Showing results for "The Willows" in Contemporary Fiction

Rose Gregory has suffered a devastating blow, a double bereavement from which months later she is still reeling. Sanctuary and rest are prescribed by her doctor. But when she arrives at her refuge, a dank and decaying monastery, she finds it is not the haven promised. Despite the veneer of calm contemplation, the monastery turns out to be a hotbed of intrigue and disharmony. Rose witnesses bullying and cruelty and ultimately in defence of the vulnerable turns to violence herself.

Clarissa Gatz is an all American girl who falls in love with an all American boy. Life is perfect. Until a letter, a secret, and the man in the shadows burn her perfect world down to the ground. In the whispers of the wind her destiny calls. Who holds the key to her soul? What lies on the reservation? Who will bring the light into the darkness?

Paisley is ready to go: graduation, summer, and then she’s off to college. That is, until the mysterious new stranger in town named Beacon stops her dead in her tracks. Beacon blows her mind and it isn’t long before he’s got her blowing off her plans, too. But when catastrophe strikes - twice - can she defend her beautiful man against the people who want him gone? Or is Beacon really the bad boy that everybody warned her about?

London's luxurious Hotel du Barry has been left unscathed by WWI, and the party has just begun: tainted love, murderous desires and gin - it's The Grand Budapest Hotel with a dash of Gatsby. When a laughing baby is found amongst the Hotel du Barry's billowing sheets, tucked up in an expensive pair of ladies' bloomers and neatly pegged to the laundry line, the hotel staff resolve to keep the child.

Madison Miller has everything – beautiful, talented and just a little bit naïve; she’s the small-town girl who swept to victory on America’s hottest talent show to become the nation’s sweetheart. She’s also head-over-heels in love with the man who’d masterminded her career – the head-spinningly powerful, lethally attractive Brett Silverman. But there’s trouble in paradise…Jess has bolted from her approaching wedding and a dead-end job in London to chase dreams of being a fashion designer in New York.