I loved the way the author took us from the modern world back into time when there were brothels. We all remember hearing of and reading of the brothels that were on the second floor of an eating establishment, a saloon or a boarding house....
5 StarsSetting 1788: Renn Arelia Sheridan holds something dear in the pocket of her gown. An emerald brooch, the same emerald brooch pictured in the portrait that Renn is staring at. A portrait of the First Duchess of Chippenham. Renn is a mere 18...
3½ StarsDon't turn out the lights, close the curtains, lock the door because this book will have your arm hairs standing on end. The author has a twisted plot that is like a web, twisting and turning here and there. You will be turning the pages as...
5 StarsThis is a fun read and is well written and put together well. A mystery that is a little naughty on the side. The author gives characters that are off the beaten path and parts of the book will make you star with wide open eyes wondering if...
4 StarsNaomi Schrock is living a peaceful life at her parent's home in 1846. She lives in an Amish Community. She has an adopted son, Davey. She is living a rather normal life with Davey and her family, but she knows she may never marry. She doesn...
4½ StarsAmish books are clean and have a lesson behind them. This book is sweet and lovely with two main characters that you just know from the start that they are meant for each other. It wasn't so serious, just a fun read that will let you get aw...
5 StarsThe Setting: 1900's Canadian Frontier Tragedy isn't a stranger to Jo Wilson. She lives in Fraser Springs and her husband had a bathhouse. Now that he is gone, Jo is trying to keep it going but is getting opposition from the ladies of societ...
5 Stars“A Grave Calling” has you questioning and thinking is this a good thing or bad thing? How can 25 year old Julie Hall find bodies? She had taken up the dowsing rod in order to find water…and ends up finding bodies instead. What a surprise or...
4 StarsAnna and Felty Helmuth are matchmaking. They have a list that includes grandchildren…and others. Reuben is mad. His friend John took his girl. He’s so upset he goes back to his grandparents in Huckleberry Hill, Wisconsin. He is relishing th...
4½ StarsSary had a hard life and found that situations in life can change a person completely. So much happened to this beautiful and rather naive woman. She was so very young when she married but soon became a young widow. Her husband had been sho...
4 StarsWhat happens to a friendship when your father marries your friend? How does Clara, fourteen, feel when her father marries her friend, Geneva who is only sixteen. Clara is hurt, she feels turned on. Now her once friend is her stepmother and...
4½ StarsIf you love cozy mysteries, than you're sure to enjoy this debut. The book is well written and has you leaving each page anticipating more. As the pages turn the tension and suspense grows. From the start you will know you have found a winn...
4½ StarsGrace is struggling and has been as she takes care of her aging father. She is a woman alone trying to do a daughter's duty, a widow's job and keep it all together. Not only that but she is a widow and trying to keep the ranch her late husb...
4½ Stars"Wedded Bliss" is a good romantic story that is sweet and will also let you laugh at times. This is a good book to relax with. There are not a lot of questions to ponder over. The characters given are characters you can love. It's a story t...
3½ StarsHaving to run to avoid marriage to someone that is detestable, Aileen Lynch has defied her stepfather. She wasn't about to marry his associate that she despised. The marriage would have been a marriage of convenience, convenience for her st...
4½ StarsThere's gold in them there hills. So many heard the word gold and off they went, leaving everything in search of the almighty richness that gold would bring. Many didn't even make it to the place where the gold was supposedly found. Many go...
4½ StarsIn “Kill the Father” the police find a beheaded woman in the park. They soon find out her young son is missing. They think they have it all figured out. Of course the husband did it! So they arrest him. But this turns out to be too easy and...
4 StarsIf you need a break from the serious books, then this one is for you. You will find this book to be funny and yet there is a little sexiness to it. At times you will find yourself laughing and you can't stop. The author has really given a s...
3 StarsEerie is a bit different than other books. The author not only gives you a dark eerie suspense, but it's funny too. The book will have you on the edge of your seat throughout. You may find yourself looking over your shoulder at any little s...
4 StarsAuthor Robin Yocum gives quite a variety of characters, most on the dark side of life. The story in “A Welcome Murder” takes place in a once prominent and very upbeat Ohio steel town. Now the beauty is gone and it is slowly rotting to the g...
5 StarsWith the death of Dylan's parents, a lot has been placed on his shoulders. He has five younger brothers and a big dairy farm. Dylan needs help badly. So he offers a job to a neighbor, Marissa. Marissa has wanted a way out for some time sinc...
5 StarsA lot of romance novels are pretty much the same. But this romance is different. The author mixes the romance with a mystery as well as a great western plot. The story kept my attention throughout. Ruby Lattrell heads to the family ranch af...
4 Stars“No Getting Over a Cowboy” is a page turner mixed with humor and romance. There's nothing like a good love story when you have a handsome hunk of a cowboy in the mix. When Garrett Granger lost his wife and child, he decided to go home to Wr...
4½ StarsRebecca lives in the Englisch world with her husband. She has it all, a large lavish life style with anything she wants except her husband. He spends very little time with her and their little boy but when he does he's always angry. After a...
5 StarsWe have a sociopath twisting people around his little finger. But the author puts doubt in your mind as to if the people are manipulating the sociopath or is the sociopath manipulating the people? This causes the investigator, Servaz to con...
4 StarsThis is a fun series but there are some things that I didn't care for. Once you find that special one, sleeping around with woman after woman doesn't say much for Lord Lawrence. I know he's supposedly the catch of the day but come on. Anywa...
4 StarsMaura Donovan inherited Sullivan's, a local pub in County Cork. She's been in Ireland for nine months and this is home to her. Maura never had any friends nor family and now she feels that she's finally got both. Just a small Irish village...
3 StarsThe author gives the reader, families with loads of problems, violence and scandal. That about covers it. That is everyday life, isn't it. Dysfunctional families, they're everywhere these days.It brings you into a possible reality situation...
4 Stars“Silverwolf” is a fantasy with history added. It’s also the second book in the Rowankind series. This book comes after “Winterwood”. I would suggest you read Winterwood first. Silverwolf's world is like ours. The difference is our world doe...
3 StarsTimes have changed from the gods deciding who was guilty or innocent to present day of humans making the decision. It is almost always uncertain if someone is guilty or innocent. But a decision must be made and in doing so, sometimes mistak...
4½ Stars“Hot Winter Nights” is a short story, one of the Bookshot Flames collection of short stories. When Allie Fairchild moved to Montana she wasn't expecting what she found. Bear Mountain is lovely with the days being cold, but oh, those nights...
3 StarsOne night will change several lives forever. One careless night of a romp in the hay. A child is born from this night, only the father doesn't know it. Duncan MacNeil is gone to sea on his way to America to make many riches. Lovely Isobel D...
5 Stars"In 1903 Ohio, a young Amish woman must choose between the life she has long planned for and a new, very different future…" From the blurb. The author gives the reader such lovely characters. This is an Amish romance that will warm your hea...
5 StarsIf you're a lover of cozy mysteries then this should be on your TBR list. The setting is northern Michigan. As with the first book, this is a curious mystery. The author gave characters that were fun and entertaining, and each character was...
4 StarsThis isn't your normal ghost story. It starts out that way but boy, does it go in another direction. The author gives you everything that keeps the reader connected, fast pace, lots of action, characters that are a bit odd and terror. When...
4 StarsThe narrator is Wini who has just an average life, but as you read, you get the feeling there is something amiss. Her friends as planning a trip into the wild and she gains the courage to go along. Was this a mistake on her part? Things go...
5 StarsA mystery that takes place in a small town. The author gives you so many surprises that you don't know what will happen when you turn that page. The main character, Hud Matthews is quite the man, he is intelligent, stick to your guns, good...
4 StarsThe book brings the reader five eerie and haunting tales all with the same setting, a five story Georgian mansion. This mansion used to be a grand place but through time it has started to deteriorate. It has been converted into five apartme...
4 StarsThe Setting: Massachusetts This is the sixth book in the Granny Apples Mystery Series As Gino Costello works in a historic farmhouse writing his next book he thinks about a medium the family knows, Emma. The book he's writing is about the p...
5 StarsThe author deals with some real life issues, some real hard issues, drugs. murder and racism. A mystery of a small town that has corruption spewing all over. It even spills over into the police department. Samuel Craddock, takes on the job...
5 StarsDetective Jane Harper, from San Francisco expects sinister murders back there, but not in Hope's Peak, North Carolina. The author gives you vivid images of the murders, such as a young woman found with a crown of vines on her head, like a p...
4 StarsThe book starts out very slow and about the time you're ready to give up on the book, it takes a turn. The main character has been in a relationship with a husband that was terribly abusive but no she is with a man that really loves her. Ma...
3 StarsRanching days over but are they? The Granger siblings thought they were long gone but when life intervenes, back to Wrangler's Creek they go. What they find, they hadn't expected. It starts when Sophie Granger gets more than her share of ba...
4½ StarsThe author opens her novel with an account of skeletons of two boys that weren't found until years after their going missing. Deputy Gemma Monroe found the skeletons. To this day she is still haunted by what she found. Now, she is in search...
5 StarsThis book isn't just for Fablehaven fans nor for children. Anyone can have fun coloring, solving the riddles and so much more. It's an entertaining adventure. You can spend hours in the magical pages of this book. If you like recipes, there...
4 StarsThis isn't the Wild West, it's the weird west. The author not only gives you the gunfighters of the west in Arizona territory but you get scientists that are on the edge of reality and then we get the un -explainable evil forces that exist...
5 StarsSome are born into families, some choose their families. Families are to be loved whether you are born with them or choose them. That is the basis of family, LOVE. Or should I say, it should be that way. Dr. Lucy is trying hard to let her p...
5 StarsHow many of us would like to be an heiress who can buy anything you want except....? The author gives us a read where we have an heiress with all the money she could want but it can't buy her what she wants most...living. So she takes off t...
4 StarsMy jaw started dropping as I read page after page. There aren't words to describe a book like this. This book is kind of like Clint Eastwood's, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. You get it all, not necessarily in that order but it's there. I...
4½ StarsIf you love murder mysteries, then here's one for you What makes it unique is it is told from the outlook of one of the victims. On top of that, the victim ends up solving the mystery. Now that is different. In another way, the author makes...
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