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
the setup… Alice Lockwood is mourning the recent death of her husband Grant. But she’s starting to see his face everywhere. She also just took a pregnancy test and it came back positive. Then a woman shows up at her front door, claiming to be the “other” woman Grant has spent years with and the… Continue reading The Widow’s Husband’s Secret Lie by Freida McFadden @fmcfaddenauthor @marinireland @dreamscape_media @dreamscape-media.bsky.social #TheWidowsHusbandsSecretLie
the setup… Detective Sergeant Stilwell and two of his deputies have set up a sting to catch a drug drop at a remote mountain airstrip based on a tip from a confidential informant. When the plane arrives and drops the bag, Stilwell and his team move in but things go terribly wrong with one deputy… Continue reading Ironwood by Michael Connelly @michaelconnellybooks @jwilldamron @hachetteaudio @hachetteaudio.bsky.social #Catalina #Ironwood
the setup… Meet the Season sisters…Summer, Autumn (she prefers Fall), Winter and Spring. Yes, their parents went there. They live with their grandmother Dolly in Mountain Laurel Cove who raised them after their parents’ tragic death twelve years ago. Summer is caretaker for the rental cottages in the Cove and is working on a plan… Continue reading XOXO, Summer by S. L. Scott @s.l.scott @callie_dalton @seanmastersaudio @avaundercover @hambright_pr #TheSeasonSisters #XOXOSummer
Virginia Roberts Giuffre was one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims and survivors. She was approached by Ghislaine Maxwell while working at Mar-a-Lago and was only 16-years old at the time. Maxwell groomed her to become enslaved and sexually abused by Epstein. Giuffre took her own life in April 2025 after completing this memoir and approving it… Continue reading Nobody’s Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre #VirginiaRobertsGiuffre @thereseplummernarrates @gabracadabranyc @prhaudio @prhaudio.bsky.social #NobodysGirl
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