She was the thread that wove their tapestry together. With a group of women as diverse as the ladies from Brightwood Trace, you might not think them to be close. There's Julianne, a nurse with an unsettling psychic ability that allows her to literally feel what her patients feel, Andrea, a strong fortress sheltering a faltering core, Ginger, a mother torn between being a stay-at-home mom or following her career aspirations, and Iona, the oldest, whose feisty, no-nonsense attitude disarms even toughest of the tough. Not exactly the ingredients for the most cohesive cocktail . . . Until you add Paisely, the liveliest and friendliest of the clan, who breathed life into them all. But when their glowing leader falls ill with cancer, it's up to these women to do what Paisely has done for them since the beginning: lift her up. Overcoming and accepting the inevitability of loss, the women draw closer than ever; finding together the strength to embrace and cherish their lives with acceptance, gratitude and most importantly, love. Finally living with the vigor that Paisely has shown them from the start, they are able to see their lives in a new light, while learning to say goodbye to the brightest star they've ever known. Over the course of just three months, these four women will undergo a magnificent transformation that leaves nobody unchanged.

The Art of Saying Goodbye: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Bache, Ellyn

Dramas & Plays

William Morrow Paperbacks

Riggs Park

A poignant novel about a lifelong friendship, this is the story of Barbara and Marilyn, who once shared an idyllic childhood in the modest Riggs Park neighborhood of Washington, DC. Now, at age 58, each is dealing with a crisis - Marilyn with recurrent breast cancer, Barbara with a difficult relationship with a man. Yet both feel driven to return to the old neighborhood together to solve a decades-old mystery that still haunts them. The heart-wrenching secret they discover tests their friendship. Will it also shatter the resilience that got them through the repressive social mores of the 1950s, the white flight from the city, the years of feminism and anti-feminism and child-rearing? Or will it give them the strength to move on?

United States

Harlequin Next

Three generations of women, each with a special attraction to water, yearn to find where they belong. Ernie, 70 years old and ailing, is a dowser who finds underground water with a stick. Veronica, 38, has moved inland after many years near the sea, only to realize how powerfully she misses it. Her 19-year-old daughter, Simpson, feels an affinity for a tranquil mountain lake that soon yields a terrifying secret.Living in forced togetherness far from the ocean, the women struggle against the weight of responsibilities they long to escape. Not until they understand that it's possible to be a daughter of the sea anywhere does each one finally make the pilgrimage that will set her free.

Daughters of the Sea

Riggs Park by Ellyn Bache released on Jun 28, 2005 is available now for purchase.

Daughters Of The Sea by Ellyn Bache released on Sep 27, 2005 is available now for purchase.

Over 50's Singles Night by Ellyn Bache released on Mar 28, 2006 is available now for purchase.

Over 50's Singles Night

Contemporary

The first kiss reminded her of raspberry sherbet…And no man's kiss has since matched thatwonderful, summery essence in all its glory.LilyRose knows her rare ability to "see"sounds and "taste" shapes—synesthesia—is a gift that defines who she is…but it'salso made her an object of ridicule.  And made her an outcast. That is, untila mean-spirited customer mocks a younggirl—and kindred spirit—she's befriended.Years of repression suddenly give way whenLilyRose hurls a basket at that customer.And finds herself being escorted from hershop in handcuffs! For decades LilyRose has searched for thatspecial man who could teach her to embraceher uniqueness. She just didn't expect tofind him waiting to pick her up from jail….

Raspberry Sherbet Kisses

Festival in Fire Season

From the author of "Safe Passage," a gripping novel about three people whose lives touch and entwine as a raging wildfire engulfs their North Carolina beach town during an annual azalea festival.

Random House Value Publishing

Mag, Patrick, and six of their seven sons gather to learn if Percival, the Marine son and brother in Beirut, has been killed in a terrorist bombing raid

Safe Passage

Crown

Mag, Patrick, and six of their seven sons gather to learn if Percival, the Marine son and brother in Beirut, has been killed in a terrorist bombing raid

Bantam]

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The Art of Saying Goodbye: A Novel

Riggs Park

Daughters of the Sea

Riggs Park

Daughters of the Sea

Over 50's Singles Night

Raspberry Sherbet Kisses

Festival in Fire Season

Safe Passage

Safe Passage