Bøger af Renee Carlino

From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a love story about a Craigslist missed connection post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York City.To the Green-eyed Lovebird: We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House. You called us fast friends. I like to think it was more. We lived on nothing but the excitement of finding ourselves through music (you were obsessed with Jeff Buckley), photography (I couldnt stop taking pictures of you), hanging out in Washington Square Park, and all the weird things we did to make money. I learned more about myself that year than any other. Yet, somehow, it all fell apart. We lost touch the summer after graduation when I went to South America to work for National Geographic. When I came back, you were gone. A part of me still wonders if I pushed you too hard after the wedding I didnt see you again until a month ago. It was a Wednesday. You were rocking back on your heels, balancing on that thick yellow line that runs along the subway platform, waiting for the F train. I didnt know it was you until it was too late, and then you were gone. Again. You said my name; I saw it on your lips. I tried to will the train to stop, just so I could say hello. After seeing you, all of the youthful feelings and memories came flooding back to me, and now Ive spent the better part of a month wondering what your life is like. I might be totally out of my mind, but would you like to get a drink with me and catch up on the last decade and a half? M

Booklist, Top 10 Women's Fiction of 2016 Goodreads Best Romance of August Redbook.com's ';20 Books by Women You Must ReadThis Fall' Popsugar's ';21 Fiction Reads to Add to Your Fall Reading List' Bustle's ';11 New Romance Books Perfect for Summer Beach Reading' Brit+Co's ';16 Must-Read Adult Books Out in August' Sunset magazine's ';Bookmark this: Your ultimate summer reading list' From USA TODAY bestselling author Rene Carlino (Before We Were Strangers), a warm and witty novel about a struggling writer who must come to grips with her past, present, and future after she discovers that she's the inspiration for a pseudonymously published bestselling novel.When a bestselling debut novel from mysterious author J. Colby becomes the literary event of the year, Emiline reads it reluctantly. As an adjunct writing instructor at UC San Diego with her own stalled literary career and a bumpy long-term relationship, Emiline isnt thrilled to celebrate the accomplishments of a young and gifted writer. Yet from the very first page, Emiline is entranced by the story of Emerson and Jackson, two childhood best friends who fall in love and dream of a better life beyond the long dirt road that winds through their impoverished town in rural Ohio. Thats because the novel is patterned on Emilines own dark and desperate childhood, which means that J. Colby must be Jase: the best friend and first love she hasnt seen in over a decade. Far from being flattered that he wrote the novel from her perspective, Emiline is furious that he co-opted her painful past and took some dramatic creative liberties with the ending. The only way she can put her mind at ease is to find and confront J. Colby, but is she prepared to learn the truth behind the fiction?

Hvordan ville du reagere, hvis du opdagede, at den bog, du sad med i hænderne, handlede om dig? Da forfatterspiren Emiline slår op på første side i årets mest omtalte roman, springer hendes hjerte et slag over. Bogen er skrevet af en hidtil ukendt forfatter ved navn J. Colby og fortæller historien om pigen Em, der vokser op under trange kår langt ude på landet i Ohio. Hun forelsker sig i nabodrengen Jax, og sammen drømmer de om et bedre liv, langt væk fra den hverdag med svigt og vold, hvor kun venskabet og kærligheden til hinanden holder dem oppe. Emiline er i chok, for hun indser, at forfatteren bag det mystiske pseudonym må være Jason Colbertson – hendes barndomsven og første, store kærlighed, som hun ikke har set, siden han forsvandt sporløst for mere end ti år siden. Hvorfor har hun ikke hørt fra ham i alle disse år? Og hvorfor har han udgivet hendes private historie uden at spørge om lov? Selvom Emiline har besluttet sig for at lægge sin traumatiske opvækst bag sig, tvinger bogen hende til at se tilbage på alt det, hun var igennem som barn – og til at opsøge den mand, der knuste hendes hjerte. Men er hun parat til at konfrontere sine dæmoner? En hjertevarm roman om at måtte se fortiden i øjnene for at være i stand til at tage livtag med fremtiden. ”En gribende roman. Jeg læste den i ét stræk.” COLLEEN HOOVER, FORFATTER ”Svær at slippe igen.” LIBRARY JOURNAL "Utrolig velskrevet feel good-roman … Skal nok få både smil og tårer frem hos læseren.” SØNDAG om ’Vi som elskede’

Vi som elskede er en gribende fortælling om tabt kærlighed og nye chancer. Matt og Grace møder hinanden på New York University, hvor de bor på samme kollegie. I en tåge af fester, for sene nætter og for få penge finder de hinanden og forelsker sig. Han fotograferer hende, og hun spiller cello for ham. De er uadskillelige. Indtil Matt får en praktikplads på National Geographic og rejser til Sydamerika. Da han kommer hjem igen, er Grace væk. Femten år senere mødes de igen ved et tilfælde: Hun står på perronen i undergrunden, og han befinder sig i det tog, der netop er ved at forlade stationen. Matt, som altid har spekuleret på, hvad der blev af Grace, efterlyser hende via en annonce på Craigslist – og da de mødes igen, står det klart: Selvom et helt liv er gået, er det, som om tiden har stået stille. ”Vanvittigt god.” – Colleen Hoover, forfatter til Forbandede kærlighed og Det ender med os ”En af de mest romantiske, inderlige og overvældende bøger, jeg nogensinde har læst.” – Book Baristas ”Den her bog slog mig fuldkommen omkuld. Jeg var tryllebundet af den rørende fortælling og de skarpe karakterer.” – The Romance Reviews

A deeply emotional contemporary romance about the second chances waiting beyond the shattered dreams of youth.

From USA Today Bestselling Author, Renée Carlino, comes a totally unique love story that is sure to make you question what's out there . . . or who. "My guardian angel is a drunk." Evelyn Casey's life is at a standstill. She's in her mid-twenties, struggling with the dating scene in San Francisco. Nothing seems to be working out, and she's starting to think that she'll live out her days in her crummy apartment with her overbearing roommate, Brooklyn. It's absurd, but sometimes Evey longs for a guardian angel to show up and save the day. And then he does. Seriously. His name is Lucian and he's a guardian angel, been on the job for two thousand years. His sudden presence in her life is both good-he's brilliant, witty, and warm-and bad-he's brilliant, witty, warm, and hot as ----. But as perfect as Lucian seems, he's got problems of his own. He's taken up drinking and he's brazenly inserted himself into Evey's life, going against the greatest cosmic law ever created. For Evey, the rules are simple: You are not allowed to hook up with your guardian angel. But sometimes fulfilling your destiny requires a leap of faith, a confrontation with God. Yes, God as in God.

Ever wonder what happened after the final pages of Sweet Thing? From his candid and sometimes neurotic point of view, Will tells all in this musical and sexy follow-up novella to Renée Carlino's USA Today Bestseller. Life is pure bliss for Mia and Will. They have a puppy, a loft in Brooklyn, and a new music studio on the rise. It seems things couldn't get any better for this talented couple when life decides to throw them a sweet little curve ball. They quickly learn that things don't always go according to plan. Sometimes happily ever after is one giant leap of faith away. With the help of good music, good friends, and one eccentric old lady, they overcome a few of life's little bumps to find the sweetest thing of all. Watch this duo grow in more ways than one in SWEET Little THING.

"After twenty-two years together, Danielle and Alex are getting a divorce. Once fiercely in love, they can barely stand the sound of each other's voice. To save money during the separation process, they decide to share a nesting apartment, swapping days with their two boys at the family home. In the apartment, Dani and Alex, on their own, begin to reflect on the last two decades - why they fell in love, and why the marriage fell, spectacularly, apart. The distance provides a chance for them to get to know their autonomous selves again. They both get back in the dating pool, Dani finds major success at work as a showrunner on her own TV project, and Alex starts dating a much younger woman. Still, they find they just can't stay away from each other, and somehow, the distance allows them to remember (for the first time in years) what they what they used to love about one another. Then, a family crisis suddenly draws them back into each other's orbit."--

In this evocative and poignant novel from the USA Today-bestselling author of Blind Kiss and Wish You Were Here, a young widow in the midst of grieving her late husband through Facebook posts learns to heal and fall in love again.

A second chance romance about a young woman who reunites with a soulful artist after their magical one-night stand.

A USA TODAY bestselling contemporary romance about the complexities of love and self-discovery in the early post-college years.Mia Kelly thinks she has it all figured out. Shes an Ivy League graduate, a classically trained pianist, and the beloved daughter of a sensible mother and offbeat father. Yet Mia has been stalling since graduation, torn between putting her business degree to use and exploring music, her true love. When her father unexpectedly dies, she decides to pick up the threads of his life while she figures out her own. Uprooting herself from Ann Arbor to New York City, Mia takes over her fathers caf, a treasured neighborhood institution that plays host to undiscovered musicians and artists. Shes denied herself the thrilling and unpredictable life of a musician, but a chance encounter with Will, a sweet, gorgeous, and charming guitarist, offers her a glimpse of what could be. When Will becomes her friend and then her roommate, she does everything in her power to suppress her passionsfor him, for musicbut her fathers legacy slowly opens her heart to the possibility of something more.

A jaded Chicago reporter in her twenties unexpectedly finds love in Napa Valley when shes assigned to spend a week with a famously reclusive genius in this rich and deeply satisfying contemporary romance by the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing.Kate Corbin has lost her spark. A year ago, she had a handsome boyfriend and a budding career as a reporter at a popular Chicago newspaper. But after the woman who raised her passed away, leaving her lost and alone, she fell into a rutand never got out. Now shes stuck writing fluff pieces about lipstick and wine, and feeling trapped in a relationship thats going nowhere.Trusting that the hungry, ace reporter is buried somewhere deep inside, Kates boss and mentor gives her the opportunity to jump-start her career. The assignment: spend a week interviewing R. J. Lawson, a famously reclusive tech genius who disappeared years ago but recently reemerged as the owner of a well-respected Napa Valley winery. Kate jumps at the chance, but the trip begins in disaster, both personally and professionally. After alienating R.J., her only saving grace is Jamie, a charming vineyard hand who shows her the beauty of wine countryand stirs her aching heart. It doesnt take long for Kate and Jamie to fall hard, and for Kate to rethink her life in the city. But the week ends with a heartbreaking journey back to Chicago that sends Kate reeling, wondering what went wrong in those four perfect days.