Like many couples, Michael and Jolene Zarkades have to face the pressure of everyday life: children, careers, bills, chores, even as their twelve-year marriage is falling apart. Then the Iraq War starts, and Jolene's deployment will send her to harm's way and leave defense attorney Michael at home, unaccustomed to being a single parent to their two girls. In her letters, Jolene paints a rose-colored version of her life on the front lines, but the...

A married couple finds their lives spiraling out of control when a past acquaintance of the husband resurfaces and brings a horrifying secret to light.

A young married couple move back to their childhood hometown to start a family and secrets about the husband's past are exposed after a surprise visit from his brother.

Their family growing, Clark and Marty look to bind each other together with love and faith. Over 800,000 sold!

A razor-sharp tale of two couples, two marriages, a bar, and a San Francisco start-up from a best-selling, award-winning novelist. This is a story about two marriages. Or is it? It begins with a wedding, held in the small San Francisco forest of Bottle Grove--bestowed by a wealthy patron for the public good, back when people did such things. Here is a cross section of lives, a stretch of urban green where ritzy guests, lustful teenagers, drunken revelers,...

"Ivan is a tightly wound philosophy professor whose reverence for logic and order governs not only his academic interests, but also his closest relationships. His wife, Prue, is quite the opposite: a pioneer in the emerging field of biolinguistics, she is young and beautiful, full of life and feeling. Thus far, they have managed to weather their differences. But lately, an odd distance has settled in between them. Might it have something to do with...

The story of two couples whose parallel love stories intersect in profound and surprising ways.

On a soft summer night in Vermont, twelve-year-old Lisa went into the woods behind her house and never came out again. Before she disappeared, she told her little brother, Sam, about a door that led to a magical place where she would meet the King of the Fairies and become his queen. Her little brother, Sam, has grown up to be a levelheaded man who is still convinced that Lisa was abducted by a predator. When his girlfriend, Phoebe, receives a phone...

Behind the cozy atmosphere and luscious desserts of Muldoon's Tea Rooms, a revolution is stirring that will define lives, heal troubled hearts, and rock the very foundations of the establishment and its proprietors.

Hailed as a masterpiece of realistic fiction and as the most evocative portrayal of the opulent desolation of the American suburbs since it's publication in 1961, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple who have lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. With heartbreaking compassion and remorseless clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April mortgage their...