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Women's Fiction & Chick Lit May 2025 |
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New and Upcoming Releases
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The Ascent
by Allison Buccola
Twenty years after being the sole survivor of a vanished commune, Lee Burton's carefully constructed life unravels when a stranger offers answers about her past, forcing her to confront buried secrets and the growing paranoia threatening her grasp on motherhood and identity.
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Beach House Rules
by Kristy Woodson Harvey
A mother-daughter duo learn to lean on their community of women—and each other—after their world is turned upside down.
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Can't Get Enough
by Kennedy Ryan
Hendrix Barry lives a fabulous life. She has phenomenal friends, a loving family, and a thriving business that places her in the entertainment industry's rarefied air. Your vision board? She’s probably living it. She’s a woman with goals, dreams, ambitions—always striving upward. And in the midst of everything, she's facing her toughest challenge yet: caring for an aging parent. Who has time for romance? From her experience, there's a low ROI on relationships. Anyway, she hasn't met the man who can keep up with her. Until...him. Tech mogul Maverick Bell is a dilemma wrapped in an exquisitely tailored suit and knee-melting charm. From their first charged glance at the summer's hottest party, Hendrix feels like she’s met her match. Only he can’t be. Mav may be the first to make her feel this seen and desired, but he’s the last one she can have. Forbidden fruit is the juiciest, and this man is off limits if she plans to stay the course she’s set for herself. But when Maverick gives chase—pursuing her, spoiling her, understanding her—is it time to let herself have something more?
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Consider Yourself Kissed
by Jessica Stanley
When she first meets Adam, Coralie is new to London and feeling adrift. But Adam is clever, witty, and (he insists) a quarter inch taller than the average male. His charming four-year-old daughter only adds to his appeal. But ten years on, something important is missing from the life Coralie and Adam have built. Or maybe, having gained everything she dreamed of, Coralie has lost something else she once had: herself. Set against an eventful British decade that included the soap opera of five prime ministers plus the chaos of the pandemic, Consider Yourself Kissed puts the subjects of love and family on a grand stage, showing how the intimate dramas in our homes inescapably compete for energy and attention with the shared public dramas of our times.
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Home of the American Circus
by Allie Larkin
A story of redemption, breaking generational curses and the power of family in its truest form.
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I Will Blossom Anyway
by Disha Bose
A romantic coming-of-age story about one woman's inspiring journey to find self love, reconnect with family, and forge a new path for her future.
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Letters From the Dead
by Isabella Valeri
Takes readers into an intoxicating world of old money, privilege and family intrigue as a young heiress must return home from a decade-long exile to face the powerful enemies arrayed against her, including those within her own family.
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Maine Characters
by Hannah Orenstein
From beloved author Hannah Orenstein, this love letter to lake life is "the Parent Trap for adults," the story of two half-sisters who meet for the first time at their father's cabin in Maine after his unexpected death.
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The Manor of Dreams
by Christina Li
Mexican Gothic meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in this haunting novel about the secrets that lie in wait in the crumbling mansion of a former Hollywood starlet, and the intertwined fates of the two Chinese American families fighting to inherit it.
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Mansion Beach
by Meg Mitchell Moore
Follows a young woman entwined in the opulent lives of her neighbors on Block Island, set against a backdrop of scandal, secrets and a not-so-subtle love triangle.
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A Mind of Her Own
by Danielle Steel
Born in 1900s Paris, Alexandra's life is shattered by World War I and the Spanish Flu, leading her to a journalism career where she meets a fellow reporter battling his own losses, sparking a cautious yet powerful connection.
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The Names
by Florence Knapp
Traces one boy's three alternative lives, one for each baby name that his mother is choosing between. Each name shapes his life, as well as his mother's, over the course of 35 years.
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The Original Daughter
by Jemimah Wei
In turn-of-the-millennium Singapore, sisters Genevieve and Arin navigate intense familial and societal pressures to achieve academic perfection, but a devastating betrayal forces Genevieve to confront the cost of ambition, loyalty, and the bonds that define her identity.
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The Retirement Plan
by Sue Hincenbergs
Three best friends turn to murder to collect on their husbands' life insurance policies, but the husbands have a plan of their own.
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Shopgirls
by Jessica Anya Blau
A novel of found family, growing up and the best and worst of the 1980s revolves around San Francisco's most exclusive department store, I. Magnin.
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Sleep
by Honor Jones
Jones delves into the shame and secrets that drove a woman apart from her mother in this sharp debut.
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Speak to Me of Home
by Jeanine Cummins
On her wedding day in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1968, Rafaela Acuña y Daubón has mild misgivings, but she marries Peter Brennan Jr. anyway in a blaze of romantic optimism. She has no way of knowing how dramatically her life will change when she uproots her young family to start over in the American Midwest, unleashing a fleet of disappointments. In the 1980s, against the backdrop of her mother’s isolation in St. Louis, Missouri, Rafaela’s daughter, Ruth, wants only to belong. Eager to fit in, Ruth lets go of her language, habits, and childhood memories of Puerto Rico. It’s not until decades later when Ruth’s own daughter, Daisy, returns to San Juan that her mother and grandmother begin to truly reflect on the choices that have come to define their lives. When a hurricane ravages the island in 2023, leaving Daisy critically injured, Rafaela and Ruth return to the city where their story began. As they gather at Daisy’s bedside, we follow them back into the moments that brought them to this point: we watch as they come of age, fall in love, take risks, and contend with all the heartbreaks, triumphs, and reversals of fortune―both good and bad―that make up a meaningful life. As old memories come to light, so do buried secrets, leaving everyone in the family wondering exactly where it is that they belong.
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Storybook Ending
by Moira Macdonald
A charming story about romance, friendship, and a love of books, in which two women-a lonely remote worker and a widowed single mom-and a handsome local bookstore clerk find themselves in an unusual love triangle when an anonymous note left in a book finds the wrong recipient.
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What Will People Think?
by Sara Hamdan
Mia's Almas' secret comedy career, forbidden office crush and a long-guarded family secret take center stage, threatening her newfound confidence and her one shot at fame.
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