Vroege RecensentenSusan Bennett

Some epiphanies are shaped like diamonds, others, like bullets.Isabella Albrici's epiphany begins when her mobster husband, Domenic, frames Isabella and her best friend, Teresa Benedetti, for his diamond smuggling operation. Prime targets for the prison’s resident psychopath, Isabella and Teresa will be lucky to survive jail, even luckier to survive if they get out. Thanks to Domenic, ‘the family’ thinks Isabella is an FBI informant. The big house ain't no fun house, but for Isabella and Teresa, it’s the safest house there is, until the evidence keeping them there suddenly goes missing.For years, these mob wives have lived off the wages of sin, now the path to redemption is clear: they gotta whack their old men.Welcome to the inaugural general meeting of the first chapter of the New Jersey Mob Suffragette’s Whack Club.Salut.

Brilliant heart surgeon Suzette Kendall is stunned when Hyland, her husband of 15 years, admits his yearning for a child. From the beginning they’d decided that having children was not an option, as Suzette feared passing along the genes that landed her mother in a mental institution. But Hyland proposes a different idea: a baby via surrogate. Suzette agrees, and what follows is a whirlwind of candidate selection, hospital visits, and Suzette’s doubts over her right decision. Beautifully shifting between perspectives, The Nearness of You explores the connections we form, the families we create, and the love we hold dear.

Narrated by:Susan Bennett, Pilar Witherspoon Time and again, New York Times bestselling author Karen White has proven herself to be the “ultimate voice of women’s fiction.” Now, you can revisit the beginning of her signature style in two of her earliest novels—completely revised and together in one volume for the first time. In the Shadow of the Moon When Laura Truitt first sees the dilapidated plantation house, she’s overcome by a sense of familiarity. Inside, the owner claims to have been waiting for years and offers an old photograph of a woman with Laura’s face. Soon afterwards, when a lunar eclipse inexplicably thrusts Laura back in time to Civil War Georgia, she finds herself fighting not just for her heart, but for her very survival … Whispers of Goodbye Alone and with nothing left to fear, Catherine deClaire Reed answers her sister’s desperate plea and travels to the cold comfort of her home in Reconstruction Louisiana. But Elizabeth is nowhere to be found. No one—including her husband—has seen her for days. Now, Catherine must search for her sister in a place where secrets wait behind every closed door …