Best Selling Books by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

“Obsessed!” —Chloë Sevigny “I am literally obsessed.” —Busy Philipps Hailed as “richly intimate” and “wickedly delightful” (The New York Times Book Review), this steamy and incisive debut adult novel follows one woman’s affair with her daughter’s best friend, testing the limits of love and ambition. It’s opening night, but Alice’s performance in the local Bay Area production of The Winter’s Tale is far from glamorous. She doesn’t have dreams of stardom, but the basement theater in a wildfire-choked town isn’t exactly what she envisioned for her career back home in Los Angeles. To make matters worse, her best friend Sadie is not even coming. Pragmatic, serious Sadie and flighty, creative Alice have been best friends since high school—really one another’s only friends—but now that they are through with college (which they attended together) and living on opposite ends of California, Alice would at least expect her friend’s support. Sadie, determined not to cancel her plans with her boyfriend, ends up enlisting the help of her mother, Celine. A professor of women’s and gender studies at UC Berkeley, Celine’s landmark treatise on sex and identity made her notorious, but she’s struggling to write her new book in a post-second-wave feminist world. So, when Sadie begs her to attend Alice’s play, she relents, if only to escape writer’s block. But in a turn of perplexing events, Celine becomes entranced by Alice’s performance and realizes that her daughter’s once lanky, slightly annoying best friend is now an irresistible young woman. Set over the course of decades—from Alice and Sadie’s early friendship days and Celine’s decision to leave her husband to the radical movements of 1990s Berkeley and navigating contemporary Hollywood—Alice and Celine’s affair will test the limits of their love for Sadie and their own beliefs of power, agency, and feminism. Witty and relatable, sexy and surprising, Sarah Blakley-Cartwright’s debut adult novel is a mesmerizing portrait of the inner lives of three very different women.

“A magic spell of a book.” —Julie Buntin “Heavy Cream is funny, deeply felt, and positively effervescent, brimming with life and color and texture—I was repeatedly struck by its humor, its compassion, and its candor.” —Claire Lombardo, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had Abandoned by her mother in New York, sixteen-year-old Geraldine falls under the influence of three women, each seeking to form her in their image, in this “wildly perceptive” (Stefan Merrill Block, New York Times bestselling author of Homeschooled) coming-of-age story from the bestselling author of Alice Sadie Celine. For Gerry, growing up on the road has always been her mother and her, locked in dysfunction. Homeschooled, she hasn’t learned much math. Instead, her mother has taught her how to spend the day at a motel’s swimming pool without being a guest and how to dodge paying extra for the chicken on a Caesar salad. Gerry learns how to pass and adapt, but when she is abandoned in the city, she finds herself in the care of three very different women, each intent on shaping her into competing and incompatible selves. First, there is her mother’s old college friend Bonnie, who lives in a world of country clubs and chintzy domesticity. Then there is Nell, her mother’s estranged sister and a successful artist, who insists on ambition and self-invention. And finally Finley, an old-money socialite, who ushers Gerry into a rarefied world of Manhattan privilege. A coming-of-age novel story that explores unconventional forms of motherhood and caretaking, Heavy Cream is both a charming comedy of manners and a deeply probing look at the complexities of love, mental illness, and inheritance, and one young woman’s eccentric path to selfhood.

Valerie''s sister was beautiful, kind, and sweet. Now she is dead. Henri, the handsome son of the blacksmith, tries to console Valerie, but her wild heart beats fast for another: the outcast woodcutter, Peter, who offers Valerie another life far from home. After her sister''s violent death, Valerie''s world begins to spiral out of control. For generations, the werewolf has been kept at bay with a monthly sacrifice. But no one is safe. When an expert wolf hunter arrives, the villagers learn that the creature lives among them - it could be anyone in town. It soon becomes clear that Valerie is the only one who can hear the voice of creature. The Wolf says she must surrender herself before the Blood Moon wanes . . . or everyone she loves will die. This is a dangerous new vision of a classic fairy tale, and for readers who want even more of Valerie''s riveting story, a bonus chapter that extends the drama is available at http://www.redridinghoodbook.com/.

La campana de la aldea dobla una, dos, tres veces: alguien ha sido asesinado. Repica una cuarta vez... El asesino es el Lobo. En una época en que las aldeas son tan pequeñas que todo el mundo se conoce, una muchacha intenta abrirse camino en la vida. Y Valerie no es una «buena chica». Cuando el hombre lobo la elige, ella debe tomar una decisión imposible. Con un matrimonio concertado en su nombre y un amor sincero que la invita a la huida, Valerie no tiene a quién recurrir. Su padre está borracho en el pueblo, su madre desea controlarla, y las demás chicas... se apresuran a acusarla de brujería. ¿Quién la salvará? ¿O puede salvarse ella sola? En esta nueva, peligrosa y absorbente versión del cuento clásico, quizá resulte complicado dar con un final feliz.

Valerie, una coraggiosa ragazza a cui la nonna ha donato un manto di seta rosso, vive nel piccolo villaggio di Daggorhorn, assediato da anni da un lupo mannaro. Di giorno la belva prende sembianze umane e di notte, quando la luna ha il colore del sangue, si aggira per i boschi e uccide senza pietà...

En una época en que las aldeas son tan pequeñas que todo el mundo se conoce, Valerie intenta abrirse camino en la vida sin ser precisamente una "buena chica". Cuando el hombre lobo la elige, debe tomar una decisión imposible, pero no tiene a quién recurrir. Su padre está borracho en el pueblo, su madre desea controlarla y las demás chicas se apresuaran a acusarla de brujería. En esta nueva, peligrosa y absorbente versión del cuento clásico, quizás resulte complicado dar con un final feliz.

A la mort de sa soeur, Valérie est inconsolable. Henry, le séduisant fils du forgeron, tente de gagner ses faveurs, mais le coeur indompté de la belle bat pour un autre garçon, Peter, le bûcheron exclu du groupe, qui lui offre des escapades palpitantes. Un jour, un chasseur fait une terrible révélation aux villageois : la créature qui les terrorise vit parmi eux. Chacun devient suspect. On découvre bientôt que seule Valérie peut entendre la voix du Loup. Et celui-ci exige qu''elle le rejoigne avant que le sang coule...