Set in late-1950s New York, the story follows Nick Russo, a reporter who has risen from a tough Brooklyn background and must keep his sexuality secret in a hostile era.

Two strangers meet by chance and one proposes an unthinkable bargain: each will commit a murder on the other's behalf so neither will have an obvious motive. The encounter binds their lives into suspicion and blackmail, creating a psychological contest of guilt, plausibility, and escalating consequences.

A first-person memoir recounting the author's migration from El Salvador to the United States as a child. The narrative follows the physical and emotional journey, the dangers and practical hurdles of traveling undocumented, and the ongoing effects of displacement on family and identity.

Two twin sisters from the same small town take divergent paths—one remaining close to home, the other leaving and living under a different racial identity—and the novel follows how that split shapes their lives, their families, and the next generation across decades.

A cleric from a monastery visits an abandoned imperial palace shortly after an empress's death and listens as the empress's former servant recounts the ruler's life.

Set in a near-future theocratic state, the narrative follows a woman assigned to a mandated reproductive role within tightly policed households.

A country solicitor is drawn into defending a mother and daughter accused of abducting and assaulting a visiting young woman. The plot hinges on assembling testimony, scrutinizing inconsistent claims, and testing how community suspicion and newspaper pressure shape culpability.

Set in early 19th-century England, the novel follows a family with five daughters confronting the social and financial pressures of marriage, inheritance rules, and social standing.

A married lesbian couple becomes emotionally distant after one partner returns from a disastrous deep-sea dive. The novel tracks the aftermath: attempts at reconnection, the survivor’s altered presence, and the slow accumulation of dread tied to the sea and loss.

A guarded hiker, Alexei Lebedev, sets out on the Pacific Crest Trail expecting solitude but repeatedly crosses paths with outgoing fellow hiker Ben Caravalho.

A young woman in the early 1950s experiences an increasingly severe depression while navigating academic opportunity, social expectations, and the pressures of adulthood. The novel presents her interior perspective as she struggles with identity, career choices, and the medical responses to her mental illness.

Two authors with opposing careers—one a bestselling romance writer, the other a literary novelist—reconnect while staying in the same beach house.