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The Seventh Veil of Salome

The Seventh Veil of Salome
  • Author(s): Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century (Golden Age)

Golden Age Hollywood – a city overflowing with gossip, scandal, and intrigue. Every actress wants to play Salome, the star-making role in a big-budget movie about the legendary temptress. So when the film’s mercurial director casts Vera Larios, an...

The Silent Fountain

The Silent Fountain
  • Author(s): Victoria Fox
  • Location(s): Tuscany, Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1970s and modern

Hollywood, 1975: Tragedy sends troubled film star Vivien Lockhart into the arms of Giovanni Moretti, and it seems her fortunes have finally changed. Until she meets his sister, and learns that dark shadows haunt her new husband’s past… Tuscany, Present...

The Soulmate Equation

The Soulmate Equation
  • Author(s): Christina Lauren
  • Location(s): San Diego
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jess is a numbers genius, but when it comes to love she’s had to accept there is no magic formula. Juggling a career with raising her daughter, it’s not surprising that her love life is. . . non-existent. When...

The Stylist

The Stylist
  • Author(s): Rosie Nixon
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Amber Green loves her job at Smith’s, the exclusive London boutique frequented by the rich, the famous and the stylish – and with stylist to the stars Mona Armstrong as a customer, there is never a dull moment. With...

The Summer I Met Jack

The Summer I Met Jack
  • Author(s): Michelle Gable
  • Location(s): Hollywood, Hyannis Port, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

New York Times bestselling author imagines the affair between John F. Kennedy and Alicia Corning Clark – and the child they may have had. Based on a real story – in 1950, a young, beautiful Polish refugee arrives in...

The Switch Up: L. A. Exchange

The Switch Up: L. A. Exchange
  • Author(s): Katy Cannon
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

WILLA Film director LA insider Impulsive Looks like Alice ALICE Eco warrior LA tourist Cautious Looks like Willa Alice can’t wait to visit Willa in LA – home of Hollywood, where dreams come true. Their plan is to explore...

The Tortilla Curtain

The Tortilla Curtain
  • Author(s): T C Boyle
  • Location(s): Southern California
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher lead an ordered sushi-and-recycling existence in a newly gated hilltop community: he a sensitive nature writer, she an obsessive realtor. Mexican...

The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

The Two Lives of Lydia Bird
  • Author(s): Josie Silver
  • Location(s): Paris, Croatia, London, Los Angeles, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lydia and Freddie. Freddie and Lydia. They’d been together for more than a decade, and Lydia thought their love was indestructible. But she was wrong. On her twenty-eighth birthday, Freddie died in a car accident. So now it’s just...

The Unfolding

The Unfolding
  • Author(s): Jeehan Quijano
  • Location(s): The Philippines, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Unfolding traces the return from Los Angeles of Benjamin, the son of an indigent farm worker, who escaped the poverty of his hometown, San Jacinto, with the help of the seemingly benevolent Don Rafael. Drawn back to his...

The Vacation

The Vacation
  • Author(s): John Marrs
  • Location(s): Venice Beach (LA)
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Longlisted for the 2022 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, The Vacation is a compulsive, holiday-set thriller from John Marrs, the author of The One, now a Netflix Original Series. How far would you run to escape your past? Venice...

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