Icebreaker
Figure skater Anastasia Allen shares a rink with hockey captain Nate Hawkins and sparks fly at UC Maple Hills.
2,176-word summary · 10 min read
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Happy Place
A split couple fakes being together for one last week with friends at a Maine cottage. Emily Henry mixes witty banter, grief, and second chances in this 2023…
2,497-word summary · 11 min read
Fifty Shades Freed
Married Ana and Christian face Hyde, Elena and a pregnancy neither planned.
3,213-word summary · 14 min read
Fifty Shades Darker
Ana tries office life after leaving Christian, but Leila and Elena pull them back together.
3,612-word summary · 16 min read
Book Lovers
Sharp literary agent Nora Stephens gets dragged to small-town Sunshine Falls with her sister and keeps colliding with brooding editor Charlie Lastra.
1,952-word summary · 9 min read
Big Little Lies
In Pirriwee three mothers collide over school, marriage, and secrets until a trivia night death forces the truth about Perry abuse, Celeste fear, and Jane past.
2,582-word summary · 11 min read
Ugly Love
Colleen Hoover's Ugly Love retold: Tate and Miles, the rules, the past with Rachel, and the lake letter.
2,339-word summary · 10 min read
The Love Hypothesis
Love Hypothesis retold: Olive fakes dating Adam, lab hijinks, consent talks, Boston fall.
2,009-word summary · 9 min read
Reminders of Him
Kenna returns after prison to meet the daughter she lost, facing the family that blames her.
2,168-word summary · 10 min read
People We Meet on Vacation
Poppy and Alex have shared one vacation each summer for ten years. Two years after a silent falling out, she talks him into one more trip to fix it.
2,358-word summary · 10 min read
Normal People
Normal People retold: Connell and Marianne from Sligo school to Trinity, class and love.
2,066-word summary · 9 min read
My Sister's Keeper
Thirteen-year-old Anna sues her parents for medical emancipation so she can refuse to give her dying sister Kate a kidney.
2,332-word summary · 10 min read