Parametrii tehnologici ai morii

ELIZABETH ADLER_CARTI Nr.

crt.Titlu si AutorEditura/

Data aparitieiRezumat

1Acum sau niciodata

Lider/2001Orizonturi/200

Ea ar putea sa tina usile incuiate, luminile aprinse, dar nu poate sa opreasca amintirea unei crime odioase si nici sa faca sa nu se mai intample...Un roman scris in stilul inconfundabil al scriitoarei Elizabeth Adler, ce i-a adus celebritatea in numeroase tari si care a stat la baza filmului cu acelasi nume. O poveste captivanta, in care momentele dinamice, dure si tensionate alterneaza cu episoade de calm, poezie si romantism. O lectura pasionanta, plina de suspans, care il va captiva cu siguranta pe cititor.Un roman scris in stilul inconfundabil al scriitoareiElizabeth Adler, ce i-a adus celebritatea in numeroase tari si care a stat la baza filmului cu acelasi nume.

O poveste captivanta, in care momentele dinamice, dure si tensionate alterneaza cu episoade de calm, poezie si romantism.

O lectura pasionanta, plina de suspans, care il va captiva cu siguranta pe cititor.

2Amelie

Miron/1994

3Casa din AmalfiMiron/2007Un roman plin de secrete, amintiri si iubiri neasteptate: pentru a-si putea trai viata, Lamour trebuie sa se confrunte cu lucruri din trecut, de care i este frica... Sotul lui Lamour Harrington a murit cu doi ani n urma. De atunci, cuprinsa de durere, ea s-a cufundat n munca pna cnd a aflat un adevar devastator: sotul o nsela si voia sa divorteze de ea. Sosita n Italia n casa n care copilarise cu tatal ei, alte secrete ies la iveala: a fost moartea tatalui ntr-adevar un accident? Sfsiata ntre doi misteriosi si captivanti barbati, ntlnind iubirea n aceste locuri fermecatoare, Lamour descopera ca trecutul e posibil sa se ntoarca atunci cnd te astepti mai putin.

4Cei bogati vor mosteni

Miron/2007

Elizabeth Adler implineste o saga si un roman cu intrigi uluitoare... suficient de indraznet pentru a fascina definitiv.

5Croaziera spre Capri

Miron/200

Elizabeth Adler, va invita intr-o luxoasa croaziera pe Mediterana-unde nimic nu este ceea ce pare,nimenu nu spune adevarul si crima este pe agenda.....

Cand miliardarul englez Sir Robert Waldo Hardwick moare misterios intr-un accdent de masina ,lasa o nota inca re numeste sase persoane pe care le suspecteaza ca i-ar fi dorit moartea.

Daisy Keane si investigatorul privat Harry Montana vor lucra in echipa, ducand suspectii-plus inca alte sase persone- intr-o fabuloasa croaziera pe Mediterana,cu toate cheltuielile platite de catre raposatul Sir Robert. Pe masura ce croaziera se deruleaza, ajungand la Monte Carlo,Saint-Tropez si Sorento,misterul se adanceste.Iar neasteptatele intorsaturi sant doar inceputul. In sfarsit, ajung la frumoasa Villa Belkiss din Capri, unde urmeaza sa fie citit testamentul lui Sir Robert....si sa fie demascat criminalul.

6Hotel RivieraLider/2004

O atragatoare si incitanta poveste despre tradare, iubire si familie, totul pe fondul unei intrigi cu implicatii politiste. Stapinita de pasiune, Lola March, eroina cartii, hotaraste sa se marite cu Patrick Lafort, proprietarul Hotelului Riviera, situat in pitoreasca zona Saint-Tropez. Ea traieste o viata de vis pina intr-o zi cind Patrick, sotul, dispare fara nici o explicatie. Dupa sase luni, apare un aventurier american, Jack Farrar, care o va face pe Lola sa inteleaga adevaratele dimensiuni ale cuvintului atractie. Suspectata de implicare in disparitia lui Patrick, ea pleaca impreuna cu Jack in cautarea acestuia. Cei doi, atrasi in mod irezistibil unul de catre celalalt, au parte de intimplari socante. O carte care va vrajeste si va poarta prin unele dintre cele mai romantice locuri din lume.

7Imagini(Imagini trecatoare)Miron/19972009)

8IndiscretiiMiron/2007

O mama si trei fiice... si fiecare dintre ele are parte de o mostenire socanta de... Indiscretii...

9Invitatie in Provence

Miron/200Nimeni nu calatoreste mai bine ca Elizabeth Adler prin povesti de dragoste contemporane, fara pereche. Recentul ei tur prin spatiul mediteranian este superb, cititorul simte gustul regiunii Provence, urmarind totodata o interesanta drama de familie. Adler ne ofera o poveste ncntatoare O minunata calatorie, surprinznd lupta unei femei pentru a-si recstiga simtul propriei valori si identitatea... Adler exceleaza ntotdeauna n a da nastere unor personaje vii si credibile. Aventurile din exterior duc la calatoria interioara a descoperirii de sine. Captivanta. Adler este un adevarat geniu.

10Intalnire la VenetiaMiron/2008Elizabeth Adler reuseste sa impleteasca misterul cu dragostea intr-o poveste minunata.Scriitoarea creaz o atmosfer intens, care te prinde aidoma unui carusel nnebunitor. De la Shanghai la Paris, de la Veneia n Canada, toate par s fie att de aproape, toate par s fie la ndemna noastr.Nu exist crime perfecte, nu exist eroi care s salveze totul n ultimul moment. Povestea este real, rile exist, fiecare dintre noi se poate pierde pe o strad din Veneia, fiecare dintre i poate petrece noaptea la un hotel din colurile de lume descrise de Adler.O lume glossy, o lume glamour, o lume n care strlucirea nu poate fi nlocuit cu nimic altceva. Destinele se furesc i se frng n jurul diamantelor, mprtesele moarte se ntorc pentru a-i cere tributul. Iar totul se reduce pn la urm la poveste, o poveste pe care fiecare dintre noi o triete la intensitate maxim

11La Dolce VitaLider/2004Elisabeth Adler ne poarta pe taramurile scaldate de soarele bland al Italiei. Gemma Jericho, medic in New York, este dedicata trup si suflet profesiei, in detrimentul vietii personale si familiei. Monotonia existentei sale cotidiene va fi intrerupta de vestea mostenirii casei strabunicilor din Toscana. Pline de speranta, Gemma, mama sa, Nona si fiica, Livvie, lasa totul deoparte si pornesc spre Italia visand LA DOLCE VITA. Dar aici lucrurile sunt destul de incurcate. Un avocat escroc le-a vandut proprietatea si a disparut. Deziluzie? Disperare? Raspunsul il veti afla la capatul unei lecturi incantatoare.

12LeonieMiron/200Un scenariu senzual, de exceptie. O poveste a Cenusaresei plasata la inceputul secolului...

13Mai curand sau mai tarziuMiron/2008

14MostenireaMiron/2009Lordul Mountjoy, un aristocrat foarte bogat, isi da seama la 70 de ani ca nu are copii si nu are cui sa lase imensa lui avere. Facand cercetari, afla ca fratele sau, un rebel vesnic indragostit, pe care familia il renegase, avea urmasi in Europa si America. Cele trei fete, mari acum, de nationalitati diferite, sunt aduse la Londra. Imbracate elegant, instruite, devin vedetele sezonului monden. Dar un secret mortal din trecut e gata s-o prinda din urma pe una dintre ele, in modul cel mai neasteptat. Scandalul izbucneste cand una din fetele Mountjoy este acuzata de crima. Insa care dintre ele a facut-o? Si de ce? Si cine in cele din urma va mosteni milioanele?

15Niciodata nu e prea tarziuOrizonturi/2003ELIZABETH ADLER, faimoasa autoare de bestselleruri, va invita intr-un voiaj prin Paris, Provence si Coasta de Azur in cel mai incintator si mai incitant roman al ei de pina acum. Lara Lewis, protagonista cartii de fata, aflata la maturitate, incearca sa reinsufleteasca o casnicie aproape pierduta. Aniversarea a 25 de ani de casatorie ii ofera pretextul unei aventuri romantice: o excursie la Paris, acolo unde alaturi de sotul sau, Dan, a trait cea mai intensa dragoste. Dar cind acesta ii spune in ultima clipa ca iubeste o alta femeie, Lara isi simte inima sfisiata. Undeva, pe drumul vietii, simte ca s-a pierdut pe sine. Dar va lua o decizie curajoasa, invitind un barbat mult mai tinar decit ea, desi abia il cunoscuse, sa o insoteasca. Ajunsi la destinatie, cei doi traiesc clipe nebunesti si vesele. Lucrurile se complica cu adevarat in momentul in care Dan se razgindeste si ia avionul spre Paris pentru a petrece restul calatoriei alaturi de ea. Va puteti imagina cum se va incheia aceasta poveste?

16Norocul este o femeieMiron/2007Elizabeth Adler implineste o saga si un roman cu intrigi uluitoare... suficient de indraznet pentru a fascina definitiv..

17PeachAceasta este povestea lui Peach de Courmont, frumoasa si iubita fiica a unei mari familii franceze.

18Proprietatea unei doamneMiron/2007

19Secrete de familieMiron/2008

20Secretele TrecutuluiLider/2004

Milionarul Ed Vincent, protagonistul cartii de fata, cade fulgerat de gloante pe cind cobora din avionul sau pe aeroportul La Guardia din New York. Cu un minut in urma, era un prosper om de afaceri, indragostit si bucurindu-se de viata. Acum zace in coma, zbatindu-se sa supravietuiasca, constient, dar incapabil sa comunice.Detectivul Marco Camelia, insarcinat cu rezolvarea cazului, are un singur indiciu un nume pe care Vincent il tot repeta: Zelda Aceasta misterioasa persoana este cumva asasinul? Aparitia Zeldei, in fapt Melba Eloise, va lamuri lucrurile: ea este iubita lui Ed si nu e implicata in atentat. Pe masura ce minciunile se risipesc, se dezvaluie adevarul intunecat al trecutului lui Vincent, un adevar socant pentru Melba. De acest fapt vrea sa profite detectivul, vrajit de frumusetea ei, ce spera ca, bulversata de cele aflate, se va refugia in bratele sale, mai ales ca pare sa aiba mare nevoie de protectia lui... Un roman in care neprevazutul il tine pe cititor in priza pina la ultima pagina.

21Secretul vilei MimosaMIRON/2008

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22Totul sau nimicMiron/2007Orizonturi/200

Laguna, California, este renumit pentru strzile ei sigure, casele luxoase i plajele ntinse. Este i locul unde tocmai a disprut Laurie Martin, o tnr frumoas, agent imobiliar. Poliiti suspectnd ce este mai ru, se agit s-i gseasc trupul nensufleit i l consider pe ultimul ei client drept principalul suspect. Plictisit de predarea dreptului, avocata Marla Cwitowitz vrea s devin detectiv particular, n echip cu Al-Giraud - expoliist i amant sexi. Ea are stele n ochi, visuri mree i convingerea c brbatul acuzat este nevinovat. Cinicul Giraud, care are coala strzii nu este chiar aa de sigur. Dar n curnd Marla i Al dau peste dovezi care vor schimba absolut tot ce au crezut pn atunci despre acest caz. Pentru c, pe msur ce se apropie de evazivul asasin, se trezesc fa n fa cu un adevr care te nfioar - unul care poate ntoarce complet acest caz... sau i poate costa, pe amndoi, viaa...O intriga politista, pe fundalul unei pasionante povesti de dragoste, desfasurata intr-un stil alert, personajele avand calitati desprinse din visele omului obisnuit: frumusete, gust pentru aventura, reusita deplina in viata.

1All or Nothing

Hollywood Hills private investigator Al Giraud hails from New Orleans's wrong side of the tracks; a tough-talking dick, he's as much a lover as a sleuth. Marla Cwitowitz is the gorgeous 30-something lawyer who's crazy about him and, after wheedling Al to give her assistant PI status, becomes his partner both on and off the job. They are a stereotypically mismatched couple: Al asks high-class law professor Marla, "What the hell d'ya see in me? An uneducated bum, an ex-cop, a two-bit P.I.? A lovely woman like you?" But Marla adores his street smarts, dinner conversation, and lovemaking skills, and she's thrilled at the thought of working with her man investigating murders. The trouble begins when a real estate agent, California golden girl Laurie Martin, disappears. Burly detective Lionel Bulworth and his brazen assistant Pamela "Pow!" Powers believe Laurie's client Steve MallardAwhose job is forcing him to relocate his Los Angeles-based family to San DiegoAis the guilty party. None too coincidentally, Al and Marla happened to notice Laurie and Steve together before the alleged murder. As far as they could tell, Laurie and Steve were not romantically involved, which does away with the cops' theory that Steve killed Laurie in a jealous rage. Steve's wife, the level-headed Vicki, hires Al and Marla to prove her husband's guilt or innocence.Retired New Orleans homicide detective Al Giraud is now a private investigator in L.A., where law professor and ex-DA Marla Cwitowitz falls for him and decides she wants to be a p.i. tooAl's partner, in fact. The couple trade a ton of martinis and Nick-and-Nora sexual badinage, but never in a Dashiell Hammett mystery does a tanned p.i. wear an ``ankle-length silk jersey skirt slit to the thigh, and a tiny white chiffon top embroidered with pale green butterflies. In a La Jolla bar, Al and Marla see Laurie Martin, a tall, unmarried, blond realtor with good legs and a gold snake ring, pushing a Laguna Beach seaside house on electronics executive Steve Mallard. He may be married, but Mallard looks like a dead duck after dining with Laurie for two weeks in a fruitless search for the right house. When Laurie disappears and her car is found with blood on the backseat, Steve is the prime suspect. He hires Al and Marla to find Lauries missing body and exonerate him. Later, dogs sniff out a body at the bottom of a canyon near where the bloody car was found. What tie did or does Laurie Martin have to Bonnie Victor, other than owning the same dog? Is Laurie Martin even Laurie Martin? When Marla and Steves wife, Vickie, are attacked with a knife in the Mallards kitchen, will Vickie emerge from the resulting coma? The climax is a literal cliffhangerpresumably because villains no longer tie heroines to the railroad tracks.

2Fleeting Images

Spanning the globe from Paris and London to New York and the exotic island of Eleuthera, this is a dazzling novel of four beautiful women torn between passion and power at the glamorous heights of success in the fashion world.After winning a high-school modeling contest, Jessie-Ann Parker becomes a super-model and later the beloved wife a a multi-millionaire. Never one to be a rich mans pampered wife, Jessie-Ann has aspirations of her own. Four other women who are also irresistibly drawn to the world of high fashion and glamour join forces with her to create their own modeling agency. But, behind the glittering faade, a psychotic killer lurks, bent on revenge.

3Fortune Is a Woman

Adler follows up Peach and The Rich Shall Inherit with another glitzy roller-coaster saga. Using standard rags-to-riches ingredients, she gives us a trio of Cinderellas who suffer and survive their way to fortune, romance and a predictable happy ending. Set in turn-of-the-century San Francisco and Hong Kong, the novel tells the stories of lifelong friends Francie Harrison and Annie Aysgarth and of Francie's daughter Lysandra. All three are saintly women who've been hideously mistreated by the men in their lives. Indeed, virtually every male in this novel is either a brutal monster or a weakling. Fortunately, the misused heroines all fall under the benevolent influence of a mysterious Chinese mandarin, Lai Tsin; Francie, indeed, becomes his concubine. He guides them through their troubles and bequeaths them a legacy of worldly and philosophical riches.

Plot hippity-hops back and forth over a century of ties between San Francisco and Hong Kong, beginning in 1937 when mandarin Lai Tsin--San Francisco's ``most mysterious, most notorious, and richest man,'' and ``grandfather'' of Lysandra Lai Tsin, who is the illegitimate daughter of Francie Harrison--dies and leaves baby Lysandra a personal fortune of $300 million (in pre-WW II dollars), plus ownership (as taipan) of Lai Tsin Corporation, a trading company worth $900 million and based in Hong Kong. Which is nice--taxwise--for six-year-old Lysandra. Francesca, her mother, is named head of the company until Lysandra turns 18. At this time, in 1937, Francie's best friend is ex-Yorkshirewoman Annie Aysgarth, who has risen from poverty and is now president of Aysgarth Hotels International, a subsidiary of Lai Tsin Corp. Francie and Annie met during the San Francisco earthquake, during which Annie's lost brother Josh died--but not before impregnating Francie with Oliver. In 1906, Francie and Annie brought the poor coolie-gambler Lai Tsin great luck at poker, and he repays by taking them into his new and vastly expanding import-export business. Later, Francie has Lysandra out of wedlock with Buck Wingate, a three-time senator from California whose imperially snobbish wife Maryanne thinks he should run for president. However, Francie's horrible brother Harry, a distraught multimillionaire caught in the Depression, has the hots for Maryanne, who kills him when he starts to rape her, which leads to Buck and Francie's affair being exposed and Buck resigning his office. Then Lysandra comes of age and we discover Lai Tsin's deepest secret, that he's actually.... Never touches earth for a second.

4From Barcelona, with LoveFrom the Hollywood Hills to the streets of Barcelona, from lush vineyards and wineries to the most exclusive homes in Europe, let Elizabeth Adler take you on a journey with a story that will hold you spellbound.

Bibi Fortunata was the hottest ticket in town: singer, actress, and celebrity. Two years ago she was arrested on suspicion of murdering her lover and his new mistress, who was also Bibis best friend.

Bibi was front-page news in a way her publicists had never dreamed of. But the police were never able to prove anything and she was set free, with the cloud of suspicion and murder still hanging over her. Bibi left for Barcelona where she quite simply disappeared.

But when Bibis daughter comes to private investigators Mac Reilly and Sunny Alvarez for help, they cant resist the temptation to solve this mystery once and for all. Who really killed Bibis lover? Who would want to frame Bibi? And who is beckoning them from Barcelona?

5The HeiressesEarl Mountjoy decides to track down his brother's illegitimate descendants and discovers three granddaughters from very different backgrounds. Launched into society as debutantes, the girls become firm friends, but one has a deadly secret in her past, and she must protect her sisters.

6The Hotel Riviera

American Lola Laforet was swept away in a whirlwind wedding and found herself the chef/owner of the Hotel Riviera. Her life seemed to be a dream come true. But then her husband disappeared one day with nothing more than a wave goodbye. Six months later, Jack Ferrar, an American ex-pat living on his boat, drops anchor in Lola's harbor and teaches her the true meaning of attraction. When various shady people--all claiming ownership of the Hotel Riviera--and the police appear, Lola and Jack have to track down the mysterious Patrick. And along the way, they fall in love. With great food, wonderful sensuality, and lush scenery, Elizabeth Adler holds you under her spell and transports you to one of the most romantic places on earth.

7The House in Amalfi

The secrets of her past lie inItalyLamour Harringtons husband died two years ago. It is the second time she has lost a man she loved to a tragedy: her father died in a mysterious boating accident when she was seventeen. When a devastating discovery about her husbands death leaves Lamour feeling stunned and betrayed, she returns to the house on the lush Amalfi coast where she'd lived with her father during the happiest years of her childhood.and so does unexpected loveBut the house of her memories has secrets all its own, forcing her to face new truths about another man she once loved. Was her fathers death truly accidental? Or was he hiding something that caused his early demise? Torn between two mysterious and compelling men who have now entered her life, Lamour discovers that the past has a way of returning when you least expect it. And someone wants to ensure that Lamour doesnt uncover the secrets of this idyllic, dreamy coastal getaway. As the past and the present collide in a shattering and suspenseful climax, Lamour must face the things she fears the most, in order to find the courage to live life to the fullest.

8In a HeartbeatEd Vincent, a real estate tycoon with a mysterious past, has been shot by a would-be assassin and lies comatose in a New York hospital. His love interest, Georgia peach Melba Merrydew, also a target, comes to grieve by Ed's bedside. Enter Marco Camelia, a handsome homicide detective, who, with Melba's help, investigates Ed's shadowy past, all the while falling in lust with Melba's Southern charm and sun-kissed legs.

Millionaire Ed Vincent is nearly killed by four bullets to the chest. As Vincent's lover, Zelda Merrydew, helps a charming homicide detective investigate the attempted murder, she uncovers things about the man she loves that he'd rather she didn't know. Adler's enjoyable characters and lively dialogue alone wouldn't quite overcome this tired premise. But there's one other thing that makes the novel different: Ed Vincent himself, lying in the hospital, unable to communicate in any way, is a principal character in the story.

9Indiscretions

Although this story spans the world of high society from Hollywood to Paris to London to Rome, essentially it is a moral tale about three hard-working girls trying to make it. Named for the cities and places where they were born, Paris, India and Venetia are the daughters of Jenny Haven, glamorous American film star, and have been raised according to the Puritan work ethicleavened by a dash of haute couture. When Jenny dies under mysterious circumstances, the daughters hope that some of her millions will trickle down to boost their budding businesses. But their mother has apparently died in penury and now each daughter must create her own success, as well as try to clear Jenny's name.

The Haven Women--born into Hollywood sin andscandal, they inherited their mother's passion...Venetian, Paris, India-three beautiful women, eachnamed for the city or country in which she'd beenconceived, each driven by passionate needs forsuccess and love. Raised apart, their past bound by oneextraordinary woman-the legendary Jenny Haven. Shegave them life. She gave them everything theyneeded to "make it.

10Invitation to Provence

Franny Marten's life is unraveling--after arranging to meet her boyfriend Marcus for dinner she finds his wife waiting for her instead. After the initial shock wears off, Franny finds she has more in common with Clare Marks that she could ever have imagined. And, amazingly, the women become fast friends. But even more surprises are in store for Franny Marten: she is unexpectedly offered an all-expenses-paid invitation to go to a reunion of her estranged family in Provence. And Clare decides to charge the trip to Marcus (for his sins) and come along. Franny knows very little about the French side of her family, but how stressful can meeting long-lost aunts and cousins be after what she and Clare have just gone through?

Provence is everything Franny pictured, but nothing at all what she expected. There are dangerous family secrets buried deep in the lovely, lush landscape of Provence, and someone who will go to any lengths to keep Franny from uncovering them. Jake Bronson is an American with ties to the Marten family, and he seems to know more than he's saying. He's the most intriguing and compelling man Franny's ever encountered, but there are treacherous currents surrounding him. And at the center of it all is the matriarch, Rafaella Marten, a woman with secrets going back decades. Her two sons have caused her both heartache and joy, but Franny may ultimately be the key to truly reuniting the Marten family--and putting to rest the shadows, scandals, and the rivalry of a dynasty. Evoking the lush descriptions of everything that is Provence, Elizabeth Adler casts an unforgettable spell as Invitation to Provence transports you to a truly magical place.

11It All Began in Monte CarloSunny Alvarez is tired of having a man who wont commit and the urge to get away from it all is stronger than ever. In Monte Carlo, she expects rest and relaxation; instead, she finds herself caught in a web of intrigue involving a series of robberies of high-end jewelry stores. Can Sunny trust the new friends she meets in this glamorous hotel in the South of France? Plus, theres Sunnys old friend, movie star Allie Ray, who owns a vineyard in France and who comes to Sunnys aid, while at the same time sorting out the life and appearance of her old friend, Pru Hilson, with a makeover that not only changes her dowdy, overweight appearance, but changes Pru into an amateur detective.

If Sunny doesnt untangle this plot, she might end up an unwitting accomplice to theft, blackmail, and even murder. When her boyfriend, Mac Reilly, shows up, hes ready to do anything to get Sunny back, not the least of which is to solve the crimes and save her life.

12The King's Shadow

Evyn, a young Welsh serf, has dreamed all his life of becoming a storyteller. But in a cruel twist of fate, Evyn and his father suffer a brutal attack by a group of murderous ruffians. Evyn's tongue is cut off and his father is killed. Orphaned and unable to speak, Evyn assumes he is destined to a life of slavery. But Evyn is resilient and teaches himself to read and write. He is then appointed the personal companion to Earl Harold of Wessex, who later becomes the King of England. The two travel the countryside together, forming a close father-son bond. Evyn chronicles all of their exciting journeys, which culminate at the Battle of Hastings, where the future of the country is decided.

13The Last Time I Saw Paris

Paris, the most romantic city on earth, is a place of second honeymoons and newly discovered passions. It lures us with a banquet of tastes, sound, sights, and smells. And for Lara Lewis, it is the place where she and her husband once experienced love at its best. Now it is a place where forty-something Lara believes she can rekindle her marriage. She plans the most romantic adventure: to retrace her first honeymoon with her husband, visit the same sights, eat in the same restaurants, explore the same villages. But when her surgeon-husband tells her at the last minutes that there's another woman, Lara's heart is broken...almost.Somewhere along the road of life, Lara has lost herself. but she makes a bold move. She decides to invite a man she hardly know to take the trip with her, a much younger man. What follows is the story of two innocent Americans stumbling through France in a madcap romantic adventure that begins with missed connections, lost luggage, and language barriers, and ends up being one woman's journey to find herself and the love that has eluded her all her life...

14Legacy of Secrets

In 1883, Lily Molyneux, daughter of a noble Irish family, is raped by the scion of an equally prominent family. Pregnant and afraid that she will be forced to marry her molester, she names as the father the lowly stableboy Finn O'Keeffe, hoping that she will then be allowed to remain unwed. But her plan backfires: Lily is banished and Finn and his brother Daniel must flee for their lives. All three find themselves on the same boat to America. Their heady and romantic adventures unfold against a panorama of Irish country estates, squalid Boston slums and the New York City bustle of Broadway and Wall Street. The author brackets this turn-of-the-century drama with a present-day mystery: real-estate tycoon Bob Keeffe, Finn's descendant, has died of a gunshot wound and been ruled a suicide. His daughter, however, is sure that he was murdered, and she reaches back into the past for clues. Spiced with betrayal, revenge, lust and scandal, this is an intoxicating brew, served with panache.

In a narrative that purrs like a Rolls, Adler (Fortune is a Woman, The Property of a Lady, etc.) once again weaves and spins her story threads so skillfully that the aged pop-dynasty staples- -dust to diamonds, coincidental meetings, one-shot pregnancies-- meld into the relentlessly charming surrounds. The wildly tangled fortunes of the doughty O'Keeffe boys, Dan and Finn, and exquisite Lily of the titled Molyneux family are revealed--Arabian Nights-fashion--by ancient Maudie Molyneux in the fine old family house (``Ardnavarna'') in Connemara, Ireland. Maudie's audience is composed of two young people new to her- -orphaned Shannon O'Keeffe, who's certain that her father, Bob, a rich American powerbroker, has been murdered; and Eddie Sheridan, who's also from the States and eager for connection. The clues that both found in old cottages in Nantucket have brought them to Ardnavarna. Maudie, who dresses for dinner every evening in her 1920's-30's-style Schiaparellis and Diors, slowly reveals the personality of the beautiful Lily Molyneux, Maudie's late aunt. In Ireland, Lily's hasty cruelties mean banishment for Dan, as well as for Finn, whom she has begun to love, and her reckless pursuit of a rotter causes a pregnancy and a never-darken-this-door-again edict from Lord Molyneux. It's off to America then, where the brothers eventually float upward--to the top in Boston business and politics--and where Lily is rescued by adoring actor Ned Sheridan, has a baby, suffers, marries twice, produces another child--and, meanwhile, guess who lives just around the corner? While three men deal with Lily's lure, the Molyneux family--back in the auld country--disintegrates. Thanks to Maudie in the present, the family trees are espaliered for plain viewing--before she and an ancient housekeeper travel to the States to to confront a killer. A peppering of teasing secrets in a mix of favorite pop gimmicks--by one of the more accomplished plotsters and tellers of tales.

15Leonie

INCLUDEPICTURE "http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1291138038s/5197708.jpg" \* MERGEFORMATINET Leonie, who is only 16 in 1890, has left the provinces to seek her fortune in Paris. She is without fortune, family or friends but she has something to make her madly successful: she has tawn. Her eyes are tawny and so is her hair and her cat, Bebe, and so is her first lover, Rupert, who promises to marry her after he sees his parents in Germany. But alas, he never returns because the lovers' letters have been intercepted by Gilles de Courmont, who wants Leonie for himself. Nothing if not practical, Leonie casts her lot with Gilles whom she continues to address as "Monsieur," as if he were a rock-star instead of a Duc. Monsieur gives her Cartier jewels, Worth dresses, dinners at Voisins and a very hard time, for although he does nobly under the covers, he also has the heart of an undercover man. Monsieur is forevery spying on Leoniedispatching her other lovers with bribes and blowseven murdering one who has just given her another bebe. Finally provoked, Leonie leaves the Duc, becomes a famous chanteuse and finds true love with James Homer Alexander Jamieson iii, but Monsieur continues to haunt her life.

This historical romance is set mainly in France from the 1890s through World War I. Leonie, impoverished child of a French country woman and an Egyptian circus performer, arrives in Paris to seek her fortune. She soon becomes the mistress of a very wealthy but cold and manipulative man, ``Monsieur''; later she is famous as a singer and finally happy as the wife of a rich American. When Leonie bears the child of a casual lover, Monsieur's vengeance is terrible and casts a shadow over the rest of her life until his death sets her free.

16Meet Me in Venice

FOUR WORDS WOULD CHANGE HER LIFE...

Precious Rafferty is an American antiques dealer living in Paris. Though Precious--known as Preshy--lives in the world's most romantic city, she keeps her feet firmly on the ground. No man will ever sweep her off her feet. Until she meets Bennett James. He's perfect in every way. Is he too good to be true? Granted, she doesn't know much about his business or personal life in Shanghai, but isn't it time to stop being so jaded about romance? And then her long-lost cousin Lily Song sends her an urgent message about Preshy's new love. "Meet me in Venice" are Lily's cryptic words.

ONE MAN MIGHT POSSIBLY END IT...

Lily lives in Shanghai and knows the antiques underworld there--and shehas a secret important enough to draw her to Venice to meet Preshy for the first time, face-to-face.Ruggedly handsome, world-weary writer Sam Knight senses there's a story afoot.Precious senses he's getting closer and closer to her and enmeshed in this tangled web of danger and desire.But is Sam also not all he seems to be? Does he have a terrible secret he's keeping from Preshy? In Venice, Precious will have to weave through a maze of betrayers and seducers to discover who she can trust with her heart...and with her life.

17No RegretsCafe-owner Ellie Parrish Duveen finds herself falling for ex-New York cop Dan Cassidy. But unknown to them, Ellie is being stalked by her psychopathic half-brother, who wants to kill her and claim what he considers to be his rightful inheritance. Can Dan save her before it is too late?

18Now or Never

A serial killer is stalking young women in Boston, and the police are at a loss for clues. The best they've come up with so far are a composite drawing of the killer and some educated hunches. Totally frustrated, Detective Harry Jordan turns to Mallory Malone, the beautiful star of a prime-time investigative TV show, in hopes of obtaining some air time from her for the case. The arrogant Malone agrees to meet Jordan but expects to deny his request as unworthy of her talents. What she does not expect, once they do meet, is the electric attraction between them. As the case unfolds and their relationship blossoms, Malone is faced with revealing her deepest personal secrets in order to catch the killer.Harry Jordan is an unusual cop: the urbane scion of an old-money Boston family and a Harvard-educated lawyer. Faced with a stalled serial-killer investigation, Harry agrees to let Mallory Malone, the host of anAmerica's Most Wantedtype program, feature his case on the air. Predictably, romantic sparks fly, but there's something mysterious about the beautiful Mallory. Eventually Harry pries his lover's deepest secrets out of her and finds she may hold the clue to the murderer's identity.

19One of Those Malibu NightsIt was just one of those Malibu nights, dark as a velvet shroud, creamy waves crashing onto the shore, breeze soft as a kittens breath . . .

But when private investigator to the stars Mac Riley hears the sound of a womans scream over the crashing waves, his low-key beach-bum lifestyle is changed forever. A beautiful, distraught woman wearing only a black lace negligee stands in the doorway of a fabulous beach house. In her hand, a gun, and its pointed directly at him. . . . Mac escapes her bullet, but barely. Who was that woman? Days later, shes disappeared and the Smith & Wesson she almost killed him with finds its way into his car.

Mac suddenly finds himself tangled up in a web of deception. Hes going to need some help if hes going to get to the bottom of it all.

This is where Sunny Alvarez comes in. Sunny and Mac have an on-again, off-again relationship. Lately its been more off than on. But now he needs her more than ever.

Together they go on a quest that takes them from Southern California, to the beaches of Mexico, to the streets of Rome and the countryside of France. All the while, they are one step behind an elusive murderer, and one step ahead of an actress who wants nothing more than to get lost.

20Peach

Two disparate story lines are skillfully braided into a solid, entertaining, if sometimes relentlessly melodramatic, novel by the author of Leonie. Young Peach de Courmont is visiting her redoubtable grandmother Leonie on the French Riviera when the Nazis invade France and requisition their elegant, family-owned hotel. Her beautiful half-sister Lais, mistress of a high-ranking German, secretly collects information for the Resistance, and Peach follows suit, carrying vital messages in her schoolbag. In America, Noel Maddox is abandoned to an uncaring orphanage and must scramble for the necessities and comforts that Peach takes for granted. Their paths crossonce happily, once disastrously and, years later, romantically, when Noel is a successful auto industry executive and Peach, who has left a loveless marriage, runs the de Courmont auto plants. Unusual settings and suspenseful wartime scenes give otherwise predictable plotting a real boost.

21Present of the Past

Maudie Molyneux, a sprightly, feisty, 80-year-old, aristocratic Irish woman lives in her crumbling stately home, Ardnavarnha, in Connemara. Then Shannon Keeffe arrives with her wild tale of murder and ghosts, and it is Maudie who unravels the past for her.

22Private DesiresLeonie is born into a world of poverty and hardship, until her exotic beauty and her fighting spirit lead her to a very different life of wealth and luxuary. As mistress of the ruthless and wealthy Duc de Courmont, she craves love, but he craves her, needs her, is obsessed by her.

23The Property of a Lady

The magnificent Ivanoff emerald: It surfaced atChristie's at Geneva, "The Property of aLady"--a lady now sought by powerful men intent onseizing a legacy that could tilt the world balance ofpower . . .The terrifying Ivanoff secret: Shelived like a pauper with a royal ransom in gems,determined to carry her secret to the grave . . .until an act of love and a public auction broughtthe world--and the curse--to her door . . .Thelast of the Ivanoffs--pawns in a deadly game: Theroyal gems are merely the lure to the hiddenbillions for which nations are willing to kill. The lastof the Ivanoffs should have died in 1917. Now,two generations later, they are the prize--and theprey . . .From war-torn Russia to New York'steeming Lower East Side . . . from Ziegfeld's Broadwayand the Hollywood of the moguls to contemporaryWashington, Geneva, and Berlin, Elizabeth's Adler'snovel of passion, power, and royal privilege willcommand your attention to the very lastpage.

24The Rich Shall Inherit

Adler's third novel ( Leonie ; Peach ), has the makings of a run-of-the-mill sex-and-Gucci jet-set frolic that condescends slightly to its readers (doesn't everyone know Geneva is in Switzerland?). Yet it rises above the genre to surprise, fascinate and eventually elicit a smile at its resolution. Mike Preston, an investigative journalist looking for a new subject, spots an ad in the L.A . Times seeking the heiress to the estate of Poppy Mallory (born in Santa Barbara, died in Italy). When he contacts the Swiss lawyer who placed the ad, advocate Lieber tells him that Poppy's estate is worth hundreds of millions, and agrees that if Mike finds the heiress, he can write a book about Poppy. The novel continues on two time lines. In the present, the various claimants, all somehow (but how?) linked with Poppy, gradually become aware of each other. Alternately, we learn that Poppy was seduced and abused, ran the most exclusive brothel in Paris, fell in love with a powerful Italian gangster, lost her son's love, died slightly gaga, very rich and utterly alone. But all is not cliche; here are scarlet herrings (men and women), genuine pathos, humor and inventiveness, and the rich actually reap the whirlwind while the riches are inherited by the meek and deserving.

25Sailing to Capri

Elizabeth Adler invites you on a decadent Mediterranean cruisewhere nothing is what it seems, no one is telling the truth, and murder is on the agendaWhen English tycoon Sir Robert Waldo Hardwick dies mysteriously in a car accident, he leaves behind a note naming six people he suspects might have wanted him dead. Daisy Kean, and P.I. Harry Montana team up to take the suspectsand also six red herringson a fabulous Mediterranean cruise, all expenses paid by the late Sir Robert. As they call at Monte Carlo, St. Tropez and Sorrento, the mystery deepens. And the unexpected twists are just the beginning.Finally, they arrive at the beautiful Villa Belkiss on Capri, where Sir Roberts will is to be readand the killer unmasked. With the beauty of the Yorkshire countryside, the Mediterranean resorts and the magnificent cruise ship, plus the intense attraction between loner Montana and wary Daisy, passions flare and the beauty of the Villa Belkiss enchants. No one writes delicious armchair travel or intriguing suspense like Elizabeth Adler.

26The Secret of the Villa MimosaPsychiatrist Phyl Foster is intrigued with the unconscious Jane Doe found-having obviously been left for dead-in a San Francisco ravine. When the woman wakes up with amnesia, Phyl helps her try to remember her past and treats her like a kid sister, giving her clothes and a place to stay. The psychiatrist also runs interference for the woman, newly named "Bea French," with macho homicide detective Franco Mahoney, who follows every lead toward Bea's true identity, which he hopes will help him discover who tried to kill her. After Phyl finds Bea a job as social secretary to a rich socialite, the amnesiac travels to Paris. When her employer dies suddenly, she is left with a fortune, two orphans, a restored French villa-and a 50-year-old murder mystery. Bea's investigation into that murder triggers her memory, so she calls Phyl for help, but the psychiatrist is busy with a jealous new lover. Meanwhile, Franco runs a check on the lover. What he finds sends him rushing to Paris to protect the innocent.

27Sooner or Later

Ellie Duveen, with "misty blue-gray eyes and curly red hair worn long and flowing," lets us know that she is too busy for a relationship as she struggles to make her California cafe a success. Dan, an NYPD homicide detective, "dark-haired and blue-eyed, built tall and rangy," starts a new life after taking a medical retirement and moving to California to open a winery. Buck Duveen, with a "fine head of copper-red hair, dark eyes and a lean-jawed, handsome face," is a genius psychopath obsessed with Ellie, whom he last saw more than 20 years ago when she was a child. Guess who gets out of the insane asylum? Guess who is the family secret? Guess who walks into Ellie's cafe? And guess where this all leads?Ellie Parrish Duveen was five when the brakes of her parents' Bentley convertible failed and the car plunged off a steep California road. Or had the brakes been tampered with? The orphaned Ellie survived, her forehead only scarred, and she grew up under the care of wealthy grandmother Lottie. But as it happened, Ellie's father had a son, Buck, from an earlier marriage. Buck was strictly psycho, and although he dressed and comported himself like Cary Grant, he had the lousy habit of strangling prostitutes during sex. Arrested for such indulgences, Buck beat a jail rap and wound up in a private New York hospital for rich sickos. After 20 years, his grandmother's money ran short and Buck was booted out, essentially for nonpayment. He still had a small sum in the bank, though, which by now had accrued to $35,000 traveling money. Set free, Buck kills another prostitute to get back in shape and entrains to California, where he learns that Ellie has opened a restaurant. He then begins to consider recovering his part of the family property and fortune through murder. Meanwhile, busy Ellie has no time for romance, but sooner or later, of course, it must come. It does so in the form of ex-NYPD detective Dan Cassidy, who, after taking a bullet in Manhattan, has retired to the West and bought a small winery near Ellie's restaurant. They meet, and love blooms, but gets set aside. Still, any reader will bet that, sure as night follows day, Ellie will eventually find herself being throttled by Buck in the Duveen family manse--with Dan, naturally, racing toward them in the night.

28Summer in Tuscany

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Gemma Jericho is an overworked New York doctor with a handful of a teenaged daughter and a mother who worries that Gemma has no life. So when her mother receives a mysterious letter telling her about an even more mysterious inheritance in Tuscany, Gemma sees her chance: the three of them throw caution and convention to the wind and leave for Italy. Gemma hopes that a change of scenery will bring back the closeness she used to share with her daughter. And perhaps the challenges of living in a foreign country will give her mother something to worry about beyond Gemma's social life.But what they encounter there is far more distracting than Gemma expected: a crumbling old villa and a town divided. Half the residents believe that Ben Raphael, another American, is the rightful inheritor of the villa. As cultures clash, gossip soars, and intrigue unfolds, Gemma is caught up in the most disturbing and delicious trouble she's ever had. And her summer in Tuscany will change her outlook-and her life-forever.Gemma, an overworked ER doctor, her mother, Nonna, a typical Italian widow who spends her week cooking the Sunday supper, and daughter Livvie, a punked-up but well-adjusted teen, are living normal, unexciting lives in New York City until Nonna receives a letter informing her of an inheritance in her childhood village of Bella Piacere. The letter launches the Jerichos into situations both delicious and funny in a novel in which romance is detailed as vividly as the landscape of Tuscany. Gemma becomes embroiled in a mystery with the intriguing Ben Raphael, while Nonna is transformed and charms a man from her youth, and Livvie has a ball with Florence's dashing teens.

29There's Something About St. Tropez

At a St. Tropez villa in the South of France, five international vacationers, strangers to one anotherall of them misfits running from their daily livesare brought together at the same small seaside Hotel of Dreams by a rental scam, an international art heist, passion, murder, and a haunting.

It had seemed like the perfect getaway for Private Investigator Mac Reilly and his girlfriend/partner, Sunny Alvarez, along with his three-legged, one-eyed rescue dog, Pirate, and her snippy three-pound fiend on four paws, the Chihuahua, Tesoro. But suddenly and rather unexpectedly, they find themselves having to sort out the misfits livesincluding two lonely children on the trail of a mysterysolve a crime, and solve a murder, all against the sunny and glamorous backdrop of St. Tropez.

The two children are hot on the path to finding the killer. Will they get there first?

SERIES

Mac Reilly

1. One of Those Malibu Nights (2008) aka One Night in Malibu

2. Thers Someting About St. Tropez (2009)

3. It All Began In Monte Carlo (2010)

4. From Barcelona, With Love (2011)

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NOVELS

1. Private Desire (1985)

2. Indiscretions (1985) writing as Ariana Scott3. Leonie (1985)4. Peach (1986)

5. Fleeting Images (1987) writing as Ariana Scott6. The Rich Shall Inherit (1989)

7. All or Nothing (1989)8. The Property of a Lady (1990)

9. Fortune Is a Woman (1992)

10. Present of the Past (1993)

11. Legacy of Secrets (1993)

12. The Secret of the Villa Mimosa (1994)

13. The Kings Shadow (1995)

14. The Heiresses 91995)

15. Now or Never (1996)

16. No Regrets (1997)

17. Sooner or Later (1997)

18. In a Heartbeat (2000)19. The Last Time / Saw Paris (2001)

20. Summer in Tuscany (2002)

21. The Hotel Riviera (2003)

22. Invitation in Provence (2004)

23. The House in Amalfi (2005)

24. Sailing to Capri (2006)

25. Meet Me in Venice (2007)

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