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Overview

Bestselling author Sheila Roberts is back with a heartwarming holiday romance full of family, love, and a little bit of intrigue!

Jordan Frost had to do it. Her family was simply too perfectly eccentric not to put in a novel. She was thrilled when she got an agent and then a publishing deal. For two books. Two! Then reality set in. The book about an oddball family’s holiday adventures is coming out in November. Just in time for her trip home to Holly Bay, Washington, from the big city. Jordan is desperately hoping she can keep her pseudonym a secret so she can stay in her family’s good graces. She wrote the book under a pen name and when it was time for an author picture, she wore a wig and glasses. No one will know it was her, right?

Wrong. Charles Pine, her high school friend who always hoped for more, recognizes the woman he’s never gotten over as soon as he unpacks her book to shelve at the bookstore where he works. He knows this is the perfect opportunity to get Jordan to see him in a new light and he makes sure to run into her when she arrives home. She never thought of him as anything more than a shoulder to cry on back then, but he’s determined to make her see him as boyfriend material. Can he be her hero and help her get through the season with her secret intact? Or at least save her from a holiday meltdown? 

When a series of minor family emergencies threatens to add even more chaos to Jordan’s already hectic life, Charles tries to help her find the true meaning of the holiday. Maybe coming home wasn’t a bad idea after all…

Review

If you follow me at all, you know I really enjoy Sheila Roberts! And this book is just adorable!

Well, Jordan has gone and done it! She has written a novel about her crazy family. Now she has arrived home for the holidays and she is terrified. She did write the book under a pen name. She also wore a wig and glasses for her author photo. Surely no one will recognize her correct? Oh boy!

Talk about a cute family drama with great characters that will make you laugh and forget the stress of the holiday.

I fell for Jordan right off the bat. Her crazy family is a lot like my crazy family and I was laughing quite a few times during this because we’ve all been there. Her struggle to keep her book a secret tickled me. She even roped in the hot, local book seller!

Tanya Eby narrates all of this author’s books. She is fantastic with all the voices.

Need a good family drama Christmas tale…THIS IS IT! Grab your copy today.

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The fate of two strangers becomes part of the heartbreaking history of a celebrated painting in a novel of suspense and forbidden love by the bestselling author of The Lost Letters of Aisling.

The historic art gallery Hatterfield House symbolizes hope for cancer survivor Hannah Caddell. Like the art she painstakingly restores, Hannah needs to be brought back to life herself. Everything is upended when she and a new client, Lucas Henry, are held hostage by gunmen in search of a world-renowned painting from the Cuban Missile Crisis that, decades ago, captured both dread and beauty in a time of cataclysmic fears.

Review

I love a good story with dual timelines and family secrets. This one fit the bill!

Like the art she painstakingly restores, Hannah needs to be brought back to life herself. Everything is upended when she and a new client, Lucas Henry, are held hostage by gunmen in search of a world-renowned painting from the Cuban Missile Crisis that, decades ago, captured both dread and beauty in a time of cataclysmic fears.

This is definitely full of drama and intensity. I also enjoyed the setting of the Cuban Missile Crisis. This happened before my time, but I remember quite a bit from this era. I forgot about the fear it created among the population.

This also opened up a rabbit hole for me… famous artists from Cuba! Not exactly a rabbit hole I expected to go down. But I so wanted to know more!

Frankie Corzo is the narrator! I loved her voice.

Need a story you will lose yourself in…THIS IS IT! Grab your copy today.

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Final Destination meets The Cabin at the End of the Worldin this supernatural horror from New York Timesbestselling author Kelley Armstrong, in which a series of car accidents traps a group of strangers at a dive bar.

A forested road at night, slick from the pounding rain and eerily illuminated by flashes of lightning. Just before midnight, a car swerves to avoid something—or someone—mysteriously standing in the road, only to slam into a fallen tree instead. In the pitch black, four more cars follow in a pileup no one can seem to avoid.

Stumbling out of the wreckage, soaked from the rain and nursing various injuries, five strangers find themselves in a backwoods dive bar, waiting for daybreak and hoping for cell service. But as tensions rise and the storm rages on outside, the occupants of the dive bar start to notice that not everything is as it seems. Time is moving differently, and they quickly learn that going outside—whether to assist another accident victim or to hike for help—is a very bad idea.

There’s something in the woods, something that isn’t natural. Could the figure in the road have been a warning? Or something more sinister? None of this is normal, and they’ll need to work together to figure out what’s happening if they have any hope of surviving the night.

Review

Well! This is a bit weird…but it is a good one! If you read this author, you know she tends to like time travel and different time warps…and this one is definitely that…along with quite a few other eerie incidents!

A forested road at night, slick from the pounding rain and eerily illuminated by flashes of lightning. Just before midnight, a car swerves to avoid something—or someone—mysteriously standing in the road, only to slam into a fallen tree instead. In the pitch black, four more cars follow in a pileup no one can seem to avoid.

Nothing like a good, creepy book to get you through your weekend, especially if you are home alone! 👻👻. Yes! I was home alone as I read this book. And I was definitely checking the doors and windows.

This story starts out intense and it just steadily grows in intensity as more cars are added to the pile up on this forested road. And don’t get me started on this bartender and the ominous old lady at the end of the bar! Oh! Did I mention the wild dogs…beware!

This tag team of narrators made this book more creepy and intense. I loved each and every one: Helen Laser, Sean Patrick Hopkins and Shane Ghostkeeper.

Need a good, intense, weird, creepy and all of the above tale…THIS IS IT! Grab your copy today!

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A mother who has vanished into seclusion is forced to revisit her son’s heinous crimes in a haunting psychological thriller by the Edgar Award–winning author of Or Else.

Eight years ago, Hattie Conlee’s world was torn apart when her son, Tommy, was convicted of being a serial killer known as the Bedfellow. When Tommy escaped custody, he simply disappeared. So did Hattie. She changed her name and moved to a coastal town in Maine to build an anonymous new life. No one would find her here. Hattie couldn’t have been more wrong.

Now investigative journalist Ross Eeling has come calling. He agrees to keep Hattie’s new identity a secret on one condition: Hattie tell him things she’s never told the vultures of the press before—about her son, the murders of so many innocent women, its impact on a devastated family, and the depths of a mother’s love. Ross wants the truth.

Dredging up the most painful moments of her life is a revelation for Hattie too. Because the past is more complicated and disturbing than she realizes. And its deadly repercussions are far from over.

Review

Well! I need to read more of this author.

Eight years ago, Hattie Conlee’s world was torn apart when her son, Tommy, was convicted of being a serial killer known as the Bedfellow. When Tommy escaped custody, he simply disappeared. So did Hattie. She changed her name and moved to a coastal town in Maine to build an anonymous new life. No one would find her here. Hattie couldn’t have been more wrong.

I enjoyed how this story unfolded!

Hattie is a fabulous character and she definitely has her secrets. And as these secrets are slowly revealed, you realize what and whom she is protecting! Y’all know I love a book with secrets and this one is full of them. Definitely leads to some second guessing by the reader!

I do not think I have ever read this author. How I have missed him, I will never know. He has quite a few books out there. If they are as good as this one, I need to remedy that quickly.

Emily Sutton-Smith is the narrator of this story and I loved her!

Need a story full of secrets…THIS IS IT! Grab your copy today.

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There is something haunting Nuhad’s childhood home in Haifa. Cats avoid its perimeter, strange noises come from within, and residents have mysteriously vanished without a trace. Although Nuhad has not returned to her home since the Nakba in 1948, she always held a place for the house in her heart. 

And, in return, the house did the same for her. 

After Nuhad passes away, her granddaughter, Marina, is determined to visit her grandmother’s home after a lifetime of being kept in the dark about her culture and family history. Marina’s mother, Haifa – named for the city that was lost to their family – reluctantly agrees to her trip, though she knows firsthand that some secrets are better left buried. 

But the house is no longer a home. It is a painful, festering wound that infects everything it touches. The more Marina digs into her family’s past, the sicker she becomes. Despite Nuhad’s ghostly warnings, Haifa rushes to help her daughter.

As the three women converge in their ancestral home, they must put the haunting to rest before the secrets of the past drown them all.

At the Publisher’s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Review

There is something haunting Nuhad’s childhood home in Haifa. Cats avoid its perimeter, strange noises come from within, and residents have mysteriously vanished without a trace. Although Nuhad has not returned to her home since the Nakba in 1948, she always held a place for the house in her heart. 

I am in the minority on this one! As much as I enjoyed the setting of Haifa and this creepy house, this story is just slow!

But the setting of Haifa and the drama surrounding this country and its Palestinian neighbors kept me reading! This is unique and the culture and issues really fascinated me.

I also enjoyed this weird house and all its issues. And trust me…there are a lot of issues. But as I said, the story moved a bit too slow for me and I was not a big fan of Marina! But as I always say…read this for yourself. Everyone enjoyed this one!

This is narrated by Victoria Nassif. I felt like she kept the drama going as well as she could.

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