Contemporary Women category: 26023 books

She's a single parent of a teenage son who's just lost her high-paying technology position in Silicon Valley. He's a widower from Montana who's looking for a new start revitalizing the iconic Ocean Reads bookstore. Will life ease up enough to give them a chance to fall in love in this California coast...

"The wine! The food! The Italian!" She's come to Italy for a little adventure, good food, and a last trip with her college-aged daughter. When a good-looking Italian winemaker invites her to dinner, she finds more than she anticipated. But how can romance in Italy be more than a fling when...

As local celebrity chef Suzie Hart starts to step out of her regional fame and into the bigger world, she launches her debut cooking show with some local flavor—a blind date matchmaking sketch with a friend that goes south quicker than geese in winter…. Becca North doesn't want a boyfriend—she...

From the author of Spice, another sweet and sexy story about the women of the Sugar & Spice Café Uninhibited passion is all she needs to turn her life around… Siobhan “Sugar” Malloy, co-owner of Sugar and Spice Café and part-time burlesque dancer, believes that love is for the...

Dancing With the Fat Woman is a poignant and musical take on 21st Century dating and relationships. Carolyn Carter is a single woman looking for love and marriage. The only thing stopping her from finding it is Carolyn Carter! Carolyn is a plus size beauty who is looking for her Mr....

A woman's past . . . A new beginning. It's the only thing former child star Moira Farrar wants. Putting her painful Hollywood memories in the rearview mirror, she's headed to Texas and to an exciting new job directing a small-town theater group. But it's the sinfully sexy smile of red-headed...

Katie Warren didn't want her husband to die—not really—but he did. A year later, Katie is plagued by guilt for wishing him dead and by the anger she still harbors toward him for betraying her. She has given up her volunteers gigs, called a cease-fire in the pageant war between her daughter and...

Soldiering On contains four short stories of people who need a life. They've been in limbo but the time has come to take a chance. Going Home tells the story of a soldier who had to decide between two women, both which mean a lot to him. A Place for Jodie tells the tale of a young woman looking for...

A tragedy on a hot summer night at a lake house forever alters the lives of two best friends—and the man they both love. But the truth isn’t as simple as it appears in this intricate novel of love, friendship, betrayal, and forgiveness. Leah has been waiting for this moment a long time:...

The more they read, the more they learn. And the more they learn, the more the women in the Dirty Girls Book Club want to experience it for themselves… Confirmed city girl Kim Chang loves the book club’s foray into erotic fiction, but she’s not sold on their latest choice of cowboy erotica....

An unforgettable story about the complex choices women make for love, motherhood, and family—and the unexpected events that open our hearts to what really matters in life. Clare Elias feels more than ready to conquer being a parent. She’s already mastered the business world, running a flourishing...

Killian Murphey Finds A Forbidden Distraction in The Women's Fiction Saga, SIN WORTH THE PENANCE by M.J. Schiller An entire ocean can’t separate Killian Murphey from his grief… But shortly after his return to Ireland Killian finds himself in an unexpected liplock. It definitely gives him...

A MODERN-DAY ROGUE A smooth-talking negotiator, Jared Cassidy does multimillion-dollar deals for breakfast...and any number of women in between. What he can’t handle? His mother. And in a moment of insanity he told her he’s finally found a bride. AND AN OLD-FASHIONED WALLFLOWER More than...

In the vein of New York Times bestselling authors Susan Mallery and Kristan Higgins comes a women's fiction novel about moving forward and mending relationships after two sisters are torn apart by a devastating betrayal. Lately, just thinking about gowns and centerpieces makes her want to hide...