Hope Beyond the Waves by Heidi Chiavaroli

I did not know about this leper institution on the east coast. This was a very good read about those who had leprosy and how they were treated. This is a very well written dual time line story that follows Atta and her sister Gertie right before WWI and then Emily almost eighty years later. […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Riviera House by Natasha Lester

Natasha brings such elegance to these WWII novels, and this one is just as good as the others. I couldn’t wait to get my hands on this one. Another dual storyline, with focus of some resistance fighters during WWII, and decades later a mystery of family heritage and a painting needs to be solved, and […]

Three Words for Goodbye by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb

Two sisters who have not spoken in over a year, are giving the chance of an opportunity. The two are to travel together by boat, train and air while delivering letters to three people from their grandmother’s past. Violet is dying, and this her last wish. Sending the two granddaughters across the ocean to places […]

Sisters of the Vine by Linda Rosen

Personal Review This was a good reminder that whenever we are in need, to just ask for help and it will be given. Liz has had a bit of a tumultuous marriage, often she is reminded that she is just a lowly housewife and that is the expectation of her. Take care of the kids, […]

The Titanic Sisters by Patricia Falvey

I am a sucker for any book that has Titanic in it. Delia and Nora have just gotten the opportunity of a lifetime. A distant family member has written asking for them to come to America. Their cousin recently passed away, and the husband now needs someone to help care for their daughter. He is […]

The Way It Should Be by Christina Suzann Nelson

This is the second novel of Christina Suzann Nelson’s that I have read, and both of them have been a one day read! Her writing is so fluid and I just want to know what happens next. I can’t put her books down, I have to know what happens and how things turn out! Zara […]

Not My Boy by Kelly Simmons

Hannah moves into a cute little cottage right next door to her sisters house, in a quite nice neighborhood. Or so it seems. It is quiet, there are woods and so far everyone seems to either know everyone and get alone or they stuck to themselves. Their mother also just lives a little ways over, […]

The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon

Creepy, goosebumps, ghosts… the past, a sisters bond and no one listening to the whispers of the truth of the springs. This novel as it all, and of course the cover! I love how Jennifer writes the creepy, but it is believable creepy but not so scary you cannot continue to read the story. I […]