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The first of twelve linked romances set on an Australian island where nobody minds their own business. Celia Hart has kept her life orderly and entirely her own affair; Gavin Pike notices more than he says; the island notices everything. Late-life romance played for warmth and heat rather than wistfulness.

In a letter to someone she loves above all others, Violeta recounts a life spanning a hundred years and two pandemics — from her birth in the 1920s, as the Spanish flu reaches her South American homeland, to old age. Through the Great Depression, the rise and fall of tyrants, and the fight for women’s rights, she lives devastating heartbreak and passionate affairs, poverty and wealth, terrible loss and immense joy. Isabel Allende delivers an epic, deeply emotional portrait of a woman whose passion, determination, and humor carry her through a century of upheaval.

When her husband of forty-three years leaves alone for a dig in Peru, sixty-four-year-old Eisel Jane McCord finally chases her own teenage bucket list — a house of her own and a great romance — with two suitors complicating the plan. Book 2 of the Lovesong Encore later-in-life romance series.