When orphan children and their nurse disappear from the London Foundling Hospital, Kat joins Daniel and a surprising ally to work against the clock before they disappear for good. The downstairs, working class situation of the amateur detective heroine in this series grabbed my focus from the start and I love seeing her as a […]
After Captain Frederick Wentworth wrote that astoundingly romantic letter and saw eight years of desolate separation ended with Anne at his side, did they sail off into the wide, blue sea happily ever after? Persuaded to Sail picks up where Jane Austen’s Persuasion left off and tells a sequel of quiet romance strengthened through adversity […]
As this was an Olympic year, I was eager to pick up a historical fiction centered around the Summer Olympics. I knew nothing about any of the women whose stories were told which I thought made Fast Girls a real gem of a find. The book starts out in 1928, when women’s track and field […]
It has been ages since I looked at the rules of grammar. As a result, I know for a fact my punctuation is atrocious at times. I spotted this easy-read, whimsically-toned book on grammar punctuation and decided it was high time I review the punctuation rules without feeling brow-beaten. Actually, the Comma Goes Here hit […]
Just when she thought getting into a car accident in her beloved VW Rabbit on Black Friday is the worst, Mercy learns that in the absence of she and Jessie that the majority of the werewolf pack is taken hostage with only a silver-sick Ben who barely escaped left to tell the tale. Of […]
The inferno started in The Collapsing Empire continues to build in The Consuming Fire. An emperox and her trusted few must find a way to save as many as possible in this second of tightly connected stories in the Interdependency trilogy. The background, characters, and world-building were introduced in the first book so The Consuming […]
When I spotted the title, I pictured a much different story- one that had a modern group of eclectic people sipping their wine or tea, discussing Austen’s works and eventually their personal lives. But, then I noticed the blurb and a spark of excitement leaped in me because this wasn’t ‘a’ Jane Austen society (or […]
We arrive at the final book of prequel mysteries in the Charles Lenox Mystery series. This trilogy goes back to the beginning and shows how Charles Lenox came to become a private detective, establishes his place, and his first meetings with several figures that play a strong role in his later years. I have found […]
Fasting is something I have done for medical tests, for meditation times, and for periodic cleanses, but I’ve never thought of it as something that could be done often because all those other fasts really took a great deal of effort and energy out of me. Fasting was a dirty word in my vocabulary after […]
A tender heart and a crusader for justice spirit lands young lawyer, Daniel Pitt, in a maelstrom of fire when one arson murder becomes two and an expert witness gets debunked in a spectacular way placing Daniel, and even his family and friends, in danger. It built slowly, but when it got there the tension […]