THE LOVE WE FOUND, by Jill Santopolo, is the follow-up to The Light We Lost. I found that THE LOVE WE FOUND can be read as a standalone book. Gabe has been gone for ten years when the story opens and Lucy is still talking to him and Read more...
One might say Ruby Johnson is a monster. At the very least, she is dangerous because no one sees her for who and what she really is...at least not at first. Once a child of privilege, she and her sick mother now barely eke out an Read more...
At first, it was Aimee and Lisa who were close friends. Then Gwen and her family moved into the Bethesda cul-de-sac and became part of the group. They were always there for each other and each other's families. Secrets were shared. Well, maybe not Read more...
All the other mothers at her son Dylan's school don't really hate thirty-one-year-old Florence Grimes. They probably just mock her because she doesn't measure up to their perceived social standards. Florence has never been a conformist, she does her best to avoid Read more...
They could have been just a group of women going from Dublin to Belfast for a little shopping and perhaps lunch. But, they weren't. These were women with a purpose and THE WOMEN ON PLATFORM TWO, a novel by Laura Anthony, is their story.
Camilla is finally going back to work after maternity leave. But something is wrong. Her husband Luke is not there to help her prepare for this big day. Not only that, he has left a cryptic note and isn't responding to her texts and emails. After dropping Read more...
Twenty years in a loveless marriage was enough for Evelyn Henderson. Once she found out that Reno's divorce residency laws went from six months for women seeking an uncontested divorce to six weeks, she bought a train ticket to Reno. With the necessary papers in hand and a Read more...
We are told early on that Sloane Caraway is a liar. Her motives for this are both simple and complex. Most of her lies are basically harmless, until their not. She wants to be liked and thought of as interesting. A chance encounter with a hurt Read more...
DO NOT CRY WHEN I DIE, by Renee Salt, is both a Holocaust memoir and the biography of one of the oldest Holocaust survivors. In 1939, Renee was 10 years old. She lived in Poland, loving her parents and her sister, and up until the time the Germans invaded Read more...
Millie Lang, a WPA (Works Progress Administration) editor had two options: she could accept a pink slip or go to Montana and find out why all the documents submitted for the American Guide Series were sent in blank. The staff insisted they weren't responsible for this.   Read more...
After a terrible loss ten years ago, Mallory Ward was working as a social worker for high-risk children. When one of her clients was brutally murdered, she was placed on leave with the hope she could regroup and figure out her future. Having nowhere else to go Read more...
The sister's relationship had deteriorated so badly that when their mother died Isabelle notified her sister Sylvia by mail even though they both lived in London. The reason? Fourteen years ago Sylvia had married a wealthy physician and turned her back on her mother and sister. Their Read more...
In 1938 Audrey James was studying music in Berlin. She was living with her Jewish best friend Ilse Kaplan's family. During one spontaneous shopping trip, Audrey and Ilse's lives turned into a living nightmare. When Nazis took over the Kaplan home Audrey convinced Ilse to hide in Read more...
What difference can three days make in a lifetime? Gail Baines is about to find out. First, she learns shewon't be getting the promotion she feels Read more...
Was there ever a more prestigious group of women? Imagine it: The year is 1930 and the setting is London. Five of the best female crime writers including Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham and Baroness Emma Orczy united for a common goal. Tired of Read more...
Cole and Lisa knew their hopes of adopting the baby they had been fostering had been crushed when a judge gave custody back to her biological mother. What they didn't know was that the baby's mother would show up at their home bleeding to death and telling Read more...
In 1939, seventeen-year-old Reuven had a good life. The Polish Jewish teenager lived with his parents, grandmother and two sisters. He worked with his father who crafted perhaps the finest umbrellas in Poland. The greatest love of his life was his girlfriend Zelda. After the Read more...
Thirty years. That's how long Midwesterners Kim and Grant have been together. When we first meet them they are in their fifties, have twin adult daughters who are on their own and Grant has lost his teaching position. Grant wants Kim to marry him, but she's Read more...
Lila Kennedy had been shocked. After all, she had written a successful book about her successful marriage. Then her husband told her he had met someone else and he wanted a divorce. Oh by the way, he and his new wife were going to have a baby Read more...
Stella and Hudson met at a wedding. Nothing unconventional about that, except that Stella and her best friend, Fisher, crashed the wedding. Why? Well, basically because they could. The invitation was sent to Stella's former roommate and in all fairness, she opened it by Read more...