Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred.
Tag: recommended reading
Double Take (Lake City Heroes, #1)
Together, Lainie and James must work together to find out who, exactly, is after her and why he wants her dead. And failure is not an option.
Swarm #BookReview
“the creatures begin to fulfill their ultimate purpose: multiplying via parasitic load, and before long, the butterflies aren’t the only thing trying to get in. To protect her family and survive the invasions, Shur must find the strength to protect their sanctuary at any cost.”
Mary #BookReview
“visions of terrifying, mutilated specters overwhelm her with increasing regularity and she begins auto-writing strange thoughts and phrases. Mary discovers that these experiences are echoes of an infamous serial killer.”
The Girl Who Could Breathe Underwater #BookReview
When Kendra Brennan moves into her grandfather’s old cabin on Hidden Lake, she has a problem and a plan. The problem? An inflammatory letter from A Very Disappointed Reader that’s keeping her from writing her next novel as long as its claims go unanswered.
The Last Word by Taylor Adams #BookReview
Taylor Adams | pub: April 2023 | 340 pp Welcome to someone fictionalizing the habit of responding to negative reviews! … More
The Perfect Marriage #BookReview
Adam is arrested for Kelly’s murder. She had been found stabbed to death in Adam and Sarah’s second home.
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery. #BookReview
Slewfoot, a powerful spirit of antiquity newly woken … and trying to find his own role in the world. Healer or destroyer? Protector or predator? But as the shadows walk and villagers start dying, a new rumor is whispered: Witch.
The Stranger Upstairs #BookReview
“.. Sarah knows there’s only so long she can continue to sleep in the bedroom with the bloodstained floor and suffer the mysterious footsteps she hears from the attic.”
The Vegetarian #BookReview
In a country where societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong-hye’s decision to embrace a more “plant-like” existence is a shocking act of subversion. And as her passive rebellion manifests in ever more extreme and frightening forms, scandal, abuse, and estrangement begin to send Yeong-hye spiraling deep into the spaces of her fantasy.
Dracul #BookReview
Armed only with crucifixes, holy water, and a rifle, he prays to survive a single night, the longest of his life. Desperate to record what he has witnessed, Bram scribbles down the events that led him here..
My Husband #BookReview
her behavior is so unhealthy, you know it’s going to lead to something – is she going to kill him? Does he know his wife is crazy? Will the children get hurt while she is obsessing over her husband? Get to it all ready!
Beauty #BookReview
he gets her under his knife and her career takes off. Later though, her face starts to breakdown…and it’s real bad.
The Test #BookReview
this book tells the story of the value and impact of what gaining citizenship can mean to an immigrant family, how much natives take those privileges for granted.
The Push #BookReview
psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family–and a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for–and everything she feared.
How Can I Help You #BookReview
Taut and compelling, How Can I Help You explores the dark side of human nature and the dangerous pull of artistic obsession.
A Twisted Love Story #BookReview
There’s something Wes and Ivy never talk about–in good times or bad. The night of their worst breakup, when one of them took things too far, and someone ended up dead.
Maybe In Another Life #BookReview
Just after midnight, Gabby asks Hannah if she’s ready to go. A moment later, Ethan offers to give her a ride later if she wants to stay. Hannah hesitates. What happens if she leaves with Gabby? What happens if she leaves with Ethan?
In concurrent storylines, Hannah lives out the effects of each decision. Quickly, these parallel universes develop into radically different stories with large-scale consequences for Hannah, as well as the people around her
Upgrade #BookReview
the truth is that with each day that passes, Logan’s getting smarter. Seeing things more clearly. He’s realizing that he’s been upgraded in ways that go beyond even Scythe’s capabilities – and that he’s been given these abilities for a reason.
Because a holy grail of genetic engineering – one that could change our very definitions of humanity – has just been unearthed. And now it’s up to him to stop it from falling into the wrong hands.
Our Wives Under The Sea #BookReview
When Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ended in catastrophe. It soon becomes clear, that Leah is not the same. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded on the ocean floor, Leah has brought part of it back with her, onto dry land and into their home.
Seven Days In June #BookReview
When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their past buried traumas, but the eyebrows of New York’s Black literati. What no one knows is that twenty years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid week madly in love. They may be pretending that everything is fine now, but they can’t deny their chemistry
Maeve Fly #BookReview
Maeve ditches her discontented act and tries on a new persona. A bolder, bloodier one, inspired by the pages of American Psycho. Step aside Patrick Bateman, it’s Maeve’s turn with the knife.
Lapvona #BookReview
when fate brings Marek into violent proximity to the lord’s family, new and occult forces upset the old order. By year’s end, the veil between blindness and sight, life and death, the natural world and the spirit world, civility and savagery, will prove to be very thin indeed.
The Priest Graveyard #BookReview
Renee is a former drug addict and sex worker, proud of her new life with Lamont and willing to do anything to keep it, regardless of how weird it may get. And it gets weird.
Dear Wife #BookReview
Where is Sabine? And who is Beth? The only thing that’s certain is that someone is lying and the truth won’t stay buried for long.
Stone Cold Fox #BookReview
Bea is a beautiful young woman, who’s led a life of conning men with her mother. She’s left her mothers nest to catch the final big fish – a rich husband.
Yellowface #BookReview
June can’t get away from Athena’s shadow, and emerging evidence threatens to bring June’s (stolen) success down around her. As June races to protect her secret, she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.
Yolk #BookReview
Suddenly, these estranged sisters who have nothing in common are living together. Because sisterly obligations are kind of important when one of you is dying.
Always Practice Safe Hex, Stay a Spell series #4 #BookReview
Grim reaper Gareth Blackwater is rarely, if ever, moved beyond his broody, stoic state. But the witch he’s partnered with in the public relations contest is destroying his peace of mind. He’s convinced that the flesh-melting attraction he feels for her is merely her witchy magic at work.
A House With Good Bones #BookReview
Her mom jumps at the smallest noises and looks over her shoulder even when she’s the only person in the room. And when Sam steps out back to clear her head, she finds a jar of teeth hidden beneath the magazine-worthy rose bushes, and vultures are circling the garden from above.
Notes on an Execution #BookReview
Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. He knows what he’s done, and now awaits execution, the same chilling fate he forced on those girls, years ago. But Ansel doesn’t want to die; he wants to be celebrated, understood. He hoped it wouldn’t end like this, not for him.
All The Sinners Bleed #BookReview
a year to the day after Titus’ election, a school shooting rocks the town. A beloved teacher is killed by a former student, and as Titus attempts to deescalate and get the boy to surrender, his deputies fire a fatal shot.
The Third Wife #BookReview
In the early hours of a summer morning, a young woman steps into the path of an oncoming bus. A tragic accident? Or suicide?
Wonderland #BookReview
As the clues in those seemingly disparate crimes lead her down a mysterious shared path of missing persons that goes back decades, she suspects the seedy rumors surrounding the amusement park’s dark history might just be true.
It Ends With Us #BookReview
This story is mostly following the love story of abusive Ryle and Lily and us learning about the past love story of Atlas.
Behind Her Lives #BookReviews
Things aren’t adding up – the body that looks like her sister but isn’t, the loads of cash in her sisters house, people that have been scammed by her sister are coming out of the woodwork…Deven starts to investigate.
Vladimir #BookReview
Turns out her husband is a bit more popular; we meet her as some 30 girls come forward accusing him of sexual harassment. Yikes. Not to worry, the couple apparently has an ‘agreement’
Yours Truly #BookReviews
this was definitely grown and sexy with some very modern touches. I love Dr Maddox the renaissance man thats patient, kind, confident, creates trusts, and security, can write a love letter and throw you against the wall for great sex. 😜 I mean, where do we sign up?
Haven’t we read this plot a few times before? 🤷🏾♀️
The Island #BookReviews
Our super agent has just been benched after being involved in a particularly bloody terrorist attack abroad. The head of the CIA suspects, Dewey himself was the target but, cannot be sure. Terrorists chatter leads to them to believe something greater is at risk,
Bliss Montage #BookReview
From a woman who lives in a house with all of her ex-boyfriends, to a toxic friendship built around a drug that makes you invisible, to an ancient ritual that might heal you of anything if you bury yourself alive, these and other scenarios reveal that the outlandish and the everyday are shockingly, deceptively, heartbreakingly similar.
For Your Own Good #BookReview
Teddy really can’t be bothered with the death of a school parent that’s looking more and more like murder or the student digging a little too deep into Teddy’s personal life. His main focus is on pushing these kids to their full academic potential.
All he wants is for his colleagues—and the endlessly meddlesome parents—to stay out of his way.
True Crime Story #BookReview
Zoe Nolan, a nineteen-year-old Manchester University student, walked out of a party taking place in the shared accommodation where she had been living for three months.
She was never seen again.
Didn’t Nobody Give A Shit What Happened To Carlotta #BookReview
In this “razor-sharp” and “dangerously hilarious” novel that “hooks readers from the beginning” (Los Angeles Times), a trans woman reenters life on the outside after more than twenty years in a men’s prison, over one consequential Fourth of July weekend
My Darkest Prayer #BookReview
What starts out as an easy payday soon descends into a maze of mayhem filled with wannabe gangsters, vicious crime lords, porn stars, crooked police officers, and a particularly treacherous preacher and his mysterious wife. Nathan must use all his varied skills and some of his wit to navigate the murky waters of small town corruption even as dark secrets of his own threaten to come to the surface.
The Wife He Needs: Westmorland Legacy: The Outlaws, Book 1 #BookReview
The arrangement is simple: two weeks in Spain then a marriage of convenience. Until Garth Outlaw’s potential bride doesn’t show and pilot Regan Fairchild ends up sharing his bed. But Garth has vowed never to love again.
Recitatif #BookReview
Inseparable at the time, they lose touch as they grow older, only to find each other later at a diner, then at a grocery store, and again at a protest. Seemingly at opposite ends of every problem, and in disagreement each time they meet, the two women still cannot deny the deep bond their shared…