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People Will Talk
by Kieran Scott
"Some people just can't be trusted"
Posted September 30, 2024
The Frank family's annual clambake held at their estate on Cape May took an unexpected turn this year when it turned into a previously unannounced wedding. Playboy Peter Frank was to marry Tilly which was a total shock as he had been planning to marry someone else Read more...
The Child Who Lived
by Ellie Midwood
"Hope against all odds"
Posted September 22, 2024
We first meet Lore in Judge Brodbeck's court after WW II. Her husband wants a divorce. After all, Lore had a child with another man. No matter that she was a prisoner in a concentration camp at the time. Judge Brodbeck senses Lore has Read more...
The Drowning House
by Cherie Priest
"So many secrets"
Posted September 22, 2024
Since childhood Melissa and Leo had always loved Simon Culpeper. As for each other, not so much. Now, in their forties, they were still friends. So when Simon left Melissa a message saying his elderly grandmother, the woman who had raised him, had just died she and Leo immediately Read more...
The Windsor Conspiracy
by Georgie Blalock
"Actions have consequences"
Posted September 18, 2024
Amelia Montague, a cousin of Wallis Simpson, never imagined she would end up spying on her. After all, Wallis had hired her to be her personal secretary when everyone else had turned their backs on Amelia. THE WINDSOR CONSPIRACY, by Georgie Blalock, is a work of historical fiction Read more...
Here One Moment
by Liane Moriarty
"How much control do we really have?"
Posted September 16, 2024
It has happened to many of us. A flight is delayed and once underway all is well. Maybe a baby cries uncontrollably, a difficult passenger needs help with her overweight suitcase and one of the flight attendants goes missing. What probably hasn't happened to many Read more...
One Big Happy Family
by Jamie Day
"Being part of this family can be dangerous"
Posted September 13, 2024
The Bishop family has owned the famous hotel Precipice for years. The patriarch has recently died and his three daughters are scheduled to arrive at the property even though there is the threat of a hurricane. No matter because there is a Will to be read and to Read more...
Olive Days
by Jessica Elisheva Emerson
"Actions have consequences"
Posted September 10, 2024
Rina Kirsch, a young Modern Orthodox Jewish mother, is exhausted. She does her best to honor the traditions of her faith and takes on the huge responsibilities and labor of maintaining a proper Jewish home. She is a dutiful wife and a loving mother who loves her community Read more...
The Summer Pact
by Emily Giffin
"You are never alone when you have good friends"
Posted September 7, 2024
Their backgrounds couldn't have been more different. Even so, shortly after arriving at college they bonded and for the next four years, they were inseparable. Just before graduation, there is a tragedy and as a result, a pact was made. They would always be there for Read more...
Bad Tourists
by Caro Carver
"All is definitely as it seems"
Posted September 7, 2024
They haven't known each other very long, but they share something from the past and so, they bonded. Now, Darcy has invited Camilla and Kate to accompany her on her post-divorce celebration trip to a luxurious resort in the Maldives. The setting is stunning and Read more...
The Briar Club
by Kate Quinn
"Not everyone is who they seem to be"
Posted September 2, 2024
THE BRIAR CLUB, by Kate Quinn, opened in 1954 in a Washington, D.C. boarding house for women. Briarwood House has seen a great deal during its time, but nothing quite like what it is seeing now. Until the arrival of the charming Mrs. Grace March, the residents pretty Read more...
Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder
by Kerryn Mayne
"Is it ever too late to seek revenge?"
Posted August 28, 2024
For those looking for a cozy mystery or a rom-com, LENNY MARKS GETS AWAY WITH MURDER by Karryn Mayne does not fall into either category. It is a deeply moving story about a woman so scarred by a tragedy from her past, that she even has trouble remembering Read more...
The Day He Never Came Home
by Andrew DeYoung
"How well do we ever know those close to us?"
Posted August 26, 2024
All Regan wanted for her birthday was to have brunch with her husband John and a couples massage. What she got instead was a stunning lake house paid for in cash and in her name. There was a reason for this. Suddenly brunch wasn't so important.   Read more...
The Same Bright Stars
by Ethan Joella
"An excellent work of literary fiction"
Posted August 23, 2024
What does one do when one day you wake up and you're 52 years old, the third generation owner of a Rehoboth Beach, Delaware beachfront restaurant and you want all the things you don't have like a family of his own? Meet Jack Schmidt, the protagonist Read more...
The Seaside Sisters
by Pamela Kelley
"A heartfelt story"
Posted August 21, 2024
Perhaps a change of location would help Hannah with her panic attacks and get her words to come. Raised in Chatham, Cape Cod, she has made Brooklyn her home for ten years and this is where she wrote her first book which is a bestseller. Now, she is Read more...
The Orphanage
by Lizzie Page
"Sometimes a job becomes more than just a job"
Posted August 21, 2024
By 1948 Clara Newton, like so many others in England, had already lost so much. Her mother was dead, she was estranged from her father, her fiancé died during the war and she was fired from the job she loved. Perhaps on a whim, she applied Read more...
Devil's Kitchen
by Candice Fox
"Be afraid. Very afraid."
Posted August 15, 2024
All Ben wanted was to find out what happened to his girlfriend and her son who had simply vanished. With the police not seeming to care, he took drastic measures even though he knew it would cost him his freedom. He contacted an FBI agent and offered to trade Read more...
Nanny Wanted
by Lizzy Barber
"Nothing stays secret forever"
Posted August 12, 2024
Lily knew she had to get away from her abusive boyfriend. An ad for a nanny led her to a Cornish estate. WI-FI and cell phone reception were spotty. Maybe Cornwall was far away enough for her to feel safe. At first, her employers, the Rowes Read more...
Tell Me Who You Are
by Louisa Luna
"Never underestimate the past"
Posted August 11, 2024
Caroline Strange is a successful Brooklyn psychiatrist and will be the first to tell you she is very good at what she does. She is married to an artist and has two sons and they all call her "Doctor". Don't ask. She also has her Read more...
The God of that Summer
by Ralf Rothmann
"The God of that Summer"
Posted August 7, 2024
It is 1945 and the war is ending, but the living conditions in Europe are horrid with Berlin being no exception. The city is being shelled, leaving citizens no other option but to flee to the countryside. It is there on a dairy farm that twelve-year Read more...
All the Summers In Between
by Brooke Lea Foster
"How much would you do for a friend?"
Posted August 6, 2024
In the summer of 1967 two young women meet in the Hamptons. Margot, a daughter of privilege, is there for the summer. Thea, a full-time resident of the Hamptons, comes from a working-class background. Living with her younger sister and stepfather, her Read more...
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