Mia never considered herself to be beautiful. Recently orphaned, she is a New Yorker who is not worldly. So when a stranger offers her a one-way ticket to Paris along with a modeling job at the famous House of Rousseau she is skeptical and suspicious. Of Read more...
When we first meet Charlotte she is being asked to hand over her shoelaces and her phone. She is told all sharp objects have been removed. The laces she hands over, but not the phone. What follows is the story of how Charlotte came to be admitted to Read more...
If they hadn't been seated in the same row on the plane Stephanie and Jasmine probably would never have met. Jasmine is running from an abusive relationship and Stephanie is headed to a business conference. They were traveling to two different cities and had a casual conversation. Shortly Read more...
Rusty, a retired judge, has finally found peace. He has a lovely home in the setting he has chosen and a fiancé, Bea, whom he adores. When things seem too good to be true it sometimes really ends up being too good to be true. When Bea Read more...
Sixty years. That's when Suchi and Haiwen met as children while living in Shanghai. Their friendship turned into love and they planned to always be together. But a decision Haiwen made and the violent times of Chinese history put an end to their plans. Their lives took Read more...
I'LL COME TO YOU, by Rebecca Kauffman, is set somewhere in the Midwest, spans the year 1995, and covers the happenings of one family. During this time we meet a young couple who has struggled to become pregnant and is now expecting. Her parents are grappling with Read more...
Dr. Richmond Dougherty, a successful pediatric surgeon, wasn't supposed to die the way he did. Addison, his second wife who detested him, was supposed to kill him, but someone else beat her to it. It matters not that they were married only 97 days, which Addison considered 97 Read more...
One can glean a great deal about a family's dynamics by observing how they interact during a family vacation. RENTAL HOUSE, by Weike Wang, tells the story of one such family, a blended family, actually. Keru is a Chinese-American who married Nate, a Caucasian man.   Read more...
They were once the closest of friends, but that ended two years ago when tragedy struck. Chrissy and Alice and their two sons shared a strong bond. The boys were raised together. One night Leo punched Robbie and he died as a result of that punch Read more...
Fifty years...that's how long it has been since Kate had seen Charlie. Much had changed during that time. Kate was now a wealthy, powerful woman in both Florida real estate and politics. She was gorgeous and glamorous. As for Charlie, he was now living Read more...
Who hasn't Googled themselves? Isabelle Duprees hasn't and has no intention of doing so. She could care less about what anyone thinks of her. After all, she is a successful and sought-after businesswoman who has it all. Or so it seems until her estranged older sister Read more...
It took Allina's suffering a fall in her home for her to finally reveal the secrets she had kept from everyone for decades. Her reasons? Some secrets are too painful to face, but the time has come to tell her story to her daughter. THE SUNFLOWER Read more...
All six women, Amy, Gabrielle, Katy, Brooke, Olivia and Naomi, belong to a club no one wants to belong to. All six had sisters who had been murdered by their abusive partners and all six men are walking free. The women have all sought therapy from Mia, who specializes Read more...
Twenty-four years have passed since four college coeds went missing from a North Carolina university. One of the women, Jessica, was a local girl, who left behind Lindsey, her younger sister. To say that Jessica's disappearance had a profound impact on Lindsey's life is a great Read more...
April hadn't been an easy month for Kathryn Walker for many years as it marked the loss of a child. However, this particular April might have been the worst yet. She believed she was being stalked and then hunted by a murderer. As if this Read more...
LIKE MOTHER, LIKE MOTHER, a novel by Susan Rieger is without a doubt a novel about family. While the story opens in 1960 when Lila Pereira was two years old, what happened two years prior might be the answer to unanswered questions that followed her and that of her Read more...
For those of us who think of Julia Child as a Master Chef, THE SECRET WAR OF JULIA CHILD, by Diana R. Chambers introduces readers to who she was before she mastered French cooking. By age thirty she had lost her beloved mother and a man had broken her Read more...
Hailey Morgan always spent Christmas with her parents, but when her mother invited Hailey's ex-boyfriend to join them there was no way she would be part of this. Music had always played a big role in her life, but her confidence had been bruised. She Read more...
Imagine waking up in a hospital bed and having no idea or memory of why and then learning that a malignant tumor has been removed from your brain. This is what happened to Eve. She is a successful author with ga large loving family and now her life Read more...
Sixty years. That is how long it has been since recently retired Augusta Stern has seen Irving Rivkin, the man she once deeply loved--the man who one night walked out on her and married someone else never offering her an explanation. Now relocated from New York to Read more...