Breaking the promise he made to his beautiful wife, to never pry into her past, when they arrive at her childhood home, a crumbling manor shrouded in mystery, a scholar of myths must choose between reality and fantasy, even if doing so threatens to destroy their marriage--or their lives.

"Paul Auster's brilliant eighteenth novel opens with a scorched pot of water, which Sy Baumgartner-phenomenologist, noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor-has just forgotten on the stove. Baumgartner's life had been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna, who was killed in a swimming accident nine years earlier. Now 71, Baumgartner continues to struggle to live in her absence as the novel sinuously unfolds into spirals...

"A huge-hearted, redemptive coming-of-old-age tale, a love story, and an ode to good food. Nothing could be more out of character, but after fifty-nine years of marriage, as her husband Bernard's health declines, and her friends' lives become focused on their grandchildren--which Jenny never had--Jenny decides she wants a little something for herself. So she secretly applies to be a contestant on the prime-time TV show Britain Bakes. Whisked into...

Giving up hope that her pilot husband Dean who vanished over the Bermuda Triangle is still alive, Olivia Hamilton finds her life intertwining with that of a particle physicist who casts Dean’s disappearance in a new light, calling everything she believed into question.

A smalltown outcast accused of murdering her mother’s boyfriend receives an unexpected financial windfall and sets out to help her only friend, Sydney, escape a toxic marriage.

A couple inherits an apartment with a spine-tingling past, in a thriller by the New York Times best-selling author of Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six.

"From the beloved bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, an unforgettable novel about a couple in a small town and the complexities of marriage, family, longing, and desire. Malcolm Gephardt, handsome and gregarious longtime bartender at the Half Moon, has always dreamed of owning a bar. When his boss finally retires, Malcolm stretches to buy the place. He sees unquantifiable magic and potential in the Half Moon and hopes to transform it into a bigger...

Solitaire: "When mining engineer Cat Kincaid was trapped in a cave-in, it was Slade Donovan who talked her through the terrifying hours until her rescue. And it was Slade who spirited her home to his Texas ranch to heal. Now he needs her expertise to help him build an emerald mine. Risking her life again would earn his gratitude, but what she wants more than that is his love."-- Texas abduction: "When Cheyenne O'Connor's friend goes missing, she...

"In this empowering Black queer romance reimagining of Charlotte Brontë's classic novel, Jane Eyre, the new governess at Thornfield Hall discovers her cruel employer has locked away his wife as revenge for withholding her inheritance and, as his dark plan unfolds, must find a way to save this woman she's come to love"--

"Sam and Maggie are a normal couple, in a normal house, in a normal neighborhood. There is nothing strange about their heads, their neighbors, or their sweet little dog. Everything is fine. After a mild disagreement and a tiny bit of unpleasantness, things are ack on their way to being find and dandy. Sam and Maggie just need to cliean up a very, very big mess. This is the story of a couple doing their best to get by in a world where things are absolutely,...