An interweaving of two love stories that span generations begins in the 1940s as Althea Barnes becomes enamored of both India and a Hindu priest, and continues with her granddaughter, who has an affair with a revolutionary in...
Married women
- Author:Wheeler, KateSummary:
- Author:Glasgow, EllenSummary:
- Author:Samson, LisaSummary:
Lillie Bauer, co-owner of a Baltimore wedding planning business, is looking for love. When she finally finds her own true love, her new outlook sheds light on her sister Tacy's increasingly destructive relationship with a deeply...
- Author:Morris, LynnSummary:
Hoping to escape a brutal New York winter, Cheney and Shiloh travel with a group of friends to Sangria House, a small citrus plantation in Florida. But when they arrive, all is not as they expected. Though the place seems deserted, with...
- Author:Estleman, Loren D.Summary:
Revolutionizing traditional mortuary practices, Richard Connable develops a method of preserving the human dignity of the deceased. His wife Lucy struggles to keep their marriage whole as she stands by his side and supports him while he...
- Author:Rivers, SusanSummary:
The Civil War South comes to vivid life in this electrifying story of a woman's plight and a legacy of deceit that echoes for generations. When Major Gryffth Hockaday is called to the front lines of the Civil War, his new bride is left...
- Author:Hawthorne, NathanielSummary:
Widowed Hester Prynne, isolated in a new country, seeks comfort in the arms of a lover. When she gives birth to a child, her shame is made public, and in the unforgiving moral atmosphere of colonial Massachusetts, she is made to suffer...
- Author:Hawthorne, NathanielSummary:
In 1642, a pregnant Hester Prynne is found guilty of adultery, shunned by her neighbors, and forced to wear a scarlet letter 'A' on her dress. Meanwhile, Hester's husband - long thought to be lost at sea - has returned to Boston under...
- Author:Leroy, MargaretSummary:
Middle-aged mother of two Ginnie Holmes embarks on an affair with a married man, taking to an abandoned river house for their Thursday trysts. But when she thinks she sees a murderer by the river, she must decide whether to risk...
- Author:James, HenrySummary:
Following the death of her father, Isabel Archer leaves the comforts of Albany, New York to stay with her aunt Lydia Touchett at her London estate. There she meets Lydia's rich husband, David, her cousin Ralph, and the Touchetts's proud...
- Author:James, HenrySummary:
An American heiress newly arrived in Europe, Isabel does not look to a man to furnish her with destiny. But then she becomes utterly captivated by the languid charms of Gilbert Osmond.
- Author:Strohmeyer, SarahSummary:
Kat, a compulsive consumer at New Jersey's many malls, loves to shop until she drops--and it's taking a heavy toll on her marriage. Why else would her husband be using a secret bank account of his own? Finally, Kat is...
- Author:SHELDON, SidneySummary:
From Paris to Washington, Hollywood to the Greek Islands, against the glittering world of theatre, films, high finance and beautiful people, four star-crossed lives play out a deadly game of passion, intrigue and corruption.
- Author:Fox, SylvieSummary:
What would you do if you met your soul mate, but you were already married? In The Good Enough Husband, Sylvie Fox delivers a riveting story about a woman who refuses to let her past define her future. For years, Hannah Morrison Keesling...
- Author:Buck, Pearl S.Summary:
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of China, farmer Wang Lung glories in the soil he works. Nearby, the nobles of the House of Hwang consider themselves above the land and its workers--but they will soon meet their downfall.
- Author:King, Laurie R.Summary:
English spy Kimball O'Hara - who inspired Rudyard Kipling's famous title character in Kim - has gone missing and is feared either kidnapped or killed. Russell and Holmes, a secret friend of Kim, make for India to take up the...
- Author:Sykes, PlumSummary:
Young Manhattanite Sylvia Mortimer can't help noticing that her friends "put almost as much effort into losing husbands as they once did into finding them." Lauren, the most recent to discard hers, has just had a champagne-fueled...
- Author:Braun, JackieSummary:
She thinks I'm a hero, but I'm only a former cop, out of the rescue business for a long time now. Still, I couldn't leave Caro Franklin stranded in a snowstorm. Even if bringing that beautiful lady to my home meant my...
- Author:Pynchon, ThomasSummary:
Quite unexpectedly, Mrs. Oedipa Maas finds herself the executor of the estate of Pierce Inverarity, a man she used to know in a more-or-less intimate fashion. Oedipa leaves her home and her husband and heads to Southern California to...
- Author:Chopin, KateSummary:
Unsatisfied with the expectations of Creole society and unhappy with her family life, Edna Pontellier begins to fall in love with the dapper Robert Lebrun. Lebrun's flirtations, along with the lifestyle of renown musician Mademoiselle...