Meredith Jaeger Bücher

Die Bucht der Träume Der Traum von Liebe und Freiheit, der zwei Frauen verbindet. Ein Geheimnis, das von Generation zu Generation weitergegeben wird. Die Wahrheit, die ans Licht muss. Die Journalistin Sarah Havensworth ist glücklich verheiratet – und nun wünscht sich ihr Mann ein Kind mit ihr. Doch sie trägt schwer an einer Schuld, die sie vor ihm zu verbergen sucht und die alles zu zerstören droht. Dann stößt sie bei einer Recherche auf das Schicksal zweier junger Frauen, die vor langer Zeit in San Francisco ein besseres Leben suchten, in Liebe und in Freiheit. Sarah findet heraus, dass die Mädchen ihren Traum bitter bezahlen mussten – und dass ausgerechnet die Familie ihres Mannes Anteil daran hatte. Aber dann muss auch sie selbst sich ihrer Vergangenheit stellen. „Eine einmalige Geschichte über Liebe und Kampfgeist.“ Lori Nelson Spielman „Gekonnt verwebt Meredith Jaeger zwei große Geschichten um Liebe und Loyalität miteinander und erzählt von all dem, zu dem man bereit ist, um die zu schützen, die man liebt.“ Kristina McNorris

"In the final months of World War II, San Francisco newspaper secretary Ellie Morgan should be planning her wedding and subsequent exit from the newsroom into domestic life. Instead, Ellie, who harbors dreams of having her own column, is using all the skills she's learned as a would-be reporter to try to uncover any scrap of evidence that her missing pilot father is still alive. But when she discovers a stack of love letters from a woman who is not her mother in his possessions, her already fragile world goes into a tailspin, and she vows to find out the truth about the father she loves-and the woman who loved him back. When Ellie arrives on her aunt Iris's doorstep, clutching a stack of letters and uttering a name Iris hasn't heard in decades, Iris is terrified. She's hidden her past as a Ziegfeld Follies showgirl from her family, and her experiences in New York City in the 1920s could reveal much more than the origin of her brother-in-law's alleged affair. Iris's heady days in the spotlight weren't enough to outshine the darker underbelly of Jazz Age New York, and she's spent the past twenty years believing that her actions in those days led to murder. Together the two women embark on a cross-country mission to find the truth in the City That Never Sleeps, a journey that just might shatter everything they thought they knew-not only about the past but about their own futures. Inspired by a true Jazz Age murder cold case that captivated the nation, and the fact that more than 72,000 Americans still remain unaccounted for from World War II, The Pilot's Daughter is a page-turning exploration of the stories we tell ourselves and of how well we can truly know those we love"-- Provided by publisher

In this new novel from the USA Today bestselling author of The Dressmaker’s Dowry, two young women two generations apart discover the joy and heartbreak of following their dreams. Aspiring Hollywood actress Violet makes a shocking choice in 1940, and seventy years later, Mari sets out to discover what happened on that long ago summer. Santa Cruz, Summer 1940: When auburn-haired Violet Harcourt is crowned Miss California on the boardwalk of her hometown, she knows she is one step closer to her cherished dream: a Hollywood screen test. But Violet’s victory comes with a price—discord in her seemingly perfect marriage—and she grapples with how much more she is willing to pay. Summer 2007: Single mother Marisol Cruz lives with her parents in the charming beach cottage that belonged to her grandfather, Ricardo, once a famed performer on the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. Drawn to the town’s local history and the quaint gazebo where her grandparents danced beneath the stars, Mari sells raffle tickets at the Beach Boardwalk Centennial Celebration, and meets Jason, a California transplant from Chicago. When Mari discovers the obituary of Violet Harcourt, a beauty queen who died too young, she and Jason are sent on a journey together that will uncover her grandfather’s lifelong secret—his connection to Violet—a story of tragedy and courage that will forever transform them.