He tasted like tequila and the fake name I gave him was Rose. Four years ago, I decided to get over one man, by getting under another. A single night and nothing more. I found my handsome stranger with a shot glass and charming but devilish smile at the end of the bar. The desire that hit his eyes the second they landed on me ignited a spark inside me, instant and hot. He was perfect and everything I didn't know I needed. That one night may have ended,...

"Gorgeous and perceptive, The Afterpains is a heartbreaking portrait of two families trying to cope with grief, isolation, and living far from one's homeland--told in the voices of four distinct narrators. Twenty years after the death of her infant daughter, Rosy still feels--acutely--all that she's lost. But she's determined to try to lay her grief to rest, desperate to repair the connections to the family she does have: her husband, Desmond, and...

Sixteen-year-old Eve, gifted with rare magical abilities, believes it her purpose to defeat an evil Knight, but not everything is as it seems and Eve's mother, the Queen, knows more about the knight than she is telling her daughter.

Two friends experience jealousy for the first time when one of them is gifted a set of bangles from her mother.