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Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers—Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As Hannah’s increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen’s boss, as a US marshal and federal agents arrive at her Sausalito home unannounced, Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn’t who he said he was.

Liam Noone was many things to many people. To the public, he was an exacting, self-made hotel magnate fleeing his past. To his three ex-wives, he was a loving albeit distant family man who kept his finances flush and his families carefully separated. To Nora, he was a father who often loved her from afar—notably a cliffside cottage perched on the California coast from which he fell to his death.

Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his new wife, Hannah: protect her. Hannah knows exactly who Owen needs her to protect - his 16-year-old daughter, Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. And who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As her increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, his boss is arrested for fraud and the police start questioning her, Hannah realises that her husband isn't who he said he was. And that Bailey might hold the key to discovering Owen's true identity and why he disappeared.

What if your beloved fiancé, he of the crinkly smile and the irresistible British accent, had kept a life-changing secret from you? And what if, just a week before your dream wedding, you discovered it?

When these questions become realities for bride-to-be Georgia Ford, she does the only thing that seems to make sense. She runs....

Annie Adams is days away from her 32nd birthday and thinks she has finally found some happiness. She visits the world's most interesting places for her syndicated travel column and she's happily cohabiting with her movie director boyfriend Nick in Los Angeles. But when Nick comes home from a meeting with his therapist (aka "futures counselor") and announces that he's taking a break from their relationship so he can pursue a woman from his past, the place Annie had come to call home is shattered.

¿Qué estás dispuesto a hacer por la gente a la que amas? Lo último que me dijo fue: protégela. Antes de que Owen Michaels desapareciera, consiguió pasar a escondidas una nota a su nueva esposa, Hannah: "Protégela". Hannah sabe exactamente a quién se refiere la nota: Bailey, la hija adolescente de Owen, quien perdió trágicamente a su madre cuando era niña. Y que no quiere tener absolutamente nada que ver con su nueva madrastra.

A tender and quirky novel about the romantic choices we make from the author of the New York Times best seller and Reese's Book Club Pick The Last Thing He Told Me.

The second novel from Laura Dave, the acclaimed author of Eight Hundred Grapes and Hello Sunshine. In The Divorce Party, captures a much-discussed cultural phenomenon that has never been profiled in fiction before - divorce celebrations - with her characteristic wit and warmth. Set in Hamptons high society, The Divorce Party features two women - one newly engaged and one at the end of her marriage - trying to answer the same question: When should you fight to save a relationship, and when should you let go?

Sunshine Mackenzie truly is living the dream. A lifestyle guru for the modern age, Sunshine is beloved by millions of people who tune in to her YouTube cooking show, and millions more scour her website for recipes, wisdom, and her enticing suggestions for how to curate a perfect life. She boasts a series of New York Times best-selling cookbooks, a devoted architect husband, and a reputation for sincerity and kindness - Sunshine seems to have it all. But she's hiding who she really is.

Credeva di avere una vita perfetta. Ma stava vivendo una perfetta bugia. È una sera come tante per Hannah Hall, quando all'improvviso sente suonare il campanello. Sulla soglia la aspetta una ragazzina sconosciuta che le porge un biglietto. E Hannah sa che, appena lo leggerà, la sua vita cambierà per sempre. Perché, in realtà, qualcosa di insolito quella sera c'è: Owen, l'uomo che ha sposato da poco più di un anno, per il quale si è trasferita da New York in una casa galleggiante nella baia di San Francisco, non è tornato dal lavoro e non risponde al telefono. Non è da lui.

Wenn dein Leben absolut perfekt ist - ist es dann nicht Zeit, etwas Neues zu wagen? Sunshine MacKenzie lebt ihren Traum: Mit ihrer Youtube-Kochshow und ihren Lifestyle-Büchern begeistert sie Millionen Fans - und sie hat ihren Traummann geheiratet, der ihr bei allem treu zur Seite steht. Alles scheint perfekt, bis ausgerechnet an ihrem 35. Geburtstag herauskommt, dass die Rezepte aus der Show gar nicht von ihr sind. Die Fans sind empört und Sunshine sieht nur einen Ausweg: Sie verlässt New York, um in einem kleinen kalifornischen Küstenstädtchen noch einmal von vorn zu beginnen.

Wenn das Glück wartet, wo man es verloren hat... Giorgia Ford steht kurz davor, den Mann ihrer Träume zu heiraten. Es ist fast zu schön, um wahr zu sein. Bis ihre Welt plötzlich zerbricht - ausgerechnet in dem Moment, in dem sie ihr Brautkleid anprobiert. Kurzentschlossen steigt Giorgia in ihr Auto und fährt an den einen Ort, an dem sie sich geborgen fühlt: Auf das Weingut ihrer Familie im Hinterland Kaliforniens. Doch dort schmieden Giorgias Eltern abwegige Zukunftspläne, die ihren Weinberg bedrohen. Giorgia muss um die heile Welt ihrer Kindheit kämpfen - und entdeckt dabei, dass sich das Glück manchmal dort versteckt, wo man es schon lange nicht mehr gesucht hat.

"Beschütze sie" steht auf dem Zettel, den Hannah eines Vormittags von einer Unbekannten in die Hand gedrückt bekommt. Er stammt von ihrem Ehemann Owen, der am Morgen wie jeden Tag, zur Arbeit gegangen ist. Oder? Hannah kann ihn nicht erreichen, er ist spurlos verschwunden – und von einer Sekunde auf die andere verändert sich Hannahs Leben für immer. Denn ab heute hat sie nur noch zwei Aufgaben: Die Liebe ihres Lebens wiederzufinden.

There are secrets you share and secrets you hide... For everyone who loved Brothers and Sisters. My mother said it simply: 'Be careful what you give up.' 'Because you can't get it back?' 'No.' She squeezed my shoulder. 'Because eventually, you get it back any way you can.' Georgia Ford, associate at a lop LA law firm, has built a solid life for herself away from her childhood spent in the beautiful surroundings of her parents' Californian vineyard.

"Beschütze sie” steht auf dem Zettel, den Hannah eines Vormittags von einer Unbekannten in die Hand gedrückt bekommt. Er stammt von ihrem Ehemann Owen, der am Morgen wie jeden Tag, zur Arbeit gegangen ist. Oder? Hannah kann ihn nicht erreichen, er ist spurlos verschwunden – und von einer Sekunde auf die andere verändert sich Hannahs Leben für immer. Denn ab heute hat sie nur noch zwei Aufgaben: Die Liebe ihres Lebens wiederzufinden. Und Owens Tochter Bailey zu beschützen.

When the patriarch of a famed hotel empire dies under suspicious circumstances, his daughter and her estranged brother join forces to find out what happened, unraveling a larger mystery about who their father really was.

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