Archives de catégorie : Women’s Fiction

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AND A DAY de Julianne MacLean

From USA Today bestselling author Julianne MacLean comes a sweeping time-bending novel of sisterhood, unrequited love, and the devastating cost of the secrets we carry. For readers of Taylor Jenkins Reid and Audrey Niffenegger.

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AND A DAY
by Julianne MacLean
Wildthorn/Tor, October 2027

On the morning of her sister’s wedding, Ivy Calder forces a smile through her heartbreak—because she’s secretly in love with the groom, Everett. But then, the next moment, everything has changed. Ivy is now a hundred years old, her sister Audrey has been missing for decades and presumed dead, and Ivy herself is married to Everett. Just as Ivy begins to grasp this impossible new reality, she snaps back to the present—standing beside Audrey in her wedding dress.

Terrified by the future she’s glimpsed, Ivy supports her sister at the wedding but then flees, determined to change a fate she no longer understands. Years later, when Ivy and Everett cross paths again, the connection between them flares to life, undeniable and dangerous. And Audrey—alive, vibrant, and carrying a secret capable of shattering all three lives—forces Ivy to confront what loyalty truly demands.

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AND A DAY is a story about the bonds that define us, the choices that haunt us, and the love we spend lifetimes trying to protect.

Julianne MacLean is a USA Today bestselling author of more than forty novels, including These Tangled Vines, Beyond the Moonlit Sea, A Fire Sparkling, and the popular The Color of Heaven series. Readers have described her work as “breathtaking,” “soulful,” and “uplifting.” She has sold millions of books worldwide in more than a dozen languages. MacLean studied in Nova Scotia, earning a degree in English literature from the University of King’s College in Halifax and a business degree from Acadia University in Wolfville. She loves to travel and has lived in New Zealand, Canada, and England. She currently resides in Nova Scotia, Canada. Please visit the author’s website at www.juliannemaclean.com for more information about her books and writing life and to subscribe to her mailing list for all the latest news.

DIE BOTANIKERIN de Corina Bomann

A dual-timeline story of lost love, botanical discovery and a mysterious disappearance, following a London woman who becomes obsessed with the love letters of two botanists who traveled to Tibet in the early 20th century, by German bestselling author Corina Bomann.

DIE BOTANIKERIN
[The Botanis]
by Corina Bomann
Penguin Germany, May 2027

Photo credit: Nadja Klier

After Cleo was left at the altar by the love of her life, her days have been passing by without purpose. How on earth is she supposed to go on? Even her job at the historic London Lost and Found Office barely distracts her—until one day she opens an old suitcase and finds a Tibetan prayer flag along with some letters.

Out of curiosity, Cleo begins to read and is drawn into the story of Richard and Rosa—two botanists who traveled to Tibet at the beginning of the 20th century to research a rare species of rhododendron. Initially bitter rivals, their letters soon reveal a deep love. Until contact abruptly ceases.

Cleo can’t stop thinking about the love letters, and she wonders what dramatic end the relationship between Richard and Rosa met. She begins to research, delving into the history of the first female botanists, and has no idea that Richard and Rosa’s love will give her own life a new twist …

With sales totalling over two million copies, Corina Bomann‘s popular historical sagas are regular bestsellers, and her readers adore her strong women, passionate emotions and moving stories – such as her four-book Waldfriede saga set in a Berlin clinic, the two-part Rosenhag series set in Sweden, and now her new two-part Rosewell Castle series, which takes her readers into the fascinating world of butlerdom.

IN ANOTHER LIFE de Stephanie Merry

A funny and heartfelt high-concept commercial women’s fiction novel with the book club appeal of Rebecca Serle and JoJo Moyes and an irresistible « what if? » premise built around an irresistible hook: how much of a life can turn on a seemingly inconsequential choice?

IN ANOTHER LIFE
by Stephanie Merry
Zibby Books, January 2028
(via Nancy Yost Literary)

Mary Louise O’Shaughnessy is in trouble. Or, more accurately, two versions of her are.

In one life, she’s Polly: a single mother to a seven-year-old daughter, struggling with mysterious chronic pain and accustomed to handling everything on her own. Then, after another exhausting day, a stranger materializes in her house claiming to be Guy, her husband from another world. He desperately needs to get home, and Polly may be his only way back.

In another life, she’s Goldie: 9 months pregnant and increasingly frantic because her husband hasn’t come home. As the hours pass, every possible worst-case scenario begins unfurling in her mind — including the prospect of giving birth to their daughter without him…and the possibility that the secretive technology he’s been working on has sent him into the multiverse without a way back.

Polly and Goldie’s lives diverged after one night in a bar years ago. But when Goldie develops pregnancy complications in her world and Guy becomes unexpectedly sickened in Polly’s, both women are forced to admit that whether you’re raising a child or trying to get home across the multiverse, sometimes it really does take a village, in this case one made up of Polly’s annoying but increasingly attractive Nordic neighbor, Guy’s science nerd colleagues, and Cat, the women’s fiercely-protective older sister. IN ANOTHER LIFE combines lovable characters, warmth, humor, and a story grounded in a universal question. It’s the fantasy of seeing the life you might have lived; the mistakes and successes that shape us; and, ultimately, the communities we build when we finally allow ourselves to need other people.

Stephanie Merry is currently on the wellness team at The Washington Post. She previously spent eight years as deputy editor of the Post’s books section and, before that, covered film, television and culture.

THE PIECES OF US de Claire Alexander

Three generations of women. Three life altering events. As they discover the truth of their heritage, they’ll discover what makes the pieces of us…

THE PIECES OF US
by Claire Alexander
Penguin Michael Joseph UK, August 2025
(via Mushens Entertainment)

At fifty-eight Minnie McAllister isn’t an old woman. But as Alzheimer’s ravages her mind, her brain says otherwise.

Cat McAllister is tackling everything life can throw at her. And just when she thinks it can’t get any worse, she’s faced with the discovery that Minnie might not be the mother she once knew.

Meanwhile, Cat’s daughter, Ruby McAllister, who is staring at a two very blue lines, faces a decision that will change the course of her life.

As three generations of women are pulled in three different directions, each are forced to learn lessons about themselves that they never could have imagined.

Claire Alexander lives with her young family on the west coast of Scotland. A freelance journalist, she has written about parenting, sobriety, mental health and wellbeing for publications including The Washington Post, The Independent, The Huffington Post and Glamour. When she’s not writing or parenting, she’s on her paddle board, thinking about her next book. Claire is the author of Meredith, Alone and The Pieces of Us is her second novel.

THE SADDEST GIRL ON THE BEACH de Heather Frese

Grieving her father’s death, Charlotte McConnell seeks solace at the Outer Banks inn owned by her best friend’s family, but she finds them dealing with their own family drama and soon lands in the center of an unexpected love triangle.

THE SADDEST GIRL ON THE BEACH
by Heather Frese
Blair Publishing, Spring 2024
(via Harvey Klinger, Inc.)

Her hotel family welcomes Charlotte with chowder dinners and a cozy room, but her friend Evie has a looming life change of her own, and soon Charlotte seeks other attractions to navigate her grief. Will she, like in some television movie, find her way back through a romance, or are there larger forces at play on Hatteras Island? Heather Frese, winner of the Lee Smith Novel Prize and author of The Baddest Girl on the Planet, sets Charlotte on a beautifully rendered course through human frailty and longing, unrelenting science, and the awesome forces of the Carolina coast.

“A metaphor-rich, coming-of-age, contemporary novel about finding your equilibrium while experiencing overwhelming grief.”—Booklist

Heather Frese’s debut novel, The Baddest Girl on the Planet, won the Lee Smith Novel Prize, was longlisted for The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and was named one of the Women’s National Book Association’s Great Group Reads of 2021. She attended Ohio University for her M.A. followed by an M.F.A. in fiction from West Virginia University. A freelance writer, Heather worked with Outer Banks publications as well as publishing short fiction, essays, poetry, and interviews in various literary journals, including Michigan Quarterly Review, the Los Angeles Review, Front Porch, the Barely South Review, Switchback, and elsewhere. Coastal North Carolina is her longtime love and source of inspiration, her writing deeply influenced by the wild magic and history of the Outer Banks. She currently writes, edits, and teaches in Raleigh, North Carolina.