Husbands And Lovers (Park Avenue Series, Book #2): Upmarket Women's Historical Fiction Twentieth Century
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Romantic Times Award winner!
New Revised Author’s Edition!
A lonely wife. A handsome lover. A jealous husband. A gun in a Tiffany bag.
The Married Woman—When Carlys Webber’s marriage to millionaire Kirk Arnold falters, will she risk everything for the excitement of a brief affair?
The Single Woman—Wildly stylish fashion executive, Jade Mullen survives deception and divorce, but when she falls in love again, is she doomed to another betrayal?
The Husband—Millionaire business tycoon, Kirk Arnold, achieves one dazzling success after another, but can his marriage survive a deadly legacy?
The Lover—Architect George Kouras rises from humble beginnings to the top of his profession. When he and Jade fall deeply in love, they think they have invented a new way to live happily ever after, but have they?
Set in high-powered executive suites and elegant Park Avenue apartments, in modest, ethnic neighborhoods and sedate suburbs, Husbands and Lovers is about four unforgettable characters losing—and finding— themselves in the gritty 1970s and glitzy 1980s.
"Sharply and stylishly written. Harris writes with intellect, insight and humor." —The Chicago Sun-Times
“Harris’s empathy for her women, especially the ugly duckling who makes herself into a swan, adds a satisfying tie to reality. Fast-paced and irresistible, you will be spellbound.” —Cosmopolitan
All five books in the Park Avenue Series are available on GooglePlay.
Decades (Book # 1)--This bestselling classic is the compelling story of a marriage at risk, a family in crisis and a woman on the brink set against the tumultuous decades of the mid-twentieth century. "Absolutely perfect!" --Publisher's Weekly "Terrific!" —Cosmopolitan "Powerful! A gripping novel." —Women Today Book Club https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Ruth_Harris_DECADES_Park_Avenue_Series_Book_1?id=iMfHBAAAQBAJ
Love And Money (Book #3)—Rich girl, poor girl. Sisters and strangers until murder—and the handsome, brilliant man they both love—bring them face to face. “Richly plotted. First-class entertainment.” —NY Times "Fast-paced, superior fiction. A terrifically satisfying 'good read.'" —Fort Lauderdale News Sun-Sentinel https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=6TD3AgAAQBAJ
Modern Women (Book # 4)—Million-copy NYT bestseller! Three fabulous, dynamic women—and the men in their lives. The right men. The wrong men. The maybe men. "Funny, sad, vivid, and raunchy. Harris seeks to enliven and entertain, and she does it in spades." —The Cleveland Plain-Dealer " Ruth Harris's rapier wit spices up a superb 'rags to riches' novel. You'll love Modern Women." —West Coast Review of Books "Sharp and stylishly written." —Chicago Sun-Times https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=oHH4AgAAQBAJ
The Last Romantics (Book # 5)—A sweeping love story set in Paris and New York during the champagne-fizzed Jazz Age of the 1920's. He is dashing, handsome and celebrated but dangerously flawed. She is a gifted fashion designer who has the world at her feet. She is beautiful, charming, lonely, haunted. "I love it, I love it! Fantastic, immensely readable." —Cosmopolitan
"Gloriously romantic" —Kirkus https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Ruth_Harris_The_Last_Romantics_Park_Avenue_Series?id=lav4AgAAQBAJ
Keywords: Historical Women's Fiction NYC, Historical fiction mystery and suspense, Historical fiction 20th Century, romance, marriage, suspense, divorce, abortion, wife, divorced woman, single woman, single mom, millionaire, architect, jealous husband, cheating boyfriend, New York, Florida, mid-west, women's fiction
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About the author
Ruth Harris is a New York Times and Amazon bestselling author and a Romantic Times award winner for “best contemporary.” Her emotional, entertaining novels have been praised by critics and sold millions of copies in hard cover, paperback, and ebook editions, and were prominent selections of leading book clubs including the Literary Guild and the Book Of The Month Club.
Ruth writes about strong, savvy, witty women who struggle to succeed and, when sometimes they don’t get what they want, they find something even better along the way. Critics have compared Ruth to Nora Ephron and Joan Didion and called her books "brilliant," “steamy,” "stylishly written," ”richly plotted,” “first-class entertainment” and “a sure thing.”
Readers' reviews include comments like: "I couldn't stop reading," "her plots seem so real I must keep telling myself it's fiction," "thought-provoking," "made me laugh and cry," "by far the best author I have come across in years," "suspenseful, hilarious and romantic," "wonderfully addictive," "you can't put her books down."
No surprise that Ruth is a writer. She grew up in a house filled with books, magazines and newspapers. Her Mom was an RN who had a trove of big-city hospital stories—some funny, some sad, some touching—and told them with great verve and style. Her Dad, noted for the beautiful gardens he created, loved words, word play and language, and he is remembered by those who knew him as "always reading."
As a girl, Ruth wanted to be a professional ice skater. In her teens, she wanted to be a lawyer—a summer job in a law office cured her of that delusion! :-) After college, she got a beginner's job in publishing and her career path—first as an editor and then as a writer—was set.
Ruth lives in New York City with her husband, Michael, author of two bestselling memoirs, THE ATOMIC TIMES: My H-Bomb Year at the Pacific Proving Ground and ALWAYS ON SUNDAY: An Inside View of Ed Sullivan, the Beatles, Elvis, Sinatra & Ed's Other Guests. Both are available in ebook editions.
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She is still looking for the perfect red lipstick and a universal remote that works.
