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Women's Fiction & Chick Lit August 2025 |
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New and Upcoming Releases
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The Cover Girl
by Amy Rossi
The timely story follows a teen model as she is discovered, her relationship with her legendary agent, and a rock star she meets at 15. Decades later she is invited to her ex-manager's life-achievement party.
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A Dog in Georgia
by Lauren Grodstein
In this beautiful story of connection and self-reflection, a missing dog in Georgia sets Amy Webb on an adventure away from her tumultuous marriage and lack-luster personal life and towards a journey of self-discovery and joy.
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Dominion
by Addie E. Citchens
Reverend Sabre Winfrey, shepherd of the Seven Seals Baptist Church, believes in God, his own privilege, and enterprise. Besides the barbershop and radio station he owns, he has an iron hand on every aspect of Dominion, Mississippi, society. He and his wife, Priscilla, have five boys; the youngest, Emanuel, is called Wonderboy―no one sings prettier, runs as fast, or turns as many heads. After a surprising encounter with a stranger, Wonderboy finds himself confronted by questions he’d never imagined, and his response will send shockwaves through the entire community. Told from the point of view of the women who love these two men, Dominion illustrates how we enable the everyday violence and casual sins of the patriarchy.
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For Richer for Poorer
by Danielle Steel
A loving mother and successful fashion designer struggles to keep her family together and her business afloat.
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The Hounding
by Xenobe Purvis
The Crucible meets The Virgin Suicides in this haunting debut about five sisters in a small village in 18th century England whose neighbors are convinced they're turning into dogs.
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I Know How This Ends
by Holly Smale
Margot Wayward is in manically gleeful self-destruct mode. Following the implosion of a ten-year relationship, she’s wilfully derailing her successful career, joyfully taking down men on dating apps, and living in total chaos. Until one day, when Margot has a vision of herself with a man she’s never met before. She doesn’t believe in fate. But when Margot meets single-dad Henry, the vision comes true: exactly as she’d foreseen it. So Margot has to decide how to live, how to love again, and how to be herself… Because if you can’t change your destiny, how on earth do you live your present?
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Jenny Cooper Has a Secret
by Joy Fielding
A dementia patient reveals a deadly secret-and one woman must decide whether to believe her.
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Joy Moody is Out of Time
by Kerryn Mayne
Strange things are happening behind the bright pink facade of Bayside's premier laundromat, Joyful Suds; home to Joy Moody and her twin daughters. For much of their lives, Joy has been lying to Cassie and Andie. What started as a colorful tale to explain how the twins came to live with her grew over the years and was always something she meant to set straight. Joy really did think she had more time. Worse still, Joy is struggling to define the truth from the lies. The girls have long believed they are vital to the future and must stay hidden to stay safe. Joy has told them that their impending 21st birthday is significant; they will step into their roles as leaders of a revolution and life as they know it will change. Joy was right - everything will change, just not in the way they expected. On Andie and Cassie's birthday, Joy Moody is found dead and her girls face a world they are not prepared for without their mother. Joy Moody is out of time... in more ways than one.
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Love Forms
by Claire Adam
Now 58 and divorced with her sons busy with their own lives, Dawn yearns to reconnect with the baby she gave up for adoption in Trinidad when she was sixteen, and she retraces her steps in an emotional journey to find her child.
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Moderation
by Elaine Castillo
Girlie Delmundo is on her way to becoming an elite VR moderator, playing in the big leagues and, if her enthusiastic bosses are to be believed, moderating the next stage of human interaction. Despite the isolation that virtual reality requires, the unbelievable perks of her new job mean she can solve a lot of her family's problems with money and mobility. But when she meets William Cheung, Playground's wry, reticent co-founder (now Chief Product Officer) and slowly unearths some of his secrets, and finds herself somehow falling in love, she'll learn that history might be impossible to moderate and the future utterly impossible to control.
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Mona's Eyes
by Thomas Schlesser
While doctors can find no explanation for ten-year-old Mona's brief episode of blindness, they agree that the threat of permanent vision loss cannot be ruled out. The girl's grandfather, Henry, may not be able to stop his granddaughter from losing her sight, but he can fill the encroaching darkness with beauty. Every Wednesday for a year, the pair abscond together and visit a single masterpiece in one of Paris's renowned museums. From Botticelli to Basquiat, Mona learns how each artist's work shaped the world around them. Under the kind and careful tutelage of her grandfather, Mona learns the true meaning of generosity, melancholy, love, loss, and revolution.
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Ruth
by Kate Riley
In this mesmerizing and profound novel, the arc of a woman's life in a devout, insular community challenges our deepest assumptions about what infuses life with meaning.
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Smuggler's Cove
by Fern Michaels
After inheriting a rundown marina in Smugglers Cove, estranged siblings Madison and Lincoln Taylor find their plans to sell it derailed when a body surfaces under their dock, forcing them to navigate small-town life, local legends, and a mysterious treasure map while uncovering long-buried secrets.
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Through An Open Window
by Pamela Terry
In the small Southern town of Wesleyan, Georgia, Margaret Elliot has lived a seemingly charmed life—until the loss of her beloved husband. Since then, Margaret has been seeing visions of her aunt Edith, the indomitable woman who raised her after her parents died. As these mysterious and undeniable visitations continue, Margaret becomes convinced that Aunt Edith is trying to tell her something important. As she follows the clues that almost magically present themselves, Margaret also worries about her grown sons and daughter. Through an Open Window invites us to see the grace that is so often there in the background, just waiting to be revealed.
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Upstanding Young Man
by Sharon Doering
A star wrestler with a bright future goes missing weeks before his high school graduation, and his mother falls under suspicion. In this pulse-pounding thriller, secrets threaten to destroy everything-and someone will pay the ultimate price.
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The Violet Hour
by Victoria Benton Frank
Violet Adams is the perfect, youngest child in a family of loud, passionate women on Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina. As the sweet, traditional one, she’s always been the steady hand in her family but after a sudden breakup and subsequent tragedy, she doesn’t know who she is anymore. Aly Knox, Violet’s best friend, is a young influencer still struggling with the loss of her mother and adjusting to joining Violet in Southern living. With her best friend’s help, Violet is determined to break out of her shell—and who she thought she was—no matter what. And what better place to look for success, meaning, and possibly love than the Lowcountry of South Carolina?
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