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Modern and Contemporary Romance

The 158-Pound Marriage
The darker vision and sexual ambiguities of this sensual, ironic tale about a ménage a quatre in a New England university town foreshadow those of The World According to Garp; but this very trim and precise novel is a marked departure from the author's generally robust, boisterous style. Though Mr....
The Battle of the Bookshops
The cute, seaside town of Portneath has been the home of Capelthorne’s Books for nearly a hundred years… The shop, in the heart of a high street that stretches crookedly down the hill from the castle to the sea, may be a tad run-down these days, but to Jules Capelthorne, the wonky, dusty world of...
Abby Offsides
Seeking a fresh start after leaving her cheating fiancé, Abby McIntyre makes a series of spontaneous decisions: She quits her job. She books a one-way flight to the UK. She even gets bangs! Newly arrived in Liverpool, she lands a job with the Mersey Football Club and meets Lachlan Ramsay, the...
The Best Worst Thing
All things considered, Nicole Speyer has a pretty amazing life. At least that’s what she tells herself. She’s got a beautiful house, a relatively successful fertility podcast, and a perfect husband, Gabe. The only thing that’s less than ideal is her years-long struggle with infertility—and how, with...
The Calhoun Way
The Calhouns are back in these two beloved stories by New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts. For the Love of Lilah While two of her sisters are set up with their own happily-ever-afters, laid-back Lilah Calhoun would rather focus on her connection to Great-Grandma Bianca and the heirloom...
Carnal Innocence
Burned out and still reeling from a love affair gone bad, world-class violinist Caroline Waverly goes to her grandparents’ home in Innocence, Mississippi, for some much-needed rest and relaxation. Instead she finds herself overwhelmed all over again—first by Tucker Longstreet, a charming local with...
Confess

Confess 2015

Auburn Reed's life is one meticulously constructed plan after another. But when she stumbles into Owen Gentry’s art studio, a chance encounter unravels a connection she cannot deny. Owen’s art, created from anonymous confessions, carries an eerie weight, its beauty laced with sorrow and truths too...
Counting the Days
At thirty-eight years old, Rhea Darby has never been more single in her life. With her best friends all married and having kids, her social calendar is filled with baby showers and birthday parties, petting zoos and bouncy castles. However, she’d much rather be having hot sex with "the one" and...
Courtroom Drama
Sydney Parks thinks she might be the first person in the world to look forward to serving jury duty. When Margot Kitsch, an OG cast member of the hit reality show *Authentic Moms of Malibu*, is arrested after the untimely death of her cast member husband, Joe, Sydney knows being selected for the...
Cover Story
Bel has just landed a job at the Manchester office of a big national newspaper, coming off the success of her latest award-winning podcast. The team is small, consisting of Bel, her ambitious colleague Aaron, and the new intern. But when the intern turns out to be a thirtysomething man called...
Delicacy

Delicacy 2012

After her husband’s unexpected death, Natalie has erected a fortress around her emotions; and Markus, clumsy and unassuming, will never be her knight in shining armor. Yet slowly but surely, an offbeat romance begins between these two mismatched, complex souls, and contrary to everything Natalie...
The E.M.M.A. Effect
Harriet Smythe’s AI was supposed to create sports legends—not encourage her crush on her best friend’s totally off-limits, hot younger brother. But when funding runs dry, she has no choice but to enlist Gale Knight as her test subject. The same Gale she’s been secretly crushing on for years. The...
The Goode Girls of Maple Lane
Cameron Goode is on the verge of giving up her dream of becoming a vet. Buried under debt and juggling two jobs with a full course load, she’s utterly overwhelmed. Then a local rescue organization reaches out about a neglected golden retriever in desperate need of help. The last thing Cameron needs...
Healing Hearts on Thistledown Lane
Maura has everything she ever wanted from life – a quirky cottage in Edinburgh’s picturesque Dean Village, a thriving career as a potter and a contented relationship with her childhood sweetheart, Jamie. Never mind that the cottage is damp, her pots aren’t selling and Jamie prefers a night down the...
Heart of the Sun
Amid the sun-drenched orange groves of California, childhood friends Tuck Mattice and Emily Swanson shared a bond that seemed unbreakable—until life ripped them apart. Thirteen years later, Emily is a rising pop sensation in need of security, and Tuck, a brooding ex-con, is in need of a fresh start....
The Honeycrisp Orchard Inn
Ellie Lawson’s city life was treating her just fine until a sour turn of events knocks her out in one fell swoop. Dumped by her boyfriend and fired from her event planning job, she is left with no choice but to return to her parents’ idyllic inn, nestled within a picturesque Honeycrisp orchard on...
Hopeless

Hopeless 2013

Would you rather know a truth that makes you feel hopeless, or keep believing the lies? Sky, a senior in high school, meets Dean Holder, a guy with a promiscuous reputation that rivals her own. From their very first encounter, he terrifies and captivates her. Something about him sparks memories of...
How to End a Love Story
Helen Zhang hasn’t seen Grant Shepard once in the thirteen years since the tragic accident that bound their lives together forever. Now a bestselling author, Helen pours everything into her career. She’s even scored a coveted spot in the writers’ room of the TV adaptation of her popular young adult...
How to Grieve Like a Victorian
It’s fine. She’s fine. Really. When life’s turned you into a big hot mess, there’s still love, laughs, and snark to be had… Dr. Lizzie Wells, professor of British literature and bestselling author, is not okay. She wasn’t consulted when her beloved husband died unexpectedly, so she’s going to grieve...
Incidents in the Rue Laugier
Maud Gonthier yearns for an escape from the cocoon of the bourgeois modesty. The splendid, caddish David Tyler appears to offer one. In this stylish, deeply knowing novel by the Booker Prize winning author of Hotel du Lac, Maud's seduction creates a chemistry of longing, sensuality, and...
It Ends With Us
It Ends With Us, Book 1
Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town where she grew up—she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. And when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named...
It Starts With Us
It Ends With Us, Book 2
Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil coparenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After nearly two years separated, she is elated that for once, time is on their side, and she immediately says yes when Atlas asks her on a date. But her...
Kindling

Kindling 2025

Scottish Spice, Book 1
A cozy autumnal retreat in the Scottish Highlands is the perfect escape for city girl, Harper… Until she is stranded in the forest with nowhere to stay. Fraser, a gruff local woodcutter, reluctantly offers her his lumberjack’s cabin on one condition—she mustn’t distract him from his duties. But...
Love Letters for Other People
When mathematician Aubrey MacLean’s career implodes, she has no choice but to return to her rural Indiana hometown, at least temporarily. But small towns have long memories, and so does she, especially when it comes to Nick Thacker, the boy who broke her heart. Nick’s life is routine: long shifts...
Love Wells Kept
Wells Ranch, Book 5
After an accident erases years of his memory, a man returns to his family's ranch in hopes of piecing back together the life and love he thought he had lost forever. He’s forgotten their love story. She’ll help him write a new one. Jackson and Kate have been happily married for over ten years and...
Maybe Not

Maybe Not 2015

Maybe Someday, Book 2
When Warren has the opportunity to live with a female roommate, he instantly agrees. It could be an exciting change. Or maybe not. Especially when that roommate is the cold and seemingly calculating Bridgette. Tensions run high and tempers flare as the two can hardly stand to be in the same room...
Maybe Now

Maybe Now 2022

Maybe Someday, Book 3
What is more important? Friendship, loyalty, or love? Ridge and Sydney are thrilled to finally be together guilt-free. But as the two of them navigate this freedom, Warren and Bridgette’s relationship is as tumultuous as ever, and Maggie grapples with her illness. When she comes across an old list...
Maybe Someday
Maybe Someday, Book 1
At twenty-two years old, Sydney is enjoying a great life: She’s in college, working a steady job, in love with her wonderful boyfriend, Hunter, and rooming with her best friend, Tori. But everything changes when she discovers that Hunter is cheating on her—and she’s forced to decide what her next...
Moonlight in Odessa
After graduating with an engineering degree and six months of job hunting, Daria Kirilenko finally finds a position that actually pays—a feat in post-perestroika Odessa, Ukraine, where government employees go to work, but don’t get paid; where taxi drivers earn more than doctors; where Odessans...
Amsterdam

Amsterdam 1999

On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence: Clive is Britain's most successful modern...
Nine Month Contract
Help Wanted: Grumpy mountain man seeks baby momma. Job is an incubator position only. Surrogate must be impervious to grunting as the form of communication and nosy brotherly neighbors. Rustic mountain range housing available upon request. I wanted to pummel my irritating brothers when they posted...
One Sweet Southern Summer
Blossom Branch, Book 2
Two lives spent searching. One summer to never forget. Life in Blossom Branch hasn’t always been sweet for Leah Marks. Growing up in the shadow of her overachieving siblings, the shy psychology grad has struggled to find her own place in the world. So when she inherits a long-forgotten summer camp,...
One True Loves
In her twenties, Emma Blair marries her high school sweetheart, Jesse. They build a life for themselves, far away from the expectations of their parents and the people of their hometown in Massachusetts. They travel the world together, living life to the fullest and seizing every opportunity for...
The Opportunist
When Olivia Kaspen spots her ex-boyfriend in a Miami record shop, she ignores good sense and approaches him. It’s been three years since their breakup, but when Caleb reveals he’s suffering from amnesia after a recent car accident, first she feels regret—and then opportunity. If he doesn’t...
Reminders of Him
After serving five years in prison for a tragic mistake, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite with her four-year-old daughter. But the bridges Kenna burned are proving impossible to rebuild. Everyone in her daughter’s life is determined to shut Kenna out, no...
Seatmate

Seatmate 2026

Love Lines, Book 3
Gwen has exactly 5 hours and 10 minutes to get from Boston to New York City or the professional opportunity of a lifetime disappears. Her only travel option? The second to last seat on a discount bus. Across from the bathroom. Wearing last night's clothes (don't ask). All worth it if she can make it...
Springtime Sunshine
Stretch out in the sun with two sweet stories of couples discovering that love has been right in front of them all along… Marriage of Inconvenience Rich Manning and Jamie Warren have always been friends—and nothing but friends. But that all changes when she asks him to father the child she so...
Sweet Stubborn Love
Nothing in Sydney Hayward’s background of wealth and privilege had prepared her to take the helm of her grandfather’s business. Her new responsibilities leave no time for complications. Sydney has learned the hard way that she can't trust anyone, but her tenant, Mikhail, is hard to resist....
Sweet Talk

Sweet Talk 2026

Love Lines, Book 2
A booty call gone wrong turns into the most amazing conversation ever. Now can she tell him who she really is? A charming romance from the bestselling author of Ready or Not and Promise Me Sunshine—first time in print in the US! It's officially booty o'clock and Jessie alone again in her kitchen...
Three Broken Promises
After a steamy kiss, two roommates must decide if they can overcome their stormy pasts to craft a future together—a heartfelt story of second chances, forgiveness, and redemption from the New York Times bestselling author of Lonely for Only You and A Million Kisses in Your Lifetime. “Filled with...
Ugly Love

Ugly Love 2014

When Tate Collins moves in with her brother, the last thing she expects is to collide with Miles Archer, a brooding pilot with an unrelenting grip on his past. Their attraction is electric, undeniable, and all-consuming—but Miles has rules. No questions. No future. A no-strings arrangement seems...
Under the Summer Sky
Weddings were Savannah Charles’s business and she was an expert on marital bliss, but she’d given little thought to her own day of joy. Until divorce attorney Dash Davenport offered a proposal that would benefit them both. Dash claimed he’d never be convinced “I do” could last forever. So when he...
A Walk Along the Beach
The Lakey sisters are perfect opposites. After their mother died and their father was lost in grief, Willa had no choice but to raise her sister, Harper, and their brother, Lucas. Then, as an adult, she put her own life on hold to nurse Harper through a terrifying illness. Now that Harper is...
A Witch in Notting Hill
When rising Hollywood actress and secret witch Willow James accidentally turns her manager into a cat while trying to escape her contract, she’s sure she’s hit her magical low point. Determined to fix her mistake, she journeys to London in search of a rare spell hidden within the famed occult...

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Healing Hearts on Thistledown Lane
Maura has everything she ever wanted from life – a quirky cottage in Edinburgh’s picturesque Dean Village, a thriving career as a potter and a contented relationship with her childhood sweetheart, Jamie. Never mind that the cottage is damp, her pots aren’t selling and Jamie prefers a night down the...
Moonlight in Odessa

Moonlight in Odessa December 1, 2026

After graduating with an engineering degree and six months of job hunting, Daria Kirilenko finally finds a position that actually pays—a feat in post-perestroika Odessa, Ukraine, where government employees go to work, but don’t get paid; where taxi drivers earn more than doctors; where Odessans...
Counting the Days

Counting the Days August 11, 2026

At thirty-eight years old, Rhea Darby has never been more single in her life. With her best friends all married and having kids, her social calendar is filled with baby showers and birthday parties, petting zoos and bouncy castles. However, she’d much rather be having hot sex with "the one" and...
A Witch in Notting Hill

A Witch in Notting Hill August 11, 2026

When rising Hollywood actress and secret witch Willow James accidentally turns her manager into a cat while trying to escape her contract, she’s sure she’s hit her magical low point. Determined to fix her mistake, she journeys to London in search of a rare spell hidden within the famed occult...
Sweet Talk

Sweet Talk July 14, 2026

Love Lines, Book 2
A booty call gone wrong turns into the most amazing conversation ever. Now can she tell him who she really is? A charming romance from the bestselling author of Ready or Not and Promise Me Sunshine—first time in print in the US! It's officially booty o'clock and Jessie alone again in her kitchen...
Seatmate

Seatmate July 14, 2026

Love Lines, Book 3
Gwen has exactly 5 hours and 10 minutes to get from Boston to New York City or the professional opportunity of a lifetime disappears. Her only travel option? The second to last seat on a discount bus. Across from the bathroom. Wearing last night's clothes (don't ask). All worth it if she can make it...
Love Wells Kept

Love Wells Kept July 7, 2026

Wells Ranch, Book 5
After an accident erases years of his memory, a man returns to his family's ranch in hopes of piecing back together the life and love he thought he had lost forever. He’s forgotten their love story. She’ll help him write a new one. Jackson and Kate have been happily married for over ten years and...
A Walk Along the Beach

A Walk Along the Beach June 30, 2026

The Lakey sisters are perfect opposites. After their mother died and their father was lost in grief, Willa had no choice but to raise her sister, Harper, and their brother, Lucas. Then, as an adult, she put her own life on hold to nurse Harper through a terrifying illness. Now that Harper is...
Abby Offsides

Abby Offsides June 23, 2026

Seeking a fresh start after leaving her cheating fiancé, Abby McIntyre makes a series of spontaneous decisions: She quits her job. She books a one-way flight to the UK. She even gets bangs! Newly arrived in Liverpool, she lands a job with the Mersey Football Club and meets Lachlan Ramsay, the...
Reminders of Him

Reminders of Him February 3, 2026

After serving five years in prison for a tragic mistake, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite with her four-year-old daughter. But the bridges Kenna burned are proving impossible to rebuild. Everyone in her daughter’s life is determined to shut Kenna out, no...
The Opportunist

The Opportunist December 16, 2025

When Olivia Kaspen spots her ex-boyfriend in a Miami record shop, she ignores good sense and approaches him. It’s been three years since their breakup, but when Caleb reveals he’s suffering from amnesia after a recent car accident, first she feels regret—and then opportunity. If he doesn’t...
Love Letters for Other People
When mathematician Aubrey MacLean’s career implodes, she has no choice but to return to her rural Indiana hometown, at least temporarily. But small towns have long memories, and so does she, especially when it comes to Nick Thacker, the boy who broke her heart. Nick’s life is routine: long shifts...
How to Grieve Like a Victorian
It’s fine. She’s fine. Really. When life’s turned you into a big hot mess, there’s still love, laughs, and snark to be had… Dr. Lizzie Wells, professor of British literature and bestselling author, is not okay. She wasn’t consulted when her beloved husband died unexpectedly, so she’s going to grieve...
The E.M.M.A. Effect

The E.M.M.A. Effect December 2, 2025

Harriet Smythe’s AI was supposed to create sports legends—not encourage her crush on her best friend’s totally off-limits, hot younger brother. But when funding runs dry, she has no choice but to enlist Gale Knight as her test subject. The same Gale she’s been secretly crushing on for years. The...
The Best Worst Thing

The Best Worst Thing October 14, 2025

All things considered, Nicole Speyer has a pretty amazing life. At least that’s what she tells herself. She’s got a beautiful house, a relatively successful fertility podcast, and a perfect husband, Gabe. The only thing that’s less than ideal is her years-long struggle with infertility—and how, with...
Cover Story

Cover Story October 7, 2025

Bel has just landed a job at the Manchester office of a big national newspaper, coming off the success of her latest award-winning podcast. The team is small, consisting of Bel, her ambitious colleague Aaron, and the new intern. But when the intern turns out to be a thirtysomething man called...
The Goode Girls of Maple Lane

The Goode Girls of Maple Lane September 16, 2025

Cameron Goode is on the verge of giving up her dream of becoming a vet. Buried under debt and juggling two jobs with a full course load, she’s utterly overwhelmed. Then a local rescue organization reaches out about a neglected golden retriever in desperate need of help. The last thing Cameron needs...
The Honeycrisp Orchard Inn

The Honeycrisp Orchard Inn September 9, 2025

Ellie Lawson’s city life was treating her just fine until a sour turn of events knocks her out in one fell swoop. Dumped by her boyfriend and fired from her event planning job, she is left with no choice but to return to her parents’ idyllic inn, nestled within a picturesque Honeycrisp orchard on...
Kindling

Kindling August 19, 2025

Scottish Spice, Book 1
A cozy autumnal retreat in the Scottish Highlands is the perfect escape for city girl, Harper… Until she is stranded in the forest with nowhere to stay. Fraser, a gruff local woodcutter, reluctantly offers her his lumberjack’s cabin on one condition—she mustn’t distract him from his duties. But...
The Battle of the Bookshops

The Battle of the Bookshops August 19, 2025

The cute, seaside town of Portneath has been the home of Capelthorne’s Books for nearly a hundred years… The shop, in the heart of a high street that stretches crookedly down the hill from the castle to the sea, may be a tad run-down these days, but to Jules Capelthorne, the wonky, dusty world of...
The Calhoun Way

The Calhoun Way June 24, 2025

The Calhouns are back in these two beloved stories by New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts. For the Love of Lilah While two of her sisters are set up with their own happily-ever-afters, laid-back Lilah Calhoun would rather focus on her connection to Great-Grandma Bianca and the heirloom...
Heart of the Sun

Heart of the Sun May 20, 2025

Amid the sun-drenched orange groves of California, childhood friends Tuck Mattice and Emily Swanson shared a bond that seemed unbreakable—until life ripped them apart. Thirteen years later, Emily is a rising pop sensation in need of security, and Tuck, a brooding ex-con, is in need of a fresh start....
Courtroom Drama

Courtroom Drama May 20, 2025

Sydney Parks thinks she might be the first person in the world to look forward to serving jury duty. When Margot Kitsch, an OG cast member of the hit reality show *Authentic Moms of Malibu*, is arrested after the untimely death of her cast member husband, Joe, Sydney knows being selected for the...
Nine Month Contract

Nine Month Contract March 18, 2025

Help Wanted: Grumpy mountain man seeks baby momma. Job is an incubator position only. Surrogate must be impervious to grunting as the form of communication and nosy brotherly neighbors. Rustic mountain range housing available upon request. I wanted to pummel my irritating brothers when they posted...
Sweet Stubborn Love

Sweet Stubborn Love March 11, 2025

Nothing in Sydney Hayward’s background of wealth and privilege had prepared her to take the helm of her grandfather’s business. Her new responsibilities leave no time for complications. Sydney has learned the hard way that she can't trust anyone, but her tenant, Mikhail, is hard to resist....
Springtime Sunshine

Springtime Sunshine February 25, 2025

Stretch out in the sun with two sweet stories of couples discovering that love has been right in front of them all along… Marriage of Inconvenience Rich Manning and Jamie Warren have always been friends—and nothing but friends. But that all changes when she asks him to father the child she so...
Under the Summer Sky

Under the Summer Sky July 2, 2024

Weddings were Savannah Charles’s business and she was an expert on marital bliss, but she’d given little thought to her own day of joy. Until divorce attorney Dash Davenport offered a proposal that would benefit them both. Dash claimed he’d never be convinced “I do” could last forever. So when he...
One Sweet Southern Summer

One Sweet Southern Summer April 23, 2024

Blossom Branch, Book 2
Two lives spent searching. One summer to never forget. Life in Blossom Branch hasn’t always been sweet for Leah Marks. Growing up in the shadow of her overachieving siblings, the shy psychology grad has struggled to find her own place in the world. So when she inherits a long-forgotten summer camp,...
How to End a Love Story

How to End a Love Story April 9, 2024

Helen Zhang hasn’t seen Grant Shepard once in the thirteen years since the tragic accident that bound their lives together forever. Now a bestselling author, Helen pours everything into her career. She’s even scored a coveted spot in the writers’ room of the TV adaptation of her popular young adult...
It Starts With Us

It Starts With Us October 18, 2022

It Ends With Us, Book 2
Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil coparenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After nearly two years separated, she is elated that for once, time is on their side, and she immediately says yes when Atlas asks her on a date. But her...
Maybe Now

Maybe Now September 20, 2022

Maybe Someday, Book 3
What is more important? Friendship, loyalty, or love? Ridge and Sydney are thrilled to finally be together guilt-free. But as the two of them navigate this freedom, Warren and Bridgette’s relationship is as tumultuous as ever, and Maggie grapples with her illness. When she comes across an old list...
It Ends With Us

It Ends With Us July 22, 2016

It Ends With Us, Book 1
Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town where she grew up—she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. And when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named...
One True Loves

One True Loves June 7, 2016

In her twenties, Emma Blair marries her high school sweetheart, Jesse. They build a life for themselves, far away from the expectations of their parents and the people of their hometown in Massachusetts. They travel the world together, living life to the fullest and seizing every opportunity for...
Maybe Not

Maybe Not December 22, 2015

Maybe Someday, Book 2
When Warren has the opportunity to live with a female roommate, he instantly agrees. It could be an exciting change. Or maybe not. Especially when that roommate is the cold and seemingly calculating Bridgette. Tensions run high and tempers flare as the two can hardly stand to be in the same room...
Confess

Confess March 10, 2015

Auburn Reed's life is one meticulously constructed plan after another. But when she stumbles into Owen Gentry’s art studio, a chance encounter unravels a connection she cannot deny. Owen’s art, created from anonymous confessions, carries an eerie weight, its beauty laced with sorrow and truths too...
Ugly Love

Ugly Love August 5, 2014

When Tate Collins moves in with her brother, the last thing she expects is to collide with Miles Archer, a brooding pilot with an unrelenting grip on his past. Their attraction is electric, undeniable, and all-consuming—but Miles has rules. No questions. No future. A no-strings arrangement seems...
Maybe Someday

Maybe Someday March 18, 2014

Maybe Someday, Book 1
At twenty-two years old, Sydney is enjoying a great life: She’s in college, working a steady job, in love with her wonderful boyfriend, Hunter, and rooming with her best friend, Tori. But everything changes when she discovers that Hunter is cheating on her—and she’s forced to decide what her next...
Three Broken Promises

Three Broken Promises December 31, 2013

After a steamy kiss, two roommates must decide if they can overcome their stormy pasts to craft a future together—a heartfelt story of second chances, forgiveness, and redemption from the New York Times bestselling author of Lonely for Only You and A Million Kisses in Your Lifetime. “Filled with...
Hopeless

Hopeless May 7, 2013

Would you rather know a truth that makes you feel hopeless, or keep believing the lies? Sky, a senior in high school, meets Dean Holder, a guy with a promiscuous reputation that rivals her own. From their very first encounter, he terrifies and captivates her. Something about him sparks memories of...
Delicacy

Delicacy February 14, 2012

After her husband’s unexpected death, Natalie has erected a fortress around her emotions; and Markus, clumsy and unassuming, will never be her knight in shining armor. Yet slowly but surely, an offbeat romance begins between these two mismatched, complex souls, and contrary to everything Natalie...
Carnal Innocence

Carnal Innocence March 23, 2010

Burned out and still reeling from a love affair gone bad, world-class violinist Caroline Waverly goes to her grandparents’ home in Innocence, Mississippi, for some much-needed rest and relaxation. Instead she finds herself overwhelmed all over again—first by Tucker Longstreet, a charming local with...
Amsterdam

Amsterdam November 2, 1999

On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence: Clive is Britain's most successful modern...
The 158-Pound Marriage

The 158-Pound Marriage June 23, 1997

The darker vision and sexual ambiguities of this sensual, ironic tale about a ménage a quatre in a New England university town foreshadow those of The World According to Garp; but this very trim and precise novel is a marked departure from the author's generally robust, boisterous style. Though Mr....
Incidents in the Rue Laugier

Incidents in the Rue Laugier January 14, 1997

Maud Gonthier yearns for an escape from the cocoon of the bourgeois modesty. The splendid, caddish David Tyler appears to offer one. In this stylish, deeply knowing novel by the Booker Prize winning author of Hotel du Lac, Maud's seduction creates a chemistry of longing, sensuality, and...