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April Smith is a major Hollywood scriptwriter and producer. In addition to Cagney and Lacey she is the writer/producer of four distinguished TV movies: Best Kept Secrets; Ernie Kovass; Between the Laughter; Love Lives On and Taking Back my Life: The Nancy Ziegenmayer Story. She lives in Santa Monica, California with her husband and two children.

Books by April Smith

Home Sweet Home

From the widely praised author of the FBI Special Agent Ana Grey series and A Star for Mrs. Blake, this riveting epic drama follows the Kusek family from New York City to America's heartland, where they are caught up in the panic of McCarthyism, a smear campaign, a sensational trial, and, ultimately, murder.

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A Star for Mrs. Blake

April Smith focuses her story on five women, who meet just before their journey begins: Katie McConnell, an Irish maid from Dorchester, Massachusetts; Minnie Seibert, wife of an immigrant Russian Jewish chicken farmer; Bobbie Olsen, a wealthy Boston socialite; Wilhelmina Russell, a former tennis star in precarious mental health; and Cora Blake, a single mother and librarian from coastal Maine. In Paris, Cora meets a journalist whose drug habit helps him hide from his own wartime fate-facial wounds so grievous he's forced to wear a metal mask. This man will change Cora's life in wholly unexpected ways. And when the women finally travel to Verdun to visit the battlegrounds where their sons fought as well as the cemeteries where they are buried, shocking events--a death, a scandal, a secret revealed--will guarantee that Cora's life and those of her traveling companions will become inextricably intertwined. Only now will they be able to emerge from their grief and return home to their loved ones. This is a timeless story set against a footnote of history, little known but unforgettable.

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