Sophie knows she should count herself
lucky. She grew up in modest surroundings but suddenly finds herself catapulted
into the A-list after the surprise hit of a budget movie. But surrounded by
botoxed assistants, lecherous old directors and a star-struck mother, Sophie
just wishes she could be a proper actress, in proper, serious films. And at the
tender age of thirty, she already worries she’s past her
‘prime’.
As Sophie’s career begins to decline – slowly and painfully at first, and then all at once – her fate seems to be entwined with that of her favourite actress, Eve Noel. The epitome of 50s Hollywood glamour, Eve suddenly disappeared from the spotlight. No-one knows why. As Sophie receives threatening letters, it seems that the dark secrets in Eve’s past are beginning to haunt Sophie, too . . . With a new film about Shakespeare burying Sophie deep in the English countryside, suddenly Eve herself is close at hand.
In this witty, sexy tale, an erotic novelist meets the
fictional hero of her most recent book in real life, and must decide whether she
wants to get him back between the pages--or between her sheets.
At forty-six, Sadie Fuller's life isn't exactly romantic. A divorced, overweight, somewhat sexually frustrated mother of an eleven-year-old, she lives in the suburbs, shops the big box stores, makes small talk with her small-minded neighbors, and generally leads a quiet life. But while her daughter is at school, or when Sadie is up late at night, she writes erotic fiction under the name KT Briggs.
Then, during a routine shopping trip, Sadie runs into someone familiar...too familiar, in fact. She encounters an incredibly handsome man exactly like the one in her imagination--and her latest novel. Is Aidan Hathaway really one of her characters? And if so, what is he doing in Target? As Sadie tries to negotiate this strange new world, her eyes begin to open to romantic possibilities in places she never dreamed of looking...places where Happily Ever After might not be so far-fetched after all.
Remembering the letter that says, “You are a remarkable woman and you deserve all the happiness, contentment, and love in the world. I, for one, know that I have never met anyone quite like you,” Rose Pritchard turns up on the doorstep of a B&B in England’s lake district. It is her last resort, as she and her seven-year-old daughter Maddie have left everything behind. They have come to the village of Millthwaite in search of the person who once offered Rose hope.
Almost immediately Rose wonders if she’s made a terrible mistake—if she’s chasing a dream—but she knows in her heart that she cannot go back. She’s been given a second chance—at life, and love—but will she have the courage to take it?
Blending wit, insight, and emotion with a sensitive touch and a warm dose of humor, Rowan Coleman has crafted a poignant novel that will linger with you long after the final page has been turned.
At forty-six, Sadie Fuller's life isn't exactly romantic. A divorced, overweight, somewhat sexually frustrated mother of an eleven-year-old, she lives in the suburbs, shops the big box stores, makes small talk with her small-minded neighbors, and generally leads a quiet life. But while her daughter is at school, or when Sadie is up late at night, she writes erotic fiction under the name KT Briggs.
Then, during a routine shopping trip, Sadie runs into someone familiar...too familiar, in fact. She encounters an incredibly handsome man exactly like the one in her imagination--and her latest novel. Is Aidan Hathaway really one of her characters? And if so, what is he doing in Target? As Sadie tries to negotiate this strange new world, her eyes begin to open to romantic possibilities in places she never dreamed of looking...places where Happily Ever After might not be so far-fetched after all.
From the internationally
bestselling author of Lessons in Laughing Out Loud comes a moving and
heartwarming novel about a woman who escapes an abusive relationship and flees
with her young daughter in search of a kind stranger she met many years
earlier.
Remembering the letter that says, “You are a remarkable woman and you deserve all the happiness, contentment, and love in the world. I, for one, know that I have never met anyone quite like you,” Rose Pritchard turns up on the doorstep of a B&B in England’s lake district. It is her last resort, as she and her seven-year-old daughter Maddie have left everything behind. They have come to the village of Millthwaite in search of the person who once offered Rose hope.
Almost immediately Rose wonders if she’s made a terrible mistake—if she’s chasing a dream—but she knows in her heart that she cannot go back. She’s been given a second chance—at life, and love—but will she have the courage to take it?
Blending wit, insight, and emotion with a sensitive touch and a warm dose of humor, Rowan Coleman has crafted a poignant novel that will linger with you long after the final page has been turned.
Molly Hallberg is a thirty-nine-year-old divorced writer living in New York
City who wants her own column, a Wikipedia entry, and to never end up in her
family’s Long Island upholstery business. For the past four years Molly’s been
on staff for an online magazine, covering all the wacky assignments. She’s snuck
vibrators through security scanners, speed-dated undercover, danced with the
Rockettes, and posed nude for a Soho art studio.
Fearless in everything except love, Molly is now dating a forty-four-yearold chiropractor. He’s comfortable, but safe. When Molly is assigned to write a piece about New York City romance “in the style of Nora Ephron,” she flunks out big-time. She can’t recognize romance. And she can’t recognize the one man who can go one-on-one with her, the one man who gets her. But with wit, charm, whip-smart humor, and Nora Ephron’s romantic comedies, Molly learns to open her heart and suppress her cynicism in this bright, achingly funny novel.
A magical, richly woven World War II– era saga filled with passion,
secrets, beauty, and horror from internationally acclaimed bestselling author
Belinda Alexandra.
FLORENCE, 1914. A mysterious stranger known as The Wolf leaves an infant with the sisters of Santo Spirito. A tiny silver key hidden in her wrappings is the one clue to the child’s identity. . . . FIFTEEN YEARS LATER, young Rosa must leave the nuns, her only family, and become governess to the daughter of an aristocrat and his strange, frightening wife. Their house is elegant but cursed, and Rosa—blessed with gifts beyond her considerable musical talents—is torn between her desire to know the truth and her fear of its repercussions. All the while, the hand of Fascism curls around beautiful Italy, and no citizen is safe. Rosa faces unimaginable hardship: her only weapons her intelligence, intuition, and determination . . . and her extraordinary capacity for love.
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a
dramatic story about fame, true love, and the cost of having it all.
Zack Dylan made a promise to God and his college sweetheart as he left
his family’s horse farm in Kentucky to compete on the popular reality television
show Fifteen Minutes: If he makes it, the fame won’t change him.
Overnight, Zack is the nation’s most popular contestant, a country
singer with the looks and voice of a young Elvis. As his star rises, Zack is
asked to compromise and quiet his beliefs, and also something more. Something
Zack could never have imagined. Just as America is falling in love with Zack,
just as he’s on the verge of winning it all, his choices lead him to the brink
of personal disaster.
At the same time, Reese Weatherly, a therapeutic horse instructor, is no
longer sure about her relationship with Zack, or the wedding they had dreamed
about. While Zack advances from one round of the competition to the next, an
offer comes to Reese—one that will take her to a home halfway around the world.
Then Chandra Olson—reigning diva pop star and one of the Fifteen
Minutes judges—intervenes. Chandra has suffered so much public pain and
private agony since her days as a Fifteen Minutes contestant. Now she wants
just one thing: meaning.
Can Chandra’s private losses help Zack find his way, or will his fifteen
minutes of fame cause him to lose the life he once loved? Fifteen Minutes
is a story of character, compromise, and the cost of having it all. A story that
raises the question: Who are the real winners?
Spanning from the 1930s to the present day, from the Wharton Park estate
in England to Thailand, this sweeping novel tells the tale of a concert pianist
and the aristocratic Crawford family, whose shocking secrets are revealed,
leading to devastating consequences.
As a child, concert pianist Julia Forrester spent many idyllic hours in
the hothouse of Wharton Park, the grand estate reminiscent of Downton Abbey
where her grandfather tended exotic orchids. Years later, while struggling with
overwhelming grief over the death of her husband and young child, she returns to
this tranquil place. There she reunites with Kit Crawford, heir to the estate
and her possible salvation.
When they discover an old diary, Julia seeks out her grandmother to
learn the truth behind a love affair that almost destroyed the estate. Their
search takes them back to the 1940s when Harry, a former heir to Wharton Park,
married his young society bride, Olivia, on the eve of World War II. When the
two lovers are cruelly separated, the impact will be felt for generations to
come.
This atmospheric story alternates between the magical world of Wharton
Park and Thailand during World War II. Filled with twists and turns, passions
and lies, and ultimately redemption, The Orchid House is a beautiful,
romantic, and poignant novel.
From the author of the #1 international bestseller The Orchid House,
the mesmerizing story of two Irish families entangled by a tragic past that
seems destined to repeat itself
o escape a recent heartbreak in New York, Grania Ryan returns to her
family home on the rugged, wind-swept coast of Ireland. Here, on the cliff edge
in the middle of a storm, she meets a young girl, Aurora Lisle, who will
profoundly change her life.
Despite the warnings Grania receives from her mother to be wary of the Lisle family, Aurora and Grania forge a close friendship. Through a trove of old family letters dating from 1914, Grania begins to learn just how deeply their families’ histories are entwined. The horrors of World War I, the fate of a beautiful foundling child, and the irresistible lure of the ballet give rise to a legacy of heartache that leaves its imprint on each new generation. Ultimately, it will be Aurora whose intuition and spirit may be able to unlock the chains of the past.
Sweeping from Edwardian England to present-day New York, from the
majestic Irish coast to the crumbling splendor of a legendary London town house,
The Girl on the Cliff introduces two remarkable women whose quest to
understand their past sends them toward a future where love can triumph over
loss.
An aristocratic French family, a legendary château, and buried secrets
with the power to destroy two generations torn between duty and
desire.
La Côte d’Azur, 1998: In the sun-dappled south of France, Emilie
de la Martinières, the last of her gilded line, inherits her childhood home, a
magnificent château and vineyard. With the property comes a mountain of debt—and
almost as many questions . . .
Paris, 1944: A bright, young British office clerk, Constance
Carruthers, is sent undercover to Paris to be part of Churchill’s Special
Operations Executive during the climax of the Nazi occupation. Separated from
her contacts in the Resistance, she soon stumbles into the heart of a prominent
family who regularly entertain elite members of the German military even as they
plot to liberate France. But in a city rife with collaborators and rebels,
Constance’s most difficult decision may be determining whom to trust with her
heart.
As Emilie discovers what really happened to her family during the war
and finds a connection to Constance much closer than she suspects, the château
itself may provide the clues that unlock the mysteries of her past, present, and
future. Here is a dazzling novel of intrigue and passion from one of the world’s
most beloved storytellers.
LUCINDA RILEY
Lucinda Riley was born in Ireland and wrote her first book aged 24. Her novel
'The Orchid House' (also called 'Hothouse Flower') was selected for the UK's
Richard and Judy Bookclub in 2011 and went on to sell over 2 million copies
worldwide.
Her second novel, 'Girl on the Cliff' made its debut on the New York Times Bestseller list in its first week and her latest book, 'The Lavender Garden' (also called 'The Light Behind the Window') topped the German bestseller list for eight weeks.
'The Midnight Rose' is to be published in most markets of the world in early 2014. Lucinda's books are translated into 25 languages and published in 36 countries. She lives with her husband and four children on the North Norfolk coast in England and in the South of France.
Her second novel, 'Girl on the Cliff' made its debut on the New York Times Bestseller list in its first week and her latest book, 'The Lavender Garden' (also called 'The Light Behind the Window') topped the German bestseller list for eight weeks.
'The Midnight Rose' is to be published in most markets of the world in early 2014. Lucinda's books are translated into 25 languages and published in 36 countries. She lives with her husband and four children on the North Norfolk coast in England and in the South of France.
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