Showing results by publisher "Random House Audio" in Women's Fiction

Leah has been waiting for this moment a long time: Her boyfriend, Ollie, is taking her to his family’s home on Seneca Lake for a week of lazy summer bliss, boating, and barbeque. The couple have been together four years, and Leah is convinced that Ollie is finally going to pop the question. Leah can’t wait to share the joyous news with her best friend, June, who is joining them on their getaway. Seven years later, the moment June has been dreading has finally arrived: Her fiancé, Ollie, is taking her to his family’s lake house.

Simone Singh is a feisty IPS officer who would rather spend her days locking up criminals than apologizing for her lack of social skills. Freshly back from an unjust suspension, Simone is forced to team up with DSP Zoya Bharucha, an empathetic officer who's as loved in the police force as Simone is shunned. Tasked with hunting the Doll Maker—who dresses up her victims as pretty Barbie dolls and displays them in glass cases—both must set aside their differences and work together as one team.

To Hawk O'Toole, she was a pawn in a desperate gamble to help his people. To Miranda Price, he was a stranger who'd done the unthinkable: kidnapped her and her young son off a train full of sight-seeing vacationers. Now, held hostage on a distant reservation for reasons she cannot at first fathom, Miranda finds herself battling a captor who is by turns harsh and tender, mysteriously aloof and dangerously seductive.

Kaveri is 30; single; knows seven languages; is an interpreter by profession; has read all the books about men and how to get a date. Yet she has not been able to figure out the language of love. Since the the one great love of her life has eluded her for 30 years and might never show up, she decides to take matters into her own hands. On her 30th birthday, she makes a resolution - love or no love, she is going to lose her virginity. Life, however, has other plans!

Ein unvergesslicher Sommer in den Sixties mit zwei Frauen, die nach der Freiheit greifen. New York, 1960. Als Marilyn Kleinman beim Knutschen mit dem Sohn des Rabbiners erwischt wird, schicken ihre Eltern sie den Sommer über zu ihrer Großtante Ada. Wenn irgendjemand den Ruf ihrer Tochter retten kann, dann ist es Philadelphias führende Heiratsvermittlerin. Zu Marilyns Überraschung ist Ada nicht die humorlose Siebzigjährige, die ihre Mutter beschrieben hat. Ada trägt platinblondes Haar, einen Hermès-Schal und fährt Cadillac.

Television producer Brin Cassidy was throwing the biggest dinner party of her life. And with everything in utter chaos, who should show up unannounced on her doorstep but her handsome estranged husband, Jon Riley. Brin had not only worked with the popular star of Riley in the Morning, she had fallen in love with and married him. She knew she owed Riley an explanation for why she walked out. But did he have to come on this of all nights? Temperamental, charismatic, and devastatingly blue-eyed, Riley was a man who knew what he wanted, and he wasn’t leaving until he got it.

Plain, soft-spoken Nell Calder isn't the type of woman to inspire envy, lust - or murderous passions. Until one night on an exotic island in the Aegean Sea, at an elegant gathering that should have cemented her husband's glorious career in finance, the unimaginable happens...and Nell's life is shattered by a spray of bullets and the razor edge of a blade.Though badly hurt, Nell emerges from the nightmare a woman transformed. Delicate surgery gives her an exquisitely beautiful face, and rehabilitation gives her a strong, lithe body. Nicholas Tanek, a mysterious stranger who compels both fear and fascination, gives her a reason to go on living: revenge - at any price.With his shadowy past and more secrets than Nell could ever imagine, Tanek knows far more about the attack than he's willing to confess. Yet when he divulges the identity of her assailant, he makes the biggest mistake of his life. For as Nicholas gets closer to his quarry, he'll find his carefully laid plans jeopardized at every turn by a bold woman daring to strike out on her own. And Nell will find her mission imperiled by Tanek - a temptation to which she cannot afford to surrender.

Sicily Coyne was just thirteen when her father was killed in a school fire that left her face disfigured. Twelve years later, a young surgeon, Eliza Cappadora, offers hope in the form of a revolutionary new surgery that may give Sicily back the grace and function she lost. Raised by a dynamic, tenacious aunt who taught her to lead a normal life, and engaged to a wonderful man who knew her long before the accident, Sicily rejects the offer: She knows who she is, and so do the people who love her.

Ein Haus. Neun Fremde. Zehn Tage, die alles verändern werden... In einem abgelegenen Ressort versammeln sich neun Menschen, die sich noch nie zuvor begegnet sind. Fünf Frauen und vier Männer, die eins gemeinsam haben: Jeder von ihnen steht an einem Punkt in seinem Leben, an dem klar ist, so kann es nicht mehr weitergehen. Frances, beispielsweise, ist einem Heiratsschwindler zum Opfer gefallen. Tony ist ehemaliger Footballstar und nun übergewichtig. Oder Carmel, die vierfache Mutter wurde von ihrem Mann verlassen. Im Luxus des Wellness-Komforts kommen Geheimnisse ans Licht.

Julia Summers seems to have it all: a sprawling Upper East Side apartment, a successful husband, and two adorable children attending the best private school in the city. She relishes wielding influence over her well-heeled girlfriends...but her star appears to be fading. That’s why, when stranded in Manhattan for the summer as her entire crowd flees to the Hamptons, Julia is on the hunt for the next big thing that will make her the envy of her friends and put her back on top.

Once inseparable, Berlin teenagers Ilse Fischer and Renate Bauer find their friendship ripped apart by their nation’s abrupt swing into fascism. Ilse, a so-called Aryan, throws her lot in with the Nazi Party, while Renate sees her once-secure world dismantled by Adolf Hitler's race laws and then shattered by a shocking betrayal. Decades later, that same betrayal will upend the life of Ilse's daughter, Ava, as she discovers long-buried truths about her mother's past.

Three years after her husband Max's death, Shelley feels no more adjusted to being a widow than she did that first terrible day. That is, until the doorbell rings. Standing on her front step is a young man who looks so much like Max—same smile, same eyes, same age, same adorable bump in his nose—he could be Max's long-lost relation. He introduces himself as Paolo, an Italian editor of American coffee table books, and shows Shelley some childhood photos. Paolo tells her that the man in the photos, the bearded man who Paolo says is his grandfather though he never seems to age, is Max. Her Max.

Ein Paar Seidenstrümpfe für etwas Schokolade - Sehnsüchte im Deutschland der Nachkriegszeit. München 1945 - auf dem Schwarzmarkt treffen sich alle, die nach Glück und ein wenig Leben suchen. Schmuck, Strumpfhosen, Schokolade und vieles mehr wechseln die Besitzer. Der Schwarzmarkt verbindet auch Toni und Griet, zwei junge Frauen, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten. Zunächst spüren die beiden eine tiefe Abneigung, aber durch ein schicksalhaftes Erlebnis erkennen sie, wie wichtig sie füreinander sein können.

This is the story of a woman in search of herself, in every sense. When we first meet Ruby, a Métis woman in her thirties, her life is spinning out of control. She’s angling to sleep with her counselor while also rekindling an old relationship she knows will only bring more heartache. But as we soon learn, Ruby’s story is far more complex than even she can imagine.

Was, wenn die Liebe alle Schranken durchbricht? Hamburg 1936. Die junge Sophie Terhoven, Tochter eines einflussreichen Kaffeebarons, genießt ihr komfortables Leben. Hannes Kröger, der Sohn der Köchin, ist ihr von Kindheit an Freund und Vertrauter. Irgendwann verändern sich ihre Gefühle füreinander, und plötzlich wird ihnen klar, dass sie sich ineinander verliebt haben. Doch Reich und Arm gehören nicht zusammen, und ein dunkles Geheimnis ihrer Eltern, von dem sie bisher nichts wussten, scheint ihre Liebe unmöglich zu machen.

The intrepid women of The Hot Flash Club are back for the holidays, soothing jingled nerves and stressed shoppers in their exclusive spa and celebrating the joys of the season. In her witty and delightfully wisecracking prose, Nancy Thayer tells a heartwarming tale packed with fun, secrets, romance, and an ample dose of good cheer.

In the five years since Julia last visited her aunt and uncle’s home in Malibu, her life has been turned upside down by her daughter’s death. She expects to find nothing more than peace and solitude as she house-sits with only her dog, Bonnie, for company. But she finds herself drawn to the handsome man who oversees the lemon orchard. Roberto expertly tends the trees, using the money to support his extended Mexican family. What connection could these two people share? The answer comes as Roberto reveals the heartbreaking story of his own loss – a pain Julia knows all too well, but for one striking difference: Roberto’s daughter was lost but never found. And despite the odds he cannot bear to give up hope.

Ein Paar Seidenstrümpfe für etwas Schokolade - Sehnsüchte im Deutschland der Nachkriegszeit. München 1945 - auf dem Schwarzmarkt treffen sich alle, die nach Glück und ein wenig Leben suchen. Schmuck, Strumpfhosen, Schokolade und vieles mehr wechseln die Besitzer. Der Schwarzmarkt verbindet auch Toni und Griet, zwei junge Frauen, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten. Zunächst spüren die beiden eine tiefe Abneigung, aber durch ein schicksalhaftes Erlebnis erkennen sie, wie wichtig sie füreinander sein können. Es ist der Beginn einer tiefen Freundschaft, die schon bald auf eine harte Probe gestellt wird.

Reeling from an unexpected betrayal, can Sylvia find relief from the echoes of her past...or will they shape her future forever? Although Sylvia Fisher recognizes that most Old Order Amish women her age spend their hours managing a household and raising babies, she has just one focus - tending and nurturing the herd on her family’s dairy farm. But when a dangerous connection with an old beau forces her to move far from home, she decides to concentrate on a new start and pour her energy into reviving another family’s debt-ridden farm.

"Ich habe getan, was Diebe tun. Ich habe dich gestohlen..." Was für Cecelia Horner wie ein langweiliges Jahr begann, entwickelte sich zum Sommer ihres Lebens, nachdem sie Sean, Dominic und die Bruderschaft der Raben kennengelernt hat. Doch mit der Rückkehr von Tobias, dem Anführer der Gruppe, endet ihr neu gewonnenes Glück jäh. Dem gefährlichen Franzosen ist Cecelia ein Dorn im Auge, denn sie könnte seine lange geschmiedeten Rachepläne durchkreuzen. Cecelia wiederum hat allen Grund Tobias für das, was er ihr angetan hat, zu hassen.