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Fresh Fiction for August Is Here

Cowboys, castles, and shiftersβ€”this month has it all.

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Hotter than a Tuscan summer.


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Some promises cost you the one you love.


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Only she can pull him back from the darkness.


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One golden retriever knows this is love.


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Trust is the fiercest transformation of all.


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From Himalayan stargazing to the London Blitzβ€”one love endures.

Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese

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Also by Laurie Lico Albanese:

Hester, October 2023
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Hester, October 2022
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Stolen Beauty, February 2017
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HESTER
By: Laurie Lico Albanese

A Novel

St. Martin's Press
October 2022
On Sale: October 4, 2022
Featuring: Nathaniel; Isobel
336 pages
ISBN: 1250278554
EAN: 9781250278555
Kindle: B09NTKBCVL
Hardcover / e-Book
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Trade Paperback (reprint - October 2023)

Women's Fiction Historical

Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband, Edward. An apothecary who has fallen under the spell of opium, his pile of debts have forced them to flee Edinburgh for a fresh start in the New World. But only days after they've arrived in Salem, Edward abruptly joins a departing ship as a medic––leaving Isobel penniless and alone in a strange country, forced to make her way by any means possible.

When she meets a young Nathaniel Hawthorne, the two are instantly drawn to each other: he is a man haunted by his ancestors, who sent innocent women to the gallows––while she is an unusually gifted needleworker, troubled by her own strange talents. As the weeks pass and Edward's safe return grows increasingly unlikely, Nathaniel and Isobel grow closer and closer. Together, they are a muse and a dark storyteller; the enchanter and the enchanted. But which is which?

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