the setup… Lady Juliet Frain is the oldest of the three Frain sisters, the most proper and responsible. She’s the perfect woman in society, formerly engaged to a duke who died before they married and currently being courted by another, Lord Granville. Her unconventional and artistic father’s latest theater production at their country estate has… Continue reading The Last Duke She’d Marry by Anna Campbell @AnnaCampbelloz
the setup… Grace Logan is a ghostwriter and has received an offer to write the memoir for acclaimed author Claudia Blackwell. She’s also notorious for having been accused of a triple murder but was never tried. Claudia claims the memoir will divulge the truth of what really happened that night. It’s an offer Grace can’t… Continue reading The Ghost Writer by Loreth Anne White @loreth @AbbyCraden @BrilliancePub @lorethannewhite @abby_craden
the setup… Ellen Truesdale is a well driller, a very much male-dominated field but she’s got eyes for only one competitor, Fetterman Well Services…owned by her father. She’s returned to Coyote Canyon after having left at age ten with her mother when Scott Fetterman divorced both her and her mother, beginning a new family. His… Continue reading The Talk of Coyote Canyon by Brenda Novak @Brenda_Novak @amymcnarrator @HarlequinBooks
the setup… Jade’s father died ten years ago but it still feels like it was yesterday. They had a tradition on her birthday and this year she’s honoring it again, going out to dinner in New York. But this time, it’s got a darker purpose. Before she can execute her plan she suddenly sees a… Continue reading Everywhere You Look by Liv Constantine @EllenQuay @BrillianceAudio #NeverTellCollection
the setup… It’s postwar 1869 and Anne Denoe finally has the independent life she always dreamed of having. She’s living in Denver, owns a boarding house and is the assistant to a doctor who is fighting his own demons. But that allows her to do more doctoring when he’s incapacitated. Steven Baywood has made something… Continue reading Tempted by Molly O’Keefe @MollyOKwrites
the setup… It’s the summer of 1815 and London is preparing to celebrate Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo. But when Lady McInnis and her sixteen-year old daughter are found murdered in Richmond Park, London is in full upset. Even more bizarre is the position in which they were found…their bodies posed in the same way as… Continue reading What Cannot Be Said by C. S. Harris @csharris2 @BerkleyPub
the setup… Jess Lambert is a former paramedic who has just moved to Black Lake from New York with her husband Mac, an attorney. They’re looking for a more serene existence after a traumatic event she experienced and it is shaping up that way. That is until Jess meets Annie Parker one morning, another recent… Continue reading The Stranger at Black Lake by Christina McDonald @Christinamac79
the setup… Niamh Turley is awakened early one morning to find the Garda knocking on her door, asking if she’d heard anything that night. After telling him she hadn’t, he soon returns and asks to see her roommate Maya whose door is closed and locked. Yes, you guessed it. She wasn’t there and was the… Continue reading The Roommate by Dervla McTiernan @DervlaMcTiernan #AoifeMcMahon
the setup… It’s been five years since Payden Thompson, the true heir to the Earl of Taviston title, and his best friend Robbie McClintock returned to Dunacres, Scotland to hunt down Cameron Plowman. He’s the man who falsely claimed their clan, murdered his parents and terrorized his family. Payden has returned to Philadelphia, triumphant but… Continue reading The Earl’s Match by Holly Bush @hollybushbooks
the setup… Aifric Ryan is a new barrister, fighting to get a foothold in a system that’s hard for a young woman to penetrate. She gets an opening when the chief barrister is a no show and she takes on one of his cases that requires a court appearance that day. Robert Collins is charged… Continue reading The Sisters by Dervla McTiernan @DervlaMcTiernan #AoifeMcMahon
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