It’s nearly July, can you believe it? What summer plans do you have? Any traveling?
All I am doing is staying inside where it’s cool and reading as many books as I can! These are coming soon and they are well worth your time to check out.
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Take a look at Haven Point by Virginia Hume if you are in the mood for a generational saga that puts you on the beautiful Maine coast. I love books like this one!
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A sweeping debut novel about the generations of a family that spends summers in a seaside enclave on Maine’s rocky coastline, for fans of Elin Hilderbrand, Beatriz Williams, and Sarah Blake.
1944: Maren Larsen is a blonde beauty from a small Minnesota farming town, determined to do her part to help the war effort––and to see the world beyond her family’s cornfields. As a cadet nurse at Walter Reed Medical Center, she’s swept off her feet by Dr. Oliver Demarest, a handsome Boston Brahmin whose family spends summers in an insular community on the rocky coast of Maine.
1970: As the nation grapples with the ongoing conflict in Vietnam, Oliver and Maren are grappling with their fiercely independent seventeen-year-old daughter, Annie, who has fallen for a young man they don’t approve of. Before the summer is over a terrible tragedy will strike the Demarests––and in the aftermath, Annie vows never to return to Haven Point.
2008: Annie’s daughter, Skye, has arrived in Maine to help scatter her mother’s ashes. Maren knows that her granddaughter inherited Annie’s view of Haven Point: despite the wild beauty and quaint customs, the regattas and clambakes and sing-alongs, she finds the place––and the people––snobbish and petty. But Maren also knows that Annie never told Skye the whole truth about what happened during that fateful summer.
Over seven decades of a changing America, through wars and storms, betrayals and reconciliations, Virginia Hume’s Haven Point explores what it means to belong to a place, and to a family, which holds as tightly to its traditions as it does its secrets.
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You need to read The Godmothers by Camille Aubray if you are in the mood for a saga that combines World War II, Italian families, plus engrossing historical details.
Synopsis:
Meet the Godmothers: Filomena is a clever and resourceful war refugee with a childhood secret, who comes to America to wed Mario, the family’s favored son. Amie, a beautiful and dreamy French girl from upstate New York, escapes an abusive husband after falling in love with Johnny, the oldest of the brothers. Lucy, a tough-as-nails Irish nurse, ran away from a strict girls’ home and marries Frankie, the sensuous middle son. And the glamorous Petrina, the family’s only daughter, graduates with honors from Barnard College despite a past trauma that nearly caused a family scandal.
All four women become godmothers to one another’s children, finding hope and shelter in this prosperous family and their sumptuous Greenwich Village home, and enjoying New York life with its fine dining, opulent department stores and sophisticated nightclubs.
But the women’s secret pasts lead to unforeseen consequences and betrayals that threaten to unravel all their carefully laid plans. And when their husbands are forced to leave them during the second World War, the Godmothers must unexpectedly contend with notorious gangsters like Frank Costello and Lucky Luciano who run the streets of New York City.
Refusing to merely imitate the world of men, the four Godmothers learn to put aside their differences and grudges so that they can work together to protect their loved ones, and to find their own unique paths to success, love, forgiveness, and the futures they’ve always dreamed of.
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Whew…. maybe not the book to read as you embark on your summer vacation. This book was gripping and nerve-wracking and I know you will devour it!
Falling By T.J. Newman will have you turning pages so quickly as your heart thumps in your chest to the point where you might need a meditation video to calm down.
Look at this conundrum:
You just boarded a flight to New York.
There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard.
What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped.
For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die.
The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane.
Enjoy the flight.
ACKKKKKK!
This is out on July 6!
Confess to Me by Sharon Doering was a quick read, ideal for those who like suspenseful books that aren’t too over the top with the darkness and the horror that thrillers sometimes contain (I’m still reeling from Theme Music from a couple of years ago).
Here’s the basic plot:
Heather Hornne is going home.
Haunted by a childhood tragedy and estranged from her family, Heather finds herself back in Hunther, Wisconsin after twenty years running from it.
She returns to finally put the past to rest, but uncovers another tragedy and finds herself in the beguiling grip of a young woman who knows more of her family secrets than Heather does.
To survive this homecoming, Heather must piece together a toxic history that she long tried to forget.
The book is written from alternate points of view between Heather and her husband Trevor. I didn’t trust either of them! Confess to Me includes satanic abuse, cougars, small-town life, and as you might have guessed, secrets.
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A+ for the title and the cover design! Look What You Made Me Do by Elaine Murphy is the book to read if you are in the mood for a book about sisters and serial killers. Or a sister who is a serial killer. And a sister who helps cover up the crimes.
YIKES.
Look:
A gripping thriller about a woman who must help cover the tracks of her serial killer sister — only to discover her sibling isn’t the only serial killer in town . . . and they’re both next on his kill list. Carrie wants a normal life. Carrie Lawrence doesn’t need a happily ever after. She’ll just settle for “after.” After a decade of helping her sister hide her victims. After a lifetime of lies. She just wants to be safe, boring, and not trekking through the woods at night with a dead body wrapped in a carpet.
Becca wants to get away with murder. Becca Lawrence doesn’t believe in happily ever after because she’s already happy. She’s gotten away with murder for a decade and has blackmailed her sister into helping her hide the evidence—what more could a girl want?But first they have to stop a serial killer. When thirteen bodies are discovered in their small town, people are shocked. But not as shocked as Carrie, who thought she knew all the details of Becca’s sordid pastime. When Becca swears she’s not behind the grisly new crimes, they realize the town has a second serial killer who has the sisters in his sights, and what he wants is…Carrie.
This is a quick read, it’s fast and entertaining. I highly recommend especially if you enjoy darker books.
The One to Blame by S.E. Lynes is an entertaining, twisty story that will keep you entertained from the first page until the last. S.E. Lynes is definitely an author to keep in mind, I read and loved The Housewarming last year and look forward to more from her!
Here are the details:
Why pretend your life is a dream when you’re living a nightmare?
When Annie met Dom, he seemed like everything she was waiting for: charming, loving, generous. When they got married, and he showed her the studio he’d built in the garden for her to paint in, she knew that at last she had found a way to be free.
She didn’t notice the trap until it had closed around her. And now, as she does his shopping and cooks his food and sits waiting for him well into the night, she has to smile through her tears, hide her anger, and tell no one the truth, not even her sister Isla.
Isla thought Annie was happy. They have always been as close as sisters can be, they knew everything about each other. And then the call comes in the middle of the night. Annie and Dom are dead.
When Isla arrives at her sister’s house, the smell of smoke still hangs on the air, and soon she realizes she didn’t know Annie at all.
Because Annie was living a lie.
And as Isla sifts through the ashes, she must decide whether she wants to know the truth, or to protect what’s left of her family…
A clever and intriguing story that you will LOVE.
Out on July 13!
I got a little sneak peek of sample chapters from An Ambush of Widows by Jeff Abbott and I need to get the entire book in my hands ASAP.
In this psychological thriller from a bestselling author, two seemingly unconnected businessmen are found murdered in an abandoned warehouse, leaving their two widows desperately seeking answers—both with secrets of their own.
Henry North is a down-on-his-luck cybersecurity expert from New Orleans. Wei “Adam” Zhang is the cofounder of one of Austin’s most successful venture capitalist firms. These two men didn’t know each other. They had never met. Yet they died together, violently, in a place neither had any business being, leaving behind two widows.
Kirsten North is a 30-year-old consultant for the tech sector, when one day, Henry doesn’t return from a business trip. Kirsten panics—and then gets an anonymous phone call: Your husband is dead in Austin. When she frantically searches for information, she finds the days-old news about the murdered millionaire and the unknown man found with him.
Flora Zheng knew her husband was keeping secrets. She suspected an affair, but she had decided she could forgive him for his weakness—until her husband ended up dead. And with no explanation for her husband’s murder, the police begin to suspect her.
An uneasy alliance forms as the two widows delve into their husbands’ deadly and dangerous secrets—as they try to protect their own. Together they will face a powerful foe determined to write a false narrative about the murders. In doing so, neither Flora nor Kirsten will remain the woman the world thought they were.
This has the ingredients of an excellent story: espionage, childhood friendships, secrets, strong female characters and I am very intrigued. Put this one on your To Be Read list immediately!
It comes out on July 6!
