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Zara West

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New York City, The United States

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Zara West loves all things mysterious, adventurous, and heart-stopping, as long as they lead to true love. Born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Zara West spends winters in New York where the streets hum with life, summers in the Maritimes where the sea meets the shore, and the rest of the year anywhere inspiration for tales of adventure and love are plentiful.

Swept off her feet by her own Indiana Jones, Zara has followed sheep and goats up and down mountainsides in Greece, Crete, and Italy, been stranded on the banks of the Rhine with no money and one chocolate bar, and while she has never been kidnapped, she has been abandoned on an island in the middle of the wilderness for longer than she wants to remember. Now she writes books for the romant ...more

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Average rating: 4.39 · 119 ratings · 88 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	Concealed by the Tide 4.54 avg rating — 26 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Within the Skin (Skin Quartet #3) 4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Close to the Skin (Skin Quartet #2) 4.26 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beneath the Skin (Skin Quartet #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Under the Skin (Skin Quartet #4) 4.31 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lost Beneath the Tide: A Tide Harbor Romantic Suspense (Tide Harbor Suspense Book 2) 4.85 avg rating — 13 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Season for Second Chances: A Hearts Through History Autumn Anthology by Dawn Ireland (Goodreads Author), Leslie Vollard (Goodreads Author), Jaylee Austin (Goodreads Author) 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Zara West rated a book it was amazing A Peculiar Enchantment by Kathleen Buckley (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
An unlikely heroine wins the prize in this delightful novel full of secrets, misapprehensions, and a beloved cat.
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This is a beautifully written book and should have been 5 stars, but it is a cliffhanger. And I personally hate cliffhangers. And this has the worst kind. It ends in a very awkward place with characters in limbo all over the place, and the next book ...more
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