As a big fan of WW2 historical fiction MISTRESS OF THE RITZ
was a must read for me. I've previously read THE GIRLS IN
THE PICTURE by Melanie Benjamin and it's a fabulous book and
I was looking forward to reading a new book by the author.
MISTRESS Read more...
While back I had the opportunity to listen to the audiobook of BULL MOUNTAIN by Brian Panowich, which I really loved, so I was pleased to have the opportunity to read LIKE LIONS. I'm Read more...
You can't refuse from Greg Rask, a dying billionaire. Rye gets a second
chance, and together, with other people that have also been given a
second chance by Rask, he is now on a hunt for a miracle cure.
Something that will give Rask his own second chance. There Read more...
As far as I know, have I never read a Cosmopolitan Magazine. It has
never been my type of magazine to read. So why did I pick PARK AVENUE SUMMER to read?
Well, I've wanted to read something by Renee Rosen for Read more...
There is a tower in the forest, far away from civilization. There are boys
there called the alphabet boys. Once upon a time, there were twenty-
six boys, but two of them were deemed spoiled rotten and they
disappeared...
J is one of the boys, and he looks at the Read more...
FIRE SEASON is the fourth book in the Eric
Carter series and my introduction to the series.
Starting with book four may be a bit unwise since that means
I've missed a lot of events in Eric Read more...
WHEN WE LEFT CUBA is the
fabulous sequel to NEXT YEAR IN
HAVANA. The first book told the tale of Elisa Perez and her
granddaughter Marisol. In this book, we follow Beatriz Perez as she
dreams Read more...
The year is 1912 and ladies maid Jane Prescott is preparing
to travel to
Long Island with the Benchley family for Louise's upcoming
wedding.
Louise is marrying William Tyler, whose uncle, Charles
Tyler, is New
York's Deputy Commissioner. Their wedding will take place at
his grand
home. Alas Read more...
Irene Van Beck has had enough of working for a traveling burlesque show. She has a plan, and together with fellow dancer Millie Martin, she is ready to start a new life. Tagging along with them is comedian Henry Weiss, and soon they are off to Hollywood on the Read more...
Sebastian St. Cyr is not especially sad when Lord Ashworth is found
brutally murdered. The man was a menace and Sebastian suspects that
he was involved with the kidnapping and murder of Street Children. He
just couldn't prove anything. And, he couldn't stop his niece Stephanie
from marrying Read more...
Lucy Brewer is a young woman who returns home to Lake Sackett,
Georgia after the death of her husband. She has decided to raise her
young son in her hometown and transform the local meat shop into a
bakery. Her best friend since childhood, Duffy McCready, is now
divorced from Read more...
We were introduced to Sarah Gilchrist in THE WAGES OF SINS and her plight continues in THE UNQUIET HEART. Sarah has
always dreamed of becoming a doctor. However, because it's 1893, it is
the general Read more...
Aaron and Bridge Quinlan's father has died and they are now traveling
to meet their mother and sister Franny at a huge property in the Pacific
Northwest to participate in the reading of his will. All of them are
confused when they learn that to claim their inheritance, they Read more...
Alice has taken young Oren and fled an abusive relationship. They
arrive in Delphi, NY in the middle of a snowstorm and are taken in by
Mattie, a social worker. Mattie breaks all her rules when she brings
them home to her instead of a local shelter. But the bad Read more...
Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper is faced with trying to bring
down a very powerful man in BLOOD OATH, a man that years ago
groomed a young witness in a case. Now Lucy, the young
woman, wants the man who used her brought to justice. But,
how to prove what really Read more...
Two young bartenders are found dead in the Barking Fog Inn and it's up
to Crimson Lake's most notorious private detectives to take on the
case: disgraced former police detective Ted Conkaffey and convicted
murderer Amanda Pharell. Together they will work this case with DI Pip
Sweeney. Meanwhile Read more...
Ex-Justice Department operative, Cotton Malone has traveled to Lake Como, Italy in the hunt for some legendary letters between Winston Churchill and Benito Mussolini that disappeared at Mussolini's death. It is said that these letters could re-write history if they were ever found. However, for Malone Read more...
Elise Sontag's life changes drastically in 1943 is sent, together with her
family to an internment camp in Texas. Her father, who has been a legal
US citizen for almost twenty years, is accused of being a Nazi
sympathizer. Elise meets Mariko Inoue, a Japanese-American girl at the Read more...
Veronica Speedwell is back in a new adventure where she
has to solve the mystery of a bride that disappeared
after the wedding. Together with her colleague Stoker and
his brother are they guests on a remote island off the
tip of Cornwall. And, all the other guests on the Read more...
Detective P.T. Marsh has been on a downward spiral since the deaths of
his wife and son, mostly drinking his life away. Now he may have killed
someone... He's just not sure because he can't remember much from
the night before, only that he helped an exotic Read more...
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