Showing results by publisher "Audible Studios" in Women's Fiction

Samantha Sweeney has always been the glue that holds her family together, their go-to girl for love and support. When an ATV accident leaves her teenage son in a wheelchair, she loses her carefully constructed self-control. In the after-gloom of her dreaded 50th birthday and the discovery of her husband's infidelity, Jackie realizes she must reconnect with her former self to find the happiness she needs to move forward.

Haley knew that carrying her twin sister's baby would be a sacrifice. She just didn't know how great. Pregnant, overworked, and driven to the end of her rope by the neediness of the sister and widowed mother who depend on her, a high-powered young attorney seeks refuge with a week's vacation on the Alaskan coast.

What if you're a suburban mom with a snarky sense of humor and a wild imagination prone to dreaming up disasters? What if you and your friends take your daughters for a camping trip, and while on a quick trip to the nearest country market you see a man being bullied and then beaten? What do you do? Back away quietly? Not if you're Molly Deacon, who, along with her Mittyesque imagination, has a temper not to be trifled with.

Lindsey Bains Johanson has spent her entire life practicing the art of denial. She was always the obedient, perfect daughter of General Travis Bains until she learned of the atrocities he committed against her own sister. Now, free of her father, she has become the perfect wife. A lifetime of training has enabled her to keep quiet about anything and everything, including the monster her husband becomes behind closed doors.

I’m lying here in a bed, my head full of regret, with only a little bird flitting through a tree to comfort me. Friends want to visit, but I refuse them. So my carer, Sheila, has given me a task to keep me occupied. An A to Z list. Think of a part of my body for each letter. Tell a little tale about it. When I reach H for heart, what will I say? How we loved to string crocheted hearts in trees? How our hearts steadily unravelled? So I begin with A. Adam’s apple. Will you be there to catch me when I fall?

Bold, brash, Irish--Brodie Monaghan's been breaking hearts ever since he arrived in Maine to rebuild the family business. Still, there's one woman he just can't wow. Grace Maddox claims she's now part owner of Monaghan Shipbuilders, and she has her own dreams for the weathered dockside buildings. Tiny Blueberry Cove has a way of welcoming strangers with wide open arms, but is the sleepy coastal village ready for the fireworks these two spark? DIY is so much better with two. . .

Emma Wade has worked hard to create a stable life surrounded by people she loves. But when her dark past catches up with her, Emma fears she might not live long enough to testify against the man who hurt her all those years ago. Her only choice is to run. And if there is one thing Emma learned as a homeless teen, it was knowing when to sleep alone and knowing when to partner up.

Megan Riley has always lived her life right - right boyfriend, right college, right career…right up until she discovers that her boyfriend is engaged to another woman and “debriefing” her boss was an expected part of her job description.

Millie Cameron is furious when she finds herself obliged to sort through the belongings of her aunt Flo, who has died recently. She hardly knew her aunt, and besides, she has her own career to think of.

Young, pretty, full of confidence - or so she likes to pretend - she wants nothing to do with a dull spinster aunt whom her family refuses to talk about. But when she arrives at Flo’s basement flat, Millie’s interest is awakened.

Laura Meredith never imagined herself appearing on TV - she’s too old, too flabby, too downright hormonal, and much too busy holding things together for her son, Stanley, after her husband left her for a younger, thinner replacement. But best friend Charlotte is a determined woman and when Laura is persuaded on to a daytime show to talk about her PMT, everything changes. Suddenly there’s a camera crew tracking her every move and Laura finds herself an unlikely star. But as things heat up between her and gorgeous TV director, Cal, they’re going downhill elsewhere.

Renée è una nota accademica francese di origine italiana, con una routine sempre uguale e frustrante: i colleghi maschilisti la considerano una segretaria e, nonostante il successo delle sue pubblicazioni, Renée vive in solitudine da anni, con la sola compagnia dei lirici alessandrini. All'improvviso, arriva una mail a sconvolgere tutto: Gene Petrov, brillante matematico, lettore appassionato, emulo di Casanova e grande amore di Renée ai tempi degli studi a Harvard, è morto per una malattia fulminea.

O poder corrompe. Seria essa uma verdade sobre a família Kingston? Diante de problemas inesperados, Lane descobre que precisa se casar. A questão é: com quem? Como um workaholic assumido, ele não tem tempo para sair à procura de uma mulher, muito menos para viver em matrimônio. Sua salvação se torna a inesperada Betsy O’Connell, uma blogueira altiva e esfuziante que curte viver a vida, enfrentando problemas reais que não tiram o sorriso do seu rosto. Se eles são tão diferentes, como se encontraram?

Holly wears a ring that says "true love waits" and worries because her boyfriend isn’t trying to persuade her otherwise. Then a boy in her English class invites her to join his book club. Shocked to find herself at ‘sex club’, plunged into in the classics of erotic literature, Holly soon becomes fascinated: by the strange new world of Eros, by the increasing power she senses in her own body and by a weird blue glow emanating from the most private part of herself. But Salter and Nabokov are one thing.

Ally est graphiste, mais elle surtout ruinée ! À Jersey, où elle est revenue pour s'occuper de son père, elle multiplie les petits boulots afin de pouvoir payer les factures qui s'accumulent... Fière et indépendante, elle n'est pas du genre à demander de l'aide. Du moins, jusqu'à ce qu'un certain client, venu dîner avec sa mère dans le restaurant où travaille Ally, la fasse licencier suite à une altercation durant le service. Le responsable n'est autre que Dominic Russo, séduisant héritier et directeur du magazine de mode New yorkais "Label".

Von der Liebe hat Anna die Nase gestrichen voll. Auch ohne Mann geht es in ihrem Leben turbulent zu: Hochzeitsvorbereitungen der einen Tochter und Abiturstress der anderen. Dazu eine eigenwillige Mutter und lästige Hitzewellen. Als ihr Jugendschwarm Jo zurück in die Stadt kommt, erwachen jedoch Gefühle, die sie längst für ausgestorben hielt. Doch Jo kann sich nicht einmal mehr an ihre damalige Nacht erinnern. Zudem nervt sie Paul, der Vater einer Mitschülerin ihrer Tochter.

South London in the 1930s...and Mrs Hilda Jones is fed up with her dull husband. She thought marrying would liven him up, but after 25 years he's just as boring as the day she married him and now she wants to lead her own life. Her newly married daughter, Olive, is shocked, but Hilda is adamant.

Der großer Traum von Angelika Stein scheint geplatzt, als sie mit 15 von der Schule fliegt: Kein Fotograf in Kassel will einem Mädchen, noch dazu ohne Schulabschluss, eine Lehrstelle geben. Doch Angelika gibt nicht auf - und bekommt schließlich eine Chance von einem Fotografen, der vor Kurzem aus der DDR gekommen ist. Zur selben Zeit wird in Ostberlin die hoch talentierte junge Turnerin Christine Magold darauf gedrillt, die DDR bei den Olympischen Spielen zu vertreten. Doch ist das wirklich ihr Traum?

1922: Der Krieg ist seit vier Jahren vorüber, doch für Alexander von Seydell gibt es keinen Frieden. Nachdem er unter Mordverdacht aus Navarra fliehen musste, wird er erneut eines Verbrechens beschuldigt. Auch auf Seydell drängen die Sorgen. Krankheit und Hyperinflation bedrohen die Existenz des Gestüts. Dann erhält Luise eine Nachricht, die alles ändert. Kurz entschlossen reist sie zu ihrem Sohn Robert, der inzwischen in England lebt, und trifft dort nach all den Jahren auf ihre große Liebe Alexander. Finden die beiden endlich zueinander?

1914: Nach einem erbitterten Streit mit seinem Bruder hat Alexander von Seydell seine Heimat verlassen und sich in Navarra eine neue Existenz aufgebaut. Als der erste Weltkrieg ausbricht, scheint ihn das nichts anzugehen, doch wegen einer Verwechslung muss er sich der französischen Armee anschließen. Auch sein leiblicher Sohn Robert muss an die Front, wo seine Vaterlandstreue auf eine harte Probe gestellt wird. Und dann stehen sich Vater und Sohn als Feinde auf dem Schlachtfeld gegenüber.

All Jordan Manning wants is a quiet summer on the Virginia coast with her sons to recover from a near-fatal accident and an abusive relationship. Her plans to find a new direction for her future are turned upside down when she runs into the first man who ever broke her heart...and he's determined to win it back. Rob Tyler thought he'd moved on, but when fate drops a second chance with his first love right in his path, his feelings rush back stronger than ever. Rob is determined to give Jordan the future they should have had years ago, but making up for past mistakes isn't easy.