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Romance, gossip, and murder upend a California town in this "intelligent, page-turning read" from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Diary (Booklist).It isn't easy to watch your daughter marry a man who's twice her age, but Samantha Kiley holds her tongue. Wes seems like a good man, and it doesn't hurt that he's also a billionaire. She has no idea that she will soon be caught up in a May–December affair of her own that will set tongues wagging in the idyllic small town of show more Carson Springs.
When Sam, a widow, becomes involved with Wes's son, who is fifteen years her junior, it sends tremors through the Kiley family and their small town. But gossip isn't the most dangerous thing in Carson Springs: This peaceful place is about to be rocked by murder.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Eileen Goudge including rare photos from the author's personal collection.
Stranger in Paradise is the 1st book in the Carson Springs Novels, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
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This is the kind of book that just makes you feel all warm and cozy. Lovely story, interesting sub plots, and wonderfully written characters that you want to follow through the series. It will make you wish you lived in Carson Springs.
Excellent read! Loved the characters. Learned to live your life now and not worry about everyone else.
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Eileen Goudge was born July 4, 1950 and grew up in the San Francisco bay area. She began writing at the age of eight. At eighteen, she dropped out of college, ran off with a man dodging the draft, and got married. Two years later, she was divorced, with a baby, and had to go on welfare. She decided to become a professional writer, started writing show more non-stop and managed to sell a few articles. In the early eighties, she was chosen to help launch a new line of teen romances, which became the successful Sweet Valley High series. She now had enough money to end another bad marriage and move to New York City with her two children. She continued to write the Sweet Valley High titles while working on a novel. Her first novel, Garden of Lies, was sold in 1986 to Viking for nearly one million dollars. Since then, she has written over thirty novels for young adults and over ten works of women's fiction. Her other works include Thorns of Truth, The Diary, and Once in a Blue Moon. Her title The Diary is a New York Times bestseller. (Bowker Author Biography) Eileen Goudge is the author of "The New York Times" bestseller "One Last Dance", & "The Second Silence" as well as "Garden of Lies", "Thorns of Truth", "Trail of Secrets", "Such Devoted Sisters", & "Blessing in Disguise". She lives in New York City. (Publisher Provided) show less
Eileen Goudge is a LibraryThing Author, an author who lists their personal library on LibraryThing.
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- Canonical title
- Stranger in Paradise
- People/Characters
- Samantha Kiley; Bethany Wells (Finch); Ian Carpenter; Alice Kiley Carpenter; Wes Carpenter; Laura Kiley (show all 8); Hector; Maude
- Important places
- Carson Springs, California, USA; New York, New York, USA
- Epigraph
- Whereupon she grew round-wombed, and had indeed, sir, a son for her cradle ere she had a husband for her bed. Do you smell a fault?
--William Shakespeare, King Lear - Dedication
- To Jim, the other man I wake up to in the morning.
- First words
- She chose a seat in the back of the bus so as not to draw attention to herself, a girl just shy of sixteen who could have fit the description on any one of a hundred missing person posters: 5 feet 7 inches, brown hair, brown ... (show all)eyes.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)For better or worse.
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