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What if the only way to keep your children is to let them go? Perfect for all fans of Jodi Picoult.Losing a husband is unbearable. But losing her children too would be one heartbreak too many…Ella is happily settled in family life with her husband Joe and their two young children, Zach and Annie. Then the unthinkable happens – Joe is killed in a tragic accident.Distraught, Ella’s only solace is the children, who she clings to for dear life. But she can’t help feeling that the happiness she took for granted is over for good. Her worst fears are realised when Joe’s beautiful ex-wife Paige, who deserted her family three years earlier, turns up at his funeral, determined to reclaim her children.Struggling with her own grief, Ella is now forced to battle for her family and the life which she loves. And when pushed to the limits, Ella must decide who is the best mother for her children.

What if the only way to keep your children is to let them go? Perfect for all fans of Jodi Picoult.Losing a husband is unbearable. But losing her children too would be one heartbreak too many…Ella is happily settled in family life with her husband Joe and their two young children, Zach and Annie. Then the unthinkable happens – Joe is killed in a tragic accident.Distraught, Ella’s only solace is the children, who she clings to for dear life. But she can’t help feeling that the happiness she took for granted is over for good. Her worst fears are realised when Joe’s beautiful ex-wife Paige, who deserted her family three years earlier, turns up at his funeral, determined to reclaim her children.Struggling with her own grief, Ella is now forced to battle for her family and the life which she loves. And when pushed to the limits, Ella must decide who is the best mother for her children.

Set in the stunning, eerie Alaskan mountains, this is a love story you will never forget.Step into the home that lay empty for decades…After a family tragedy, the old Alaskan homestead lay abandoned for two decades, until the one person who need it most came looking. What Kache found was more than a house full of old memories and buried secrets: he found Nadia, who had been hiding from the world, unseen, for ten years.Held captive by a past too painful or too dangerous to face, they must now break free from what binds them in place – and face the ghosts that have never stopped haunting them.Step into the house of frozen dreams…

Set in the stunning, eerie Alaskan mountains, this is a love story you will never forget.Step into the home that lay empty for decades…After a family tragedy, the old Alaskan homestead lay abandoned for two decades, until the one person who need it most came looking. What Kache found was more than a house full of old memories and buried secrets: he found Nadia, who had been hiding from the world, unseen, for ten years.Held captive by a past too painful or too dangerous to face, they must now break free from what binds them in place – and face the ghosts that have never stopped haunting them.Step into the house of frozen dreams…

Set in the stunning, eerie Alaskan mountains, this is a love story you will never forget.Step into the home that lay empty for decades…After a family tragedy, the old Alaskan homestead lay abandoned for two decades, until the one person who need it most came looking. What Kache found was more than a house full of old memories and buried secrets: he found Nadia, who had been hiding from the world, unseen, for ten years.Held captive by a past too painful or too dangerous to face, they must now break free from what binds them in place – and face the ghosts that have never stopped haunting them.Step into the house of frozen dreams…

Set against the backdrop of Redwood forests and shimmering vineyards, Seré Prince Halverson''s compelling debut tells the story of two women, bound by an unspeakable loss, who each claims to be the mother of the same two children.

To Ella Beene, happiness means living in the northern California river town of Elbow with her husband, Joe, and his two young children. Yet one summer day Joe breaks his own rule-never turn your back on the ocean-and a sleeper wave strikes him down, drowning not only the man but his many secrets.

For three years, Ella has been the only mother the kids have known and has believed that their biological mother, Paige, abandoned them. But when Paige shows up at the funeral, intent on reclaiming the children, Ella soon realizes there may be more to Paige and Joe''s story. "Ella''s the best thing that''s happened to this family," say her close-knit Italian-American in-laws, for generations the proprietors of a local market. But their devotion quickly falters when the custody fight between mother and stepmother urgently and powerfully collides with Ella''s quest for truth.

The Underside of Joy is not a fairy-tale version of stepmotherhood pitting good Ella against evil Paige, but an exploration of the complex relationship of two mothers. Their conflict uncovers a map of scars-both physical and emotional-to the families'' deeply buried tragedies, including Italian internment camps during World War II and postpartum psychosis.

Weaving a rich fictional tapestry abundantly alive with the glorious natural beauty of the novel''s setting, Halverson is a captivating guide through the flora and fauna of human emotion-grief and anger, shame and forgiveness, happiness and its shadow complement . . . the underside of joy.

Wie weit gehen wir, um die zu schützen, die wir lieben? Dieser Frage geht Seré Prince Halverson, Autorin des Romans ›Das Haus der gefrorenen Träume‹, in ihrem Debütbestseller nach.Ein herzzerreißender, vielschichtig erzählter Roman. Ein Drama das unter die Haut geht. Eine Sommerlektüre, die Sehnsüchte weckt – und am Ende glücklich macht.Ella Beene kann sich glücklich schätzen mit ihrem wunderbaren Ehemann, zwei lebhaften Kindern und Schwiegereltern, die sie wie eine eigene Tochter betrachten. Aber als ihr Mann Joe bei einem Unfall ertrinkt, ist ihr Leben mit einem Schlag auf den Kopf gestellt, und das Glück, das ewig dauern sollte, scheint vorbei zu sein. Als Joes schöne Exfrau, die ihn und die gemeinsamen Kinder drei Jahre zuvor verlassen hatte, plötzlich auf der Beerdigung auftaucht, fürchtet Ella das Schlimmste – zu Recht. Sie muss ihre eigene Trauer bewältigen, darum kämpfen, die Kinder zu behalten und sich um das wirtschaftliche Überleben der Familie kümmern. Aber während sie alles daran setzt, alles richtig zu machen und den Prozess um das Sorgerecht zu gewinnen, muss sie auch die Frage beantworten, ob sie die beste Mutter für die Kinder ist.

*** Er schließt die Tür zur Vergangenheit auf - Sie hat sich zehn Jahre vor der Welt versteckt***Der zweite Roman von Bestsellerautorin Seré Prince Halverson nach ›Die andere Seite des Glücks‹ erzählt eine absolut außergewöhnliche Liebesgeschichte, angesiedelt in der majestätischen, aber auch gefährlichen Wildnis Alaskas.Zwanzig Jahre, nachdem seine Eltern beim Absturz ihres Buschflugzeugs starben, kehrt Kachemak Winkel, der inzwischen in Texas lebt, zum ersten Mal in seine Heimat, nach Caboose, Alaska, zurück. Seine Tante sollte sich um das einsam gelegene Haus der Eltern kümmern, doch offenbar ist sie trotz ihres damaligen Versprechens in der gesamten Zeit nicht einmal da gewesen. Als Kache sich auf den Weg dorthin macht, erwartet er eigentlich, nur noch morsche Balken vorzufinden. Zu seiner großen Überraschung trifft er dort jedoch eine junge Frau an, Nadia, die sich schon seit Jahren hierversteckt.Aus der wechselnden Perspektive von Kache, seiner Tante und Nadia wird nach und nach enthüllt, welche Ereignisse in der Vergangenheit die drei miteinander verbinden, sie alle gefangen halten. Konfrontiert mit ihren Erinnerungen und Ängsten, lernen sie, sich aus diesen Fesseln zu lösen. Jeder muss seinen eigenen Weg finden, sich daraus zu befreien.Ein atmosphärischer Frauenroman, eine außergewöhnliche Liebesgeschichte, die zeigt, wie Verzeihen und Verständnis und eine vertraute Landschaft Wunden heilen können.Seré Prince Halverson ist freie Texterin und Autorin und lebt mit ihrem Ehemann in Nordkalifornien. Sie haben vier erwachsene Kinder. Im FISCHER Taschenbuch erschien ihr Bestseller ›Die andere Seite des Glücks‹.