Ten-year-old hockey goalie Jace Osternack knows how to stop a puck. Protecting everything outside the net is a whole different game.When Jace earns a spot on an elite AAA hockey team, it should be the greatest season of his life.Instead, his father leaves for an oil job in Canada the same month his older half-brother moves across the country to live with the mother who abandoned him. Suddenly, Jace is "man of the house"-protecting his mom, his wild little b...

Ten-year-old hockey goalie Jace Osternack knows how to stop a puck. Protecting everything outside the net is a whole different game.When Jace earns a spot on an elite AAA hockey team, it should be the greatest season of his life.Instead, his father leaves for an oil job in Canada the same month his older half-brother moves across the country to live with the mother who abandoned him. Suddenly, Jace is "man of the house"—protecting his mom, his wild little brothers, the back...

“Gritty and suspenseful, Chosen draws us into the obstacle-strewn path of domestic adoption.”—Juliette Fay, author of Shelter MeA young caseworker increasingly entangled in the lives of adoptive and birth parents faces life-altering choices when an extortion attempt goes horribly wrong in Chosen. Written in the spirit of Jodi Picoult and Anna Quindlen, Chosen is an extraordinary debut novel from Chandra Hoffman that deals with the controve...

19-year-old Maia works a kiosk at Philadelphia International Airport, waiting to be discovered and watching people's lives take off while hers stays stagnant. When a handsome commuter charms her with stories of the perfect life in the snow-capped mountains of Colorado, she rashly follows him into a future she was not expecting.Desperate to regain control of her life and sentenced to bedrest in her second pregnancy, Carolyn makes the dangerous decision to hire the young woman she su...

The summer after the loss of their spouses, Juliet and Dean meet over their children's sandcastle friendships on a remote beach in the Cayman Islands. Love blooms among the hibiscus. But as they navigate tentative steps out of grief, it becomes clear that neither has come to the island simply for fun in the sun.Mysterious emails from the States, an accident involving Dean's oldest son, and hazy memories from a night most of Rum Point would like to forget threaten the escapist summe...

The summer after the loss of their spouses, Juliet and Dean meet over their children's sandcastle friendships on a remote beach in the Cayman Islands. Love blooms among the hibiscus. But as they navigate tentative steps out of grief, it becomes clear that neither has come to the island simply for fun in the sun.Mysterious emails from the States, an accident involving Dean's oldest son, and hazy memories from a night most of Rum Point would like to forget threaten the escapist summe...

With Chosen, debut novelist Chandra Hoffman has earned immediate comparisons to Jodi Picoult and Anna Quindlen. This riveting tale features a young caseworker embroiled in the aftermath of an extortion attempt between adoptive and birth parents. Suspenseful and adroitly colored with the many shades of the human condition, this is a novel readers will not soon forget. "Gripping . a heartfelt story well told."-Kirkus Reviews

From Yannick Murphy, award-winning author of The Call, comes a fast-paced story of murder, adultery, parenthood, and romance, involving a girls’ swim team, their morally flawed parents, and a killer who swims in their midst.In a quiet New England community members of swim team and their dedicated parents are preparing for a home meet. The most that Annie, a swim-mom of two girls, has to worry about is whether or not she fed her daughters enough carbs the night before; why ...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train, and the critically acclaimed author of Bird in Hand and The Way Life Should Be*,* comes a novel about friendship and the memories that haunt us—includes a special PS section featuring insights, interviews, and more.On the night of her high school graduation, Kathryn Campbell sits around a bonfire with her four closest friends, including the beautiful but erratic Jennifer. “I’ll be fin...

A "compelling and thought-provoking" (Kristin Hannah) novel about two mothers and one daughter who are linked by tragedy and bound by secrets, from the acclaimed author of Heart Like Mine.The screech of tires brought Hannah Scott’s world as she knew it to a devastating end. A year after she signed the papers to donate her daughter’s organs, Hannah is still reeling with grief when she unexpectedly stumbles into the life of the Bell family, whose fifteen-yea...

This emotional debut by Randy Susan Meyers tells of two sisters torn apart by domestic tragedy. When her mother throws her father out, young Lulu is told never to let him in again. But Lulu disobeys, and the consequences are heartbreaking. Lulu's mother ends up killed, and Lulu and her sister Merry are orphaned. Now, as the sisters grow into adulthood, they find the ghosts of their past are difficult to outrun.

Five years ago, Tia fell into obsessive love with a man she could never have. Married, and the father of two boys, Nathan was unavailable in every way. When she became pregnant, he disappeared, and she gave up her baby for adoption.Five years ago, Caroline, a dedicated pathologist, reluctantly adopted a baby to please her husband. She prayed her misgivings would disappear; instead, she’s questioning whether she’s cut out for the role of wife and mother.Five years ago, Julie...