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When Nikki takes a creative writing job at her local temple, with visions of emancipating the women of the community she left behind as a self-important teenager, she's shocked to discover a group of barely literate women who have no interest in her ideals. Yet to her surprise, the white dupatta of the widow hides more than just their modesty....

Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character--a "difficult" woman. By no means is she conventionally "nice," but she will never be forgotten. Ruth's story is told in three parts, each focusing on a crucial time in her life. When we first meet her--on Long Island, in the...

Love? For Maja Storm? From a man? Laughable. One too many traumas disrupted my brain chemistry, turning me into something I never thought I would be. Once a bright star, I was now something akin to a burning sun. Anyone who dared to cross me was dealt with accordingly. Bumping into someone like...

The BRAND NEW laugh-out-loud, feel-good read for ladies of a certain age! 👓 📚🍷 Perfect for fans of Maddie Please, Judy Leigh, and Karen King. 'Uplifting, funny, poignant, resonant, this is a pacy tale of friendship, frolics and solidarity.' Judy Leigh Welcome to the Widows’ Book Club...

After her wealthy in-laws launch a vicious custody battle, widowed nurse Kelsey York is out of options. Her only hope is a marriage of convenience with Preston "Mac" MacCormack—the island's resident grumpy billionaire who is determined to sail away from his own tragic past. The deal is simple: she gets a husband with the power to protect her son, and he fulfills his grandfather's dying wish. But due to their forced proximity in a small cottage on the coast of Maine, their carefully constructed arrangement begins to crumble.

The runaway bestseller about new starts and the power of friendship - guaranteed to make you smile. Viv, Janet and Zelda know all about facing the wobbly first year of becoming a widow as their friendship was forged when they ran away from the same dreary support group. Forming instead the much...

Gervaise, veuve à vingt-deux ans d'Auguste Mirette, le boulanger du quartier, rencontre par un curieux hasard Nicolas Delval, un avocat de renom, qui s'en éprend dès qu'il l'aperçoit tellement sa beauté le chavire. Empressé, il fait tout pour la revoir. Puis, follement amoureux, il en informe sa famille de Westmount. Ses parents comme ses deux soeurs sont offensés de le voir fréquenter une veuve d'un quartier populaire. Faisant fi de leurs commentaires,

The BRAND NEW laugh-out-loud novel page-turner bestselling author Julia Jarman ☀️ Perfect for fans of Maddie Please, Judy Leigh, and anyone who thinks age is just a number! 🍷The Widows Wine Club of Viv, Janet and Zelda have navigated choppy waters before. Having supported each other...

"Saint Kate is a myth " Reckless magnate Luca Castelli thinks he knows everything about his late father's widow, Kathryn. He won't be fooled by the tabloids' adoration to his mind, this young, achingly beautiful woman is no saint! So when terms of the will force Luca to become Kathryn's boss...

After I suddenly lose my husband, Patrick, in a senseless shooting, I’m lost in a sea of well-meaning people trying to make the unimaginable seem possible. When a friend of my sister’s connects me to the Wild Widows, I find a group of fellow travelers who understand my new reality in a way no one else in my life ever could. The Wild Widows have one requirement for membership to their group: I must be open to the possibility of a "Chapter Two", which is what they call a second chance at love.  

Years ago, when Taylor Cummings-Lonergan co-founded the Wild Widows with Iris, she never imagined she might need the group a second time, but that's exactly what happens when her new husband, Will, is killed in a tragic accident at work, leaving her two children heartbroken for a second time and a new baby due soon. Iris and the other widows step up to support Taylor during this difficult time, but each of them is forced to ponder the vagaries of life and love and whether their optimistic approach to life after widowhood is realistic now that they know disaster can find them again.

A confirmed bachelor, Cliff Howard drives an expensive car and dates stylish glamour girls. But one look into Diana Collins's soulful brown eyes has him thinking about car pools instead of the fast lane. Try as he might to resist, Cliff is soon forced to admit that this lovely widow and her rambunctious young daughters could grow on a man. But can they convince Cliff to give up his playboy ways for domestic bliss?

Almost three years after losing my husband, Jim, to ALS, I’ve started to emerge from the fog of widowhood, thanks in large part to my sexy roommate—and former high school crush—Tom Hammett. When he offered me a suite in his spacious home, he got me out of my parents’ basement where I’d lived with Jim during his illness and since his death. But now Tom is experiencing a health crisis, and I’m not sure I have it in me to go down that road again, even if I suspect I might be falling in love with him. 

In the year since I lost my wife in childbirth, I’ve been all about survival as I adapt to life as a single dad to our son. That’s especially true after my mother-in-law also died suddenly. Life has been way more than I can handle, but somehow I’m getting by, thanks mostly to the Wild Widows, a group of fellow travelers who make me feel less alone with my grief. They encourage me to hire fellow Wild Widow Wynter as my nanny, and that’s been working out great, until two things happen—she and my son go missing, and when they’re found safe, I realize my feelings for her are anything but platonic.

Six months after a tragic accident that steals her husband and children, Courtney Weston exists in a house full of ghosts. Grief has hollowed her out, leaving her frozen in time, until the day she decides she can no longer live with the pain. In the quiet of her backyard shed, she prepares to end it all. She doesn't expect to be interrupted.

The Foster and Seigal kids are all grown up, and their parents couldn’t be more pleased to see them living their dreams. But are they really doing that? Or are they hiding within lives that help them avoid their personal truths?

When Pepper Taylor meets handsome, brilliant movie mogul Gabriel Seigal, she can’t help but suspect that he’s just another failed relationship in disguise. After all, her best trait has always been attracting the wrong type of men. But Gabe isn’t like all the others. Instead, he’s everything she never thought existed and more. When he pops the question, Pepper doesn’t hesitate, grabbing on to happiness with both hands as tight as she can. Ultimately, Pepper learns Gabe can’t offer the type of love originally promised.

If I didn't love her, I would kill her. I'd kill her for so much, but mostly for hiding my kid from me. For up and running, and choosing to keep my daughter out of my life. She doesn't just belong to Melody. She's mine, too, and Melody doesn't get to keep her to herself. She said she ran because of me, because of what I did. I can't blame her for that. I f--ked up, and I might have lost the most important woman in my life, but I refuse to lose my daughter. Not when we haven't even had a chance. Will fighting for my daughter lead me to winning back my girl's heart?

The music died in Vivienne Stark’s life a long time ago and nothing would bring it back. How could the trivialities of life matter when people like her husband died defending their country? She’d vowed to never fall in love again and find meaning in other ways.

With her only child off to Harvard, recent widow Francie Davis is finally going to college. But when a grumpy and undeniably attractive new boss and an unexpected visitor enter the picture, she realizes life still has a few surprises in store for her.