Critiques en avant-premièreMarisa de los Santos

From the New York Times bestselling author of Love Walked In and Belong to Me comes a profound and heart-rending story about a horrific tragedy that marks one woman and her hometown and about the explosive secrets that come to light twenty years later. Ginny Beale is eighteen, irreverent, funny, and brave, with a brother she adores and a circle of friends for whom she would do anything. Because of one terrible night, she loses them all—and her adventurous spirit—seemingly forever. While the town cheers on the high school football team, someone sets the school’s auditorium ablaze. Ginny’s best friend Gray Marsden’s father, a fire fighter, dies in the blaze. While many in the town believe Daniel York, a notoriously troubled local teen, set the fire, Ginny makes a shattering discovery that casts blame on the person she trusts most in the world. Ginny tells no one, but the secret isolates her, looming between her and her friends and ruining their friendship. Over the next two decades, Ginny puts aside her wanderlust and her dreams. Moving back to her hometown, she distances herself from the past and from nearly everyone in it. She marries a quiet man, raises their daughter, Avery, and cares for her tyrannical, ailing mother, Adela. But when Ginny’s husband, Harris, becomes embroiled in a scandal, Ginny’s carefully controlled life crumbles, and, just when she believes she is regaining her bearings, the secret she’s kept for twenty years emerges and threatens to destroy her hopes for the future. With the help of fifteen-year-old Avery and of friends both old and new, Ginny must summon the courage to confront old lies and hard truths and to free herself and the people she loves from the mistakes and regrets that have burdened them for so long.

On her wedding weekend at an idyllic mountain resort, surrounded by everyone she loves best, Clare Hobbes meets Edith Herron, and during the course of a single conversation, the elderly, clear-eyed Edith gives Clare the courage to do what she should have done months before: break off her engagement to her charming but volatile fiancé, Zach. Three weeks later, still reeling and guilt-ridden, Clare is astonished to learn that Edith has died and left Clare Blue Sky House, a former guest house in a Delaware beach town. Perched at the marshy edge of a bay, nestled in crepe myrtle and hydrangea, and full of photographs taken by Edith and her beloved husband, Joseph, the house has sat empty for decades. Inside the walls of that house, Clare feels a deep connection to Edith, and when she finds two mysterious ledgers under the sink in Edith’s kitchen, she begins to suspect that Blue Sky House was no ordinary place and that Edith was no ordinary woman. With the help of her family, especially her mother, Viviana, and her surrogate mother, Cornelia Brown, and with her ex-boyfriend-turned-best-friend, Dev Tremain, at her side, Clare sets out to solve the mystery of Blue Sky House, a mystery more complex and tangled than she could have imagined. In alternating chapters, shifting between the 1950s and the present, between Edith’s point of view and Clare’s, we get Edith’s story, one of dark secrets, great love, terrible sacrifice, and incredible courage. As Clare uncovers this story, she also makes startling discoveries about herself, about where she’s come from, where she’s going, and what—and who—she loves.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Belong to Me, Love Walked In, and Falling Together comes a captivating novel about friendship, family, second chances, and the redemptive power of love. In all her life, Eustacia “Taisy” Cleary has given her heart to only three men: her first love, Ben Ransom; her twin brother, Marcus; and Wilson Cleary—professor, inventor, philanderer, self-made millionaire, brilliant man, breathtaking jerk: her father. Seventeen years ago, Wilson ditched his first family for Caroline, a beautiful young sculptor. In all that time, Taisy’s family has seen Wilson, Caroline, and their daughter, Willow, only once. Why then, is Wilson calling Taisy now, inviting her for an extended visit, encouraging her to meet her pretty sister—a teenager who views her with jealousy, mistrust, and grudging admiration? Why, now, does Wilson want Taisy to help him write his memoir? Told in alternating voices—Taisy’s strong, unsparing observations and Willow’s naive, heartbreakingly earnest yearnings—The Precious One is an unforgettable novel of family secrets, lost love, and dangerous obsession, a captivating tale with the deep characterization, piercing emotional resonance, and heartfelt insight that are the hallmarks of Marisa de los Santos’s beloved works.

ollowing the phenomenal success of her novels Love Walked In and Belong to Me, New York Times bestselling author Marisa de los Santos returns with Falling Together, an emotionally resonant, powerfully moving, and pitch perfect novel about friends, family, and love. Truly modern women’s fiction at its finest, this is the unforgettable tale of a remarkable friendship that ended abruptly, only to be resurrected in great need years later at a college reunion, launching three formerly devoted companions and reluctant family members alike on a sobering, enlightening journey across the world and through the past. Brimming with the author’s trademark wit, vivid prose, and captivating characterizations, Falling Together brilliantly explores our deepest human connections and confirms Marisa de los Santos as one of America’s most exciting contemporary novelists.