"Quietly heartbroken, Edwin Tully lives alone in the house he used to share with the man he once loved. He tends to damaged books and faded memories, trying to build a future from the fragments of the past. Then the weather turns, and the river spills into Edwin's quiet world, bringing with it Adam Dacre from the Environment Agency. An unlikely knight, this stranger with roughened hands and worn wellingtons offers Edwin the hope of something he thought...

"Cassie is a seemingly typical high school student living in Florida, but every night, she visits a vivid dreamworld where she witnesses the life of Sophia, a seventeen-year-old living in 1920s Riga. Despite her attempts to make sense of her dreams, Cassie is unable to uncover the truth, and her dreams begin to invade her waking life. When Sohpia meets Daniil, her life takes a drastic turn and Cassie finds herself in the midst of a battle between...

"Jackson Ghasnavi is a lot of thingśa techie, a smoothie afficionado, a totally not obsessive list-makeŕbut one thing hés not is a romantic. And why would he be? Hés already had a front row seat to his parentś divorce and picked up the pieces of his sister Jasminés broken heart one too many times.℗No, Jackson is perfectly happy living life behind the sceneśhe is a stage manager, after alĺand keeping his romantic exploits limited to the breakup...

"How ought one to live?" This is the question that obsesses London-based publisher Ayush, driving him to question every act of consumption. He embarks on a radical experiment in his own life and the lives of those connected to him: his practical economist husband; their twins; and even the authors he edits and publishes. One of those authors, a mysterious M. N. Opie, writes a story about a young academic involved in a car accident that causes her...