The Spielman's buy a home- a mansion rumored to be haunted. They want to escape their past and try to start anew elsewhere. Will this house let them do just that or will it destroy them?
Myron, the father thinks it's a steal for the asking price. Margot, the mother quickly becomes terrified as strange things keep happening (a shadowy figure moving about the house, a certain light always left on, eerie writings on the wall, etc.). Hunter, the son lost without his friends he left behind, hates the house.
This family has dark secrets of their own. The house slowly unravels the secrets and the family's sanity.
We get glimpses of the horrors the house has seen through other families that have lived there throughout. There is a lot of sad history this house has seen. I felt like the house was an actual character.
The writing is very well done and kept me in suspense. Perfect thriller read!

Thanks to smpromance for the fre advanced copy #partner
I like this book pretty well. Benedict is a Bow Street runner. He meets Georgianna Caversteed in Newgate prison of all places. He, there to uncover information about a plot to help Napoleon escape and she, there to marry a criminal. She needs to marry someone that will soon make her a widow to get out of marrying her cousin or anyone else that just wants her fortune.
Benedict didn't know what he was getting into!
It's a very easy and quick read... It just flies by. Can't wait to see the next installment!

I'm giving this a 3.5
This book (and the song) is based on something in African slave trading that I knew nothing about. It was common practice when slavers were traveling the ocean to throw overboard women who were pregnant.
Now what if these women were able to give birth to a new species? Ones that could breath underwater?
Yetu is called a Historian. She holds all the memories of her people. This is so all others can forget the past horrors and only falls on one.... The Historian. Once a year, the Historian shares the memories with her people. This gets to Yetu and as her people are remembering, she flees. She goes to the surface and discovers a bit of where her people came from. But will the guilt be too much for Yetu.... For abandoning her people?
This is an easy and quick read.
Check out this book and the song of the same name by the group clipping.

This was a cute fun story.
Nick wasn't ever really a jerk, he just had different thoughts as to what would make him happy. I did want to smack him sometimes for how stubnorn he could be in regards to letting go of work.
Abbey is such a great mother to Max! I loved her family. I love how determined she was to prove that she could be an interior decorator .
Feel good story for the Christmas season

3.75
Secrets and lies abound in this novel.
All Kat wants is to be a mother and to make her husband Nick a father, but Kat can't have children and has 2 potential adoptions not work out.
A chance meeting with her childhood best friend Lisa could be her answer. Lisa offers up her services to be a surrogate. Can she trust Lisa again after 10 years not been in each other's lives?
The past quickly starts to catch up to all 3 main characters. These secrets hold deadly consequences. Very twisted ending

Ana was a bit too far fetched and crazy for my liking. she had these weird quirks about her, but I never connected to her at all.

I loved this book every bit as the first one! There was a part in the middle where I thought it might be headed a different direction, but I'm so glad I soon figured out part of what was really going on.

A book club where men read romance novels to improve their relationships? Count me in!
I fell immediately in love with the premise of this book. Thea and Gavin have some other major issues to work through besides the one that starts it all towards the divorce Thea wants.
This book will make you laugh (mostly because of the friends Gavin has) and feel so sad at times. I felt so proud when Thea and Gavin started to open up to each other because I believe honesty is such an important part of making marriage work!

A murder, of beloved school teacher Daisy, occurs in Burning Lake. Detective Natalie is tasked with the case. She has ties to Daisy as she is one of her sister Grace's friends. The case doesn't start out great as the first suspect falls into a coma.
There is more to the story. There is a dark history in Burning Lake. There were 3 hanged woman suspected of witchcraft. Young girls form covens and perform Wiccan rituals. No one is untouched by the consequences of such things.
Alice has a way of writing so well that I'm immediately drawn into the story and it doesn't let me go.
I can't believe the ending.... The killer is someone I NEVER expected. That's the sign of a good mystery for me. I hope she writes more of Detective Natalie in the future .