The New York Times bestselling author of the much-beloved The Saving Graces is back with a warm, winning new novel about daring to love, braving a loss, and setting yourself free. How much change can one summer bring? If you're Caddie Winger -- thirty-two years old, still living with her grandmother, and giving piano lessons to neighborhood children -- one summer can make the whole world look different. Caddie's mother died when she was nine, and Caddie was raised by her grandmother. Now their roles are reversed, and it's Caddie who takes care of Nana. When her grandmother breaks a leg and insists on going into a convalescent home, Caddie finds herself being pulled out of her comfy, self-made nest. Living alone for the first time since college, she uncovers some startling truths from her past. Jolted, she looks at the world with new eyes and begins to take charge of her future. As she makes a new best friend, takes risks she never dreamed she could, and navigates the depths and shallows of true love and devastating heartbreak, Caddie learns how to trust other people and, ultimately, how to trust herself. Wise, moving, and reassuringly real, The Goodbye Summer offers us a deeper understanding of the perplexing and invigorating magic that is life itself.
Patricia Gaffney Books
Patricia Gaffney's writing delves into the complexities of relationships, exploring themes of love, friendship, and commitment, particularly among women. Her contemporary novels, often bestsellers, sensitively examine marital dynamics and personal growth. Gaffney masterfully blends humor with profound insight into human psychology, offering readers engaging and thought-provoking narratives. Her stories are noted for their strong female perspective and ability to draw readers into the characters' inner lives.







Wild at Heart
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They called him "the lost man." Raised in the woods, without speech, without civilization, he was beautifully, wonderfully wild. But only one woman looked beyond the wildness to see the man...
To Have and to Hold
- 384 pages
- 14 hours of reading
After spending years in prison for a crime she did not commit, Rachel Wade accepts the proposal of cynical Sebastian Verlaine, Viscount D'Aubrey, who offers her parole in exchange for becoming his mistress. Original.
The Saving Graces
- 400 pages
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Imagine a bond that's richer than that between siblings, stronger than those within a marriage. Four ordinary women have found just this, and after more than ten years of shared life, their friendship has become a remarkable and invincible force. Isabel has a broken marriage behind her and a grown up son she loves but rarely sees. Two years into remission from breast cancer, she embraces everything that is alternative, and exists by forgiveness. Lee is blessed with money, but didn't find love until she had abandoned all hope; now she has Henry - but no children, a longing that seems a wish too far. Rudy is young and beautiful, damaged by her past and an off-centred family, and now married to a brutal and controlling man. Emma, feisty and insecure, does not believe in love - until she falls for the one man she can never have. In this warm, funny, spirited and heartfelt novel, Patricia Gaffney unfolds two years in the lives of the Saving Graces, as together they face one another's high and low points. But then when out of the blue tragedy strikes and they are faced with the unthinkable, a shadow looms over their bond, threatening to destroy it for ever...
Patricia Gaffney captivated millions of readers with her New York Times bestseller The Saving Graces . Now she sweeps readers into a world of danger and desire, where a woman of courage and a man of mystery risk everything in the name of love... As the owner of a saloon in Paradise, Oregon, Cady McGill is surviving in a man's world. She can't afford to let her guard down for anyone-especially the man in black who arrives out of nowhere to arouse her suspicions...and her senses. He calls himself Jesse Gault-an achingly attractive stranger with guns on his hips and a mocking smile on his lips. But Cady has seen her share of swindlers, and she knows that Gault's charms are as deceptive as his name. Yet even as sudden gunfire blazes, desire flares in Cady's heart. Now she must fight her own deepest feelings as a man who is not what he seems awakens a tender, abiding passion that can only be the real thing.
To Love & to Cherish
- 400 pages
- 14 hours of reading
In this wonderful new romance set in an English village, a handsome young vicar has serious doubts about his calling . . . and a serious desire to be close to his best friend's wife. Gaffney won the Golden Heart Award for Sweet Treason in 1988 and the 1990 Romantic Times Award for Best Regency-Set Romance for Thief of Hearts.
Growing up, Anne admired and emulated her unmarried Aunt Rose, who led a much more exotic and glamorous life than her mother. But as her mother lies dying, Anna finds out that the woman she looked to more than her own mother betrayed them both in the worst way. Now an acutely mistrustful adult, Anna suffers yet another betrayal, at the hands of her lover. Looking for an escape, Anna returns home, though it means helping her aunt run the family restaurant. Rose, who for 20 years has struggled to regain Anna's trust, realizes that although her niece has come home, it's clear she doesn't plan to stay. Feelings are frosty as ever, and Anna is so deadset on leaving, that she fails to recognize true love, even as it reaches up to grab her by the heart. Moving, funny, and ultimately reassuring about life and love, Gaffney's new novel is just the thing her readers have been waiting for.
Circle of Three
- 432 pages
- 16 hours of reading
“Gaffney’s characters are appealing and realistic…Readers will race through this book.” —New Orleans Times Picayune “Poignant….Entertaining….As good as it gets.” —New York Post No other author writes about the lives and friendships of women with more warmth and grace than New York Times bestseller Patricia Gaffney. A true master of women’s fiction, with Circle of Three she flourishes the same breathtaking characterization and storytelling skills that made her previous novel, The Saving Graces, a readers’ favorite. The story of a woman grieving for her losses and her life, and her relationship with her overbearing mother and precocious young daughter, Circle of Three focuses on three generations of a troubled family, the anger and misunderstanding that separates them…and the love that holds them together. Gaffney does beautifully what Elizabeth Berg, Anne Rivers Siddons, and Anne Tyler also do so well: exploring the tricky bonds of family in novels both heart-soaring and heartbreaking.
Another Eden
- 448 pages
- 16 hours of reading
A New York Times Bestselling Author Beautiful, sensitive and aristocratic, Sara was tired of lying to protect brutal, grasping Ben Cochrane, tired of pretending that her life of luxury was anything but a gilded cage. And from the moment her eyes first met Alex McKie's, she knew that he saw through the tissue of lies to the desperate, yearning woman beneath. Their love was forbidden, but how could it be wrong? Available only in Americana 5.
Jove Romance: The Other Side
Five All-New Stories That Will Take You to... - First Time in Print
- 416 pages
- 15 hours of reading
Five New York Times bestselling authors cross over to a realm where suspense, desire, and love have no bounds. "Possession in Death" / J.D. Robb: Lieutenant Eve Dallas has always sought justice for the dead, but now, a victim will seek her own vengeance-through Eve. "The Other Side of the Coin" / Mary Blayney: An earl and his countess struggle to understand one another, until they spend a day in each other's shoes-and bodies. "The Dancing Ghost" / Patricia Gaffney: To prove her ancestral home is haunted, a woman hires a spirit investigator, but they end up debunking the mystery of love. "Almost Heaven" / Ruth Ryan Langan: A couple who dies in a car accident struggler to stay in their daughter's life to save her from the wrong man. "Never Too Late to Love" / Mary Kay McComas: A practical woman is faced with the most impractical ghosts, who can't rest in peace until they find what they have lost.
Mit den Augen des Mondes
- 410 pages
- 15 hours of reading
Die Magd - Sie kam ohne Freunde oder Vermögen im Darkstone Manor an, nur vom Zischen des Meeres in der Mitternachtshruhe empfangen. Lily Trehearne war als Dame geboren, aber nun fügte sie sich einem Leben voller harter Arbeit, unausweichlicher Armut... und bedingungsloser Gehorsamkeit gegenüber dem Herrn des Anwesens. Der Meister - Gequält und nachdenklich bedrohte Devon Darkwell Lilys Sicherheit fast ebenso sehr, wie er ihre Sinne berauschte. Von dem Moment an, als er sie nackt im Mondlicht schwimmen sah, hielt ihn seine fesselnde Männlichkeit in ihrem Bann. Doch jeder Schritt, den er machte, um ihren Körper zu beanspruchen, brachte ihn näher daran, die schrecklichen Geheimnisse ihrer Seele zu erfahren. In seinen Armen würde sie stürmische Leidenschaft, bittere Verzweiflung und eine aufsteigende Freude kennenlernen, die sie beide vor der Macht der Liebe demütigen würde...
Duell der Liebe
- 378 pages
- 14 hours of reading
Aus d. Amerikanischen v. Naujokat, Angelika Roman. 378 S.
Das Glück von morgen. Roman
- 431 pages
- 16 hours of reading
Ein Verrat hat Annas Beziehung zu ihrer Tante zerstört. Als sie erkennt, dass sie nur einen Teil der Wahrheit kannte, wird ihr Leben neu aufgerollt.
Sommer der Hoffnung
- 480 pages
- 17 hours of reading
Tyler will seine Vergangenheit hinter sich lassen und verliebt sich in die stumme Carrie. Gemeinsam versuchen sie, ihre Schicksale zu überwinden und den Bann zu lösen.
Süsser Verrat
- 415 pages
- 15 hours of reading
Die feurige Katherine hat keine Bedenken, sich als Hure auszugeben, wenn das Spiel einen Schlag gegen die verhassten Engländer versetzt. Doch ihre Sicherheit verwandelt sich in Verwirrung, als sie gefangen genommen wird und von einem ärgerlichen Major konfrontiert wird, der behauptet, es gäbe nur einen Weg, wie sie beweisen kann, dass sie eine Hure und keine Spionin ist.
In den Armen der Liebe
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Aus dem Amerikanischen von Naujokat, Angelika Roman. 448 S.
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