An American living in Paris confronts his feelings for another man while his fiancée is away, forcing him to face desire, social expectations, and his own self-image.

Godkiller is a 2023 fantasy novel by Hannah Kaner that focuses on friendships tested within an adventurous, high-stakes conflict. The setup orients around a group relationship dynamic driving a dangerous mission or confrontation, with emotional loyalty and survival pressure forming the central tension.

Set in the 1920s, the novel follows a young woman whose life becomes entangled with Maya gods and a mythic journey. A relationship with a divinity prompts a quest and confrontations with death and fate, folding Mexican fable elements into a period social world.

A married couple's crisis becomes the novel's engine when the wife disappears and attention turns to the husband as a suspect.

A writer trains and lives with a hawk as she processes bereavement, using close attention to the bird and falconry practice as a way to reckon with grief.

Set in 1960s Nigeria around the outbreak of the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970), the novel traces three principal lives—a village youth who becomes a houseboy, a university intellectual, and the intellectual's partner—whose personal relationships are reshaped by political upheaval.

A first-person memoir about a First Nation woman's passage through a troubled childhood, early and fraught motherhood, and ongoing struggles with mental health and identity. The narrative pieces together memory, family history, and personal reflection to show how past trauma informs present life and relationships.

A first-person memoir in which the author confronts his upbringing, family relationships, and struggles with body weight and compulsive behaviors while placing those personal troubles against broader questions of race, responsibility, and belonging.

Four investigators — a parapsychology-minded scientist, his wife, and two mediums — spend a week inside the most notorious haunted house to test whether life after death or malignant forces linger there.