Product Description: A Seattle Times Best Book of the Year • A BookPage Best Book of the Year • A Kirkus Best Fiction Book of the YearThe New York Times bestselling author of “brilliantly paced contemporary adventure” (Elle) delivers her most gripping novel yet—at once a tense, psychological drama and a taut emotional thriller about love, obsession, and the deceits that pull a family apart...read more

It seems like mutual good luck for Abigail and Dara when they meet at university and, despite their differences, become fast friends. Years later, they remain an unlikely pair: Abigail, an actress who confidently uses her charms both on and off stage, is reluctant to commit; Dara, a therapist, throws herself into every relationship with frightening intensity. Yet each seems-another stroke of luck?-to have found "true love"-Abigail with her academic boyfriend, and Dara with a tall, dark violinist.Soon, however, trouble threatens both relationships and the women's friendship. Through four ingeniously interlocking narratives, Margot Livesey skillfully reveals how luck-good and bad-plays a vital role in our lives, and how our childhood legacies may be harder to leave behind than we hope. "Vibrant, evocative, irresistible" (Los Angeles Times),The House on Fortune Streetoffers a surprisingly provocative detective story of the heart, one that will keep you in its thrall.

Troubled by his betrayal of the woman he professes to love, Jonathan takes advantage of an unexpected opportunity to rewrite his relationship with Hazel, a woman robbed by an accident of her memories of the last three years, while two other misfits, also tormented by troubling memories, are drawn into his orbit. Reprint.

Zeke and Verona have complications in their lives. Verona involves her brother, Henry, who is tied up in shady financial dealings. Zeke has his own troubles, yet he finds himself following Verona to Boston. As he pursues her, and she pursues Henry, both are forced to ask the perplexing question: Can we ever know another person?

Mollie's brother finds an infant abandoned at the bus station and brings it to Mollie, a troubled woman who takes hold of the child as her own, until the cunning boyfriend of a woman missing her baby sees a place for profit and begins to make his moves. Reprint.

Raised by her aunt and her grieving father, motherless Eva McEwen grows up accompanied by two otherworldly companions--a woman and a girl--whom only she can see and finds herself torn between real life, including her career as a nurse and her love for a young plastic surgeon, and the meddling of her enigmatic companions. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

As Celia recovers from a failed romance, she finds Stephen, and her new relationship with him seems perfect until his fiercely jealous nine-year-old daughter arranges a series of unsettling incidents. Reprint.

Troubled by his betrayal of the woman he professes to love, Jonathan takes advantage of an unexpected opportunity to rewrite his relationship with Hazel, a woman robbed by an accident of her memories of the last three years, while two other misfits, also tormented by troubling memories, are drawn into his orbit. Reprint.

The discovery of a baby girl abandoned in a bus-station restroom becomes the catalyst for linking five distinct lives in a web of responsibility, affection, and filial, maternal, and romantic love. By the author of Homework. 50,000 first printing. Lit Guild Alt. Tour.

Product Description: Celia Gilchrist believes that she has finally found the right man in Stephen, but when she moves in with Stephen and his young daughter Jenny, things begin to go subtly, menacingly wrong. Money disappears, a sweater is ruined, small, common-place lies escalate into awkward confrontations...read more

A collection of short stories explores the experiences of characters including an obituary writer, two aged sisters, a married couple, and an unloving stepmother