Emma Woodhouse arrives home in Norfolk ready to embark on adult life. Not only has her sister, Isabella, been whisked away on a motorcycle up to London, but her astute governess, Miss Taylor is at a loose end, abandoned in the giant family pile, Hartfield, alongside Emma's anxiety-ridden father. Someone is needed to rule the roost and young Emma is more than happy to oblige. But there is only one person who can play with Emma's indestructible confidence,...

"Masterly deftness, funny sentence by funny sentence...a moving and intricately braided story of two mothers." -Jonathan Franzen, The Guardian This "beguiling, addictive read" (People, Book of the Week) and Belletrist Book Club pick about a blue-blooded single mother raising her daughter in rarefied New York City is a "carefully observed family story [that] rings true to life" (The New York Times Book Review). Laura hails from the Upper East...

I, Emma Freke, am not a freak. Or maybe I am. I just don't know.

What's in a name? I, Emma Freke is a charming search-for-identity story about Emma - the only "normal" member of her quirky family. Her flighty, New Age mom seems to barely have time for a daughter, especially one who annoyingly spoils her mom's youthful façade. Emma's well-meaning grandpa is clueless. And her only friends are the local librarian and a precocious 10-year

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The adventurous young British relief worker Emma McCune came to Sudan determined to make a difference. She became a near legend in the bullet-scarred, famine-ridden country, but her eventual marriage to a rebel warlord made international headlines and spelled disastrous consequences for her ideals.

Waking up in a deserted Wisconsin woods surrounded by masked members of a family witch-gang at three a.m. on a school night? Check. Becoming captured by a deeply demented elder alongside the one member of society that you probably despise the most? Yep, check. Emma Lenford's life hasn't been this heart-stopping since she spotted Jon Bon Jovi's tour bus at the local 7-Eleven. Emma Lenford is truly the unluckiest 17 year old on the planet. She keeps...

It's 1927 and Emma has returned to England from Canada with her teenage daughter, Fleur. After the tragedies of the past, Emma is ready to start again in Devon, the place she used to call home. But memories are not the only thing that she has to contend with. Throughout it all Matthew Caunter is rarely far from Emma's thoughts. Could he be the key to her finally finding happiness?

Alexa, how does one reverse a curse? Because Emma Lenford's horrendously hapless luck has not improved since her last few brushes with the law enforcement of Wisconsin. Now, though, there's an old guy in a hot tub and a possible pregnancy to deal with (though, please note, both are completely unrelated), among so many more misfortunes. Emma Lenford is truly the unluckiest 17 year old on the planet. She keeps her sense of humor, though, through this...

Emma Cocker: My condescending boss has thrown me a big-money client. By landing him, I will earn her respect, maybe get out of debt. The commission would be huge on a mansion like this. But Tanner Hamilton is the biggest snob. Flat out calling me incapable? Too young? A waste of his time? I can't believe I thought he was attractive! Now, I'm stuck as his realtor. But I'll show him he can never do better than me. Tanner Hamilton: Can't believe Cora...

Unable to conceive a child, Jean and Henry Farrell decide to adopt. Emma, a pregnant woman looking to give up her baby, approves of the couple and makes a deal with them. However, the baby is born hydrocephalic and will not live long. Although the agreement was conditional on the health of the baby, Jean finds it difficult to give the child up, straining her marriage to a breaking point.

Harriet, the author of her college newspaper's pseudonymous student advice column "Dear Emma," is great at telling others what to do, dispensing wisdom for the lovelorn and lonely on her Midwestern campus. Somehow, though, she can't take her own advice, especially after Keith, the guy she's dating, blows her off completely. When Harriet discovers that Keith has started seeing the beautiful and intimidating Remy, she wants to hate her. But she can't...