the setup… Tiffany (Tiffy) Moore, a craft book editor, desperately needs a cheap place to stay. She and her boyfriend Justin have broken things off and he’s forcing her to leave his apartment. Leon Twomey, a hospice nurse, needs some extra cash flow and places an ad for a flatshare at an attractive rate. There’s… Continue reading The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary #BethOLeary @CarrieHFletcher #KawkuFortune @MacmillanAudio
the setup… It’s Christmas Eve and Harper Thompson is desperately trying to get to the megabus that will take her to her parents home in Houston for the holidays. It’s pouring down rain in Austin and she’s smushed into a crowded Lyft van driven by Amal who is direction challenged. The man next to her,… Continue reading It Started with a Dog by Julia London @JuliaFLondon @copatter @TantorAudio
the setup… It’s been two months since DI Kim Stone was brutally beaten by her nemesis, escaped prisoner Symes, and she’s physically ready to return to work. Mentally, however, she’s still got a long way to go despite her duping the therapist to think otherwise. Her replacement was Ian Burns, the same DI who botched… Continue reading Hidden Scars by Angela Marsons @WriteAngie @jancramervoice @bookouture
the setup… Evan Smoak is on his way back to Los Angeles and stops in a Palo Alto coffee shop. He notices a beautiful woman in the grasp of a man that looks unnatural. Further observation has him believing she shows all the signs of being in an abusive situation. After a little internet searching,… Continue reading Buy a Bullet by Gregg Andrew Hurwitz @GreggHurwitz @ScottBrick @BrilliancePub
the setup… High school senior Stephanie (Stevie) Williams is a science genius but she has a lot to learn about love. She and her girlfriend Sola, her best friend since they met in the 6th grade, had planned for her to meet her Nigerian family and announce their relationship. However, Stevie not only blew it… Continue reading Whiteout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk & Nicola Yoon @brownbookworm @WriteinBK #NicStone @angiecthomas @AshWrites @NicolaYoon @HarperAudio @librofm
the setup… Mark and Rachel are married with two children and they decide to vacation on the Cape with her abrasive twin brother Geoff, his wife Sasha and their two small children. Rachel and Geoff have their own method of communication that Mark and Sasha just accept as a “twin thing.” the heart of the… Continue reading Shell Game by Rumaan Alam @DearFajer @BrilliancePub
the setup… On the morning of June 12, 2013, 12-year old Eddie Adler, his parents Bruce and Jane and 15-year old brother Jordan board a plane in Newark going to Los Angeles to their new home. Somewhere over Colorado, the plane crashes leaving only one survivor. There were 191 souls who lost their lives that… Continue reading Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano @napolitanoann @campbell_cass @PRHAudio
the setup… This story resumes where it ended in the first book where Lily Kincaid runs into Atlas Corrigan for the first time in almost two years. She’s now divorced from Ryle and both are managing their parenting plan of 11-month old daughter Emerson. Atlas is now the owner of two successful Boston restaurants and… Continue reading It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover @colleenhoover @colindonnell #OliviaSong @SimonAudio @librofm
the setup… Minneapolis Detectives Evangeline (Van) Reed and Harry Steinbeck are on their way to Costa Rica to track Patty who is on the same flight with her daughter, Gwen, as they are going for a vacation. She’s suspected of killing her husband but they need to catch her in a lie in order to… Continue reading Catch Her in a Lie by Jess Lourey @jesslourey @robins_carly @Brilliance Pub
the setup… SEAL Team 16 is on standby for an impending Afghanistan op and their base commander thinks it’s a good use of their time to participate in a training exercise with members of Troubleshooters while they wait, which just happens to pit their former commander Tom Paoletti against the new one, Lew Koehl. They… Continue reading Into the Storm by Suzanne Brockmann @SuzBrockmann @PLawlorAudio @EwbankMelanie @BlackstoneAudio
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