Our Secret Paradise

Marriage was meant to be a healing journey to Paradise. Teaching how-to's to thrive (not just survive), Evans' straightforward and humorous style helps readers realize that Paradise in marriage is not only God's intent, but that it's truly attainable.

Krystallenia and her friend Vassil were vacationing on the beautiful Greek island of Mykonos, where they met their future husbands. Krystallenia, who was exceptionally beautiful, married the mayor of Andros; and Vassil married an aristocrat from Spain. However, Krystallenia’s life takes an unexpected ironic twist. her husband’s execrable secret one-night stand is revealed in a shocking way that leaves her feelings betrayed and tormented, and to make matters worse, her only son is now suffering from a rare illness. Will Jonathan be saved by the donor of the bone marrow? Will the transplant save his life? Krystallenia travels to Spain to her friend Vassil, where she meets Julio, a charismatic flamingo dancer. He falls head over heels in love with her, his Greek goddess, as he calls her, his soulmate! Determined to have her, he organizes to kidnap her and bring her to a castle he built for her on earth, a secret paradise. Will Krystallenia live happily ever after with her Spanish lover in a glamourous and aristocratic way? Why will unexpected events force Julio to be exiled in a different country by the Mafia? And Krystallenia is not allowed to follow him, leaving her abandoned in a strange country! What will follow and change her life?

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A husband's secret life, a wife's new beginning: escape to the Caribbean with #1 New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand. Irene Steele shares her idyllic life in a beautiful Iowa City Victorian house with a husband who loves her to sky-writing, sentimental extremes. But as she rings in the new year one cold and snowy night, everything she thought she knew falls to pieces with a shocking phone call: her beloved husband, away on business, has been killed in a helicopter crash. Before Irene can even process the news, she must first confront the perplexing details of her husband's death on the distant Caribbean island of St. John. After Irene and her sons arrive at this faraway paradise, they make yet another shocking discovery: her husband had been living a secret life. As Irene untangles a web of intrigue and deceit, and as she and her sons find themselves drawn into the vibrant island culture, they have to face the truth about their family, and about their own futures. Rich with the lush beauty of the tropics and the drama, romance, and intrigue only Elin Hilderbrand can deliver, Winter in Paradise is a truly transporting novel, and the exciting start to a new series. "I will just say that, 24 hours after I started this book, I purchased its sequel, What Happens in Paradise, and I did not leave either book to be enjoyed by strangers at the end of my vacation." —Elisabeth Egan, New York Times

From the author of the classic A LITTLE LIFE, a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia. In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a worthy suitor, drawn to a charming music teacher of no means. In a 1993 Manhattan besieged by the AIDS epidemic, a young Hawaiian man lives with his much older, wealthier partner, hiding his troubled childhood and the fate of his father. And in 2093, in a world riven by plagues and governed by totalitarian rule, a powerful scientist’s damaged granddaughter tries to navigate life without him—and solve the mystery of her husband’s disappearances. These three sections are joined in an enthralling and ingenious symphony, as recurring notes and themes deepen and enrich one another: A townhouse in Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village; illness, and treatments that come at a terrible cost; wealth and squalor; the weak and the strong; race; the definition of family, and of nationhood; the dangerous righteousness of the powerful, and of revolutionaries; the longing to find a place in an earthly paradise, and the gradual realization that it can’t exist. What unites not just the characters, but these Americas, are their reckonings with the qualities that make us human: Fear. Love. Shame. Need. Loneliness. TO PARADISE is a fin de siecle novel of marvelous literary effect, but above all it is a work of emotional genius. The great power of this remarkable novel is driven by Yanagihara’s understanding of the aching desire to protect those we love—partners, lovers, children, friends, family and even our fellow citizens—and the pain that ensues when we cannot.

In this timely book, Jimmy Evans exposes an ancient plot designed to rob every man and woman of joy, fulfillment, health and genuine intimacy—the progressive distortion of God-given sexuality. In ripping the cover from this pervasive deception, Evans points us to the path to restoration and sexual wholeness. Every teen, single adult and married couple living in our decaying culture urgently needs the startling truths found here. “I want you to know beyond any doubt that sex is God’s subject. And it is time for the Church to take it back from the devil, baptize it, and call it holy. The Fig Leaf Conspiracy has touched countless lives down through the ages…perhaps even your own. Our loving Father, however, has made a way to take back the gift. He sent Jesus to undo the work of the Deceiver. He has made a way of escape for us—a way back to the Garden. So what’s the answer? How do we get back to God’s original plan for sexuality? Finding liberating answers to those questions is the very focus of this book.”—Jimmy Evans

Why is marriage so much harder than we think it will be? And how could the man that a woman loves most in the world end up becoming the one person that she struggles to live in harmony with? In this biblical and practical book, Susie Davis helps women love the men in their lives with an abundance of understanding and grace. Using humor and wise insights, Susie covers the most common marriage conflicts, exhorting women to remember often why they married their spouse in the first place.