Category: Contemporary Women

By Lisa Scottoline

Mary DiNunzio has develop into a big-time business-getter at Rosato & affiliates. however the final individual she expects to stroll into her workplace one morning—in mile-high stilettos—is super-sexy Trish Gambone, her high-school rival. again while Mary used to be changing into the straight-A president of the Latin membership and probably to accomplish Sainthood, Trish used to be the top suggest lady, who flunked faith and excelled at smoking within the rest room. nowadays, notwithstanding, Trish wishes support. She is frightened of her live-in boyfriend, an abusive, gun-toting drug broker for the South Philly mob. Mary recalls the fellow from highschool, too. She had an important overwhelm on him. Then Trish vanishes, a useless physique turns up in an alley, and Mary is plunged right into a nightmare that threatens her activity, her relatives, or even her lifestyles. She is going on a one-woman campaign to unmask the killer, and at the approach unearths new love in a really unforeseen position.

By Lynn Lafleur

"The team of the S.S. fable is the following in your excitement. we'll satisfy your each need." 3 reunited neighbors, Celina, Elayne, and Jasmine are enticed via the daring invitation to a such a lot particular singles cruise, and tantalized by means of the promise of pleasures past their wildest fantasies. here's a likelihood to sail clear of the pressures of the company international for 3 wonderful days and nights—a golden chance to indulge themselves completely...with no strings hooked up. "There are not any ideas. there's not anything you can't do." Workaholic Celina can alternate her constricting company go well with for revealing underwear and completely discover her actual erotic nature with the ship's beautiful playboy captain, Rand. Elayne can play condo with Jonathan, the luxurious yacht's sexually athletic first officer, with no need to fret approximately getting damage back. strength dealer (and heartbreaker) Jasmine, who is regularly referred to as the pictures, can have eventually met her fit in cool, sensual, enigmatic Chase, whose contact drives her completely mad. "Your such a lot erotic fable can come true." but if inhibitions are tossed overboard, multiple steamy key's published. and there is a cost to be paid whilst getting there's all of the enjoyable.

By Hannah Green

I by no means Promised You a Rose backyard is the tale of a sixteen-year-old who retreats from truth into the bondage of a lushly imagined yet threatening country, and her gradual and painful trip again to sanity.

By Susan Elizabeth Phillips

It wasn't on a daily basis a man observed a headless beaver marching down the aspect of a street, now not even in Chicago Stars quarterback Dean Robillard's larger-than-life international. He slammed at the brakes of his brand-new Aston Martin Vanquish and pulled over in entrance of her. The beaver marched correct prior, her monstrous, flat tail bouncing within the gravel, and her small, sharp nostril caught up within the air. method up. The beaver regarded hugely pissed . . . She was once certainly a woman beaver simply because her beaver head was once lacking, revealing sweaty, darkish hair pulled right into a scraggly ponytail. He'd been praying for a bit distraction from his personal miserable corporation, so he threw open the door and stepped out onto the shoulder of the Colorado highway . . . humorous, horny, and touching—Natural Born Charmer is the unforgettable love tale of a golden boy who will be wasting his luster and a lively girl who is discovered by no means to depend upon an individual yet herself.

By Heather Webber

Landscaper Nina Quinn may do whatever for her staff. in the end, Taken without notice, her backyard makeover enterprise, would not be blooming if it were not for them. So whilst equipment Pipe, her right-hand handyman, is going lacking, Nina instantly begins digging into his disappearance. yet all she reveals is Daisy Bedinghaus, Kit's ex—and she's lifeless as airborne dirt and dust. An ex-con who'd been dumped through Daisy no longer lengthy ahead of her homicide, Kit's the leading suspect. yet Nina's decided to turn out his innocence and nip this entire factor within the bud. in the end, it will get her out of her all-too-crowded apartment, the place her ex-husband the cop is getting better from a gunshot wound on her sofa and her thorny new stepson is giving her the evil eye. yet as she comes in the direction of unearthing the reality, Nina will locate that dealing with the frost in her house is not anything in comparison to confronting the genuine killer's ice-cold stare.

By Rhonda Nelson

By Charles Howard Hinton

By Shirley Rousseau Murphy

The fur starts off flying while a gang from L.A. comes as much as tranquil Molena element, California, and starts breaking into the village's old fashioned retailers. The fur of Joe gray, pussycat P.I., that's. in any case, Molena aspect has been his domestic on the grounds that he used to be a kitten consuming scraps from the rubbish in the back of the neighborhood delicatessen, and he does not take good to marauding strangers. Joe even wonders even if the blonde who is moved into subsequent to his human better half Clyde can be a a part of the gang––she's been performing beautiful suspicious in recent times. but if the strangers begin trapping and caging feral cats––speaking cats like Joe and his female friend Dulcie––it proves an excessive amount of for the intrepid four–footed detective. And whilst one of many gang is murdered, and a moment mysterious demise involves gentle, he has no selection yet to aim to forestall the crimes. Joe, Dulcie, and their tattercoat good friend equipment, who was a stray herself, are deep into the research after they may be able to unlock the 3 trapped cats. yet as package leads them away to freedom, will she herself go back to that wild lifestyles?

By Thrity Umrigar

From the seriously liked, bestselling writer of the area We discovered and the gap among Us, whom the recent York instances publication assessment calls a "perceptive and . . . piercing writer," comes a profound, heartbreakingly sincere novel approximately friendship, kinfolk, secrets and techniques, forgiveness, and moment chances

An skilled psychologist, Maggie conscientiously continues emotional distance from her sufferers. but if she meets a tender Indian lady who attempted to kill herself, her specialist detachment disintegrates. bring to an end from her family members in India, Lakshmi is desperately lonely and trapped in a loveless marriage to a domineering guy who limits her global to their small eating place and grocery store.

Moved through her plight, Maggie treats Lakshmi in her domestic place of work at no cost, speedy figuring out that the despondent girl does not desire a scale down; she wishes a chum. made up our minds to empower Lakshmi as a girl who feels valued in her personal correct, Maggie abandons protocol, and shortly healthcare professional and sufferer became shut friends.

But whereas their courting is deeply affectionate, it's also warped by way of conflicting expectancies. while Maggie and Lakshmi open up and percentage long-buried secrets and techniques, the revelations will jeopardize their shut bond, shake their religion in one another, and strength them to confront painful offerings

By Amy J. Fetzer