What I Read Last Week:

Title: Bitter Falls (Stillhouse Lake #4)

Authors: Rachel Caine

Immediate Thoughts: Creepy, fast-paced, and action-packed!

Rating: 8.5/10

Publication Date: Jan. 21, 2020

Title: Almost Just Friends (Wildstone #4)

Authors: Jill Shalvis

Immediate Thoughts: Sweet, hopeful, and touching!

Rating: 8.5/10

Publication Date: Jan. 21, 2020

Title: Starlight Bridge (Harmony Harbor #2)

Authors: Debbie Mason

Immediate Thoughts: Amusing, tender, and uplifting!

Rating: 8/10

Publication Date: Feb. 18, 2020

Title: The Borgia Confessions

Authors: Alyssa Palombo

Immediate Thoughts: Rich, fascinating, and immersive!

Rating: 9/10

Publication Date: Feb. 11, 2020

Title: Of Curses and Kisses

Authors: Sandhya Menon

Immediate Thoughts: Fresh, uplifting, and magical!

Rating: 8.5/10

Publication Date: Feb. 18, 2020

Title: When You See Me (Detective D.D. Warren #11)

Authors: Lisa Gardner

Immediate Thoughts: Propulsive, Riveting, and disturbing!

Rating: 10/10

Publication Date: Feb. 20, 2020

What I’m Currently Reading:

A compassionate, uplifting love story for fans of Me Before You

When Ava Green turns twenty-eight, she discovers this will be her last birthday. The cancer she thought she’d beaten three years ago is back, only this time it’s terminal: and she’s not going to waste any of the time she has left. There’s one thing she’s been dreaming of since she was a small girl: her wedding. There’s only one problem. She doesn’t have a groom.

Her friends and family rally around her and decide they will help her throw the wedding of her dreams, just without the actual vows. A mammoth organisation begins. As word spreads, people offer help. In an uncertain time, the whole country seizes the story of a woman whose dying dream is simple, and they unite to give her a wedding to remember. But when a photographer called Lucas Gable volunteers to help document the whole event, it becomes painfully clear that it’s never too late to discover the love of your life.

What I’m Reading Next:

The Telephone Box Library is an uplifting story about fresh starts and new beginnings, set in a picturesque Cotswold village, by bestselling author Rachael Lucas.

Books. Wine. Secrets. You’ll find them all at the telephone box library . . .

The Cotswolds: the perfect retreat for a stressed-out teacher. And Lucy has found just the right cottage for a bargain rent. All she has to do is keep an eye on Bunty, her extremely feisty ninety-something neighbour . . .

With her West Highland terrier Hamish at her side, Lucy plans to relax and read up on the women of nearby Bletchley Park. But the villagers of Little Maudley have other ideas, and she finds herself caught up in the campaign to turn a dilapidated telephone box into a volunteer-run library.

Along the way, she makes friends with treehouse designer Sam, and finds herself falling for the charms of village life. And it seems Bunty has a special connection to Bletchley and the telephone box, one that she’s kept secret for decades . . .

What I Read Last Week:

Title: Forever Interrupted

Authors: Taylor Jenkins Reid

Immediate Thoughts: Pensive, heartwrenching, and hopeful!

Rating: 8.5/10

Publication Date: Jul. 9, 2013

Title: A Favor for a Favor (All In #2)

Authors: Helena Hunting

Immediate Thoughts: Swoon-worthy, witty, and fun!

Rating: 10/10

Publication Date: Jan. 28, 2020

Title: I Thought I Knew You

Authors: Penny Hancock

Immediate Thoughts: Intricate, raw, and compelling!

Rating: 8/10

Publication Date: Feb. 4, 2020

Title: Marriage on Madison Avenue (Central Park Pact #3)

Authors: Lauren Layne

Immediate Thoughts: Sweet, heartwarming, and romantic!

Rating: 9/10

Publication Date: Jan. 28, 2020

Title: All the Best Lies (Ellery Hathaway #3)

Authors: Joanna Schaffhausen

Immediate Thoughts: Raw, complex, and unputdownable!

Rating: 10/10

Publication Date: Feb. 11, 2020

Title: Big Bad Cowboy (Once Upon a Time in Texas #1)

Authors: Carly Bloom

Immediate Thoughts: Charming, Smoking hot, and laugh-out-loud funny!

Rating: 10/10

Publication Date: Oct. 30, 2018

What I’m Currently Reading:

She’s investigating a cold case no one else could—by going places no else would dare.

In spite of a harrowing past still haunting her, Gwen Proctor is trying to move forward. Until a new assignment gives her purpose: the cold-case disappearance of a young man in Tennessee. Three years missing, no clues. Just Ruth Landry, a tortured mother in limbo. Gwen understands what it’s like to worry about your children.

Gwen’s investigation unearths new suspects…and victims. As she follows each sinister lead, the implications of the mystery grow more disturbing. Because the closer Gwen gets, the closer she is to a threat that looms back home.

In a town that’s closed its ranks against Gwen; her partner, Sam; and her kids, there’s no bolder enemy than the Belldene family—paramilitary, criminal, powerful, and vengeful. As personal vendettas collide with Gwen’s investigation, she’s prepared to fight both battles. But is she prepared for the toll it could take on everyone she loves?

What I’m Reading Next:

Cousins by chance, sisters by choice…

After her cat toy empire goes up in flames, Sophie Lane returns to Blackberry Island, determined to rebuild. Until small-town life reveals a big problem: she can’t grow unless she learns to let go. If Sophie relaxes her grip even a little, she might lose everything. Or she might finally be free to reach for the happiness and love that have eluded her for so long.

Kristine has become defined by her relationship to others. She’s a wife, a mom. As much as she adores her husband and sons, she wants something for herself—a sweet little bakery just off the waterfront. She knew changing the rules wouldn’t be easy, but she never imagined she might have to choose between her marriage and her dreams.

Like the mainland on the horizon, Heather’s goals seem beyond her grasp. Every time she manages to save for college, her mother has another crisis. Can she break free, or will she be trapped in this tiny life forever?

Told with Mallery’s trademark humor and charm, Sisters by Choice is a heartfelt tale of love, family and the friendships that see us through.

What I Read Last Week:

Title: An Everyday Hero (A Heart of a Hero #2)

Authors: Laura Trentham

Immediate Thoughts: Heartfelt, uplifting, and sweetly romantic!

Rating: 9/10

Publication Date: Feb. 4, 2020

Title: The Wives

Authors: Tarryn Fisher

Immediate Thoughts: Edgy, perplexing, and unpredictable!

Rating: 8/10

Publication Date: Dec. 30, 2019

Title: A Midwinter Promise

Authors: Lulu Taylor

Immediate Thoughts: Disquieting, moving, and intriguing!

Rating: 8.5/10

Publication Date: Jan. 14, 2020

Title: The Cottage on Wildflower Lane

Authors: Liz Davies

Immediate Thoughts: Sweet, heartwarming, and delightfully charming!

Rating: 8.5/10

Publication Date: Feb. 14, 2020

Title: Carter (Twilight Falls #2)

Authors: A.M. Salinger

Immediate Thoughts: Seductive, sweet, and downright salacious!

Rating: 8/10

Publication Date: Jan. 31, 2020

Title: The Estate

Authors: Liza Costello

Immediate Thoughts: Gloomy, eerie, and complex!

Rating: 7/10

Publication Date: Feb. 6, 2020

What I’m Currently Reading:

For fans of He Said/She Said and Anatomy of a Scandal, Penny Hancock’s I Thought I Knew You is about secrets and lies – and whose side you take when it really matters.

Who do you know better? Your oldest friend? Or your child?
And who should you believe when one accuses the other of an abhorrent crime?

Jules and Holly have been best friends since university. They tell each other everything, trading revelations and confessions, and sharing both the big moments and the small details of their lives: Holly is the only person who knows about Jules’s affair; Jules was there for Holly when her husband died. And their two children – just three years apart – have grown up together.

So when Jules’s daughter Saffie makes a serious allegation against Holly’s son Saul, neither woman is prepared for the devastating impact this will have on their friendship or their families.

Especially as Holly, in spite of her principles, refuses to believe her son is guilty.

After Greer is assigned a veteran to help, she’s not surprised Emmett Lawson, the town’s golden boy, followed his family’s legacy. What leaves her shocked is the shell of a man who believes he doesn’t deserve anyone’s help. A breakthrough with Ally reminds Greer that no one is worth giving up on. So she shows up one day with his old guitar, and meets Emmett’s rage head on with her stubbornness. When a situation with Ally becomes dire, the two of them must become a team to save her—and along the way they might just save themselves too.

What I’m Reading Next:

‘Under Palombo’s skillful hand, the entangled world of the Borgias comes vividly to life, exposing the dark facets of class structure and the all-consuming greed that comes with ambition–and love.” – Heather Webb, internationally bestselling author of Last Christmas in Paris and Meet Me in Monaco

During the sweltering Roman summer of 1492, Rodrigo Borgia has risen to power as pope. Rodrigo’s eldest son Cesare, forced to follow his father into the church and newly made the Archbishop of Valencia, chafes at his ecclesiastical role and fumes with jealousy and resentment at the way that his foolish brother has been chosen for the military greatness he desired.

Maddalena Moretti comes from the countryside, where she has seen how the whims of powerful men wreak havoc on the lives of ordinary people. But now, employed as a servant in the Vatican Palace, she cannot help but be entranced by Cesare Borgia’s handsome face and manner and finds her faith and conviction crumbling in her want of him.

As war rages and shifting alliances challenge the pope’s authority, Maddalena and Cesare’s lives grow inexplicably entwined. Maddalena becomes a keeper of dangerous Borgia secrets, and must decide if she is willing to be a pawn in the power games of the man she loves. And as jealousy and betrayal threaten to tear apart the Borgia family from within, Cesare is forced to reckon with his seemingly limitless ambition.

Alyssa Palombo’s captivating new novel, The Borgia Confessions, is a story of passion, politics, and class, set against the rise and fall of one of Italy’s most infamous families–the Borgias.

What I Read Last Week:

Title: The Dutch Wife

Authors: Ellen Keith

Immediate Thoughts: Immersive, graphic, and reflective!

Rating: 8/10

Publication Date: Sep. 4, 2018

Title: Justified (Loveless, Texas #1)

Authors: Jay Crownover

Immediate Thoughts: Twisty, suspenseful, and deliciously steamy!

Rating: 9/10

Publication Date: Jun. 25, 2019

Title: Alone in the Wild (Rockton #5)

Authors: Katy Evans

Immediate Thoughts: Unique, mysterious, and incredibly atmospheric!

Rating: 7.5/10

Publication Date: Feb. 4, 2020

Title: Regretting You

Authors: Colleen Hoover

Immediate Thoughts: Heartwrenching, heartwarming, and achingly romantic

Rating: 10/10

Publication Date: Dec. 10, 2019

What I’m Currently Reading:

From award-winning author Laura Trentham comes an emotionally layered novel about redemption, second chances and discovering that life is worth fighting for.

At thirty, Greer Hadley never expected to be forced home to Madison, Tennessee with her life and dreams of being a songwriter up in flames. To make matters worse, a series of bad decisions and even crappier luck lands her community service hours at a nonprofit organization that aids veterans and their families. Greer cannot fathom how she’s supposed to use music to help anyone deal with their trauma and loss when the one thing that brought her joy has failed her.

When Greer meets fifteen-year-old Ally Martinez, her plans to stay detached and do as little as possible get thrown away. New to town and dealing with the death of her father in action, she hides her emotions behind a mask of bitterness and sarcasm, but Greer is able to see past it and recognizes pieces of who she once was in Ally. The raw and obvious talent she possesses could take her to the top and Greer vows to make sure life’s negativities don’t derail Ally’s potential.

After Greer is assigned a veteran to help, she’s not surprised Emmett Lawson, the town’s golden boy, followed his family’s legacy. What leaves her shocked is the shell of a man who believes he doesn’t deserve anyone’s help. A breakthrough with Ally reminds Greer that no one is worth giving up on. So she shows up one day with his old guitar, and meets Emmett’s rage head on with her stubbornness. When a situation with Ally becomes dire, the two of them must become a team to save her—and along the way they might just save themselves too.

What I’m Reading Next:

The past

A lonely and imaginative child, Julia loves her family’s beautiful and wild Cornish home with all her heart. But, marked by dark troubles, she enters her adult years determined to leave and seek a new beginning in London. It’s there she meets the handsome David. They fall in love, but when Julia becomes pregnant, even he can’t stop the terrible echoes of the past from ringing in her ears. The only sound to be heard above the noise is the old Cornish house, calling her home . . .

The present

For Julia’s adult children, Alex and Johnnie, the house hides the history of their family within its walls. For Alex, it is full of memories of her late mother. For Johnnie, it is the house that should have been rightfully theirs after Julia died but has been stolen from them instead. With their father now lying in a hospital bed, time is running out for Alex and Johnnie to uncover the secrets of what happened to their mother all those years ago. Can they discover the truth before the house closes its doors to them forever?

What I Read Last Week:

Title: Would Like to Meet

Authors: Rachel Winters

Immediate Thoughts: Charming, entertaining, and cute!

Rating: 8/10

Publication Date: Dec. 3, 2019

Title: The Tenant (Korner/Werner #1)

Authors: Katrine Engberg

Immediate Thoughts: Creepy, twisty, and ominous!

Rating: 8/10

Publication Date: Jan. 14, 2020

Title: Best Man

Authors: Katy Evans

Immediate Thoughts: Steamy, spicy, and intriguing!

Rating: 8/10

Publication Date: Dec. 10, 2019

Title: The Third Rainbow Girl

Authors: Emma Copley Eisenberg

Immediate Thoughts: Descriptive, informative, and well researched!

Rating: 8/10

Publication Date: Jan. 21, 2020

Title: American Fairytale (Dreamers #2)

Authors: Adriana Herrera

Immediate Thoughts: Compelling, slow-burning, and sweet!

Rating: 7.5/10

Publication Date: May 20, 2019

Title: The Look-Alike

Authors: Erica Spindler

Immediate Thoughts: Sinuous, devious, and compulsive!

Rating: 8.5/10

Publication Date: Jan. 28, 2020

Title: Crossing the Line (Hot Jocks #4)

Authors: Kendall Ryan

Immediate Thoughts: Sweet, smart, and sexy!

Rating: 9/10

Publication Date: Jan. 20, 2020

Title: The Girl He Used To Know

Authors: Tracey Garvis Graves

Immediate Thoughts: Astute, sensitive, and heartwarming!

Rating: 8.5/10

Publication Date: Apr. 2, 2019

What I’m Currently Reading:

She needs him. But does he want her?

Maya Rao has made her own dreams come true: she’s the owner of a bustling café and bakery in New York and the mother of a beautiful teenage daughter, Samantha. But when Samantha lands in legal trouble over a misdemeanor she didn’t commit, Maya is desperate. Desperate enough to call Samantha’s dad, Sam Hutcherson, whom Maya left abruptly many years ago, and who is now a successful lawyer. The problem? Sam doesn’t know he has a daughter.

Sam has put Maya firmly in his past, despite how shattered he was when she broke his heart. So he’s both dumbfounded and furious to find Maya outside his office asking for his help—with a picture of a girl who looks just like him. But as Sam reconnects with Maya, those old sparks begin to fly. Can he even picture a future with the woman who wrecked his past?

What I’m Reading Next:

In New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni’s riveting series, Seattle homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite returns home to a brutal murder and her haunted past.

The last time homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite was in Cedar Grove, it was to see her sister’s killer put behind bars. Now she’s returned for a respite and the chance to put her life back in order for herself, her attorney husband, Dan, and their new daughter. But tragic memories soon prove impossible to escape.

Dan is drawn into representing a local merchant whose business is jeopardized by the town’s revitalization. And Tracy is urged by the local PD to put her own skills to work on a new case: the brutal murder of a police officer’s wife and local reporter who was investigating a cold-case slaying of a young woman. As Tracy’s and Dan’s cases crisscross, Tracy’s trail becomes dangerous. It’s stirring up her own haunted past and a decades-old conspiracy in Cedar Grove that has erupted in murder. Getting to the truth is all that matters. But what’s Tracy willing to risk as a killer gets closer to her and threatens everyone she loves?

What I Read Last Week:

Title: Virgin River (Virgin River #1)

Authors: Robyn Carr

Immediate Thoughts: Dramatic, romantic, and emotional!

Rating: 8/10

Publication Date: October 22, 2019

Title: Consumed (Firefighters #1)

Authors: J. R. Ward

Immediate Thoughts: Consuming, passionate, and suspenseful!

Rating: 8/10

Publication Date: October 2, 2018

Title: Husband Material

Authors: Emily Belden

Immediate Thoughts: Sweet, Witty, and Charming!

Rating: 8/10

Publication Date: December 30, 2019

Title: No Mercy

Authors: Martina Cole

Immediate Thoughts: Dark, pacey, and gritty!

Rating: 8/10

Publication Date: December 24, 2019

Title: Arctic Heat (Frozen Hearts #3)

Authors: Annabeth Albert

Immediate Thoughts: Compelling, slow-burning, and sweet!

Rating: 8/10

Publication Date: September 23, 2019

Title: Forever Friends (Cranberry Cove #1)

Authors: Sarah Mackenzie

Immediate Thoughts: Heartwarming, charming, and uplifting!

Rating: 8/10

Publication Date: December 10, 2019

What I’m Currently Reading:

Goode girls don’t lie…

Perched atop a hill in the tiny town of Marchburg, Virginia, The Goode School is a prestigious prep school known as a Silent Ivy. The boarding school of choice for daughters of the rich and influential, it accepts only the best and the brightest. Its elite status, long-held traditions and honor code are ideal for preparing exceptional young women for brilliant futures at Ivy League universities and beyond. But a stranger has come to Goode, and this ivy has turned poisonous.

In a world where appearances are everything, as long as students pretend to follow the rules, no one questions the cruelties of the secret societies or the dubious behavior of the privileged young women who expect to get away with murder. But when a popular student is found dead, the truth cannot be ignored. Rumors suggest she was struggling with a secret that drove her to suicide.

But look closely…because there are truths and there are lies, and then there is everything that really happened.

J.T. Ellison’s pulse-pounding new novel examines the tenuous bonds of friendship, the power of lies and the desperate lengths people will go to to protect their secrets.

What I’m Reading Next:

Acclaimed author Colleen Oakley delivers a heart-wrenching and unforgettable love story about a woman who must choose between the man she loves and the man fate has chosen for her in a novel that reminds us that the best life is one led by the heart.

Mia Graydon’s life looks picket-fence perfect; she has the house, her loving husband, and dreams of starting a family. But she has other dreams too — unexplained, recurring ones starring the same man. Still, she doesn’t think much of them, until a relocation to small-town Pennsylvania brings her face to face with the stranger she has been dreaming about for years. And this man harbors a jaw-dropping secret of his own—he’s been dreaming of her too.

Determined to understand, Mia and this not-so-stranger search for answers. But when diving into their pasts begins to unravel her life in the present, Mia emerges with a single question—what if?

What I Read Last Week:

Title: The Life We Bury (Joe Talbert, Max Rupert #1)

Authors: Allen Eskens

Immediate Thoughts: Creepy, intelligent, and twisty!

Rating: 8.5/10

Publication Date: October 14, 2014

Title: An Unwanted Guest

Authors: Shari Lapena

Immediate Thoughts: Dark, tense, and twisty!

Rating: 8/10

Publication Date: August 7, 2018

Title: The Woman Left Behind (GO-Team #2)

Authors: Linda Howard

Immediate Thoughts: Dramatic, passionate, and suspenseful!

Rating: 8/10

Publication Date: March 6, 2018

Title: Gentlemen Prefer Curves (Perfect Fit #3)

Authors: Sugar Jamison

Immediate Thoughts: Cute, lighthearted, and enjoyable!

Rating: 7.5/10

Publication Date: September 30, 2014

What I’m Currently Reading:

On Christmas Eve in 1988, seven-year-old Alfie Marsden vanished in the Wentshire Forest Pass, when a burst tyre forced his father, Sorrel, to stop the car. Leaving the car to summon the emergency services, Sorrel returned to find his son gone. No trace of the child, nor his remains, have ever been found. Alfie Marsden was declared officially dead in 1995.
Elusive online journalist, Scott King, whose ‘Six Stories’ podcasts have become an internet sensation, investigates the disappearance, interviewing six witnesses, including Sorrel, his son and his ex-partner, to try to find out what really happened that fateful night. He takes a journey through the trees of the Wentshire Forest – a place synonymous with strange sightings, and tales of hidden folk who dwell there. He talks to a company that tried and failed to build a development in the forest, and a psychic who claims to know where Alfie is…
Intensely dark, deeply chilling and searingly thought provoking, Changeling is an up-to-the-minute, startling thriller, taking you to places you will never, ever forget.

What I’m Reading Next:

In this “thrilling, seductive, and utterly absorbing” (Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author) historical suspense novel in the tradition of Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile and Ruth Ware’s The Woman in Cabin 10, pre-war tension and forbidden romance abound, and not everyone will survive the journey…

The ship has been like a world within itself, a vast floating city outside of normal rules. But the longer the journey continues, the more confined it is starting to feel, deck upon deck, passenger upon passenger, all of them churning around each other without anywhere to go…

1939: Europe is on the brink of war when young Lily Shepherd boards an ocean liner in England, bound for Australia. She is ready to start anew, leaving behind the shadows of her past. The passage proves magical, complete with live music, cocktails, and fancy-dress balls. With stops at exotic locations along the way—Naples, Cairo, Ceylon—the voyage shows Lily places she’s only ever dreamed of and enables her to make friends with those above her social station, people who would not ordinarily mingle with her. She even allows herself to hope that a man she couldn’t possibly have a future with outside the cocoon of the ship might return her feelings.

But Lily soon realizes that she’s not the only one hiding secrets. Her newfound friends—the toxic wealthy couple Eliza and Max; Cambridge graduate Edward; Jewish refugee Maria; fascist George—are also running away from their pasts. As the glamour of the voyage fades, the stage is set for something sinister to occur. By the time the ship docks, two passengers are dead, war has been declared, and Lily’s life is irrevocably changed.

What I Read Last Week:

Title: Snowflakes over Moondance Cottage

Authors: Rosie Green

Immediate Thoughts: Encouraging, warm, and emotive!

Rating: 8.5/10

Publication Date: November 15, 2019

Title: The Little Bookshop on the Seine 

Authors: Rebecca Raisin

Immediate Thoughts: Cosy, heartwarming, and sweet!

Rating: 8.5/10

Publication Date: January 7, 2020

Title: Instacrush (Rookie Rebels #2)

Authors: Kate Meader

Immediate Thoughts: Spicy, romantic, and downright addictive!

Rating: 10/10

Publication Date: December 10, 2019

Title: The Room on Rue Amélie

Authors: Kristin Hamel

Immediate Thoughts: Powerful, moving, and inspiring!

Rating: 9/10

Publication Date: March 27, 2018

What I’m Currently Reading:

College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe’s life is ever the same.

Carl is a dying Vietnam veteran–and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home, after spending thirty years in prison for the crimes of rape and murder.

As Joe writes about Carl’s life, especially Carl’s valor in Vietnam, he cannot reconcile the heroism of the soldier with the despicable acts of the convict. Joe, along with his skeptical female neighbor, throws himself into uncovering the truth, but he is hamstrung in his efforts by having to deal with his dangerously dysfunctional mother, the guilt of leaving his autistic brother vulnerable, and a haunting childhood memory. 

Thread by thread, Joe unravels the tapestry of Carl’s conviction. But as he and Lila dig deeper into the circumstances of the crime, the stakes grow higher. Will Joe discover the truth before it’s too late to escape the fallout?

What I’m Reading Next:

An astonishing novel from the acclaimed author of Keepsakethat pushes the boundaries of storytelling. At turns shocking, provocative, and heart-wrenching, and inspired by a true story The Whole Golden World forces us to ask the question “How well do we really know our children?”

To the outside Dinah and Joe have a perfect family-three lovely children, a beautiful home, and a café that’s finally taking off. But their world is rocked when it’s discovered that their oldest daughter, 17-year-old Morgan is having an affair with her married teacher, TJ Hill.

Their town rocks with the scandal. When the case goes to trial, the family is torn further apart when Morgan sides not with her parents-as a manipulated teenage girl; but with TJ himself-as a woman who loves a 30-year-old man.

Told from the perspectives of Morgan, Dinah, and TJ’s wife, Rain, this is an unforgettable story that fully explores the surprising, even shocking, events that change the lives of two families.

What I Read Last Week:

Title: Crushed

Authors: Kate Hamer

Immediate Thoughts: Gloomy, tragic, and consuming!

Rating: 8/10

Publication Date: June 7, 2019

Title: A Madness of Sunshine 

Authors: Nalini Singh

Immediate Thoughts: Tender, charming, and sweetly romantic!

Rating: 8/10

Publication Date: October 22, 2019

Title: The Sun Sister (The Seven Sisters #6)

Authors: Lucinda Riley

Immediate Thoughts: Informative, expressive, and engaging!

Rating: 8.5/10

Publication Date: October 31, 2019

Title: Bringing Down the Duke (A League of Extraordinary Women #1)

Authors: Evie Dunmore

Immediate Thoughts: Lighthearted, charming, and fun!

Rating: 8/10

Publication Date: September 3, 2019

Title: The Artist and the Soldier

Authors: Angelle Petta

Immediate Thoughts: Compelling, poignant, and emotional!

Rating: 9/10

Publication Date: May 1, 2018

Title: Tough Guy (Game Changers #3)

Authors: Rachel Reid

Immediate Thoughts: Sensitive, alluring, and heartfelt!

Rating: 8.5/10

Publication Date: January 13, 2020

Title: Rancher’s Wild Secret & Hold Me, Cowboy

Author: Maisey Yates

Immediate Thoughts: Spicy, engaging, and downright steamy

Rating: 8.5/10

Publication Date: October 22, 2019

What I’m Currently Reading:

It’s The Holiday on the Champs-Élysées in a great big love letter to Paris, charming old bookstores and happily-ever-afters!

When bookshop owner Sarah Smith is offered the opportunity for a job exchange with her Parisian friend Sophie, saying yes is a no-brainer—after all, what kind of romantic would turn down six months in Paris? Sarah is sure she’s in for the experience of a lifetime—days spent surrounded by literature in a gorgeous bookshop, and the chance to watch the snowfall on the Eiffel Tower. Plus, now she can meet up with her journalist boyfriend, Ridge, when his job takes him around the globe.

But her expectations cool faster than her café au lait soon after she lands in the City of Light—she’s a fish out of water in Paris. The customers are rude, her new coworkers suspicious and her relationship with Ridge has been reduced to a long-distance game of phone tag, leaving Sarah to wonder if he’ll ever put her first over his busy career. As Christmas approaches, Sarah is determined to get the shop—and her life—back in order…and make her dreams of a Parisian happily-ever-after come true.

What I’m Reading Next:

When Jess Rigby lost her dad, the family coped in different ways, alone in their grief. Now, her mum seems to be going off the rails and her sister, Isla, who moved to France, is now back and determined to get the old family home on the market. But the last thing Jess wants this Christmas is for renovations to start on the house. It’s sure to stir up old memories she’s desperate to forget. And to make things worse, Isla seems to have hired the most obnoxious builder in the world to do the work. Jess could ignore the fact that women seem to be putty in his hands. But what she finds harder to ignore is the frisson she gets every time she squeezes past him in the mess that is now their beloved family home! Soon, the house begins to give up its secrets, some of them shocking. Can the family finally start talking and find a way to move on from the past this Christmas?