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Project Jennifer
- Jill Amy Rosenblatt

Secretary Joan Benjamin is suffering an identity crisis brought on by a very bad week. Her ex-fiance just married someone else; she's lost her cushy job; and she's been kicked out of her apartment. And it's all the fault of women called Jennifer. When Joan learns that her parents almost named her Jennifer, she decides to transform herself into the Jennifer she might have been. But Project Jennifer doesn't completely go to plan.

The Bright Side
of Disaster
- Katherine Center

Jenny Harris is excitedly awaiting the birth of her first child. But then her fiance Dean goes out for cigarettes one night and doesn't come home. The next day she gives birth to a girl and Jenny has no choice but to forge ahead with her new life as a single mother. After countless sleepless nights and crying spells (both hers and the baby's), she is finally finding her way when Dean reappears.

The Secret Lives
of Sisters
- Linda Kelsey

Hannah has always felt in the shadow of her flamboyant older sister, Cat. Now Hannah’s daughter is getting married. On the day of the wedding, Cat’s caustic tongue is once again let loose with devastating consequences. As Hannah tries to make sense of their complicated relationship, she begins to unravel the secrets and lies on which their seemingly normal family was built.

The Daughter Game
- Kate Long

Anna's personal life is in crisis. Her childless marriage is struggling, and the affair she began with her husband's brother has become a millstone around her neck. The place she feels most secure is the ordered world of the classroom. Then Kali arrives in her English group, a girl who is bright, vulnerable and in need of guidance from an older woman. What could be more natural for a caring teacher to show concern for a troubled pupil? But when that friendship begins to tip over into something more intense, Anna finds her professional and domestic lives caught up together in a crazy spiral that threatens to destroy everyone she cares about.

Time of My Life
- Allison
Winn Scotch

Married mother-of-one Jillian Westfield gets a chance to go back in time to eliminate her doubts about what might have happened had she not settled down. What if she hadn't married her investment banker husband Henry? What if she hadn't quit her job when she fell pregnant? What if she answered the letter from her runaway mother? After a therapeutic massage, Jillian discover she's been whisked back seven years, back to the time she made decisions that charted her future course. And this time, armed with hindsight, she can choose a different path.

The Book Club
- Kate McCabe

Marion Hunt is a single civil servant who needs something to while away the long winter nights in Dublin. So she starts a book club and quickly gathers around her a group of disparate individuals. There is Nick Barry, a writer who is determined to produce a critically acclaimed novel. Liz Broderick is a young widow whose friends are telling her she has to get out and meet new people. Then there's Robbie Gray, an accountant whose wife has just left him for another man, and Alan McMillan, a lawyer and an old boyfriend of Marion's who will stop at nothing to get her back. As the book club gets under way, strange things begin to happen ...

Love, Suburban Style
- Wendy Markham

Fed up with her moody teenage daughter, Meg Addams decides what they both need is a good dose of suburban wholesomeness. But when they leave Manhattan for Meg's humble blue-collar hometown, she finds it is now crowded with wealthy strangers and upscale boutiques. Settling into a haunted fixer-upper, Meg finally spots a familiar face right next door - and it belongs to none other than Sam Rooney. The would-be love of Meg's high school life is now a single dad, her daughter's soccer coach and a ghost-buster.

Smart Girls Like Me
- Diane Vadino

It's 1999 and assistant editor of an online fashion magazine Betsey Nilssen is stocking up on freeze-dried foods, convinced the world is going to end at the turn of the millennium. Dreading the Y2K bug almost as much as she dreads showing up solo for best friend Bridget's lavish wedding on a South Pacific island, her fortunes change dramatically with the reappearance of colleague Ryan Wells. Her hope that he might be her "plus one" is cruelly dashed, though, when she finds out he's been sleeping with her boss.

South Beach Chicas Catch Their Man
- Caridad Pineiro

Just months ago, reporter Sylvia Amenabar and her best friends, Adriana, Juli and Tori, were happily single, hoisting mojitos at their weekly get-together. Now, all four women have men in their lives - and Sylvia's not sure she likes it that way. Ever since cop Carlos Ramirez took a bullet for her after an investigative report went wrong, she's been fighting their intensifying attraction. Then her latest assignment threatens to smear Adriana's boyfriend, Riley, and Carlos.

These Boots Weren't Made for Walking
- Melody Carlson

Cassidy Cantrell invests in a pair of designer boots, certain they'll make a spectacular impression and help seal the deal on a long-anticipated job promotion. But instead she has a disastrous week - she's fired, her beau of three years dumps her for a girl he met in church, and her neighbour steals her credit card. Cassidy has no choice but to move back home where she finds her mother has got her groove back and is now dating men half her age. Can Cassidy regain her stride?

It's About Your Husband
- Lauren Lipton

Iris Hedge leaves her husband and Californian home for the job of a lifetime - only to lose it in a New York minute. Now unattached, unemployed and broke, she agrees to spy on Steve, her best friend's sister's husband, to see if he's cheating. Soon Iris is trading her business wardrobe for the stalker chic of sweatpants and dark glasses, and navigating the hazards of urban surveillance. All is going well until the day she meets Steve face-to-face and sparks fly.

Around the World in 80 Dates: Confessions of a Serial Dater
- Christa Ann Banister

Travel writer Sydney Alexander is ready for one particular journey to end: her frustrating search for Mr Right. As a Christian twentysomething navigating the world of dating, she's encountered more than her share of duds. Just after landing her dream job, she meets an eligible round of bachelors, including a dashing European and a promising blind date. Now Sydney will discover just how far she's willing to compromise to land her dream guy.

Spa Wars
- Chris Manby

Emily Brown can't believe her luck when reality TV star Carina Lees makes a surprise visit to her Essex beauty salon. But things start to go mysteriously wrong, and it soon becomes clear that someone's got it in for the salon. For under all the make-up and manicures, Carina is not who she seems, and although confronting the past can be more painful than a bikini wax, Emily eventually has to stare the truth in the face and realise it's what's inside that really counts.

Flirting in Cars
- Alisa Kwitney

An accomplished journalist and single mother, Zoe Goren can't drive and she doesn't cook. But that's never been a problem in Manhattan. But when her daughter is diagnosed with dyslexia, she decides to make the ultimate sacrifice, moving two hours away so she can enrol Maya in a school for children with learning differences. With a budding new romance and a reporting gig for the local paper, Zoe just might survive in the wilderness of small-town America after all.

No Girl Needs a Husband Seven
Days a Week
- Nina Foxx

Marie needs her "stay-at-home husband" to clean the house and babysit the kids, so she can take care of business and enjoy some harmless flirting on the side. Mai is perfectly content to be the perfect wife to a successful corporate superstar. But it's funny how quickly everything can change with just a single phone call . . . from prison! And high-powered ad exec Kennedy believes the best husband is no husband at all.

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* Information compiled from various sources, including author and publisher sites, Amazon and Fantastic Fiction.

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