This fun novel—and book club favorite—combines three unexpected elements to great effect: World War I, a love story, and Greek mythology. It begins with Aphrodite and Ares walking into a swanky Manhattan hotel during WWII, and soon enough Aphrodite's husband Hephaestus challenges her to show him what love really looks like. She obliges, and takes the reader back in time to meet four young lovers in 1917 Britain, showing her fellow gods how each couple fell in love, and what they mean to each other. It sounds unlikely but the interesting narrative structure totally works.

Let's say your headmistress and her brother die of poison at Sunday dinner and you dont want your school to be closed or for you to be sent home. Not because of some pesky murderer! What else can seven proper ladies do but hide the bodies and convince neighbors all is well? An entertaining Victorian romp.