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By: Suzanne Goldring Thank you NetGalley and Bookouture for the ARC of this book! In 1942, 17-year-old Anna, from Hamburg, Germany, hid from her parents that she was pregnant and that she was going to a special maternity home, where they took her baby boy and had him adopted.  When she returns home, she seesContinue reading “The Woman Outside the Walls”

By: Michelle Vernal Thank you NetGalley and Bookouture for the ARC of this book! Shannon is 34 years old, heartbroken, and moving back to her childhood home right before Christmas.  She is down, to say the least, as she expected to be getting engaged in Paris!  She felt like things couldn’t get any worse.  ThatContinue reading “Christmas In The Little Irish Village”

By: Jennifer McMahon “The tragedies we endure shape our lives: we carry them like shadows“ In 1978, Dr. Helen Hildreth ran a psychiatric treatment center in a beautiful area of Vermont. By day, she was a compassionate doctor, by night, a loving grandmother (Gran) to Eric and Violet. One day, Gran brings home another littleContinue reading “The Children On The Hill”

By: Stacy Willingham Thank you NetGalley and Minotaur Books for the ARC of this book! Isabelle Drake’s life is in ruins.  A year ago, her son, Mason, was taking from his crib in the middle of the night.  The police didn’t have a lot of leads, and the case went cold quickly.  However, the caseContinue reading “All The Dangerous Things”

By: Peter Swanson “Truthfully, I don’t think murder is necessarily as bad as people make it out to be. Everyone dies. What difference does it make if a few bad apples get pushed along sooner than God intended?” During a flight from London to Boston Ted Severson meets Lily Kintner. He starts to tell herContinue reading “The Kind Worth Killing”

By: Sophie Ranald Thank you NetGalley and Bookouture for the ARC of this book! Rowan is a little down this Christmas.  The only single one in her friend group, her ex who will have her daughter on Christmas day, Rowan is lonely and finding it hard to get into the Christmas Spirit.  That’s when herContinue reading “Santa, Please Bring Me A Boyfriend”

By: Ann H. Gabhart It’s 1933, and Piper Danson has been promised to Braxton Crandall. He escorts her at her debut in May, and they are said to be married in the fall. But Piper has other ideas. She takes off to the Appalachian mountains and volunteers as a courier for the frontier nurses, amongContinue reading “An Appalachian Summer”

By: Ruth Ware “In books, a bad thing might happen on page 207, that was true. But it would always happen on page 207, no matter what. And when you reread, you could see it coming, watch out for the signs, prepare yourself.” April Coutts-Cliveden was the It Girl – she was beautiful, smart, funny,Continue reading “The It Girl”

By: Taylor Jenkins Reid “I don’t think that true love means your only love. I think true love means loving truly. Loving purely. Loving wholly.” What would you do if you married your high school sweetheart and then on your one year anniversary, he disappears while on a trip? The helicopter he was in crashed,Continue reading “One True Loves”

By: Catherine Steadman Thank you NetGalley and Ballantine Books for the ARC of this book! Harry, short for Harriet, and Edward are in love and newly engaged.  But Harry has never met any of Edward’s family.  He kept saying they would scare her away.  Edward is a Holbeck, a wealthy prominent family with a lotContinue reading “The Family Game”