Showing results by publisher "Audible Studios" in Women's Fiction

Ellie Pringle has spent endless hours and countless dollars working with a therapist to remember the lost years of her childhood. She's baffled and more than a little intrigued when the grandmother she hasn't seen in 34 years dies and leaves her a fortune. The time has come to face her past in person. Still reeling from a recent breakup of a long-term relationship, and with nothing to keep her in San Francisco, Ellie packs her meager belongings and boards a plane for the South Carolina Lowcountry.

I was done. Done with men. Women say it all the time; they get fed up, throw their hands in the air, and vow a life of celibacy - until the next chiseled chest comes into view and then they're foaming at the mouth and wiping the drool from their chins. But this was different, I really meant it. I'd decided to bat for the other team.... At least I tried. But creating the next Brat Pack hadn't been on the agenda. Neither had my date's brother, Collier West. And I wasn't prepared for finding true love at the end of my gal-pal tryst.

Atlas Titan isn't your typical billionaire heir. He defied the expectations of his tycoon father and well-heeled, affluent family by becoming a Navy SEAL and later a clandestine operative for the darkest government agencies. He thought he'd left that world behind for a Bay Area start-up with his brothers, but a man's past has a way of catching up with him. I'm Piper Kipton. I'm on the run from my own mistakes, and there's only one man who can protect me from them. And he just so happens to be six foot five with rugged good looks and a penchant for making me weak at his touch.

No one hates Paris - except Summer Corey. The moody winters. The artists and their ennui. The inescapable shadow of the Tour Eiffel. But things go from bad to worse when Summer stumbles into brooding, gorgeous chef pâtissier Luc Leroi and indecently propositions the hero of French cuisine... Luc has scrambled up from a childhood panhandling in the Paris Métro to become the king of his city, and he has no patience for this spoiled princess, even if she does now own his restaurant.

Hallie Elliot has a perfect life. She is an up-and-coming interior designer in one of San Francisco's most sought-after firms and has just recently become engaged to Peter, a brilliant, young journalist. But when she stumbles upon Peter and her boss in what seems to be a compromising position, her trust in her perfect life is shaken. So Hallie escapes to Lake Como, Italy, to spend time with her half sister, Portia Tesoro, an Italian blueblood dealing with the scandal of a public estrangement from her cheating husband.

In a vertiginous play of mirrors between fantasy and virtual reality, Camille Laurens relates the dangerous liaisons of a woman who refuses to give up on desire. This is the story of Claire Millecam, a 48 year-old teacher and divorcee, who creates a fake social media profile to try to keep tabs on Jo, her occasional, elusive, and inconstant lover. Who You Think I Am is a true novel of our times that brilliantly exposes the disconnect between desire and fantasy.

De retour d’un mariage dont elle se serait bien passée, Emily ne pensait pas que les choses pouvaient devenir pires. Et voilà qu’un crétin alcoolisé l’agresse à l’aéroport ! Au moins, cette mésaventure lui aura permis d’être surclassée pour son vol Londres-New York. On dit que c’est la meilleure manière de voyager, et son voisin de siège semble bien décidé à lui faire vivre un voyage mémorable et à jouer les prolongations lors d’une escale inattendue.

Eine herzzerreißende Familiengeschichte von Weltbestsellerautorin Kristin Hannah. Die Teenager Mia und Zach Farraday freunden sich mit Lexi Baill an, einem Mädchen mit dunkler Vergangenheit. Bevor sie auf verschiedene Colleges gehen, wollen sie den letzten gemeinsamen Sommer in ihrem Abschlussjahr in vollen Zügen genießen. Doch dann trifft einer von ihnen in einer Nacht eine verheerende Entscheidung. Die Farradays werden auseinandergerissen. Lexi verliert alles. Werden sie einen Weg finden, mit den Folgen dieser Nacht zu leben?

Die junge Künstlerin Kirsty Paterson schlägt sich in Edinburgh mühsam mit verschiedenen Jobs durch. Doch dann stirbt ihre geliebte Großmutter Fiona und vererbt Kirsty ihr Rosencottage auf der malerischen Insel Tiree. Mit dem Haus verbindet Kirsty die glücklichsten Sommer ihrer Kindheit. Ihre Großmutter hat jedoch eine Bitte an das Erbe geknüpft: Kirsty soll das Verschwinden von Fionas Kinderfreundin Livie vor vielen Jahren aufklären. Schon bald löst sie mit ihrer Spurensuche schicksalhafte Ereignisse aus und trifft auf den undurchschaubaren, aber attraktiven Schriftsteller Finlay.

This is a brilliant and revelatory first novel by a woman who is both an Arab and an American, who speaks with both voices and understands both worlds. Through the narratives of four cousins at the brink of maturity, Laila Halaby immerses her listeners in the lives, friendships, and loves of girls struggling with national, ethnic, and sexual identities. Mawal is the stable one, living steeped in the security of Palestinian traditions in the West Bank.

L'homme de vos rêves ou la plus grosse erreur de votre vie ? Lorsque la jeune libraire Lea croise un étranger en faisant son jogging, elle devient folle furieuse. Elle insulte le mec, plutôt bien fait de sa personne il faut bien le reconnaître, durant une diatribe d'une minute, fermement convaincue qu'il s'agit de l'un des investisseurs immobiliers qui veulent la chasser de sa boutique et voler l'âme de la petite ville d'Hilton Bay. Mais Bradley Carter, en réalité entrepreneur milliardaire, n'est pas très impressionné.

Drei Frauen verschiedener Generationen, durch das Schicksal miteinander verbunden... Die alte Fran hat einst das Glück kennengelernt, doch mittlerweile ist alles, was ihr geblieben ist, ihre abgelegene Farm - und der Wunsch, einen Menschen zu finden, der ihr Wärme und Hoffnung geben kann. Rachel hingegen hat auf die große Liebe gesetzt und alles verloren: ihren Lebensmut, ihr Selbstbewusstsein, ihr Café.

Ein furchtbares Familiengeheimnis vor der rauen Kulisse der Isle of Wight: Die Schriftstellerin Jane erbt ein altes Cottage auf der Isle of Wight - von Lilly, der stets totgeschwiegenen Schwester ihrer Mutter. Auf der Suche nach Antworten fährt Jane auf die Insel und lernt Lillys Familie und Freunde kennen: den schweigsamen Fischer Neptun, die kauzige, aber warmherzige Emmeline und Marguerite, Lillys verträumte Tochter. Zum ersten Mal in ihrem Leben fühlt sich Jane willkommen und geliebt.

Autumn Stratton has it all. Or so she thinks until she catches her two-timing husband with his pants around his ankles. There is much Autumn can forgive but infidelity isn’t one of them. Since she obviously can’t trust her judgment in men, she decides they are only good for one thing.

Known simply as Savannah, a beautiful face on the covers of glamour magazines, Savannah Graham has the perfect life...or so it seems to the world. Behind closed doors her reality is far from perfect. When a person she should be able to trust threatens her, she returns home to Blue Ridge Valley, the only place she feels safe. The valley is also where he lives, her first and only love.

From USA Today best-selling author Willow Winters comes a seductive and emotionally captivating, second chance romance. It’s impossible to get over what we had. He was everything - irresistibly handsome, ruthlessly elite, and seemingly untouchable - while I was nothing. Yet he protected me when I was at my lowest; more than that, he wanted me. He devoured me… and I did the same to him. Until it all fell apart and I ran as far away from Madox as I could. After all, the two of us were never meant to be together.

When the seafood business Lovie Sweeney established 60 years ago is destroyed by fire, she finds herself at the center of an arson investigation. What really happened that night? Is Lovie responsible for starting the fire, or is her family under attack from a sworn enemy? The loss of their family business leaves the Sweeney clan in flux.

I can't say they didn't warn me. Right now, I realize: I probably should have listened. Because if there's anyone who has no business playing a sport that requires a helmet, pads, and a liability waiver, it's this girl. The same girl who once knocked herself out during a game of backyard baseball. I stepped up to the plate, pulled the bat back a little too far to swing, and clocked myself in the back of the skull. Boom. Lights Out Lucy. That's how I got my roller derby name. So yeah. Maybe I should have known better.

Wedding bells will soon be ringing in the Lowcountry. All Sam Sweeney wants is to marry her man on Christmas Eve surrounded by family and friends. But emerging complications, some humorous and some not so humorous, threaten to converge and derail the best-laid plans during the busy stretch between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

My real estate empire is my life. I don't have time for women and their games. What's the point? They'll be out of my bed before they know it. Except Isabella Gabriel....