Danielle Steel – Upside Down
Oscar-winning actress Ardith law is a Hollywood icon. Radiant at sixty-two, she is the epitome of glamour and a highly respected artist. But her success has come at a price: She has a strained relationship with her daughter, Morgan, who at thirty-eight still blames Ardith for putting her career before being a mother. Morgan is a successful plastic surgeon in New York City – and the distance from Ardith’s Bel Air mansion is not lost on either of them. Ardith became single mother when Morgan was seven, after her unfaithful husband died in a helicopter accident. In recent years, she has found amiable companionship with fellow actor Bill West. But Ardith’s comfortable world is turned upside down when she hires a temporary personal assistant, Josh Gray, while Bill is away filming in London. Josh’s rough-around-the-edges persona is the opposite of what Ardith is used to, but an unexpected tragedy brings them closer, stirring up conflicting feelings in her for this younger man. In New York, Morgan is swept off her feet by world-renowned TV anchorman Ben Ryan. Though more than two decades her senior, Ben is handsome, charismatic, and just as smitten as Morgan. But when a blackmail scheme puts his career- and their relationship- on the line, Morgan doesn’t know where to turn. Perhaps…to her mother? As each woman navigates an unconventional romance, they cautiously approach each other on new terms and attempt to put aside their past for a new future.
J.D. Robb – Random In Death
Jenna’s parents had finally given in, and there she was, at New York club with her best friends, watching the legendary band Avenue A and carrying her demo in hopes of slipping it to the guitarists, Jake Kincade. Then, from the stage, Jake catches her eye and smiles. It’s the best night of her life. It’s the last night of her life. Minutes later, Jake’s in the alley getting some fresh air, and the girl from the dance floor comes stumbling out, sick, confused, and deathly pale. He tries to help, but it’s no use. He doesn’t know that someone in the crowd has jabbed her with a needle-and when his girlfriend, Nadine, arrives, she knows the only thing left to do for the girl is to call her friend, Lieutenant Eve Dallas. After everyone on the scene is interviewed, lab restults show a toxic mix of substances in the victim’s body- and for an extra touch of viciouness, the needle was teeming with infectious agents. Dallas searches for a pattern: Had any boys been harassing Jenna? Was she engaging in risky behavior or caught up in somehting shady? But there are no obvious clues to why this levelheaded sixteen-year-old, who is passionate about her music, would be targeted. And that worries Dallas. Because if Jenna wasn’t targeted, if she was just the random, unlucky victim of a madman consumed by hatred, there are likely more deaths to come.
Janet Dailey – One in a million
Frank Culhane may be the wealthy patriarch of the Texas’s most prestigious families, but his party-girl daughter, Jasmine, is only interested in the money the ranch brings in-and the cowboys. Until the day she heads to the stables in search of their hot horse trainer and instead discovers her daddy’d body in their prize stallion’s box stall. Roper’s rodeo career was cut short by an injury. Now, he’s hungry to compete in reinging events, like the prized forthcoming Run for a Million. In the meantime, until his family can afford their own breeding business, he’s got to work for the rich ranchers who snub them-including the Culhanes. But when an autopsy reveals Frank was murdered, Roper lands on the list of possible suspects. City outsider Detective Sam Rafferty is propelled into a tangle of simmering rivalries as he undertakes the investigation. For the ranch is now in the hands of an explosive partnership: Frank’s young, glamourous second wife, Lila, and his scorned first wife, Madeline. Lila has a genuine passion for ranching. Madeline is determined to destroy her. Through Sam’s interviews, more tensions surface-there are Madeline’s grown children who’ve been bypassed for control of the ranch, the socially dismissed McKennas, and the breeders, politicans, and neighbors ready to profit from Frank’s death. But tricky alliances are also brewing. While Lila and Roper clash, they discover a fire beneath their sparring. And with a killer still at large, the heat between Jasmine and Sam could put the case, and all rheor futures, on the line…..
