In 1955, Alexandra Durant is unexpectedly dismissed from her graduate program mere months before receiving her PhD. Hardened by her experiences and the disease that took away her mother’s memory, Alexandra is wary when the powerful dean of the psychology department, John Marlowe, offers her a servant position at his elderly mother’s house with the … Read more
Dr. Miriam Stewart works tirelessly to help Appalachian women gain control over their bodies—to make a deliberate decision whether to be a mother. Bone-weary, but with a nagging fear of the obsolescence of retirement, Miriam is sandwiched between two frustratingly independent women; neither will listen to her advice. Her aging mother, Lillian, a locally beloved, … Read more
When Crystal’s husband, Brian, suddenly announces that his company is sending him to manage its Bangkok office and that he expects her and their children to come along, she reluctantly acquiesces. She doesn’t want to leave the job she loves and everything familiar in their small Oklahoma town; it’s 1975, however, and Crystal, a woman … Read more
I didn’t know being fired from my Grumpy Boss would include a three-month severance package and a surprise pregnancy. FML I never planned on working for grumpy, billionaire boss Matthew Cohen for more than eight months. Matthew is a tyrant of a boss, rude, angry, cruel, and just a grump with the capital “G.” We … Read more
A coming-of-middle-age novel that challenges the assumption that the status quo is as good as it gets. A love story of self, of past, of present, of future. One woman’s journey to put the pieces of her life together in the most meaningful way – at times chaotic, at times cathartic, but ultimately beautiful in … Read more
It wasn’t quite Marie Kondo meets Grey Gardens in The Women’s Room, but it was close. Professor Ludwig Berg hoarded; Grace Berg gave away as much as she could. During their thirty-five years of marriage, Luddy was all about the concrete, while abstract Grace sidelined her career in music because marriage and the family required … Read more
In this story, set in modern Cyprus, we follow the lives of three women: Rachel, Grace and Jen. Three lives connected since the eighties; three husbands, three love stories … three secrets and one momentous holiday, that changes them all forever. In the magical island setting, the past and the present collides, with devastating consequences. … Read more