Last Bets - Mary Carroll Moore

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Auteur(s) : Mary Carroll Moore

Editeur : Riverbed Press

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 31/03/2024

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 256

Expédition : 345

Dimensions : 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5

ISBN : 9798987531754

Résumé :

Escaping tragedy, portraitist Elly Sorensen flees to Caribbean Bonaire, only to be drawn into an unlikely friendship with an Aussie ex-juvie teen and the danger of the island's gambling underworld that taps her dormant paranormal talents.

Biographie:
Mary Carroll Moore is the best-selling author of the Amazon bestselling novel, A Woman's Guide to Search & Rescue, and the PEN/Faulkner and Lambda Literary award nominated queer YA novel, Qualities of Light. She received her MFA from Goddard College and has taught throughout the US and abroad at various writing schools and universities since 1998. Her writing craft book, Your Book Starts Here, won the New Hampshire Literary Awards Reader's Choice award. Before moving into fiction, she had a two-decade career in the food world as chef, cooking-school owner, cookbook author, and syndicated columnist for the Los Angeles Times. Her first cookbook won a Julia Child/IACP award. Over two hundred of her essays, stories, and articles have appeared in magazines and literary journals. She lives in New Hampshire with her family....

Sommaire:
Portrait artist Elly Sorensen leaves her Washington, D.C., life for the Caribbean island of Bonaire, hoping to find refuge from personal tragedy and financial fallout. Instead, she is confronted by old demons, including a gambling underworld that taps paranormal talents she would prefer to leave dormant. On the island she finds an unlikely kindred spirit in teenager Rosie Ryan, an Australian with a gambling father and artistic talents of her own-and a penchant for breaking and entering, particularly into the rooms of other guests. Against a backdrop of a gathering storm, Rosie is blamed for a freak diving accident, and the stakes at the gambling table mount. Nobody is safe, least of all Elly, whose whole life, it seems, hangs on one final game. Underestimated by the men around them, Rosie and Elly must conquer forces they never imagined and fight for a future that promises real freedom....