For fans of Christina Baker Kline and Fiona Davis, a coming-of-age story about a young woman discovering love, loss, and the power of her own creativity in World War II San Francisco.San Francisco in 1944 is a bustling place, a revolving door of soldiers and sailors passing through on their way to the war in the Pacific. Twenty-year-old Irene Cleary, however, is not going anywhere. Although she'd love to travel, the seamstress shop she inherited from her mentor keeps her firmly rooted in the only city she's ever known. She pours her energy into dressmaking and volunteers for the war effort by dancing with servicemen at the USO. But Irene's life is transformed when she designs a gown for Cynthia Burke, the socialite whose new marriage to Max, a handsome Chicago businessman, is the talk of the Nob Hill elite. As Irene is drawn into the Burkes' glamorous, troubled orbit, and as she becomes absorbed in making costumes for the first American performance of a ballet...

A chance encounter draws two old classmates toward an unforgettable reckoning in this "very smart and darkly funny" novel exploring power—and how it tangles with privilege, marriage, motherhood, and midlife—from the acclaimed author of Alys, Always, and Her (Flynn Berry, author of Northern Spy)."I look. I can’t stop looking. That’s the deal, isn’t it? We all know that’s how it works. If someone wants to be seen—and oh, how they want to be seen—then someone has to watch." Ruth is alone, unnoticed, and at a loss: her marriage has ended, her daughter is leaving home, and her job is leading nowhere. But luckily Sookie is back in her life–vivid, self-assured Sookie, who never spared the time for Ruth when they were teenagers, but who now seems to want to be friends. But as Ruth is caught up in Sookie’s life, she sees that...

Scottish Highland warriors with their own brand of honor, courage, and chivalry until you threaten those they love, then watch them become dark, relentless and deadly.Dangerous DesiresSeven years ago, Phoebe Dunbar's world shattered. In a Scotland, decimated after Culloden Moor, she battles to reclaim her life as a spy for an elite group of Jacobite rebels, swearing no man will make her vulnerable again. Until the one man who has the power to reawaken her dreams and desires charges back into her life, the one man who can protect her from a nemesis bent on finishing what started in the past. Phoebe agrees to a marriage of convenience, but can Slade heal her heart?Tempestuous PastRiddled with guilt, and having lost his appetite for war, the devastatingly handsome and mercenary Colonel Slade MacLean returns to the Highlands to find his dearest childhood friend is now a captivating beauty with dangerous secrets....

Halloween is just around the corner, and the biggest worry Kade has is picking a couple costume with Aiesha. That is, until she has a few too many on a night out with her fellow teachers and leaves Aiesha a late-night drunken message suggesting they move in together. In the clear light of day, is that really what she wants? If so, how will they make it work? Besides all that, Aiesha seems reluctant. It is too much too soon?