Small Town & Rural

A love triangle unearths dangerous, deadly secrets from the past in this thrilling tale perfect for fans of The Paper Palace and Where the Crawdads Sing.

Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival.

After a wild bet, gourmet grilled-cheese sandwich, and cuddle with a baby goat, Alexis Montgomery has had her world turned upside down. The cause: Daniel Grant, a ridiculously hot carpenter who’s ten years younger than her and as casual as they come....

Knox lives alone, and he likes it that way. Unfortunately, runaway bride Naomi is about to have her life implode on his doorstep.

Overworked New Yorker Grace Evans books an Airbnb on a ranch in the middle of Wyoming. When she arrives at the idyllic getaway, she soon discovers that she’s not too pleased about: A lack of cell phone service. A missing woman. And a feeling that something isn’t right with the ranch.

It begins on the shaded town square in a sleepy Southern town. A spirited seven-year-old has a brisk business at her lemonade stand. But the little girl’s pretty yellow dress can’t quite hide the ugly scar on her chest....

The beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author brings her Nantucket novels to a brilliant finish: when rich strangers move to the island, social mayhem and a possible murder follow.

Twenty-four-year-old truck stop waitress and single mother Catherine Wright has simple goals: to give her five-year-old daughter a happy life and to never again be the talk of the town....

People say Beartown is finished. A tiny community nestled deep in the forest, it is slowly losing ground to the ever encroaching trees. But down by the lake stands an old ice rink....

From the award-winning author of The One-in-a-Million Boy comes a heartfelt, uplifting novel about a chance encounter at a bookstore, exploring redemption, unlikely friendships, and the life-changing power of sharing stories.

Leland Gaunt opens a new shop in Castle Rock called Needful Things. Anyone who enters his store finds the object of his or her lifelong dreams and desires....

A Black sheriff. A serial killer. A small town ready to combust.

Doctor Jack Troy was born and raised in Faha, but his responsibilities for the sick and his care for the dying mean he has always been set apart from the town.

Celebrating its 75th anniversary, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men remains one of America's most widely read and beloved novels. Here is Steinbeck’s dramatic adaptation of his novel-as-play, which received the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play in 1937-1938....

New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman takes her sweet bookshop series to Paris with an emotional short story about chasing your dreams—and finding your passion where you least expect it.

Kirsten Miller, author of The Change, brings us a bracing, wildly entertaining satire about a small Southern town, a pitched battle over banned books, and a little lending library that changes everything.

Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step....

It took exactly twenty-four hours for Atlanta publicist Emma Walters’s life to go from near-perfect to a monumental disaster. One day to break up with her boyfriend, get fired and inherit a farm....

In the steamy third novel in the Silver Pines Ranch series, a newly appointed sheriff and a congressman's daughter must keep their impulsive Vegas nuptials hidden to protect their reputations—but what happens in Vegas rarely remains secret.

In the highly-anticipated sequel to the national best seller The Life We Bury, Joe Talbert returns to investigate the murder of the father he never knew, and to reckon with his own family's past....

1970s, Southern Alabama. Sixty-two-year-old Jeremiah Lewis Taylor, or “Nub,” has spent his whole life listening to those he loves tell him he’s no good—first his ex-wife, now his always-disapproving daughter....

A group of students encounter a supernatural terror while on a road trip through Appalachia in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the “unforgettable and scary” (Harlan Coben) Chasing the Boogeyman.

Number-one New York Times best-selling author Nicholas Sparks returns with a story about a chance encounter that becomes a touchstone for two vastly different individuals - transcending decades and continents....

Claire has a problem with setting limits. All her life she has taken on every responsibility, assumed every burden, granted every request. Claire wants it all—and in the eyes of her friends, she has it: a devoted husband, four beautiful children, even a successful career as an artist....

I haven't stepped foot in Hartsville, Texas, population one thousand, since my parents split when I was six. Now a city girl through and through, I never imagined having to move back to cowboy country. But I need the money to invest in my company, and a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do.

Gabriel Sinclair would forever be my first. My first best friend, my first kiss, my first love…and my first heartbreak. The accident that nearly took his life ripped the memory of me from his grasp—and for the last decades, I’ve let the guilt of that one terrible night keep us apart. It took me years to make peace with the fact that he would no longer be in my life, so when he shows up as the architect for my new home, my world’s tossed upside down. Now, I’m trapped in a loveless marriage, raising a child, while Gabriel stirs up feelings I thought long buried.

Lara Bennett is world-famous in Ribbonwood, population 907. She's the woman you don't trust your husband with: a real-life femme fatale. If there's a scandal in town, she's at the center of it, ruining businesses, marriages, and egos everywhere she goes, with her sharp tongue and that body that makes you look twice. Besides… didn't she more or less kill a man?

From one of the most acclaimed Irish writers today, a new novel about smalltown Ireland that explores a community on the mend and the power of love and trauma to both bring people together and divide them

Small town handywoman Hazel Lee has learned to live her best life regardless of what the universe throws at her. But her patience is sorely tested when a bossy, big-city executive blows in and starts questioning Hazel's motives for helping an elderly friend. High-powered businesswoman Imogen Alexander has her career all set. Then her elderly uncle takes a bad fall in his home. Imogen figures she can surely run his life as tightly as her work, but she doesn't count on an annoying local woman being all up in his business.

I'm willing to admit that I shouldn't read spicy scenes in public. But in my defense, the opportunity rarely rises elsewhere. As a single mom and farm owner, my time is stretched thinner than horse hair. Besides, I'd reached a pivotal peak in the story and couldn't put it down. That is, until someone bumps into me. My phone launches into the air like a base hit, but the device is caught before smashing into the ground. It comes as no surprise, considering the guy is a professional baseball star.

La Toscana, Montepulciano 1885 El joven seminarista Orazio Cipriani atraviesa una profunda crisis espiritual. Incapaz de resolver el dilema que lo atormenta, es enviado por su director espiritual a visitar al padre Mariano, un anciano que guarda más que consejos en su interior. Lo que Orazio no espera es que, en lugar de una respuesta directa, recibirá una historia. Una historia ajena, antigua y, sin embargo, inquietantemente cercana.1813 Francesco Marchetti, hijo del alfarero del pueblo, es un joven humilde, devoto y obediente, cuya vida toma un rumbo inesperado cuando es forzado a ...

Mrs. Holmes and the Mysterious Shadow of Sherwood ManorWill the truth set them free? As Mrs. Holmes and her trio unravel the mystery of Sherwood Manor, the stakes escalate, along with the tensions. Danger lurks in the shadows: A shadowy figure from Sherwood's past is determined to keep the truth buried. Can Mrs. Holmes confront this villain and protect the village she loves? Uncover secrets over tea and scones. Join Mrs. Holmes and her eager assistant, Young Watson, as they unveil secrets that could change everything. This cozy mystery is packed with delightful treats, heartwarming ...

She counts every penny. He bets fortunes on a single turn of the card. Neither expected the gamble that comes with falling in love. Eden Rivera has one goal: protect Seabright Shores, the sleepy Florida beach town that saved her when her father’s gambling addiction tore their family apart. As the town’s meticulous accountant, she lives by ledgers, schedules, and zero‑risk decisions—until the day a private seaplane glides onto the bay. Grayson “Gray” Beaumont III—better known on Wall Street as the Prince of Casinos—arrives with plans to transform Seabright’s beloved, ...

From Multi Award-winning and Bestselling Author, Carrie Fancett Pagels Newly minted computer science graduate, Alyssa, has plans to obtain work and finally live independently with her son. Summer programming for Alyssa’s son, who has Aspergers, is tossed when his biological father and new wife, an attorney, insist on summer visitation. With her plans completely upended, Alyssa pursues a job on Mackinac Island with the hopes of acquiring an internship. Young widower, Carter, who has suffered the tragic loss of his wife, is working remotely on Mackinac Island as a computer programmer and ...

Elisa Levi's That's All I Know explores the toll of caring for those who cannot care for themselves, the fear of the unknown that anchors people to unfulfilling lives, and the bravery it takes to stop deceiving oneself, to give in to longing.

I should've married my childhood best friend, but I chose another man. Now I'm a single mom, back in my hometown, trying to make ends meet, and my ex-bestie is my new boss. The moment our eyes meet, I know I'm the last woman on earth Nash McCreedy wants to see. Now we're forced to work together and face old memories I've avoided for years. Everywhere I look, he's there, and it doesn't help that he's the only man I've ever loved. I ignore him and the bubbling feelings for as long as I can, but fail.

Funeral Sublime es una historia breve, serena y poderosa sobre cómo la familia se convierte en sostén, guía y sentido. Más allá de la pérdida que motiva el viaje, lo que resplandece es la manera en que los lazos familiares contienen, organizan y dignifican la vida incluso en sus momentos más difíciles. Con una prosa sobria y sensible, G.G. Melies retrata el andar silencioso de una comunidad que no necesita palabras para expresar lo esencial. En cada gesto, en cada mirada compartida, se revela una forma de estar en el mundo: acompañando, sosteniendo, cuidando. Funeral Sublime es un ...

Ein berührender Liebesroman über Selbstfindung, Freiheit und den Mut zu einem authentischen Leben von SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin Jessica Koch. Maya hat ihr ganzes Leben lang versucht, perfekt zu sein – die perfekte Tochter, die perfekte Gastgeberin in der Pension ihrer Eltern in den Tiroler Bergen, die perfekte Freundin. Doch unter der Oberfläche brodelt es: Sie sehnt sich nach Freiheit und einem Leben, das ihr gehört. Als sie den attraktiven Nick trifft, ist sie verunsichert, aber auch fasziniert von seiner freien Art zu leben.

When military engineer Josh Harmon inherits his family’s dilapidated county fair, he awakens an age-old magic woven into the land—ley lines, a carved carousel horse, and elemental beings who will stop at nothing to protect their convergence. Now Josh must embrace his latent enchantment, outwit shadowy saboteurs, and forge an alliance with a fire djinn and a dryad…or watch the Meadowbrook Fair—and its guardians—fade into legend. Harem polyamorous romance with one hero and multiple partners. Mature sexual themes and some explicit scenes. Fantasy violence (sabotage, magical combat). ...

Before the Reckoning, there was the Rising. In the wake of the Civil War, the prairie town of Coldwater, Kansas is still finding its shape—restless, divided, and perched on the edge of change. For Will Mertens, a quiet German immigrant carving a life from the unforgiving soil, the war never reached his doorstep—but its consequences are everywhere. When Mary Harper, the defiant daughter of a local matriarch, falls into his life, their union will challenge every unspoken rule of Coldwater’s rigid social order. As the years pass, Will and Mary build something rare: a family, a farm, a ...

With more wind chimes than residents, folks don't move to Goodnight when their lives are going well. That's why all eyes are on chef Sid Solvang and his family from the moment they turn down Emporia Road to the dilapidated Victorian they inherited. While Sid searches for work and a way back to Brooklyn, his daughter searches for answers to the cryptic messages her grandfather left behind to save both her family and the town. But then Sid makes an impulsive purchase: the fledgling May Day Diner, an iconic eatery under the threat of the wrecking ball.

Tara had read in books of people turning white with shock. At that moment, she found out what it felt like. All the blood left her head. There was a roaring in her ears, and her legs wobbled. He knows who I am. Which means he knows I'm on the run. Any chance of smoothly covering for her awkwardness had shot right out the window when she froze like a deer in the headlights at the sound of her real name. And now Sexy Sheriff was getting up. And up...

Tensions are high at the Three Counties Show when accusations of cheating add fuel to a longstanding feud. For Jude Gray, whose only hope was to not make a fool of herself showing her Kerry Hill sheep, farming life has never been so dramatic. When a body is found, belonging to one of the competitors, there is no shortage of suspects. Every sheep farmer in this close-knit community has a motive and beneath their show-ready smiles, they all have something to hide.

For Jo Jenkins, life has always been about putting others first. But with her children grown and her ex-husband as rotten as ever, she knows it’s time to put herself at the heart of the story. So, when she inherits a beautiful beachside house in Cornwall, she grabs the chance to start over. The crumbling old house needs a little love, but so does Jo. And with the help of her new friends – a kind-hearted jeweller, a no-nonsense businesswoman, and a local Jack of all trades with a past of his own – Jo begins to rebuild more than just bricks and mortar.

After sixteen-year-old Emily’s father tragically dies, she is forced to live with the only family she has left, an aunt and grandmother in the heart of Savannah, Georgia in a house as beautiful as it is mysterious. But all is not what it seems with the Bell family; they’re hiding a magical secret. When Emily meets the alluring Wyn, she forms a connection that feels like it was always meant to be. As the spark between them grows more powerful, her life takes an exhilarating and terrifying turn; but every step closer to him, takes her a step further away from her family.

When Edie Gardner's life in New York falls apart, her grandmother Adele "Punk" Cheramie coaxes her back to tiny Bayou du Chêne, Mississippi. Edie spent many happy summers there, a stone's throw from untamed Horn Island, where she once found love. Can she now demystify the island's strange new light?

Lindsay, a thirty-year-old California native, never gave much thought to being adopted. When she unexpectedly inherits her birth mother Claire's farmhouse in Maine, she is plunged into a journey across the country and across the years into a lake of secrets that will ultimately reveal just how far everyone was willing to go to protect her. The Sunken Town explores adoption, identity, the nature of family dynamics, mother-daughter relationships, the impact of family secrets, the weight of motherhood, and the lasting consequences of the choices people make.

Strangers Jo, Adelaide and Kye are the least likely people to find themselves across the threshold of a bookshop. But as their midnight book club shows them that a single book can change everything, all three realise that their own stories can be rewritten.

Ein Freund ist da, wenn alle anderen weg sind. Als Ambers Freund nach acht Jahren Beziehung mit ihr Schluss macht, bricht ihre Welt zusammen. Besonders, als er ihr den Grund dafür nennt: Ambers pflegebedürftige Mutter belastet aus seiner Sicht die Beziehung. Sie fühlt sich alleingelassen, doch zum Glück ist da Caleb, ihr bester Freund seit Kindheitstagen. Er fängt sie auf, als sie das Gefühl hat, sich im freien Fall zu befinden, und verspricht ihr, immer für sie da zu sein. Bis das Leben auch sie voneinander trennt.

Ora che la sua carriera di attrice hollywoodiana è al minimo storico, April Sinclair decide di tornare alla tranquillità della sua città natale, sull'isola scozzese di Skye. Quale modo migliore per capire come mai tutto è andato a rotoli, se non ripartire dall'inizio? April ha in mente di dedicarsi a una nuova sfida, ovvero salvare la distilleria della sua famiglia. Quello che non si aspetta di trovare è Malcolm Macabe, irascibile ed estremamente attraente master distiller che vive nella casa che lei ha appena ereditato.