Jennifer E Smith

"Right after the sudden death of her mother--her first and most devoted fan--and just before the launch of her high-stakes sophomore album, Greta James falls apart on stage. The footage quickly goes viral and she stops playing, her career suddenly in jeopardy--the kind of jeopardy her father, Conrad, has always predicted. Months later, Greta--still heartbroken and very much adrift--reluctantly agrees to accompany Conrad on the Alaskan cruise her parents...

"Sparks fly when sixteen-year-old Lucy Patterson and seventeen-year-old Owen Buckley meet on an elevator rendered useless by a New York City blackout. Soon after, the two teenagers leave the city, but as they travel farther away from each other geographically, they stay connected emotionally, in this story set over the course of one year"--

Su historia empezó en un ascensor de Nueva York y continuó en postales al otro lado del mundo. Lucy vive en la vigésimo cuarta planta de un bloque de apartamentos de Nueva York. Owen, en el sótano. No es extraño, por tanto, que se conozcan a medio camino, en un ascensor inmovilizado por un apagón local. Después de que los rescaten, dedican la noche a pasear juntos por las calles a oscuras, sólo iluminadas por la rara aparición de las estrellas...

Alice loves Teddy, her best friend, but has never told him. On his eighteenth birthday she buys him a lottery ticket on a lark. To their astonishment he wins $140 million, and in an instant, everything changes. As a kid, Alice's parents died just over a year apart from each other. And Teddy's father abandoned his family not long after that, leaving them to grapple with his gambling debts. Through it all, Teddy and Alice have leaned on each other....