Secrets of Rosenli Manor by Heidi Eljarbo

This was a quick, fun read and I am excited to see what happens next in Lilly’s life with Rosenli Manor. The Great-Aunt Agatha has died and everyone in the family thinks they are getting their hands on her riches and they can live like the elite and wealthy with plans in place for upgrades […]

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 […]

Champagne Widows by Rebecca Rosenberg

Another woman, well before her time does everything in her power to not let a man rule her life, inheritance and thoughts. Barbe-Nicole went against a lot of what her father and others within his circle believed a daughter should and should not do during the 1800’s. Having inherited the uncanny sense of smell from […]

Divine Lola by Cristina Morató

I am not sure what was so tantalizing about Lola, but I think it was that she did not at all behave how women were expected to behave and time after time, she would prove that she pretty much obtained what she wanted. Although shuffled from place to place and her mother seemed to often […]

Windswept by Annabelle McCormack

Nurse Ginger Whitman is a battlefield nurse working the front lines of Palestine during the Great War. Although she comes from privilege and her father wanted different for her, she has made it her life mission to help others, and this is where she has been placed. In the midst of desert, heat, gun fire […]

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 […]

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

This is my first Taylor Jenkins Reid novel, and I will be buying and reading the rest of them! I am really curious to read about Mick in a few of the other novels. This novel has it all; family drama, drugs, alcohol, fame, notoriety, scandal, and a fire to burn it all down in […]

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 […]

A Hand to Hold in Deep Water by Shawn Nocher

This was a very good, but at times hard read. This novel touches on family, abuse, cancer and how often the monster is in our own houses. Lacey has always struggled with her upbringing. She was raised by her step-father who stepped right up to the role, with no questions asked and truly treated her […]