Small Town & Rural

Beartown is a small town in a large Swedish forest. For most of the year it is under a thick blanket of snow, experiencing the kind of cold and dark that brings people closer together - or pulls them apart....

Knox lives alone, and he likes it that way. Unfortunately, runaway bride Naomi is about to have her life implode on his doorstep.

Written with tenderness and verve, it's about love, family and connection, the power of imagination, and how our greatest adventures never happen alone....

On Christmas Day in 1893, every man, woman, and child in a remote mining town disappeared, belongings forsaken, meals left to freeze in vacant cabins, and not a single bone found....

A powerful, compressed masterwork for fans of Shirley Jackson and Claire-Louise Bennett. A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote...

Harriet and Wyn are the perfect couple—they go together like bread and butter, gin and tonic, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. Except, now they don't. They broke up six months ago. And they still haven't told anyone....

Born into poverty, then trapped in the shackles of charity and gratitude, Mr. Biswas longs for a house he can call his own....

A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when she will return home....

Eileen is sick of being 79. Leena's tired of life in her 20s. Maybe it's time they swapped places.... 

Footloose Liz Hanson has finally come home to Ringgold, Texas, with a hankering to settle down. All she wants for Christmas is a house of her own—and the man of her dreams. The house was easy. So now she's got her sights set on her teen crush, Raylen O'Donnell....

Grace Evans, an overworked New Yorker looking for a total escape from her busy life, books an Airbnb on a ranch in the middle of Wyoming. When she arrives at the idyllic getaway, she’s pleased to find that the owner is a handsome man by the name of Calvin Wells....

Nellie Rivera is trading traffic for tranquility. When the quiet streets of small-town Montana beckon, she leaves Denver behind and moves to Calamity. It would be the perfect adventure if not for Cal Stark....

The New York Times best-selling author of The Winter People returns to the woods of Vermont to tell the story of a husband and wife who don't simply move into a haunted house - they build one....

Ruskin Bond’s simple characters, living amidst the lush forests of the Himalayan foothills, are remarkable for their quiet heroism, courage and grace, and age-old values of honesty and fidelity.  These stories are a magnificent evocation of an India that may be fast disappearing....

What was once a friendly rivalry with the neighbouring town is beginning to turn sinister and Beartown braces itself for another tragic blow....

In 1977, in the small town of Claire Lake, two men were murdered with the same gun. Beth Greer was the prime suspect - a rich, eccentric 23-year-old woman, seen fleeing one of the crimes. Ever since her surprise acquittal, she's retreated to her mansion, Greer house....

Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck's Pultizer Prize-winning epic of the Joad family, forced to travel west from Dust Bowl-era Oklahoma in search of the promised land of California....

Something hasn't been right at the Sun Down Motel for a very long time, and Carly Kirk is about to find out why....

Texas, 1934. Elsa Martinelli had finally found the life she’d yearned for. A family, a home and a livelihood on a farm on the Great Plains. But when drought threatens all she and her community hold dear, Elsa’s world is shattered to the winds....

For seventeen years, small-town public defender Andy Hughes has been underpaid to look after the poor, the addicted, and the unfortunate souls who constantly cycle through the courts, charged with petty crimes....

Gerrardsville, Colorado. One tragic event. Two witnesses. Two conflicting accounts. One witness sees a woman throw herself in front of a bus—clearly suicide. The other witness is Jack Reacher....

He's the hottest man I've ever seen, someone I can't forget. So it hurts when I find out I've slept with the enemy....

One morning on Harlow Lane, four families' lives are changed forever....

When three delinquents hole up in an abandoned general store after their most recent robbery, to their great surprise, a letter drops through the mail slot in the store’s shutter....

Want to know what happens to a man who barely claws his way out of a tragedy, only to fall right into the arms of the one girl in the world he can never have? Another tragedy, that's what....

Eager to move on from a master’s thesis that left her questioning her passion for history, Josie dives headlong into her new job and life in a small town. Faced with the prospect of remaining long-term, she must decide if she will fight to carve a place for herself in Wells’s idiosyncratic community. What follows is the story of a young woman trying to find connection and purpose in the twenty-first century while living in a village seemingly frozen in the past.

After breaking free from the gilded cage of my abusive marriage, I have nothing to my name but a letter from a long-lost relative. Come home, Willow. Your family is waiting for you. I sacrificed everything to flee for the tiny town of Briar Valley and its promise of a better life for my young daughter. Hope often takes the unlikeliest of forms, but I didn't expect to find it nestled among the rugged, snow-capped mountains. Nor did I intend to surrender my heart to three tortured mountain men hiding from their own grief in the thick forest of pine trees.

The scent of flowers and change is in the air for the Wingate sisters. With her husband gone for weeks at a stretch, Rose's unwavering enthusiasm is tested, forcing her to remove her famous rose-colored glasses and face a family crisis. While Susannah plans an anniversary surprise for Rex, Chloe finds the courage to try one more career path, with help coming from the one constant in her life, her precious furbaby, Lady Bug.

Have you ever had a break-up so bad you wish the whole relationship had never happened? Well, Gemma's wish has come true. After one too many margaritas lead to her mystical aunt reading out a drunken spell, she wakes up in a parallel world where she didn't give years of her life to the wrong man. But you know what they say - be careful what you wish for... Because not only is her boring ex out of the picture, her extremely attractive male best friend also has no idea who she is.

Now in his seventies, Robert Parkin is stunned to find himself the unlikely sex symbol of the village gardening club. Living in happy solitude with his cat Isaac Mewton in the Devon village of Millbrook, entertained by his mischievous chickens and goats, Robert has never figured out the rules of romance. But as the local ladies vie for his company, it soon becomes clear that Robert’s Victoria Sponge cake is the lure, and as his baking prowess grows, so does his confidence. Cheesecakes, meringues, puddings, Robert can do it all, but his real masterpieces are his scones.

Camera-shy Elise Branson is different from the other women in her maternal line. Her mother is an award-winning actress. Her late grandmother, Vivian Snow, is a beloved Hollywood icon. But when Elise’s upcoming wedding coincides with a documentary being made about Vivian, Elise can’t escape the camera’s gaze. And neither can her grandmother, even in death.

Ein fataler Tauschhandel trennt die Zwillinge Alma und Helene direkt nach ihrer Geburt. Während Helene auf einem Apfelhof in ländlicher Idylle aufwächst, erfährt Alma in einem Kinderheim der Fünfziger- und Sechzigerjahre grausame Erziehungsmethoden unter dem Deckmantel der katholischen Kirche. Erst im fortgeschrittenen Alter erfährt Helene von Alma. Sie begibt sich auf die Suche und hofft auf einen gemeinsamen Lebensabend. Doch Almas belastende Vergangenheit steht ihnen im Weg... Eine berührende Familiengeschichte über drei Generationen, die auf wahren Begebenheiten beruht.

Eine Pension zum Verlieben. Katie geht als Gastgeberin in ihrer kleinen Pension vollkommen auf! Ihre zweite große Leidenschaft ist der Garten, den sie genau nach ihren Wünschen und Träumen umgestaltet. Winzer Oliver wollte sie dabei unterstützen. Aber während der Weinlese bleibt ihm kaum Zeit für Katie, was die gerade erst aufkeimenden Gefühle zwischen den beiden empfindlich stört. Und auch Katies Mitarbeiter und guter Freund Theo wirkt zunehmend unglücklicher. Bald schon findet Katie heraus, dass Theos Ehe gescheitert ist und er plötzlich ohne Wohnung dasteht.

Winterzauber! Bea genießt die wunderschöne verschneite Landschaft rund um Hummelstich. Bei einer Alpaka-Wanderung stößt die Hobbyermittlerin auf einen seltsam aussehenden Schneemann - in dem ein Toter versteckt wurde! Es handelt sich um Robert Eschenheim, den Förster der Nachbargemeinde Tannenglück. Ihre Ermittlungen führen Bea zu einer regionalen Sage um einen gigantischen Schatz.

Highway roadhouse waitress Holly Duncan's life is on hold - until she can accept her mother's disappearance of five years ago, decide where her future lies, and move on. Loner truck driver Tom Searle's life would sure be looking up, and close to blessed, if the stunning roadhouse redhead didn't seem so uncertain about his approaches. When new information and revelations rock Holly's world, Tom seizes the opportunity to step up and offer support. 

I've loved Sofie Copewell for as long as I can remember. She was all I ever wanted. We said someday we'd have a family together and raise them on our ranch in Landmark Mountain. She was my home. My forever. I spent my whole life chasing her, hanging on her every word and lighting up when she smiled at me. And I never had a single doubt that she felt the same way. Until she left and didn't come back… For eight years. Now she's returned, and I'm resentful and want answers. Answers to why she left without a goodbye, taking all our dreams with her.

Rayne Rothchild returns to Polk Island after years away. She left her husband after their impulsive marriage. She can’t believe she wed her boss, Taylor Carrington … and now she’s the mother of their twins! The holiday season is the perfect time to reconnect with her estranged family … until Taylor shows up, hurt, shocked and needing answers.

A feel-good contemporary western from Kate Pearce, New York Times bestselling author of the beloved Morgantown series.

It's 1990. In Dalton, Maine, life goes on. Rose goes to work at the diner every day, her bruises hidden from both the customers and her two young boys. At a table she waits, Dr. Richard Haskell looks back on the one choice that's charted his entire life, before his thoughts wander back to his wife, Trudy, and her best friend. Trudy and Bev have been friends for longer than they can count, and something more than lovers to each other for some time now—a fact both accepted and ignored by their husbands.

Even as she hopes for a respite after a recent wave of crime, a stranger arrives in town and threatens the safety of one of its residents. With her instincts honed by years of law enforcement experience, Taylor jumps into action to protect one of their own. As Taylor works to uncover the truth behind the stranger's motives, her sister Jo faces a different kind of challenge. A single mother who has always shouldered her problems alone, Jo is cautiously optimistic about the future as her family finally seems to be finding stability.