MARY ALICE MONROE

New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe's Southern-set classic Beach House Memories, the sequel to The Beach House, now a Hallmark Channel movie starring Andie MacDowell! Autumn brings haunting beauty to the sun-soaked dunes on Isle of Palms, where Olivia -Lovie- Rutledge lives in her beloved Primrose Cottage. As the seasons change, Lovie remembers one special summer... In 1974, America is changing, but Charleston remains eternally the same. When Lovie married aristocratic, well-connected businessman Stratton Rutledge, she turned over her fortune and fate to his control. But she refused to relinquish one thing: her family's old seaside cottage. Precious summers with her children on the barrier island are Lovie's refuge from social expectations and her overbearing husband's philandering. Here, she is the -Turtle Lady, - tending the loggerhead turtles that lay their eggs in the warm night sand and then slip back into the sea. Then, in the summer of '74, biologist Russell Bennett visits to research the loggerheads. Their shared interest brings them together, and soon it blooms into a passionate, profound love--forcing Lovie to face an agonizing decision. Stratton's influence is far-reaching, and if she dares to dream beyond a summer affair, she risks losing her reputation, her wealth, even her children. This emotional tale of a strong woman torn between duty and desire, between tradition and change, is an empowering journey through the seasons of self-discovery. Until this autumn, this time of winds and tides, of holding on and letting go...

This first installment in a new contemporary series from beloved New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe centers around Marietta Colson Muir, a dowager of Charleston society who has retired to her historic summer home on Sullivans Island called Conquest. At the onset of summer, Marietta, for her eighty-fifth birthday, seeks to gather the last of her familythree granddaughters: Carson, Eudora, and Harperwith the intent to reunite them after years of separation.

La enfermera de urgencias Ella Majors ya había visto todas las desgracias que podía aguantar su corazón y se sentía insegura de qué camino tomar. Finalmente decidió aceptar el trabajo de cuidar a Marion Henderson, una atemorizada niña de cinco años que sufria diabetes infantil. Ella no tardo en descubrir que en aquella casa habia mas tristeza que la provocada por la enfermedad de la pequeña. Su padre, Harris Henderson, parecia mas capaz de relacionarse con los pajaros heridos a los que curaba que con su hija. Entonces ocurrio algo magico: la belleza eterna de la costa de Carolina del Sur y los maravillosos pajaros salvajes lanzaron un hechizo curativo sobre los corazones heridos de aquella casa. Pero el inesperado regreso de la madre de Marion iba a poner a prueba el fragil vinculo de confianza y amor...

A primera vista no era más que un club de lectura, pero para aquellas mujeres se trataba de algo mucho más preciado: la oportunidad de compartir sus esperanzas, miedos...

Charlotte Godowski estaba acostumbrada a que la gente la mirara con horror y, con los años, había llegado a aceptar la deformidad de su rostro… Hasta que un cruel incidente la obligó a enfrentarse a