Josie Silver

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick "Get ready to be swept up in a whirlwind romance. It absolutely charmed me."--Reese Witherspoon "Josie Silver writes with a warmth so palpable her characters sneak their way into your heart and stay for a long time."--Jill Santopolo, New York Times-bestselling author of The Light We Lost Two people. Ten chances. One unforgettable love story. Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn't exist anywhere but the movies. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes meet, there's a moment of pure magic...and then her bus drives away. Certain they're fated to find each other again, Laurie spends a year scanning every bus stop and cafe in London for him. But she doesn't find him, not when it matters anyway. Instead they "reunite" at a Christmas party, when her best friend Sarah giddily introduces her new boyfriend to Laurie. It's Jack, the man from the bus. It would be. What follows for Laurie, Sarah and Jack is ten years of friendship, heartbreak, missed opportunities, roads not taken, and destinies reconsidered. One Day in December is a joyous, heartwarming and immensely moving love story to escape into and a reminder that fate takes inexplicable turns along the route to happiness.

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One Day in December

A young chef stumbles on a secret family recipe that might lead her to the love—and life—she's been looking for in this stunning novel from the New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December When Iris decides to move to New York and restart her culinary career, she realizes she underestimated how big the Big Apple really is—all the nostalgic, New York-set movies she'd watched with her mom while eating their special secret-recipe ice cream didn't quite do it justice. And after spending the last few years in a relationship with a man who kept her world as small as possible, she's feeling a little overwhelmed by it all. But Bobby, Iris's best friend, isn't about to let her hide away. He convinces her to come with him to a famous autumn street fair in Little Italy. As they walk around enjoying all the food and life the neighborhood has to offer, a little family-run gelato shop catches her eye—it's the same shop that's in an old photo of her mother's. When Iris returns the next day out of curiosity, she meets the handsome Gio and learns that the shop is in danger of closing. His uncle, sole keeper of their secret family gelato recipe, is in a coma so the family can't make more. When Iris samples the last remaining batch, she realizes that their gelato recipe and her ice cream recipe are one and the same. But how can she tell them she knows it, when she's not sure why Gio's uncle gave it to her mother in the first place? So Iris offers her services as a chef to help them recreate the recipe and begins to find herself falling for Gio and his family. But when Gio's uncle finally wakes up, all of the secrets Iris has been keeping threaten to ruin the new life—and new love—she's been building all winter long.

A Winter in New York

Una novela mágica y emocionante que nos recuerda las inexplicables vueltas que da la vida de camino a la felicidad. «Te enamorarás de este libro.» (Reese Witherspoon) «Una historia de amor de lo más dulce. ¡Te encantará!» (Marian Keyes) Laurie no cree en el amor a primera vista. Piensa que una cosa son las películas y otra, la vida real. Sin embargo, un día de diciembre, su mirada se cruza con la de un desconocido a través de la ventanilla empañada de un autobús. Surge la magia y Laurie se enamora perdidamente, pero el autobús arranca y sigue su camino por las calles nevadas de Londres. Está convencida de que es el hombre de su vida, pero no sabe dónde encontrarlo. Un año después, su mejor amiga Sarah le presenta a Jack, su nuevo novio, del que está muy enamorada. Y sí, es él: el chico del autobús. Laurie decide olvidarle, pero ¿y si el destino tiene otros planes? ENGLISH DESCRIPTION #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick "Get ready to be swept up in a whirlwind romance. It absolutely charmed me."--Reese Witherspoon "Josie Silver writes with a warmth so palpable her characters sneak their way into your heart and stay for a long time."--Jill Santopolo, New York Times-bestselling author of The Light We Lost Two people. Ten chances. One unforgettable love story. Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn't exist anywhere but the movies. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes meet, there's a moment of pure magic...and then her bus drives away. Certain they're fated to find each other again, Laurie spends a year scanning every bus stop and cafe in London for him. But she doesn't find him, not when it matters anyway. Instead they "reunite" at a Christmas party, when her best friend Sarah giddily introduces her new boyfriend to Laurie. It's Jack, the man from the bus. It would be. What follows for Laurie, Sarah and Jack is ten years of friendship, heartbreak, missed opportunities, roads not taken, and destinies reconsidered. One Day in December is a joyous, heartwarming and immensely moving love story to escape into and a reminder that fate takes inexplicable turns along the route to happiness.

Un Día de Diciembre / One Day in December

A plucky medium, her fame-chasing ex, and an infuriatingly handsome skeptic reporter make for a complicated love triangle—and that's before the ghosts get involved. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December comes the first novel in a ghost-hunting series full of romance and humor.

Ghosts and spirits are business as usual, but love just might be enough to scare Melody Bittersweet.

In the leafy, charming town of Chapelwick, the Bittersweet family has been a fixture on High Street for as long as anyone can remember. Their rambling black-and-white building houses all three generations of ghost-sensitive Bittersweet women and their business, Blithe Spirits.

On her twenty-seventh birthday, Melody Bittersweet converts the disused back storeroom into her office and opens her own business. Unlike the rest of her family, she’s not taking down messages from ghosts—she’s taking them out.

Right away, the freshly minted Girls’ Ghostbusting Agency takes on its first case: a grand old house that won’t sell because a trio of incumbent ghost brothers raise merry hell whenever prospective owners arrive to view it.

It soon becomes clear that there’s a whole heap of unfinished business between the Scarborough brothers—including murder—and Melody isn’t the only one trying to unravel the mystery. Leo Dark, her rakish ex and business rival, is also on the case, along with the TV crew that trails him.

To make matters worse, the sarcastic and skeptical (and annoyingly good-looking) local reporter Fletcher Gunn has his nose in the story as well. Sniffing out a way to publicly discredit the Bittersweets is his favorite assignment—and has absolutely nothing to do with his inability to resist Melody.

With her business on the line, it’s up to Melody to work out the brothers’ issues, but can she protect her own very susceptible heart from Fletcher’s charm? Does she even want to?

 Melody Bittersweet #1

Crazy Spooky Love

'Joyous, uplifting and heart-racingly romantic. I devoured it. You'll find me in Little Italy licking gelato off a hot Italian stallion's chest' Cathy Bramley ----- Where better to start again than New York? Iris arrives in the city of dreams, intent on restarting her culinary career, and leaving her recent heartache behind. Wandering the streets at a famous food festival, Iris feels like she's living in a movie. Then she stumbles upon a gelateria that looks strangely familiar. Inside, she meets Gio: a perfect leading man with an irresistible smile - and a crisis of his own. As fate would have it, Iris is the one person with the answer to his problem. She just can't tell him that . . . So, can Iris finally let go of the past - and let herself fall in love? A sumptuously cosy seasonal love story set in sparkling New York, from the queen of the 'what if?' romance Josie Silver. ----- 'A tender, heart-felt read, with the perfect blend of ingredients: New York, food, family and romance!' Sophie Cousens 'A unique and gorgeously written love story bursting with characters you'll want to protect' Lizzie Damilola Blackburn 'Deliciously romantic - I loved everything about it' Libby Page 'A magical love story that had me hooked from the first page' Cressida McLaughlin

The delicious new wintery romance from the Sunday Times bestselling author of One Day in December

Winter in New York

Maplemead Castle is crawling with ghosts, and the new owners need them gone. When Melody Bittersweet and the Girls’ Ghostbusting Agency arrive on scene, they quickly identify the main troublemaker swinging from the chandeliers. A century ago, stunning trapeze artist Britannia Lovell plunged to her death in the castle’s grand ballroom, and has continued to haunt it ever since. But did she really just fall, or was there something more to her demise?

Forced to work with Leo Dark, her scoundrel ex, and the infuriating, irresistible reporter Fletcher Gunn, Melody’s investigative powers are under the strain of a heart pulled in two directions. She needs her team in top form, but her best friend Marina’s cake pipeline goes AWOL, her assistant Artie’s distracted by a giant sausage roll, and the pug Lestat is scared witless by a lion. Melody has her work cut out for her.

Somewhere, hidden in the castle, is a heart-breaking secret, but what will it take to find it? And is there a chance it could set Britannia free, or is she doomed to repeat her last fateful act forever?

A Melody Bittersweet Novel #2

Kooky Spooky Love 

Hâlâ Zamanimiz Varken

Two Lives of Lydia Bird

"Lydia and Freddie. Freddie and Lydia. They'd been together for more than a decade, and Lydia thought their love was indestructible. But she was wrong. On her twenty-eighth birthday, Freddie died in a car accident. So now it's just Lydia, and all she wants to do is hide indoors and sob until her eyes fall out. But Lydia knows that Freddie would want her to try to live fully, happily, even without him. So, enlisting the help of his best friend, Jonas, and her sister, Elle, she takes her first tentative steps into the world, open to life--and perhaps even love--again. But then something inexplicable happens that gives her another chance at her old life with Freddie. A life where none of the tragic events of the past few months have happened. Lydia is pulled again and again across the doorway of her past, living two lives, impossibly, at once. But there's an emotional toll to returning to a world where Freddie, alive, still owns her heart. Because there's someone in her new life, her real life, who wants her to stay. Written with Josie Silver's trademark warmth and wit, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird is a powerful and thrilling love story about the what-ifs that arise at life's crossroads, and what happens when one woman is given a miraculous chance to answer them"--

The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

A ghostbuster and her motley crew face the ghosts of Christmas—and the exes of Christmas past—in this haunted holiday rom-com from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Spooky Love. Melody Bittersweet's Christmases are always more haunted than holly jolly, but even she's not used to a heartbreak holiday—which this one could end up being, if she can't save a beloved family-run department store... and if, despite their incredible chemistry and deepening emotional connection, her on-and-off boyfriend, Fletcher Gunn, still won't believe in her paranormal abilities. When Lucy Libertine, namesake of the charming old-school department store Libertines, unexpectedly dies, the store goes to her deceased sister's three children: businessmen twins Francis and Tom, and their younger sister Fleur. Despite Fleur and the local community protesting, the twins are excited to sell up. They hold all the cards as the majority shareholders—that is, until Lucy Libertine herself decides to even the playing field, haunting the twins out of house and home (and department store). While the twins call in Melody's ghost-hunting ex to defend them, Lucy goes to Melody to represent Fleur and the deceased Libertine family. Melody is all too happy to take another job, save a beloved local store, and maybe knock her ex down a paranormal peg or two. But old paperwork states that the store cannot be sold within three months of the death of a board member—and Lucy has already been dead for one. With tensions riding high and her relationship with Fletcher caught in the crosshairs, Melody and her crew only have two months left to save the store. If they don’t, Libertines will close its doors on Christmas Eve—forever.

A Melody Bittersweet Novel

Merry Spooky Love

" Duas pessoas. Dez chances. Um dia em dezembro é uma história de amor inesquecível, comovente e emocionante para fãs de Jojo Moyes e David Nicholls. Londres, um dia em dezembro de 2008. É quase véspera de Natal e Laurie não vê a hora de aproveitar o feriado para dar um tempo da sua rotina sem graça. Nada em sua vida parece estar dando muito certo: ela ainda não encontrou o emprego nem o namorado dos sonhos. Perdida em seus devaneios, ela pega um ônibus para casa. Está nevando e o ônibus de dois andares em que viaja parece se arrastar até o apartamento que divide com a esfuziante Sarah, a melhor amiga desde a faculdade. Até que, em uma parada, Laurie vê um homem sentado, lendo um livro, e imediatamente é inundada pela certeza de que ele é o amor da sua vida. Seus olhos se encontram e, por um segundo, não existe mais nada no mundo... e então o ônibus segue viagem. Certa de que eles estão predestinados a se encontrar novamente, Laurie, com a ajuda de Sarah, passa quase um ano procurando por ele em cafés, bares e pontos de ônibus pela cidade. Laurie começa a achar que nunca mais verá o garoto do ônibus, até que Sarah apresenta seu novo namorado, por quem ela está perdidamente apaixonada. Ele se chama Jack e ele é o cara do ônibus. Determinada a esquecê-lo, Laurie segue com sua vida. Mas e se o destino tiver outros planos? Em Um dia em dezembro, vamos acompanhar os encontros e desencontros de Laurie, Jack e Sarah em dez anos de amizade, corações partidos, escolhas, oportunidades desperdiçadas e reviravoltas do destino. Uma história de amor que nos faz lembrar que o destino, às vezes, escolhe caminhos tortuosos em sua rota para a felicidade. “A mais linda história de amor. Maravilhoso... os leitores vão AMAR!” - Marian Keyes “Vocês vão ficar completamente apaixonados por esse livro” - Reese Witherspoon "

Um dia em dezembro

Zwei Fremde. Eine einsame Hütte. Und eine Begegnung, die alles verändert Cleo glaubt nicht mehr an die große Liebe. Mack wurde das Herz gebrochen. Beide wollen nur eins: Allein sein in der Abgeschiedenheit und Ruhe der Natur. Doch als sie an einem stürmischen Tag auf einer kleinen Insel vor der Tür derselben Hütte stehen, sind sie plötzlich zu zweit. Tagsüber geht jeder seiner Wege. Aber als es Nacht wird, hält Mack es nicht mehr aus, und erzählt von seiner Sehnsucht und seinem Schmerz. Seine Worte treffen mitten in Cleos Herz. Mit ihm kann sie ihre tiefsten Gefühle teilen – Gefühle, die sie bisher nicht zugelassen hat. Nur, was geschieht, wenn der Tag anbricht?

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Laurie er temmelig sikker på at kjærlighet ved første blikk ikke forekommer i virkeligheten. Det er bare på film slikt skjer, ikke sant? Men så, gjennom en duggete bussrute en snøfylt desemberdag, ser hun mannen hun instinktivt skjønner er DEN ENE. Øynene deres møtes og det oppstår et øyeblikk av ren magi før bussen hennes kjører ut fra holdeplassen igjen. Laurie tror ikke hun noen sinne vil se mannen igjen. Men på julefesten deres året etter, blir hun presentert for bestevenninnens nye kjæreste. Og der står han, selvfølgelig, mannen hun så fra bussen. Jack. Laurie er bestemt på at det ikke kan bli de to. Men hva om skjebnen har andre planer? Hva om en dag i desember faktisk kom til å endre alt? En dag i desember er den hjertevarmende og intenst rørende kjærlighetshistorien du har ventet på og ønsker å forsvinne inn i for alltid. Josie Silver er en uforbederlig romantiker og er stolt over det! Hun møtte sin fremtidige ektemann da hun tråkket på foten hans på 21-årsdagen hans. Hun bor sammen med ham, deres to barn og en katt i en liten by i Midlands-regionen i Storbritannia.

En dag i desember

Melody Bittersweet's Christmases are always more haunted than holly jolly, and this year is shaping up to be her most complicated yet. When the town's beloved Libertines department store faces closure following the death of its owner, Melody -- inconveniently able to see ghosts -- is the obvious person to call to try and save it. Teaming up with Fleur, the only heir determined to protect her family's legacy, and one very determined ghost, Melody throws herself into the case. Unfortunately, the job also reunites her with Fletcher Gunn: her sceptical, infuriating, still-very-tempting on-off boyfriend. Fletcher doesn't believe in ghosts -- and as their undeniable chemistry starts to simmer, sparks fly and working together proves harder than either of them expected. With Christmas fast approaching and Libertines' future hanging in the balance, Melody must race to save the store, confront the ghosts of her past, and decide whether love is worth fighting for.

The Girls Ghostbusting Agency - Merry Spooky Love

An up-and-coming ghostbuster and her motley crew tackle a devilish high-wire act, aided (or more often, interrupted) by her rakish ex and the sarcastic reporter she can't seem to shake—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Spooky Love. Maplemead Castle is crawling with ghosts, and the new owners need them gone. When Melody Bittersweet and the Girls’ Ghostbusting Agency arrive on scene, they quickly identify the main troublemaker swinging from the chandeliers. A century ago, stunning trapeze artist Britannia Lovell plunged to her death in the castle's grand ballroom, and has continued to haunt it ever since. But did she really just fall, or was there something more to her demise? Forced to work with Leo Dark, her scoundrel ex, and the infuriating, irresistible reporter Fletcher Gunn, Melody’s investigative powers are under the strain of a heart pulled in two directions. She needs her team in top form, but her best friend Marina’s cake pipeline goes AWOL, her assistant Artie’s distracted by a giant sausage roll, and the pug Lestat is scared witless by a lion. Melody has her work cut out for her. Somewhere, hidden in the castle, is a heart-breaking secret, but what will it take to find it? And is there a chance it could set Britannia free, or is she doomed to repeat her last fateful act forever?

Kooky Spooky Love

Das große Finale der bezaubernden Paranormal Romance-Trilogie von Bestsellerautorin Josie Silver Wer «Ein Tag im Dezember» mochte, wird auch die «Girls Ghostbusting Agency» lieben . Ausgerechnet in der Vorweihnachtszeit wird das traditionsreiche Kaufhaus Libertines von Spukerscheinungen heimgesucht. Die neuen Besitzer wollen das Geschäft, das seit zwei Jahrhunderten in Familienbesitz ist, loswerden – sehr zum Missfallen ihrer kürzlich verstorbenen Tante Lucy, die sie als Geist rigoros heimsucht. Doch nicht mit Melody Bittersweet! Durch ihre Großmutter, eine alte Freundin von Lucy, auf den Plan gerufen, trommelt Melody die emGirls Ghostbusting Agency zusammen, um das Kaufhaus und Lucys Seelenfrieden zu retten – ganz im Sinne der Bewohner des Städtchens Chapelwick, die, aufgestachelt von sexy Reporter Fletcher Gunn, ihre eigene Kampagne zur Erhaltung des Kaufhauses ins Leben rufen. Nachdem ihre Beziehung bisher von jeder Menge Differenzen geprägt war, sind Melody und Fletcher jetzt also eigentlich auf der gleichen Seite – aber dann muss Fletcher am eigenen Leib erfahren, dass mit Geistern nicht zu spaßen ist ... Für alle Fans der Tropes: Love Triangle Grumpy Meets Sunshine Found Family

The Girls Ghostbusting Agency – Merry Spooky Love

A plucky medium, her fame-chasing ex, and an infuriatingly handsome skeptic reporter make for a complicated love triangle—and that's before the ghosts get involved. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December comes the first novel in a ghost-hunting series full of romance and humor. Ghosts and spirits are business as usual, but love just might be enough to scare Melody Bittersweet. In the leafy, charming town of Chapelwick, the Bittersweet family has been a fixture on High Street for as long as anyone can remember. Their rambling black-and-white building houses all three generations of ghost-sensitive Bittersweet women and their business, Blithe Spirits. On her twenty-seventh birthday, Melody Bittersweet converts the disused back storeroom into her office and opens her own business. Unlike the rest of her family, she’s not taking down messages from ghosts—she’s taking them out. Right away, the freshly minted Girls’ Ghostbusting Agency takes on its first case: a grand old house that won’t sell because a trio of incumbent ghost brothers raise merry hell whenever prospective owners arrive to view it. It soon becomes clear that there’s a whole heap of unfinished business between the Scarborough brothers—including murder—and Melody isn’t the only one trying to unravel the mystery. Leo Dark, her rakish ex and business rival, is also on the case, along with the TV crew that trails him. To make matters worse, the sarcastic and skeptical (and annoyingly good-looking) local reporter Fletcher Gunn has his nose in the story as well. Sniffing out a way to publicly discredit the Bittersweets is his favorite assignment—and has absolutely nothing to do with his inability to resist Melody. With her business on the line, it’s up to Melody to work out the brothers’ issues, but can she protect her own very susceptible heart from Fletcher’s charm? Does she even want to?

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