Collection: Adult Fiction - General

From one of modern Russia's finest writers, a spellbinding collection of eighteen stories, her first to be translated into English in more than twenty years. Ordinary realities and yearnings to transcend them lead to miraculous other worlds in this dazzling collection of stories. A woman's deceas...

Connie longs for the summers where she leads tours across Europe. On the glamorous shores of Lake Como, Connie meets Jared. She's married. He's young. But that doesn't stop the heat rising between them. And so begins a long, hot, intoxicating summer where Connie succumbs to temptation - breaking ...

A year that none of them would ever forget ... Rose McCarthy is the legendary editor in chief at one of New York’s top fashion magazines. Following the death of her husband some years ago, she and her four daughters have become even closer. All with successful careers, Athena is a TV chef, Veneti...

"From the winner of the National Jewish Book Award-Ronald H. Balson's An Affair of Spies tells of a spy mission to rescue a defector from Germany and prevent the Nazis from creating an atomic bomb. Nathan Silverman grew up in Berlin in the 1920s, the son of a homemaker and a theoretical physicist...

Gregoire Nakobomayo, a petty criminal, has decided to kill his girlfriend Germaine. He's planned the crime for some time, but still, the act of murder requires a bit of psychological and logistical preparation. Luckily he has a mentor to call on - the far more accomplished serial killer Angoualim...

There was the time before Tessa met Hardin, and then there's everything AFTER... Life will never be the same. #Hessa. Tessa is a good girl with a sweet, reliable boyfriend back home. She's got direction, ambition, and a mother who's intent on keeping her that way. But she's barely moved into her ...

On a beautiful late-summer's morning, Cate Challoner' s daughter, Beth, heads to the beach with her best friend. The girls will spend the day flirting with boys and enjoying the thrill of being young. Beth is eighteen and soon leaving home for college. Her mother is already missing her. That afte...

When Lauren and Ryan's marriage reaches breaking point, they come up with an unconventional plan. They decide to take a year off in the hopes of finding a way to fall in love again. One year apart, and only one rule: they cannot contact each other. Aside from that, anything goes. Lauren embarks o...

One hot summer's day, John Cole decides to leave his life behind. He shuts up the bookshop no one ever comes to and drives out of London. When his car breaks down and he becomes lost on an isolated road, he goes looking for help, and stumbles into the grounds of a grand but dilapidated house. Its...