From the beloved New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani, a âdazzlingâ storyteller, comes a novel about one womanâs quest to build her own life before itâs too late.
Jess Capodimonte Baratta is not living the life of her dreams. Not even close.
In blue-collar Lake Como, New Jersey, family comes first. Recently divorced from Bobby Bilancia, âthe perfect husband," Jess moves into her parentsâ basement to hide and heal. Jess is the overlooked daughter, who dutifully takes care of her parents, cooks Sunday dinner, and puts herself last. Despite her role as the family handmaiden, Jess is also a talented draftswoman in the marble business run by her confidant, her dapper uncle Louie, who believes she can do anything (once she invests in a better wardrobe).
When the Capodimonte and Baratta families endure an unexpected loss, the shock unearths long-buried secrets that will force Jess to question her loyalty to those she trusted. Fueled by her lost dreams, Jess takes fate into her own hands and escapes to her ancestral home, Carrara, Italy.
From the shadows of the majestic marble-capped mountains of Tuscany, to the glittering streets of Milan, and on the shores of enchanting Lake Como (the other one), Jess begins to carve a place in this new/old world. When she meets Angelo Strazza, a passionate artist who works in gold, she discovers her own skills are priceless. But as Jess uncovers the truth about her family history, it will change the course of her life and those she loves the most forever. In love and work, in art and soul, Jess will need every tool she has mastered to reinvent her life.
Fed by the authorâs cherished Italian roots comes a bighearted, hilarious novel of the story of one womanâs determination to live a creative life that matters, with enough room left over for love. With a one-way ticket to Italy, Jess is determined to write a new story on her own terms--this time, in stone.
Kristin Harmel, the New York Times bestselling author, returns with an electrifying new novel about two jewel thieves, a priceless bracelet that disappears in 1940s Paris, and a quest for answers in a decades-old murder.
Colette Marceau has been stealing jewels for nearly as long as she can remember, following the centuries-old code of honor instilled in her by her mother: take only from the cruel and unkind, and give to those in need. Never was their family tradition more important than during the Second World War, when Annabel and Colette worked side by side in Paris to fund the French Resistance.
But one night in 1942, it all went wrong. Annabel was arrested by the Germans, and Coletteâs four-year-old sister, Liliane, disappeared in the chaos of the raid, along with an exquisite diamond bracelet sewn into the hem of her nightgown for safekeeping. Soon after, Annabel was executed, and Lilianeâs body was found floating in the Seineâbut the bracelet was nowhere to be found.
Seventy years later, Coletteâwho has âredistributedâ $30 million in jewels over the decades to fund many worthy organizationsâhas done her best to put her tragic past behind her, but her life begins to unravel when the long-missing bracelet suddenly turns up in a museum exhibit in Boston. If Colette can discover where it has been all this timeâand who owns it nowâshe may finally learn the truth about what happened to her sister. But she isnât the only one for whom the bracelet holds answers, and when someone from her childhood lays claim to the diamonds, sheâs forced to confront the ghosts of her past as never before. Against all odds, there may still be a chance to bring a murderer to justiceâbut first, Colette will have to summon the courage to open her own battered heart.
Rabbit Moon is a captivating family drama set in the vibrant city of Shanghai, where a fractured American family confronts its complicated past.
Four years after their bitter divorce, Claire and Aaron Litvak receive a phone call no parent is prepared for: their 22-year-old daughter, Lindsey, teaching English in China during a college gap year, has been critically injured in a hit-and-run accident. At a Shanghai hospital, they wait anxiously at her bedside, hoping for the best and preparing for the worst.
The accident unveils a deeper fissure within the family, revealing the shocking event that ended the Litvaks' marriage and turned Lindsey against them. Estranged from her parents, Lindsey has confided only in her younger sister, Grace, who was adopted as an infant from China. As Claire and Aaron navigate the bustling, cosmopolitan streets of Shanghai, the newly prosperous "miracle city," they face troubling questions about Lindsey's life there, where nothing is quite as it seems.
With her trademark psychological acuity, Jennifer Haigh delivers a taut, suspenseful story about family, secret lives, and the unbreakable bond between two sistersâthe fabled red thread that ties them together across time and space.
In 1992, Sarah Lingate is found dead below the cliffs of Capri, leaving behind her three-year-old daughter, Helen. Despite suspicions that the old-money Lingates are involved, Sarahâs death is ruled an accident, and every year the family returns to prove itâs true.
But on the thirtieth anniversary of Sarahâs death, the Lingates arrive at the villa to find a surprise waiting for themâthe necklace Sarah was wearing the night she died.
An evocative, sensitive, and compelling novel that explores the deadly consequences of a love triangle in an English farming village as dangerous secrets from the past resurfaceâperfect for fans of The Paper Palace and Where the Crawdads Sing.
The farmer is dead. He is dead and all anyone wants to know is who killed him.
When her brother-in-law shoots a dog going after their sheep, Beth doesnât realize that the gunshot will alter the course of their lives. For the dog belonged to none other than Gabriel Wolfe, the man Beth loved as a teenagerâthe man who broke her heart all those years ago. Gabriel has returned to the village with his young son Leo, a boy who reminds Beth very much of her own son Bobby, who died a few years earlier.
As Beth is pulled back into Gabriel and Leoâs lives, tensions around the village rise, and jealousy rears its ugly head. Beth and her gentle and kind husband Frank are happily married, but they have their fair share of secrets, and their relationship relies on the past staying buried. And when the truth begins to come out, events spiral out of control, this time with deadly consequences. Beth is forced to make a choiceâbetween the woman she once was, and the woman she has become.
A sweeping, sexy love story with the pace and twists of a thriller, Broken Country is a novel of simmering passion, impossible choices, and explosive consequences that toggles between the past and present to explore the far-reaching legacy of first love.
A young girl must face a life-altering decision after awakening her sisterâs ghost, navigating truths about love, friendship, and power as the Civil War looms.
Sixteen years old and enslaved since she was born, Junie has spent her life on Bellereine Plantation in Alabama, cooking and cleaning alongside her family, and tending to the white masterâs daughter, Violet. Her daydreams are filled with poetry and faraway worlds, while she spends her nights secretly roaming through the forest, consumed with grief over the sudden death of her older sister, Minnie.
When wealthy guests arrive from New Orleans, hinting at marriage for Violet and upending Junieâs life, she commits a desperate actâone that rouses Minnieâs spirit from the grave, tethered to this world unless Junie can free her. She enlists the aid of Caleb, the guestsâ coachman, and their friendship soon becomes something more. Yet as long-held truths begin to crumble, she realizes Bellereine is harboring dark and horrifying secrets that can no longer be ignored.
With time ticking down, Junie begins to push against the harsh current that has controlled her entire life. As she grapples with an increasingly unfamiliar world in which she has little control, she is forced to ask herself: When we choose love and liberation, what must we leave behind?
A stunning, standalone romantic fantasy filled with dangerous secrets, forbidden magic, and passion, of a young ruler who fights to protect her kingdom, from bestselling author Sue Lynn Tan and set in the breathtaking world of Daughter of the Moon Goddess.
As the heir to Tianxia, Liyen knows she must ascend the throne and renew her kingdomâs pledge to serve the immortals who once protected them from a vicious enemy. But when she is poisoned, Liyenâs grandfather steals an enchanted lotus to save her life. Enraged at his betrayal, the immortal queen commands the powerful God of War to attack Tianxia.
Upon her grandfatherâs death, Liyen ascends a precarious throne, vowing to end her kingdomâs obligation to the immortals. When she is summoned to the Immortal Realm, she seizes the opportunity to learn their secrets and to form a tenuous alliance to safeguard her people, all with the one she should fear and mistrust the most: the ruthless God of War. As they are drawn together, a treacherous attraction ignites between themâone she has to resist, to not endanger all she is fighting for.
But with darker forces closing in around them, and her kingdom plunged into peril, Liyen must risk everything to save her people from an unspeakable fate, even if it means forging a dangerous bond with the immortal⌠even if it means losing her heart.
A witty, atmospheric, and brilliantly told novel that offers compelling portraits of womanhood, motherhood, and female friendship, along with the irresistible intrigue surrounding an extraordinary British family.
Arriving at the University of Edinburgh for her first term, Pen knows her divorced parents back in Canada are hiding something from her. She believes sheâll find the answer here in Scotland, where an old friend of her fatherâsânow a famous writer known as Lord Lennoxâlives. When she is invited to spend the weekend at Lord Lennoxâs centuries-old estate with his enveloping, fascinating family, Pen begins to unravel her parentsâ secret, just as sheâs falling in love for the first time.
As Pen experiences the sharp shock of adulthood, she comes to rely on herself for the first time in her life. A rich and rewarding novel of campus life, of sexual awakening, and ultimately, of the many ways women can become mothers in this world, The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus asks to what extent we need to look back in order to move forward.