Set in the U.S. before the Civil War, the novel follows African American characters whose private relationships and household lives intersect with the broader realities of slavery and escape.

Set among college students, the novel follows a young woman navigating romantic choices and the pressures of attraction, commitment, and reputation. Social life, flirtation, and the consequences of dating decisions create the central interpersonal tension that drives scenes and character decisions.

A twenty-something New Yorker notices an arresting woman on the subway who turns out to be mysteriously stuck out of her original era.

A contemporary romantic novel about the fraught, evolving relationship between the U.S. president’s son and a British prince, starting from mutual dislike and escalating into a secret and then public romance.

Set in Georgian England, Marian Hayes flees London after shooting her abusive husband and falls into an uneasy alliance with Rob Brooks, a cheerful highwayman and con man who has blackmailed her.

Set in a past-leaning period context, the novel follows the developing relationship between two men whose attraction grows through social encounters, conversation, and constrained opportunities for openness.

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.

Jane Eyre is a first-person bildungsroman that follows an orphaned woman's development from childhood into adulthood and her fraught attachment to the brooding master of a country estate.

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.