A small, remote English setting hosts a tightly observed family story in which religious rites, interpersonal strain, and mysterious occurrences create sustained unease.

An illicit kiss at a 1960s christening fractures two marriages and eventually results in a blended family. Over roughly fifty years the novel follows six children whose summers and lives intersect, tracing how one adult mistake reshapes relationships, loyalties, and personal trajectories across decades.

Two siblings raised in an elaborate family home reckon with abandonment, parental choices, and the aftereffects of being shaped by a single place. The setup follows their intertwined lives over many years as the house — and what it represents — continues to influence decisions, identity, and family bonds.

A contemporary publishing editor wrestles with a missing final chapter and a real-life death tied to a recently published mystery novel.

India Morgan Phelps (Imp) attempts to write her memoir while living with schizophrenia, anxiety, and OCD. Her account circles a romantic relationship with a transgender partner and a fixation on a mysterious, silent woman found beside a road.

A young Nigerian woman leaves Lagos to study in the United States and must navigate new social categories, racial visibility, and evolving relationships across continents.

Set against the realities of a mid-20th-century reform school in the American South, the novel follows young boys who confront daily physical and moral violence inside a state institution.

Set in an imagined Antebellum United States, the novel follows Cora, an enslaved woman who flees a Georgia plantation via an Underground Railroad visualized as an actual subterranean railway.

A young girl grows up isolated in the North Carolina marshes, learning to survive and understand the natural world while cut off from the nearby town. Decades-spanning timelines converge when a local man's death prompts an investigation that intersects with the girl's life and reputation.