Julia Whelan

"Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman's only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she...

Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move to Kaneq, AK. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future away from the noise and nightmares that plague him. Having been left a homestead by a buddy who died in the war, Ernt is secure in his beliefs, but never was a family less prepared for the reality of Alaska, the long, cold winters and isolation. Locals...

Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters rotating emergency supplies, hoping that when the World of Men failed, her family would continue on, unaffected. She hadn been registered for a birth certificate. She had no school records because she never set foot in a classroom, and no medical records because her father...

"A brand new novel -- and a stunning new heroine -- from the #1 New York Times bestselling author"-- Provided by publisher. "Daughter of a cold, controlling mother and an anonymous donor, studious, obedient Elizabeth Fitch finally let loose one night, drinking too much at a nightclub and allowing a strange man's seductive Russian accent to lure her to a house on Lake Shore Drive. The events that followed changed her life forever. Twelve years later,...

Savannah Leone hasn't been the same since she lost her mother three years ago. Now, after watching her best friend Janie marry the only man she has ever loved, she copes with alcohol and a new German Shepherd puppy. The pocket-sized puppy she's expecting turns out to be a hundred-pound beast that's impossible to train and only responds to Slovakian. Van feels like life couldn't get any worse, until she realizes that this dog might just be the only...

Something is seriously off in the Watkins home. And Julie Seagle, college freshman and the newest resident of this Boston house, is determined to get to the bottom of it. When Julie's off campus housing falls through, her mother's old college roommate, Erin Watkins, invites her to move in. Not until she forces a buried secret to the surface, eliciting a dramatic confrontation that threatens to tear the fragile Watkins family apart, does she get her...