A Map to Paradise

April 2, 2025April 2, 2025 by onemoreexclamation

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About A Map To Paradise

Title: A Map To Paradise

Author: Susan Meissner

Released: 18, 2025

Find it: Amazon

1956, Malibu, California: Something is not right on Paradise Circle…

With her name on the Hollywood blacklist and her life on hold, starlet Melanie Cole has little choice in company. There is her next-door neighbor, Elwood, but the screenwriter’s agoraphobia allows for just short chats through open windows. But he’s her sole confidante as she and her housekeeper, Eva, an immigrant from wartorn Europe, rarely make conversation.

Then one early morning Melanie and Eva spot Elwood’s sister-in-law and caretaker, June, digging in his beloved rose garden. After that they don’t see Elwood at all anymore. Where could a man who never leaves the house possibly have gone?

As they try to find out if something has happened to him, unexpected secrets are revealed among all three women, leading to an alliance that seems the only way for any of them to hold on to what they can still call their own. But it’s a fragile pact and one little spark could send it all up in smoke…

Review for A Map To Paradise

There’s nothing like a Hollywood story to reel me in. Our main character, Melanie, has been blacklisted. With her life at the top of the hill, she has nowhere to go but down, and she lands hard. She becomes friends with her neighbor, Elwood, until he goes missing. Eva is her housekeeper hiding secrets. June is the neighbor’s sister-in-law. We get a glimpse into all three of the women’s backstories, all as different as can be. We come to realize the thing they have in common is heartache, a thread that binds their budding friendship. When a fire threatens Malibu, (yes it’s a Deja Vu moment – but the book was written before the fires), the secrets are threatening to be revealed. The ending is brilliant resolve for each of the characters.

About The Author

Susan Meissner is a USA Today bestselling author of historical fiction with more than three-quarters of a million books in readers’ hands and translations in nineteen languages. She is an author, speaker, and writing workshop leader with a background in community journalism. Her novels include Only the Beautiful and The Nature of Fragile Things, both of which earned a starred review in Publishers Weekly; The Last Year of the War, named to Real Simple magazine’s list of best books for 2019; As Bright as Heaven (starred review in Library Journal); Secrets of Charmed Life (Goodreads finalist for Best Historical Fiction 2015); and A Fall of Marigolds, named to Booklist’s Top Ten Women’s Fiction titles for 2014.

She attended Point Loma Nazarene University in California and makes her home with her husband and yellow Lab in the Pacific Northwest.

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