Women’s Fiction (12/18/24)

Looking for your next thought-provoking women’s fiction read? Dive into these upcoming titles, featuring stories of love, resilience, and self-discovery!

FINDING GRACE by Loretta Rothschild
9781250381828 | 6/10/25

Honor seems to have everything: she adores her bright and beautiful daughter, Chloe, and her charming, handsome husband, Tom, even if he works one hundred hours a week. Her bestselling children’s books mean that she’s made a name for herself doing what she loves. Yet Honor’s longing for another baby threatens to eclipse all of it—until a shocking tragedy changes their lives forever, and Tom is left to pick up the pieces.

Grace has made her London wine shop a second home for people like her—those running from their own pasts. Passionate, studious, and self-assured, she finds herself curious about Tom, who becomes a fixture at the shop.

As Grace falls for Tom, she shares things about herself that she’s never told anyone—while Tom is keeping a secret that could destroy their burgeoning romance. Through it all, the lasting impact of Honor’s obsessive want looms over them, as does the possibility that their meeting was no accident.

Can Tom and Grace wade through the secrets to find each other on the other side? Do we all have ghosts that refuse to stay buried? And how do old love and new love align? Blending a page-turning moral dilemma with satisfying emotional poignancy, FINDING GRACE is a sweeping love story that explores what happens when a shared past collides with an unexpected future.

THE OTHER SIDE OF NOW by Paige Harbison
9781250358073 | 6/3/25

With a leading role on a hit TV show and a relationship with Hollywood’s latest heartthrob, Meg Bryan appears to have everything she ever wanted. But underneath the layers of makeup and hairspray, her happiness is as fake as her stage name, Lana Lord. Following a breakdown at her birthday party, she books an impromptu trip to Ireland. Specifically, the village where she and her best friend Aimee always dreamt of moving—a dream that fell apart when an accident claimed Aimee’s life a decade ago.

When Meg arrives, the people in town treat her not as a stranger, but a friend (except for the hot bartender). Meg writes it all off as jetlag until she looks in the mirror. Her hair is no longer bleached, her skin has a few natural fine lines, and her nose looks like . . . well, her old nose. Her real nose.

Eventually, she comes to accept that she somehow made a quantum slide into an alternate version of her life. But the most shocking realization of all? In this life, her best friend Aimee is alive–but wants nothing to do with Meg.

Despite her bewilderment, Meg is clear-eyed about one thing: this is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to reconnect with her friend and repair what she broke. She finagles an opportunity to act in the play Aimee is writing and directing and as the project unfolds, Meg realizes that events as she remembers them may not be the only truth, and that an impossible choice looms before her.

CLIMBING IN HEELS by Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas
9781250274786 | 4/29/25

Capturing the fast, furious—and, for the first time, female—dealmaking that gave us blockbuster movies and stars in the go-go 1980’s.

CLIMBING IN HEELS, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas’s debut novel, is a fictional tale of the rise of three secretaries at the hottest agency in 1980’s Hollywood, giving you a glimpse into the boys-will-be-boys club and the women who wanted a seat at a table where they were expected to serve. It’s the story of friendship, betrayal, survival, standing up when they pass you by, and saying I won’t go when they want you gone. And it’s also a story about how some of those women became very much like the monsters who trained them.

PARK AVENUE by Renée Ahdieh
9781250897954 | 6/3/25

Jia Song was always destined for greatness. As the daughter of Korean bodega owners, she promised herself that she would have every Fifth Avenue luxury when she grew up, and it is all within reach. Sure, maybe her love life is in shambles and she’s spending too much time at the office. But as a brand new junior partner, she is set up to become her prestigious law firm’s next star. So when her boss asks her to sit in on the hush-hush meeting of a high-level client, she accepts without hesitation—only to find out that the client in question is one of the most famous Korean families in the world.

The Park family is worth a billion dollars, and their Korean beauty brand is mega-influential. But the patriarch is filing for divorce while his wife is dying, and their children can’t stop snapping at each other. With both the family fortune and legacy under threat, it’s up to Jia to set things right—and she only has a month to do it. Suddenly, Jia is thrust into the three Park siblings’ back-stabbing family politics and embroiled in drama. As Jia chases the truth across the globe on private jets, she finds herself falling for this broken, badly-behaving family in ways she can’t quite explain. But it is also becoming all too clear that the Parks are hiding dark secrets. Can she separate the truth from the lies in time to protect the Parks’ fortune and secure her success at the firm? And can she admit that what she always wanted isn’t what she actually needs?

WORKHORSE by Caroline Palmer
9781250360083 | 5/13/25

At the turn of the millennium, editorial assistant Clodagh “Clo” Harmon wants nothing more than to rise through the ranks at the world’s most prestigious fashion magazine. There’s just one problem: She doesn’t have the right pedigree. Instead, Clo is a “workhorse” surrounded by beautiful, wealthy, impossibly well-connected “show horses” who get ahead without effort, including her beguiling cubicle-mate, Davis Lawrence, the daughter of a beloved but fading Broadway actress. Harry Wood, Davis’s boarding school classmate and a reporter with visions of his own media empire, might be Clo’s ally in gaming the system—or he might be the only thing standing between Clo and her rightful place at the top.

In a career punctuated by moments of high absurdity, sudden windfalls, and devastating reversals of fortune, Clo wades across boundaries, taking ever greater and more dangerous risks to become the important person she wants to be within the confines of a world where female ambition remains cloaked. But who really is Clo underneath all the borrowed designer clothes and studied manners—and who are we if we share her desires?

Hilariously observant and insightful, WORKHORSE is a brilliant page-turner about what it means to be in thrall to wealth, beauty, and influence, and the outrageous sacrifices women must make for the sake of success.

THE ACCIDENTAL FAVORITE by Fran Littlewood
9781250857118 | 6/24/25

Vivienne and Patrick Fisher have done an excellent job raising their three daughters, Alex, Nancy, and Eva. They’re well-adjusted women with impressive careers, caring partners, exciting hobbies, and sweet children. So it’s with great anticipation that three generations of Fishers gather at a beautiful glass house in the English countryside for a weeklong celebration of Vivienne’s seventieth birthday. But when Patrick’s reaction to a freak accident on the first day of the trip inadvertently reveals that he has a favorite daughter, no one is prepared for the shockwaves it sends through the family.

Decades-old unresolved sibling rivalries are suddenly unmasked. And be it newly uncovered smoking habits, ancient crushes, or private doubts about life decisions both big and small, no one’s secrets are safe. Still-tender wounds are reopened amid an audience of friends, husbands, grandchildren, and even coworkers, and as the family’s past is re-written, they find themselves suddenly unmoored.

In a lively, poignant examination of memory, sisterhood, and family ties, Fran Littlewood reminds us just why it is that people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.