Mary Beckwith lives in a magnificent English castle during the twilight years of the gilded age. With the help of an American millionaire, she has succeeded in renovating her beloved Whitefriars castle into a splendid estate just in time for Christmas. From across the ocean, millionaire Everett Wooten has spent ... more >
Content Note: anxiety, panic attacks, neglectful parents, discussion of non-fatal cancer Dear Opal Wei, I’d heard good things about Wild Life and Olivia Dade blurbed it which is a meaningful recommendation to me in itself, but knowing you are also Ruby Lang* made me even more inclined to dive in. ... more >
Content notes: autism, anxiety, family conflict, gaslighting, emotional abuse Dear Chloe Liese, I have a confession to make. I haven’t read Much Ado About Nothing. I haven’t seen the movie either. Yes, I am a Philistine. Two Wrongs Make a Right is an homage to Much Ado so it’s probably ... more >
She wasn’t looking for love, but it found her. Zaynab flees a dysfunctional marriage, saving herself from an emotional breakdown. After two years of therapy overseas, she returns to reconnect with the son she left behind. She is not interested in remarrying, but then a sexy firefighter pulls her from ... more >
Dear Tashie Bhuiyan, I picked up your romantic contemporary YA novel, Counting Down with You, after it was nominated for the Goodreads Awards in the Young Adult Fiction category. It didn’t win but I am glad it was nominated because I wouldn’t have found it otherwise. Karina Ahmed is a ... more >
Janine: The Larks Still Bravely Singing begins when Robert Montagu and David Callahan reunite after being invalided from the battlefields of World War I. Robert and David both attended the Abbey, an English boys’ boarding school. As members of the same natural history club, they rambled along the countryside and ... more >