Relationship Fiction
68 Articles & Excerpts
Part 1
 Happiness Sold Separately
by Lolly Winston
Elinor Mackey is cleaning out her purse, trying to lighten her load, wondering how a broken sprinkler head wound up among the contents, when she first learns that her husband, Ted, is having an affair.
Part 1
 The Good Husband
by Gail Godwin
As a young woman, the brilliant and eternally curious Magda Danvers took the academic world by storm. Then, to everyone's surprise, she married Francis Lake, a mild, midwestern seminarian, who has devoted his life to taking care of his charismatic wife.
January
 Valentines: Stories
by Olaf Olafsson
Olaf Olafsson's fans will recognize the perfect restraint and precision - and quick wit - with which he characteristically explores these dark epiphanies, when the heart is suddenly laid bare, whether by love or betrayal, disenchantment or regret
Fuzzyland
 Dead Boys: Stories
by Richard Lange
These hard-hitting, deeply felt stories follow straight arrows and outlaws, have-it-alls and outcasts, as they take stock of their lives and missteps and struggle to rise above their turbulent pasts.
Chapter 1
 Dinner First, Me Later?
by Candy Halliday
Every Saturday night, best friends and neighbors Zada, Jen, Tish, and Alicia heat up their quaint little cul-de-sac with the infamous Housewives Fantasy Club. Everyone has a secret fantasy to share. Some have better ones to hide. Imagine!
Chapter 1
 Hot Wheels and High Heels
by Jane Graves
Trophy wife Darcy McDaniel has just discovered that, thanks to her embezzling husband, her posh, upper-class life is gone for good. Now she's trading her suburban palace for a trailer park and her weekly salon appointments for a job.
Chapter 1
 The You I Never Knew
by Susan Wiggs
For every woman who has ever loved... and never forgotten. At last, Michelle Turner is going back to the Montana town where she grew up too fast, fell in love too hard, and wound up pregnant and alone.
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 The Marriage Diaries: A Novel
by Rebecca Campbell
Meet Sean and Celeste - living proof that opposites attract. Savvy and sophisticated Celeste is a top clothing buyer in London; Sean is a scruffy, eccentric writer turned stay-at-home dad who, courtesy of the couple's toddler
Ghost Wife
 Skylight Confessions
by Alice Hoffman
Here is a family so real, so tragic, so devoted, it is as if they have written their own riveting history-a quest for love and truth. Glass breaks, love hurts, and families make their own rules. No one who reads this book will ever forget it
Snow
 The Ice Queen
by Alice Hoffman
Be careful what you wish for. A woman touched by tragedy as a child lives a quiet life, keeping others at a distance. She wants it that way. Then she utters an idle wish and, while standing in her house, is struck by lightning. But she survives.
The Angel Called
 The 158-Pound Marriage
by John Irving
The darker vision about a ménage a quatre in a New England university town foreshadow those of The World According to Garp; but this very trim and precise novel is a marked departure from the author's generally robust, boisterous style.
Eva
 Choose Me
by Xenia Ruiz
With its unique format, Choose Me is a moving, insightful, and challenging novel. It shows us the decisions we can change, the mistakes we can't always undo, and how faith helps us find the smallest-and sweetest-ways to reach for the stars.
Chapter 1
 It's About Your Husband
by Lauren Lipton
San Fernando Valley native Iris Hedge left her husband and traded coasts for the job of a lifetime-only to lose it in a New York minute. Now unattached, unemployed, and broke, she dreads her loneliness and imminent credit card bills
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 How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls
by Zoey Dean
Recent Yale graduate Megan Smith comes to Manhattan with big plans for a career in journalism and even bigger student loan debt: $75,000, to be exact. When she flails at a disastrous editorial meeting at her trashy tabloid job
Chapter 1
 Dreamkeepers
by Dorothy Garlock
Kelly Templeton had returned to Alaska hoping to put her brief, disastrous marriage behind her. But when the lodge owner opens her door expecting to find a guest, she's confronted with six feet of furious male instead.
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 A Sundog Moment
by Sharon Baldacci
What do you do when your whole life changes in an instant? Now, from Sharon Baldacci, a dazzling new voice in the realm of fiction, comes a poignant novel of love and loss and faith redeemed ... a starkly beautiful story about what can be found
Part 1
 The Blonde Theory: A Novel
by Kristin Harmel
Do gentlemen really prefer blondes? Not according to Harper Roberts. Harper is the youngest attorney in her firm to make partner and, at thirty-five, the oldest one to remain unmarried. It seems the more successful she gets, the faster men run
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 Five Things I Can't Live Without
by Holly Shumas
On paper, Nora's life looks perfect. She's moving in with her boyfriend Dan, she has a stable job and a great group of friends. But she's stuck in what she refers to as 'meta-life,' the plight of overthinking and secondguessing to the point
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 The Frog Prince
by Jane Porter
Holly Bishop is the proverbial, small-town good girl. She always follows the rules, thinks of others first, and she never, ever makes mistakes. Until she marries the man she thought was her Prince Charming, who confesses on their honeymoon
Chapter 1
 Miss Match
by Leslie Carroll
For drama teacher Kathryn Lamb, being thirty-five and single means an endless run on the dating wheel. Everyone from her happily married sister to her meddling neighbor thinks it's time for Kitty to take drastic action to find herself a wonderful man.
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