Annie MacLeod always knew she was different, growing up on a sailboat in the Pacific Northwest. But when a tsunami shatters her world, Annie is stranded on land. In the wreckage, she rescues a wordless man named Walker, who emits a hum only she can hear. Their connection is electric, giving Annie visions of the ocean’s hidden world. Yet even as she is pulled toward him, Evan—the steadfast love who has always been there — remains on dry land. When Walker vanishes, Annie buries the past until six years later, his otherworldly sound returns.

A novel about two very different women and the unlikely bond they forge in the wreckage of one man’s betrayal. Maggie feels behind at thirty-five, but at least she’s certain about her boyfriend, Karl—until she hears a voicemail from a woman named Eve. Eve liked the quiet rhythm of her Northern Ontario lake life and Karl on the weekends. When Maggie and Eve meet, their tense encounter upends both of their lives.

From her breakout role on Skins to Game of Thrones, Hannah Murray built a career in Hollywood pushing her body to its limits. But one day, the line between make-believe and reality disappeared, and she found herself confined to a psych ward, dangerously in love with the leader of a shadowy wellness organization, and believing in magic. This memoir explores how she got there—and how she managed to rebuild her life.

A story collection about the clash and harmony of finding one’s place in an adult world that feels “other”. The stories in Qadeer’s collection delve into the subtleties and struggles of navigating shifting identities as one matures, into the joys and challenges of intimacy and aging, and into the changing tides of motherhood. Filled with humor and heartache, this collection offers a perspective on the search for belonging.

Skin Hunger tells two stories in counterpoint: Rowan, a young activist who crusades for animal liberation to compensate for a dearth of emotional comfort, and Evie, Rowan’s mother, whose struggles with mental illness have long kept the family apart. After losing her job, Rowan falls in with a group targeting a university lab. Decades earlier, Evie struggles with the conviction that her very essence will harm her baby. The novel follows a mother and daughter starved for nurturing as they struggle to find a home.

Tess is used to untangling messy lives—her own included. A therapist in Toronto caught in a midlife slump, she retreats to her hometown in cottage country after a troubled patient named Hal crosses the line. Instead of peace, she finds ghosts of her past. When Hal shows up uninvited, two people end up dead and Tess finds herself at the center of a media firestorm. Branded a villain, she must confront buried secrets to save herself.

Payal has spent her life trying to meet her parents’ checklist of expectations: marriage, working for her father, house in the suburbs. When her mother announces a surprise trip to India, the strain in Payal’s marriage increases. Isolated in Mumbai, Payal tries to reconcile with her husband while her family tries to manage her life. Everyone but Payal seems to know exactly how to fix her marriage and solve her problems.

Celebrated author Sarah Selecky brings the spirit of her popular online writing school to the page. Short essays deliver gentle coaching, practical advice, and encouragement alongside writing exercises and meditations. Designed for authors seeking support on individual projects or their practice as a whole, this book offers tools to develop creative curiosity and whole-minded writing.

Set against the backdrop of the theater world, this novel follows the relationship between an actress who refuses to abandon her career and the daughter she chooses to abandon instead. Sadie Jones never wanted to be a mother, catapulting to fame on the wings of a scathing one-woman show. Two decades later, her daughter Jude is a talented actress in her own right, and their fraught relationship comes to a head at a New York premiere.

 $24.99 A sharply funny and wise novel about female friendship, the face we show the world online and letting your own light shine. Lilian Quick, a Toronto pet portraitist who paints animal auras, reunites with her estranged cousin Florence—now Internet-famous as Eleven Novak, head of a global feminine lifestyle empowerment brand. Lilian enrolls in Eleven’s signature program, catapulting into an expensive world of sales, marketing, and spiritual awakening that makes her examine the true line between empowerment and authenticity.

A stunning debut collection of stories about love, betrayal, intimacy, and the secrets we keep from those closest to us. Selecky’s sharp, perceptive eyes capture the delicate balances and quiet cruelties of modern relationships in stories that move effortlessly between humor, tenderness, and melancholy.