The Emma Project by Sonali Dev

In a fitting conclusion to her Jane Austen-inspired quartet about The Raje Family, Sonali Dev offers the steamiest entry of the series with her gender-reversing novel, The Emma Project.

In the Face of the Sun by Denny S. Bryce

In this haunting novel, the author of Wild Women and the Blues weaves together two stories as they unfold decades apart, as a woman on the run from an abusive husband joins her intrepid aunt as they head across the country from Chicago to Los Angeles, and confront a painful and shadowy past that has reverberated across generations.

It All Comes Down to This by Therese Anne Fowler

For the Geller sisters, all is not what it seems, and everything is about to change. Join them as they mourn the loss of a parent, face the quagmires of their existence, and find the way to their best lives.

The Last Queen: A Novel of Courage and Resistance by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s new book, “The Last Queen: A Novel of Courage and Resistance,” tells the story of Maharani Jindan, the last queen of the Sikh Empire.

The Lioness by Chris Bohjalian

“God, they’d christened themselves the lions of Hollywood at the wedding, and raised champagne to the idea. The seven of them, minus Katie and David, who were already in Paris, had greeted each other that way, half kidding but also a little smug, when they’d rendezvoused at the airport in L.A. a week later. The movie mags even called them that when they wrote about the safari: the lions of Hollywood.”

Crazy to Leave You by Marilyn Simon Rothstein

Looking for a fun, laugh-filled novel full of heart that will run the gamut of emotions (but mostly you’ll be laughing)? Marilyn Simon Rothstein has outdone herself with Crazy to Leave You, her third novel published by Lake Union.

Circa by Devi S. Laskar

Heera Sanyal, the protagonist of Devi S. Laskar’s new novel “Circa,” struggles to be something other than a dutiful Bengali daughter, even as she manages the grief of losing her best friend to a drunk driver.