Madeline King and Grace Pancik are best friends and the envy of Nantucket for their perfect marriages, their beautiful kids, their Sunday night double dates with their devoted husbands. But this summer, something's changed, and if there's anything Nantucket likes better than cocktails on the beach at sunset, it's a good rumor.And rumor has it......that Madeline, a novelist, is battling writer's block, with a deadline looming, bills piling up, and blank pages driving her to desperation--and a desperately bad decision;...that Grace, hard at work to transform her backyard into a garden paradise, has been collaborating a bit more closely that necessary with her ruggedly handsome landscape architect;...that Grace's husband, successful island real estate developer "Fast Eddie" Pancik, has embarked on quite an unusual side project;...that the storybook romance between Madeline's son, Brick, and Grace's daughter Allegra is on the rocks, heading for disaster.As the gossip escalates, and they face the possible loss of the happy lives they've worked so hard to create, Grace and Madeline try mightily to set the record straight--but the truth might be even worse than rumor has it.

Product Description: "I can't wait to see what Trice Hickman does next!" --Mary Monroe, "New York Times "bestselling author And then there were three. . . It's been two years since Johnny Mayfield's murder rocked Amber, Alabama. His death, along with the illicit personal scandals that preceded it, created more drama than the town had ever seen...read more

Product Description: Two couples lives become scandalously entwined in the latest from "New York Times" bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand.Nantucket writer Madeline King has a new novel coming out, "The Rumor," and it s got bestseller potential. But Madeline is terrified, because in her desperation to revive her career, she s done the unthinkable: "The Rumor" reveals the truth behind an actual affair involving her best friend, Grace...read more

Product Description: This stylish reissue of one of Thea Astley’s finest early novels is a classic story of small-town life. Two schoolteachers are drawn to each other by their concern for a lonely young girl. As long as Vinny Lalor could remember she had been on the fringe of things—in her family and at school...read more

Product Description: Maddie Faraday's life would be perfect--if it weren't forher cheating husbandher suspicious daughterher gossipy motherher secretive best friendher nosy neighbors,and that guy she lost her virginity to twenty years ago...In Tell Me Lies, Jennifer Cruise dishes up a funny, sexy, suspenseful novel about small-town secrets, big-time betrayals and the redemptive power of love, laughter and chocolate brownies...read more

Product Description: "Holy fried onion rings! Fun from beginning to end." ―Wendy Mass, New York Times bestselling author of 11 Birthdays and The Candymakers on The Dirt Diary The Gossip File:• Chandra lets little kids pee in the pool.• Melody stole $ from the café register...read more

Product Description: He's the Talk of the TownThe whole town is tittering about Baron Sebastian Thorne having been jilted at the altar. Every move he makes ends up in the gossip columns. Tired of being the butt of everyone's jokes, Sebastian vows to restore his family's reputation no matter what it takes...read more

The vicious schemes of an evil woman, Luane Devore, unleash dark secrets from the past, twisted passions, violence, and murder, in a small New England town

Mallory is on a mission. Max, her brother, is spending all his time with his girlfriend and won't allow Mallory around for ANY of it. Mallory wants to know what's going on when they're together. Are Max and Winnie hatching secret plans? Are they causing danger? And as Max's sister, doesn't she have the right to know? Mallory McDonald, Super Snoop, is determined to spy on them. But when she digs up the dirt she's looking for, she'll find that snooping is messy business!

Product Description: “A gifted storyteller...her characters are intelligent, brave, and witty...human and real.”—Susan Isaacs, New York Times Book ReviewThe critically acclaimed author of Good-bye and Amen, Leeway Cottage, and More Than You Know, Beth Gutcheon returns with Gossip, a sharply perceptive and emotionally resonant novel about the power of knowing things about others, the consequences of rumor, and the unexpected price of friendship...read more

Product Description: From acclaimed author Katie McGarry, the award-winning book that started it all All Echo Emerson wants is to remember—the brother she lost, the friends she once had, the traumatic night that left scars on her arms. Noah Hutchins just wants to forget—the parents who died, the foster system that failed him, the future that can never be his...read more

Product Description: When Miss Fox's class sees Officer Blue leading Miss Fox into the police station, they think their beloved teacher has been arrested! When Miss Fox's mysterious behavior leads them to believe she's preparing to run away from the law, her students confront her...read more

Product Description: In the village of Baddbaddpur, the people like to tell tales, “so tall that if you put them one on top of the other, they would reach the stars.” Pandurang is so dour that he can make milk turn sour. One day he coughs up a feather...read more

Product Description: When Shawnee finds out that her school friends are really not her friends at all, she learns some important lessons about the difference that kind words can make and how doing what you know is right usually works – no matter how hard it is to stick to your guns...read more

Product Description: Patrick finds an aminal and takes it home. Along the way, he describes it to his friends until they all think they must save him from the giant aminal monster!

Product Description: Sofia Becker, Middlebrooke Middle School blogger extraordinaire, is back! And this time her gossip isn't only from the girls' room. The rumor mill is out of control at Sofia's school, so it's a good thing Sofia and her super-secret notebook can set everyone straight...read more