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Miles Krzelewski is flailing. He’s a devoted husband and father, but his career is less than lackluster. When his wife gets a job as a visiting professor at a prestigious Vermont college, Miles decides that this is the year everything finally moves forward.

But instead of focusing on his long-overdue PhD, Miles stumbles upon a local legend and quickly becomes obsessed with it. Even more intriguing is his suspicion that the legend might be more real than anyone ever imagined.

Baby’s arrival in Original Hill is a bit of a shock to a town full of people who rarely see a Black woman. She doesn’t talk to anyone until Lucius “Lucky” Foote comes along. 

He’s sure that her luck will help him win the open city council seat. His challenger is Baby’s white uncle. Baby’s uncle believes that the city needs him, and looming protests are proof. 

With nothing less than the soul of Original Hill at stake, Baby finds herself caught between the two men. To find the right path forward, she has to discover where she came from, but more importantly, who she truly is.

A mother and daughter embark on a trip to Sicily. With a failing marriage, a mother on the verge of losing her memory, and a burgeoning teenager, the unnamed narrator wonders how she can start again if the beginning is wrong. 

Spanning four generations of women, a mother and daughter search the familial past to find their origins so they can move forward into their future.

Lucy wants to live an extraordinary life. The only problem is that her life seems too small to hold all her desires. After she’s sexually assaulted, her anger and appetites only grow. 

She breaks up with her boyfriend, stops speaking to her mother, and ends up with an abusive man. No matter what city she lives in, who she’s friends with, or who she sleeps with, there’s an untamed wildness that Lucy can’t quell. 

Over her twenties and into her thirties, Lucy struggles with her family, love, and herself. But in the end, Lucy has to face the fear driving her actions. The fear that being human means she’s alone, wild, and maybe even unknowable.

The first time she fell for Miles, Rose was young and enthusiastic. Two decades later, when Miles comes back into her life, she’s a different woman. 

She lives in the desert, at a homestead she calls Nothingness Flats, in the small community of Yellow Pine, where she navigates life as a single parent. 

Her fellow misfit neighbors have taken a stance against the corporatization of solar power. Miles isn’t worth jeopardizing her hard-fought peace over. But life just might have other plans.

Rae has two male partners and a child with each of them. After coming back from some time away, she’s determined to find her way forward with her family. 

Over the next year, Rae will navigate choices about how to be a mother, a partner, and a woman. They will endure the depths of pain and pleasure, devastation and happiness. 

And in the end, Rae will face the most beautiful truth about family, love, and how to make the most of this one beautiful life.

Death lives in the modern world, and his name is Travis. He offers comfort to people in their final hours, listening, never judging, and never, ever trying to change anyone’s fate. 

When Dalia and her eight-year-old daughter, Layla, move in across the hall, Travis can’t help but befriend them. 

The closer he gets to them, the harder it is to maintain the distance his job so requires. But it also teaches him not only what’s important in life, but what is lost in death.