Eileen Goudge
2) Woman in red
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"Alice Kessler, the married mother of two sons, is living on the fictional Grays Island, in the Pacific Northwest, when her eight-year-old son is run over while riding his bike. Alice is convinced the driver, Owen White, was drunk, though her husband, Randy, is not. Neither is the court system. So, on the day Alice loses her wrongful death lawsuit, she runs Owen down in the courthouse parking lot, crippling but not killing him. Alice serves nine years...
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Carson Springs novels volume 1
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2007
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In the first book of Eileen Goudge's bestselling Carson Springs series, an unlikely wedding upends a tranquil California town It isn't easy to watch your daughter marry a man who's twice her age, but Samantha Kiley holds her tongue. Wes seems like a good man, and it doesn't hurt that he's also a billionaire. She has no idea that she will soon be caught up in a May–December affair of her own that will set tongues wagging in the idyllic small...
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2013
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A special two-in-one edition of Eileen Goudge's riveting novel Garden of Lies and its addictive sequel, Thorns of Truth In Garden of Lies, Sylvie wants to be a good wife to Gerald, who offers the privileged life she could only dream of. When they wed eight years ago, the country was in the throes of the Depression, and she thought she'd made the right choice. She wants to please her new husband, and bear his children. But no matter how hard she...
5) The diary
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[2009]
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After Elizabeth suffers a near-fatal stroke, her two daughters find an old diary while rummaging through her attic. The diary reveals a secret past, and with Elizabeth unable to explain it for herself, her daughters must search for their own answers.
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1992
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Sibling rivalry and the bonds of sisterhood span generations in this “irresistible” New York Times–bestselling family saga (San Francisco Chronicle).
If it weren’t for her sister, Dolly might have been the most famous actress of Hollywood’s golden age. But Eve’s beauty and drive have pushed Dolly onto the B-list, where the seeds of jealousy take root. An unscrupulous agent gives her a...
If it weren’t for her sister, Dolly might have been the most famous actress of Hollywood’s golden age. But Eve’s beauty and drive have pushed Dolly onto the B-list, where the seeds of jealousy take root. An unscrupulous agent gives her a...
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1999.
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A shot is fired one night and a husband is left dead. His devoted wife of forty years is jailed for his murder. The sleepy seaside town of Miramonte, California, reels from the shocking news. Vernon and Lydia Seagrave appeared to be the ideal couple, still in love as they approached the eve of their ruby anniversary. What could have gone wrong? Their three grown daughters struggle to find the answer.
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Carson Springs novels volume 2
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2002.
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Gerry Fitzgerald confronts a painful secret when the daughter she gave up for adoption twenty-eight years earlier comes into her life, seeking answers.
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Carson Springs novels volume 3
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[2003]
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After years spent in the shadow of her movie-star sister, Monica, Anna finally remakes herself. But when Monica is murdered, Anna is arrested as the prime suspect. Fortunately, Anna is not alone as she fights to exonerate herself.
11) Trail of secrets
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[1996]
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The heroine is Skyler Sutton, a member of Connecticut's blue-blooded equestrian world, the hero is Tony Salvatore, a blue-collar mounted policeman. When he makes her pregnant, Skyler offers the baby for adoption. The candidate is psychologist Ellie Nightingale whose own child was kidnaped 23 years earlier. The romance takes a turn when Ellie discovers that Skyler is her daughter.
13) Garden of lies
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Sylvie's abandoned real daughter grows up in genteel poverty, but her illegitimate daughter is raised as her own, and becomes a doctor, only to find the deceptions of her past have caught up.
15) Bones and Roses
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[2016].
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In a picturesque California seaside town, an intrepid property manager attracts the right clients, the wrong boyfriends, and a kinky killer After wrecking her real estate career in a booze-fueled blowout, Cypress Bay property manager and recovering alcoholic Tish Ballard thought she had put her past behind her. But when she opens an old trunk, a bequest from an anonymous benefactor, she finds it filled with bones and roses. Suddenly Tish is plunged...
16) Domestic affairs
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[2008]
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"It begins with a betrayal that tears apart childhood friends, Abigail and Lila, when Abigail's mother, the housekeeper for Lila's wealthy family, is summarily banished, casting Abigail from the only home she has ever known. Now, twenty-five years later, Abigail is a self-made successful cookbook author and TV personality. When Lila, who married well and for decades lived the glittering life of a Park Avenue socialite, suffers a tragic reversal of...
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[1994]
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Grace Truscott, writing a biography of her dead father, a Southern senator known for his good works, discovers he had an affair with his black secretary and may have murdered her husband. At that fireworks fly, the mother ready to risk anything to protect her career and prestige.
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Carson Springs novels volume 1
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2001.
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Forty-eight-year-old widow Samantha Delarosa Kelly's life is changed when she becomes pregnant with her much younger lover's child. Her younger daughter sees it as an insult to her late father, while her elder daughter is bitter that her mother is pregnant but she can't have a baby
19) Immediate family
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[2006]
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15 years after graduation, best friends Jay, Franny, Emerson, and Stevie meet at their college reunion. Life has taken each of them in different directions. Now the bond between the foursome takes a surprising twist, one that changes how each feels about family and friendship. One thing is certain: They will find their heart's desires in the last place they imagine--as they discover that family is less about blood ties than the warm embrace of...
20) Thorns of truth
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[1998]
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"Rachel and Rose, now women with grown children of their own, find themselves face-to-face at last with the destiny that has haunted them for nearly half a century, since the two were switched at birth in the chaos of a hospital fire."--BOOK JACKET. "What confronts them now threatens to uproot a lifetime of deeply buried secrets: the impending marriage of Rose's capable and caring son to Rachel's emotionally troubled daughter. Once again the two women...