"From Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford: the final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe, one of the most indelible characters in American literature Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive, and singular view of American life as lived. Unconstrained, astute, provocative, often laugh-out-loud funny, Frank Bascombe is once more our guide to the great American midway....

Draws on the author's signature quirky language to explore the emotional complexities between parents and children in such stories as "Wildfire Johnny" and "Scroll Through the Weapons."

"My Best Friend's Wedding meets Never Have I Ever in this utterly charming, heart-stealing debut romance about two completely different people who get engaged under false pretenses. "I couldn't put down this page-turner . . . A warm, smart, sexy, and absolutely charming debut." -Colleen Hoover When Seth, Meghna's one-who-got-away writing partner and best friend, asks Meghna Raman to be the "best man" for his last-minute wedding, Meghna is determined...

"What if you knew exactly when you'd meet the love of your life? Edie Meyer knows. When her Grandma Gloria was a young woman, she had a vision of the exact day she would meet her soul mate -- and then Grandpa Ray showed up. Since then, Gloria has accurately predicted the day every single member of the family has met their match. Edie's day arrives on June 24, 2022, when she's twenty-nine years old. She has been waiting for it half her life. That morning,...

Lylah's five best friends and roomates at a university begin receiving threatening letters on Valentine's Day before being murdered, one by one.

Presents the history of Valentine's Day as well as its past and present traditions.

What's love got to do with it? Celia Lynton had been told her entire life that she couldn't marry for love, marriage should be a business agreement, poor men were only after the family fortune, blah, blah, blah. But now, there is no fortune. There's only debt, and an urgency to find a way to pay her younger brother's tuition at a school that can tend to his special needs. So yeah, there's going to be a marriage. One of convenience. Just like her...

On Valentine's Day, Sherry finds an anonymous note in her mailbox: be mine. As the notes continue, Sherry becomes more and more charged by the idea that she can inspire such feelings. Her twenty-year marriage is routine and she feels old, aimless, and empty now that her son is in college. When she discovers who her admirer is, she begins a wildly passionate affair with him. But her son's childhood friend is witness to the affair, her best friend is...

"I grew up as a foster kid. No hugs, no love! Tossed around like a football, until Lance walked into my life. He drowned me in love then his brother stepped on the scene." - Cherish "I couldn't believe Harris acted like he was never my boyfriend." - LaDonna "When our hands touched skin to skin, heart to heart, I asked the heavens above, Can I have him?" - Savannah "I made a list of qualities I wanted in a soul mate then Michael manifested. What do...

Beth has always loved Mark. He was the boy of her dreams even though she was nothing more than his little sister's best friend. Now he's back from the military and looking at her differently. Though that could be the plate of lasagna she dropped in his lap. A series of mishaps gives Mark opportunity to spend time with her. He is sure that he is the man for her but experience has taught Beth not all men can be trusted. Can he convince her that he wants...