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Lady Charlotte Cavendish is still the spirited girl who tried to elope in the name of love. That dream was thwarted by her father, who trapped her in a loveless, passionless marriage. But now widowed, Charlotte is free to reenter the giddy world of the ton - and pursue her desires. Hardly a typical widow, she remains innocent of pleasures of the flesh. Yet now that her life is finally her own, she intends to keep it that way.

Thirty-six-year-old stay-at-home soccer mom Kate Burke is happily married to Matt Parsons, although their marriage looks very different behind closed doors. Kate is no longer interested in having sex with her husband. So, while they still love each other madly, they make an arrangement: Matt can have one-night stands with other women on work trips, but when he returns home, he has to tell Kate about them—every juicy detail.

After the sudden loss of her husband Eli, Nadine Yoder thought she’d be facing life alone. Childless and grieving, she clings to the home he built and the quiet rhythm of Amish life—despite the well-meaning interference of her sister-in-law, Helgred, who insists Nadine should sell everything and rejoin the Yoder household. But when Nadine discovers she’s carrying Eli’s child, everything changes.

A married couple’s dream vacation to Paris turns deadly in this edge-of-your-seat thriller. When Stella met Adam, she thought she had finally found a nice, normal guy — a welcome change from her previous boyfriend and her precarious jetsetter lifestyle with him. But her secure world comes...

Brought to you by Penguin. The brand-new novel from the author of the bestselling Shipyard Girls series. 1949, County Durham. From the Shipyards of Sunderland to Lady of the Manor . . . When Angie marries her sweetheart Quentin and moves into Cuthford Manor to begin their new life together, she...

When attorney Rachael Flynn learns her bighearted younger brother has been arrested, she at first takes it in stride; Joshua has been in trouble before when his zeal for helping the downtrodden and disadvantaged pitted him against the law. But this time the charge is murder, and he’s confessed to the crime. Certain that he’s innocent, Rachael begs Joshua to let her represent him, but her brother refuses her offer of counsel.

In the small coastal town of Sparrow, Maine, tradition runs deep—and change is rarely welcome When Reverend Miranda McCurdy becomes the new parish priest at St. Gabriel-by-the Sea, she's determined to make a difference in her small community. But her eagerness to make the church more...

Penguin Presents the audiobook edition of The Sapphire Widow by Dinah Jefferies read by Gabrielle Glaister. Ceylon, 1935. Louisa Reeve, the daughter of a successful British gem trader, and her husband Elliot, a charming, thrill-seeking businessman, seem like the couple who have it all. Except...

After putting their own needs on the back burner to raise their families, Sylvie, Doris, Alice, and Marge struggle to find purpose now that their children are grown, and their husbands are gone. Loneliness pushes them together while they knit away the rest of their days. Then one night, a whiskey-filled pact catapults these ladies onto the adventure of a lifetime. Each widow gets one wish, one wild adventure she’s dreamed of doing her whole life. With their wishes tucked away on notes inside their knitting basket, they pull them out, vowing to do whatever it takes to help each other.

England, 1766: Abigail is happily married to James, a tobacco trader turned sea captain, and is looking forward to starting a family and settling down in Whitehaven, deep in the Lake District. But after a series of devastating losses, she finds herself in turmoil, with her future suddenly seeming unknown…

Stranded in France, Meg finds passage to England with injured soldier Major Ross Brandon. Ross's dark, searching eyes are those of a man with the weight of the world on his shoulders... It would be wrong to fall for Ross. But when he offers her a job as his temporary housekeeper she can't refuse - and soon sensible Meg is scandalously tempted to move from servants’ quarters to the master's bedroom!

Elementary school teacher Jacqueline "Jacks" Morales's marriage was far from perfect, but even in its ups and downs it was predictable, familiar. Or at least she thought it was...until two police officers showed up at her door with devastating news. Her husband of eight years, the one who should have been on a business trip to Kansas, had suffered a fatal car accident in Hawaii. And he wasn't alone.

Based on a true story, this debut Civil War novel follows a Southern plantation woman's journey of transforming her home into a hospital for the war. This debut novel is based on the true story of Carrie McGavock. During the Civil War's Battle of Franklin, a five-hour bloodbath with 9,200...

*Finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction* From the author of Girls on Fire comes an “artful meditation on memory and identity” (The New York Times Book Review) centered around a woman with amnesia, the scientists studying her, and the daughter who longs to understand. Wendy Doe is a...

Stella and her husband Adam are on the trip of a lifetime, a three-week tour across Europe. But then the unthinkable happens. On the last day of their holiday, a Parisian café explodes with Adam inside. What initially looks like a gas leak turns personal when the gendarmerie identify Adam as the target of the explosion, and they confront Stella with some startling allegations about her beloved husband. Determined to find out who the man she married really was, Stella follows the threads he left behind. 

The Foster and Seigal kids are all grown up, and their parents couldn’t be more pleased to see them living their dreams. But are they really doing that? Or are they hiding within lives that help them avoid their personal truths?

From bestselling novelist Nadia Hashimi—a gripping, occasionally terrifying, yet ultimately hopeful novel focusing on the women of Afghanistan in the years since the Taliban regained power. In February 2020 the US began to withdraw troops from Afghanistan after nearly twenty years of...

Based on a true story, this debut Civil War novel follows a Southern plantation woman's journey of transforming her home into a hospital for the war. This debut novel is based on the true story of Carrie McGavock. During the Civil War's Battle of Franklin, a five-hour bloodbath with 9,200...

Margaret Wood is known for her grace, beauty, and fashion in Bennett Town, Texas. As she waits for the war to end, she receives a notice that her husband, Joseph Wood, died on D-Day in France. Margaret must raise their 15-year-old son, William, alone. Joseph’s brother Henry, a wounded war veteran, provides a helping hand. The small town embraces the Wood family in their time of grief. As time passes, the town’s ugliness surfaces. Margaret comes head-to-head with Earl Bennett, whom the town is named after.

Since her husband’s death six months ago, Yesica Diaz-Taylor seems to be taking her grief in stride. Then an angry outburst at work shatters the illusion. Her mandated support group counseling doesn’t help much. Yesica has always kept her feelings close, so even when an unlikely friendship blossoms with the group’s facilitator, she still has reasons for holding back. She’s just not ready to share.