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Susan Meissner, author of The Nature of Fragile Things

Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant who answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a San Francisco widower named Martin Hocking, a man she knows nothing about. She quickly develops deep affection for Kat, Martin's silent five-year-old daughter, but Martin's odd behavior leaves her with the uneasy feeling that something about her newfound situation isn't right. Then one early-spring evening, a stranger at the door sets in motion a transforming chain of events. The fates of Sophie and two other women intertwine on the eve of the devastating earthquake of 1906, thrusting them onto a perilous journey that will test their resiliency and resolve and, ultimately, their belief that love can overcome fear.

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Week of January 3, 2022

Paperback releases for the week of January 3rd include THE COAST-TO-COAST MURDERS, an intense thriller from James Patterson and J.D. Barker about a detective and FBI agent who join forces on what seems like an open-and-shut case --- but a new rash of killings sends them on a pulse-pounding race against time; THE PUSH by first-time novelist Ashley Audrain, a tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family, and a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for --- and everything she feared; Gabriela Garcia's OF WOMEN AND SALT, a sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter's fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born; and THE NATURE OF FRAGILE THINGS, a gripping novel about the bonds of friendship and mother love, from the acclaimed author of THE LAST YEAR OF THE WAR and AS BRIGHT AS HEAVEN.

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