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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 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 Violet Hour

The Violet Hour
  • Author(s): James Cahill
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): Mid-2010s

Thomas Haller has achieved the kind of fame that most artists only dream of: shows in London and New York, paintings sold for a fortune. The vision he presents to the world is one of an untouchable genius at...

Typewriter Beach

Typewriter Beach
  • Author(s): Meg Waite Clayton
  • Location(s): Carmel-by-the-Sea, Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1957/2018

Set in Carmel-by-the-Sea and Hollywood, Typewriter Beach is an unforgettable story of the unlikely friendship between an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and a young actress hoping to be Alfred Hitchcock’s new star. 1957. Isabella Giori is ten months into a standard...

Valley of the Dolls

Valley of the Dolls
  • Author(s): Jacqueline Susann
  • Location(s): Hollywood, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1960s

Before Jackie Collins, Candace Bushnell and Lena Dunham, Jacqueline Susann held the world rapt with her tales of the private passions of Hollywood starlets, high-powered industrialists and the jet-set. Valley of the Dolls took the world by storm when...

When I was Alice

When I was Alice
  • Author(s): Jennifer Murgia
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery, Time Slip
  • Era(s): 1953 and present day.

Grace Brighton climbs up the top of the Hollywood Sign in Los Angeles to make an important wish but instead falls and, rendered unconscious, wakes up in 1953 where everyone believes that she is emerging film star, Alice Montgomery....

While We Were Dating

While We Were Dating
  • Author(s): Jasmine Guillory
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Can a Hollywood romance work in the real world? Ben Stephens has never been one to mix business and pleasure, but when he lands a huge ad campaign featuring movie star, Anna Gardiner, and it turns out she’s as...

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