Editorial Content for The Last Night in London
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New York Times bestselling author Karen White weaves a captivating story of friendship, love and betrayal that moves between war-torn London during the Blitz and the present day.
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New York Times bestselling author Karen White weaves a captivating story of friendship, love and betrayal that moves between war-torn London during the Blitz and the present day.
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New York Times bestselling author Karen White weaves a captivating story of friendship, love and betrayal that moves between war-torn London during the Blitz and the present day.
London, 1939. Beautiful and ambitious Eva Harlow and her American best friend, Precious Dubose, are trying to make their way as fashion models. When Eva falls in love with Graham St. John, an aristocrat and Royal Air Force pilot, she can’t believe her luck --- she’s getting everything she ever wanted. Then the Blitz devastates her world, and Eva finds herself slipping into a web of intrigue, spies and secrets. As Eva struggles to protect her friendship with Precious and everything she holds dear, all it takes is one unwary moment to change their lives forever.
London, 2019. American journalist Maddie Warner, whose life has been marked by the tragic loss of her mother, travels to London to interview Precious about her life in pre-WWII London. Maddie has been careful to close herself off to others, but in Precious she recognizes someone whose grief rivals her own --- but unlike Maddie, Precious hasn’t allowed it to crush her. Maddie finds herself drawn to both Precious and to Colin, her enigmatic surrogate nephew. As Maddie gets closer to her, she begins to unravel Precious’ haunting past --- a story of friendship, betrayal, and the unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
Editorial Content for Masque of Honor: A Historical Novel of the American South
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In this coming-of-age tale set in early 19th-century America, two sons of the Virginia aristocracy risk it all to defend their dreams and determine their own destinies.
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In this coming-of-age tale set in early 19th-century America, two sons of the Virginia aristocracy risk it all to defend their dreams and determine their own destinies.
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In this coming-of-age tale set in early 19th-century America, two sons of the Virginia aristocracy risk it all to defend their dreams and determine their own destinies.
General Armistead Mason and John “Jack” Mason McCarty are brothers-in-law, second cousins and descendants of founding father George Mason IV. Ambitious and headstrong, together they set out to find love, acceptance and honor on their own merit. Armistead, by nature a politician, demands respect and strives for perfection. Jack, by inclination a rover, looks to forge his own path.
When Armistead is challenged by corruption in the political machine and is denied a seat in the US Congress, the two become embroiled in a bitter dispute that sets in motion an irrevocable chain of events, leading them to the dueling grounds and an outcome that changes everything.
Based on historical events of the 1819 Mason-McCarty duel, MASQUE OF HONOR is a story of courage, conviction and the cost of sacrificing one life to forge another.
Editorial Content for The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano
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A stunning novel about love, loss, betrayal, divorce, death, a woman's career and her identity, THE NINE LIVES OF ROSE NAPOLITANO is about finding one's way into a future that wasn't the future one planned, and the ways that fate intercedes when we least expect it.
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A stunning novel about love, loss, betrayal, divorce, death, a woman's career and her identity, THE NINE LIVES OF ROSE NAPOLITANO is about finding one's way into a future that wasn't the future one planned, and the ways that fate intercedes when we least expect it.
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A deeply moving novel about a woman who thought she never wanted to be a mother --- and the many ways that life can surprise us.
In every woman there are many stories.
Rose Napolitano is fighting with her husband, Luke, about prenatal vitamins. She promised she'd take them, but didn't. He promised before they got married that he'd never want children, but now he's changed his mind. Their marriage has come to rest on this one question: Can Rose find it in herself to become a mother? Rose is a successful professor and academic. She's never wanted to have a child. The fight ends, and with it their marriage.
But then Rose has a fight with Luke about the vitamins --- again. This time the fight goes slightly differently, and so does Rose's future as she grapples with whether she can indeed give up the one thing she thought she knew about herself. Can she reimagine her life in a completely new way? That reimagining plays out again and again in each of Rose's nine lives, just as it does for each of us as we grow into adulthood. What are the consequences of our biggest choices? How would life change if we let go of our preconceived ideas of ourselves and became someone completely new? Rose Napolitano's experience of choosing and then choosing again shows us in an utterly compelling way what it means, literally, to reinvent a life and, sometimes, become a different kind of woman than we ever imagined.
A stunning novel about love, loss, betrayal, divorce, death, a woman's career and her identity, THE NINE LIVES OF ROSE NAPOLITANO is about finding one's way into a future that wasn't the future one planned, and the ways that fate intercedes when we least expect it.
May 6, 2021
This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we think is a great summer reading selection. Read more about it, and enter our Summer Reading Contest by Friday, May 7th at noon ET for a chance to win one of five copies of THE BOOKSHOP OF SECOND CHANCES by Jackie Fraser, which is now available. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!
Nancy Thayer is the bestselling author of over 30 novels, including her most recent, FAMILY REUNION, which released this week. In it, a grandmother-granddaughter duo are eager to spend their summer together on peaceful Nantucket, but the season that unfolds brings about unforgettable surprises. Nancy’s childhood was full of many bookish surprises thanks to her mother, Jane Findly Wright, and she was able to read on her own by the age of four. As she explains in her Mother’s Day blog post, Nancy’s book preferences evolved throughout her preteen and adolescent years, but Jane was a constant influence in her reading life and introduced her to an author whose historical novels she became obsessed with as a teenager.
Virginia Hume is a freelance writer and editor whose debut novel, HAVEN POINT, releases on June 8th. The book explores what it means to belong to a place, and to a family, that holds as tightly to its traditions as it does its secrets. Virginia’s mother enjoys reading all kinds of fiction, and it was her willingness to branch out and explore different genres that inspired a young Virginia to do the same. Had it not been for her mother’s love of literature, she doubts she would have developed a passion for reading that eventually led to her writing career. Virginia has adopted this enthusiastic, non-judgmental approach with her own daughters, who are now in college but grew up in a household where there were no “guilty pleasures” when it came to books.
Corra Harris
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
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