Bøker av Dawn M Klinge

New York City, 1968. Elka Hansen, a former teen cover girl, is done with modeling. Now she''s a hostess for the Palm Court restaurant in the beautiful Biltmore Hotel. As she sees it, Elka''s other role in life is to watch out for her younger sister, Colleen, an idealistic but reckless college student at Barnard.With her sister, Elka attends her first civil-rights protest, and there, she runs into Jacob Lewis, a co-worker from the Biltmore. He is a student at Columbia University and a friend of Colleen''s. Jacob becomes an unexpected ally when rescuing her sister from trouble becomes more than Elka can handle independently. Out of this turmoil, a romance grows between Jacob and Elka, but can it last?The pursuit of purpose, coming of age during the late 1960s, and learning how to forgive are common threads woven throughout this Christian romantic fiction book. Biltmore Girl is the third and final book in the Historic Hotels Collection. This stand-alone novel is a return to the world of America''s great hotels. Readers of the other books in this collection will find a connection and a return of some beloved characters for those who loved Sorrento Girl and Palmer Girl. 

It’s 1938, and Ann Brooks has big dreams of her new life as a Seattle College coed. She’s left the old-fashioned ways of her small country town behind to pursue higher education and a teaching career. But not everyone is ready for change. Society still preaches that a woman’s place is in the home. Some refuse to see Ann as an equal deserving of an education — let alone a career — and Ann's friends think school is simply a springboard to pursue a marriage of wealth and convenience. When Ann meets Paul, an aspiring journalist with strong ideas of his own, she learns an unexpected lesson in courage and discovers what it really means to live her dreams. Will Ann give up everything she thought she wanted for love? Or can she have it all?