Happy Endings - Softcover

Stone, Katherine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0821752502 ISBN 13: 9780821752500

Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp, 1996

Synopsis

Two women--beautiful, successful Raven, still suffering from an ugly childhood, and romance writer Holly, struggling to build a new identity--cross paths as they search for love, happiness, and happy endings in Hollywood. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author:

Katherine Stone is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-one novels, including Roommates, Twins, Imagine Love, Love Songs, and Promises. Her books have been translated into twenty languages and are sold worldwide. A physician who now writes full-time, she lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, physician and novelist Jack Chase (Mortality Rate, Fatal Analysis, The Magruder Transplant.) All twenty-one of Katherine’s bestselling novels will be published in new ebook and trade paperback editions. Coming soon: RAINBOWS, BED OF ROSES, THIEF OF HEARTS. Please visit her website for news, updates, and mailing list sign up.

From Kirkus Reviews:

A sob story with a silver lining: Beautiful people suffer and are saved through the transfiguring power of love. Stone (Rainbows, 1992) has penned another quick-reading formula romance. Once again the basic premises are out of Danielle Steel: You can wear Armani, drive a Jaguar, and still be miserable; you can't be too rich or too thin to need love. The plot is crowded with overachievers looking for happiness. In her Los Angeles penthouse, flawlessly beautiful attorney Raven Winter can't find true love because of the poverty and abuse she suffered as the daughter of an outstandingly terrible mother. When she is almost run over by Nick Gault, the blindingly handsome CEO of Eden Enterprises, he pretends to be a gardener because he too has been wounded by life: His ex-wife married him only for his money (hard to believe, considering his steel gray eyes and other staggering assets). Raven, the ``Snow-White Shark,'' is the lawyer for sexy, successful producer/director/actor Jason Cole, who begins the story by winning seven Oscars. Jason, preparing to make a movie of the bestseller Gifts of Love, plans to change the book's happy ending. Its desperate author, Holly Elliot, flies from her Alaska home to persuade Jason to change his mind. Holly, whose stepfather murdered her mother, brother, and sister, doesn't know that her real father, Lawrence, was not killed in Vietnam and has become a veterinarian. Stone provides all her tortured, gorgeous characters with their own happy endings and no explicit sex. She makes a lot of the issue of abortion without the consent of the father. All in all, a stock genre effort, albeit one handled with dispatch. No surprises, very syrupy, and very moral. The Jaguar finds a Lexus; no one should have to park alone. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0821752502
• ISBN 13: 9780821752500
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 384