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.