Bøger af Diane Chamberlain

Efterårets store amerikanske roman er en uforglemmelig fortælling baseret på virkelige hændelser om splittelse, kunstneriske sjæle, kærlighed og et gådefuldt maleri i sydstaternes USA.North Carolina, 2018: Morgan Christophers liv og drømme er knust. Hun sidder fængslet for en forbrydelse, hun ikke har begået – lige indtil en mystisk besøgende giver hende et jobtilbud, der kan sætte hende fri: Hun skal restaurere et gammelt og glemt vægmaleri. Men efterhånden som restaureringen af maleriet skrider frem, og det ene uhyggelige motiv efter det andet åbenbares, begynder Morgan at ane uråd. Hvilke hemmeligheder gemmer landsbyen på, og hvorfor forsvandt den kvindelige kunstner dengang sporløst?North Carolina, 1940: Kunstneren Anna Dale har desperat brug for arbejde. Da hun vinder en stor konkurrence om at male et vægmaleri i posthuset i Edenton, North Carolina, takker hun derfor straks ja. Men hverdagen i den lille sydstatsby er langt fra idel lykke, og snart hvirvles Anna ind i sydstatslivet, hvor fordomme stikker dybt, blod er tykkere end vand, og prisen for at være anderledes kan ende med mord.Maleriets hemmelighed er gribende roman om to kvinder, der på tværs af tid må trodse modgang og uretfærdighed for at finde deres egen vej i livet.

Én forbrydelse, to kvinders møde på tværs af tid. Begge må de se sandheden i øjnene, uanset hvad den bringer med sig …1965, North Carolina. I den lille velhaverby Round Hill bor Ellie Hockley med sin familie, som har høje forventninger til hende. Hun tager den rigtige uddannelse, og hendes forlovede arbejder i byens velansete bank. Men Ellie er ikke engageret i den fremtid, som familien har planlagt for hende. Mod deres ønske bruger hun sin sommer som frivillig i borgerrettighedsbevægelsen. Men da hun bliver forelsket i én af de andre frivillige, opdager Ellie de sande fordomme blandt de mennesker, hun har omkring sig.2010, North Carolina. Kayla Carter og hendes mand har tegnet og bygget deres drømmehus i Round Hill. Det var her, de skulle have skabt et hjem sammen med deres datter. Men da Kaylas mand dør i en tragisk ulykke, ser fremtiden pludselig anderledes ud, og da en mystisk kvinde opsøger Kayla og advarer hende mod at flytte ind i huset, begynder hun at ane uråd om byens fortid.Pressen skriver: ”De to fortællinger væves smukt sammen hen mod den overraskende afslutning! Denne bog vil tryllebinde læserne.”– Publishers Weekly

Én forbrydelse, to kvinders møde på tværs af tid. Begge må de se sandheden i øjnene, uanset hvad den bringer med sig …1965, North Carolina. I den lille velhaverby Round Hill bor Ellie Hockley med sin familie, som har høje forventninger til hende. Hun tager den rigtige uddannelse, og hendes forlovede arbejder i byens velansete bank. Men Ellie er ikke engageret i den fremtid, som familien har planlagt for hende. Mod deres ønske bruger hun sin sommer som frivillig i borgerrettighedsbevægelsen. Men da hun bliver forelsket i én af de andre frivillige, opdager Ellie de sande fordomme blandt de mennesker, hun har omkring sig.2010, North Carolina. Kayla Carter og hendes mand har tegnet og bygget deres drømmehus i Round Hill. Det var her, de skulle have skabt et hjem sammen med deres datter. Men da Kaylas mand dør i en tragisk ulykke, ser fremtiden pludselig anderledes ud, og da en mystisk kvinde opsøger Kayla og advarer hende mod at flytte ind i huset, begynder hun at ane uråd om byens fortid.Pressen skriver: ”Flere elementer i bogen er baseret på sande begivenheder, hvilket gør læsningen realistisk og vedkommende.”– Lektørudtalelse”En hjerteskærende historie fuld af mystik, borgerrettighedskampe, racediskrimination, forbudt kærlighed og den skræmmende sandhed om, hvad mennesker er i stand til at gøre, hvis hadet er stort nok.”– Gizmoamh”De to fortællinger væves smukt sammen hen mod den overraskende afslutning! Denne bog vil tryllebinde læserne.”– Publishers Weekly

From the New York Times bestselling author of Big Lies in a Small TownIt is 1960 in North Carolina and the lives of Ivy Hart and Jane Forrester couldn't be more different. Fifteen-year-old Ivy lives with her family as tenants on a small tobacco farm, but when her parents die, Ivy is left to care for her grandmother, older sister, and nephew. As she struggles with her grandmother's aging, her sister's mental illness, and her own epilepsy, she realizes they might need more than she can give.When Jane Forrester takes a position as Grace County's newest social worker, she is given the task of recommending which of her clients should be sterilized without their knowledge or consent. The state's rationalization is that if her clients are poor, or ill, or deemed in some way "unfit" they should not be allowed to have children. But soon Jane becomes emotionally invested in her clients' lives, causing tension with her new husband and her supervisors. No one understands why Jane would want to become a caseworker for the Department of Public Health when she could be a housewife and Junior League member. As Jane is drawn in by the Hart women, she begins to discover the secrets of the small farm-secrets much darker than she would have guessed. Soon, she must decide whether to take drastic action to help them, or risk losing a life-changing battle.Necessary Lies is the story of these two young women, seemingly worlds apart, but both haunted by tragedy. Jane and Ivy are thrown together and must ask themselves: How can you know what you believe is right, when everyone is telling you it's wrong?

The images were vivid, the sensations powerful, and the more she tried to fight them, the more they drew her in. Claire leads a busy, fulfilled and happy life, a life she wouldn't trade for anything ...and one that is about to change forever. When Claire fails to prevent a disturbed young woman's suicide, the incident seems to trigger something in her - forgotten images of a long-lost sister and a childhood she had always remembered as being close to perfection. Realising that this was not the case, Claire runs the risk of uncovering the dark secrets that are locked away in her memories. Caught in a complex struggle between the present and past, between the man who wants to help her and the husband who cannot, Claire must discover the terrible truth for herself.

Returning home twenty years after a tragic accident that caused the Pennsylvania Dutch townspeople of Reflection to condemn her, Rachel Huber cares for her ailing grandmother despite open hostility and finds allies in two childhood friends.

Actress Eden Riley's decision to make a film about the mother she barely knew plunges her into a shattering confrontation with her own past. Through her mother's journal, Eden discovers a life of hardship, madness and secrets. Shifting gracefully between Eden's world and that of her mother, Secret Lives seduces with the power of its images and the lyricism of its prose.

When Jeff Cabrio arrives in Valle Rosa with ideas for revitalizing the dying town, he encounters Mia Tanner, a woman intent on escaping her past, and Carmen Perez, an investigative reporter struggling to gain respect

A runaway mother's dilemma. Susanna Miller of Colorado loses custody of her baby daughter because of a stint in a mental home. She absconds with her to Maryland and resumes life under an assumed name. The dilemma comes when she learns of a serial killer's next move. If she goes to the police she risks losing her daughter.

New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain delivers a thrilling, mind-bending novel about one mother's journey to save her child.When Carly Sears, a young woman widowed by the Vietnam war, receives the news that her unborn baby girl has a heart defect, she is devastated. It is 1970, and she is told that nothing can be done to help her child. But her brother-in-law, a physicist with a mysterious past, tells her that perhaps there is a way to save her baby. What he suggests is something that will shatter every preconceived notion that Carly has. Something that will require a kind of strength and courage she never knew existed. Something that will mean an unimaginable leap of faith on Carly's part.And all for the love of her unborn child.The Dream Daughter is a rich, genre-spanning, breathtaking novel about one mother's quest to save her child, unite her family, and believe in the unbelievable. Diane Chamberlain pushes the boundaries of faith and science to deliver a novel that you will never forget.Praise for The Dream Daughter:"Chamberlain writes with supernatural gifts...fate, destiny, chance and hope combine for a heady and breathless wonder of a read." -Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan's Tale"Can a story be both mind-bending and heartfelt? In Diane Chamberlain's hands, it can. The Dream Daughter will hold readers in anxious suspense until the last satisfying page." -Therese Fowler, New York Times bestselling author of Z

Steeped in history and filled with heart-wrenching twists, The Stolen Marriage is an emotionally captivating novel of secrets, betrayals, prejudice, and forgiveness. It showcases Diane Chamberlain at the top of her talent.One mistake, one fateful night, and Tess DeMello's life is changed forever. It is 1944. Pregnant, alone, and riddled with guilt, twenty-three-year-old Tess DeMello abruptly gives up her budding career as a nurse and ends her engagement to the love of her life, unable to live a lie. Instead, she turns to the baby's father for help and agrees to marry him, moving to the small, rural town of Hickory, North Carolina. Tess's new husband, Henry Kraft, is a secretive man who often stays out all night, hides money from his new wife, and shows her no affection. Tess quickly realizes she's trapped in a strange and loveless marriage with no way out.The people of Hickory love and respect Henry but see Tess as an outsider, treating her with suspicion and disdain. When one of the town's golden girls dies in a terrible accident, everyone holds Tess responsible. But Henry keeps his secrets even closer now, though it seems that everyone knows something about him that Tess does not. When a sudden polio epidemic strikes Hickory, the townspeople band together to build a polio hospital. Tess knows she is needed and defies Henry's wishes to begin working at there. Through this work, she begins to find purpose and meaning. Yet at home, Henry's actions grow more alarming by the day. As Tess works to save the lives of her patients, can she untangle the truth behind her husband's mysterious behavior and find the love-and the life-she was meant to have?A Library Reads Top Ten Book of October 2017Praise for The Stolen Marriage:"[A] well-crafted crime-tinged tale." -Publishers Weekly "The Stolen Marriage is the kind of story that will grab you and refuse to let you go until you turn the last page." -All About Romance"Readers will be sucked in immediately...you just can't go wrong with a book with [Chamberlain's] name on the cover." -Southern Pines Pilot

Fifteen-year-old Andy Lockwood is special. Others notice the way he blurts out anything that comes into his mind, how he cannot foresee consequences, that he's more child than teenager. But his mother sees a boy with a heart as open and wide as the ocean.Laurel Lockwood lost her son once through neglect. She's spent the rest of her life determined to make up for her mistakes, and she's succeeded in becoming a committed, protective parent-maybe even overprotective. Still, she loosens her grip just enough to let Andy attend a local church social-a decision that terrifies her when the church is consumed by fire. But Andy survives...and remarkably, saves other children from the flames. Laurel watches as Andy basks in the role of unlikely hero and the world finally sees her Andy, the sweet boy she knows as well as her own heart.But when the suspicion of arson is cast upon Andy, Laurel must ask herself how well she really knows her son...and how far she'll go to keep her promise to protect him forever.

AnnieA loving mother and wife, Annie O'Neill was the heart of the small community of Kiss River. But her generous nature hid a darker side that remained secret for years after her tragic death.LaceyWhen Lacey O'Neill finally learns the shattering truth about the mother she's spent a decade emulating, the foundation of her life begins to crumble. Then her close childhood friend dies, leaving her teenage daughter, Mackenzie, in Lacey's care, and Lacey unwillingly finds herself in the role of mother.MackenzieUprooted by her mother's death, Mackenzie resents her new home of Kiss River. She wants nothing to do with the father who never knew she existed-and especially not her mother's oldest friend. But the person who could understand her best might be the one she resents most: Lacey.

Dr. Olivia Simon is on duty in the emergency room of North Carolina's Outer Banks Hospital when a gunshot victim is brought in. Midway through the desperate effort to save the young woman's life, Olivia realizes who she is-Annie O'Neill. The woman Olivia's husband, Paul, is in love with.When Annie dies on the operating table, she leaves behind three other victims. Alec O'Neill, who thought he had the perfect marriage. Paul, whose fixation on Annie is unshakable. And Olivia, who is desperate to understand the woman who destroyed her marriage.Now they are left with unanswered questions about who Annie really was. And about the secrets she kept hidden so well.

"Chamberlain's powerful story is a page-turner to the very end." -Library JournalRiley MacPherson has spent her entire life believing that her older sister Lisa committed suicide as a teenager. It was a belief that helped shape her own childhood and that of her brother. It shaped her view of her family and their dynamics. It influenced her entire life. Now, more than twenty years later, her father has passed away and she's in New Bern, North Carolina, cleaning out his house when she finds evidence that what she has always believed is not the truth. Lisa is alive. Alive and living under a new identity. But why, exactly, was she on the run all those years ago? What secrets are being kept now, and what will happen if those secrets are revealed? As Riley works to uncover the truth, her discoveries will put into question everything she thought she knew about her family. Riley must decide what the past means for her present, and what she will do with her newfound reality. Told with Diane Chamberlain's powerful prose and illumination into the human heart and soul, The Silent Sister is an evocative novel of love, loss, and the bonds among siblings. "Enthralling and gripping...Chamberlain has a gift for telling stories about families whose good intentions go awry in difficult circumstances. Her characters are always portrayed with an understanding that sometimes life's most tragic mistakes require heroic strength to survive." -Book Reporter

The Stolen Marriage is a compelling historical novel from New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain."[A] well-crafted crime-tinged tale." -Publishers Weekly It's 1944. A twenty-three-year-old nurse named Tess has just ended her engagement to the love of her life when she agrees to marry another man. She moves to Hickory, North Carolina, a small town struggling with racial tensions and the hardships of World War II, where she soon realizes she's trapped in a strange and loveless marriage with no way out. The people of Hickory see Tess as an outsider, treating her with suspicion and disdain, leaving her feeling alone and adrift-and terrified. As Tess tries to understand her surroundings and untangle the truth behind her husband's mysterious ways, can she find the love-and the life-she was meant to have...before it's too late?"Combines the issue-driven style of Jodi Picoult [and] the romantic tension of Nora Roberts." -Booklist

Separated by a continent from her child, Gina Higgins comes to Kiss River with little more than a desperate plan. Now, saving her daughter depends on whether she can uncover a message buried deep below the ocean's surface. Kiss River's historic nineteenth-century lighthouse has all but fallen into the sea, taking with it the huge Fresnel lens that once served as its beacon. Gina is desperate to find a way to raise the lens; the glass holds the key to her future, her fortune and her only chance to save the one person who matters to her.Clay O'Neill lives in the old light keeper's house, a home he shares with his sister, Lacey. When Lacey invites her to stay with them, Gina eagerly accepts. As Gina begins her quest to raise the lens, Clay finds himself drawn to her struggle, and to Gina herself.But the answers lie deep below the ocean. And the lighthouse holds secrets that neither Clay nor Gina can anticipate....?Diane Chamberlain is a marvelously gifted author. Every book she writes is a gem!??Literary Times

A community's past sins rise to the surface in New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain's The Last House on the Street when two women, a generation apart, find themselves bound by tragedy and an unsolved, decades-old mystery.1965Growing up in the well-to-do town of Round Hill, North Carolina, Ellie Hockley was raised to be a certain type of proper Southern lady. Enrolled in college and all but engaged to a bank manager, Ellie isn't as committed to her expected future as her family believes. She's chosen to spend her summer break as a volunteer helping to register black voters. But as Ellie follows her ideals fighting for the civil rights of the marginalized, her scandalized parents scorn her efforts, and her neighbors reveal their prejudices. And when she loses her heart to a fellow volunteer, Ellie discovers the frightening true nature of the people living in Round Hill. 2010Architect Kayla Carter and her husband designed a beautiful house for themselves in Round Hill's new development, Shadow Ridge Estates. It was supposed to be a home where they could raise their three-year-old daughter and grow old together. Instead, it's the place where Kayla's husband died in an accident-a fact known to a mysterious woman who warns Kayla against moving in. The woods and lake behind the property are reputed to be haunted, and the new home has been targeted by vandals leaving threatening notes. And Kayla's neighbor Ellie Hockley is harboring long buried secrets about the dark history of the land where her house was built. Two women. Two stories. Both on a collision course with the truth--no matter what that truth may bring to light--in Diane Chamberlain's riveting, powerful novel about the search for justice.

From New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain.Risks and rewards. Sisters and secrets. A riveting tale of family gone wrong.Maya and Rebecca Ward are both accomplished physicians, but that's where the sisters' similarities end.After a devastating hurricane hits the coast of North Carolina, Rebecca urges Maya to join her in the relief effort. It turns out to be just what Maya needs-but then her helicopter crashes into raging floodwaters, there appear to be no survivors.Forced to accept her sister is gone, Rebecca turns to Maya's husband Adam-first for comfort, then in passion. Unaware that, miles from civilization, Maya is injured and trapped with strangers she's not certain she can trust. Now Maya must find the courage to save herself-unaware that the life she left has changed forever.Previously published.

Early on the morning of her eleventh birthday, on the beach beside her North Carolina home, Daria Cato receives an unbelievable gift from the sea-an abandoned newborn baby. When the infant's identity cannot be uncovered, she is adopted by Daria's loving family. But her silent secrets continue to haunt Daria.Now, twenty years later, Shelly has grown into an unusual, ethereal young woman whom Daria continues to protect. But when Rory Taylor, a friend from Daria's childhood and now a television producer, returns at Shelly's request to do a story about the circumstances surrounding her birth, something precarious shifts in the small town of Kill Devil Hills.The more questions Rory asks, the more unsettled the tiny community becomes, as closely guarded secrets and the sins of that long-ago summer begin to surface. Piece by piece, the mystery of summer's child is being exposed, a mystery that no one involved-not Shelly, Daria, not even Rory-is prepared to face.

Laura Brandon's promise to her dying father was simple: to visit an elderly woman she'd never heard of before. A woman who remembers nothing-except the distant past. Visiting Sarah Tolley seemed a small enough sacrifice to make.But Laura's promise results in another death. Her husband's. And after their five-year-old daughter, Emma, witnesses her father's suicide, Emma refuses to talk about it…to talk at all.Frantic and guilt ridden, Laura contacts the only person who may be able to help. A man she's met only once-six years before. A man who doesn't know he's Emma's real father.Guided only by a child's silence and an old woman's fading memories, the two unravel a tale of love and despair, of bravery and unspeakable evil. A tale that's shrouded in silence…and that unbelievably links them all.

A shocking disappearance. Remote Virginia wilderness. Two mothers who will do anything to save their daughters. Delve into this gripping thriller by New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain.Eight-year-old Sophie Donohue just wanted to be like every other little girl. Which is why her mother, Janine, reluctantly agreed to let her go on a weekend camping trip in the forests of West Virginia. But when Janine arrives to pick up Sophie after the trip… her daughter has disappeared.But Sophie is no ordinary eight-year-old. She suffers from a rare disease, and Janine has recently enrolled her in an experimental treatment as a last effort to save her life. Without her medication, Sophie cannot survive long. All her mother's instincts tell Janine that Sophie is alive, but time is running out.Deep in the Virginia forest, another drama unfolds. Sophie finds refuge in a remote cabin inhabited by Zoe, a woman who wants nothing to do with the child. Zoe is struggling to save her own daughter from the law, and Sophie's presence jeopardizes any chance of that happening. She is as determined to save her daughter as Janine is to save Sophie…and only one of them can succeed.Previously published.

BYENS HEMMELIGHEDER ER SKJULT  I ET GAMMELT MALERI.NU BLIVER SANDHEDEN AFDÆKKET LAG FOR LAG ...North Carolina, 2018: Morgan Christophers liv og drømme er knust. Hun sidder fængslet for en forbrydelse, hun ikke har begået – lige indtil en mystisk besøgende giver hende et jobtilbud, der kan sætte hende fri: Hun skal restaurere et gammelt og glemt vægmaleri. Men efterhånden som restaureringen af maleriet skrider frem, og det ene uhyggelige motiv efter det andet åbenbares, begynder Morgan at ane uråd. Hvilke hemmeligheder gemmer landsbyen på, og hvorfor forsvandt den kvindelige kunstner dengang sporløst?North Carolina, 1940: Kunstneren Anna Dale har desperat brug for arbejde. Da hun vinder en stor konkurrence om at male et vægmaleri i posthuset i Edenton, North Carolina, takker hun derfor straks ja. Men hverdagen i den lille sydstatsby er langt fra idel lykke, og snart hvirvles Anna ind i sydstatslivet, hvor fordomme stikker dybt, blod er tykkere end vand, og prisen for at være anderledes kan ende med mord.Maleriets hemmelighed er en gribende roman om to kvinder, der på tværs af tid må trodse modgang og uretfærdighed for at finde deres egen vej i livet.

A powerfully gripping and moving page-turner about a small town which hides a terrible secret from the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author.

A beloved daughter. A devastating choice. And now there's no going back.Four years ago, nineteen-year-old Travis Brown made a choice: to raise his newborn daughter on his own. While most of his friends were out partying and meeting girls, Travis was at home, changing diapers and worrying about keeping food on the table. But he's never regretted his decision. Bella is the light of his life. The reason behind every move he makes. And so far, she is fed. Cared for. Safe.But when Travis loses his construction job and his home, the security he's worked so hard to create for Bella begins to crumble....Then a miracle. A job in Raleigh has the power to turn their fortunes around. It has to. But when Travis arrives in Raleigh, there is no job, only an offer to participate in a onetime criminal act that promises quick money and no repercussions.With nowhere else to turn, Travis must make another choice for his daughter's sake.Even if it means he might lose her.