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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Ruby Gwin
Rosie and her best mates Soph and Abs are three regular girls. They like regular-girl things; they eat regular-girl food and wear regular-girl gear. In book one in the "Megastar Mysteries" series, their regular-girl lives are turned upside down when Rosie gets caught up with a desperate plea for help from a mega pop star, Mirage Mullins, who's doing a signing in their local record shop. The girls don't know quite what to do, but they'll go to any lengths to help save the career of their favourite pop star. The trio of friends must find a way to solve the murky mystery surrounding Mirage's gorgeous stepbrother, Joe, and they resolve to get to the bottom of the strange behaviour of Mirage's manager, Simone Jones. Over the course of the "Megastar Mysteries" series, Rosie and her friends unintentionally stumble upon other celebrity mysteries that need solving and, much to their delight, are always finding themselves in demand by mega stars with mega problems. The girls help rising West End star Estelle realise that family's more important than fame, conspire to keep the ending of famous author Hollie's latest novel under wraps, and foil a plant to sabotage of child actress Scarlett's new singing career.
***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS' WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016***'LUMINOUS' Guardian'STUNNING' New York Times'EXCEPTIONAL' Uzo Aduba (Orange Is The New Black)Ephram Jennings has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long braids running through the piney woods of Liberty, their small East Texas town. Young Ruby Bell, "the kind of pretty it hurt to look at," has suffered beyond imagining, so as soon as she can, she flees suffocating Liberty for the bright pull of 1950s New York. Ruby quickly winds her way into the ripe center of the city-the darkened piano bars and hidden alleyways of the Village-all the while hoping for a glimpse of the red hair and green eyes of her mother. When a telegram from her cousin forces her to return home, thirty-year-old Ruby finds herself reliving the devastating violence of her girlhood. With the terrifying realization that she might not be strong enough to fight her way back out again, Ruby struggles to survive her memories of the town's dark past. Meanwhile, Ephram must choose between loyalty to the sister who raised him and the chance for a life with the woman he has loved since he was a boy.Full of life, exquisitely written, and suffused with the pastoral beauty of the rural South, Ruby is a transcendent novel of passion and courage. This wondrous page-turner rushes through the red dust and gossip of Main Street, to the pit fire where men swill bootleg outside Bloom's Juke, to Celia Jennings's kitchen, where a cake is being made, yolk by yolk, that Ephram will use to try to begin again with Ruby. Utterly transfixing, with unforgettable characters, riveting suspense, and breathtaking, luminous prose, Ruby offers an unflinching portrait of man's dark acts and the promise of the redemptive power of love.
★He needs a strong wife as a pawn to flush out a killer★Bonus: The Daughters of the Dagger Prequel is included in the paperback of Ruby.Ruby de Burgh acts more like the son her father always wanted, rather than a lady. She is not pleased to discover that her father offered Lord Sheffield - The Lord of Death - his choice of any of his daughters. What's even more upsetting is that Lord Sheffield has chosen her Lord Nyle Dacre of Sheffield needs a wife so he can carry out his secret mission. After losing three wives in a matter of months, it is obvious their deaths were no accidents. He is sure they were all murdered. To catch the murderer, this time he chooses a wife as bait who he knows can wield a sword and hold her own against any attacker. Lady Ruby is just the girl he's been looking for. But when danger stalks her, he realizes that all he wants to do is protect her.Will murder and mayhem place a wedge between an unconventional bride and the Lord of Death? Or will emotions rising to the surface bring them closer together?*Daughters of the Dagger Series is continued with the Madman MacKeefe Series.
Ruby begins in the summer of 1965 as she takes us on a journey with the flamboyant and carefree Candace, her mother whose attempt at preventing Ruby the heartache of an unhappy marriage and unfulfilled dreams sends her spinning into her youth years with a future and a hope. Week-end outings to the theater, the beach, and expensive shopping trips opens the young girl to a life outside the abusive home. She sees that there is a world where life is good and dreams can come true. Unexpectedly the teenager finds herself alone. Her mantra, "Ruby dances in her dreams, Momma cooks and cleans and cleans. Daddy mustn't ever know, that Ruby loves her dancing so," becomes the catalyst that, along with her naivet , sends her to the streets of NY grasping for meaning and purpose to the tragedy of her mother's death. Thirty years later, through Ruby's daughter Abby, secrets that Ruby has kept buried for three decades begin to surface. Candace's hope for her daughter finally comes true once fate rises to meet her and forces the truth of her life in New York to surface. Ruby delves relentlessly into the vortex of shattered lives - and then - suddenly, beautifully, wondrously, it discovers hope. in the very darkness of a loathsome and frightening world there glimmers a profound and thorough declaration of individual redemption.
Secrets can be cruel especially when they span generations. What Hope Morgan learns from her mother's love story turns her world inside out. How many secrets did Ruby keep from her daughter?Hope Morgan has always had difficulty understanding her mother, Ruby. Now as illness threatens to take her mother's life she discovers that her family history is not what she thought. Ruby begins to reveal secrets that have been kept for generations.Who was Edward Fields in her mother's life, Hope wonders, and why has she kept his letters for so many years? What was the butterfly love story they shared? And did Hope's father, George know about it?While Ruby weathered the Great Depression as a child and the sorrows of World War II as a young bride, her faith grew and the promises Edward shared with her gave her strength to see her through. Will she have the strength to finally reveal the last secret she holds?
Katherine Brigby Lewis has been married to her husband Reuben for over thirty years, raising three children in Ladue, Missouri--just outside of the city of St. Louis. Before their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary, their family is faced with a devastating diagnosis which brings family secrets to the forefront. This diagnosis exposes motives, and agendas in the Lewis family, as Reuben reverts to his time as a young man in St. Louis's Gaslight Square during the 1950's. In the midst of this diagnosis, he begins to remember the time he spent there with a woman he only refers to as Ruby. From the water and land of New Iberia, Louisiana to Memphis, Tennessee over the span of forty years, we find out what it means to be chosen, to be settled for and just what it means to be loved and remembered.
Ruby is about my truest friend The woman who got me ready sexually and mentally for Rick Prescott. She was a very rare gem that stood by me for a short time and who I loved as a friend. She knew me better than myself. And I knew her better than she knew herself. Very few people in this world have best friends that are soul mates. Not sexually but emotionally. We were inseparable for over thirteen years. It was not enough time but it was a time I cherished most except the time with my lover, Rick So, sit back, enjoy the journey I know you will grow to love her as much as I grew to love her She was my bestie, my One in a Lifetime, True Friend, my confidant, my sounding board, my Guardian Angel, my best friend in the whole universe Please follow me and enjoy, Ruby Martin-Jones
A lifetime of memories and regret culminate when Lexi Barstow and Collins Wentworth reunite, and this time it might be forever. FOR THE REST OF ALL TIME Forty years ago Lexi Barstow and Collins Wentworth thought they had made the biggest mistakes of their lives. Heartbreaking choices and bitter tears cemented a pact that would shape who they were and what they would be. But now so much has changed...except the passion they share and the differences between them. But some things are fixable, and with forever staring them hard in the face, they learn all their decisions brought them to this place...an ever after filled with love.
Meet Ruby Rose Parker, but whatever you do, if she comes to your door, don't let her in. Patricia Cummings' life is perfect. After returning from her honeymoon in Hawaii she thinks everything will be wonderful from that point forward. She couldn't be farther from the truth. Her blissful atmosphere is shattered the moment she hears a child calling, "Please don't kill me." She knows who it was-Ruby Parker, the little girl who lives next door with her mother and brother. Patricia has never liked the girl. There is something unsettling about her. She soon discovers there is a good reason for her fears. Ruby is pure evil. Alone, Patricia takes on the most sinister challenge of her life to prove that Ruby killed her mother and stop her from killing again. The most difficult part is neither her husband nor the police can see beyond the innocent, little girl even as the casualty list continues to grow.