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"Taut, almost unbearable suspense ... This galvanizing historical portrait of courage, determination, and abiding love mesmerizes and shocks."--Booklist (starred review) "All I had known for certain when I came around the hen house that first evening in July and saw my husband trudging into the yard after lifetimes spent away from us, a borrowed bag in his hand and the shadow of grief on his face, was that he had to be protected at all costs from...
82) Mistress
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Alexis Gibbs must choose between being Jarred Simmons' mistress forever, or moving on and starting a new life.
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In this story of two women's lives, Locksie, who has fallen away from the church, accepts an invitation to attend services and meets a man who causes her to reconsider her current live-in boyfriend situation. Meanwhile, Hannah is coping with a husband who had an affair and a resulting child.
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"Five years into her happy marriage, Geneva Mayfield is devastated to find that things have taken a turn for the worse. Her husband, Johnny, is suddenly hard to reach, distant, and works late too often for Geneva not to be suspicious. Is it because she's been pressuring him about having a baby? Feeling lonely and neglected, Geneva bonds with Robert Owens, a colleague who is having marital trouble of his own. Soon, their relationship blossoms into...
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Violet Parry is living the quintessential life of luxury in the Hollywood Hills with David, her rock-and-roll manager husband, and her darling toddler, Dot. She has the perfect life--except that she's deeply unhappy. David expects the world of Violet but gives little of himself in return. When she meets Teddy, a roguish small-time bass player, Violet comes alive, and soon she's risking everything for the chance to find herself again. Also in the picture...
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"After the death of her husband, Ellie Huang, discovering he had a mistress, cashes in his life insurance policy for an extended stay on the French Riviera with her best friend--a sun-drenched getaway that turns into a reckoning for Ellie as long-simmering tensions and uncomfortable truths come to the surface"--
Desperate to obliterate her past, a young widow flees California for the French Riviera in this compelling debut, a tale of loss, rebirth,...
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"Skyla lives alone in the shadow of the defunct drive-in movie theater that she and her husband ran for nearly fifty years. Ever since Hollis's death in a freak accident the year before, Skyla spends her nights ruminating about the regrets and deceptions in her long marriage. That is, until she rents a cottage on the property to a charming British man, Teddy Cornwell.... A thousand miles away, Linelle is about to turn fifty. Bored by her spouse and...
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When one woman is caught in the act of her greatest transgression, it's the beginning of her greatest transformation. It started innocently: a coincidental meeting between old high school friends--first loves--at Butterfly's business, The Painted Lady Flower Shop. Then came lunch, then confessions of unhappy marriages, loneliness. It went on that way for years between Butterfly and Ethan. That's how they built the soul tie--the bond that, despite...
89) Consequences
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Trinette Montgomery is used to getting what she wants including her wealthy husband's forgiveness after indulging in an affair or two. And once again she's got an itch only another man can scratch, specifically, her married boss. But when her scandalous ways catch up with her, she flees to the home of her best friend in St. Louis, Nikki Truth. Only Nikki is having marital problems of her own. Nikki's husband, Donovan, has no idea what she was up to...
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Los Angeles, 1991. Ambassador Maximilian Ophuls, one of the makers of the modern world, is murdered in broad daylight on his illegitimate daughter India's doorstep, slaughtered by a knife wielded by his Kashmiri Muslim driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the clown. The dead man is a charismatic World War Two Resistance hero, a man of formidable intellectual ability, a former US ambassador to India and subsequently America's counter-terrorism...
91) Someone we know
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"The new domestic suspense novel from NYT bestselling author Shari Lapena. Maybe you don't know your neighbours as well as you thought you did.... 'This is a very difficult letter to write. I hope you will not hate us too much... My son broke into your home recently while you were out.' In a quiet, leafy suburb in upstate New York, a teenager has been sneaking into houses--and into the owners' computers as well--learning their secrets, and maybe sharing...
92) Sisters
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A novel of marriage, infidelity, and obsession follows a new wife who struggles with her unrelenting fascination with her husband's first wife.
An unnamed narrator lives with her new husband, his two teenagers, and the presence of his first wife, known to us only as she. Obsessed with her, our narrator moves through her days presided over by the all-too-real ghost of the first marriage, fantasizing about how the first wife lives her life. And what...
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In a smart, sexy spin-off from her Unconditional Series, Briana Cole continues to explore unconventional relationships and question all assumptions about love, lust, and monogamy in this tantalizing drama that takes the "what if" of a free pass to a whole new level...--
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From the bestselling author of The Elegant Gathering of White Snows comes a poignant, outrageous, refreshingly liberating story about one woman whose life takes an unexpected turn....
Meg Fratano has just witnessed the unthinkable: her husband of twenty—seven years making love to another woman. In her bed. And all Meg wanted to do was watch. Quietly, secretly, watch. Then she realized her life would never be the same.
Meg isn’t...
Meg Fratano has just witnessed the unthinkable: her husband of twenty—seven years making love to another woman. In her bed. And all Meg wanted to do was watch. Quietly, secretly, watch. Then she realized her life would never be the same.
Meg isn’t...
95) My little secret
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Midori Hunter has it all thanks to marrying Dr. Ray Hunter. But she tires of her cheating husband and feeling lonely. Then Midori meets Jaydah B., a bestselling author. But the lies that both women have told threaten to be exposed and they could lose everything. That's why their love affair has to remain their little secret.
96) Up to no good
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There is always a man around the corner. And church trustee James Black should know-- he's usually that very man, carrying on affairs with married women and sleeping with one conquest after another. When the tables are turned, his newfound love generates a ripple effect of shocking proportions ...
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The Astral is a huge rose-colored old pile of an apartment building in the gentrifying neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. For decades it was the happy home of the poet Harry Quirk; his wife, Luz, a nurse; and their two children. But Luz found some poems of Harry's that ignited her suspicions of infidelity, and kicked him out. Now Harry has to reckon with the consequences of his literary, marital, financial, and parental failures.
99) Secrets of Paris
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Kelly and her husband move to Paris where her husband betrays her and she forms a friendship with two totally different women who help her win him back.
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First published in 1915, this novel marks the end of an era and presents one of literary modernism's greatest achievements. Set in prewar Germany, the story concerns Edward Ashburnham, a first-rate soldier and a perfect English gentleman whose single and fatal flaw is his blind ruthlessness in affairs of love.
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