I loved reading Janet Dailey growing up. I remember her Americana series, where every state had a story. Obviously, I picked these up during a reprint, because I certainly wasn’t reading romance, or even reading for that matter, at the time they were published. I probably would be disappointed rereading that series now, as an adult. There’s a bit of nostalgia for me that probably wouldn’t survive a second reading, but when I saw Letters from Peaceful Lane, it was enough to make me want to pick it up.

I think you either love Janet Dailey’s writing or hate it so I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from Letters. Reading letters from your husband’s previous wife? A wife that died, and seems to be without reproach from both husband and step-daughter? Eeep. Why would anyone do that? There’s no denying that Allison is head over heels in love with her husband Burke, but when a car accident and money troubles leave the future uncertain, there’s so much more at hand. Allison begins as a spoiled socialite, the exact opposite of Burke’s previous wife. Constantly compared to Kate by not only Burke’s friends but also Burke’s extremely spoiled daughter, Brianna, Allison soon finds that being the trophy wife isn’t all it’s cut out to be.

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I’ve never read anything by Loreth Anne White, which is crazy, right? I think I never had because I don’t think I like thrillers and/or suspense. I may have had my mind changed. This book starts off with a bang and doesn’t stop!

Eight guests have been promised a trip out to a luxurious wilderness spa resort retreat. It’s situated picture perfect on a beautiful lake, with miles of peace and quiet all around. The ill fated guests find out very quickly that what they were promised and what they received are two very different things. As they band together for survival, they start realizing that they all have something in common. There are dark secrets here and secrets don’t stay buried for long. As the lies start being discovered, an even darker past is revealed. Someone is out to get them and is killing them one by one. Is it an outsider that set all this up or is it one of their own?

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Inheritance is book number four in the Deadly Curiosities world. If you remember, I reviewed a book from another of her series, Spells, Salt, & Steel, earlier this year. What I'm finding I love about her books is that it's so easy to get lost in the world that she builds. The best urban fantasies are the ones that layer the fantastical right on top of the reasonable and that what Gail Z. Martin does time and time again!

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Task is a 400-year-old Windcut Stone Golem, created with no other thought than to be an instrument of war. He is shackled by the magic that produced him to obey his master and their commands, whoever or whatever they may be. Passed from master to master, he is bound to obey, but what sets him apart is his own mind. He has thoughts, emotions and a conscious but in spite of those things, he obeys. Sent to serve yet another master in another war while being self-aware is yet another kind of prison.

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