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Ideal for readers looking for interstellar travel, coming-of-age fiction, romance, and large-scale disaster.
Variable Star
Sci-Fi · Hard Sci-Fi · Space Opera
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Called “a delight” by David Crosby, this science fiction novel follows aspiring composer Joel Johnston as he rejects the future planned by his wealthy fiancée’s family and leaves aboard a colony ship, only for a cosmic catastrophe to threaten humanity, with a 4.0-star rating from more than 70 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for readers looking for interstellar travel, coming-of-age fiction, romance, and large-scale disaster.
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The unfinished sci-fi masterpiece by the author of Stranger in a Strange Land—completed by the Hugo Award–winning author of The Stardance Trilogy.
Joel Johnston has found the love of his life in Jinny Hamilton. Life would be perfect if only he earned enough money to support a family. But now that Jinny knows his love is true, she reveals an incredible secret: she is really Jinny Conrad, granddaughter of Richard Conrad, the wealthiest man in the solar system. And now that Joel proven his love for Jinny, her family has a plan for him.
Joel is to be groomed for a place in the vast Conrad empire and sire a dynasty to carry on the family business. Most men would jump at the opportunity. But to Jinny's surprise, and even his own, Joel turns down her generous offer and sets off on the mother of all benders.
When he wakes up on a colony ship heading into space, he decides it's time to forget Jinny and make a life among the stars. But his plans—and the plans of billions of others—are shattered by a cosmic cataclysm so devastating it will take all of humanity's strength and ingenuity just to survive.
When an outline for Variable Star was found among Robert A. Heinlein's papers, Spider Robinson was commissioned to complete the novel. The result is a thrilling new work of science fiction from two of the genre's greatest minds.
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A strong match for readers who like dragon shapeshifters, court intrigue, black magic, and epic fantasy.
The Last Dragonlord
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure
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Linden Rathan, the last-born of a race of immortal weredragons, searches for his soultwin while investigating a queen’s suspicious death and trying to prevent civil war, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 200 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers who like dragon shapeshifters, court intrigue, black magic, and epic fantasy.
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This "winning fantasy epic" introduces a race of dragon shifters with "political intrigue, romance, bloody menace, and sweeping adventure" (Booklist).
Dragonlord Linden Rathan, last-born of a race of immortal weredragons, has spent six hundred years alone, searching for his soultwin while his fellow Dragonlords watch over humanity's Five Kingdoms.
When the Queen of Cassori dies mysteriously, Linden and the other Dragonlords are called upon to prevent civil war as two human claimants vie for the regency. As the battle for Cassori rule escalates, Linden becomes the target of the Fellowship, a secret society of true-humans who could actually destroy his immortal life.
Then he meets a beautiful young ship captain named Maurynna who may be the only one who can help Linden bring Cassori back from the brink of chaos. The Last Dragonlord is the debut novel in Joanne Bertin's acclaimed Dragonlord series.
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This will appeal to readers who want literary fiction with psychological mystery, old guilt, complicated relationships, and an unresolved death.
Road Longer Than Memory
Literary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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Road Longer Than Memory follows Sara Barlow as she returns to Arlington, Virginia, and is forced to confront an unsolved classmate's death, her sister's fatal accident, and memories she has tried to suppress. This will appeal to readers who want literary fiction with psychological mystery, old guilt, complicated relationships, and an unresolved death.
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Sometimes the road home runs through everything you tried to forget
After a failed relationship and an unsettled teaching career, Sara Barlow returns to her childhood home in Arlington, Virginia, hoping for a fresh start. But when she applies for a job at her old high school, a chance glimpse into the gymnasium shakes her to the core—she spots the man she suspects was involved in a classmate's violent death a decade earlier.
Haunted by the past, Sara confronts the memories she's spent years trying to suppress: her sister Suzanne's fatal car crash, her secret summer with the reckless Devlin Barrie, and the anonymous 911 call she made after witnessing what she believes was a murder. As the construction of Interstate 66 physically fractures her community, Sara grapples with emotional fault lines of her own—guilt, silence, and buried truth.
Set against the backdrop of suburban upheaval in the 1970s and '80s, Road Longer Than Memory is a compelling story of memory, reckoning, and the cost of what we leave unsaid.
Perfect for fans of Tana French and William Kent Krueger
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Best for readers who like near-future science fiction thrillers built around hacking, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and questions of identity.
All That We See or Seem
Literary Fiction · Sci-Fi · Psychological Fiction · Techno-Thriller
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All That We See or Seem follows former teenage hacker Julia Z as she risks her carefully hidden life to help find a kidnapped artist who creates shared dreams using AI. Best for readers who like near-future science fiction thrillers built around hacking, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and questions of identity.
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From Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award–winning author Ken Liu, the first in a high-stakes sci-fi thriller series following an infamous hacker as she attempts to unravel a virtual reality mystery in the near future.
Julia Z, a young woman who gained notoriety at 14 as the “orphan hacker,” is trying to live a life of digital obscurity in a Boston suburb.
But when a lawyer named Piers barges into her life after his famous artist wife, Elli, was kidnapped by dangerous criminals, Julia decides she must help Piers and Elli. Nor step away from the challenge of this digital puzzle. Elli is an onierofex, a dream artist, who can weave the dreams of an audience together through a shared virtual landscape, live, in a concert-like experience by tapping into each attendee’s waking dream and providing an emotionally resonant and narrative experience. While attendees’ dreams are anonymous, Julia discovers that Elli was also providing a one-on-one dream experience for the head of an international criminal enterprise, and he’s demanding his dreams in return for Elli.
Unraveling the real and unreal will lead Julia on an adventure that will take her across the country and deep into the shadows of her psyche in this fresh “marvel from a perennially innovative author” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
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A quiet, reflective choice for readers interested in Japanese fiction, music, craftsmanship, and finding one’s path.
The Forest of Wool and Steel
LGBTQIA+ · Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Magical Realism
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Winner of the Japan Booksellers’ Award, this novel follows Tomura, a young man who discovers his calling after hearing a piano being tuned at his school. He begins an apprenticeship under experienced craftsmen while learning to develop his own skill and purpose, with a 3.8-star average from more than 4,700 Goodreads ratings. A quiet, reflective choice for readers interested in Japanese fiction, music, craftsmanship, and finding one’s path.
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OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD
''A mesmerising reading experience for all of us seeking a meaningful life' JAPAN TIMES
What he experienced that day wasn’t life-changing . . . It was life-making.
Tomura is startled by the hypnotic sound of a piano being tuned in his school. It seeps into his soul and transports him to the forests, dark and gleaming, that surround his beloved mountain village. From that moment, he is determined to discover more.
Under the tutelage of three master piano-tuners – one humble, one jovial, one ill-tempered – Tomura embarks on his training, never straying too far from a single, unfathomable question: do I have what it takes?
Set in small-town Japan, this warm and mystical story is for the lucky few who have found their calling – and for the rest of us who are still searching. It shows that the road to finding one’s purpose is a winding path, often filled with treacherous doubts and, for those who persevere, astonishing moments of revelation.
Mega-bestselling winner of the Japan Booksellers Award, selected by bookshop staff as the book they most wanted to hand-sell: A tender and uplifting novel for fans of A WHOLE LIFE by Robert Seethaler.
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to dark crime fiction that blends noir, horror, grief, and supernatural unease.
The Devil Takes You Home
Horror · Supernatural Horror
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Mario is buried in debt because of his daughter’s illness and reluctantly becomes a hitman, drawing him into a violent crime story with horror and supernatural elements, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 300 Amazon reviewers. A sharp fit for readers drawn to dark crime fiction that blends noir, horror, grief, and supernatural unease.
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In this genre-deyfing, award-winning thriller, a desperate father journeys into the criminal underworld to save his family—but soon begins to lose sight of himself and what he set out to do.
Buried in debt due to his young daughter’s illness, his marriage at the brink, Mario reluctantly takes a job as a hitman, surprising himself with his proclivity for violence. After tragedy destroys the life he knew, Mario agrees to one final job: hijack a cartel’s cash shipment before it reaches Mexico. Along with an old friend and a cartel-insider named Juanca, Mario sets off on the near-suicidal mission, which will leave him with either a cool $200,000 or a bullet in the skull. But the path to reward or ruin is never as straight as it seems. As the three complicated men travel through the endless landscape of Texas, across the border and back, their hidden motivations are laid bare alongside nightmarish encounters that defy explanation. One thing is certain: even if Mario makes it out alive, he won’t return the same.
The Devil Takes You Home is a panoramic odyssey for fans of S.A. Cosby’s southern noir, Blacktop Wasteland, by way of the boundary-defying storytelling of Stephen Graham Jones and Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
Named a best book of the year by: NPR, Harper's Bazaar, Chicago Tribune, Vulture, Oprah Daily, CrimeReads, The Millions, and many more!
An Edgar Award Finalist • A Bram Stoker Award Winner • A Shirley Jackson Award Winner • A Book of the Month Club Pick • An August Indie Next List Selection • An ABA Indie Bestseller
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A strong match for readers who want large-scale zombie horror focused on an outbreak, survival, and the collapse of society.
The Living Dead
Dystopian · Horror · LGBTQIA+
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George A. Romero’s unfinished zombie novel, completed by Daniel Kraus, follows a rapidly spreading outbreak through multiple survivors, from medical examiners and a trailer park to an aircraft carrier and cable news station, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 1,500 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers who want large-scale zombie horror focused on an outbreak, survival, and the collapse of society.
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“A horror landmark and a work of gory genius.”—Joe Hill, New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman
New York Times bestselling author Daniel Kraus completes George A. Romero's brand-new masterpiece of zombie horror, the massive novel left unfinished at Romero's death!
George A. Romero invented the modern zombie with Night of the Living Dead, creating a monster that has become a key part of pop culture. Romero often felt hemmed in by the constraints of film-making. To tell the story of the rise of the zombies and the fall of humanity the way it should be told, Romero turned to fiction. Unfortunately, when he died, the story was incomplete.
Enter Daniel Kraus, co-author, with Guillermo del Toro, of the New York Times bestseller The Shape of Water (based on the Academy Award-winning movie) and Trollhunters (which became an Emmy Award-winning series), and author of The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch (an Entertainment Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year). A lifelong Romero fan, Kraus was honored to be asked, by Romero's widow, to complete The Living Dead.
Set in the present day, The Living Dead is an entirely new tale, the story of the zombie plague as George A. Romero wanted to tell it.
It begins with one body.
A pair of medical examiners find themselves battling a dead man who won’t stay dead.
It spreads quickly.
In a Midwestern trailer park, a Black teenage girl and a Muslim immigrant battle newly-risen friends and family. On a US aircraft carrier, living sailors hide from dead ones while a fanatic makes a new religion out of death. At a cable news station, a surviving anchor keeps broadcasting while his undead colleagues try to devour him. In DC, an autistic federal employee charts the outbreak, preserving data for a future that may never come.
Everywhere, people are targeted by both the living and the dead.
We think we know how this story ends.
We. Are. Wrong.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to historical conspiracy thrillers, WWII secrets, international investigations, and morally complicated questions of justice.
The Final Reckoning
Mystery · Thriller · Political Thriller · Spy Thriller
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The Final Reckoning begins with a fatal shooting at the United Nations that pulls lawyer Tom Byrne into a decades-old quest for justice connected to Holocaust survivors and wartime vengeance. A sharp fit for readers drawn to historical conspiracy thrillers, WWII secrets, international investigations, and morally complicated questions of justice.
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"The biggest challenger to Dan Brown's crown." —Mirror (UK)
When a man's death at the United Nations turns out to be more than just an accidental shooting, unsuspecting Tom Byrne is plunged headlong into a deadly world of hidden fellowships, unforgivable crimes, and a 60-year quest for justice. From Sam Bourne—the #1 international bestselling author of The Righteous Men and The Last Testament—comes this fast-paced, gripping, and provocative thriller exposing the last great mystery of the Second World War. Perfect for fans of Raymond Khoury, Jo Nesbø, and James Rollins, Bourne's The Final Solution is a tense and twisting tale of Nazi soldiers and Jewish Avengers, based on the true story of WWII survivors taking vengeance for the Holocaust into their own hands.
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A strong match for readers who like fae romantasy, slow-burn romance, dangerous alliances, and high-stakes fantasy action.
The Vanishing Throne
Romantasy
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The Vanishing Throne follows Aileana Kameron as she returns to a ruined Victorian Scotland, hunted by the fae for the secrets in her mind and forced into a fragile resistance alongside Kiaran MacKay, with a 4.1-star average from more than 8,900 Goodreads ratings. A strong match for readers who like fae romantasy, slow-burn romance, dangerous alliances, and high-stakes fantasy action.
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Rediscover the magic of book two of The Falconer Trilogy - now reimagined for adult romantasy fans with new spicy content!
Set in Victorian-era Scotland, this historical romantasy adventure will sweep you away
Escape the fae. Save the realm. Make them pay.
Aileana Kameron is on the run in a broken world. The fae realm spit her back out just in time to watch her city burn and the human world fall. Survivors cower in the shadows, dreading the next attack. Relentless, the fae hunt Aileana, determined to possess the secrets locked in her mind. Nowhere is safe.
Her only refuge is with Kiaran MacKay, her lethal fae consort. Together they're thrust into the heart of the human resistance, but trust is scarce. Traitors could doom them all.
The fae close in, hungry to restore their Courts, even if it means razing the mortal realm to ashes. But Aileana realizes she's not their only target. Something else has caught their eye, something that could turn the tide of the war.
And to survive, she'll have to outwit them all.
The high-stakes action of Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets the high society manners of Bridgerton, with the sexy romance of Rebecca Yarros.
Readers LOVE The Falconer Series:
'I LOVED IT. I swallowed this book. Plain and simple. The quick pace was captivating, the descriptions and landscapes breathtaking and the heroine really badass!!' Goodreads reviewer, 5*
'I was only a few pages into this book when I knew it was going to become a part of me . . . Elizabeth May has such a way with words, and she has woven a gorgeous tale full of adventure, magic, and romance' Goodreads reviewer, 5*
'Annnnnnnd this book enters my top ten of favourites . . . Read this for the angsty fae goodness' Goodreads reviewer, 5*
'THE FALCONER was PHENOMENAL!!! From its Scotland lure, to its vengeance and murder, to its THRILLING, action-packed adventure, and heart-pounding, slow burning romance' Goodreads reviewer, 5*
'This book is action-packed with excellent character and relationship development, world-building, and witty repartee' Goodreads reviewer, 5*
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Ideal for readers looking for literary dystopia centered on grief, parenthood, queer family life, government surveillance, and community resistance.
I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
Dystopian · LGBTQIA+
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Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction, this dystopian novel follows Kris, a grieving mother raising a daughter in a surveillance state where people who break the law are marked with additional shadows and stripped of rights, with a 3.9-star average from more than 8,100 Goodreads ratings. Ideal for readers looking for literary dystopia centered on grief, parenthood, queer family life, government surveillance, and community resistance.
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Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction
Dept. of Speculation meets Black Mirror in this lyrical, speculative debut about a queer mother raising her daughter in an unjust surveillance state
In a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical new form of law enforcement: rather than incarceration, wrongdoers are given a second (and sometimes, third, fourth, and fifth) shadow as a reminder of their crime—and a warning to those they encounter. Within the Department, corruption and prejudice run rampant, giving rise to an underclass of so-called Shadesters who are disenfranchised, publicly shamed, and deprived of civil rights protections.
Kris is a Shadester and a new mother to a baby born with a second shadow of her own. Grieving the loss of her wife and thoroughly unprepared for the reality of raising a child alone, Kris teeters on the edge of collapse, fumbling in a daze of alcohol, shame, and self-loathing. Yet as the kid grows, Kris finds her footing, raising a child whose irrepressible spark cannot be dampened by the harsh realities of the world. She can’t forget her wife, but with time, she can make a new life for herself and the kid, supported by a community of fellow misfits who defy the Department to lift one another up in solidarity and hope.
With a first-person register reminiscent of the fierce self-disclosure of Sheila Heti and the poetic precision of Ocean Vuong, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself is a bold debut novel that examines the long shadow of grief, the hard work of parenting, and the power of queer resistance.
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Best for readers who like dark thrillers built around desperation, food, wealth, moral compromise, and increasingly disturbing choices.
Greedy
Horror · Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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“A deliciously twisted thriller that blends culinary obsession with moral horror” by Dua Lipa’s Service95, gambling addict Ed Cook takes a lucrative job posing as private chef to reclusive billionaire Hazeline Yamamoto after his debts put his family in danger, with a 3.8-star average from more than 2,500 Goodreads ratings. Best for readers who like dark thrillers built around desperation, food, wealth, moral compromise, and increasingly disturbing choices.
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“A deliciously twisted thriller that blends culinary obsession with moral horror . . . This novel savors excess, class, and complicity . . . and leaves you squirming.”—Dua Lipa’s Service95
What would you do for a seat at the table?
They will kill me soon, Edward Cook thinks. And when the Yakuza are unable to collect what he owes, Ed realizes, theyʼll go after his wife and child next. Broke, desperate, and unemployed, he stumbles upon an unusual ad: Chef wanted! Private chef for a high-profile businesswoman. One million yen per day.
Ed accepts the job. He hasnʼt earned any Michelin stars, but he knows his way around a kitchen. Leaving his life in Tokyo behind, he departs for an opulent estate in the mountains owned by the enigmatic and reclusive Hazeline Yamamoto, a disgraced socialite with a predatorʼs smile and an exacting palate. Hazelineʼs world is one of taste, connoisseurship, and experimentation—she is a certified gourmand. But when you can afford filet mignon for every meal, you begin to seek out the strange and forbidden.
The closer Ed gets to Hazeline and the brighter future that she promises—if he remains loyal—the nearer he is to realizing the chilling truth about her altruism. In this shadow world of unimaginable wealth, there are worse monsters than two-bit gangsters. The wind blowing through Hazeline’s home carries the sound of screaming, and Ed finds himself feeding all kinds of beasts.
Perfect for fans of Parasite and The Menu—enticing as a starter, meaty as a main dish, and full of satisfying just-desserts—Greedy is a suspenseful poison-pen note to classism and an ode to Japanese cuisine, a horror-tinged thriller unsuitable for vegetarians but full of shocking delights for every reader.
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A strong fit for readers drawn to epistolary literary fiction about aging, family, regret, connection, and second chances.
The Correspondent
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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A #1 New York Times bestseller and Women's Prize for Fiction winner hailed by Ann Patchett as “A cause for celebration,” The Correspondent tells Sybil Van Antwerp's life through letters as she confronts old grief, family relationships, and forgiveness, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 155,000 Amazon reviewers. A strong fit for readers drawn to epistolary literary fiction about aging, family, regret, connection, and second chances.
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OVER TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD • Discover the word-of-mouth hit hailed by Ann Patchett as “A cause for celebration”—an intimate novel about the transformative power of the written word and the beauty of slowing down to reconnect with the people we love.
“This novel is a complete and utter joy.”—Ann Napolitano, author of Hello Beautiful
“Quietly dazzling.”—The New York Times
“I cried more than once as I witnessed this brilliant woman come to understand herself more deeply.”—Florence Knapp, author of The Names
In development as a major motion picture
WINNER OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION • LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE AND THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, The Washington Post, Boston Globe, Elle, Christian Science Monitor, She Reads
“Imagine, the letters one has sent out into the world, the letters received back in turn, are like the pieces of a magnificent puzzle. . . . Isn’t there something wonderful in that, to think that a story of one’s life is preserved in some way, that this very letter may one day mean something, even if it is a very small thing, to someone?”
Filled with knowledge that only comes from a life fully lived, The Correspondent is a gem of a novel about the power of finding solace in literature and connection with people we might never meet in person. It is about the hubris of youth and the wisdom of old age, and the mistakes and acts of kindness that occur during a lifetime.
Sybil Van Antwerp has throughout her life used letters to make sense of the world and her place in it. Most mornings, around half past ten, Sybil sits down to write letters—to her brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who will not allow her to audit a class she desperately wants to take, to Joan Didion and Larry McMurtry to tell them what she thinks of their latest books, and to one person to whom she writes often yet never sends the letter.
Sybil expects her world to go on as it always has—a mother, grandmother, wife, divorcee, distinguished lawyer, she has lived a very full life. But when letters from someone in her past force her to examine one of the most painful periods of her life, she realizes that the letter she has been writing over the years needs to be read and that she cannot move forward until she finds it in her heart to offer forgiveness.
Sybil Van Antwerp’s life of letters might be “a very small thing,” but she also might be one of the most memorable characters you will ever read.
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