The perfect marriage? Or the perfect lie? Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth, she has charm and elegance. You might not want to like them, but you do. You'd like to get to know Grace better. But it's difficult, because you realise Jack and Grace are never apart. Some might call this true love. Others might ask why Grace never answers the phone. Or how she can never meet for coffee, even though she doesn't work. How...

Fleeing an abusive wealthy husband, Helen Ward changes her identity and moves across the country to build a new life for herself, but her past may come back to haunt her as it threatens her relationship with Sam Tolliver.

Casey Duncan is a homicide detective with a secret: when she was in college, she killed a man. She was never caught, but he was the grandson of a mobster and she knows this crime will catch up to her. Casey's best friend, Diana, is on the run from a violent, abusive ex-husband. When Diana's husband finds her, and Casey herself is attacked shortly after, Casey knows it's time for the two of them to disappear again. Diana has heard of a domestic violence...

"Escaping from an abusive marriage, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone to the vibrant 1950s pink city of Jaipur. There she becomes the most highly requested henna artist - and confidante - to the wealthy women of the upper class. But trusted with the secrets of the wealthy, she can never reveal her own...Known for her original designs and sage advice, Lakshmi must tread carefully to avoid the jealous gossips who could ruin her reputation...

In Poor People's Flowers, Suzanna runs fast. Twice she ran away from men. The first man was her husband. The second a stranger, who promised to take her from New Mexico to Colorado in the mid 1930s. Suzanna runs until she meets two other men, and a beautiful woman. One of them uses her, the other helps her. The woman taught her to work in a working class bar, and together they searched for the children Suzanna left behind when she ran.--Back cover....

Best-selling author Jennifer Chiaverini's delightful Elm Creek Quilts series features strong women who face life head-on and chronicle their triumphs and tragedies in elaborate quilts. Here, listeners meet Rosa Diaz Barclay, a woman fighting for her family's survival in Prohibition-era Southern California.

Keely Moreno's foot reflexology courses never taught her how to deal with a corpse. After finally breaking free from her abusive ex-husband, Keely is pursuing a new career in Key West. All goes well until she reports to the home of her wealthy patient, Margaux Ashford, and finds her dead-killed by a bullet later found to have been fired from Keely's own gun.

When a young woman is abducted by a Buffalo Soldier, a bounty hunter named Max is contracted to go after them and bring her home. Finding out that she fled from an abusive husband, Max is faced with the choice to finish the job or look the other way while ruthless assassins and his longtime rival, Joe, close in.