FANCY THAT

A LIBRARY JOURNAL Women's Summer Reading Selection

Nancy Carrington-Chambers has mastered the art of living beautifully—except in her perfect-on-paper marriage. Ditching her suburban McMansion for a chic San Francisco apartment, she launches a bold new career as an event planner and hires her dream assistant: Derek Cathcart, a stunning and stylish Brit with a boyfriend and irresistible flair.

With her neglectful husband now begging her to come home, her parents doubting her ambitions, and the city's dreariest gala on her shoulders, Nancy’s juggling enough to make her head spin. Then her unpredictable cousin drops off a four-year-old daughter and vanishes—leaving Nancy’s carefully curated life in delightful disarray.

Now Nancy must choose: Will she cling to her dream of a perfectly stylish life—or risk everything for the messy, wonderful people who might finally make her feel truly alive?

"A witty, emotion-packed contemporary romance novel that will leave you longing for the story to go on." —Romance Junkies

"[Acosta] uses humor and romance to show that in life and love, perfection is overrated." —Booklist

 


DARK COMPANION

A YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Nominee

Determined, desperate foster teen Jane Williams thinks she’s finally escaped violence and poverty when she’s offered a full scholarship to prestigious Birch Grove Academy. She’s given a cottage of her own, an allowance, and the opportunity to take amazing classes with wonderful students. She even starts tutoring the headmistress’s gorgeous son, Lucien.

But the longer she stays, the more Jane comes to suspect that the beautiful people around her are hiding ugly—and deadly—truths.

"A wildly delicious supernatural paranormal spin on Jane Eyre." —Elizabeth Burns, School Library Journal

"A beautifully dark gothic." —Alice, Marvels

"A breath of fresh air in a genre marked by creaky gender relations and unchallenged class stratification." —Kirkus Reviews

 

THE SHE-HULK DIARIES

When she hasn't morphed into a 650-pound, crime-fighting, hard-partying superhero, she’s a single lawyer trying to get her act together. The She-Hulk Diaries tells her story, as she juggles looking for Mr. Right and climbing the corporate ladder by day with battling villains and saving the world by night.

Maybe she’ll finally take on a case that will define her career. Maybe she won’t meet one Mr. Right, but two. And maybe—just maybe—bad guys will stop trying to destroy the planet so she can read her Perez Hilton in peace.

"One heck of an amusing, often hilarious book." —Bridget LaMonica, Den of Geek

"An absolute delight. Whether you like She-Hulk straight up, comedic, or a combination of both, The She-Hulk Diaries is the She-Hulk endeavor for you."  —Peter David, NYT Bestselling Author of X-Men and The Incredible Hulk