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When she first meets Adam, Coralie is new to London and feeling adrift. But Adam is clever, witty, and (he insists) a quarter inch taller than the average male. His charming four-year-old daughter only adds to his appeal. But ten years on, something important is missing from the life Coralie and Adam have built. Or maybe, having gained everything she dreamed of, Coralie has lost something else she once had: herself.

When an ageing mother allows her 30-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants for her what many mothers might say they want for their child: a steady income and, even better, a good husband with a good job with whom to start a family. But when Green turns up with her girlfriend, Lane, in tow, her mother is unprepared and unwilling to welcome Lane into her home. In fact, she can barely bring herself to be civil. Having centred her life on her husband and child, her daughter’s definition of family is not one she can accept.

In an unnamed city, a young woman deals with an unspeakable tragedy, and her boyfriend’s subsequent hospitalization. Torn from her normal routines—coffee, sex, barhopping, and disc golf—she finds herself in an unfamiliar world of hospital visits and doctor’s appointments, all while navigating an unexpected move to a new apartment and enduring the disapproval of her boyfriend’s mother, as well as the gossip of her friends and coworkers.

He's a billionaire hotel tycoon. My brother's best friend. And the last man I should want. I didn't know event planner meant becoming entangled with Christopher Downing, but that's exactly what happens when I agree to organize his hotel's grand reopening gala. Even if he's been a thorn in my side since high school. Even if his arrogance should be enough to keep me far away. Even if working closely with him might be the thing that finally breaks me. Not only does Christopher know how to push all my buttons, but he's irritatingly handsome, unexpectedly great with his daughter, and keeps ...

Three unlikely friends, with the help of others, give the world a gift. If used it will save us. Jack shouts, “Everything can change.” Can they convince the world to accept the gift? Can we save ourselves?

Beginning eight years ago on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been replaced by Poundland, and London, where frenzied riots give way to Olympic fever, Middle England follows a brilliantly vivid cast of characters through a time of immense change.

I found out the woman of my dreams is the daughter of my enemy… Now she’s pregnant with my child. I went searching for the woman of my dreams. Then I found out she’s a Beretti, a bloodline I swore to wipe out. I should’ve walked away the second I saw her. But the moment our eyes met, I knew I couldn’t breathe without making her mine. I caress her mind until I’m the only one in her thoughts. I touch her as if I’ve known her body my whole life. And I take her up against the wall like I’d done it a hundred times. Because I have. In every dream. And as I blew her back out, she ...

Former child star Michaela Turner is ready for her next big role—she just doesn’t know what it is yet. As someone whose days were once filled with bright lights, never-ending rehearsals, and adoring fans from around the world, Michaela now struggles to define herself beyond the glitz and glamour of her past.

I’m trapped in a nightmare… and the only man who can save me is a mafia boss I met in his dreams. I thought I was losing my mind. The walls breathe. The shadows whisper. I scream until my voice breaks, but no one hears me. I can’t get out and time doesn’t move unless it wants to. But I know he’s coming for me. Damian LaCampanella. The ruthless Mafia Don I met in his dreams. We’ve survived each other’s nightmares. I’ve seen his monsters. The boy who lost everything. The killer they created. He’s held me through mine: my fears, my past, my pain. And each one we survive, I ...

Step back into the streets of Victorian London, as the case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce brings together a strange group of people, including Ada Clare and Richard Carstone who are at the heart of the legal battle, orphan Jo and Inspector Bucket. Oscar-winning actor Sir John Gielgud transports you to the criminal slums of the poor and the drawing rooms of the rich in Dickens’ riveting portrayal of a corrupt society.

Ella thought she was alone. Her quiet townhouse was her sanctuary, a place where she could curl up under her favorite blanket, lose herself in her favorite shows, and forget the world outside. But someone else has been watching. Someone who knows her routines, who whispers along to the lines she’s memorized, who moves her things just enough to make her doubt her own sanity. As the days blur together, her sense of safety unravels, each creaking floorboard, each misplaced mug, each shadow stretching a little too long becoming a reminder that she isn’t as alone as she thought. Because ...

Dok-go lives in Seoul Station. He can’t remember his past, and the only thing he knows for certain is that he could really use a drink. When he finds a lost wallet filled with documents, his life is drastically changed.

I’ve organized a million-dollar event for a silver-fox Mafia grump, not knowing it’s my proposal party. My best friend’s father has given me a job organizing a prestigious event. Giovanni De Luca’s alpha presence commands attention. He's my complete opposite and under his musky cologne lies a pure bad boy. His bright hazel eyes and deep baritone voice make him simply irresistible, but he’s off-limits. After seducing me at a luxurious hotel, I submit to my desires and let him mount me like a stallion. The chemistry between us is electrifying. Now, on the night of the event, in ...

In Tokyo, there is a neighbourhood with the highest number of bookstores in the world. It is called Jinbocho where book lovers can browse to their heart's delight and where hunters of first editions or autographed copies prowl the bookcases. The Morisaki bookshop, a small family-run shop, is so packed with books that barely five people can fit inside. Books crowd the shelves and invade every corner of the floor; when a customer arrives, the owner, Satoru, immediately pops out from behind the counter.

For the past 20 years, Liv and Eliot Goldenhorn have run In Love in New York, Brooklyn’s beloved wedding-planning business. When Eliot dies unexpectedly, he even more unexpectedly leaves half of the business to his younger, blonder girlfriend, Savannah. Liv and Savannah are not a match made in heaven, to say the least. But what starts as a personal and professional nightmare transforms into something even savvy, cynical Liv Goldenhorn couldn’t begin to imagine.

Here is the preface to 12 magnificent stories, originally part of The John Cheever Audio Collection, in which John Cheever celebrates - with unequaled grace and tenderness - the deepest feelings we have.

I've married a silver-fox Mafia grump after going on a blind date with him My BFF set me up with my father’s best friend who also happens to be a cold-blooded hitman. Marco, who is 24 years older, exudes a rugged allure that is simply irresistible. His piercing blue eyes and chiseled physique leave me speechless. He's a bad boy alpha type with a protective nature that makes my heart skip a beat. After seducing me, he takes me on holiday, where I submit to my desires and let him thrust me into ecstasy. While in his presence, I discover a tender side to him that takes my breath away. Now, ...

Cybersecurity expert Ted McCord has been fired. He risked everything in a game far beyond his control. It's the last straw for Charlotte McCord, who's never understood her husband's addiction to the trappings of corporate life-the titles, the money, and the promise of visible success that he prefers over his family's ranch. Six months earlier, Ted did something unthinkable to gain a promotion and hid his actions from his wife.

The vibrant stories in I’ll Give You a Reason explore race, identity, connection, and belonging in the Ironbound, an immigrant neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey. A young widow goes on her first date since her husband’s death and finds herself hunting a bear in the woods with a near stranger. An unhappy wife compares her mother’s love spells and rituals to her own efforts to repair her strained marriage. A self-conscious college student discovers a porn star who shares her name and becomes obsessed with her doppelgänger’s freedom and comfort with her own body.

De Quincey, Baudelaire, Poe, Joyce, Benjamin, Melville, Lorca, Whitman...walkers and city dwellers all, collagists and chroniclers, picking the detritus of their eras off the filthy streets and assembling it into something new, shocking, and beautiful. In To Walk Alone in the Crowd, Antonio Muñoz Molina emulates these classic inspirations, following their peregrinations and telling their stories in a book that is part memoir, part novel, part chronicle of urban wandering.