"A twisty, compelling new novel about one woman's complicated relationship with her mother-in-law that ends in death... From the moment Lucy met her husband's mother, Diana, she was kept at arm's length. Diana was exquisitely polite, and properly friendly, but Lucy knew that she was not what Diana envisioned. But who could fault Diana? She was a pillar of the community, an advocate for social justice who helped female refugees assimilate to their...

The Diamond women, sixty-year-old writer Maude, her mother-in-law Stella, and her daughter Cee Cee, decide to investigate when a chain letter Stella started in an innocent attempt to raise money mutates into full-fledged mail fraud.

Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant. Benson is a Black day care teacher. They've been together for a few years, but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. There's the sex, sure, and the meals Mike cooks for Benson, and, well, they love each other. When Mike finds out his estranged father is dying in Osaka just as his acerbic Japanese mother, Mitsuko, arrives in Houston for a visit, Mike picks up and flies across the...

The conflict between a mother-in-law and her daughter-in-law has existed throughout all of history. In the Old Testament, Rebekah complained that her daughters-in-law were making her so miserable, she'd rather be dead. Now, thousands of years later, we're still complaining about our in-laws, often even hoping they really won't ever come visit. Elisabeth Graham examines this in-law conflict with aims to draw readers into a different perspective: that...

Kaye's ability to make things "perfect" has served her well in her career as a realtor... if only it could transform her personal life! When her ex-mother-in-law gets a botched facelift, does it mean God is helping her get her husband back?

Following the trauma of her estranged husband's untimely death, Emma Lowell reluctantly accompanies her mother-in-law Margaret on a sentimental journey to the family's isolated, snowbound mountain cabin where a dark plan unfolds -- that could claim Emma's life.

"In the tradition of M.F.K. Fisher and Peter Mayle, this enchantingly warm and witty memoir follows American-born Katherine Wilson on her adventures abroad, where a three-month rite of passage in Naples turns into a permanent embrace of this boisterous city on the Mediterranean. It is all thanks to a surprising romance, a new passion for food, and a spirited woman who will become her mother-in-law--and teach her to laugh, to seize joy, and to love"-- "When...