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zany (a fake-dating-the-brother code of silence) and two parts believable (longstanding professional conflict

wonderfully unexpected developments related to plot, character arc, point of view, morality, origin stories, conflict book by bristling at his necessary role as high king, but he soon must lead his people through the conflict

Current-day conflicts link to generational trauma, storytelling, and mysterious power. Griffin Sisters  also takes on deep familial conflicts, coping with loss and a devastating blow for future

society's pressures, and the fiction that her family attempted to portray of being perfect--despite conflict

Tales and Retellings For this list, I focused on books with fantastical elements; clear good-and-evil conflicts The main protagonist and conflicted priest were irresistible characters.

the Summer, she offers up an irresistible rom-com premise with weighty, messy, real-life-imperfect conflicts

Missing Trees by Elif Shafak Elif Shafak's The Island of Missing Trees explores past Turkish-Greek conflicts The fig tree shares the story of the young lovers and while exploring the conflicts between Turkish and

the Summer , she offers up an irresistible rom-com premise with weighty, messy, real-life-imperfect conflicts The conflicts that repeatedly keep Emma and Justin from their happy-ever-after feel plausibly limiting

try to find their way back to a friendship, a track that is not without hiccups, their own sometimes conflicting

The rom-com conflict that prevents an immediate happy resolution was based on a communication fail--a be dispensed with during the course of the story and a more dastardly one emerges and prolongs the conflict

memoir Rebel Rising , and I'm listening to the Australian's account of a challenging youth, familial conflicts

But her current mission is a first for Frankie: to find the long-missing sister of a convicted serial

The river balloons to 80 feet wide, and three convicts and their leader arrive at the ancestral home

The river balloons to 80 feet wide, and three convicts and their leader arrive at the ancestral home

Conflicts between Korea and Japan and war and occupation swirl around them and those within their orbits

Libby Steadman lives in Virginia on the edge of the Confederate-Union Civil War conflict.  Griffin Sisters  also takes on deep familial conflicts, coping with loss and a devastating blow for future

This romantic light fiction story includes sibling conflicts, loss, betrayal, a love that seems impossible

investigated her blue color, its causes, and her feelings about either changing her color to avoid conflict

Lessons in Chemistry explores deep issues, conflict, and dark times, yet offers hope and joy.

Were the Kennedys . 04 The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon I loved the 1700s wintry Maine setting and the convictions details of life in the time period, as well as the unassuming women who show their true strength and conviction

to Fortune's Meet Me at the Lake, light fiction with an anchor in deeper issues, some steamy scenes, conflicting

For me, much of the story’s depth lay in its exploration of conflicting elements of morality and necessity

Steven Smith was a mischievous child raised by his older brother and hadn't yet become the convicted

And I wanted more conflict and more self-realization from Jenna than the clarification that she doesn't

The Night Ship centers around the dilemmas, conflicts, and discoveries of two characters separated by boarding school years, when her roommate Thalia was murdered--and the school's athletic trainer was convicted

Meanwhile, killer Ruby Reyes, the Ice Queen, was convicted of a similar murder twenty-five years earlier

Rowley doesn't smooth over realistically tangled, messy, intriguing conflicts or sober themes, yet he

star-crossed lovers, a love triangle, a search for personal purpose and destiny, and great evil-nemeses/cousin-conflict

This seems like a conflicting, sweeping piece of general advice.

to Fortune's Meet Me at the Lake, light fiction with an anchor in deeper issues, some steamy scenes, conflicting Wrong Time. 05 The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston This romantic light fiction story includes sibling conflicts

Quinn offers plenty of interpersonal conflict, romance, suspected double-crossing, and details of life

common area; spreading hurtful gossip; excluding others from invitations) yet impactful interpersonal conflicts

astronauts' (literal) perspective on earth allows them to take in its beauty without considering borders or conflicts

solve the mystery of a murder committed by a riev, a decommissioned battle-mecha robot from the last conflict

boarding school years, when her roommate Thalia was murdered--and the school's athletic trainer was convicted

Williams takes us along as she digs into her life's trajectory and the various conflicts, explorations

Williams takes us along as she digs into her life's trajectory and the various conflicts, explorations

The rom-com conflict that prevents an immediate happy resolution was based on a communication fail--a As in all good rom-coms, there's a conflict keeping the potential couple apart, and I appreciated the

struggling to get by, there's some chaste young love, and stresses and crises set off disagreements and conflicts life to be bigger and more fulfilling (and often in these cases, longer); and develops inner strength, conviction

Schwab's stories take place within her detailed fantasy worlds, but her characters' conflicts, hopes, Her characters' dynamics, conflicts, hopes, fears, and determination feel real and true.

reemerge in Sitara's memories and her subconscious, and she explores Sitara's complicated, ongoing, conflicting

This character is later key to bravely resolving the main and significant conflicts of the story when Hendrix sets up the push-and-pull of conflicting pressures here: responsibility and risk; following gut

Meanwhile, killer Ruby Reyes, the Ice Queen, was convicted of a similar murder twenty-five years earlier

She's failing out of school, working some shifts at a diner, and living in a nonfunctioning motorhome life to be bigger and more fulfilling (and often in these cases, longer); and develops inner strength, conviction

By the end of that summer, Chloe's father had confessed to the crimes of killing those girls, was convicted

Jill feels utterly alone as she struggles to understand teenaged dramas, to manage brotherly conflict

want to spend a big part of his life in service to others, and he tried to reconcile his two seemingly conflicting

mentor for Sylvie, and I loved the accounts of reporting and printing on a printing press as well as the conflicts

to Fortune's Meet Me at the Lake, light fiction with an anchor in deeper issues, some steamy scenes, conflicting Wrong Time. 05 The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston This romantic light fiction story includes sibling conflicts

wonderfully unexpected developments related to plot, character arc, point of view, morality, origin stories, conflict still bristles at his necessary role as high king, but he'll soon have to lead his people through the conflict