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REVIEW:  Unexpected Family by Molly O’Keefe

REVIEW: Unexpected Family by Molly O’Keefe

Dear Ms. O’Keefe: Grief stories have to be one of the more difficult stories to write. After all, grief stories can often rely on low hanging fruit using a death as the easy emotion evoker making the story seem manipulative instead of touching. However, there isn’t anything easy about the lives of Lucy Alatore or(…)

REVIEW: Primal Calling by Jillian Burns

REVIEW: Primal Calling by Jillian Burns

Dear Ms. Burns: This is my first encounter with your writing and it was a good one. In fact, this is a book I could have seen myself re-visiting if the heroine hadn’t annoyed me so much in the first half. Max, though, was one of the sweetest heroes I recall reading about in a(…)

REVIEW:  Housekeeper’s Happy Ever After by Fiona Harper

REVIEW: Housekeeper’s Happy Ever After by Fiona Harper

Dear Ms. Harper: I am a sucker for survivor stories. I think it is because one never knows how one will act in really terrible situations but you hope you will be one of those that will bravely pick themselves up and move on.   Or maybe one knows that you will be a wallower but(…)

REVIEW: Deeper by Megan Hart

Dear Ms. Hart, Bess Walsh needs time away from her unhappy marriage. She finds it at the beach house she inherited from her parents. There, in the water, Bess fantasizes about Nick, the boy she loved and lost twenty years before. She touches herself and soon she feels Nick touching her. The lovemaking is intense,(…)