Misery Lark, daughter of the most powerful Vampyre councilman of the Southwest must leave her life of anonymity among the humans and uphold a historic alliance with the Weres by marrying their Alpha, Lowe Moreland.

Signing them up for The Eden Test, a week-long getaway for couples in need of a fresh start, Daisy, a slyly talented actress with her own secrets, and her husband, Craig, as the lies and revelations pile up, are forced to go to the ultimate extreme to save their marriage—and themselves.

Amor Towles shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of compromise which operate at the heart of modern marriages. In Towles's novel, Rules of Civility, the indomitable Evelyn Ross leaves...

Alongside the challenges of parenting, married couple Jack and Elizabeth encounter cults disguised as mindfulness support groups, polyamorous would-be suitors, Facebook wars and something called Love Potion Number Nine as they undertake separate, personal excavations in their quest to find health and happiness.

Gertrude, nicknamed Gertie, at request of the FBI in witness program, having a high school education, having survived a stint in a penitentiary, suffering a debilitating operation, and experiencing the death of two family members, faces more marital challenges. She attempts to become a successful entrepreneur and part owner of a bank. Will she succeed in her life or end in failure with those continuing challenges she faces?

To save her family’s fortune, Payal Mehra agrees to marry fellow Londoner and serial dater Ayaan Malhotra, who will do anything for his parents’ respect, and as they race toward an impending engagement ceremony date, they realize that maybe they aren’t just in this for business.

Devastatingly handsome and insanely rich, Farrell Covington is capable of anything and impossible to resist. As the son of one of the country's most powerful and deeply conservative families, the world could be his. But when he falls for Nate Reminger, an aspiring writer from a nice Jewish family in Piscataway, New Jersey, the results are passionate and catastrophic. Together, the two embark on a uniquely managed romance that spans half a century....

Dr. Jane McGill has a great job at a VA Hospital, an adorable daughter, and a loving husband. Granted, it would be wonderful if her preschooler wouldn't wake her up at three in the morning, and it would be a miracle if her husband would change the toilet paper roll once every millennium. Still, in most ways, she has the ideal life she'd always imagined. Then Jane discovers that Dr. Ryan Reilly is the VA's newest vascular surgeon. Dr. Ryan Reilly,...