From the moment Lev
Leokov spots the young woman hiding behind her hair in the middle of the
gentleman's club, he can't take his eyes off of her.
For the very
first time in his life, he is affected. Having been told his entire life
that he can't process or understand emotion, he considers it a big
deal.
When Mina Harris gets caught red-handed with a wallet that
isn't hers, she falls apart. She's tired, lonely and hasn't eaten in
days.
Lev offers her an ultimatum... A nice warm bed, a hot meal and a job, or the cops.
Mina takes her chances with Lev.
After all, a person with nothing has nothing left to lose.
Gavin tells Delilah he’s hers—completely—but whatever lives inside that house with him disagrees.
After
seven years tucked away at an East coast boarding school, Delilah Blue
returns to her small Kansas hometown to find that not much has changed.
Her parents are still uptight and disinterested, her bedroom is exactly
the way she left it, and the outcast Gavin Timothy still looks like he’s
crawled out of one of her dark, twisted drawings.
Delilah is instantly smitten.
Gavin
has always lived in the strange house: an odd building isolated in a
stand of trees where the town gives in to mild wilderness. The house is
an irresistible lure for Delilah, but the tall fence surrounding it
exists for good reason, and Gavin urges Delilah to be careful. Whatever
lives with him there isn’t human, and isn’t afraid of hurting her to
keep her away.
A beautiful violinist is haunted by a very old piece of music she finds in a strange antique shop in Rome.
The first time Julia Ansdell picks up The Incendio Waltz,
she knows it’s a strikingly unusual composition. But while playing the
piece, Julia blacks out and awakens to find her young daughter
implicated in acts of surprising violence. And when she travels to
Venice to find the previous owner of the music, she uncovers a dark
secret that involves dangerously powerful people—a family who would stop
at nothing to keep Julia from bringing the truth to light.
Adriana Trigiani, the New York Times bestselling author of the blockbuster epic The Shoemaker’s Wife,
returns with her biggest and boldest novel yet—a hypnotic tale, based
on a true story—that dazzles with the signature elements of her previous
work—family ties, artistry, romance, adventure—and introduces an
unforgettable new heroine: Loretta Young, an ambitious starlet
struggling to survive in Hollywood’s dream factory
In this
spectacular saga as radiant, thrilling, and beguiling as Hollywood
itself, Adriana Trigiani takes us back to Tinsel Town’s golden age—an
era as brutal as it was resplendent—and into the complex and glamorous
world of a young actress hungry for fame and success. With meticulous,
beautiful detail, Trigiani paints a rich, historical landscape of 1930s
Los Angeles, where European and American artisans flocked to pursue the
ultimate dream: to tell stories on the silver screen.
Mattie shouldn’t be at
the bonfire. She should be finding new maps for her collection, hanging
out with Kris, and steering clear of almost everyone else, especially
Jolene. After all, Mattie and Kris dropped off the social scene the
summer after sophomore year for a reason.
But now Mattie is a senior, and she’s sick of missing things. So here she is.
And
there’s Jolene: Beautiful. Captivating. Just like the stories she wove.
Mattie would know; she used to star in them. She and Jolene were best
friends. Mattie has the scar on her palm to prove it, and Jolene has
everything else, including Hudson.
But when Mattie runs into
Hudson and gets a glimpse of what could have been, she decides to take
it all back: the boyfriend, the friends, the life she was supposed to
live. Problem is, Mattie can’t figure out where Jolene ends and she
begins.
