On the eve of World War I, an all-female society is discovered somewhere in the distant reaches of the earth by three male explorers who are now forced to re-examine their assumptions about women's roles in society

Whan a devastating house fire reveals a rare treasure among her grandfather's belongings, a young woman, who runs the family bakery, takes refuge at the winter lodge where the local police chief makes her feel safe and loved

Zeba's life is shattered when her husband is found brutally murdered. Zeba is arrested and jailed. With the fate of Zeba's life in his hands, Afghan-born, American-raised Yusuf discovers that, like Afghanistan itself, his client may not be at all what he imagines. A moving look at the lives of modern Afghan women, this is astonishing, frightening, and triumphant. From the author of the bestselling "The Pearl That Broke Its Shell." Print run 50,000....

"Shelby Tebow is the first to go missing. Not long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, vanish just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen, striking fear into their once-peaceful community. Are these incidents connected? After an elusive search that yields more questions than answers, the case eventually goes cold. Now, eleven years later, Delilah shockingly returns. Everyone wants to know what happened to her, but no...

On her 18th birthday, a young woman inherits a fabulous yellow diamond looted by her uncle while serving in India, but the moonstone suddenly disappears, and an enigmatic police detective takes up the investigation

"On the little Scottish island of Mure, halfway between Scotland and Norway, Flora MacKenzie and her fiancé Joel are planning the smallest of "sweetheart weddings," a high summer celebration surrounded only by those very dearest to them. Not everyone on the island is happy about being excluded, though. The temperature rises even further when beautiful Olivia MacDonald, who left Mure ten years ago for bigger and brighter things, returns with a wedding...

Now with a child of her own, a young woman overcome by the demands of husband and family is still haunted by memories of her own mother, who left when she was five, and plagued by constant self-doubt

"Fifteen years ago, Grace Saunders vowed to take her beloved husband for better or worse. Now she's coming to terms with difficult choices as she crafts a memory quilt from scraps of their life together--a life torn to shreds by an accident that has left him in a coma. Enduring months of limbo, Grace is at least not alone. Nan has been widowed for twenty years, but now, with her children grown, her home feels painfully empty. Even the company of her...

Attending an endless series of bridal showers for their friend Kristi, three bridesmaids struggle with private challenges, including Isabella's unhappiness at a job where she is nevertheless very successful, Mary's relationship with a man who prioritizes his mother and Lauren's attraction to a man she despises

"A collection of nine darkly playful and moving stories about women who-at their darkest and loneliest times-discover what is worth loving in the world"-- Provided by publisher