Elizabeth Marshall has spent years pretending to be something she wasn't. Years cowering from an abusive husband until the straw came that helped her find her backbone - end ended with Elizabeth as a widow. Now, someone is after her. Is it her devastated in-laws that...
2012
Review: The Orphan King
Goodreads Synopsis The last words of a dying woman would change the life of young Thomas. Raised behind monastery walls, he knows nothing of his mysterious past or imminent destiny. But now, in the heart of medieval England, a darkness threatens to strangle truth. An...
Review: Are You Sleeping Little One?
Hott Synopsis How do other children sleep? The hedgehog children? The bat children? The bee children? The crab children? The children snuggling with you as you read? Hott Review One of my kids favorite books when they were preschoolers was Going to Sleep on the Farm....
Review: Love in Disguise
Hott Synopsis Ellie Moore is in desperate need of a job - so desperate, in fact, that she's imagining how long she can withstand hunger before she takes on a demeaning profession - when she overhears Pinkerton agents discussing a job that they have no operatives to...
Review: Ruined by Rumor
Hott Synopsis It's been almost six years since Roxana accepted George's proposal, against her parent's best judgement. Now, at the ball of the year and mere days after announcing their engagement the cur decides this isn't what he wanted. Devastated, Roxana runs to...
Review: Goodbye to All That
Hott Synopsis What would make a woman walk out on her husband after forty-two years? Doug, Jill, and Melissa just can't fathom what could have caused this shift. Their parents are separating -- well, really their mom just walked out. She'd rather be a clerk at the...
Review: Betty’s Little Basement Garden
Hott Synopsis What do you do when you realize that two-thirds of your life is over and you don't even know who you are? For Betty this is a shocker. It never occurred to her that she has always done what was expected instead of what she was meant to do. But as she sat...
Review: The Mapmaker and the Ghost
Goodreads Synopsis Goldenrod Moram loves nothing better than a good quest. Intrepid, curious, and full of a well-honed sense of adventure, she decides to start her own exploring team fashioned after her idols, the explorers Lewis and Clark, and to map the forest right...
Review: My Name is Jake
Hott Synopsis What does Jake like? Jake likes all the things that young children like - including rhyming verse. How many things does your child know that rhymes with Jake? Hott Review What I liked: This book is perfect for my under five nieces and nephews. It's...