Genuine Lies

Zusatztext You can't bottle wish fulfillment! but Nora Roberts certainly knows how to put it on the page. The New York Times Roberts does a beautiful job weaving together the movie star's tittilating tales and the love story that develops. USA Today Informationen zum Autor Nora Roberts Klappentext New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts weaves scandal! celebrity secrets! and murder into an explosive novel of Hollywood almost too wicked not to be true: the story of a legendary actress who knows too much-and the woman she's chosen to reveal it all. . . . Eve Benedict is the kind of subject who could make any biographer's career. Last of the movie goddesses! she has two Oscars! four ex-husbands! and a legion of lovers! both famous and infamous. Now she is ready to write a tell-all memoir that has even Hollywood's richest and most powerful worried. Julia Summers never dreamed of being chosen to tell Eve's story. But even if it means transplanting herself and her ten-year-old son from their quiet life in Connecticut to the withering limelight of Beverly Hills! it's an opportunity too great to pass up. But Julia never imagined how far someone would go to keep Eve Benedict's book from being published . . . until she discovers just how dark Eve's secrets are. And the one man Julia hopes she can trust-Eve's stepson! Paul Winthrop-may have the most to gain if his stepmother's story is never told . . . and if Julia's life ends before she can write a word of the truth. "Roberts does a beautiful job weaving together the movie star's tittilating tales and the love story that develops."-USA Today Somehow, using a combination of pride and terror, she managed to keep her head up and to choke back the nausea. It wasn't a nightmare. It wasn't a dark fantasy she would shake off at dawn. Yet, dreamlike, everything was happening in slow motion. She was fighting to push her way through a thick curtain of water beyond which she could see the faces of the people all around her. Their eyes were hungry; their mouths opened and closed as if they would swallow her whole. Their voices ebbed and flowed like the pounding of waves on rock. Stronger, more insistent, was her heart's jerky beat, a fierce tango inside her frozen body. Keep moving, keep moving, her brain commanded her trembling legs as firm hands pushed her through the crowd and out onto the courthouse steps. The glare of sunlight made her eyes tear, so she fumbled for her sunglasses. They would think she was crying. She couldn't allow them that dip into her emotions. Silence was her only shield. She stumbled and felt a moment of panic. She could not fall. If she fell, the reporters, the curious, would leap on her, snarling and snapping and tearing like wild dogs over a rabbit. She had to stand upright, to stand behind her silence for a few yards. Eve had taught her that much. Give them your brains, girl, never your guts. Eve. She wanted to scream. To throw her hands up over her face and scream and scream until all the rage, the fear, the grief, emptied out of her. Shouted questions assaulted her. Microphones stabbed at her face like deadly little darts as the news crews busily tapped the finale of the arraignment for murder of Julia Summers. "Bitch!" shouted someone whose voice was harsh with hate and tears. "Coldhearted bitch." She wanted to stop and scream back: How do you know what I am? How do you know what I feel? But the door of the limo was open. She climbed in to be cocooned by cool air, shielded by tinted glass. The crowd surged forward, pressing against the barricades along the curb. Angry faces encircled her; vultures over a still-bleeding corpse. As the car glided away, she looked straight ahead, her hands fisted in her lap and her eyes mercifully dry. She ...

“You can’t bottle wish fulfillment, but Nora Roberts certainly knows how to put it on the page.”—The New York Times

“Roberts does a beautiful job weaving together the movie star’s tittilating tales and the love story that develops.”—USA Today

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Nora Roberts

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New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts weaves scandal, celebrity secrets, and murder into an explosive novel of Hollywood almost too wicked not to be true: the story of a legendary actress who knows too much-and the woman she's chosen to reveal it all. . . .

Eve Benedict is the kind of subject who could make any biographer's career. Last of the movie goddesses, she has two Oscars, four ex-husbands, and a legion of lovers, both famous and infamous. Now she is ready to write a tell-all memoir that has even Hollywood's richest and most powerful worried.

Julia Summers never dreamed of being chosen to tell Eve's story. But even if it means transplanting herself and her ten-year-old son from their quiet life in Connecticut to the withering limelight of Beverly Hills, it's an opportunity too great to pass up. But Julia never imagined how far someone would go to keep Eve Benedict's book from being published . . . until she discovers just how dark Eve's secrets are. And the one man Julia hopes she can trust-Eve's stepson, Paul Winthrop-may have the most to gain if his stepmother's story is never told . . . and if Julia's life ends before she can write a word of the truth.

"Roberts does a beautiful job weaving together the movie star's tittilating tales and the love story that develops."-USA Today

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New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts weaves scandal, celebrity secrets, and murder into an explosive novel of Hollywood almost too wicked not to be true: the story of a legendary actress who knows too much—and the woman she’s chosen to reveal it all. . . . 

Eve Benedict is the kind of subject who could make any biographer’s career. Last of the movie goddesses, she has two Oscars, four ex-husbands, and a legion of lovers, both famous and infamous. Now she is ready to write a tell-all memoir that has even Hollywood’s richest and most powerful worried.

Julia Summers never dreamed of being chosen to tell Eve’s story. But even if it means transplanting herself and her ten-year-old son from their quiet life in Connecticut to the withering limelight of Beverly Hills, it’s an opportunity too great to pass up. But Julia never imagined how far someone would go to keep Eve Benedict’s book from being published . . . until she discovers just how dark Eve’s secrets are. And the one man Julia hopes she can trust—Eve’s stepson, Paul Winthrop—may have the most to gain if his stepmother’s story is never told . . . and if Julia’s life ends before she can write a word of the truth.

“Roberts does a beautiful job weaving together the movie star’s tittilating tales and the love story that develops.”—USA Today

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Somehow, using a combination of pride and terror, she managed to keep her head up and to choke back the nausea.  It wasn't a nightmare.  It wasn't a dark fantasy she would shake off at dawn.  Yet, dreamlike, everything was happening in slow motion.  She was fighting to push her way through a thick curtain of water beyond which she could see the faces of the people all around her.  Their eyes were hungry; their mouths opened and closed as if they would swallow her whole.  Their voices ebbed and flowed like the pounding of waves on rock.  Stronger, more insistent, was her heart's jerky beat, a fierce tango inside her frozen body.

Keep moving, keep moving, her brain commanded her trembling legs as firm hands pushed her through the crowd and out onto the courthouse steps.  The glare of sunlight made her eyes tear, so she fumbled for her sunglasses.  They would think she was crying. &#…