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
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
the setup… It’s 2019 and the setting is the funeral for BettyKay Beecher, a former nurse and mother of two daughters, Clara and Abbie. The sisters are grief stricken and are struggling with their own relationship with each other, growing further apart now that Clara is living in Chicago. The sudden arrival of a guest… Continue reading Blog Tour: The Sunshine Girls by Molly Fader @MollyOKwrites @andi_arndt @HarlequinBooks
the setup… Stephanie (Steph) and Grant Burgess believe they’ve found their forever home and move into it with their two young children, Charlie and Amelia. She’s a stay-at-home mother and he’s the primary breadwinner working mostly from home. Though they love the house, it requires some updating and commence with the remodeling. Steph discovers some… Continue reading We Used to Live Here by Daniel Hurst @dhurstbooks @TantorAudio
the setup… Bree Taggert has accepted the position of sheriff in Randolph County since she’s moved to Grey’s Hollow to raise her niece and nephew. She’s called to a campground where a shooting was reported, only to find no evidence of a victim, shooter or the witness. Soon after, however, they locate the witness, homeless… Continue reading See Her Die by Melinda Leigh @MelindaLeigh1 #ChristinaTraister @BrilliancePub
the setup… It’s been two years since Maggie Flynn lost her husband Art who died from a terminal illness. She was his primary caretaker during that time, devoting herself entirely to the man she loved dearly. Now her 40th year high school reunion is coming up and she’ll be returning to her hometown in Wyndham… Continue reading An Invincible Summer by Mariah Stewart #MariahStewart @KateMarcinVO @BrilliancePub
the setup… Alex Hutchinson is the mother of twin 12-year old daughters Gigi and Penny, and married to successful financial whiz Patrick who her girls love dearly as if he were their biological father. A few years ago, she began posting about her family and inspirational messages as Unapologetically Alex and it soon propelled her… Continue reading The Personal Assistant by Kimberly Belle @KimberlySBelle @VoiceChelsea #ChrisAndrewCiulla @megantusing @HarlequinBooks @librofm
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