Thirty-two-year-old Jess Abbot has lost everything: her job, her apartment, and-most heart-wrenching-her eight-year-old son, Chance, to a tragic accident. Haunted by memories and grief, Jess packs what’s left and heads for the small mountain town of Pine Lake, where she takes a position as caregiver to an eccentric old woman. A rumored clairvoyant, Lucy is […]
2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. 2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to […]
The town of Castle Rock, Maine, has seen its fair share of oddities over the years, but nothing is as peculiar as the little curio shop that’s just opened for business here. Its mysterious proprietor, Leland Gaunt, seems to have something for everyone out on display at Needful Things . . . interesting items that […]
The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this […]
In the ballrooms and drawing rooms of Regency London, rules abound. From their earliest days, children of aristocrats learn how to address an earl and curtsy before a prince-while other dictates of the ton are unspoken yet universally understood. A proper duke should be imperious and aloof. A young, marriageable lady should be amiable . […]
In 1897, Louise Hawkes’ husband mysteriously disappeared while hunting. Death had taken Agnes Hoskins’ husband and children years earlier. When fate brings the two women together, a bond forms that even death can not break. Nearly a century later, the discovery of a long-buried curio leads two young women to an encounter neither could have […]
Last month I presented a list of some rather unknown books from various genres and indie authors. I have put together another list of some lesser known books that deserve a read. Take a look and have a read! Once a Man Indulges by Tony Kelsey A fast-paced, detective story in the tradition of Raymond […]
Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge-until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children’s […]
You just dropped off your child at the bus stop. A panicked stranger calls your phone. Your child had been kidnapped. The stranger then explains that their child has also been kidnapped, by a completely different stranger. The only way to get your child back is to kidnap another child. You are now part of […]
We have all heard of the main stream authors that we are blasted with daily on GoodReads, Litsy, and many other book sites. The “must reads” of the year are constantly being thrown in our faces, leading most of us to reading the same books. This is not to say say however, that these books […]
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