Bøger af Ashley Winstead

"THE BOYFRIEND CANDIDATE is a total freaking delight. It's smart, sexy, funny and so sharply written."-CARLEY FORTUNE, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Meet Me at the LakeA laugh-out-loud rom-com about learning to embrace living outside your comfort zone.As a shy school librarian, Alexis Stone is comfortable keeping out of the spotlight. But when she's dumped for being too meek-in bed!-she decides she needs to change. And what better way to kick-start her new more adventurous life than with her first one-night stand?Enter Logan, the gorgeous, foul-mouthed stranger she meets at a hotel bar. Audacious and filterless, Logan is Alexis's opposite-and boy, do opposites attract! Just as she's about to fulfill her hookup wish, the hotel catches fire in a freak lightning storm. In their rush to escape, Logan is discovered carrying her into the street, where people are waiting with cameras. Cameras Logan promptly-and shockingly-flees.Alexis is bewildered until suddenly pictures of her and Logan escaping the fire are all over the internet. Turns out Logan is none other than Logan Arthur, the hotshot candidate challenging the Texas governor's seat. The salacious scandal is poised to sink his career-and jeopardize Alexis's job-until a solution is proposed: he and Alexis could pretend to be in a relationship until election day…in two months. What could possibly go wrong?"Charming, swoony, and utterly unputdownable. I LOVE this book!"-LYNN PAINTER, New York Times bestselling author of Better Than the Movies

Lee Stone er en moderne kvinde af det 21. århundrede. Som kommunikationsdirektør i et kvindedrevet elbilfirma, der er bedre end Tesla (tak!), har hun fuldstændig styr på sit job. Når hun har fri, er hun kendt som "Stoner". "Stoner" drikker fyre under bordet og binder sig aldrig til nogen af dem. Lee har nemlig lært på den hårde måde aldrig at stole på mænd. Den første alvorlige hjertesorg kom fra hendes far, der var hendes mor utro. Den seneste var Ben Laderman på universitetet – som faktisk ikke var utro, men hun var sikker på, at han var det, så hun tog hævn.Fem år senere dukker Ben op igen, denne gang som politisk ekspert for den mest liberale guvernør i Texas' historie, netop som Lee forsøger at få et lovforslag om grøn energi stemt igennem. Tingene bliver komplicerede – og konkurrenceprægede – da Lee og Ben bliver tvunget til at arbejde sammen. Spændingen stiger, mens gamle gnister blusser op igen, og det hele kulminerer i et romantisk opgør af dimensioner på størrelse med Texas.I Én gang er ingen gang flyver gnisterne, og der er masser af latter, mens Lee må beslutte, om hun skal holde fast i ordsproget om, at man kun skal lade sig narre af den samme person én gang, eller om det kan gradbøjes. Undervejs begår både Ben og "Stoner" hver især ægte, relaterbare fejl, hvilket gør dem lette at identificere sig med, og det politiske spil er næsten smerteligt ægte. En skøn blanding af "enemies-to-lovers" og "second-chance-romance".

Lee Stone er en moderne kvinde af det 21. århundrede. Som kommunikationsdirektør i et kvindedrevet elbilfirma, der er bedre end Tesla (tak!), har hun fuldstændig styr på sit job. Når hun har fri, er hun kendt som "Stoner". "Stoner" drikker fyre under bordet og binder sig aldrig til nogen af dem. Lee har nemlig lært på den hårde måde aldrig at stole på mænd. Den første alvorlige hjertesorg kom fra hendes far, der var hendes mor utro. Den seneste var Ben Laderman på universitetet – som faktisk ikke var utro, men hun var sikker på, at han var det, så hun tog hævn.Fem år senere dukker Ben op igen, denne gang som politisk ekspert for den mest liberale guvernør i Texas' historie, netop som Lee forsøger at få et lovforslag om grøn energi stemt igennem. Tingene bliver komplicerede – og konkurrenceprægede – da Lee og Ben bliver tvunget til at arbejde sammen. Spændingen stiger, mens gamle gnister blusser op igen, og det hele kulminerer i et romantisk opgør af dimensioner på størrelse med Texas.I Én gang er ingen gang flyver gnisterne, og der er masser af latter, mens Lee må beslutte, om hun skal holde fast i ordsproget om, at man kun skal lade sig narre af den samme person én gang, eller om det kan gradbøjes. Undervejs begår både Ben og "Stoner" hver især ægte, relaterbare fejl, hvilket gør dem lette at identificere sig med, og det politiske spil er næsten smerteligt ægte. En skøn blanding af "enemies-to-lovers" og "second-chance-romance".Om forfatterenASHLEY WINSTEAD er akademiker og romanforfatter med en ph.d. i moderne amerikansk litteratur. Hun er blandt andet blevet nævnt af New York Times, Washington Post, Cosmopolitan og Good Morning America. Hendes bøger er oversat til mere end ti sprog og er blevet udvalgt til film og tv. Hun bor i Houston med sin mand, to katte og sit elskede vinkøleskab.

Inspired by a true story, acclaimed author of In My Dreams I Hold a Knife and Midnight is the Darkest Hour Ashley Winstead descends into the underworld of true-crime amateur sleuths in a chilling first-person account of one woman's role in the investigation of the gruesome slaying of three small-town university students.

A simmering slow burn bursting with banter... This is a romance for anyone who's ever felt too messy to be loved.' Rosie Danan, author of The RoommateIn this fierce and funny battle of the exes, Ashley Winstead's Fool Me Once explores the chaos of wanting something you used to have.Lee Stone is a twenty-first-century woman: she kicks butt at her job as a communications director at a women-run electric car company (that's better than Tesla, thank you), and after work she is "Stoner,? drinking guys under the table and never letting any of them get too comfortable in her bed...That's because Lee's learned one big lesson: never trust love. Four major heartbreaks set her straight, from her father cheating on her mom all the way to Ben Laderman in grad school?who wasn't actually cheating, but she could have sworn he was, so she reciprocated in kind.Then Ben shows up five years later, working as a policy expert for the most liberal governor in Texas history, just as Lee is trying to get a clean energy bill rolling. Things get complicated?and competitive?as Lee and Ben are forced to work together. Tension builds just as old sparks reignite, fanning the flames for a romantic dustup the size of Texas.Don't miss The Boyfriend Candidate, Ashley Winstead's next laugh-out-loud rom-com about learning to embrace living outside your comfort zone!

From TikTok sensation Ashley Winstead comes her newest thriller. For fans of Verity and A Flicker in the Dark, Midnight is the Darkest Hour is a twisted tale of murder, obsessive love, and the beastly urges that lie dormant within us all... In her small hometown, librarian Ruth Cornier has always felt like an outsider, even as her beloved father rains fire-and-brimstone warnings from the pulpit at Holy Fire Baptist. Unfortunately for Ruth, the only things the townspeople fear more than the God and the Devil are the myths that haunt the area, like the story of the Low Man, a vampiric figure said to steal into sinners' bedrooms and kill them on moonless nights. When a skull is found deep in the swamp next to mysterious carved symbols, Bottom Springs is thrown into uproar?and Ruth realizes only she and Everett, an old friend with a dark past, have the power to comb the town's secret underbelly in search of true evil.A dark and powerful novel like fans have come to expect from Ashley Winstead, Midnight is the Darkest Hour is an examination of the ways we've come to expect love, religion, and stories to save us, the lengths we have to go to in order to take back power, and the monstrous work of being a girl in this world.'Where The Crawdads Sing meets Twilight meets Thelma and Louise in this brilliantly realized, totally original thriller. Absolutely sensational! I couldn't put it down.' Clare Mackintosh, New York Times bestselling author

Six friends.One college reunion.One unsolved murder.Ten years after graduation, Jessica Miller has planned every detail of her triumphant return to Duquette university. Everyone will see who she wants them to see - confident, beautiful, indifferent. Not the girl she was before, back when Heather Shelby's murder fractured everything.But not everyone is ready to move on. Someone is determined to make the guilty pay. When Jessica and her friends are reunited, they are forced to confront not only what happened that night, but the secrets they would do anything to hide.Told in racing dual timelines, with a dark campus setting, In My Dreams I Hold A Knife is an addictive, propulsive read you won't be able to put down.

'THE BOYFRIEND CANDIDATE is a total freaking delight. It's smart, sexy, funny and so sharply written.'- Carley Fortune, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Meet Me at the LakeA laugh-out-loud rom-com about learning to embrace living outside your comfort zone.As a shy school librarian, Alexis Stone is comfortable keeping out of the spotlight. But when she's dumped for being too meek-in bed!-she decides she needs to change. And what better way to kick-start her new more adventurous life than with her first one-night stand?Enter Logan, the gorgeous, foul-mouthed stranger she meets at a hotel bar. Audacious and filterless, Logan is Alexis's opposite-and boy, do opposites attract! Just as she's about to fulfill her hookup wish, the hotel catches fire in a freak lightning storm. In their rush to escape, Logan is discovered carrying her into the street, where people are waiting with cameras. Cameras Logan promptly-and shockingly-flees.Alexis is bewildered until suddenly pictures of her and Logan escaping the fire are all over the internet. Turns out Logan is none other than Logan Arthur, the hotshot candidate challenging the Texas governor's seat. The salacious scandal is poised to sink his career-and jeopardize Alexis's job-until a solution is proposed: he and Alexis could pretend to be in a relationship until election day.in two months. What could possibly go wrong?'Charming, swoony, and utterly unputdownable. I LOVE this book!'- Lynn Painter, New York Times bestselling author of Better Than the Movies

A secret cult. An unsolved murder. How far would you go to discover the truth?While at college in upstate New York, Shay Evans and her friends met a man who seduced them with lies about the world and brought them under his thrall. By senior year, Shay and her friend Laurel were the only ones who managed to escape.Eight years later, Shay has built a new life. But when she hears the horrifying news of Laurel's death, she realises the past she thought she buried is still very much alive.Shay goes back to the place to which she vowed never to return. As she follows the threads of Laurel's life, she's pulled once again into a dark, seductive world, where wealth and privilege shield brutal philosophies that feel all too familiar. And this time, there may be no turning back...

From the critically acclaimed author of In My Dreams I Hold A Knife and The Last Housewife comes Midnight is the Darkest Hour, gothic Southern thriller about a killer haunting a small Louisiana town, where two outcasts-the preacher's daughter and the boy from the wrong side of the tracks-hold the key to uncovering the truth.For fans of Verity and A Flicker in the Dark, Midnight is the Darkest Hour is a twisted tale of murder, obsessive love, and the beastly urges that lie dormant within us all...even the God-fearing folk of Bottom Springs, Louisiana. In her small hometown, librarian Ruth Cornier has always felt like an outsider, even as her beloved father rains fire-and-brimstone warnings from the pulpit at Holy Fire Baptist. Unfortunately for Ruth, the only things the townspeople fear more than the God and the Devil are the myths that haunt the area, like the story of the Low Man, a vampiric figure said to steal into sinners' bedrooms and kill them on moonless nights. When a skull is found deep in the swamp next to mysterious carved symbols, Bottom Springs is thrown into uproar-and Ruth realizes only she and Everett, an old friend with a dark past, have the power to comb the town's secret underbelly in search of true evil.A dark and powerful novel like fans have come to expect from Ashley Winstead, Midnight is the Darkest Hour is an examination of the ways we've come to expect love, religion, and stories to save us, the lengths we have to go to in order to take back power, and the monstrous work of being a girl in this world."Where The Crawdads Sing meets Twilight meets Thelma and Louise in this brilliantly realized, totally original thriller. Absolutely sensational-I couldn't put it down." - Clare Mackintosh, New York Times bestselling author

"A simmering slow burn bursting with banter… This is a romance for anyone who's ever felt too messy to be loved."-ROSIE DANAN, author of The RoommateIn this fierce and funny battle of the exes, Ashley Winstead's Fool Me Once explores the chaos of wanting something you used to have.Lee Stone is a twenty-first-century woman: she kicks butt at her job as a communications director at a women-run electric car company (that's better than Tesla, thank you), and after work she is "Stoner," drinking guys under the table and never letting any of them get too comfortable in her bed…That's because Lee's learned one big lesson: never trust love. Four major heartbreaks set her straight, from her father cheating on her mom all the way to Ben Laderman in grad school-who wasn't actually cheating, but she could have sworn he was, so she reciprocated in kind.Then Ben shows up five years later, working as a policy expert for the most liberal governor in Texas history, just as Lee is trying to get a clean energy bill rolling. Things get complicated-and competitive-as Lee and Ben are forced to work together. Tension builds just as old sparks reignite, fanning the flames for a romantic dustup the size of Texas.Don't miss The Boyfriend Candidate, Ashley Winstead's next laugh-out-loud rom-com about learning to embrace living outside your comfort zone!