This turned out to be a far better and smoother read for me than the cover art and synopsis gave me to expect. The book is about a divorcee whose ex-husband tricked her into signing a property purchase prior his heading off to prison. So, from the lap of luxury to a worn-down group of beach house...
I can't quite pin what it is about that book that prevented me from really enjoying it. I liked it, I loved this series, and I'm sad that this is how it finished. Partly it felt like they just weren't that tied into Toms Brooks. Jamie just never really interested me as a character, despite the...
Despite many references to the fact that Kendra cannot have children and the book being based around the fact that her sister was a surrogate for her, it was NEVER explained WHY she couldn't have a child of her own. I think it was mentioned that she was too "light" (whatever that means). I unders...
Once again we meet the four women that we became acquainted with in Happiness Key. Tracy has continued working at the Rec department. Janya's husband continues to work long hours and she still isn't pregnant. Hints from her mother about getting a grandchild are not helping. Alice and her grand...
This book featured several TSTL women who thought that they were brilliant, more discussion of pie than I ever want to read again, and the sketchiest trail of evidence ever. I finished it because I didn't feel like looking for anything else to read, but I lost patience with Tracy, Maggie, and Wan...
It was a good book, but I think it was a continuation of another book, even though it didn't state that. Tracy is the owner of Happiness Key, where a group of friends live. Each of them dealing with different issues. Tracy is pregnant but is afraid to tell the father because she wants to be su...
Ce roman nous raconte l'histoire de Charlotte qui cherche à surmonter ses regrets et mener une vie plus en paix avec elle-même.En effet, Charlotte est passée près de la mort. Cette expérience lui a permis de prendre conscience que même si elle a la vie qu'elle a toujours voulue, être seule pour e...
I’ve upgraded this from four and a half to five stars as I’ve been thinking about it a lot of the time since I read it. While from my own experience I found the mother and daughter relationship between Charlotte and Taylor, almost incomprehensible, somehow the author’s skill makes it believable....
4 STARS (I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review). "Where Luck Meets Trust, Miracles Can Happen Christy Haviland served eight months in prison, giving birth behind bars to the child of the man who put her there and might yet destroy her. Now she's free again, but what d...
No River Too WideByEmilie RichardsThe main and most important characters in this book...The characters that really carried this book were Harmony and her mom Jan...Taylor was a key character, too, as was Adam...and of course the non present husband of Jan...and Harmony's father...Rex...creepy Rex...
I really enjoyed this book, as much as the previous two in the Shenandoah Album Series, Sister's Choice and Touching Stars. Lover's Knot has some of the previous characters. However Issac and Kendra's story was so interesting that I did not miss former characters that did not make it into this bo...
Now that a chalk outline no longer marks their front porch, Aggie Sloan-Wilcox and her minister husband can turn their attention back to the living. Tis the season in bucolic Emerald Springs, Ohio. As a gift to her daughters, Aggie s mom has invited their former foster sister, Ginger, to join t...
Meet the unconventional Aggie Sloan-Wilcox, a minister's wife with her own calling: helping troubled souls in need of justice. When the naked body of a murdered woman turns up on Aggie's front porch--and suspicion falls on Aggie's husband--she doesn't have a prayer of clearing his name unless s...
After chapter 1 I was not sure I wanted to carry on, as it didn't immediately grip me. However, not being a quitter with books, I decided to press on. By the end of Chapter 2 I had fallen into this book with a resounding thump and had to ask myself why on earth I had thought I would not enjoy i...
Once a struggling community of Irish immigrants, Lake Erie's Whiskey Island has a past as colorful as the patrons who frequent the Whiskey Island Saloon. A local gathering place for generations, the saloon is now run by the Donaghue sisters, whose lives and hearts have been shaped by family trage...
I have to admit I have had this book in my TBR since it came out,and just never seemed to pull it out until the other day after I read some of Emilie's blogs here. Well,I can happily say I have found a new author I really plan to follow now! I have 9 of her books already and have ordered 4 more,s...
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It is a pearl so flawless it has no price. But those who possess it pay dearly. Since the day nearly a century before when it was plucked from Australian waters, the pearl has cursed the Robeson and Llewellyn families, unleashing a legacy of rivalry, greed and murder that has spanned generations ...
When Aurore Gerritsen watched her lover kill her father, it was just one act of violence in a long chain of dramatic events.Years later, behind the iron lace gates of wealthy New Orleans, beneath the veneer of her society name, linger secrets that Aurore Gerritsen has hidden for a lifetime, and t...
A restless, middle-aged wife and a glamorous TV personality crash their cars into each other and, upon awakening, the the former discovers that she is now inhabiting the latter's body while her own lies in a coma. Seizing her chance, the wife sets out to discover life anew.
Gayle Fortman has built a good life for herself and her three sons as an innkeeper in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. She has even maintained a cordial relationship with her ex, charismatic broadcast journalist Eric Fortman, covering with the boys for his absences and broken promises. Luckily Travi...
An artist's sudden blindness is diagnosed as psychological trauma-but what is it she doesn't want to see? An innocent man is released after nine years in jail for a murder he didn't commit. In a community of millionaires and the people who serve them, a drama of scandal, secrets and murder is abo...
Between comforting Jody and organizing and preparing meals—a job Paige admitted that she hated—she kept herself out of the mainstream of conversation. While the others taped windows and barricaded furniture against two of the three glass doors, Julianna cooked whatever she could find that would k...
Brownie Kefauver wakes up earlier. At least he did on Wednesday morning when his frantic pounding sent me toddling down the stairs in my fuzzy slippers and Ed’s plaid flannel bathrobe. I was yawning when I unlocked the door, and my mouth stayed open when I saw who was waiting on the other side.“W...
School, like prison, held no fond memories, and she had attended as infrequently as she could. She had perpetually been in trouble, for truancy, for not paying attention, for not turning in homework. In ninth and tenth grades a girlfriend had written Cristy’s English paper...
The Flow will never replace the Washington Post or the Boston Globe in my heart. Nevertheless, on the morning after I’d assured Hildy I was on her side, I sat alone and bleary-eyed at the breakfast table, drinking a second cup of coffee while I tried to focus on our local headlines. I had slept p...
Deena, who had been as visible as a ghost since the night of Madison’s party, took a sandwich to her room and mumbled that she was going through her clothes to see what no longer fit. Since that was one of the chores she had to complete before we talked about restoring privileges, I felt somewhat...
Marco and Niccolo had hired a seasoned crew to clear away the debris and shore up the building until safety and security were no longer major issues. A new roof was underway, and soon work on the interior could begin in earnest. Niccolo was using the opportunity to teach the Brick kids about blue...
Remy found nothing to tempt her appetite at Booeymonger, a small Prospect Street deli several blocks away. She sipped bottled water while Faith and Alex dove into sandwiches the size of paperback dictionaries. On the way back, Faith tried unsuccessfully to point out landmarks. Cafe Milano, one of...
Jody’s family is in counseling together and canceled their annual Thanksgiving vacation in St. Thomas to pay for it. Lynette calls that natural consequences. Natural consequences around here mean Pet rarely speaks to me. There is nothing quieter than a house with a child who’s giving you the sile...
By the time she was a teenager, fear had sometimes danced around the edges of her life, but the nightmares, terrifying visions of hands reaching for her, had disappeared long ago. If her relationship with her mother and father wasn’t everything she could hope for, her relationships with her grand...