Fiction Relationships

This program includes extra audio-only material, including duet recordings of the podcast episodes, light sound design, tip-line recordings from guest narrators (including the author), and a bonus podcast episode! "Both a riveting mystery and a love story, This Story Might Save Your Life is one...

Nobody Has To Know, Frank Nappi's dark and daring new thriller, tells the story of Cameron Baldridge, a popular high school teacher whose relationship with one of his students leads him down an unfortunate and self-destructive path. Stalked through text-messages, Baldridge fights for his life against a terrifying extortion plot and the forces that threaten to expose him. NHTK is a sobering look into a world of secrets, lies, and shocking revelations, and will leave the reader wondering many things, including whether or not you can ever really know the person you love.

Everyone is a stranger at some point, right? Pulled by an explicable, undeniable thread of...something...Nick and Noah find themselves keen on becoming more. Hashtags and flights, and late-night text sessions lead to a connection neither has experienced, or expected. Beyond the shiny veneer of social media, further than the shallow depths of a good selfie, down to the real, for real stuff that relationships are made of...Can Nick and Noah actually reach their prematurely awarded goal?

Morgan is determined to prevent her daughter from making the same mistakes she did. By getting pregnant and married way too young, Morgan put her own dreams on hold. Clara doesn’t want to follow in her mother’s footsteps. Her predictable mother doesn’t have a spontaneous bone in her body.

Honest stories about friendship, pressure, and figuring yourself out without pretending. Growing up is messy, emotional, and confusing, especially when it feels like everyone else has it figured out. This collection of short stories meets girls right where they are, in the middle of friendship drama, quiet insecurity, overthinking, and small moments that feel huge. Not Another Cheesy Teen Book — Realistic, emotionally honest stories that feel true to life.

For listeners of Colm Tóibín and Claire Keegan, Saoirse is a powerful novel set between the United States and Ireland about a woman who runs from her traumatic past and the secrets she carries to survive. Saoirse features light musical sound design. In Michigan, Sarah’s childhood was defined...

South Pole. Two dudes. One cabin. Coming to the south pole to record leopard seal mating calls for my research is my dream come true. But the last person I expect to be assigned as my diver is Grant, the confident high school basketball captain from my biology class. This is my once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, after five years of painstaking research, to finally record these elusive animals and win that rising young scientist award I've been chasing. But sharing body heat with Grant in this frigid weather and being cooped up in a cabin with just one bed is making me question my whole life. ...

Behind every perfect life lies a storm waiting to break. Mark, Austin, and Quincey look like they have it all—successful careers, loving wives, and friendships that have stood the test of time. But beneath the surface, infidelity, unemployment, and buried traumas are tearing them apart. Mark is a once-proud provider now out of work, desperate to prove his worth. His wife, Terri is exhausted from the struggle of life and starved for affection. Until she's drawn back to her former college professor, a man who offers the attention she craves—but at a cost that could shatter her family ...

For fans of Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Miranda July comes a whip-smart, irresistible novel about a college senior who has 48 hours to sell her recently deceased mother's surprise stash of rare pills, or suffer the consequences. Arvy Keening is just trying to get through the week. Tantalizingly...

When obedience costs everything, will faith still be enough? Lailah Moore thought the hardest part was over. The divorce filed, the café thriving, the second chance finally within reach. But when her ex-husband contests the settlement and his pregnant fiancée sets her sights on the café, everything she’s built teeters on the edge of collapse. While rumors swirl and one-star reviews flood in, Lailah refuses to close her doors. The Sunset Café has become holy ground, a refuge for women like Alyssa, a young wife running from control and fear; Chanel, the fierce friend who keeps laughter ...

A kidnapper’s twisted game is on. And a trusty K-9 won’t let him succeed. Years after being abducted, Mckenna Parker’s worst nightmare has come true—her kidnapper is out on parole. And he’s after her again. Now an FBI victim specialist, she and her crisis canine, Mocha, have been...

Three bays. Eighteen books. Endless stories of faith and love. Step into Everlee’s Bay Romance Mega Box Set—a captivating collection that combines the complete Chalet on Barco Bay, Queensboro Bay, and Vineyard at East Bay series. Each story is set against the stunning backdrops of Michigan’s most picturesque bays, blending faith, romance, and community into one unforgettable reading experience. • At Barco Bay, a coastal volunteer community proves that serving others leads to healing, friendship, and love. • At Queensboro Bay, a family struggles to restore a crumbling inn into a ...

Tristan has known that he and his family were going to be on the first mission to colonize Mars since he was 12 years old, and he has been training ever since. But knowing that he would be leaving for Mars with no plan to return didn't stop him from falling in love with Izzy. Now, at age 16, it's time to leave Earth, and he's forced to face what he must leave behind in exchange for an uncertain future. Then the news hits that another ship is already headed to colonize Mars, and the Neo-Luddite terrorist group begins threatening the Mars One project.

Thanks so much for reading my book! A brand-new, expanded edition is now available. Characters Jasmine and Eric are the old version. If your Kindle is still showing the old version, don’t worry — Amazon is in the process of rolling out the update. To make sure you get the latest edition, please check that Automatic Book Updates are turned on in your Kindle settings, or try deleting and re-downloading the book from your library. The paperback and audiobook already reflect the new version, and the ebook will catch up very soon. Re-Release Kenya Lewis thought she had her forever already ...

In the wake of the tragedy, 17-year-old Franny found solace in a group of friends whose experiences mirrored her own. The group calls themselves The Ordinary, and they spend their free time investigating local ghost stories and legends, filming their exploits. It's silly, it's fun, and it keeps them from dwelling on the sadness that surrounds them. Until one evening, when the strange and dangerous thing they film isn't fiction - it's a bright light, something massive hurtling toward them from the sky. And when it crashes and the teens go to investigate...everything changes.

Blair ruined my life once. Now she's about to ruin me in an entirely different way. Blair Fox. The name that's been seared into my memory since the day her stick caught my knee and ended my athletic ambitions. The scar on my thigh is a permanent reminder of everything I lost, thanks to her. Now she's here. In my law firm. Looking at me like she wants to either argue with me or devour me—and I can't tell which one terrifies me more. We're enemies. Rivals. We can't be in the same room without the air crackling between us. So how the hell did we end up tangled together in a New Orleans hotel...

Something is happening to Morgan that she doesn’t understand. She sees things, feels things in a new way. She can do things normal people can’t do. Powerful things. Magical things. And it scares her. She never chose to learn witchcraft, but she’s starting to wonder if witchcraft is choosing her.

Olive Moore has been avoiding her hometown for three years now. But a phone call with her mom has her agreeing to spend the holidays back home with her family, she lets it slip she will be bringing a boyfriend with her. The only problem with that is she has no boyfriend. That is until she meets a handsome—albeit annoying—stranger on the plane who makes her an offer she can't refuse.

Sideways is the story of two friends, Miles and Jack, going away together for the last time to steep themselves in everything that makes it good to be young and single: pinot, putting, and prowling bars. In the week before Jack plans to marry, the pair heads out from Los Angeles to the Santa Ynez wine country.

From USA Today Bestselling Author Bette Lee Crosby comes a powerful southern saga based on a true story… Betrayal and secrets tore her family apart decades ago, now a lonely widow must search for the pieces of her broken childhood. WHEN I LAST SAW YOU Georgia, 1968 - Margaret Rose McCutcheon has just buried her husband and must now name a beneficiary for their estate in case of her demise. She is hard-pressed to do so because there is no one. No children. No family. At least none to speak of. At one time, she had two sisters and six brothers, but the lot of them were scattered to the four...