What Remains True by Nancy Naigle

I love Nancy’s novels for when I want a good heartfelt, cozy read! Merry Anna has decided to attempt to start her life over. To try and live easier and to be happy and do things as she wants. Having been raised in the family business, that is all she knew. Work, work, work and […]

Heirlooms by Sandra Byrd

This was a really good heartfelt novel! I loved all the references to the flowers and their meanings as well as learning about the Korean cultures, beliefs and different sayings. Told through two time lines, this follows grandmothers and granddaughters as they grow and learn the meaning of their lives. Helen and Eunhee are navy […]

These Numbered Days by Anna E. Collins

We often wonder how a mother can leave her children, isn’t a mothers love all powerful? This novel is well written in that it opens up the door to understanding that sometimes a mothers all powerful love means to leave, as that is what is best. This novel dives deep into depression, anxiety and how […]

The Orphan House by Ann Bennett

Connie and Evie Burroughs were raised alongside many other children, her father ran what was known as The Orphan House. They never turned anyone away, and often her father found homes for the numerous babies left on their doorsteps. How a mother could do this, Connie had always questioned. It was a tough upbringing and […]

A Fire in the Night by Christopher Swann

Nick, a retired professor has hibernated himself in the North Carolina mountains. He has created a small sanctuary away from everyone else, no internet, no cell phone, and he is ok with that. Still reeling from the loss of his wife he is slowly coming to terms each day with his new life alone, until […]

Her Perfect Life By Hank Phillippi Ryan

Lily Atwood is the perfect character to resonate with a lot of us these days- everything is about appearance and so much of our lives are online now, that it seems that is what matters – how things appear. But as do all of us, Lily has secrets of her own as well, and if […]

The Secret Keepers of Old Depot Grocery by Amanda Cox

This is a great generational read about women, the secrets they kept and the family life they lived by all while running the family grocery store for decades. It’s the height of the Vietnam war, men are being sent over seas and Glory Ann has just found out she is pregnant- her father being a […]

Dream Stalker by Nancy Gardner

Lily’s world falls apart, and a mothers worse nightmare happens. Her daughter is being accused of murder. Kitty a good friend of hers committed suicide, but before she did- she left a key and cryptic message with Lily. Her daughter Sarah was one of the last ones to be with Kitty before she did this, […]

Hiding Place (Hector Lewis #2) by Meghan Holloway

I need to read the first one to get the full background, and I cannot wait until the next one comes out! The author gave just a few pages insight into the next one, and it really leaves you wondering! Hector Lewis is a local police officer, yet he often does things off the books […]

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

Alaska is a vast land that many of us will never understand, let alone see physically. The Great Alone is a look into a family after the husband comes back from Vietnam and cannot get back into normal life. The alcohol certainly doesn’t help, and as they are on the brink of being homeless, with […]