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The Guests

The Guests
  • Author(s): Agnes Ravatn
  • Location(s): Norwegian Fjords
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Married couple Karin and Kai are looking for a pleasant escape from their busy lives, and reluctantly accept an offer to stay in a luxurious holiday home in the Norwegian fjords. Instead of finding a relaxing retreat, however, their...

The Guests

The Guests
  • Author(s): Adriane Leigh
  • Location(s): Lake Michigan
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Six guests are invited to paradise. Some of them will die. Ryleigh is a struggling artist, still trying to catch her break. Her new best friend, Kerrigan, offers her a once in a lifetime opportunity — a week on...

The Guests on South Battery

The Guests on South Battery
  • Author(s): Karen White
  • Location(s): Charleston
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

With her extended maternity leave at its end, Melanie Trenholm is less than thrilled to leave her new husband and beautiful twins to return to work, especially when she’s awoken by a phone call with no voice on the...

The Guide

The Guide
  • Author(s): R K Narayan
  • Location(s): South India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Raju’s first stop after his release from prison is the barber’s shop Then he decides to take refuge in an abandoned temple. Raju used to be India’s most corrupt tourist guide – but now a peasant mistakes him for...

The Guilt of a Sparrow

The Guilt of a Sparrow
  • Author(s): Jess B Moore
  • Location(s): North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Magnolia Porter has spent the entirety of her twenty-four years satisfying her mother’s guilt. She was the good girl to her trouble making brother, Lucian – the one left behind to hold her mother together after he died. She...

The Guilt Trip

The Guilt Trip
  • Author(s): Sandie Jones
  • Location(s): Portugal
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Mystery
  • Era(s): Conteporaryy

Jack and Rachel. Noah and Paige. Will and Ali. Five friends who’ve known each other for years. And Ali, Will’s new fiancée. To celebrate the forthcoming wedding, all three couples are having a weekend get-away together in Portugal. It’s...

The Guru of Love

The Guru of Love
  • Author(s): Samrat Upadhyay
  • Location(s): Nepal
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Writing of Samrat Upadhyay’s debut story collection, critics raved: “like a Buddhist Chekhov . . . speak to common truths . . . startlingly good” (San Francisco Chronicle) and “subtle and spiritually complex” (New York Times). Upadhyay’s first novel...

The Gypsy Bride

The Gypsy Bride
  • Author(s): Katie Hutton
  • Location(s): Canterbury, Oxfordshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

‘your Gypsy loves you so much he’s ready to put his head in a noose for you!’ 1922: Harvest time in the Chilterns. A Gypsy falls in love with a lonely girl in a close-knit Evangelical community. Opposed on...

The Gypsy’s Daughter

The Gypsy’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Katie Hutton
  • Location(s): Nottingham
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1950s

Harmony ‘Harry’ Loveridge is growing up on a farm in post-war Kent. With a Gypsy for a father, she has had a somewhat unconventional, yet happy life. But Harry has always hoped for more. And with ambitions to go...

The Hacienda

The Hacienda
  • Author(s): Isabel Cañas
  • Location(s): The American South
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Hacienda San Isidro was meant to be Beatriz’s haven, her salvation from an oppressive life with her uncle and his vicious wife. When Don Rodolfo Solórzano proposed, Beatriz dreamed only of the security his estate in the countryside would...

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