Contemporary Women

By Abby McDonald

Take an administrative snafu, a nasty breakup, and what shall heretofore be often called "The Hot-Tub Incident," and you’ve obtained unprepared sophomores on a semester overseas. For American occasion lady Tasha, an break out to Oxford could be a likelihood to ditch her status as a tabloid temptress, yet wading Uggs-deep in feminist thought isn't her proposal of a holiday. in the meantime, the British half the trade, studious Emily, nurses an aching middle amid the bikinis and beer pong of U.C. Santa Barbara. quickly desperation has the ladies texting one another suggestions — on becoming in, discovering love, and understanding who they are surely. With an anthropologist’s eye for aspect and a real ear for teen-speak, fascinating new novelist Abby McDonald has crafted a humorous, fast paced, poignant examine survival, sisterhood, and the dazzling methods we find our actual selves.

By Bronwyn Jameson

A possible robust, autonomous girl, Chantal Goodwin had continuously had an unsuspected weak point, a mystery starvation, for one breathtaking guy - and now that guy was once again in town.

The merest look from Cameron Quade nonetheless made her discomfort just like the lovesick schoolgirl she'd as soon as been. yet Chantal was once a lady now, a girl who might take what she sought after - and what she sought after used to be a unmarried shattering evening of ardour with this man.

Though their come upon shook her to the center, she instructed herself she might nonetheless watch him stroll away without end. yet that used to be earlier than she realized in regards to the new existence their evening of ardour had created.

By Barbara Taylor Bradford

Mallory Keswick cannot think how her existence may very well be larger. She has a superb, pleasant marriage to a guy who loves, helps, and nurtures her. She has a beautiful domestic and gorgeous twins who carry pleasure to her days, to all of which she devotes herself wholeheartedly. Mallory feels she has ultimately stumbled on the elusive feel of kin that by no means rather rang real in her personal childhood—until an extremely merciless act of violence tears aside the cloth of her happiness. Devastated, distraught, and pondering how she's going to ever cross on, without notice Mallory's spirit is being verified as by no means prior to, forcing her to find new reserves of braveness and power to confront the darkness that has left her with not anything extra to lose and . . .

By Lora Leigh

New within the horny paranormal sequence that placed Lora Leigh at the bestseller lists. "Leigh attracts readers into her tales and takes them on a sensual curler coaster." An erotic thrill trip approximately genetically altered Breeds with pussycat DNA-and the people who arouse their lust. The runt of the lab she used to be created in, sunrise Daniels persevered years of torture via her satisfaction brother and the council infantrymen. eventually free of her torment, she's now a Breed Enforcer, answerable for her personal lifestyles. until eventually she's assigned to guard the single guy destined to be her mate—and realizes it's miles too effortless to lose overall regulate.

By Samantha Bell

By Manuel Puig

Finally again in print, Manuel Puig's celebrated first novel is a startling anatomy of a small city in thrall to its personal petty lusts, betrayals, scandals, thefts, and gossip--but such a lot of all, to the flicks. Centering round a boy named Toto, aware of the town's secrets and techniques and constantly wanting to fill within the gruesome or frightening moments of his adolescence with Hollywood-inspired myth, Betrayed by way of Rita Hayworth is a symphony of dissatisfied, comedian, sour, and bawdy voices, all hemmed in via life's refusal to act just like the silver display, and is likely to be the funniest and so much sincere coming-of-age tale of its time.

By Sandra Chastain, Debra Dixon, Donna Ball, Virginia Ellis, Nancy Knight

A pleasant new choice of unique Southern tales set within the captivating, fictitious down-home city of Mossy Creek, the place there is a pleasant face on each nook and a heartfelt tale in the back of each door...

By Marlen Suyapa Bodden

Whilst prosperous plantation proprietor Cornelius Allen marries off his daughter Clarissa, he offers her with a marriage reward: a tender slave girl referred to as Sarah. It in order that occurs that Sarah is Allen's daughter besides, the made from a long term sexual courting along with his slave Emmeline. while Clarissa's husband rejects her child son as illegitimate and sends Clarissa and Sarah again to the Allens, their go back units in movement a sequence of occasions that might wreck the once-powerful kin. advised during the alternating view issues of Sarah and Theodora Allen, Cornelius's spouse, the marriage present shines a obvious gentle at the brutal international of slavery within the antebellum American South. Marlen Suyapa Bodden's compelling historic novel explores how planters managed slaves and unfastened ladies alike, propelling them alongside a taut social tightrope as they struggled for freedom and autonomy in an oppressive and patriarchal global. The debatable and stunning finishing is certain to go away readers aghast.

By Dixie Cash|Copyright Paperback Collection

The most powerful, sexiest, and sassiest debut modern romance we have seen because Rachel Gibson! the standard of Dixie's writing mixed with the natural romance of the tale promises that Avon Romance has simply received a brand new famous person. Debbie Sue Overstreet remains to be the best-looking gal in Saltlick, TX-and her ex-husband blood brother continues to be the best-looking sheriff. due to a thriving gossip mill (also often called Debbie's hair salon), there isn't any factor in Saltlick that she does not learn about earlier than a person else. that's, till a person offs snooty Pearl Ann Carruthers. With blood brother at the case, the girl who has to grasp every thing is stumped through not only one, yet questions: first, who killed Pearl Ann and why, and moment, how the heck did she ever allow blood brother Overstreet break out? fortunate for Saltlick and blood brother either, she skill to determine the solutions, it doesn't matter what it takes!

By Kimberla Lawson Roby

Meet Whitney, Taylor, and Charisse, 3 girls who've been most sensible pals for the reason that highschool. in spite of the fact that, this committed troika is set to find a wave of unforeseen troubles.Whitney is a plus-size girl who simply cannot flip down a field of Krispy Kremes or discover a guy who will remain put.Taylor is in a long term dating with a boyfriend who is allergic to commitment.Charisse is married, with cute teenagers, yet one way or the other does not have what she rather wants—or needs.Then all of sudden Charisse spins uncontrolled. Her doormat husband manages to face as much as her or even threatens to move public with a really shady mystery Charisse had was hoping to maintain hidden, specially from her interfering mom. determined, she makes a decision that just a very dicy scheme will retailer her.One consistent for those girls has been the aid they have provided each other. yet this time, how a long way can friendship go?In this witty, rollicking, deeply poignant tale, Kimberla Lawson Roby demonstrates the storytelling magic that has gained her legions of adoring fanatics and made her novels bestsellers.