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Austin is a distinguished Bostonian with a WASP pedigree, an unbeatable squash game, and a frightening secret. After he meets up with his old flame Ruth, they begin a comic and painful voyage of self-discovery.

She wakes up on her birthday to an empty house. No card. No message. No flowers. Just his coffee mug in the sink and the echo of a door that closed before she opened her eyes. Nina calls him at ten. He answers distracted — voices in the background, papers shuffling. He doesn't mention the date. She doesn't remind him. She waits until dinner. Nothing. So she packs a weekend bag. Drives to a hotel fifteen minutes away. Turns off her phone. And sits in a silence she chose — instead of the one she'd been living inside for years. When Ian comes home to a dark house, he panics. Not because he...

A disgraced food critic on the run. A grumpy bear shifter diner cook with trust issues. One small town that absolutely does not want a professional opinion. After a viral meltdown torpedoes her career, Daisy Delsio flees Manhattan for the remote mountain town of Bear Hollow. She wants anonymity, comfort food, and zero judgment. Instead, she finds meatloaf so good it threatens her professional standards… and a broad-shouldered diner cook who looks at her like she personally insulted his skillet. Hank Thomas likes his kitchen controlled, predictable, and critic-free. Bear Hollow survives by...

Five words. That's all it takes to crack open a marriage Jenna thought was solid. A woman approaches their table at a work dinner — warm, familiar, beautiful — and says: "You must be the new wife." She laughs like it's a compliment. Nate goes pale. Jenna didn't know there was an old wife. Not a brief thing. Not a youthful mistake. Three years. A real marriage. A woman his parents still invite to dinner. A woman his brother still talks to. A woman everyone in Nate's life apparently knew about — except the woman he married next. He didn't cheat. He didn't overlap. But he erased someone....

She stepped into the hallway to find the restroom. She found her husband on the phone instead. "She doesn't know. And she doesn't need to. I'll handle it when the time is right." Rachel went back to the table. Finished her wine. Laughed at the right moments. Smiled when Grant caught her eye across the room. Then she went home and started looking. What she found wasn't another woman. It was worse — in a different way. Months of emails. Contract drafts. A folder on his laptop labeled London Housing with school listings for their children. In a city she's never been to. For a move he never ...

Her father died. Her husband sent flowers. And arrived late. Not hours late — late enough that Grace stood at the graveside with her mother and her brother and no one asked where Graham was. They already knew. He always had somewhere more important to be. She buried her father beside people who showed up. Then she stopped. She stopped managing Graham's schedule. Stopped reminding him about the kids' games and her mother's appointments. Stopped smoothing the space between his absence and their family's needs. Stopped being the woman who held everything together so no one had to notice he ...

He never raised his voice. He never stayed out late. He never gave her a reason to check. But Claire checked. $3,200 a month. Every month. For years. Sent to a woman she has never heard of. Every time he said we can't afford that — every sacrifice she made, every vacation they skipped, every couch she sat on because replacing it wasn't in the budget — all of it was built on a number he controlled and a truth he kept locked away. She doesn't scream. She doesn't cry. She stops. She stops managing his calendar. Stops packing lunches. Stops smoothing the silence between him and their ...

His phone was on the counter. The screen lit up while she was making dinner. One text. His sister's name. One sentence: "She's not going anywhere. Stop worrying and focus on the deal." Justin didn't correct her. Didn't push back. Didn't defend his wife or their marriage. He read it and kept working. Simone wasn't snooping. She was chopping onions. And in six seconds, she understood something about her marriage that had taken twelve years to see: his entire family had built a strategy around her patience. She was the one who stayed. The one who adjusted. The one who showed up to every Sunday...

When the Dickenson clan sits down for Thanksgiving dinner in 2016, it is the last holiday where their tight-knit family will ever be the same. Oldest brother Pete and his wife are expecting their first child. Youngest sibling Sophie is too busy running her restaurant. The Little Plum, to bother with any kind of social life. And middle child Charlie’s happy, uncomplicated life as a midwestern science professor is upended when his wife Annette is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Knowing this will be her last Thanksgiving, Annette asks Sophie to look after Charlie after she’s gone.

“I’m always eager to dive into a good story about sisters—and that’s exactly what this book is! If you like heartfelt stories, you’ll devour 15 Summers Later!”—Brenda Novak, New York Times bestselling author 15 summers ago, everything changed… Ava Howell seemed to have it all...

What if you could go back—not to fix your life, but to fight for the love you walked away from? On Valentine’s Day, Maggie Shaw is fifty years old, successful, and alone. Twenty-seven years ago, she made the safe choice. She left a man who loved her. And spent a lifetime wondering what might have been. Then she wakes up in 1987. The music is loud. The coffee is terrible. Phones have cords, and when they ring, you answer without knowing who’s on the other end. Maggie is twenty-three again, living in a world of mixtapes, newspaper deadlines, shoulder pads, and waiting by the phone. And ...

After the loss of her husband a year ago, Grace Evans can’t continue with her career or her life in the city any longer. Lost emotionally, she sells her law practice and decides to spend her summer among the sandy beaches of Florida, taking care of an old inn in Naples Beach with her childhood friend Susan Willows. Maybe the lush palm trees and sun-drenched days filled with sand between her toes will help her find direction again. What she doesn’t expect to find is a secret tucked away in an old hidden locket that will change her life forever. And making things more complicated is local...

Azra's husband cheated, and there's not much to fight for in the divorce. At 37, she's terrified of being poor and having to start all over again. Sampson is friends with her husband's son, and worships the ground she walks on, or at least the feet she walks on it with. He's also the son of the richest man in town, and wealthy in his own right from his allowance alone. When he finds out that she's single, he isn't shy about letting her know he's interested. She's not used to feeling so desired, and finds his attention intoxicating despite their age gap. She decides to humor him, and see ...

Maren is seven months pregnant when she finds the box in the attic. He told her it was old work files. She opened it looking for tax documents. Inside: photographs. Her husband holding a baby. A child she has never seen. A child who looks exactly like him. There's no secret family. No double life. No ongoing relationship. The truth is simpler and somehow worse — before they met, Caleb got someone pregnant. The mother asked him to stay away. He did. And he never told Maren. Not when they started dating. Not when they got engaged. Not when she handed him the positive test and watched his ...

When a woman is prized first and foremost for her looks, what does she have left to offer when the world decides those looks are fading? Marigold Pim, once the darling of the modeling world, graced the covers of nearly every prestigious fashion magazine on the planet. Her beauty made her the epitome of glamour as a young woman—and also led her straight into the arms of Cobb Hartley, the famous-but-troubled British rockstar. They raised a son together and endured two decades of a complicated marriage, but now they’re happily divorced and living their lives on different continents. For ...

Her fantasy is coming true – but can she trust it? Ever since Barb’s friend Vanessa got into a committed relationship with two men, she’s been fantasizing about what it would be like to have two people focused on her and giving her pleasure. But when she meets best friends Aaron and Carter at a nightclub, it seems too good to be true. These hot younger guys can’t possibly be interested in her, right? But they keep coming around, chipping away at her resistance until she starts to believe that maybe she’s finally found the two guys who can give her the happily ever after she’s ...

Saving My Enemy is the touching true story of two soldiers on opposite sides of WWII whose unlikely friendship, forged in their 80s, dissolves six decades of guilt and shame that had pushed both men to despair.

When Mike signs up for sperm donation at an unorthodox fertility clinic, he has no idea what he has gotten himself into. The nineteen-year-old college student desperately needs money after his father cuts him off. With only a part-time job at a gym that doesn't pay enough, Mike feels like he has no other options and would rather struggle financially than let his father control his life. Donating sperm has never been appealing to Mike, but he’s willing to give it a try. However, when he meets the clinic’s owner Dr. Martha Smith, a fiery and sexy brunette passionate about her work, he ...

A President dies under mysterious circumstances, leaving a secret mistress and their twelve-year-old son…and also a loyal First Lady who has no idea what went wrong with their marriage. Forty-nine-year old widow Ruby Hudson, the former First Lady of the United States, needs a fresh start. As she mourns the loss of her husband, she turns her love of books into a whole new career, opening a little bookshop on a charming, pirate-themed island called Shipwreck Key just off the coast of the Florida Panhandle. Her two daughters think she’s crazy, but Ruby can finally breathe again knowing ...

When Mike signs up for sperm donation at an unorthodox fertility clinic, he has no idea what he has gotten himself in to. The nineteen-year-old college student desperately needs money after his father cuts him off. With only a part-time job at a gym that doesn't pay enough, Mike feels like he has no other options and would rather struggle financially than let his father control his life. Donating sperms has never been appealing to Mike, but he’s willing to give it a try. However, when he meets the clinic’s owner Dr. Martha Smith, a fiery and sexy brunette passionate about her work, he ...