Eileen Goudge has 15 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 9 narrators. The most-rated is Bones and Roses.
Wish Come True
Summary
After years spent in the shadow of her movie-star sister, Monica, Anna Vincenzi finally remakes herself. But with Monica is murdered, Anna is arrested as the prime suspect. Fortunately, Anna is not alone as she fights to exonerate herself. When a Carson Springs dweller as beloved as Anna needs help, all the valley's residents rally together, each working in his or her own special way to help one of their own. And what of her passionate encounter with Dr. Marc Raboy? Gripping and emotionally complex, Wish Come True is the most satisfying Carson Springs novel yet.
©2003 Eileen Goudge (P)2008 BBC Audio
Immediate Family
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Fifteen years after their Princeton graduation, Jay, Franny, Emerson, and Stevie meet at a college reunion. Life has taken each of them in different directions - Jay is a married man with a baby on the way, while Franny yearns for a child. Divorced single mom Emerson is drawn to a man who challenges her assumptions about finding a once-in-a-lifetime love. And Stevie has recently been rocked by a shocking revelation - the answer to a long-kept family secret. Now the bond between them takes a surprising twist, one that changes how each feels about family and friendship. One thing is certain: They will all find their heart's desires in the last place they imagine - as they discover that family is less about blood ties than the warm embrace of ones who accept them as they are.
©2006 Eileen Goudge (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
The Replacement Wife
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Camille Harte makes her living as a matchmaker. When she receives the diagnosis she's dreaded and learns she has only six months to live, she decides to do the unthinkable: find a replacement wife for her husband. It's a setup only international mega-best seller Eileen Goudge could concoct. Goudge's consistent 16 New York Times best sellers include Garden of Lies, Once in a Blue Moon, Woman in Red, Domestic Affairs, and The Diary.
©2012 Eileen Goudge. All rights reserved. (P)2012 AudioGo
Swimsuit Body
Summary
With a Hollywood movie about to start filming in the California seaside town of Cypress Bay, Tish Ballard, owner of Rest Easy Property Management, welcomes her first celebrity tenant. Delilah Ward isn't your typical beautiful, spoiled actress; she's America's sweetheart. Even Tish is charmed by the young star, which makes her gruesome discovery of Delilah's bloodied corpse all the more gut-wrenching. With so much at stake, Tish has no choice but to do whatever it takes to lure a crafty killer out of hiding. Swimsuit Body is the second novel in the Cypress Bay Mysteries, which began with Bones and Roses, but the books can be listened to and enjoyed in any order.
©2016 Eileen Goudge (P)2016 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Stranger in Paradise
Summary
Beneath the tranquil surface of Carson Springs, disputes flare, feuds simmer, and secrets are guarded. In Stranger in Paradise, a woman's love for a much younger man ignites a blaze of disapproval. Goudge's legion of fans will be drawn irresistibly into the life of this beautiful, lush, unique valley where family histories have dangerously deep and tangled roots.
©2002 AudioGO (P)2015 Blackstone Audiobooks
Otherwise Engaged
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Can a New York City journalist exchange her subway pass for an SUV and find happiness? Can a small-town wife and mother take on the role of single city woman and discover a whole new life? Jessie Holland is in search of a hot story for Savvy magazine when her editor poses a compelling question: Can you ever really go home again? Jumping on the idea, and with her love life currently at a crossroads, Jessie plans to return to her Arizona hometown and follow the path not taken - with a twist. Her best friend back home, Erin Delahanty, is dealing with a crumbling marriage, a teenage daughter, and the demands of running a bed and breakfast. Needing to take stock of her life, she agrees to Jessie's offer: she'll live in Manhattan for six months, while Jessie steps into Erin's shoes. But the choices and challenges they face take them by surprise... and what began as a daring magazine article will change both women forever.
©2005 Eileen Goudge (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
Blessing in Disguise
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A daughter holds clues to her father's shocking secrets, and her mother would risk anything to protect those secrets. Grace Truscott, in the biography of her father - a great civil-rights advocate and senator - raises questions about a death. Was her own father guilty of killing Ned Emory, the husband of his African-American secretary?
Only one person, the secretary's daughter, Nola, knows what really happened, but Nola is guarding a dark secret of her own. While Grace is struggling with a second marriage - melding his children and hers into a new family - the scandal breaks!
From New York to the gracious old mansions and fragrant gardens of Georgia, Eileen Goudge's new novel will touch the heart of every woman who has loved and lost...and who has found the courage to love again.
©2008 Eileen Goudge (P)2008 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
The Diary
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When the two grown daughters of Elizabeth Marshall discover an old diary of their mother's in the attic, it comes as a shock to learn that the true love of Elizabeth's life was not their father. But is all as it seems? That's the mystery the two daughters must unravel as they stay up late reading the words penned by Elizabeth so long ago. Their mother can't provide the answers: After a massive stroke, she lies mute and near death in a nursing home. Only the pages of her diary can provide clues to what really happened.
©2009 Eileen Goudge (P)2009 BBC Audio
Trail of Secrets
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Psychologist Ellie Nightingale is haunted by the kidnapping of her baby daughter 23 years ago. Years of trying unsuccessfully to conceive another child have left her with a fierce desire to adopt - an obsession that is driving a wedge between her and her husband.
Former equestrienne Kate Sutton's hopes for both show-jumping stardom and a family are shattered in a fateful fall from a horse. Yet the miscarriage also brings her an abandoned infant she and her husband claim as their own daughter. Then she reads the headlines about the kidnapped baby and the young mother who lost her, and faces the soul-wrenching decision of her life.
Skyler Sutton is a young champion for whom no hurdle is ever too high - until she's challenged by her seemingly impossible love for Tony Salvatore, a tough-talking New York mounted policeman. Too soon for anyone's good, she is pregnant. And Tony knows a woman therapist who wants a baby more than anything in the world....
©2008 Eileen Goudge (P)2008 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
The Second Silence
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Romantic, suspenseful, and utterly compelling, The Second Silence takes us into the breaking heart of Noelle Van Doren, whose only child is snatched from her by her estranged husband, Robert, a powerful real-estate developer. As Noelle and her long-estranged parents, Mary and Charlie, frantically peel away layers of mystery regarding Robert's past, the lives of each begin to change in unexpectedly wrenching ways.For Charlie and Mary, the years apart have made them realize that one's first love is often one's best love, but now new obstacles stand in their way. Noelle is astonished to discover her ability to open her heart to a new love.An engrossing drama, Eileen Goudge's The Second Silence will keep listeners transfixed from beginning to end.
©2007 Eileen Goudge (P)2007 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
Domestic Affairs
Summary
Rosie and Abigail are like family, Ina Merriweather used to say. That is, until the day Ina abruptly cast out her housekeeper, Rosie, and her 15-year-old daughter, Abigail. Abigail felt deeply betrayed, especially by Ina's daughter, Lila, who was her closest friend. Only Lila's twin brother, Vaughn, with whom Abigail had been exploring the joys and heartaches of first love, showed any compassion. Now, 25 years later, an old score is about to be settled - and an old love rekindled. Abigail is now a self-made woman who has built an empire out of the homemaking skills she learned from her mother. When Lila, who married well and for decades lived the glittering life of a Park Avenue socialite, suffers a tragic reversal of fortune, an opportunity to right an old wrong lands squarely in Abigail's lap. In a collision of fate, the women are thrown together and must unite to save one another.
©2008 Eileen Goudge (P)2008 BBC Audiobooks America
Once in a Blue Moon
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Lindsay and Kerrie Ann are sisters who have known hardship from an early age. Without guidance from their neglectful mother, their only aid came from an unlikely source, a retired exotic dancer by the name of Miss Honi Love. When the girls' mother was sent to prison, Miss Honi tried unsuccessfully to save them from being separated and sent into foster care. Thirty years later, Lindsay is still trying to reconnect with her sister. The owner of a bookstore in the sleepy California seaside town of Blue Moon Bay, she was lucky enough to have been adopted by a loving couple. Unbeknownst to her, Kerrie Ann has suffered a very different life. Bounced from one foster home to the next, she ran away as a teenager before becoming a drug-addicted single mother. Now, newly sober, Kerrie Ann is fighting to regain custody of the little girl who was taken from her. Neither sister's expectations are met when they're finally reunited. But as the two sisters engage in the fiercest battles of their lives, they are at last drawn together despite their differences, restoring belief in the unshakable bond of family.
©2009 Eileen Goudge (P)2009 BBC Audio
Taste of Honey
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Everyone knows that feisty, sensual Gerry Fitzgerald wasn't always so outspoken. As a young novitiate, Gerry became pregnant, fleeing the altar just as she was about to take her vows and never breathing a word about why. Twenty-eight years later, the child she gave up for adoption has returned, a grown woman looking for answers. Now Gerry must learn how to defuse the years of guilt, shame, and bitterness that divide her from her daughter. At the same time, Gerry's feelings for her lover, Aubrey, grow more complex and consuming. Suddenly their relationship has begun to crack open both their cautious hearts.
©2002 Eileen Goudge (P)2008 BBC Audio
One Last Dance
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Best-selling author Eileen Goudge turns up the heat in a passionate drama of secrets and deadly betrayal. On the eve of their 40th wedding anniversary, the Seagraves are among the most envied couples in their community, and still deeply in love - until the night Lydia Seagrave picks up a gun and shoots her husband. Confronting a tangle of family lies in the wake of this shocking tragedy are the three Seagrave children: Daphne, in love with the D.A. who's prosecuting her mother; Alex, determined to vindicate her father; and Kitty, just as determined to vindicate her mother. As the devastated sisters come together to unravel the truth about their family, they must also face the lies and betrayals in which they've unknowingly taken part. They must rebuild from their shattered illusions a life that is honest - even at the risk of pain.
©2008 Eileen Goudge (P)2008 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
Bones and Roses
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From home invasions to cheating spouses, Rest Easy Property Management owner Leticia Tish Ballard thought she'd seen it all. Almost four years sober after flambéing her real estate career in an alcohol-fueled blowout, she's finally in a good place in her life when the discovery of skeletal human remains rocks her world and plunges her headlong into solving a decades-old crime. Now she must delve into the darkness of her own past, including the one-night stand gone horribly wrong with Spence Breedlove, who happens to be the lead detective on the case. When the truth comes out at long last, Tish finds herself pitted against an enemy who will stop at nothing in a fight for her own life.
©2016 Eileen Goudge (P)2016 Dreamscape Media, LLC