Books from the Backlog is a fun way to feature some of those
neglected books sitting on your bookshelf unread. If you are anything
like me, you might be surprised by some of the unread books hiding in
your stacks.
In the morning, he’s
struggling to remember. By the evening, he’s struggling to survive. John
Smith’s risk avoidance policy just expired!
Waking up
beside the gorgeous Savannah Jones, John is shocked to learn she was for
hire, and he can’t pay the price – a thousand pounds or broken legs. In
desperation, he turns to best friend, Mark, for the money. Only one
problem – Mark has a dagger in his back.
John and Savannah are
plunged into a dangerous world where wits and adrenaline are their only
weapons and trust in each other their only certainty. As the body count
mounts, they discover Mark wasn’t the person John thought, and his
terrifying invention may well end up killing thousands, John and
Savannah included.
A race to recover the missing invention pits
the unlikely pairing against ex-SAS psychopath, Gregory Fisher, a man
who will stop at nothing and kill anyone in his way to wreak revenge
against the Government who stole his livelihood.
When Smith and Jones team up, the result is explosive.
This is a fast-paced, action-packed, character-driven thriller, guaranteed to make you laugh out loud, cringe, cry and cheer.
This
book contains a few violent scenes, a dash of sex and the odd bit of
bad language, so please don’t buy it if you are easily offended.
I added Ethan Justice Origins (Ethan Justice #1) by Simon Jenner to my TBR on 2.20.13. I has all the elements I look for when wanting a suspense/thriller. Smith and Jones? Lovin’ that. Explosive. Oh Yeah! Fast paced, action-packed, character-driven, guaranteed to make you laugh out loud, cringe, cry and cheer…WHAT MORE COULD I POSSIBLE WANT? LOL
I meant to have the Find Her by Chris Patchell review done around the November 16th release date, but life got in the way. It in no way reflects on my thoughts about the book, which I have a page plus of notes. I am sure I will be editing that down.
I love the cover for Find Her by Chris Patchell. I have a love of trees, naked or dressed, but naked is the best. Look closely at the branches. What do you see? To me it is like looking at clouds in the sky and deciphering the images that pass overhead.
Sadie saw the man in aisle four of the hardware store. All her spidey senses went on high alert, but he managed to lift the hammer and leave without being nabbed for nonpayment. Nine thousand eight hundred and fifteen people lived in the small town of Sweet Home, and she knew he wasn’t one of them.
Police Officer Lacey James is on the case. She was ‘this’ close to nabbing him, and after seeing what was in the back of the car….
Lacey James is married to a soldier who is in Fort Hood. She has two young boys and it looks like she will be raising them on her own.
Hmmm…at the end of Part I the story took a twist I didn’t see coming. Chris…whether you know it or not, you get me. Your books are right up my alley and give me hours of suspenseful reading pleasure.
I don’t know what is going on, or where we are going, but Noah and security at the Mall leaves a lot to be desired. A second storyline comes into play and I am curious how the parts will mesh together. I am on the hook and OMG! The quickness of the end of Part II caught me so offguard I can hardly wait to see what Part III has in store for me.
I so want to peek ahead, BUT no cheating. I know it will be worth the wait and I don’t think I will be able to put my Kindle down until the last word is read.
WHY? That is my question, as much as who, how…
Lacey is great, and if anything were to happen to me or mine, I would want her on the case. With her dogged determination and common sense, she won’t quit until the job is done.
There was one part that I was disappointed Lacey didn’t catch, but sometimes the author needs that creative license to make the story sing. Chris Patchell did wrap up the story nicely, bringing all the elements together. Though it seemed to end a bit abruptly, I was satisfied…AND…OMG…the cover for Save Her, the second book in the Lacey James series is to die for. Bring it on!
I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of Find Her by Chris Patchell.
A simple heist at a hardware store uncovers a brutal crime spree leaving a police officer dead, several innocents murdered, and the small Oregon town of Sweet Home shaken to its core.
Veteran police officer Lacey James answers the call. The robbery suspect has fled, but the items she finds inside the car at the scene raise the hackles on the back of Lacey’s neck: a hammer, a tarp, zip ties, and a stolen gun. This discovery pushes her suspicions to an all-time high and has her questioning what dark and dangerous crimes this man may be involved in?
Eden Mills is smart, kind, and fun-loving. Not the kind to make enemies or run away. But Eden has a stalker, and when Lacey discovers that Eden is missing, possibly kidnapped, there is plenty of reason to fear the worst. As Lacey peels back the layers of the suspect’s crimes, her pursuit of the truth leads to unthinkable tragedy.
A colleague is dead. Her suspect isn’t talking. And time may be running out for Eden.
Can Lacey find her before one man’s obsession destroys more lives?
ABOUT CHRIS PATCHELL
Chris Patchell is the bestselling author of In the Dark and the Indie Reader Discovery Award winning novel Deadly Lies. Having recently left her long-time career in tech to pursue her passion for writing full-time, Chris pens gritty suspense novels set in the Pacific Northwest, where she lives with her family and two neurotic dogs.
Every time I see an email from Jane Blythe, I get excited. I LOVE her stories and she has never disappointed me. Soooo, without further ado, let’s check out Saving Grayson.
I LOVE IT! Five stars for #5, Saving Grayson, in the Special Forces: Operation Alpha (Saving Seals) series. These hunkalicious men have stolen my heart.
Juliet’s father had blackmailed her into marrying Dimitri Federov, a man she didn’t know, let alone love, so she ran. Dimitri is the son of a Russian crime boss, and there is no way they are going to let her go, but she ran to the right place…the bed of Chaos, Grayson Simpson.
“I should go,” she said…”Don’t fight it, Juliet. Chaos has adopted you now.”
She felt like a stray that had been adopted by a bunch of well meaning, albeit a little scary, men who looked like they possessed the skills to fix this for her.
Jane Blythe has included many nuggets of wisdom for life.
Grayson is the funny one of the Seal Team, loving playing pranks and telling jokes. He finds that Juliet and him have much in common. They both like the simple things in life, fish and chips, walks on the beach, time with friends…I wouldn’t mind a sexy, handsome Seal wanting to protect me from the big bad evil men…and neither does Juliet. All the Seals wives had escaped or been rescued from horrendous situations, so they were tight, opening their hearts, making her feel welcome. They would do anything for each other.
Her father is a piece of work, desperate to hold onto what he created from nothing, and will sacrifice her to keep it. He is worse than the Russians he has gone into business with, because he is her father. He is supposed to love and protect her, and he will do whatever it takes to get her back.
Jane Blythe creates in depth characters, making them leap off the pages, grabbing me and never letting me go.
We are going to crawl into the underbelly of black market diamonds and the dangerous men involved. There are no limits they won’t go to make things right, in their own way, murder, theft, kidnapping, torture, human trafficking. She will learn firsthand the meaning of blood diamonds.
Whoa…I didn’t see that coming, but knowing Jane I shouldn’t have become so complacent. Her stories keep on giving, good and bad, filled with twists and turns.
Juliet had a taste of freedom, love, and friendship. She will do anything to get it back.
Jane Blythe wraps up Saving Grayson in a way that made me feel she could not have done more…BUT…I am wondering…King is the last single man standing on the Seal Team and he is quite the player. How about it JB? He needs a woman too.
WAIT! WTF! JANE…A CLIFFHANGER? I don’t think you have ever left me hanging. OMG! NO! How can I wait? Most of the time, when a book ends in a cliffhanger, I take away a star. I left the fifth star for Jane, because, even though she is making me be on pins and needles…waiting…I know I will get the next book…
I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of Saving Grayson by Jane Blythe.
5 Stars
GOODREADS BLURB
He’s her only hope of escaping the man she’s been sold to.
Juliet York has lived under her father’s thumb her entire life, but when he blackmails her into agreeing to marry a man she doesn’t know, she realizes if she doesn’t run now she’ll spend the rest of her life with an abusive sociopath. The last thing she expects when she seeks shelter from a storm is to meet a man who isn’t put off by her quirks, who makes her smile, and who vows to protect her.
When Grayson “Chaos” Simpson finds a naked woman in his bed he’s intrigued by her, and when he learns she’s in trouble he promises to keep her safe. But Juliet is hesitant to believe that his motives for helping her are pure. Her father has secrets, and his sins are about to be visited upon her. Grayson and his SEAL team are now the only thing standing between her and death.
ABOUT JANE BLYTHE
Jane
has loved reading and writing since she can remember. She writes dark
and disturbing crime/mystery/suspense with some romance thrown in
because, well, who doesn’t love romance? She has one completed series,
Detective Parker Bell, and one new series, Count to Ten.
When she’s not writing Jane loves to
read, bake, go to the beach, ski, horse ride, and watch Disney movies.
She has a black belt in Taekwondo, and a 200+ collection of teddy bears.
She has the world’s two most sweet and pretty Dalmatians, Ivory and
Pearl. Oh, and she also enjoys spending time with family and friends!
WHEW! (swipes hand across sweating forehead) What a cover for Lord King by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff. This ought to be fun. Mimi Jean Pamfiloff writes her stories with wit and creativity. Even though I have missed a book or two in the series, I feel it did not affect my enjoyment of Lord King, but I do recommend beginning at the beginning.
Ansin is evil…and was dead. Now, he’s back…with a hot new body. He is evil, on a par with King. Jeni is a seer, the last of her kind, as is Ansin…so, he demands she marry him and give him children. He thinks they are destined to be together and carry on their bloodlines, even though it is King she wants.
King had lost his love, Mia, and his children. Even though he’s incapable of dying, that doesn’t mean he can’t suffer. The heart wants what the heart wants, no matter how evil. Jeni is there to help him die and go to his family. She wants revenge and he is paying penance, so they each have their own agenda.
“I’m sorry, King.” I reached out, covering his heart with my hand, “but, like it or not, you can’t hide from me. I see you. You see me. We are Connected.”
They are together until his situation is resolved. She is a human lie detector and they could read each other’s thoughts. I’m not sure I would care for that.
It was wonderful watching meek and mild Jeni grow up.
Soooo, two badass alpha males, evil and magical, want her for their own purposes. What to do.
NO! Mimi! I didn’t see that coming. That’s on me. With all the twists and turns, betrayals and double crosses, I shouldn’t have been THAT surprised, but I loved that I was…by the ending. We do have a cliffhanger…sort of. Yes…there are so many questions and I plan on being around to see the ending.
I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of Lord King by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff.
4 Stars
From New York Times Bestseller Mimi Jean Pamfiloff comes a Paranormal Suspense, Lord King.
A curse he cannot break without her… KING Before I became evil, I was king of a great people. Now I am cursed to walk the earth until I pay for my misdeeds. After three thousand years, I have much to answer for.
Then along comes Jeni, further complicating matters. She claims to love me, though I could never reciprocate. Her loathsome people placed me in this predicament, and frankly, I gave my heart to another woman long ago. But I am about to discover that meeting Jeni is no coincidence. Our true connection will shock even me.
A power she didn’t know she had… JENI I am what they call a Seer, an ancient people with unusual gifts, and I’m the last of my kind. Surprise! Because up until recently, I thought I was a regular person. But meeting King changed everything. He opened my eyes to the world around me, filled with more darkness than I could’ve imagined. And King? He’s the darkest of them all. That’s why I can’t wrap my head around my feelings. With every moment we spend together, I’m falling for a man who can never love me back. His heart belongs to his dead wife. That’s when I meet Ansin. The only man on earth who could rival King for darkness and ruthless ambition. Like me, Ansin is the last of his bloodline, which is why he demands I marry him and give him children. Do I get to choose, or has fate already chosen for me?
MIMI JEAN PAMFILOFF is a New York Times bestselling author who’s sold over one million books around the world. Although she obtained her MBA and worked for more than fifteen years in the corporate world, she believes that it’s never too late to come out of the romance closet and follow your dreams.
Mimi lives with her Latin lover hubby, two
pirates-in-training (their boys), and their three spunky dragons
(really, just very tiny dogs with big attitudes) Snowy, Mini, and Mack,
in the vampire-unfriendly state of Arizona.
She hopes to make
you laugh when you need it most and continues to pray daily that
leather pants will make a big comeback for men.
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Hi Everyone. Hope you had a good week and are enjoying the holiday season. We have decorated and you may have seen some photographs and videos on Facebook. Mr Wonderful loves making the videos and I will be sharing some of them next week. This week, I have been finishing the decorating, cleaning the house and the pool, writing reviews that I wanted done before the year ends, and reading. I have been binging on Willow Rose for a couple of weeks now, because I have so many of her books that I picked up for free through her newsletter. I am going to put them aside…soon…and finish up with review books that are still waiting to be read.
Mr Wonderful’s mother is coming down for a few days for Christmas. I am looking forward to a day at the beach and I am going to suck it up and go out for a meal or two while she is here. I have only eaten out once since Covid started and that was to Hooters on the beach. We sat outside and I had wings and a beer. It just so happened it was my birthday and I got the wings for free. We are having great weather, so I think we will be able to find somewhere to eat outside…if not, that will be okay too.
I am getting excited about the College Bowl games. #1 Alabama is playing #4 Cincinnati. I am very curious to see how Cincy will do. I think Bama will win easily, though ya never know. ROLL TIDE #2 Michigan is playing #3 Georgia. I have my fingers crossed for MIchigan, which I feel should have been rated #1 and playing Cincy. I hope the guys can stay focused and not get lost in all the hoopla and the fact that they are in Orlando. GO BLUE
n case we don’t chat before…have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I am looking forward to moving on…
Sleigh Bell Tower: Murder at the Campus Holiday Gala
(Braxton Campus Mysteries)
by James J. Cudney
I appreciated the
heartwarming holiday scenes as the story wound down and with a hint at
what’s next in store for Kellan, I’ll be waiting on pins and needles for
the next release! ~Cinnamon and Sugar, and a lit bit of murder
The final twist had me
jaw-dropping and I love the setup for the next book. I love everything
about Christmas, so I enjoyed all the festive activities, descriptions,
and customs. It was well described and an integral part of the story. I
thoroughly enjoyed all aspects of this story and am already looking
forward to the next book when Kellan heads off to Scotland. ~Carla Loves To Read
All in all, a great new
installment to the series! If you haven’t read this series before, you
CAN read this as a stand-alone, but family and relationship dynamics
would be better if you read from the start of the series, Academic
Curveball. However, you choose to do it, make sure this series is on
your to-be-read list!! ~Valerie’s Musings
I am delighted to join the
blog tour for Sleigh Bell Tower by James J. Cudney today! My thanks to
Lori at Great Escapes Book Tours for the chance to join and the review
copy! The family togetherness during the holiday was lovely, there
were plenty of festive spirits around and I really liked April and
Kellan’s Twelve Days of Christmas present giving plan. Simply superb! ~Brianne’s Book Reviews
About Sleigh Bell Tower
Sleigh Bell Tower: Murder at the Campus Holiday Gala (Braxton Campus Mysteries) Cozy Mystery 8th in Series Setting – Pennsylvania Publisher : Next Chapter (December 20, 2021) Hardcover : 276 pages ISBN-13 : 979-8763163933 Paperback : 276 pages ISBN-13 : 979-8763164046 Digital ASIN : B09JZCSRXB
When Bell Towers decides to build their
newest boutique hotel in Wharton County, Braxton establishes a
hospitality program as part of their university expansion. Despite the
Ingram and Lynch family ties to prominent citizens, a dispute over the
proposed landsite pits citizens against each other.
One takes matters into their own hands
and slays the hotel magnate during the campus holiday party. As the list
of suspects increases, long-lost family members are anxious to keep
their secrets from being revealed, complicating Sheriff Montague’s
ability to determine the murderer’s true motive. Even Kellan is forced
to cast doubt on his friends and colleagues when it becomes obvious
someone he knows committed the ultimate crime.
April and Kellan are also celebrating
their first Christmas and Hanukkah together, exchanging gifts based on
the classic Twelve Days of Christmas song. While they trim the tree,
light the menorah, and experience all the traditional holiday
festivities with the kids, Nana D delivers her sarcastic brand of humor
and endlessly tortures the town. Among Eleanor’s surprise news, Augie’s
new girlfriend, and Myriam’s hilarious demands, Kellan’s dealing with
unexpected holiday drama.
The poor guy simply wants to spend the
merry season with his family before he’s forced to trek to Scotland to
fulfill his promise to the late Constance Garibaldi. What kind of quest
has the psychic sent him on now?
About James J. Cudney
Background
James is my given name, but most folks
call me Jay. I live in New York City, grew up on Long Island, and
graduated from Moravian College, an historic but small liberal arts
school in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, with a degree in English literature
and minors in Education, Business and Spanish. After college, I accepted
a technical writing position for a telecommunications company during
Y2K and spent the last ~20 years building a career in technology &
business operations in the retail, sports, media, hospitality, and
entertainment industries. Throughout those years, I wrote short stories,
poems, and various beginnings to the “Great American Novel,” but I was
so focused on my career that writing became a hobby. In 2016, I
committed to focusing my energies toward reinvigorating a second career
in reading, writing, and publishing.
Author
Writing has been a part of my life as
much as my heart, mind, and body. At some points, it was just a few
poems or short stories; at others, it was full length novels and
stories. My current focus is family drama fiction, cozy mystery novels,
and suspense thrillers. I conjure characters and plots that I feel must
be unwound. I think of situations people find themselves in and feel
compelled to tell the story. It’s usually a convoluted plot with many
surprise twists and turns. I feel it necessary to take that ride all
over the course. My character is easily pictured in my head. I know what
he is going to encounter or what she will feel. But I need to use the
right words to make it clear.
Reader & Reviewer
Reading has also never left my side.
Whether it was children’s books, young adult novels, college textbooks,
biographies, or my ultimate love, fiction, it’s ever present in my day. I
read two books per week and I’m on a quest to update every book I’ve
ever read on Goodreads, write up a review, and post it on all my sites
and platforms.
Blogger & Thinker
I have combined my passions into a single platform where I share reviews, write a blog and publish tons of content: TRUTH.
I started my 365 Daily Challenge, where I post about a word that has
some meaning to me and converse with everyone about life. There is
humor, tears, love, friendship, advice, and bloopers. Lots of bloopers
where I poke fun at myself all the time. Even my dogs have had weekly
segments called “Ryder’s Rants” or “Baxter’s Barks,” where they complain
about me. All these things make up who I am; none of them are very
fancy or magnanimous, but they are real. And that’s why they are me.
Genealogist & Researcher
I love history and research, finding
myself often reaching back into the past to understand why someone made
the choice he or she did and what were the subsequent consequences. I
enjoy studying the activities and culture from hundreds of years ago to
trace the roots and find the puzzle of my own history. I wish I could
watch my ancestors from a secret place to learn how they interacted with
others, and maybe I’ll comprehend why I do things the way I do.
I got the idea and the motivation to start doing Tackling The TBR from All The Book Blog Names Are Taken.
It has helped me to keep track of my reading shelf as far as current
events and I also started doing a post for Books From The Backlog,
from Carole’s Random Life in Books,
to tidy up my shelves. I feel better about my out of control TBR and
have even knocked off a couple of those old ones that had been
hanging around for years.
Harper A. Brooks lives in a small town on the New Jersey shore. Even though classic authors have always filled her bookshelves, she finds her writing muse drawn to the dark, magical, and romantic. But when she isn’t creating entire worlds with sexy shifters or legendary love stories, you can find her either with a good cup of coffee in hand or at home snuggling with her furry, four-legged son, Sammy.
Bestselling Author, Mila Young tackles everything with the zeal and bravado of the fairytale heroes she grew up reading about. She slays monsters, real and imaginary, like there’s no tomorrow. By day she rocks a keyboard as a marketing extraordinaire. At night she battles with her mighty pen-sword, creating fairytale retellings, and sexy ever after tales. In her spare time, she loves pretending she’s a mighty warrior, cuddling up with her cats, and devouring every fantasy tale she can get her pinkies on.
Join Us for This Tour from November 26 to December 17!
Book Details:
Book Title: Blind the Eyes: A Dystopian-Gothic YA Urban FantasybyK.A. Wiggins Category: YA Fiction (Ages 13-17), 300 pages Genre: Urban fantasy, crossover to dystopian, paranormal, contemporary fantasy, gothic and post-apocalyptic. Publisher: K.A. Wiggins (Imprint: Snowmelt & Stumps) Release Date: June, 2018 Tour dates: November 26 to December 17 Content Rating: PG-13 + M. No
on-page sex, low romance, minimal bad language, underage drinking,
significant fantasy violence, scenes containing emotional manipulation,
depression, and (light/brief) physical abuse.
Book Description:
A haunted teen outcast and her snarky ghostly best-frenemy outwit enforcers, monsters, and the scars of the past in a race to take expose a deadly conspiracy and escape a bloody end. A lush, award-winning debut to a captivatingly eerie YA Urban Fantasy trilogy. Discover a labyrinthine, post-climate-collapse dystopian Vancouver overrun by monsters and magic in this intricate and startlingly original journey of discovery, restoration, and revenge.
It’s hard not to be a little obsessed with survival when your only “friend” is an unruly ghost and the wrong thought could get your soul devoured by eldritch horrors. Haunted 17-year-old outcast Cole wants nothing more than to hide her forbidden fascination with the monster-taken and blend in with the (dreary) scenery. Her plans for a peaceful life take a turn for the deadly when a mesmerizing stranger and his dangerously tempting offer drive her into the middle of a grisly
conspiracy.
But Cole hasn’t yet uncovered the biggest secret of all, and it might just have something to do with the mysterious threads tugging her into horrifying visions—not to mention the shimmering boy at their dark heart. Uncovering the truth will cost her dearly as she fends off scheming enforcers, dreamjacking ghosts & soul-sucking nightmares in a desperate quest for survival and retribution. Can she escape the scars of her past and expose the lies before she’s the next to die?
Blind the Eyes is the first book in a lush and labyrinthine trilogy of paranormal-meets-gothic-dystopian YA Urban Fantasy filled with glittering underworlds, delicious-and-deceptive strangers, and facing down the voices in your head. This slow-burn fantasy with an edge leads readers on a captivatingly unexpected journey of self-discovery, reclaimed identity, and conflicted sisterhood for those who like a little sparkle with their monsters (it glistens so nicely on all the blood.) Fans of post-climate-collapse dystopias, monsters-and-magic, and genre-bending dark fantasy will love this award-winning series starter in a complete and 100% binge-ready trilogy.
K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) writes award-winning speculative fiction for young people and adults that explores the tangled webs of society, environment, and identity through intricate, dreamlike tales of monsters and magic.
Her debut novel was a Page Turner Awards 2020 Book Spotlight Prize winner and a Barnes & Noble Press “20 Favorite Indie Books of 2018,” kicking off a celebrated and recently completed YA Urban Fantasy trilogy set in a gothic-dystopian post-climate-collapse Vancouver. Her short fiction has appeared in small press anthologies, genre magazines, and in translation for international audiences.
She’s also the President of the Children’s Writers and Illustrators of British Columbia society, co-founder of marketing and business services consultancy The Creative Collective, and a creative writing coach with the Creative Writing for Children society, and was recognized in the 2021 Arty Awards, taking first place in Literary Arts category.
From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Little Deadly Secrets
comes a highly anticipated novel that weaves an ancient family mystery
and tense drama into a page-turning psychological thriller. Perfect for
fans of Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere, Laura Dave’s The Last Thing He Told Me, Lisa Jewell, and Ruth Ware.
I love the contrast from black and white to purple on the cover for A Slow Ruin by Pamela Crane. This is not my first book by this author and she has never failed to give me hours of reading pleasure. That being said…let’s see what she has in store for us with A Slow Ruin.
I love when a story begins with an assault to my senses and A Slow Ruin by Pamela Crane does just that. Pamela does a great job of grabbing my attention and keeping me flipping pages, having to know what happens next.
A missing woman in 1910. 111 years later, a missing teen. What could they have in common?
Once we get going, I found myself being taken through each characters point of view. It has its good and bad points when done this way. I do like knowing what each character is going through, but it feels a bit choppy. Having read some of her work, I feel confident she’ll bring everything together as all their secrets are revealed. Secrets that haunt them. Secrets that dictate their feelings and actions every day.
No matter what, don’t become complacent. There is more going on than meets the eye.
If you are looking for dysfunctional, damaged characters, secrets, lies and betrayal, mystery and danger, life and death, all while clinging onto the edge of a roller coaster, jerked willy nilly, then A Slow Ruin by Pamela Crane is for you.
I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of A Slow Ruin by Pamela Crane.
4 Stars
GOODREADS BLURB
April 1910. Women’s rights activist Alvera Fields mysteriously vanishes from her home one night, leaving her newborn baby and husband behind, the case never solved.
April 2021. On the anniversary of her great-great-grandmother’s disappearance, Alvera’s namesake Vera Portman vanishes in an eerily similar manner.
Six months later, the police recover a girl’s body. While the family waits in the horror of finding out if it’s Vera, Felicity Portman clings to hope that her missing teenage daughter is still alive. Despite all odds, Felicity senses a link between the decades-apart cases—a mother feels such things in her bones. But all suspicion points to the last person who saw Vera alive: Felicity’s sister-in-law, Marin.
Marin, with her troubled past. Marin, the poor woman who married into the rich family. Marin, the only one who knows Felicity’s darkest secret.
As Felicity makes a shocking discovery in Vera’s journal, she questions who her daughter really is. The deeper she digs, the more she’s ensnared in the same mysteries that claimed their ancestor in a terribly slow ruin.
ABOUT PAMELA CRANE
PAMELA CRANE is a USA TODAY best-selling author and professional
juggler. Not one who can toss flaming torches in the air, but a juggler
of four kids, a writing addiction, and a horse rescuer. She lives on
the edge (her Arabian horse can tell you about their wild adventures
while trying to train him) and she writes on the edge…where her sanity
resides. Her thrillers unravel flawed women who aren’t always pretty.
In fact, her characters are rarely pretty, which makes them
interesting…and perfect for doing crazy things worth writing about.
When she’s not cleaning horse stalls or changing diapers, she’s
psychoanalyzing others.
