About The Promise of Stardust • Paperback: 416 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (February 5, 2013) Matt Beaulieu was two years old the first time he held Elle McClure in his arms, seventeen when he first kissed her under a sky filled with shooting stars, and thirty-three when they wed. Now in their late […]
Amanda Brooke, author of Yesterday’s Sun, on tour February 2013
About Yesterday’s Sun • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Original edition (February 12, 2013) A suspenseful tale of free will versus fate—an extraordinary story of love and family, and the risks we take to break free from the past Newlyweds Holly and Tom have just moved into their dream home, a charming English carriage house in […]
Ellen Sussman, author of The Paradise Guest House, on tour March/April 2013
About The Paradise Guest House Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books (March 26, 2013) A riveting and poignant novel of one woman’s journey to Bali in search of love, renewal, and a place to call home—perfect for readers of Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love and Alex Garland’s The Beach. It starts as a trip to paradise. Sent […]
Lee Edelstein, author of Chin Music, on tour March 2013
About Chin Music Paperback: 324 pages March 2013 In baseball, “chin music” is a 95 mile-per-hour fastball thrown at a hitter’s chin. It presents two possibilities—disrupting a batter’s concentration or hitting him in the head. As a metaphor in life, chin music is that split second—a phone call in the middle of the night or a visit […]
L. Marie Adeline, author of S.E.C.R.E.T, on tour in February 2013
About S.E.C.R.E.T Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Broadway (February 5, 2013) In S.E.C.R.E.T there are… No Judgments. No limits. No shame. Cassie Robichaud’s life is filled with regret and loneliness after the death of her husband. She waits tables at the rundown Café Rose in New Orleans, and every night she heads home to her solitary one-bedroom apartment. […]
Jennifer Haigh, author of News From Heaven, on tour January/February 2013
About News From Heaven • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: Harper (January 29, 2013) The bestselling author of Faith and The Condition returns with a collection of unforgettable short stories inspired by a Pennsylvania coal-mining town and the people who call it home. When her iconic novel Baker Towers was published in 2005, it was hailed as a modern classic—”compassionate and powerful . […]
Tara Conklin, author of The House Girl, on tour February 2013
About The House Girl • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (February 12, 2013) Two remarkable women, separated by more than a century, whose lives unexpectedly intertwine . . . 2004: Lina Sparrow is an ambitious young lawyer working on an historic class-action lawsuit seeking reparations for the descendants of American slaves. 1852: Josephine is a seventeen-year-old house […]
Jennifer McMahon, author of The One I Left Behind, on tour January 2012
About The One I Left Behind • Paperback: 432 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (January 2, 2013) The summer of 1985 changes Reggie’s life. An awkward thirteen-year-old, she finds herself mixed up with the school outcasts. That same summer, a serial killer called Neptune begins kidnapping women. He leaves their severed hands on the […]
Kevin Lynn Helmick, author of Driving Alone, on tour January/February 2013
About Driving Alone: A Love Story Paperback: 102 pages Publisher: Blank Slate Press (December 1, 2012) Billy Keyhoe’s luck just ran out. After beating his girlfriend to a bloody pulp and being shot at by the clerk of the convenience store he was trying to rob, Billy takes off in his daddy’s beat-up ’66 Caddy leaving Waycross, […]
Wiley Cash, author of A Land More Kind Than Home, on tour January/February 2013
About A Land More Kind Than Home Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (January 22, 2013) In his phenomenal debut novel—a mesmerizing literary thriller about the bond between two brothers and the evil they face in a small North Carolina town—author Wiley Cash displays a remarkable talent for lyrical, powerfully emotional storytelling. For a curious […]