Jessica: 4351 books

The first novel in Jessica Stirling's enthralling saga series is set in 1930s England, where an East End girl with ideas of her own makes a surprising journey from the back streets of Shadwell to the salons of Mayfair. Susan Hooper is private secretary to bestselling author, Vivian Proudfoot....

There are four Conway women: indomitable Lizzie, who endures despite everything that life in Glasgow can throw at her, and Lizzie's three daughters, each one combining Lizzie's iron will with her own ambitions and desires. Now, as the 1930s draw to a close and war threatens, each sister struggles...

The streets of eighteenth-century Edinburgh, where disease and squalor jostle with high culture and grand ambitions, are the setting for Jessica Stirling's powerful new novel. On the brink of a disastrous marriage Nicola Templeton finally rebels, and flees to Edinburgh to seek refuge with her...

When an unwed pregnant woman is pressured to get married by her boyfriend, parents, and the entire culture around her, she sees a feverish intensity emanating from the path to domesticity, a “paved path shaded by thick-trunked trees, lined with trim grass and manicured mansions, where miniature...

Thanksgiving: A time for thanks. A time for joy. A time for laughter. But not at the Flynn table. There's a sibling rivalry, disappointment and heartbreak, and the love that brings the family together year after year. Told from the perspective of those invited, this novel follows two families who gather round a table and fake the thanks.

Whatever the number, domestic violence victims remain far too many for a preventable crime. More and more victims of intimate partner violence are reaching out to police, prosecutors and judges only to be sorely disappointed, even betrayed. While laws and programs have multiplied over the last few...

In Negotiating Opportunities, Jessica McCrory Calarco argues that the middle class has a negotiated advantage in school. Drawing on five years of ethnographic fieldwork, Calarco traces that negotiated advantage from its origins at home to its consequences at school. Through their parents' coaching,...

I never thought one day I'd make a bet about pedicures to a man and loose.  But of course, I'd never man like him. Jake Wild. Owner of Wild rescue for exotic animals. He's everything I'm not, my polar opposite. I'm heels and my salon, He's dirt and his creatures. But much like the animals he cares...

I fight for a living. Which makes finding a decent guy hard when you're a female MMA fighter. None of them have been my equal. I yearn for a man who can push me to reach new heights and challenge me. A man who will treat me like a lady then lift me up by my backside and impale me against the...

What happens when the myths of old become reality? Thalia Alexander has lived her life in peace until her twenty fifth birthday when she has a strange dream about a man. A tall, dark, and sexy man that shows up at her work the next morning. Tristan Jacks is trouble with a capital...

She dances with a passion I'll never know. Seeing her again tears me at the seams. She was never mine. My soul is stained with the darkness of death. I have killed. I have tortured. I have lost. Her soul is too bright for the shadows I live in and her determination to be the flame in my heart could...

He sings of suffering. His eyes hold the pain of living in sorrow. The moment our gaze meets recognition flares within. We are tortured souls drifting in a sea of darkness. He knows I have secrets that I'll never tell. I am numb. I am broken. I can never be the guiding light through the darkness he...

Thalia and Tristan have overcome trial after trail in their journey.  Not even death could part them. But now a new threat plagues the recently wedded couple.  Thalia's pregnancy scares the gods. Never has there been a union of a  Greek demigod and an Egyptian god. The couple must fight every obstacle...

It was supposed to be an easy stake out.  Until a bunch of bachelorettes mobbed me,changing my life forever. I couldn't get Andi Slaton, with her red hair, blue eyes, and cotton candy flavored lip gloss out of my head. But when she offers herself to aid the FBI to help me take down...