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Woman in Red
by Eileen Goudge
A powerful story of love and redemption, and what one woman will do to overcome the buried secrets of her past. Alice Kessler spent nine years in prison for the attempted murder of the drunk driver who killed her son. Now she's returned home to Gray's Island to reconnect with the son she left behind. Her boy, Jeremy, now a sullen teenager, is wrongly accused of rape, and mother and son are thrown ... (more)
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The Diary
by Eileen Goudge
When the two grown daughters of Elizabeth Marshall discover an old diary of their mother’s in her attic, it comes as a shock to learn that the true love of Elizabeth’s life was not their father. This is the mystery the two daughters must unravel as they stay up late reading the words penned by Elizabeth so long ago. Their mother can’t give them the answers: After a massive stroke, she lies mute and near death in a... (more)
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Once in a Blue Moon
by Eileen Goudge
Lindsay and Kerrie Ann are sisters who have known hardship from an early age. Without guidance from their neglectful mother, their only aid came from an unlikely source, a retired exotic dancer by the name of Miss Honi Love. When the girls’ mother was sent to prison, Miss Honi tried unsuccessfully to save them from being separated and sent into foster care. Thirty years later, Lindsay is still trying to reconnect... (more)
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Such Devoted Sisters
by Eileen Goudge
After struggling for years to free herself from her sister Annie's shadow, Laurel becomes a noted and sought-after illustrator, but one man could tear apart her fragile self-esteem. Reprint.
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Garden of Lies: Book 1
Garden of Lies
by Eileen Goudge
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.
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The Replacement Wife
by Eileen Goudge
Camille Hart, one of Manhattan’s most sought-after matchmakers, has survived more than her fair share of hardships. Her mother died when she was a young girl, leaving her and her sister with an absentee father. Now in her forties, she has already survived cancer once, though the battle revealed just how ill-equipped her husband Edward is to be a single parent. So when doctors tell Camille that her cancer is... (more)
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Trail of Secrets
by Eileen Goudge
Three women, including psychologist Ellie Nightingale, former champion rider Kate Sutton, and star rider Skylar Sutton, find their lives changed and their destinies linked by their experiences and a cruel decision. Reprint. Tour. PW. K.
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Carson Springs: Book 1
Stranger in Paradise
by Eileen Goudge
New York Times bestselling author Eileen Goudge presents the first book in her new trilogy set in charming Carson Springs, California-a town brimming with scandals, sins,and shattering secrets. Much to her daughters' distress, 48-year-old widow Samantha Kiley has embarked on an affair with a decades-younger man, igniting a furious scandal in small-town Carson Springs-a place that is not nearly as idyllic as... (more)
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Immediate Family
by Eileen Goudge
What does it mean to be a family? New York Times bestselling author Eileen Goudge's engaging new novel is a powerful adventure into the heart of marriage, motherhood, and four friends who discover they may be the best family they ever had. Fifteen years after graduation, best friends Jay, Franny, Emerson, and Stevie meet at their college reunion. Life has taken each of them in different directions -- Jay is a... (more)
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Domestic Affairs
by Eileen Goudge
From the bestselling author of Woman in Red comes a moving story in which an unlikely twist of fate has the potential to change the lives of three women in ways they never could have imagined. "Rosie and Abigail are like family," Ina Merriweather used to say. That is, until the day Ina abruptly cast out her housekeeper, Rosie, and her fifteen-year-old daughter Abigail. Abigail felt deeply betrayed, especially... (more)
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The Second Silence
by Eileen Goudge
A mother's worst nightmare brought to life unites a family in this searing, taut new novel by the bestselling author of One Last Dance . Romantic, suspenseful, and utterly compelling, The Second Silence takes us into the breaking heart of Noelle Van Doren, whose only child is snatched from her by her estranged husband, Robert, a powerful real estate developer. As Noelle, Mary, and Charlie, her long-estranged... (more)
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Otherwise Engaged
by Eileen Goudge
Can a New York City journalist exchange her subway pass for an SUV and find happiness? Can a small-town wife and mother take on the role of single city woman and discover a whole new life? Jessie Holland is in search of a hot story for Savvy magazine when her editor poses a compelling question -- can you ever really go home again? Jumping on the idea, and with her love life currently at a crossroads, Jessie... (more)
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Blessing in Disguise
by Eileen Goudge
A story of family secrets revealed only at a terrible price is also the story of the transforming power of love. From the author of Garden of Lies and Such Devoted Sisters. Reprint. LJ.
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Carson Springs: Book 2
Taste of Honey
by Eileen Goudge
A season has passed in Carson Springs since Stranger in Paradise . And with a baby on the way, Samantha Kiley and Ian Carpenter will soon be loving parents. But in Taste of Honey it is Sam's best friend Gerry whose head and heart are put to the test when she is forced to face the secret she has kept for almost thirty years. Everyone knows that feisty, sensual Gerry Fitzgerald wasn't always so outspoken. As... (more)
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Carson Springs: Book 3
Wish Come True
by Eileen Goudge
After years in the shadow of her movie-star sister, Monica, Anna Vincenzi finally sheds that extra weight. Now she's a knockout-and her emerging beauty has escaped no one, least of all her sister. But when Monica is found floating face down in her pool, the once-mousy Anna suddenly finds herself thrust into the spotlight-fighting to clear her name of murder. The entire Carson Springs community rallies around... (more)
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Garden of Lies: Book 2
Thorns of Truth
by Eileen Goudge
In this sequel to "Garden of Lies", Rachael and Rose, now women with grown children of their own, find themselves face-to-face 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.
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One Last Dance
by Eileen Goudge
Fans won't have to wait any longer for a new Eileen Goudge novel. And One Last Dance will sweep them off their feet. With all the trademark allure and suspense that have made every one of her books since the blockbuster Garden of Lies "a page-turner" ( New Woman ), she has woven a heartrending story of startling passion around three sisters who must confront a tangle of family lies in the wake of a shocking... (more)
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Mothers and Daughters: Celebrating the Gift of Love with 12 New Stories
by Jill M. Morgan
Mothers and daughters share a kinship so close that looking at each other is often like gazing into a mirror. Now famous mothers and their daughters merge their imaginations and talents and share the richness of the heart in this extraordinary short-story collection that celebrates the joys of motherhood and family. Collaborating for the first time with their daughters on works of fiction, twelve of today's most... (more)
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The Replacement Wife
by Eileen Goudge
From New York Times bestselling author Eileen Goudge comes a poignant new novel that asks the question, “What would you do if you were told you had only six months to live?” For one professional matchmaker the answer is heart-wrenching: She must find her husband’s next wife. Camille Hart, one of Manhattan’s most sought-after matchmakers, has survived more than her fair share of hardships. Her mother died... (more)
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Carson Springs: Book 0
Welcome to Carson Springs
Introducing the Delarosa Family
by Eileen Goudge
A Hollywood film crew upends life in an idyllic California village in this prequel to the Carson Springs trilogy In the late 1950s, filmmakers descended on Carson Springs to shoot the movie that made this sleepy Spanish mission town famous. A plaque commemorates the filming of Stranger in Paradise , but nowhere does it mention Cora Delarosa, whose life changed forever when Hollywood arrived. Barely thirty, but... (more)