"When a PhD student ventures to a mountain cabin to finish her dissertation, the hothouse community subsumes her in a series of ill-advised relationships"-- "From the author of Blame, a new novel about the unexpected damage inflicted by romantic entanglements. It's the early 1980s: Reagan is in the White House and his trickle-down theory is gaining traction in the national psyche. Cressida Hartley, twenty-eight, a PhD candidate in economics, has...

"After calling Ireland home for six months, Boston expat Maura Donovan still has a lot to learn about Irish ways -- and Sullivan's Pub is her classroom. Maura didn't only inherit a business, she inherited a tight-knit community. And when a tragedy strikes, it's the talk of the pub. A local farmer, out for a stroll on the beach with his young son, has mysteriously disappeared. Did he drown? Kill himself? The child can say only that he saw a boat. Everyone...

Homeless Roxy wanders the streets of New York, where she is recruited and trained by the head of a high-priced escort service before taking in her long-lost sister in the hopes of reuniting her with their family.

When she discovers that her sister Roxy, who was kicked out of the house by their father eight years earlier, has become a high-priced New York call girl, Emmie sets out to spy on her sister and learn more about her life.

Nestled in bucolic upstate New York, the Pennywort farm has at its center a remarkable maze of colorful gardens where local legend says a visitor can gain answers to life's most difficult problems. The labyrinth has never helped Olivia Pennywort, the garden's enigmatic caretaker. She's spent her entire life there harboring a secret. But when her childhood best friend Sam Van Winkle returns to the valley, Olivia begins to question her safe, isolated...

As the Mother-Daughter Book Club reads Jane Eyre, the girls and some of their mothers are involved in some serious competitions, Becca finds romance when the Wyoming pen pals come for a visit, and a wedding brings the British Berkeley brothers and even Stinkerbelle to Concord.