Jessica Knoll’s latest follows Faye Heron and Henry Spalding, former college lovers who haven’t seen each other in twelve years. Faye is now half of a Hollywood power couple. Henry is a married father running the family business. When a beloved college professor dies and brings them both back to campus for the funeral, old…
Category: Contemporary Fiction
How to Write a Love Story
Catherine Walsh’s newest book follows Sam, an ambitious editor and total fanboy, who’s sent from his New York publishing house straight to the Irish coast to help Ciara Sheridan finish her late father’s final fantasy novel. Ciara’s legendary author dad left her with a sprawling, crumbling estate, an outline for the series finale his fans…
The Burning Side
Sarah Damoff’s The Burning Side is a beautifully layered family drama about marriage, memory, and what survives after disaster. After a house fire forces April and Leo and their young children to move in with April’s family, old wounds and buried secrets rise to the surface, testing not only their marriage but their understanding of…
The Correspondent
Seventy-three-year-old Sybil Van Antwerp, a woman who makes sense of the world through the letters she writes each morning. Through correspondence with friends, family, authors, and even institutions, Sybil reveals her sharp wit and reflective nature while quietly keeping the people who love her at a distance. When letters from someone tied to a painful…
Is This a Cry for Help?
Darcy appears to have built a quietly perfect life: she’s a librarian, married to her wife Joy, living in a sun-filled house by the lake with two cats and shelves overflowing with books. But when she learns of her ex-boyfriend’s death, unresolved guilt sends her into a mental health crisis that forces her to step…
The Irish Goodbye
Over one Thanksgiving weekend, three adult sisters return to their childhood home on Long Island, forced back into close quarters and into the unresolved grief that has shaped their family for decades. Years earlier, a tragic accident involving their brother Topher’s boat set off a chain of events that ended in loss, lawsuits, and heartbreak…
Before I Forget
At twenty-six, Cricket Campbell feels stuck; adrift in early adulthood and weighed down by grief from a tragedy a decade earlier. When her father is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and her sister Nina suggests moving him into memory care, Cricket instead returns to her childhood home to become his caretaker, hoping to repair their relationship and…
The Future Saints
When record executive Theo discovers the Future Saints struggling through a dive-bar set, the band is barely holding together after the death of their manager. Their lead singer Hannah has reinvented their sound, channeling her grief into raw, gut-punching rock that unexpectedly goes viral. Theo stakes his career on giving them one last chance: new…
Jackpot Summer
When four adult siblings win the lottery together, they expect their lives to change overnight but money has a way of complicating things more than it solves them. As old rivalries resurface, secrets spill, and relationships are tested, each sibling must decide what they’re willing to risk for their share of the prize. Set over…
The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife
At 82, Frederick Fife is lonely, broke, and on the verge of homelessness. But when a fall lands him in a nursing home and the staff mistake him for another incoming resident, Fred unexpectedly finds himself with a warm bed, hot meals, and something else he hasn’t had in a long time: a sense of…