#Secrets of my hollywood life books series

That’s why, eight years later, Regina and Sophie are shocked when they get a call for help from Adelaide. But when an unimaginable betrayal happened amongst the group, the friendship abruptly ended, and they haven’t spoken since. As Army wives at Fort East, they bonded during their book club and soon became inseparable. Regina Castro, Adelaide Wilson-Chang, and Sophie Walden used to be best friends. Infused with just enough magic and everyday familiarity that anyone can relate to, this fantastic debut is a page-turner with the perfect mix of humor and mystery.įrom the author of Once Upon a Sunset and The Key to Happily Ever After comes a heartwarming and moving novel following three Army wives-estranged friends-who must overcome their differences when one of them is desperate for help. But as the tone of each Step moves from free-spirited to sinister, Kate must decide if she will go through with publishing all seven Steps-or protect humankind from an ancient evil. While the Steps strike a chord across Ireland and the world, Kate takes the message to heart. Even Dublin’s rock-and-roll sweetheart-and Kate’s onetime fling-writes a song inspired by the Steps. She never could have imagined that in a matter of days, she would find herself a local celebrity with her own group of devotees and the target of a mysterious and glamorous newspaper reporter. Kate decides to publish the Steps on a friend’s website, thinking that the low traffic on the site would let her posts go unnoticed.

#Secrets of my hollywood life books series

Instead, Kate finds out that the will and her aunt (also known as the Red Witch of Knocknamee) dictates that Kate must publish a series of strange poems called “The Seven Steps” under her own name in order to inherit the rest of her aunt’s estate.Īnd those poems? They’re a mysterious treatise on the importance and existence of fairies… A junior copywriter at an advertising agency in Dublin, she was used to spending her days wrangling clients, over-indulging in chocolatey products, and whiling away nights at the pub with her best friends, using her trusty bicycle to get around town. Kate McDaid thought that going to the reading of her great-great-aunt’s will would be just another non-event in her ordinary life. In the spirit of Cecelia Ahearn and Regina McBride, a lighthearted and relatable debut novel about an advertising copywriter who upends her ordinary life and captures the attention of the world after publishing a seven-part treatise on the existence of fairies. Spellbinding and atmospheric, “this heartrending, captivating tale of family, first love, and fate will sweep you away” (Kristin Harmel, New York Times bestselling author). Could this book hold the secrets to Flora’s disappearance? Could it be a sign that her beloved sister is still alive after all these years?Īs Hazel embarks on a feverish quest, revisiting long-dormant relationships and bravely opening wounds from her past, her career and future hang in the balance. Hazel never told a soul about the imaginary world she created just for Flora. But her tidy life is turned upside down when she unwraps a package containing an illustrated book called Whisperwood and the River of Stars. With a charming boyfriend and her elegantly timeworn Bloomsbury flat, Hazel’s future seems determined. Twenty years later, Hazel is in London, ready to move on from her job at a cozy rare bookstore to a career at Sotheby’s. Shattered, Hazel blames herself for her sister’s disappearance, and she carries that guilt into adulthood as a private burden she feels she deserves. Living with the kind Bridie Aberdeen and her teenage son, Harry, in a charming stone cottage along the River Thames, Hazel fills their days with walks and games to distract her young sister, including one that she creates for her sister and her sister alone-a fairy tale about a magical land, a secret place they can escape to that is all their own.īut the unthinkable happens when young Flora suddenly vanishes while playing near the banks of the river. In the war-torn London of 1939, fourteen-year-old Hazel and five-year-old Flora are evacuated to a rural village to escape the horrors of the Second World War. When a woman discovers a rare book with connections to her past, long-held secrets about her missing sister and their childhood in the English countryside during World War II are revealed in this “beguiling blend of hope, mystery, and true familial love” (Sadeqa Johnson, New York Times bestselling author).