical family, the decaying Cornish estate is her absolute last refuge.But she isn’t alone.The manor is occupied by an invisible, devastatingly powerful presence that wants her gone. Weaponizing the freezing drafts and shadows of the house, the entity expects her to run. Instead, Charlotte is simply too tired to be haunted. Stripped of her need to perform, she ...