Showing results for "Kennedys" in Women's Fiction

Think you know what it's like being a baller's girl? You don't. My fairy tale is upside down. A happily never after. I kissed the prince and he turned into a fraud. I was a fool, and his love—fool's gold. Now there's a new player in the game, August West. One of the NBA's brightest stars. Fine. Forbidden. He wants me. I want him. But my past, my fraudulent prince, just won't let me go.

These twelve short stories dive deep into imaginary worlds where everyday life is marked and marred by war. They speak of wounded love, captured women, confinement, talismans, borders, wolves. They give expression to the voices of Afghan women who would like to change the fate of people like Nâzboo, Khorshid, Hamid and so many others. Originally published by Éditions Le Soupirail in 2019, this collection was the first volume of short stories by Afghan women to appear in France.

Confronted with questions of underage abortion, plagued by a stalker and paralyzing PTSD flashbacks, and eventually caught in the center of a police brutality scandal, Kennedy discovers that her first year at Harvard University involves a lot more than passing a few lab classes and fulfilling her premed requirements.

It's the 1960s, and the fashion culture of New York, Paris, and Milan is starting to make an impression on the mid-century American woman. Jackie Kennedy's effortless style leads the nation, although Mia's bustling bakery job doesn't often give her the time or money to craft a stylish closet after her idol in the White House. But when a mysterious stranger suddenly offers her a modeling job in Paris at the esteemed House of Rousseau, she takes a chance on it, despite knowing nothing about the world of fashion.

""Brydie Lee-Kennedy's writing is sharp and funny and humane. A passionate chronicler of the ridiculous—in people, in society, in sex—Brydie skewers everyone equally, but always with empathy, warmth and wit."" —Monica Heisey, author of Really Good, Actually For readers of Dolly Alderton...

Best friends Agnes and Bea decide to embark on one last adventure before their adult lives begin. For Agnes's mother Florence, a fresh chapter is starting as her youngest flies the nest and her marriage settles into a new routine. But she can't help feeling that something is missing. As Agnes travels to London and Florence follows her heart to Europe, both will discover a world of possibilities they never could have dreamed of.

After years of slogging her guts out for nothing at a PR company, Libby Quinn finds herself redundant and about to plough every last penny of her savings into refurbishing a ramshackle shop and making her dream of owning her own bookshop become a reality. She hopes opening Once Upon a Book on Ivy Lane will be the perfect tribute to her beloved grandfather who instilled a love of reading and books in her from an early age.

Nueva York, años 80. Embriaguez y excesos. Alice Burns, una prometedora editora en el Manhattan de la era Reagan, se enfrenta a la treintena, a su complicada vida sentimental y a un manuscrito demasiado técnico sobre la psicología de la familia. Un fragmento la marca de un modo especial...

In the aftermath of her mother's death, Zelda Hicks finds solace in a work trip to Loch Cameron, Scotland – a place tethering her to her father's heritage. But when she stumbles upon an enchanting cottage and its captivating owner, Gretchen Ross, Zelda is drawn into a heartfelt mission to save the homestead.As fate would have it, she butts heads - and hearts - with the handsome local laird, Hal Cameron.

Jo Campbell est une jeune femme drôle et talentueuse, qui se satisfait de sa vie parfaitement structurée. Elle rêvait depuis l'enfance de devenir écrivain, mais en même temps rien ne change jamais réellement dans son quotidien bien ordonné, et cela lui convient. Ou du moins, c'est ce qu'elle se raconte à elle-même... La plupart du temps, elle parvient à repousser cette petite voix qui lui dit de courir après ses rêves et de peut-être ouvrir son cœur brisé et meurtri à un nouvel amour.

Et si ouvrir une librairie n'était pas un rêve irréalisable ? Libby Quinn en a assez d'être raisonnable. Après avoir passé des années à se démener pour rien dans une boîte de relations publiques irlandaise, elle se retrouve licenciée. Libby décide alors de consacrer toutes ses économies à la réalisation de son rêve : rénover une boutique délabrée pour ouvrir une librairie. Elle espère que l'ouverture de "Once Upon A Book" sur Ivy Lane sera le parfait hommage à son grand-père bien-aimé qui lui a inculqué l'amour de la lecture et des livres dès son plus jeune âge.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Before I Let Go, a mysterious artist's dark past could cost him everything in this “achingly beautiful” second-chance romance. (A.L. Jackson) Jo Walsh has loved Cameron Mitchell for as long as she can remember. Whether front and center in her...

In this scorching romance from the bestselling author of Before I Let Go, one man must earn the trust of a woman with diamond-hard defenses in order to win her heart. Mean girl. Goddess. Bitch. Supermodel Sofie Baston has earned those labels . . . yet they don't scratch the surface of who she...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Before I Let Go comes a powerful forbidden romance about one woman on the brink of making a life-altering decision. Kerris Moreton knows how to make things work. Bounced from foster home to foster home as a kid, she adapted; when opportunity arose...

Connie stared out at the quiet Cornish sea as the hazy early morning light bathed the horizon in a beautiful golden glow. She inhaled the salty, cleansing ocean air, looked down at the handwritten note and wiped away the lone tear that had started to fall... Connie hasn’t been back to Magpie Cove – a seaside fishing village nestled between the cliffs – for years. When she thinks of the cove’s cobbled streets and cheerful cottages, she has to fight to push down memories she’d rather keep buried in the past.

Their love is impossible, their chemistry undeniable in this sizzling forbidden romance from a New York Times bestselling author. Kerris Moreton should be the happiest woman in the world. She has a successful business and is about to start the family she's always wanted. But the man of her...

Journalistin Hazel soll den maskierten Mann ausfindig machen und interviewen, der auf einem Foto aus dem exklusiven Phoenix-Club zu sehen ist. Nichts leichter als das - es handelt sich schließlich um ihren neuen Mitbewohner Kieran Black. Doch auch wenn Hazel schon seit Langem geheime Fantasien hegt, scheitert sie immer wieder an ihrer Schüchternheit und würde lieber im Erdboden versinken, als Kieran zu dem Club und seiner Mitgliedschaft dort zu befragen. Kieran Black sieht keinen Sinn in festen Beziehungen.

In a town teaming with secrets, three women find themselves inexplicably entwined.