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Jerusalem Ablaze: Stories of Love and Other Obsessions
- Location(s): Los Angeles, Israel, Québec, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
In Jerusalem’s Old City a young priest and a dominatrix converse in the dying light; on Oregon’s windswept coast a fragile woman discovers a body washed up on the beach after a storm; and in Postwar Japan a young...
- Location(s): Los Angeles, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1919, 1945, 1965
One beautiful dress is the key to three brave women’s destinies… France 1919: Jessie is celebrating the last heady days of her honeymoon. But when her husband suddenly disappears she finds herself bereft. Until a chance encounter thrusts her...
- Location(s): La Jolla, Southern California
- Genre(s): Horror, Fiction, Gothic
- Era(s): Contemporary
From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother’s unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty. Can she escape her...
- Location(s): San Diego
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): 1970s looking back a century
Matheson’s classic novel tells the moving, romantic story of a modern man whose love for a woman he has never met draws him back in time to a luxury hotel in San Diego in 1896, where he finds his...
- Location(s): Hampstead, Los Angeles, Mexico, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s / 2000s
One winter’s afternoon on Hampstead Heath in 1980, Elise Morceau meets Constance Holden and quickly falls under her spell. Connie is bold and alluring, a successful writer whose novel is being turned into a major Hollywood film. Elise follows...
- Location(s): Los Angeles, East Lothian, Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Moving from North Berwick in East Lothian, Scotland, to Edinburgh and off to the States, Roy tells of his lifelong obsession with film. Roy is a film fan. He loves the cinema. What happened that turned his world inside...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 1939
World-weary Jonathan Craine is a detective at the LAPD who has spent his entire career as a studio ‘fixer’, covering up crimes of the studio players to protect the billion-dollar industry that built Los Angeles. When one of the...
- Location(s): London, Cornwall, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Grace Adams is one bad day away from saving her life. One hot summer day, stuck in traffic on her way to pick up the cake for her daughter’s sixteenth birthday party, Grace Adams snaps. She doesn’t scream or...
- Location(s): San Diego
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
At first glance, twenty-one-year-old Jan Weston has it all: a gorgeous boyfriend, fun friends, and wealthy parents who take care of all those pesky credit card bills. Then her boyfriend dumps her, her friendships fall apart, and her parents...
- Location(s): Los Angeles, New Mexico, Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1970s
In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he’ll find action – and profit – by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go...
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