About Playing Dead Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books; Original edition (May 29, 2012) “Dear Tommie: Have you ever wondered about who you are?” . The letter that turns Tommie McCloud’s world upside down arrives from a stranger only days after her father’s death. The woman who wrote it claims that Tommie is her daughter–and that she […]
Nikki Gemmell, author of With My Body, on tour June 2012
About With My Body • Paperback:480 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (June 19, 2012) A wife, a mother of three, she has everything a woman should want—and yet she has gone numb inside. Locked in a never-ending cycle of chores, errands, and mealtimes, she cannot find a way to live her life with the honesty […]
Bianca Zander, author of The Girl Below, on tour June/July 2012
About The Girl Below • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (June 19, 2012) Suki Piper is a stranger in her hometown. . . . After ten years in New Zealand, Suki returns to London, to a city that won’t let her in. However, a chance visit with Peggy—an old family friend who […]
Elizabeth Crane, author of We Only Know So Much, on tour June 2012
About We Only Know So Much • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (June 12, 2012) Jean Copeland, an emotionally withdrawn wife and mother of two, has taken a secret lover—only to lose him in a moment of tragedy that leaves her reeling. Her husband, Gordon, is oblivious, distracted by the fear that he’s losing […]
Jyotsna Sreenivasan, author of And Laughter Fell From the Sky, on tour June/July 2012
About And Laughter Fell From the Sky • Paperback:336 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (June 19, 2012) Still living at home despite a good career and financial independence, beautiful and sophisticated Rasika has always been the dutiful daughter. With her twenty-sixth birthday fast approaching, she agrees to an arranged marriage, all while trying to […]
Alafair Burke, author of Never Tell, on tour June/July 2012
About Never Tell • Hardcover: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper (June 19, 2012) Sixteen-year-old Julia Whitmire appeared to have everything: a famous father, a luxurious Manhattan town house, a coveted spot at the elite Casden prep school. When she is found dead in her bathtub, a handwritten suicide note left on her bed, her parents insist that their daughter […]
Jean Reynolds Page, author of Safe Within, on tour June 2012
About Safe Within • Paperback:352 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (June 12, 2012) Elaine and Carson Forsyth have returned to the tree house—Elaine’s childhood home, a cabin nestled high in the branches of two oaks beside a North Carolina lake—where forty-nine-year-old Carson has chosen to spend the waning days of his life. […]
Zoe Fishman, author of Saving Ruth, on tour May/June 2012
About Saving Ruth • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (May 1, 2012) When Ruth returns home to the South for the summer after her freshman year at college, a near tragedy pushes her to uncover family truths and take a good look at the woman she wants to become. Growing up in Alabama, all […]
Lois Leveen, author of The Secrets of Mary Bowser, on tour May 2012
About The Secrets of Mary Bowser • Paperback: 496 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (May 15, 2012) Based on a remarkable true story, The Secrets of Mary Bowser is an inspiring tale of one daring woman’s willingness to sacrifice her own freedom to change the course of history All her life, Mary has been […]
Irina Lopatina, author of White Raven: The Sword of Northern Ancestors, on tour August 2012
About White Raven • Paperback: 378 pages • Publisher: Light Messages Publishing; First edition (July 30, 2012) In the kingdom of Areya, humans, animals, and the magical creatures that inhabit the Eternal Forest have long coexisted peacefully, but now something is horribly wrong. A terrifying stream of monstrous creatures has begun to emerge from the secret depths of the earth, terrorizing all […]