the setup… Rae Donovan is a private investigator in New York City. She’s married with a daughter in college and is sort of estranged from her father, a retired former FBI photographer who lives in Adirondack. But when she gets a call that he may be dying, she rushes to see him, arriving just a… Continue reading The Safe Room by Lisa Unger @leheny_leheny @brilliancepublishing #TheSafeRoom
the setup… Jane Trevally is outside Rosebery Hall, her crumbling family estate in Dorset, when she comes upon a little white Westie terrier without his owner. She learns it belongs to a young girl visiting in town who seems to have disappeared but the dog’s chip identifies the owner as living in Hampstead. When she… Continue reading It Could Have Been Her by Lisa Jewell @lisajewelluk @simon.audio @simonaudio.bsky.social #ItCouldHaveBeenHer
the setup… To most people, Travis is an ordinary, indistinct man living in a quiet, indistinct English town. He walks through the neighborhood everyday, connecting with strangers and familiar faces alike. See, Travis is Death and appears when someone is nearing the end of their time in this world. He doesn’t look the role, attractive… Continue reading Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt by Ben Reeves @authorbenreeves @mikefranklandvo @simon.audio @simonaudio.bsky.social #EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurt
the setup… Eight years ago, Autumn Thatcher’s life changed in one tragic moment when her boyfriend Waylon Cartwright crashed the car carrying her and four of their friends. He didn’t survive and neither did her best friend, Jennifer whose boyfriend Charlie Barnes has never recovered from her loss, his dreams shattered, and he blames Autumn.… Continue reading Shattered Dreams by Natasha Madison @natashamauthor @voice.of.greg @savannahpeachwood @blackstonepublishing @blackstonepublishing.bsky.social #Dreams #ShatteredDreams
the setup… Riley Fletcher is out on her morning run, just starting to enjoy the sensation of her body kicking in and the lovely atmosphere. Suddenly she’s struck in the head from behind and her next memory is waking and finding herself bound, gagged and bleeding in a cabin in the woods. Her abductor is… Continue reading Run for Your Life by Lucinda Berry @lucindaberryauthor #ElenaRey @amazonpublishing @brilliancepublishing #RunForYourLife
the setup… It’s been a year since Claire Karadec’s world fell apart. She’s forty-six years old and her marriage disintegrated in public as she learned of her husband’s affair at a charitable event and moments later caught him in the act! Humiliated, alone and rudderless, Claire finally decides to take a big step forward in… Continue reading Brighter Than Before by Courtney Walsh @courtneywalsh @pattimurin @thomasnelsonfiction #BrighterThanBefore
the setup… It’s the summer of 1974 and Chip Bishop just graduated from high school but was also handed devastating health news. Facing a terminal illness, he leaves his family for a time and heads to The Red Maple Inn in the Poconos. Fast forward to the summer of 1975, Chip’s grieving younger sister Maggie… Continue reading The Top of the World by Ethan Joella @joellawriting @ryando_vo #miahutchinsonshaw @simon.audio @simonaudio.bsky.social #TheTopOfTheWorld
the setup… Luc O’Donnell’s life is a bit of a mess. He’s a fundraiser for an obscure conservative London charity and now it’s in jeopardy because of the latest sketchy photo of him that showed up in the tabloids. Luc is the 28-year old son of rock stars but it’s his famous father Jon Fleming’s… Continue reading Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall @quicunquevolt @quicunquevolt.bsky.social @joejamesonvo @librofm @libro.fm @dreamscape_media @dreamscape-media.bsky.social #PrideMonth #LondonCalling #BoyfriendMaterial
the setup… Daphne Fuller is a fifty-three year old private school English teacher. She and husband Jonathan are in the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art when they notice an older gentleman who appears to be following her. It’s Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather who she hasn’t seen since she was nine years… Continue reading Whistler by Ann Patchett @parnassusbooks @parnassusbooks.bsky.social @harperbooks @harperbooks.bsky.social @librofm @libro.fm #Whistler
the setup… Ellen McKenna is struggling to keep their Texas family farm operating since the recent death of husband in an accident. It’s a tough job even with the help of their four children. The threats come not only from Mother Nature but a certain local businessman who had already pressured others in the county… Continue reading Whisper Creek by Allison Brennan @abwrites @striblingamanda @macmillan.audio @macmillanaudio.bsky.social #WhisperCreek
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