When she discovers that her former dorm mate at Tarble, an all-women's college, has disappeared, 22-year-old Ruby Rousseau, recovering from a deep depression, sets out to find the truth, which forces her to reexamine her own troubled past in the process.

Rebounding from a love affair gone sour, Bronte Talbott keeps a lookout for a rebound to help mend her broken heart, and when she meets Max Heyworth, she's certain he's the perfect transition man. But when she discovers he's a duke, she has to decide if she wants to stay with him for the long haul and deal with the opportunities -- and challenges -- of becoming a royal.

Thirty-six-year-old biology teacher Gal Garner's regimented life will never be the same when her estranged sister's teenage daughter Riley arrives one afternoon unannounced.

"From first-time novelist Sandra Block, a gripping pageturner about a psychiatrist determined to discover the truth about her past" --

"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"--

"Everyone remembers the one. No, not that one. The other one. The wrong one. The one you couldn't let go of. The one you'll never forget"--

Emma Blaxland-Hunter, a prima ballerina from London, must re-evaluate her life after doctors declare her knee unfit for dancing. At the behest of her mother, Emma returns home to Sydney, where she discovers her affluent and loving grandmother, Beattie Blaxland, has left her an inheritance: Wildflower Hill, an old sheep farm in Tasmania. When Emma settles in temporarily to clean out Wildflower Hill and sell it, she discovers a photo of her grandmother...

It's the start of another school year at St. Ambrose. While the children are busy in the classroom, their mothers are learning sharper lessons in friendship, betrayal, the laws of community, the transience of power and how to get invited to lunch. Beatrice is the undisputed queen bee. Heather is desperate to volunteer, desperate to be noticed and desperate to belong. Georgie is desperate for a cigarette. Rachel is watching them all and keeping her...

"When firefighter Sean Magee becomes trapped in a fire, he's led to a window--by what he swears is divine intervention. Coming through that fire, he knows that he can no longer be that man whose heart is closed to the world. But before he can face his future, he must confront his past"--

An all-expense-paid week at a luxury villa in Jamaica -- it's the invitation of a lifetime for a group of old college friends. All four women are desperate not just for a reunion, but for an escape. Tina is drowning under the demands of mothering four young children. Allie is shattered by the news that a genetic illness runs in her family. Savannah is carrying the secret of her husband's infidelity. And, finally, there's Pauline, who spares no expense...