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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil They aren't your typical cast of characters. Three queer women born in three different centuries whose lives are on a collision course to intersect. How and why? They are vampires, two by choice and one who was a victim. Meet Sabine, the most exotic and Read more...
A Promise to Arlette If it hadn't been for World War II Ida, an English woman, and Sidney, an American, would not have met. He probably would have married his fiancé and Ida would have tried to find a way to advance her musical education. But, the war did happen Read more...
Where the Rivers Merge WHERE THE RIVERS MERGE, a novel by Mary Alice Monroe opened in 1988. Eliza has just turned eighty-eight years old and remains the head of an empire. She knows she should probably retire and is all too aware her greedy son is planning to wrestle control Read more...
Albion ALBION. Even the name of the eighteenth-century estate sounds regal. It is not a property without secrets. Secrets that are about to be revealed when the family gathers for Philip Brooke's funeral. Philip inherited control of the ancestral property fifty years ago and his lifestyle Read more...
Cat Fight Living in the exclusive London suburb of Sevenoaks should have been a dream come true for those fortunate enough to be able to afford it. And it was, until that one particular summer when there was an alleged sighting of a big cat perched on the hood Read more...
The Names Spanning a period of thirty-five years, we first meet Cora as she, her infant son and her nine-year-old daughter Maia head for the office where she has been told by her abusive and domineering husband to register the child's first name as Gordon. There Read more...
Fifty Fifty Eddie Flynn has an interesting history. He's an ex-con artist turned defense attorney which he is surprisingly good at. His former skills have made him both street-wise and savvy. Surprising to even him, he has been hired to defend a murder suspect in a Read more...
The Tradwife's Secret Madison March is many things: an influencer with millions of followers who envy and support her commitment to being a traditional wife, a model wife and a doting mother to her four children. It's too bad it's all a lie. Even more than that, it is a Read more...
The Tapestry of Time There was something unusual about the Sharp family. The father and the four daughters seem to share an unusual psychic power. It was perhaps a form of clairvoyance coupled with other supernatural powers. Little did they know where this would take them.
Whispers of Dead Girls After having left her hometown ten years ago, Ren Taylor has returned. She has been hired to teach in her former high school, the place where the nightmare that shaped the rest of her life began. It was here that her sister met the man who was responsible for Read more...
The Martha's Vineyard Beach and Book Club THE MARTHA'S VINEYARD BEACH AND BOOK CLUB, by Martha Hall Kelly, opens in 2016 where we meet grieving Mari Starwood who travels from her home in California to Martha's Vineyard. Why? Among her dead mother's possessions, she found a piece of paper with a famous Read more...
The Safari All Odelia Babel wanted was to celebrate her upcoming wedding with her family. So what that her fiance Asher Bach is twenty-five years younger than she is and is also an employee of the company she owns. They appear to be madly in love with each other Read more...
After Paris What could present-day twenty-five-year-old Ruby Nevins have in common with Cecile, a famous French actress of the early 1940s and Sylvia Rousseau, her dressmaker? As it turns out, quite a bit. Ruby, a cancer survivor, has begun research into what happened after both Read more...
Misophonia Fifteen-year-old Margarita is a complex girl. She is a Jew who lives in Berlin with her father Avi who is a Cantor. Add to her profile the fact that her mother Marsha left Margarita and Avi when she was an infant. When MISOPHONIA, by Dana Vonwinckel Read more...
The Correspondent When THE CORRESPONDENT, by Virginia Evans, opens readers meet Sybil Van Antwerp who is now in her seventies. She has accomplished a great deal. She was a successful attorney, a wife (long divorced now), a mother and a grandmother. However, there is one thing that Read more...
The Baker of Lost Memories Lena's parents survived the atrocities of World War II as well as losing their firstborn to the Nazis. Eventually, they came to Brooklyn and this is where they raised Lena. Their relationship was troubled from the beginning. Lena never felt that she was enough for her parents Read more...
The Keeper of Lost Art In the fall of 1942 Torino is under attack. Stella Costa's mother sends her to live with relatives in a Tuscan village. Immediately she learns her aunt can barely stand the sight of her, but she doesn't know why. Something must have happened to bring Read more...
The Eights In 1920 Oxford University broke a 1000-year tradition by allowing women to matriculate for the first time. THE EIGHTS, by Joanna Miller, tells the story of four of these women. They became known as The Eights simply because each occupied a room on Corridor 8 of their dormitory Read more...
Coram House Alex Kelley, a true crime writer, knew her second book was a failure. When she received an opportunity to work as a ghostwriter about an orphanage with a dark history she accepted the offer. She needed the money and a change of pace. Set in the dead of winter Read more...
The Last Session Thea, a social worker in a New York City psychiatric facility is no stranger to trauma. The sudden appearance of Catherine, a new patient, who is unresponsive and who bears an uncanny physical resemblance to Thea, leads to a startling discovery. Was this woman somehow connected to Thea's Read more... |
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