I spent my twenties dating losers and users while pining after unavailable men. The light finally went on when I hit thirty; if I wanted a big love, I had to shed the self-limiting beliefs that were holding me back. I explored this theme of “dating who you think you deserve” (and sabotaging relationships with people you think are too good for you) in my 2017 movie All I Wish, starring Sharon Stone. I’m proud to say the work I did on myself through my writing and directing led me to stop loving men who hurt me and relegate my obsession with “forbidden flames” to books and movies!
Not since Romeo and Juliet has there been a more heart-wrenching story about two soulmates torn apart by circumstances beyond their control. I loved this epic, multigenerational tale about a boy and a girl born six months apart who are inseparable for their entire childhoods but can’t find their way back to one another after an unthinkable tragedy.
The depiction of how regrets linger for far too long was stunning. I found myself looking inward, wondering if the wounds that I think (hope?) have healed over will someday show themselves again. I loved this literary exploration of what it means to heal ... and what happens when we don't.
The triumphant New York Times Bestseller *The Tonight Show Summer Reads Pick*
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by People, Vogue, Parade, NPR, and Elle
"A gem of a book." —Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
How much can a family forgive?
Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope, rookie NYPD cops, are neighbors in the suburbs. What happens behind closed doors in both houses—the loneliness of Francis’s wife, Lena, and the instability of Brian’s wife, Anne, sets the stage for the explosive events to come.
In Mary Beth Keane's extraordinary novel, a lifelong…
Visions of Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe danced in my head as I devoured this tale of romance and glamor set in Old Hollywood. Both a mystery and an epic love story, I found myself ravenous to know which one of Evelyn Hugo’s seven husbands was the love of her life. And why so many?
When the secret is revealed, I let out a little cry. Because, as you know, I am a sucker for forbidden love …
"If you're looking for a book to take on holiday this summer, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo has got all the glitz and glamour to make it a perfect beach read." -Bustle
From the New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & the Six-an entrancing and "wildly addictive journey of a reclusive Hollywood starlet" (PopSugar) as she reflects on her relentless rise to the top and the risks she took, the loves she lost, and the long-held secrets the public could never imagine.
Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready…
Secrets, lies, and second chances are served up beneath the stars in this moving novel by the bestselling author of This Is Not How It Ends. Think White Lotus meets Virgin River set at a picturesque mountain inn.
Seven days in summer. Eight lives forever changed. The stage is…
Here’s the fascinating thing about a protagonist who plans to kill herself: she speaks her mind, no matter how offensive, confrontational, or absurd her thoughts are. I think what delighted me most about the accidental wedding crasher at the center of this addictive novel was her unabashed honesty.
She doesn’t care what the bride, groom, or any of the wedding guests think of her, given that she plans to be dead by tomorrow. I envied her for her refusal to equivocate or sugarcoat. It is that filterless fearlessness that ingratiates her to the bride. And to that one person at the wedding that makes her want to wake up tomorrow. Too bad he’s off-limits …
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Today Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick
A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew.
It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn’t here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she’s dreamed of coming…
Every once in a while, I crave a protagonist I love to hate. The main character of this diabolical novel will stop at nothing to get the man she can’t have … even though he’s married to someone else. I found myself gasping as I turned the pages. Did she really just do that?How can she be so conniving?
I wasn’t even rooting for her to get her man! Until the author’s brilliant reveal and I wanted nothing more. This was Reese Witherspoon pick and oh-so-worthy!
"Deliciously duplicitous. . . . equally as twisty, spellbinding, and addictive as Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl or Paula Hawkins's The Girl on the Train."-Library Journal (starred review)The mesmerizing debut about a coolly manipulative woman and a wealthy "golden couple," from a stunning new voice in psychological suspense.Some women get everything. Some women get everything they deserve.Amber Patterson is fed up. She's tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. She deserves more-a life of money and power like the one blond-haired, blue-eyed goddess Daphne Parrish takes for granted. To everyone in the exclusive town…
Secrets, lies, and second chances are served up beneath the stars in this moving novel by the bestselling author of This Is Not How It Ends. Think White Lotus meets Virgin River set at a picturesque mountain inn.
Seven days in summer. Eight lives forever changed. The stage is…
I have never wanted a protagonist to get the girl as much as I wanted one-eyed, bank-robbing, broken-hearted Patch to be reunited with his. But his love was not so much forbidden as it was impossible … given that the girl who stole his heart may have been imagined. But no matter; it was his determination that moved me.
I couldn’t help but imagine what it would be like to have someone pine for me like Patch pined for his beloved. Everything he did (and yes, some of those things were bad), he did for love. And I had to forgive him because it was just so darned romantic!
A missing persons mystery, a serial killer thriller, and an epic love story - with a unique twist on each...
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Late one summer, the town of Monta Clare is shattered by the abduction of local teenager Joseph 'Patch' Macauley. Nobody more so than Saint Brown, who is broken by her best friend's disappearance. Soon, she will eat, sleep, breathe, only to find him.
But when she it will break her heart.
Patch lies in a pitch-black room - all alone - for days or maybe weeks. Until he feels a hand in his. Her name…
When her father dies, Jane finds a stack of love letters … from a woman who isn’t her mother. In them is talk of a baby. So Jane boards a flight from LA to Boston to find her father’s mistress and the child she suspects they had together. In a suburb of Boston, adopted, sixteen-year-old Adam is self-destructing. So Adam’s mother gives him the letters from the woman who birthed and then abandoned him, which only fuels his hunger to find her.
Jane and Adam are on a collision course as they search for a woman who doesn’t want to be found. But something remarkable happens when they discover they never needed someone else to show them who they are.
