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By: Sophie Sullivan Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press, St. Martin’s Griffin for the ARC of this book! Hailey Sharp moves from Los Angeles to start over.  She opens a salad shop, By Cup and wants it to be successful.  This is all she could possibly think about, and it’s where her focus is. Continue reading “A Guide to Just Being Friends”

By: Freida McFadden A Christmas Novelette Stella Hansen is working at a diner on Christmas Eve. She is newly married, and broke. She cannot afford a Christmas gift for her husband and she feels terrible. A pawn shop owner is a customer at the diner, and offers her a trade. A bit hesitant at first,Continue reading “The Gift”

By: Richard S. Cohen “Sometimes the journey is more meaningful than the actual destination. Surround yourself with those who raise your spirit. Help others along the way.” Renowned psychologist, Willem Gerhardt, has a patient that claims that she was sexually assaulted.  The accused perpetrator is arrested and tried.  He is found not guilty and walksContinue reading “Forever Silenced”

By: V.C. Andrews Thank you NetGalley and Gallery Books for the ARC of this book. TW: Rape; Grooming, Mental Illness Faith and Trevor are adopted by Paula Eden.  While they were adopted together, they are not biologically brother and sister.  Once a schoolteacher, Paula decides to homeschool the children.  They are very sheltered from theContinue reading “Eden’s Children”

By: Anita Onli Thank you to the author, Anita Onli, for the gifted copy of this book! Isobel has her life planned out for her; her mother knows best and expects her to follow the plan.  Go to school, get good grades, go to Uni, get a job, get married, and have children.  Isobel, whileContinue reading “You Can Become Someone: It’s Your Life!”

By: Susan Murphy Thank you to Reedsy Discovery and Susan Murphy for the gifted copy of this book! Los Angeles Detective Dominic Santino is asked by his captain to investigate his nephew’s death.  There has been a string of deaths where the cause is undeterminable, and something doesn’t make sense.  Detective Santino enlists the helpContinue reading “Fatal Flaw”

By: Chelsea Ichaso Thank you NetGalley and Sourcebook Fire for the ARC of this book! Maren’s best friend, Polly St. James, is missing.  While her family, the police, and even the school believes that she just ran away, Maren doesn’t believe it.  Time and time again, Maren had checked Polly’s things, but she decided toContinue reading “They’re Watching You”

By: Gary Goldstein Thank you to the author, Gary Goldstein, for the gifted copy of this book! Nate Cronin is a landscape designer in Los Angeles.  Raised by a single dad, he finds himself alone when his father dies when Nate is only 30 years old.  A new client, Amy, hires him, but has ulteriorContinue reading “The Mother I Never Had”

By: Molly Fader Thank you NetGalley and Graydon House for the ARC of this book! Sisters, Clara and Abbie, are mourning the loss of their mother.  At the funeral, they are shocked when a famous actress shows up.  She tells the sisters that she had been best friends with their mother, like a sister toContinue reading “The Sunshine Girls”

By: Robin Cook Thank you NetGalley and G.P. Putnam’s Sons for the ARC of this book! Dr. Jack Stapleton is a medical examiner, and his wife, Dr. Laurie Montgomery, is the Chief of the medical examiner’s office.  They have been through a lot together, but never imagined that Laurie’s longtime friend, Dr. Sue Passero, wouldContinue reading “Night Shift”