What I Read Last Week:

Title: The Perfect Fit (Love in the Dales #2)

Authors: Mary Jayne Baker

Immediate Thoughts: Funny, warm, and entertaining!

Rating: 8/10

Publication Date: September 21, 2018

Title: The Poppy Wife

Authors: Caroline Scott

Immediate Thoughts: Poignant, insightful, and profoundly moving!

Rating: 10/10

Publication Date: November 5, 2019

Title: Right after the Weather

Authors: Carol Anshaw

Immediate Thoughts: Slow burning, sobering, and forlorn!

Rating: 7/10

Publication Date: October 1, 2019

Title: No Judgments (Little Bridge Island #1)

Authors: Meg Cabot

Immediate Thoughts: Cute, breezy, and atmospheric!

Rating: 7/10

Publication Date: September 24, 2019

Title: The Wicked Lord’s Mistress (The Lord’s Seduction #2)

Author: Scarlett Jameson

Immediate Thoughts: Mischievous, suspenseful, and rousing!

Rating: 7/10

Publication Date: September 9, 2019

What I’m Currently Reading:

From the New York Times bestselling author and master of “bone-chilling suspense” (People) comes another page-turning look inside one family’s past as buried secrets threaten to come to light.

Gifted musician Clemency Thompson is playing for tourists on the streets of southern France when she receives an urgent text message. Her childhood friend, Lucy, is demanding her immediate return to London.

It’s happening, says the message. The baby is back.

Libby Jones was only six months old when she became an orphan. Now twenty-five, she’s astounded to learn of an inheritance that will change her life. A gorgeous, dilapidated townhouse in one of London’s poshest neighborhoods has been held in a trust for her all these years. Now it’s hers.

As Libby investigates the story of her birth parents and the dark legacy of her new home, Clemency and Lucy are headed her way to uncover, and possibly protect, secrets of their own. What really happened in that rambling Chelsea mansion when they were children? And are they still at risk?

What I’m Reading Next:

After captivating readers in The Child Finder, Naomi—the investigator with an uncanny ability for finding missing children—returns, trading snow-covered woods for dark, gritty streets on the search for her missing sister in a city where young, homeless girls have been going missing and turning up dead.

From the highly praised author of The Child Finder and The Enchanted comes The Butterfly Girl, a riveting novel that ripples with truth, exploring the depths of love and sacrifice in the face of a past that cannot be left dead and buried. A year ago, Naomi, the investigator with an uncanny ability for finding missing children, made a promise that she would not take another case until she finds the younger sister who has been missing for years. Naomi has no picture, not even a name. All she has is a vague memory of a strawberry field at night, black dirt under her bare feet as she ran for her life.

The search takes her to Portland, Oregon, where scores of homeless children wander the streets like ghosts, searching for money, food, and companionship. The sharp-eyed investigator soon discovers that young girls have been going missing for months, many later found in the dirty waters of the river. Though she does not want to get involved, Naomi is unable to resist the pull of children in need—and the fear she sees in the eyes of a twelve-year old girl named Celia. Running from an abusive stepfather and an addict mother, Celia has nothing but hope in the butterflies—her guides and guardians on the dangerous streets. She sees them all around her, tiny iridescent wisps of hope that soften the edges of this hard world and illuminate a cherished memory from her childhood—the Butterfly Museum, a place where everything is safe and nothing can hurt her.

As danger creeps closer, Naomi and Celia find echoes of themselves in one another, forcing them each to consider the question: Can you still be lost even when you’ve been found? But will they find the answer too late?