An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter is set over the course of one summer on a lush private island and explores addiction and sex, family and independence and who holds the power in a modern underworld.

Stylish, suburban Katherine is eighteen when she is propelled into the heart of Professor Jacob Goldman's rambling home and his large eccentric family. As his enchanting yet sharp-tongued wife Jane gives birth to her sixth child, Katherine meets beautiful, sulky Roger and his volatile younger brother Jonathan. Inevitable heartbreak sends her fleeing to Rome, but ten years later, older and wiser, she returns to find the Goldmans again.

Fleeing a false accusation of murder in Ireland, Molly Murphy becomes involved in another murder case when the man who was harrassing her on the boat to America turns up dead also.

"One day, a girl get on her motorcycle and rides away. She wants to wander the world. To go . . . elsewhere. [Based on] the true story of the first woman to ride a motorcycle around the world"--Provided by publisher.

"Once upon a time, a young woman named Juno lived in a cabin, deep in the woods on a remote island. She had only Mother; Father; her little brother Boy; and a book of fairytales for company. They lived in constant fear, because danger lurked on the other side of the lake, seeking them out--'strangers', as they called them, who wanted to destroy the family. They lived safely, under seven strict commandments. Until Juno was spotted by a stranger. In...

"Sáhara ama las flores aunque tiene nombre de desierto. Sáhara trabaja en el negocio familiar. Una pequeña floristería en Malasaña. Ciro es un joven lleno de aspiraciones frustradas. Vive en una habitación en Lavapiés. Ciro choca con Nicolás, un repartidor de comida. Decide suplantar su identidad y trabajar con su nombre. Nico-Ciro y Sáhara chocan en el Ojalá. Abren varias puertas que son volcanes. Y deciden arder. David Martínez Álvarez...

Fanny Price is one of nine children and comes from a poor family. So when a rich relative offers to take her in, her parents quickly agree. But money doesn't bring happiness and Fanny struggles to settle into her new home. Her only relief is her new friend, Edmund. As she grows up, Fanny realizes how much Edmund means to her. But will he ever see her as more than a timid young girl?"--Provided by publisher.

"Magic flickers. Love flames. Chaos reigns. Magic is forbidden throughout the Morning Realms. Magicians are called abomination, and blamed for the plague of monsters that razed the land twenty years before. Jin Zhara already had enough to worry about—appease her stepmother’s cruel whims, looking after her blind younger sister, and keeping her own magical gifts under control—without having to deal with rumors of monsters re-emerging in the marsh....

"Meet Enid: a lesbian who's a serial dater and deaf in one ear. She works at The Space Agency as an information architect, and when she's not obsessing over true crime podcasts, she's managing her crippling phobia of bald people. While she tries not think about her teenage years, she can't seem to stop obsessively watching her childhood YouTube channel. But as Enid fumbles her way through her first serious relationship and navigates a new family life...

"A young woman moves from the place of her birth to the remote northern country of her forebears to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has recently left him. Soon after her arrival, a series of inexplicable events occurs - collective bovine hysteria; the demise of a ewe and her nearly born lamb; a local dog's phantom pregnancy; a potato blight. She notices that the local suspicion about incomers in general seems to be directed with some intensity...