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Florence Darrow is a small-town striver who believes that she's destined to become a celebrated writer. When she stumbles onto an opportunity to become the assistant to "Maud Dixon", a celebrated—but completely anonymous—novelist of almost mythical status, Florence believes that the universe is finally providing her with her big chance. The arrangement comes with conditions—high secrecy, endless NDAs, living in an isolated house upstate—but to her, all this is little short of idyllic. Before long, the two of them are on a research trip to Morocco, to inspire and help along the much-promised second novel. All is crumbling villas, red sunsets and long, whisky-filled evening discussions… until Florence wakes up in a hospital, having narrowly survived a car crash. Either her world has just fallen apart, or she now has the greatest ever opportunity to live the life she believes pre-ordained for her.

After World War II, an American officer serving in Italy faces news of his terminal illness with stoic disregard. Determined to spend his weekend in quiet solitude, he commandeers a military driver to facilitate a simple duck hunting trip and a visit to his old haunts in Venice. As his plans begin to unravel, a chance encounter with a young countess begins to kindle in him the hope of renewal.

Story of Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, a writer and English professor whose writing career has stalled because his work isn’t deemed “Black enough.” Monk writes a satirical novel under a pseudonym, aiming to lay bare the hypocrisies of the publishing world. The book’s immediate success forces Monk to get deeper enmeshed in his assumed identity and challenges his closely-held worldviews.

A desperate rabbit rallies an unexpected band of allies to help him escape from inside a magician's hat and return to the human boy he loves.

British Special Ops commandos and Romanian resistance fighters battle against Nazis, who use a 12-year-old vampire girl to spawn an army of evil.

From her place in the store, Klara, an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her.

Follows Fin Dolan, whose boss asks him to cancel his Christmas vacation to work on an ad campaign. When his best friend announces she has just been proposed to and his estranged father lands in the hospital, Fin begins to wonder why everyone else is moving forward with their lives while he is stuck in neutral.

Ten seemingly disparate individuals are invited to an isolated island, with the house guests murdered one by one during the course of their stay.

A queen hires a sorceress for werewolf powers but pays a price. Warrior Sharra fights a dragon to find her lover, seduced by a lord who's the real gatekeeper. A barbarian girl falls for a deceitful witch's promises in a spacecraft.

When twelve-year-old Donn Fendler gets tired of waiting for his father and brothers to join him on the summit of Maine's highest peak, he decides to find his own way back to camp. But Donn doesn't count on a fast-moving fog that obscures the path. He doesn't count on falling down an embankment that hides him from sight. And he doesn't count on taking a turn that leaves him alone to wander aimlessly for nearly two weeks in the empty mountain wilderness.

Story of notorious Depression-era criminal duo and lovers, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.

The chandelier-shattering legacy of Barbara and Oliver Rose is passed down to their children. Josh marries Victoria, only to see the marriage fall apart over an incident involving missing Milky Way bars; and Evie is a promiscuous over-eater carrying her own shrapnel. The result is deceit, violence and destruction.

Set in an America following a second Civil War over fought over abortion, a new law states that no life can be taken until the age of 13, but from 13 to 17 parents and guardians can "unwind" any child they want. (Unwinding means harvesting a person's organs.) Three teens, who were to be unwound for various reasons, go on the run.

Centers on the background of Captain Nemo as well as that of his prisoners aboard the Nautilus.

Set in an alternate present day, one percent of children are born savants with special powers. Called “brilliants,” they are capable of exceptional things. A federal agent uses his skills to become a master hunter of terrorists, pursues a savant terrorist who intends to provoke civil war.

A series of individual stories, told in the second person, cover a variety of genres and offer branching narrative paths based on choices the reader makes about the protagonists' actions.

Follows Tracy Flick who is now a hardworking assistant principal at a public high school in suburban New Jersey and still struggling to fight her way to the top.

A mother and daughter, Rose and Sofia, travel to a Spanish clinic in the hoping of finding a cure for Rose's paralysis. Sofia becomes friendly with Ingrid, an enigmatic traveler, much to her controlling mother's ire.

A recently bereaved teenage girl finds herself the focus of everyone's attention at her elitist private school, which is home to a nest of vampires.