An Australian surgeon, held in a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, struggles with starvation and cholera, while remembering a passionate affair and facing the lasting costs of love, war, and survival.
On Jeju Island, two lifelong friends in an all-female diving group navigate war, colonialism, and betrayals that threaten to break their bond and their unique matriarchal world.
Maggie Tulliver, a spirited woman in Victorian England, navigates sibling loyalty and social rebellion, always longing for a love her brother Tom cannot return.
In this 19th-century Russian novel, the officer Pechorin creates destruction and manipulates others in the Caucasus, embodying a generation's spiritual emptiness.
In a Mississippi Gulf Coast town, a pregnant teen and her brothers deal with poverty, a coming hurricane, and the harsh demands of family and nature as they try to save what little they have.
In a crumbling Himalayan mansion, a disillusioned judge, his granddaughter in a forbidden romance, and a cook whose son chases the American dream navigate personal turmoil and the violent currents of a nation grappling with its past and future.
Caught between the Loyalists and Patriots, a young enslaved girl in Revolutionary New York navigates espionage and betrayal in a desperate, deeply personal quest for freedom after her promised emancipation is cruelly stolen.
Penelope Featherington, a lifelong secret admirer, finds her quiet devotion to Colin Bridgerton changed when she uncovers his hidden depths, forcing them both to confront long-held assumptions and the true identity of London's most scandalous gossip.
Decades after the Holocaust separated them in Prague, a chance meeting in New York reunites a doctor with the artist wife he thought died in the camps, making them face their first love amid their past.
In Victorian England, a respectable fossil hunter falls for a mysterious, rebellious woman known as 'the French Lieutenant's woman,' leading him into a scandalous affair that challenges the era's rules and his ideas about love and freedom.
In 18th-century Cairo, a cynical con woman who denies magic accidentally summons a mysterious djinn warrior, thrusting her into a hidden world of ancient cities, fiery creatures, and deadly court politics where her clever schemes might not be enough to survive.
A war orphan's escape to an elite military academy leads to a brutal journey of self-discovery as she unleashes a terrifying, god-like power that could save her empire but damn her soul in a war-torn world inspired by historical atrocities.
A young woman, recruited by MI5 to secretly influence the literary world during the Cold War, finds her mission complicated by an unexpected love for the writer she's tasked to manipulate.
A mermaid with webbed hands and a renegade photographer find their lives connected in a story of love and mystery, set against a Coney Island freak show and the aftermath of a city fire.
In medieval Germany, a devout monk and a restless wanderer form a lifelong bond, exploring the eternal tension between spiritual devotion and physical experience.
A young woman discovers a book that reveals hidden doors to other realities, uncovering her extraordinary past in a world that suppresses such passages.
In 16th-century Istanbul, a murdered miniaturist's death uncovers a dangerous plot within a secret art commission, forcing a master illuminator to solve the crime before the Sultan's deadline, while dealing with forbidden Western styles, love, and religious extremism.
Margaret Atwood reclaims the ancient myth of Odysseus's return through the eyes of Penelope and her twelve hanged maids, revealing untold truths and injustices behind the epic.
A defiant Scottish noblewoman, taken by her English captor, finds her resistance melting into a dangerous, irresistible passion for the notorious 'Wolf' who holds her heart as tightly as her body.
A young Polish woman's wartime lie about her marriage becomes a lifelong secret. It echoes through generations as she searches for her vanished love amidst loss and the slow, brutal unraveling of her world.
A story of self-destruction and disillusionment, following an aristocratic couple in the Jazz Age as their pursuit of pleasure and inheritance unravels.
A country doctor visits a crumbling Georgian estate in post-war England, uncovering a chilling mystery where a family's decline blurs with a sinister, unseen presence that threatens to destroy them.
