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- Location(s): Texas, California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
She will discover the best of herself in the worst of times . . . Texas, 1934. Elsa Martinelli had finally found the life she’d yearned for. A family, a home and a livelihood on a farm on the...
- Location(s): Bel Air, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
In an upscale Bel Air property, two lovers are found dead in a swimming pool. The man is the playboy heir to a business empire, and the woman is his even wealthier married neighbour. An illicit affair is the...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 19th century
It’s the end of the nineteenth century in San Francisco’s Chinatown, and ghost hunters from the Maoshan traditions of Daoism keep malevolent spiritual forces at bay. Li-lin, the daughter of a renowned Daoshi exorcist, is a young widow burdened...
- Location(s): Warsaw, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s / 2000s
Los Angeles, 2005. Sienna Hayes, Hollywood’s latest It Girl, has ambitions to work behind the camera. When she meets Lena Browning, the enormously mysterious and famous Golden Age movie star, Sienna sees her big break. She wants to direct...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
As far as Benjamin Braddock’s parents are concerned, his future is sewn up. Now he has graduated from college, he will go to Yale or Harvard, get a good job and enjoy a life of money, cocktails and pool...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s (post WW2)
AN ESQUIRE BEST BOOK OF SUMMER In 1945, Charlie Trammell steps off a cross-country train into the vibrant tapestry of Los Angeles. Lured by his cousin Marguerite’s invitation to the esteemed West Adams Heights, Charlie is immediately captivated by...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
Outraged by her grandfather’s illicit affair with Empire Pictures’ latest femme fatale, Roxanne Granville forsakes her position as Hollywood royalty and rejects the man who raised her, determined to strike out on her own in McCarthy-era California. Backed by...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Offered a dream job in Hollywood with a famous director and his actress wife, an insecure woman becomes their personal assistant where their secrets and lies place her in the crosshairs of a murder investigation. Cassidy Foster is heartbroken,...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
Hollywood, 1937 Hester Carlyle has no wish to look after the pampered offspring of the rich anymore, in spite of being a highly sought-after governess. But with her elderly father frail, and the roof of their rundown cottage in...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): RomCom
There’s a very particular reason why Chloe Sinclair has not met her Mr Right – he doesn’t exist. And he doesn’t exist because he was never born. And the reason he was never born is because the right couples...
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