Book Review – A Match in the Making

A Match in the Making by Jen Turano About the book Miss Gwendolyn Brinley accepted a temporary paid companion position for the Newport summer season, believing it would be a lark to spend the summer in America's most exclusive town. She suddenly finds her summer turning anything but amusing when her employer expects her to…

Book Review – The Sound of Light

The Sound of Light by Sarah Sundin When the Germans march into Denmark, Baron Henrik Ahlefeldt exchanges his nobility for anonymity, assuming a new identity so he can secretly row messages for the Danish Resistance across the waters to Sweden.American physicist Dr. Else Jensen refuses to leave Copenhagen and abandon her research--her life's dream. While…

Book Review – The Rose and the Thistle

The Rose and the Thistle by Laura Frantz In 1715, Lady Blythe Hedley's father is declared an enemy of the British crown because of his Jacobite sympathies, forcing her to flee her home in northern England. Secreted to the tower of Wedderburn Castle in Scotland, Lady Blythe awaits who will ultimately be crowned king. But…

Book Review – Yesterday’s Tides by Roseanna M White

Yesterday's Tides by Roseanna M White About the book: (go to amazon to read the book blurb - I will update this here as soon as my computer's copy & paste cooperates with me, which it is currently not doing!) My Thoughts I finally made time to just sit down and immerse myself in this…

Book Review – The Cairo Curse

The Cairo Curse by Pepper Basham Clue meets Indiana Jones with a fiction-loving twist only Grace Percy can provide. Newlyweds Lord and Lady Astley have already experienced their fair-share of suspense, but when a honeymoon trip takes a detour to the mystical land of Egypt, not even Grace with her fiction-loving mind is prepared for the…

Book Review – The Secrets of Emberwild

The Secrets of Emberwild by Stephenia H McGee About the book A gifted trainer in a time women are not allowed to race, Nora Fenton prefers horses to men. They're easier to handle, they're more reliable, and they never tell her what to do. After her father's passing, Nora is determined to save her struggling…

Book Review – a Winter at the White Queen

a Winter at the White Queen by Denise Weimer About the book In the world of the wealthy, things are never quite as they appear.Ellie Hastings is tired of playing social gatekeeper—and poor-relation companion—to her Gibson Girl of a cousin. But her aunt insists Ellie lift her nose out of her detective novel long enough…

Book Review – The Premonition at Withers Farm

The Premonition at Withers Farm by Jaime Jo Wright The voices of the past cannot stay silent forever.In 1910 Michigan, Perliett Van Hilton is a self-proclaimed rural healer, leaving the local doctor convinced she practices quackery. It doesn't help that her mother is a spiritualist who regularly offers her services to connect the living with…

Book Review – All the Lost Places

All the Lost Places by Amanda Dykes When all of Venice is unmasked, one man's identity remains a mystery . . .1807When a baby is discovered floating in a basket along the quiet canals of Venice, a guild of artisans takes him in and raises him as a son, skilled in each of their trades. Although the boy,…

Book Review – The Blackout Book Club

The Blackout Book Club by Amy Lynn Green About the book In 1942, an impulsive promise to her brother before he goes off to the European front puts Avis Montgomery in the unlikely position of head librarian in small-town Maine. Though she has never been much of a reader, when wartime needs threaten to close…