the setup… Retired Secret Service Agent Clint Hill served under several presidents from Eisenhower to Ford but his most notable time was when he was part of the protection detail for the Kennedy family. He was assigned specifically to Mrs. Kennedy and was there in Dallas. He’s the agent in that iconic photo climbing across… Continue reading My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy by Clint Hill and Lisa McCubbin Hill @ClintHill_SS @lisa_mccubbin @SimonAudio @librofm
the setup… It’s been over ten years since Emma Dean’s husband Harry died suddenly from a heart attack. He was president of the local bank, a family tradition, and left her well cared for financially. Over the years, she’s carved her own path, creating and managing the town’s art center where she helps promote and… Continue reading All That We Are by Mariah Stewart #MariahStewart @BrilliancePub
the setup… FBI Agent Jules Cassidy and Robin Chadwick, the Hollywood film star and recovering alcoholic, have finally slayed all the dragons and moved every obstacle that stood in their way to being in a relationship. They don’t just want to be together but are willing to take the big step, getting married in Boston,… Continue reading All Through the Night by Suzanne Brockmann @SuzBrockmann
the setup… Four years ago, Lydia (Liddy) Bryant’s beloved daughter Jessica took her own life at the age of twenty-nine. One year later, her husband Jim packed up and left without explanation, leaving Liddy to grapple with her grief alone and find a new life path. She’s turned her focus towards buying the local bookshop… Continue reading Goodbye Again by Mariah Stewart #MariahStewart @BrilliancePub
the setup… Nora Hamilton is a screenwriter for the romance channel (think Hallmark). She’s a recently divorced mother of two who decided to write something other than her usual formulaic story, this time more close to home and personal. It’s about the end of her marriage to Ben, a man who never worked during their… Continue reading Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan @annabelmonaghan @hillatious @PRHAudio
Saturdays at the Café is a weekly feature hosted here to talk about and discuss the books I’ve discovered during the past week, added to my shelf and am excited about reading. They may be new/scheduled releases I’ve seen on NetGalley, at the library, or from publishers or they may be older titles my friends have… Continue reading Saturdays at the Café
Description Brandi Maxwell is living the dream as an intern at prestigious New York fashion house Simon Van Doren. Except “living the dream” looks more like scrubbing puke from couture dresses worn by hard-partying models and putting up with microaggressions from her white colleagues. Still, she can’t help but fangirl over Simon’s it-girl daughter,… Continue reading Blog Tour: Someone Had to Do It by Amber and Danielle Brown @ambersharelle @dani_nicbrown @HarlequinBooks
the setup… Evan Smoak, formerly known as Orphan X when he was part of the Orphan program and now operating as the Nowhere Man, responds to his latest client’s plea for help. She’s fallen into the clutches of human traffickers and after he “resolves” the issue, it occurs to him he may have left other… Continue reading The Nowhere Man by Gregg Hurwitz @GreggHurwitz @ScottBrick @BrilliancePub
the setup… Four men battle the swollen Mississippi River to save a family trapped in their ancestral home by a flood, the likes of which have never been seen before. It’s 1927 and three of the men in the rowboat are convicts, one a trustee, loaned from the local prison for this mission. However, once… Continue reading The Levee by William Kent Krueger @WmKentKrueger @JDJacksonVO @SimonAudio @librofm
the setup… Natalie Fincher is a songwriter who isn’t composing these days. It’s been 2 1/2 years since her beloved husband Russ died following complications from a hit and run accident on his bicycle. She’s struggling with her grief, not bouncing back the way her well meaning friends feel she should and is beginning to… Continue reading The Key to My Heart by Lia Louis @LisforLia @SimonAudio @librofm
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