MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION (POST C 1945). Emotionally wounded single mom Sarah Price has come home to Serenity, South Carolina, for a fresh start. With support from her two best friendsthe newest generation of the Sweet Magnoliasshe can face any crisis. But sometimes a woman needs more than even treasured friends can provide. Sexy Travis McDonald may be exactly what Sarah's battered self-confidence requires. The newcomer is intent on getting Sarah...

When Addie Andrews leaves Chicago for Eunice, Arkansas to live in the home she inherited from her aunt, Addie surprises even herself as she rescues an abandoned puppy and begins to build a life within the small town she now calls home.

It starts with a storm, a death, and two funerals on the same day. One person's life is being celebrated by all of Beartown. One person's life is being forgotten. Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two young people who left in search of a life far from the forest town, come home and joyfully reunite with their closest childhood friends. They can see how much Beartown has changed. There is a sense of optimism and purpose in the town, embodied in the impressive...

Daphne Ballinger is required to marry within the next year in order to inherit her eccentric late aunt's sizeable estate. She also must take over Aunt Dee's newspaper advice column. Though a socialite neighbor tries to help Daphne find a perfect man even if it includes speed dating, she finds greater rewards in helping a young, parentless girl with an ailing grandmother.

From the bestselling author of Bird Box, a novella collection in which every story reveals a sinister secret about a mysterious small town. The town of Goblin seems like any other ordinary small town. But with the master storyteller Josh Malerman as yourtour guide, you'll discover the secrets that hide behind the town's closed doors. These six novellas tell the story of a place where the rain is always falling, nighttime is always near, and your darkest...

"When a traveling Hall of Horrors comes to their town just in time for Halloween, teenage friends, Beth, Nicole, Kellen, and Luke can't wait to get spooked. The ghosts and ghouls are completely realistic, and the show's creep-in-chief, Dr. Hysteria, is deliciously sinister.But then Beth accidentally wanders backstage and discovers a haunted cabinet that traps the souls of lost teens. When she tells her friends what she's seen, no one believes it's...

Mallory is still adapting to life in her new town of Eastport when she is haunted by a reoccurring nightmare, leading her to investigate the legend of Sweet Molly.

"Returning home after a power-plant accident, Maggie and Jordan discover something is very wrong and as friends and family morph into terrifying strangers, their search for the truth puts them in the crosshairs of a sinister presence."--

Ruby Butterman and her husband, Peanut, cannot have children, but they're given a second chance at a family when eight-year-old orphan Carlie is left in their care. It's a challenge for Carlie to adapt to a new town, a new school, and a new family, and when she gets bullied at school, Ruby and Peanut discover how to step up as parents, and how to make a forever family for their beloved little girl.

"Lindsey Haynes' father once gave her a snow globe with the note : unsure where to go? Give a little shake and your heart will always know. On a whim, those words lead her to the quaint New England town of Addison. It's a place straight out of a storybook with its twinkling town green, decorated main street, and secluded lakeside cabin community. But an encounter with a dejected doctor named Greg Davis turns Lindsey's day upside down, much like a...