The Professors' Wives' Club by Joanne Rendell

Kate Jacobs, NYT’s bestselling author of THE FRIDAY NIGHT KNITTING CLUB Joanne Rendell has created a quick, fun read about a wonderful group of friends.' 'As an NYU alum, I enjoyed the behind-the-scenes escapades at the fictional Manhattan U. While doing battle with the ambitious dean, they expose the dark underbelly of academia – and find the courage to stand up for their own dreams, passions, and lives.Īdvance Praise for THE PROFESSORS’ WIVES’ CLUB When a ruthless Dean tries to demolish the garden, the four women are thrown together in a fight which enrages and unites them. Each of them carries a scandalous secret that could upset their lives, destroy their families, and rock the prestigious university to its very core. With its iron gate and high fence laced with honeysuckle, Manhattan University’s garden offers faculty wives Mary, Sofia, Ashleigh, and Hannah a much needed refuge. In her new novel THE PROFESSORS’ WIVES’ CLUB (NAL/Penguin 2nd September 2008), NYU faculty wife Joanne Rendell tells of four professors’ wives who risk everything to save a beloved faculty garden. …the only thing is, Manhattan University doesn’t know it yet.

Will her forbidden romance help her solve the deadly puzzle before it's too late.or lead her even further into danger? Kara does her best to follow the signs, but it's her heart that wanders into new territory when she falls for a mysterious guy from the wrong side of town, taking her closer to answers she may not be able to handle.

So far, she's been able to solve the clues and avert disaster for those she's been warned about - until she sees the flash of a gun on a fellow classmate, and the stakes are raised higher than ever before. She sees signs, visions that are clues to a person's fate, if she can put together the pieces of the puzzle in time. Because Kara has a gift - one that often feels like a curse. Not even Danielle, her best friend at Valdez High, has seen the real Kara. She's buried the caliente side of her Mexican heritage with her father and tried to be the girl her rigid mother wants her to be. Presenting Kelly Parra, now promoting her second novel, Invisible Touch.Ībout the book: Kara Martinez has been trying to be 'normal' ever since the accident that took her father's life when she was eleven.

The Professors' Wives' Club by Joanne Rendell