"You are an accomplished woman, but even you cannot withstand a current that has been churning for centuries." One minute, I'm just your average forty-year-old Londoner, past my sell-by date and going nowhere. The next, I've animated a dragon, kicked a few godly backsides and become an overnight sensation. My head is spinning. What I need is peace and quiet to catch my breath and enjoy the first flushes of my relationship with half-werewolf half-wizard...

"Nooooo! You can't be here!" The shrill scream shattered the entirely normal morning that Maddalena D'Angelo had been enjoying. Racing to see what was wrong she found that her landlady, Grace Howard, was moments away from being run over by a massive motorhome. Acting on instinct alone, Maddalena jumped to the rescue, pulling her friend out of the way. Confronting the driver, she and her neighbor Max, learn that the man doesn't know who he is, where...

Living your dream shouldn't be this challenging. She owns a magical bakery and has the greatest friends, so why isn't Cassie enjoying life as much as she thought she would? It could be because her daughter is miserable and plotting ways to go back to Georgia to live with her dad. Or it could be because she's working so hard she can't enjoy the fruits of her labor let alone find time to connect with her kid. There's also the magic. Between the pre-teen...

"'Women can be heroes, too.' When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances Frankie McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins...

"The story of three childhood friends-Mila, Citali, and Dalia-over the course of their friendship and into adulthood, fused with the cultural history of sewing"--

While her mother, Oscar-winning actress Ardith Law, a Hollywood icon at 62, deals with conflicting feels for a much-younger man, her daughter, Morgan, a successful plastic surgeon in NYC, falls for a much-older man, which brings them together as they each try to navigate an unconventional romance.

Journalist Jordan Manning delves into the case of a mother in danger and uncovers a dangerous web of secrets that could lead right to the missing woman--or put Jordan in the crosshairs of her abductors.

Travelling along a muddy road one dreary January day, Hugo Redford witnesses a tilbury overturn into a ditch. Racing to offer assistance, he helps the beautiful Verity Padmore from the wrecked carriage. Aided by her best friend Charlie Blunt, she had been racing to her grandfather's house in the hope of escaping her engagement to the odious Mr Maltravers, a betrothal arranged to save her parents from ruin. Can Hugo find a way to set her free?

Dolly Maunder is born at the end of the 19th century, when society's long-locked doors are just starting to creak ajar for determined women. Growing up in a poor family in rural New South Wales, Dolly spends her life doggedly pushing at those doors. A husband and two children do not deter her from searching for love and independence. 'Restless Dolly Maunder' is a tale of a pioneering woman working her way through a world of limits and obstacles, who...

Allegra Bird's arms are scattered with freckles, a gift from her beloved father. But despite her nickname, Freckles has never been able to join all the dots. So when a stranger tells her that everyone is the average of the five people they spend the most time with, it opens up something deep inside. The trouble is, Freckles doesn't know if she has five people. And if not, what does that say about her? She's left her unconventional father and her friends...