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 […]
Margot Berwin, author of Scent of Darkness, on tour February 2013
About Scent of Darkness • Hardcover: 240 pages • Publisher: Pantheon (January 29, 2013) In Margot Berwin’s hotly anticipated second novel she takes us somewhere darker, deep into the bayous of Louisiana, to a world of fortune-tellers, soothsayers, and potent elixirs: a magical, seductive story about the power of scent–and what happens when a perfume renders a […]
Susan McBride, author of The Truth About Love and Lightning, on tour February 2013
About The Truth About Love and Lightning • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (February 12, 2013) The Truth About Love and Lighting is a deliciously emotional story of family, forgiveness, love, and magic from Susan McBride. A lie that Gretchen Brink told 40 years ago comes back to haunt her when a tornado […]
Susan Speranza, author of The Tale of Lucia Grandi, on tour March 2013
About The Tale of Lucia Grandi • Paperback: 426 pages • Publisher: Brook House Press (October 20, 2012) When an old woman is asked to recount the story of her life, she tells an intense and poignant tale about growing up in and surviving a warring suburban family during the 1950s and ’60s. Written as a memoir, each chapter […]
Megan Caldwell, author of Vanity Fare, on tour December 2012/January 2013
About Vanity Fare • Paperback: 416 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (December 26, 2012) Molly Hagan is overwhelmed. Her husband left her for a younger, blonder woman; her six-year-old son is questioning her authority, and now so is she. In order to pay her Brooklyn rent and keep her son supplied with Pokémon and […]