Publisher: Berkley Books, May 2, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 336 Rating: 3.5/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): Fern Brookbanks has wasted far too much of her adult life thinking about Will Baxter. She spent just twenty-four hours in her early twenties with the aggravatingly attractive, idealistic artist, a chance encounter that spiraled into a daylong adventure in … Continue reading Book Review: Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune

Publisher: William Morrow Books, April 4, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 400 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): The USA Today bestselling author of The Gown returns with another enthralling and royal-adjacent historical novel—as the lives of three very different residents of London’s historic Blue Lion hotel converge in a potentially explosive climax on the day of … Continue reading Book Review: Coronation Year by Jennifer Robson

Publisher: Harlequin Trade Books, April 4, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 336 Rating: 3.5/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): In post–World War I England, a young woman inherits a mysterious library and must untangle its powerful secrets…With the stroke of a pen, twenty-three-year-old Ivy Radcliffe becomes Lady Hayworth, owner of a sprawling estate on the Yorkshire moors. Ivy … Continue reading Book Review: The Last Heir to Blackwood Library by Hester Fox

Publisher: Simon and Schuster Canada, April 11, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 339 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): A mystery about a group of former classmates who reunite to mark the tenth anniversary of a tragic accident—only to have one of the survivors disappear, casting fear and suspicion on the original tragedy. My Review: Read if … Continue reading Book Review: The Only Survivors by Megan Miranda

Publisher: Harlequin Trade Publishing, March 28, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 368 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): The final chapter in Alka Joshi’s New York Times bestselling Jaipur trilogy takes readers to 1970s Paris, where Radha’s budding career as a perfumer must compete with the demands of her family and the secrets of her past.Paris, 1974. … Continue reading Book Review: The Perfumist of Paris by Alka Joshi

Publisher: Simon and Schuster Canada, March 28, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 368 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): A riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Virginia during Prohibition.Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who’d amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans.Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a … Continue reading Book Review: Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls

Publisher: Harlequin Trade Publishing, March 14, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 448 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): Set against Nantucket’s Great Fire of 1846, this sweeping, emotional novel brings together three courageous women battling to save everything they hold dear…Nantucket in 1846 is an island set apart not just by its geography but by its unique … Continue reading Book Review: Daughters of Nantucket by Julie Gerstenblatt

Publisher: Harper Collins Canada, March 7, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 432 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): Each spring, Ithaca condemns twelve maidens to the noose. This is the price vengeful Poseidon demands for the lives of Queen Penelope’s twelve maids, hanged and cast into the depths centuries ago.But when that fate comes for Leto, death … Continue reading Book Review: Lies We Sing to the Sea by Sarah Underwood

Publisher: Berkley Publishing, April 18, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 400 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): A heartrending story about a young mother’s fight to keep her daughter, and the winds of fortune that tear them apart by the New York Times bestselling author of The Nature of Fragile Things and The Last Year of the … Continue reading Book Review: Only the Beautiful by Susan Meissner

Publisher: Boldwood Books, February 23, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 438 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): ‘Although I believe I will die here in this castle, my spirit will never be silent.’Ravenscraig Castle, Scotland. 1307When the castle she works in is sacked by the army of Prince Edward of England, kitchen maid Agnes Fitzgerald manages to … Continue reading Book Review: The Lady of the Loch by Elena Collins