Relationship Fiction
68 Articles & Excerpts
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
 Your Bed or Mine?
by Candy Halliday
Unbelievable! Zada Clark expected the judge to finalize her divorce, not give her and her estranged husband, Rick, ninety days to end their squabble over the house and the dog. Rick declares he's moving back in until they reach an agreement.
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
 Fanged & Fabulous
by Michelle Rowen
My name is Sarah Dearly, and I've got major problems. Last month, I was turned into a vampire by the world's worst blind date. Then I may have, totally by accident, started a war between the mostly peaceful bloodsuckers and a bunch of sociopathic
Crazy is as crazy does . . .
 Pearl Jinx
by Sandra Hill
The Jinx Inc. treasure-hunting company has a new mission: to find the 'cave pearls' rumored to exist in the bottommost cavity of an ancient cave. But first mission leader Caleb Peach has to find the perfect expert consultant
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!
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
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.
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
 How to Be Good
by Nick Hornby
I am in a car park in Leeds when I tell my husband I don't want to be married to him anymore. David isn't even in the car park with me. He's at home, looking after the kids, and I have only called him to remind him that he should write a note
Longing
 The Love Spell. An Erotic Memoir of Spiritual Awakening
by Phyllis Curott
How do you know when it's real? I glanced over to find him smiling at me. I smiled back. He pulled his old Scout off the old gravel road, bumping along the tractor path at the edge of the field.
Christmas Memories
 Southern Fried Divorce
by Judy Conner
Not long after I became his ex-wife, that ex-husband brought me a .38 blue steel revolver and a brown fuzzy puppy. His unannounced arrival at my new bachelorette maisonette was not a complete surprise.
How does a person reenter a life she left nine years earlier?
 Summer of Roses
by Luanne Rice
Knowing that there had been a relentless search for her, that her picture had been plastered on the front pages of every newspaper in Connecticut and beyond? Understanding that every local police department remained on the lookout for her?
One
 A Piece of Normal
by Sandi Kahn Shelton
Speaking of kisses, I know this may sound weird, but in the past month, I have set up three first dates for Teddy, my ex-husband. I'm not sure he's had any kisses - restorative or otherwise - from any of the three women, but at least on tonight's date
Mira
 Lost Hearts in Italy
by Andrea Lee
The call comes three or four times a year. Always in the morning, when Mira's husband and children have left the house, and she is at work in her study, in the dangerous company of words - words that are sometimes docile companions and at other times
The Perfect Triangle
 Instant Love
by Jami Attenberg
Holly is getting her makeup done by the burnout girl she befriended at work. They're in the bathroom at the back of the pharmacy, and Shelly's dusting one perfect pastel-colored triangle on each eyelid. Same as hers.
1 June 1991
 The Man of My Dreams
by Curtis Sittenfeld
Julia Roberts is getting married. It's true: Her dress will be an eight-thousand-dollar custom-made two-piece gown from the Tyler Trafficante West Hollywood salon, and at the reception following the ceremony, she'll be able to pull off the train
Prologue
 I Say a Little Prayer
by E. Lynn Harris
There are times when I think that I, Chauncey Dion Greer, am passing through this life on my way to the life God really planned for me. Then, at other times, I think that God must have a wicked sense of humor. Who knew?
Chapter 1
 The Jewels of Tessa Kent
by Judith Krantz
Agnes Patricia Riley Horvath, whose daughter, Teresa, would become Tessa Kent, lay in bed at three in the morning. She had been awakened, as usual, by obsessive, angry thoughts about her husband, Sandor, and the way in which he dominated the upbringing
Chapter One
 Wolves in Chic Clothing
by Carrie Doyle Karasyov, Jill Kargman
Manhattan was in a tailspin. Literally. The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show was in town, and if that didn't clog up midtown's grid of streets enough, it was also Fashion Week. There were bitches everywhere.
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