Bücher von Josie Brown

IN THE THIRD AND FINAL INSTALLMENT OF THE EXTRACURRICULAR SERIES:A tragic death catalyzes a power play for control of Ashbury Academy's trustee board. Daniel's covert actions, however, have Audrey questioning his vow to protect Lavinia's legacy at the school.The arrests resulting in the FBI's investigation into Miranda's college admissions fraud bring tragedy to some of the families involved, and unexpected opportunities to others.Can Ashbury Academy survive this scandal?An even bigger question:Will Audrey's marriage-and her family-fall apart after her long-held secret is finally revealed?¿¿PRAISE FOR EXTRACURRICULAR - BOOK 3:"The final installment of the Extracurricular series is an emotional rollercoaster that will leave you sitting on the edge of your seat, flipping pages until the sweet, satisfying end.Never before have I started a book with tears in my eyes as I have with this book, only to have my heart ripped out again and again.Just when I think there will be no hope for anyone in this story to find happiness again, or justice to be served.... Well, you'll have to read the book to find out who gets their just desserts and who doesn't.Let me just say, Ms. Brown didn't disappoint. This is a very timely story given today's headlines with the subject of college admissions scandals. Ms. Brown gives a glimpse into the mentality of desperate parents, privileged parents, and more."-Gail Chianese, author, Love Runs Deep

In a world filled with Starbucks, E!, designer water, and reality T.V., is it any wonder that pop culture icons are invading our dreams? With insightful humor (a sure sign that the only thing implanted in her cheek is her tongue), author Josie Brown explains dream symbolism in terms that any young, hip woman can readily comprehend. What does it mean to dream of Paris (France), Paris (Hilton), Prada, blogging, bridesmaids, and more? Josie can tell you. Part dream dictionary, part relationship guide, part fashion fantasy, Last Night I Dreamt of Cosmopolitans taps into its readers' subconscious, unraveling their slumber-induced musings on love, lust, cocktails, and of course, designer shoes.

It's your child's senior year. A private high school's reputation is at stake. Students have only one more shot at the SAT before college applications are due. A few desperate parents with much more money than brains are willing to do anything to get their children into Ivy League colleges.And Audrey Thorpe's dirty little secret will soon be the downfall of everyone and everything she holds dear: love, family, friends, and her private high school alma mater.In the Extracurricular episodic trilogy, a dark family secret leads to a college admissions cheating scandal at a private school, setting off a crisis of conscience for the parents, teachers, administrator, and the students involved-and a catharsis for one couple about their marriage.PRAISE FOR THE EXTRACURRICULAR TRILOGY:"Delicious, hilarious, and addictive, Extracurricular has all the hallmarks of a classic Josie Brown book: fleshed-out, juicy characters, a to-die-for plot, and a ripped-from-the-headlines premise. I absolutely loved it" - Samantha M. Bailey, Woman on the Edge"Romance and intrigue, and a pace that doesn't let up. Josie Brown brings it." -Eileen Goudge, Garden of Stones and The Diary"Master storyteller of the competitively elite, Totlandia's Josie Brown graduates from strollers and playgroups to the high stakes game of college admissions in this captivating tale of trickery, deceit, and unrequited love. A+++!" -Julie Valerie, Holly Banks Full of Angst"Sharp, smart, and sexy, Brown's timely new series about the cut-throat world of college admissions is a must-read." Meredith Schorr, The Boyfriend Swap"Ripped from the headlines, Extracurricular delivers the perfect summer read on just how far some people will go, no matter the cost, to get exactly what they want." You're going to love it." -Jen Tucker, The Day I Wore My Panties Inside Out"An emotional rollercoaster that will leave you at the end of your seat, flipping pages until the sweet, satisfying ending." -Gail Chianese, Love Runs Deep

When two hot, haute heroines team up to solve a murder, neither can afford to be fashionably late. No one expected to find a dead girl in the Royal Suite at the Babylon's posh London club. Who would kill her? And why? With little to go on and no friends to rely on, Lucky O'Toole, the Babylon's Chief Problem Solver, is dispatched to…well, to solve the problem. But she needs to be in Paris. Her fiancé-and, worse, his mother-are counting on her presence at a party in her honor in seventy-two hours, more or less. With a personal-life time-bomb ticking, Lucky hopes for a quick solution. A mystery woman, seen leaving the Royal Suite just before the girl's body is discovered, attracts Lucky's attention. She has to be the key… On loan to the CIA, assassin Donna Stone Craig and her crack black-ops team have stepped into a viper's nest. First, they darn near get out-bid and overwhelmed at an auction to acquire a vintage purse hiding some critical intel its lining. Then a very important source Donna is to meet at the Babylon London Club winds up dead. And the young woman's intel-bearing incredible global consequences-is encrypted. She was the only one who could give Donna the cipher, and she's dead. Surely someone else would know. But, who? It's easy to see why Acme's prime suspect is the tall brunette who acts like she owns the place. Lucky O'Toole shows up at the wrong time, and in the wrong place. But before Donna and Lucky can find the right answers, they'll need to overcome their reservations, and resolve their differences. But can they learn to trust each other before the real killer gets away? They have to. Their lives-and world peace-depend on it.

IN BOOK 8 OF THE TOTLANDIA SERIES:The final book of the series is filled with surprising conclusions for the Pacific Heights parents you've come to love-and the one you love to hate:Stress from the club and motherhood puts Lorna into a tailspin that threatens life. Will Matthew make the right choice for her and their children?Jade's past puts her career and her marriage to Reggie in jeopardy;In the hope of salvaging her friendship with Jillian, Ally makes a decision that will affect their lives forever. But can it also save her relationship with Brady?And finally: when Art's funeral fails to end Bettina's personal purgatory in San Francisco's social circles, her newfound success puts her back on top-but at a high price: the love and acceptance of those she loves most.Welcome to Totlandia's summer of love, lust, temptation, and redemption.

The Nanny Diaries meets The Wedding Planner in this smart, dishy novel from the author of Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives-featuring a woman who runs San Francisco's premier baby planning company and the mommies-to-be who seek out her services. Katie Johnson may make her living consulting with new moms on the latest greatest baby gadgets no parent should be without, or which mommy meet-ups are the most socially desirable, or whether melon truly is the new black, but the success of her marriage to her husband, Alex, depends on controlling her own urges toward motherhood.He's adamant that they stay childless. Sure, Katie understands that he's upset over the fact that his out-of-town ex-wife rarely lets him see their ten-year-old son, Peter. But living vicariously through her anxious clients and her twin sisters' precocious children only makes Katie resent his stance more deeply.While helping a new client-Seth Harris, a high tech entrepreneur who must raise Sadie, his newborn daughter, as a single parent after the tragic death of his wife in childbirth-maneuver the bittersweet journey from mourning husband and reticent father to loving dad, Katie's own ideals about love, marriage, and motherhood are put to the test as she learns ones very important lesson about family: How we nurture is the true nature of love."Josie "Brown takes baby mania to its illogical, hysterical extreme in this bubbly romp. But what begins as a light foray into Bugaboo country turns into something bigger than a satire of status-obsessed Bay Area yummy mummies as Brown takes a dark look at the fears of parenthood and family, with Katie's heartbreaking longing for a child unveiling a disturbing reality about her marriage and family. Still, the message from the somber realities is one full of hope: love makes a family, commitment keeps it together." -Publishers Weekly"We love Josie Brown. Plain and simple. We first fell for her when we read the impossibly delicious Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives, and now we're falling all over again after consuming her latest fun, funny and completely satisfying novel, The Baby Planner." -- Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke

IN BOOK 7 OF THE TOTLANDIA SERIES:For the women of Totlandia, spring brings new life and emotional renewal. The births of Lorna's twins brings depression-over Dante's future. The decision she makes will drive a wedge between her and Matt. As for Jillian, she's working harder than ever in launching Life of Pie. The good news: Caleb has taken to his new role as über-dad with gusto. The bad news: it's causing trouble in the Pacific Heights Moms & Tots Club. Also, when one of Jade's darkest secrets is exposed, her past and future collide, forcing her to makes some hard decisions regarding her life-with or without Reggie. On the other hand, Ally is afraid that the truth about her father may be the end Brady's love for her.As for Bettina: will she succumb to an easy fix for her problems, or will she embrace the challenge that may lead to the financial and emotional freedom she craves?

In Book 5 of The Housewife Assassin series: An NSA scientist has disappeared with a deadly plague virus. Donna and Jack must find him before it is unleashed on Fantasy island. But first they'll have to deal with a nude sunbathing serial killer, a Lord of the Flies 'tween takeover, poison dart-throwing pygmies, and a hunt club with the most unusual prey. And you call this a vacation?

In Book 4 of The Housewife Assassin series: London. Paris. Guantanamo Bay. Donna Stone is looking for love -- and terrorists -- in all the wrong places. Donna Stone finds out that breaking up is hard to do. Then again, so is dating a terrorist, let alone eleven of them! Does this make Donna a serial dater, or a serial killer? Worse yet, an old flame gets in the way of Donna's chance for true love. But she doesn't cry...She gets even.

here's only one things worse than playing personal assistant to a handsome, egotistical, oversexed actor--falling in love with him. ALL THREE NOVELLAS OF THE SERIES-- IN ONE SET!IN BOOK 1:Faced with credit card bills that rival the national debt, Hannah Fairchild, daughter of one of Hollywood's legendary actors is forced to put her astrology project on hold while she takes the job of personal assistant to British actor and People's "e;Sexiest Man Alive,"e; Louis Trollope. Because Louis is just as egotistical, self-centered, insecure, demanding, flirtatious -- and yes, irresistible -- as her father had been, Hannah is determined to keep him and his super-model girlfriend, bad boy entourage, and over-sexed agent at arm's length. Besides, she's falling in love with his best friend, the screenwriter Mick Bradshaw... IN BOOK 2:As rising Hollywood star Louis Trollope's personal assistant, Hannah Fairchild has a front row center seat to his heady, red carpet world, including his meteoric climb to fame and his fears of failure--not to mention his his bad boy behavior. In order to keep this star on the rise, Hannah makes the momentous decision to put her own life--and the growing attraction between her and Louis's best friend Mick Bradshaw on hold while at the same time get up close and personal with Louis. By doing so, she finds out what happened to his last assistant, Samantha. Will she suffer a similar fate?While on the remote location for Louis's latest movie, Hannah and Louis face his biggest professional challenge yet. Doing so brings them closer--and has serious consequences with their individual relationships with Mick. IN BOOK 3:A paparazzi's expos of Hannah and Louis's on-location lust puts them on the cover of every celebrity tabloid. But now that they are Hollywood's hottest couple, there is trouble in paradise. Is Louis's ego too big to allow him to share the spotlight with the woman who has made him a media darling-or will he grow to become the man Hannah knows he can be? The plot twists until the very last page in this star-studded thrilling conclusion of HOLLYWOOD HUNK.

Seduction and intrigue are rampant on the campaign trail when a political campaign adviser discovers that Washington's power broker elite have embroiled his presidential candidate in a plot involving an act of terrorism on US soil.Democratic political campaign consultant Ben Brinker can't remember the last time he was excited by a candidate's vision. He feels he's lost his way, both emotionally and professionally. Worst yet, his show-me-the-money policy seems to have finally caught up with him. Two of his recent clients have been disgraced in one way or another: a senator is caught in lurid sex scandal, and a congressman is indicted in a kickback scheme. In no time at all the political pundits are calling Ben a "e;candidate cooler."e; Now Ben is desperate for any campaign gig he can get. As luck would have it, Andrew Harris Mansfield, the charismatic junior senator from North Carolina and former Marine pilot, asks Ben if he wants to run his soon-to-be-announced campaign for president. Little does Ben know what's in store for Andrew, or their country. Nor does he realize that the key to saving both have been placed in his hands.

IN BOOK 12 OF THE HOUSEWIFE ASSASSIN SERIES:There is only one way for housewife assassin Donna Stone to save her husband and mission leader, Jack Craig, from torture and termination: become a traitor and act as a double agent for the terrorist organization known as the Quorum. Her shocking decision comes with consequences that will forever change the lives of those nearest and dearest to her.

It's up to Donna Stone to save a hotel filled with international dignitaries from terrorists whose usual demands are million-dollar ransoms. But this time, the price is much higher, and much more personal, for the housewife assassin.

In order to flush out an internationally renowned hacker who is wreaking havoc with top secret documents inside the United States' Intelligence Community's secured database, housewife assassin Donna Stone infiltrates three very successful high tech corporations: •A company providing smart phones and other wireless devices with an operating system that contains artificial intelligence designed to meet your every need-even if it kills you; •A tech conglomerate CEO who plans to broker the country's intelligence secrets to the highest bidder, be it a terrorist or enemy state; •And an interactive game start-up with an avatar on the deadliest mission of all: kill Donna. Can she save the world from terror-and at the same time protect her children from the painful knowledge of the father who deserted them?