Bride for a Day by Carolyn Brown: Cassie O’Malley is running away. She had to pawn her grandmother’s wedding rings to have enough money for a bus ticket. Cassie’s life fell apart when her deceased mother’s friend Deana, who had agreed to be her guardian, also dies. Deana’s husband has devious […]
Four Aunties and a Wedding by Jesse Q. Sutanto: As Meddy’s big day approaches, she knows she is in for something of a wild ride given it opens with her Ma and Aunties choosing eggplant purple bridal dresses fully decked out with Komodo dragon hats, each fascinator somehow a symbol of […]
One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle: Katy fundamentally believes that her mother Carol was the love of her life, and thus following her death, she experiences the type of all-consuming numbness that invariably challenges her handle on her world, questioning everything from her career, to her marriage with first love Eric. […]
The Bluebonnet Battle by Carolyn Brown: There’s lovin’ and fightin’ in this heartwarming story of a family feud and a couple caught in the middle of it!
In One Night on the Island by Josie Silver, As a writer of a London magazine dating column, Cleo Ward has been thrown into some outrageous experiences. But she’s never had her room–or in this case, her cozy lodge–double-booked. Arriving on Salvation Island off the coast of Ireland was supposed […]
The Secret Love Letters of Olivia Moretti by Jennifer Probst finds three estranged sisters traveling to Italy after their mother’s death to uncover her secret romance, which they discovered upon finding letters the mystery man, who goes by R, had sent her. The journey is not only to uncover the mystery […]
Deconstructed by Liz Talley: When Cricket overhears two women talking about her husband with another woman, she doesn’t necessarily believe it. When it’s confirmed via text messages, she sets out on a mission to catch him in the act. One of her employees, Ruby, offers to help her find answers. The […]
Bad Luck Bridesmaid by Alison Rose Greenberg: Will you be my bridesmaid, is normally one of those happy moments between friends but for Zoey Marks this could not be further from the truth. After being in three failed wedding parties Zoey is left to question is she really a bad luck […]
A Reason for Hope by Kristin Von Kreisler: I’ll start my review by saying this book should have a trigger warning. It deals with date rape, and while the act itself isn’t depicted, the events leading up to it and immediately following it, including the physical exam and dealing with the […]
Tackling the broader issue of missing persons and people who disappear, The Ones We Keep by Bobbie Jean Huff will challenge any reader whilst simultaneously posing some rhetorical questions about the nature of love and forgiveness.