the setup… Aubrey Lamb is a bit of a mess. At thirty-two, she has multiple jobs in Washington DC that are leading nowhere, is suffocating with debt, still grieving the recent death of her father and her boyfriend of four years just dumped her. When her Tennessee cousins reach out to her about the potential… Continue reading The Great Wherever by Shannon Sanders @shannonsanderswrites @shanders.bsky.social @keylorleigh @macmillan.audio @macmillanaudio.bsky.social #BookSky #TheGreatWherever
the setup… It’s the summer of 2024 and in the blink of an eye, Margot Cooper’s life imploded. Her Hollywood star husband Jack is exposed as having sent sexually explicit pictures to young girls on social media. Their carefully curated marriage was a sham, along with the brand she built. She and sixteen-year old daughter… Continue reading Lady X by Molly Fader @mollyfaderauthor @hlaserwolf @prhaudio @prhaudio.bsky.social #BookSky #LadyX
the setup… It’s June 1962 and Judy Greenberg is fresh out of college with her journalism degree. She’s twenty-two, still living at home and determined to get a job as a reporter for The Washington Digest. But, newspapers aren’t hiring women so she accepts a job in the typing pool, waiting for her opportunity, which… Continue reading Off the Record by Sara Goodman Confino @saraconfino @saraconfino.bsky.social @helenlaserwolf @brilliancepublishing #OffTheRecord #BookSky
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… What if there was another side to the Cinderella fairy tale? Introducing Lady Etheldrada (Ethel) Verity Isolde Tremaine Bramley, better known as the evil stepmother. She’s twice widowed with two daughters from her first marriage, Mathilde and Rosamund (Rosie), and stepdaughter Elin from her last. Both men left her virtually penniless except for… Continue reading Lady Tremaine by Rachel Hochhauser @hochhauser #BessieCarter @macmillan.audio @macmillanaudio.bsky.social #LadyTremaine
the setup… It’s 1950 Mannheim, Germany and Ethel Gathers, a black woman married to an officer, is desperate to start a family. She discovers an orphanage filled with children who are obviously mixed race, born of Black soldiers and German women. They were placed there when the mothers could no longer support them or keep… Continue reading Keeper of Lost Children by Sadeqa Johnson @sadeqasays @mskarenchilton @realadamlw #KarenChilton @simon.audio @simonaudio.bsky.social
the setup… It begins in the small town of Bonhomie, Ohio in the 1920s and the saga continues through the turbulent time of the 1960s and the Vietnam War era. Cal Jenkins was born with a leg deformity that defines and prevents him from serving his country in WWII. He marries Becky, the first woman… Continue reading Buckeye by Patrick Ryan @patrickryannyc @patrickryannyc.bsky.social @michael.l.crouch @prhaudio @prhaudio.bsky.social #Buckeye
the setup… Barbara Feldman’s husband passed away two years ago, leaving her with impossible grief and two young children. It’s 1963 and she now feels ready to handle her life on her own, allowing her mother to return to her own home. But not long after, Barbara returns home from her part time job at… Continue reading Good Grief by Sara Goodman Confino @saraconfino @saraconfino.bsky.social @hlaserwolf @brilliancepublishing @amazonpublishing #GoodGrief
the setup… It’s 1982 and Dawn, a young woman married to Heron and mother of their toddler daughter Maggie, encounters Hazel, a delightful woman who’s a teacher and has the gift of gab. Something about her lights Dawn from within in a way she’s never experienced. It soon becomes apparent that Dawn needs to make… Continue reading A Family Matter by Claire Lynch @clairellynch @simon.audio @simonaudio.bsky.social @librofm #AFamilyMatter
the setup… It’s 1996 and Jane Williams is turning seventeen. She and her father Frank live in a remote cabin in Montana, off the grid with just the most basic of necessities. It’s the only life she’s known and it’s her normal, homeschooled by him and subjected to his extreme philosophies based on 19th century… Continue reading What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown @janellebrownie @hlaserwolf @ganimaniac @peterganim.bsky.social @prhaudio @prhaudio.bsky.social #WhatKindOfParadise
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