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Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
448 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An ex-cop sets out to find her missing sister and discovers the horrifying truth about her family... A traumatic experience in the line of duty forces thirty-year-old Avery Rogers to abandon both her relationship and her position as a Kentucky State Police officer. She retreats to a college town where she works an unfulfilling job as a security guard, breaking up fights between drunken frat boys. But a frantic phone call turns Avery's life upside...
Author
Language
English
Description
Stepping out of her comfort zone with her former best friend Beat Dawkins to convince their mothers to perform one last concert on Christmas Eve, Melody Gallard, the daughter of music royalty, discovers a decades-old scandal threatens to wreck everything--the reunion, their relationships with their mothers and their newfound love.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"After their mother passes, three estranged siblings reunite to sort out her estate. Beth, the oldest, never left home. She stayed with her mom, caring for her until the very end. Nicole, the middle child, has been kept at arm's length due to her ongoing battle with a serious drug addiction. Michael, the youngest, lives out of state and hasn't been back to their small Wisconsin town since their father ran out on them seven years before. While going...
Author
Publisher
Harper Muse
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Bestselling author Aimie Runyan makes her contemporary women's fiction debut with this charming escape into the lavender fields of Southern France and a young woman who discovers her family's secrets and the hope for her own future"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Canary Street Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The eldest of five siblings, Quinn Mannion has always found success--head altar boy, valedictorian of Honeymoon High, big-city lawyer. Until he gave it all up. Walking away from his lucrative career and returning to Honeymoon Harbor to reopen the old family pub wasn't as tough as he thought. Not nearly as tough as meeting the woman who was meant to be his forever. But loving a married woman is a line Quinn won't cross. Despite Amanda Barrow's attempts...
Author
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
While their mother entertains lovers and friends in her cottage on the Isle of Wight, refusing to ever speak of her painful past, sisters Rachel, Imogen, and Sasha find her silence keeping them from finding true happiness, in a novel that asks whether children can ever be free from the mistakes of their parents.
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tish Darling, the matriarch and protector of what's left of the family fortune, returns to Riptide, a decades-old beach house on Cape Cod, for her granddaughter's wedding where she reveals an old secret, kept with the best of intentions, that throws both the wedding and the family off course.
13) Gone tonight
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Catherine Sterling thinks she knows her mother. Ruth Sterling is quiet, hardworking, and lives for her daughter. All her life, it's been just the two of them against the world. But now, Catherine is ready to spread her wings, move from home, and begin a new career. And Ruth Sterling will do anything to prevent that from happening. Ruth Sterling thinks she knows her daughter. Catherine would never rebel, would never question anything about her mother's...
Author
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When an at-home DNA test reveals the truth about her father, Summer Sutherland, meeting him for the first time, settles into his Carmel home, ready to get to know her instant family-and pursue a romance with his business partner, which could tear their lives apart.
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Family doesn't mean everyone has to like each other. That's the case when cousins Taryn, Anna Rose, and Jorja return to Shamrock, Texas, to help manage their grandmother's flower shop, the Lucky Shamrock...Thank heaven for a handsome go-between like Clinton, who lives above the shop. The easygoing war vet, and most eligible bachelor in Wheeler County, is now throwing romance into the mix and setting the local women to gossiping. But as the hot months...
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Atria Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When her daughter goes missing right before her high school graduation, social media star Charlie, suspected of foul play by their fans, the police and the FBI, realizes the rosy façade they portrayed online hid a dangerous reality as she searches for the daughter she thought she knew.
17) Love, unscripted
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"This escapist, summery beach read about a woman who scripted her perfect boyfriend but hates the actor playing him in the on-screen adaptation is perfect for fans of romance, women's fiction, and Hallmark movies"--
Author
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
381 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The quiet, introverted daughter of a flamboyant soap-star agrees to take her Elvis-obsessed mother to Graceland one last time before she dies despite leaving Memphis with a secret and a signed agreement never to return.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An invitation to Catalina Island from billionaire CEO Richard Kingsley. For his sons, Ted and John, and their wives, it's an opportunity to curry favor, gain control of a real estate empire, and secure their family's futures. For the controlling patriarch, succession is a contest. He and his newest wife won't make it an easy win. Then Richard's estranged live-wire daughter, Sibley, crashes the party. She's the least of the night's surprises. As the...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
393 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Three months after Kyo Maclear's father dies in December 2018, she gets the results of a DNA test showing that she and the father who raised her are not biologically related. Suddenly Maclear becomes a detective in her own life, unravelling a family mystery piece by piece, and assembling the story of her biological father. Along the way, larger questions arise: what exactly is kinship? And what does it mean to be a family? Unearthing is a captivating...