Catherine has everything - good looks, good hair, the right friends, her own little shop and a sizeable trust fund coming her way. Everything a woman could want except love. When she meets William she thinks she finally will have it all until little hairline cracks begin to form. Her elderly mom flinches at his name and she has known William and his parents since he was a young man. Catherine's friends and sister aren't really keen on him either and then the bottom drops out of the trust fund that can only be saved by having a child. She glosses over all those little nagging questions until things happen even she can't ignore. Money can't buy you love and it really can't buy your trust.
The story starts out slow and easy but you will keep reading eagerly until the gripping end.
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What fun it would be to work for St. Marys Institute of Historical Research bouncing back and forth across the centuries, frolicking with the locals as they live their exciting days, gathering useful data and coming home to a warm bath and glass of good wine right? Not so for Max as she tends to get into trouble and almost always barely gets back to her pod before the world explodes. She and her team are going back to the time of dinosaurs and this mission won't be any different from the last few except someone at St. Mary's doesn't want them to return. It doesn't help that Max is falling for her boss as well. Fun, edge of your seat action with just enough mystery to make you keep want to find out who the bad guy or girl is. If you like Janet Evanovitch's Stephanie Plum meet Jurassic World meets Connie Willis and her time traveling historians then this is the book for you. When a teenager doesn't come home after sneaking out with the friends a mother's nightmare begins.
Elizabeth, her mom and her daughter have no idea where Tommy is and even Tommy's friends don't give up the whole truth about what happened that night. As the police begin to search for clues, Elizabeth is visited by a presence that she believes to be her son and starts to find journal pages placed for them to find. Is this a cruel practical joke or really Tommy trying to reach out? As the events of that night come to light a question will come into the reader's mind - Do I really know what my kids are doing when I think they are safe in their beds? Fast paced mystery with a slight paranormal twist that every parent needs to read with the lights on. The scope of this massive novel is the settling of "New France" which we know as Canada. The story centers around two men who come in as indentured servants and are granted their freedom and a bit of land after a few years of hard work. This epic covers multiple generations and as we see one man go on to become one of the logging magnates, the other marries a native woman and has a hard climb upward. As the loggers move in, the natives are forced out as are the voyageurs who tried to straddle both sides. The people are brutal, the land is brutal and the coming civilization and loss of ancient hardwoods is heartbreaking. Annie Proulx uses such beautiful language to describe the scenery that we feel the hardships and brutality against the first settlers and native people all the more.
What fun - Librarian Irene and her Assistant Kai travel to alternate lands/times to obtain (steal !)
important manuscripts and then bring them back to the Library for safekeeping. There is danger, there is deceit and yes dear reader, in this alternate world there are dragons, vampires, werewolves and fae at work. Librarians like Irene do have a bit of skills (magic) at their disposal but it is the elusive Kai who might have the most to hide. Fast paced and full of wit you will fall in love with the headstrong Irene, steadfast Kai and Detective Vale. This is the book for readers missing "Discovery of Witches" or "League of Dragons". Tessa is really good at what she does - opening grand resorts for the uber wealthy. With time running out before the big opening at a secluded California resort, she and her staff are running in all directions cleaning up fires and tying up loose ends. When an old flame turns up out of her past Tessa is distracted just enough not to notice that her staff is disappearing one by one until it is too late. There is a masked killer in the hotel silently going from room to room by secret elevators and back stairs killing as he goes. Told by a mysterious narrator watching the events on the security cameras the story is divided sometimes on the page to let the reader see the horror unfold on multiple cameras in real time. Gory, scary and pulse pounding thriller, this is one resort you don't want to stay at.
If you are familiar at all with Charles Manson and the summer that he and his groupies threw California into a fear frenzy then this novelization is for you. Fourteen year old Evie is an average teenager trying to deal with acne, her mom and dad's break up and wearing the right color nail polish at school. It is 1969 in Petaluma and nothing much is happening until she sees a group of weathered girls dumpster diving. From almost the first minute Suzanne holds power over Evie. She is cool, she is pretty and she has freedom.
The lure of the ranch and its king, Russell, pulls Evie to the dark and scary. To win Suzanne's love and Russell's approval she is forced to grow up quickly, lose her innocence and gets pulled further and further from the life she knew. The ranch represents freedom and unconditional love and it is everything that Evie feels she is missing from her own life but in reality it is a trap. The only question is if she can get pulled back before she is in serious trouble. Drugs, sex and brain washing are standard fare at the ranch. The story goes between Evie in the present years later and recounting her time at the ranch. Sometimes what is broken can't be fixed without a few cracks visible and it is the fragile older Evie that is endearing. You will finish this book in one sitting and find yourself wincing on more than one page. Nora leaves London to visit her sister, Rachel, in the countryside often. But this trip is different - a silent house, a dead dog hanging from the railing and so much blood. Nora stays trying to help the police solve the case that the detectives say they are working hard to solve. She thinks it might have something to do with the unsolved attack on Rachel when she was just a teen but it could be someone new. Thrilling and quietly gripping, we become as obsessed as Nora in finding her sister's killer and what if he strikes again?
The scope of this massive novel is the settling of "New France" which we know as Canada. The story centers around two men who come in as indentured servants and are granted their freedom and a bit of land after a few years of hard work. This epic covers multiple generations and as we see one man go on to become one of the logging magnates, the other marries a native woman and has a hard climb upward. As the loggers move in, the natives are forced out as are the voyageurs who tried to straddle both sides. The people are brutal, the land is brutal and the coming civilization and loss of ancient hardwoods is heartbreaking. Annie Proulx uses such beautiful language to describe the scenery that we feel the hardships and brutality against the first settlers and native people all the more.
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