Lauren Layne
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Language
English
Description
"Perpetually cheerful and eager to please, Gracie Cooper strives to make the best out of every situation. So when her father dies just five months after a lung cancer diagnosis, she sets aside her dreams of pursuing her passion for art to take over his Midtown Manhattan champagne shop. She soon finds out that the store's profit margins are being squeezed perilously tight, and complicating matters further, a giant corporation headed by the impossibly...
Author
Series
Central Park Pact volume 01
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"For as long as she can remember, Bronx-born Naomi Powell has had one goal: own one of the ritzy Upper East Side homes where she used to watch her mom work as a housekeeper. Now a sassy CEO of one of the biggest fashion jewelry empires in the country, Naomi has exactly what she wants, but she's learning that it'll take more than the right address to make Manhattan's elite stop treating her like an outsider. The worst of them all is Oliver Cunningham,...
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Language
English
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Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of To Sir, With Love and the Central Park Pact series comes a reverse My Fair Lady tale about a pampered Manhattan socialite who must teach an unpolished drifter from the Louisiana Bayou how to fit in with New York City's upper crust. Somewhere between antagonistic dinner parties and tortured tux fittings, this pair of polar opposites slowly find a begrudging respect for one another--and perhaps even something...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As the youngest physics professor at her university, practical-minded Miranda Reed plans her life with minute precision. But that's before she's denied tenure and the promotion she thought was guaranteed. Suddenly, her tidy life is anything but constant. Overdue for a sabbatical, Miranda takes some time to look towards the stars -- only this time, she's not looking for black holes. With her faith in science shaken, Miranda turns to a practice she's...
Author
Series
The Wedding Belles volume 2
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Determined to make her mark, newly minted Manhattan wedding planner Heather Fowler, while planning an opulent black-tie affair at the Plaza, is showed by her neighbor, Josh Tanner, a former Wall Street up-and-comer, that there is more to life than just work.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Katherine, an ambitious New York City attorney, gets diagnosed with a concussion and must be monitored for forty-eight hours to make sure it doesn't get worse. Unfortunately, she forgot to update her emergency contact, so the person they call is her ex-husband, Tom. Unable to be left alone, Katherine reluctantly agrees to travel to Chicago with him for the holidays. But thanks to a blizzard, what should have been a quick plane ride turns into an...
Author
Series
The Wedding Belles volume Volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Discovering her fiancé is an international con man just moments before they exchange vows devastates celebrity wedding planner Brooke Baldwin's business - and breaks her heart. Brooke thinks she's found a fresh start in NYC with the Belles and her first bridal client, a sweet hotel heiress. Then she meets the uptight businessman who's holding the purse strings...