Bücher von Barbara Delinsky

From America's beloved storyteller, Barbara Delinsky, comes two classic novels of unexpected romance that are sure to warm your heart...HEAT WAVEIt's a steamy summer night in Georgetown, and Caroline Cooper is feeling the heat--in more ways than one. Her job, her family, her love life: everything's reached a boiling point and Caroline needs to cool off. But when she opens her apartment windowfor air, she finds herselfstaring at one very hot neighbor on the fire escape across the courtyard. He's tall, dark, handsome--and as scantily clad as she is. With fifty feet of night separating them, it's fun to fantasize. But when she finally meets Brendon up-close...that's when things really heat up.A SPECIAL SOMETHINGShe's seen him in magazines. Impossiblygood-looking.Jaw-droppingly sexy. He's the most stunning male model Lesliehas ever seen. So when her wealthy brother asks what she wants for her birthday, Leslie points to the man in the ad and says, "him." Kidding, of course. But the joke is on her when she shows up at her brother's villa and finds him. Her fantasy man. In the flesh. Hired to keep Leslie company onanisland retreat, Oliver Ames is nothing like the picture-perfect model she imagined. He's better. Because he's real--and he's really falling for her...

New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky captivates with a riveting story of marriage, friendship, and desperate actsThe picturesque vacation home on the coast of Maine was meant to be a healing retreat for Danica Lindsay and her husband, Blake?a place where they could mend the wounds of their strained marriage and rekindle their love. Instead, Danica finds herself mostly there alone while Blake stays back in Boston, consumed by his career and rapidly rising political star. Were it not for the companionship of her new neighbor, Michael Buchanan, Danica would be overcome by loneliness and despair.But a friendship that is warm and uplifting is slowly transforming into something less innocent. For the first time in Danica's life, a chance for genuine happiness may be in her reach. But how can she grab on to it when she remains another man's wife, bound by her vows to a marriage plagued by doubt and pain . . . and by secrets so shocking an entire nation will take notice?Gripping and emotionally charged, Within Reach demonstrates the masterful storytelling that readers have come to expect from Barbara Delinsky.

"Heather Malone has made her home in Lake Henry for the last fourteen years. When she is suddenly arrested by the FBI and charged with a murder in California some years back, the locals are bewildered about the past of this well-loved woman. Poppy Blake is Heather's closest friend. She has worked hard to rebuild her life since a snowmobile accident confined her to a wheelchair. However, it is her guilt over past mistakes, more than her present disability, which is holding her back"--Amazon.com.

Grace Dorian is The Confidante, America's favorite advice columnist. Her wisdom has helped to guide two generations?including her daughter, Francine, and granddaughter, Sophie, who manage the vast Dorian empire and oversee the thousand details of Grace's world.But a national treasure is losing her brilliance. Her once razor-sharp mind is showing strain; her columns have begun to wander. Concerned about Grace's health and future, Francine must step in to fill her legendary mother's shoes and somehow also live her own life?which now suddenly includes her confusing feelings for Grace's handsome doctor and new worries about tempestuous Sophie, who needs more guidance than Grace's public.Shades of Grace is a touching and heartfelt story in which love and devotion are put to the ultimate test?a classic from New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky.

While researching background on the lives of Maine lobster fishermen's families for her recent novel The Summer I Dared, best-selling novelist Barbara Delinsky was captivated by all the interesting, amusing, and surprising information she turned up. She collected much of it in this little book, arranged in an entertaining question and answer format. She will be donating her proceeds to the Barbara Delinsky Charitable Foundation for Breast Cancer Research.