Eileen Goudge Books

It¿s Daddy,¿ Kitty cried from three thousand miles away. ¿Mother shot him. The police have taken her away. Come now, Daphne. We need you.¿ On the eve of their ruby wedding anniversary, the Seagraves appear to be the ideal couple, still deeply in love and the envy of their friends in the seaside town of Miramonte, California ¿ until the night Lydia Seagrave picks up a gun and shoots her husband. In order to bring to light the ugly truth that could save Lydia, arrested for the murder of her husband, the three grown-up Seagrave daughters must first untangle their own lives. Novelist Daphne is torn between family loyalty and her feelings for the only man she has ever loved ¿ the DA who is prosecuting her mother. Kitty¿s passionate affair with a much younger man is complicated by her fervent hope that his pregnant sister will choose her to adopt the child she so desperately wants. While Alex, the youngest sister, is determined to defend her father¿s reputation ¿ at whatever cost. Forced to confront their pasts, Daphne, Kitty and Alex realise that the shocking secret buried in their apparently happy childhoods holds the key to the present tragedy. In One Last Dance, Eileen Goudge has concocted a haunting and compulsive novel of tortuous family conflicts and shattered love reclaimed that grips beyond the last page.

In the first volume of a new Carson Springs trilogy, a woman falls in love with a much younger man, igniting a storm of disapproval and dismay among the inhabitants of this unique California valley in which families have deep and tangled roots and hide dangerous secrets. Reprint.

Grace and Nola were daughters of the same man--but grew up worlds apart. Grace, child of a powerful senator, enjoyed a life of genteel affluence in Georgia...while Nola, a young black woman determined to succeed as an architect, lived in the slums of Washington, D.C. They are distant, yet they have been tied to each other by a terrible secret. And now, the truth that has shadowed them for so long is about to reveal that love can be a desperate risk--and some losses can be a blessing in disguise....

Vor dem Hintergrund der Traumwelt Hollywoods in den 50er Jahren und dem New York unserer Tage erzählte Geschichte zweier Geschwisterpaare, die schicksalhaft miteinander verbunden sind. Handlungs- und personenreicher Familienroman.

Sylvie hat über vierzig Jahre lang das Geheimnis um ihre dunkelhaarige Tochter Rachel bewahrt, die ihr Mann nie anerkannt hätte. Mit der Diagnose einer schweren Krankheit beginnt sie, über die Wahrheit nachzudenken und die damit verbundenen Konflikte in ihrer Familie.

Samantha verliebt sich in den Stiefsohn ihrer Tochter - eine schwierige Konstellation. Und als sie auch noch schwanger wird, sind Skandal und Familiendrama perfekt. Eine ebenso spannende wie romantische und leidenschaftliche Liebes- und Familiengeschichte.

Rachel and Rose grew up worlds apart. Rachel, in the lap of Manhattan luxury, an ice princess determined to be a great doctor. Rose, in the New York slums, yielding to passion too young, and fleeing heartbreak to become a star lawyer. When they both fall in love with the same fascinating man, they are brought face to face with the truth about each other and themselves.

Rose und Rachel wurden als Babies vertauscht, um einen Ehebruch zu vertuschen. Als erwachsene Frauen in den 40ern kämpfen sie immer noch gegen die Schatten ihrer Vergangenheit, die auch ihre Kinder einzuholen scheinen.