Eline Evans - Author
Synopses
The Impossible Act of Georgia Cline
California, 1938. Georgia would be pretty happy with her job as a painter in her uncle’s business if it wasn’t for her dream of becoming a cartoon animator. When her application to Disney’s training school is rejected because she’s a woman, she takes on the identity of a man and travels to Los Angeles. Disney hires her as an apprentice, and Georgia steps into a complicated life as George.
On a night out at a swanky Hollywood nightclub with her fellow animators, she meets the beautiful socialite Cara, who suggests they see each other again. Cara, witty and mysterious, is impossible to resist, and Georgia’s mouth speaks a yes when she knows she ought to say no. The job at Disney is as exciting as Georgia has imagined, but her charade as a man is hard to maintain — especially after she falls hard for Cara, who has her own secrets.
Georgia rises quickly in the Disney ranks, but the movie industry is full of ruthless ambition. When Georgia gets on the wrong side of the son of a powerful Hollywood mogul, the lie she has so carefully crafted falls apart. And with it both her dream and her love for Cara.
The Music Room
Copenhagen, 1973. Violinist Elinor has only ever known success. As a virtuoso, her job at the Royal Symphony is a breeze, and she goes casually from girlfriend to gorgeous girlfriend. The only trouble, which Elinor tries her best to forget, is the ghost of her tragic childhood and the distance of her sister, Helene, who has been pulled into the world of far-left revolutionaries.
When Elinor is chosen to play at the ball for the Queen’s ascension, her triumph seems complete. The performance is a great success, and at the palace, Elinor meets Annemarie, the secretary to the Prime Minister. Annemarie, strait-laced and brilliant but with her own tragic past, is unlike any woman Elinor has known before. For the first time in her life, Elinor falls hard.
Meanwhile, Helene drifts closer to violent extremism. Desperate to hold on to her, Elinor agrees to help her sister even if it means deceiving the government worker Annemarie. Elinor’s balancing act between her two worlds becomes ever more difficult. When Helene is betrayed by her fellow revolutionaries, Elinor is forced to make a terrible choice. A choice which reveals that neither Helene nor Annemarie are what they seem.
Gold and Grace
Paris, 1926. Emilie has only ever had one dream, and that is to be a principal dancer at the Copenhagen Royal Ballet. A decade of hard work and determination has brought her from a childhood on the streets to dancing on a stage, but just when the position as soloist seems within reach, her frankness gets her fired.
Hoping to find a new position as a dancer, Emilie travels to Paris, where she meets the scandalous painter Gerda Wegener and her circle of bohemians. Among them are Aurélie, a beautiful cabaret dancer and courtesan, and the mysterious artist Isabelle. Emilie, who is otherwise no stranger to female company, is drawn to them both in a way she has never felt before.
Ballet de l’Opera hires Emilie as an ensemble dancer, but when her association with the seedier parts of Paris society becomes known, she’s fired once again. In need of money, she takes a job as a cabaret dancer until she can find another ballet position.
Emilie’s friendships with Aurelie and Isabelle develop into a romance between the three of them, but their situation becomes ever more dangerous as Aurélie’s rich benefactor, the powerful Bertrand, grows jealous and violent. When tragedy strikes, they set out on a perilous journey into French high society for revenge — a journey that might cost Emilie her newfound love and her dreams of becoming a principal dancer.
Anchor Heart
Copenhagen, 1988. Keeping her mouth shut was never Charlotte Ankerstjerne’s strongest suit, and so she has been demoted from her prestigious position at the Ministry of Justice to prosecutor for speaking out against the illegal denial of family reunifications for refugees. She despises her new boss, who dumps the hardest cases on her. Asshole that he is, he has plenty of reasons to hate her — a woman, a Greenlander, and a rumored troublemaker.
Despite her snobbish parents’ ambitions of her making something “more” of herself, Eva Eksell has followed her dream of becoming a police officer. She’s damn good at it, but her parents keep pressuring her to go to law school. Eva, still harboring some hope that her parents might one day accept her choice, finds it hard to say a firm no and move out of their house.
When Charlotte and Eva meet in court, they’re drawn to each other, and a steamy one-night stand turns into more. Charlotte is determined to stick out her job for a year and then go into private practice to fight the system, but her temper — a result of her childhood in foster care — brings her into constant conflict with her superiors, while Eva struggles to pull away from her overbearing parents and embrace her identity openly.
A tragedy of police negligence affects them both deeply, and Eva risks her job and her dream of becoming a detective by going to the press. Charlotte is still hesitant, but with Eva at her side, she has to decide between exposing the abuse of power she knows about from her past job and securing her attorney’s license so she can achieve her goal of fighting for justice.
The Ruby Reaper
Ria has always been attracted to all things scandalous, but when her mother banishes her from their mansion in Copenhagen to her father’s sugar plantation on St. John, she’s caught in a world that’s unimaginably cruel. When she learns Cuban pirate captain Ana de Orellana is docked nearby with her ship, the Ruby Reaper, Ria’s intrigued. Not only is the captain a woman—and Ria loves women—but this might be her way to escape her island captivity.
Ria runs away, but Captain de Orellana isn’t about to let a rich girl with no skills onto her ship. When Ria defies her and stows away, Ana reluctantly lets her stay, and Ria determines to convince the captain she’s worth keeping—and that she’s worth kissing. Ana’s daughter, Marín, steals Ria’s heart and the band of outcast sailors become like a family to Ria, but the way through Ana’s tough exterior is a harder path.
Ria is free for the first time in her life and she has finally found a place among people who loves her for who she is, but life as a buccaneer is dangerous, and when they’re double-crossed by another pirate captain, the Ruby Reaper becomes wanted by the Spanish empire. When a slave revolt breaks out on St. John, Ria convinces Ana to help the slaves in their fight, but aiding in the rebellion comes at a high cost.
The Ruby Reaper takes you on an adventure around the Caribbean. It’s a tale of deceit and courage, about standing up for what’s right and finding your place in the world, and it’s the story of an unlikely love between two women.
The Emerald Eclipse
Defeat is not an option on the Ruby Reaper, and neither is giving up on the captain to whom most of the crew owe their lives. The Spanish warship is hardly gone on the horizon before Ria and her fellow sailors hatch a daring plan to get Ana out of her Havana dungeon. They’ll use their daring, their wit, and bag full of stolen emeralds to win her freedom.
The plan succeeds. Almost—because Ana is given a year to find Carew, the man who betrayed Ana, and redeem herself. If she doesn’t succeed, she’ll be hunted by the Spanish once again. The Ruby Reaper set out on her quest, chasing Carew up the coast of North America, but he proves harder to catch than expected and their hunt takes them across the Atlantic to a world of stuffy morals Ria has no desire to revisit.
Ria and Ana are back together, but Ana’s time in the Spanish dungeon has left scars on her soul, and when the Ruby Reaper ends up in Cadiz on its hunt for Carew, she’s forced to face her demons and her past so she can defeat Carew once and for all.
The Emerald Eclipse takes you from the breezy islands of the Caribbean across the Atlantic to the Old World of 18th-century Europe. It’s a tale of courage and schemes gone wrong and right, of bloody revenge, of stubbornly holding on to the people you love and the place you belong.
Winter Heart
Leila Alizai has always done the right thing. Defying expectations of an immigrant girl, she has excelled academically and now she’s in law school. Her father always encouraged her to follow her dreams, but Leila’s brothers are men of a different type and they make no attempt to hide that they want Leila to live a traditional life.
Elvira Winterose has done absolutely everything wrong with all the good things she had. She’s smart with model looks, but to escape the expectations and the pain of her absent parents, she’s made a mess of it all and married a man who treats her worse than dirt. Daily abuse, her husband’s draconian rules and the dull existence as a housewife are her life.
When Leila’s mother goes to Afghanistan, the brewing conflict with her brothers comes to a violent conclusion. Elvira’s husband is insisting it’s time for a baby, and Elvira knows that if she ends up pregnant, she’ll never be free and so she makes a fateful decision. Leila and Elvira’s desperate actions land both in prison, and their deep wounds lead to mutual dislike, but when they’re placed in a cell together, enmity turns to friendship and then love—but the road to freedom and a life together is hard, and outside the walls, dangers still lurk.
