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Eileen Goudge Blessing in Disguise, One Last Dance

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Title: Blessing in Disguise
Author: Eileen Goudge
Read By: Sheila Hart
Copyright: 2008
Audiobook Copyright: 2008
Genre: Mystery

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Number of MP3s: 29
Total Duration: 18:07:26
Total MP3 Size: 746.96
Encoded At: CBR 64 kbit/s 44100 Hz Mono

Book Description
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From Publishers Weekly
Bestselling author Goudge ( Garden of Lies ) should
hit the charts again with her tale of second loves
and the emotional interbraiding of two complex family trees.
Though the narrative does not sustain the compulsively
readable jolt of its beginning chapters, it remains enjoyable
even when the pace slows somewhat. New York City journalist
Grace Truscott is hard at work on a biography of her famous father,
a Southern Democratic senator and civil rights advocate.
Her steel magnolia mother, Cordelia, now raising money for a
memorial library for her late husband, is furious because Grace
plans to spill the secret about Senator Truscott's role in the
death of his black secretary Margaret's husband, a bitter pill
that becomes more acrid after Grace learns that a long love affair
between her father and Margaret produced a daughter. Other domestic
squabbles fan the fires: Grace and her inamorato Jack, an editor,
quarrel about their age difference, while sullen teens from their
first marriages try to end their liaison and Jack's viperish older
son plots against him at work; Cordelia struggles with her feelings
for a younger man, a former teacher who is now her gardener. Goudge
excels at capturing excruciating family dynamics, adolescent tantrums
and emotions that cruise below the surface.

Cliched descriptions--everyone is gorgeous and talented--and
an overriding need to link characters with contrived plot twists do
a disservice to an otherwise thumping good read. Paperback rights to
Signet; BOMC dual main selection; 150,000 first printing; $150,000
ad/promo; author tour.

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Title: One Last Dance
Author: Eileen Goudge
Read By: Sandra Burr
Copyright: 2008
Audiobook Copyright: 2008
Genre: Mystery

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Number of MP3s: 20
Total Duration: 14:39:54
Total MP3 Size: 604.37
Encoded At: CBR 64 kbit/s 44100 Hz Mono

Book Description
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In the small seaside community of Miramonte, California,
Dr. Vernon Seagrave and his wife, Lydia, are thought to
be a model couple, appearing happy and content to all
who know them. But on the eve of the gala celebration
planned for their 40th wedding anniversary,
Lydia digs her husband's gun out of the closet and
then shoots him several times in the chest, killing him.
She makes no excuses for the cold-blooded murder, nor
does she try to defend herself. In fact, she does everything
she can to aid the police and the prosecution's case against her,
everything, that is, except tell the real truth.

The murder leaves everyone shocked, but none so much as the
Seagraves' three daughters, Daphne, Kitty, and Alex.

Daphne, a moderately successful novelist trapped in a
loveless marriage to her physician husband, returns to her
hometown to confront both the specter of her parents' secret
lives and the life and blood reality of Johnny Devane - the
one true love she left behind some 20 years before.
While both Daphne and Johnny went on to marry others,
neither of them ever got over the other. In Johnny's case,
his pining for Daphne was the eventual death of his marriage,
and at the first sight of her when she returns to town, he
realizes just how strong his love for her has always been.
But things are far from simple. There is the matter of Daphne's
husband and her two children. There is also the fact that
Johnny is now the assistant D.A. in Miramonte and therefore
responsible for prosecuting Daphne's mother.

Kitty, the oldest Seagrave sister, is unmarried and childless,
but is ontheverge of adopting the unborn baby of a local girl
when her father's murder occurs. Devastated by both her family's
tragedy and the sudden change of heart it triggers in the young
mother-to-be, Kitty turns to the arms of a much younger man for
solace - Sean, who also happens to be the older brother of the
pregnant girl whose baby Kitty still hopes to adopt. When the
young girl decides to give her baby to someone else,
Kitty finds it unbearable to be around Sean because of the
painful reminders he triggers. Yet, in the brief time Kitty
has spent with Sean she has come to love him, which makes
being away from him just as painful.

Alex, the youngest daughter and the one who was always
her father's favorite, is hit hardest by her father's death.
As her father's confidante for many years, Alex knows more
than anyone else about the truth behind her parents' marriage,
and she can't understand her older sisters' efforts to vindicate
their mother. Her grief and confusion are compounded by some
serious financial difficulties that have arisen since her
divorce from her husband, Jim, two years earlier, a divorce
that has left her emotionally bankrupt as well. Before long,
Alex's difficulties grow to the point that they threaten her home,
her custody of her twin daughters, and even her sanity.

Each of the three sisters harbors some secret knowledge about
the true nature of their parents' relationship, and as they
come together to try to unravel all the lies, they are forced
to confront their own duplicity and the heavy cost of their silence.
When the whole truth is finally revealed, it shocks each of them to
their very core, ripping away the framework of lies on which they've
built their lives. Only through love, openness, and total honesty
can they hope to survive this devastating family tragedy with their
emotions, sanity, and dreams intact.

Fans of Goudge's previous works will find the same high drama and
deep passion that have kept her books on the bestseller charts.
But this time there is the added bonus of a murder, though the
intrigue here isn't in whodunit, but why. As Goudge explores the
secrets and facades of the Seagrave family, revealing truths that
were always evident but not always seen, one can't help but wonder
what dark secrets may be lurking in our own families and how often
we keep our personal blinders a little too firmly in place.

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