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CURL UP THIS WINTER WITH A GOOD BOOK
New page-turners from some of San Diego’s best authors
By Claire Yezbak Fadden
FINDING YOUR TRUE SELF
Tender and bittersweet, The Golden Son (William Morrow, January 26, 2016) illuminates the push and pull of living in two cultures and the painful decisions we must make to find our true selves. San Diegan Shilpi Somaya Gowda returns with a story of family, responsibility, love, honor, tradition and identity. Two childhood friends—a young doctor and a newly married bride—must balance the expectations of their culture and their families with the desires of their own hearts. Eventually their lives intersect once more—changing them both and the people they love forever.
A LOVE STORY WITH A HISTORICAL TWIST
In Michelle Gable’s I’ll See You in Paris (Thomas Dunne Books, February 9, 2016), 19-year-old Laurel Haley accepts a job in England never expecting to meet a man who will take her to Paris and alter her life. Thirty years later, Laurel’s daughter Annie wants to know her father and what happened to him. The story by Cardiff-by-the-Sea’s Gable unlocks an age-old secret, starting with a book about the Duchess of Marlborough, and takes Annie from an English hamlet to a decaying estate and finally to Paris where answers will be found at last.
A FINE LINE BETWEEN LONGING AND MADNESS
Where I Lost Her (Kensington Books, February 23, 2016) balances the fine line between longing and madness, nurturing and obsession, as one woman searches for the truth about a mysterious child in rural Vermont. San Diego’s own T. Greenwood weaves a suspenseful tale of one woman’s frantic hunt leading her toward an increasingly uncertain outcome. Will she find the lost child or lose her fragile mind? The entire town begins searching for the little girl. But there are no sightings, no other witnesses, no reports of missing children. As local police and her husband Jake point out, Tess’s imagination has played her false before. And yet Tess is compelled to keep looking, not only to save the little girl she can’t forget but to salvage her broken heart as well.
