Post WWI sees in the Jazz Age and Flappers, a generation of brittle survivors who will never see the world the same way again. Former spy, Verity, and her army veteran husband, Sydney, know this as much as anyone. Not all war casualties were left on the field. As they strive to pick up the […]
After reading the first book in the series, Death in Focus, I was well aware just how gripping this one could get since Elena is now participating in British espionage work in the pre-dawn of WWII when the Nazi government is growing in power in Germany, Fascism is rife in Italy and the world is […]
It’s the final leg of the Interdependency trilogy and things have been on a dire note since the beginning- end of humankind sort of deal. It’s for all the marbles now and I love when a book or series of books, in this case, reaches that point. I was in high anticipation to find out […]
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 […]