Changing Habits - Debbie Macomber - Audio Book

Changing Habits - Debbie Macomber : They were sisters once. Almost forty years ago, in a more innocent time, two girls enter the convent. Angelina and Joanna come from vastly different backgrounds, but they have one thing in common -- a desire to serve, to join in the community of sisters.

Despite the relative seclusion of the convent house in Minneapolis, they're not immune to what's happening in the world around them. In 1972 Angie's involvement with a pregnant teenager triggers a crisis of faith. At the same time, Joanna's relationship with a Vietnam veteran brings her face-to-face with the choices she made -- and didn't make -- in her own life.

Then, Angie and Joanna leave the sisterhood, abandoning the convent for the exciting and confusing world outside. The world of choices to be made, of risks to be taken. Of men and romantic love.

This book is full of compassion, of love and I have to say of grace as well. Debbie Macomber has a real talent to enter into women's live and to explain their confusion, their internal fight, their confrontation with the outside world, simply to explain the life of very ordinary people.

Saffron Skies - Lesley Lokko - Audio Book

Saffron Skies - Lesley Lokko : Max Sall, powerful, wealthy and utterly ruthless, a man without a past. His wife, Angela, a society debutante who fell in love with the dark, handsome chauffeur, and broke her parents' hearts when she married him.

His mistress: Francesca, the glamorous Alitalia air stewardess, who saw in Max her ticket out of the Italian provinces and grabbed it - and him - with both hands.

And his daughters: Amber, more like her father than she'll ever know - smart, shrewd and determined to achieve, whatever the cost; and Paola, groomed by her mother to succeed where she failed, in getting a man to marry her.

Max's women are very different, but they all demand his attention. While Amber and Paola are growing up in the 1970s, their mothers somehow find a way to share Max between them. But when Amber and Paola fall in love with the same man two decades later, they're determined that this time there will be no sharing...

Saffron Skies is a good read and have lots of characters. It spans five decades, which allow us to enter into Max's story and his daughters' story too. We do experience the major points in their lives (love, happines, heartbreak, jealousy). There is as well plenty of action and beautiful descriptions of various locations. To read very quietly because the story is very dense.

Always Time To Die - Elizabeth Lowell - Audio Book

Always Time To Die - Elizabeth Lowell : The powerful Quintrell family of New Mexico has spent decades in the public eye. Now the recent death of the clan's patriarch has placed his son, Governor Josh Quintrell, squarely in the spotlight as he prepares his run for the highest political office in the land. It is not a good time to be rattling skeletons in the family's closets.

Researching personal histories isn't just Carolina "Carly" May's profession, it's her passion. But digging into the past is raising troubling questions about the would-be president's private life. And it soon becomes frighteningly apparent that someone is determined to remove the inquisitive genealogist from the picture by any means necessary.

Carly realizes that there is no one whom she dares to trust -- perhaps least of all Dan Duran, a dangerous and haunted mystery man who's somehow tied to the Quintrells' past. But she will need an ally to survive because following the bloodlines of the wealthy and power-hungry can be a bloody business ...

Its well done mix of romance and thriller, an "historical romance" as well if I may say so.