The Last Post by Renee Carlino

I have thoroughly loved and enjoyed every Renee Carlino novels I have read and The last Post rates highly in my book. It is a very touching story that you will certainly enjoy and love. It is captivating and engaging.

Cowboy Up by Michelle Beatty

This is an excellent offering by Michelle Beatty. Two people with tough pasts meet at a home being built for her by Houses of Hope. His preconceived notions, tempered by his past, almost destroy what could be several times. She’s a diligent struggling working single mom raising her teenage daughter alone. Expect lots of misunderstandings that lead to a finality of trust.

All Roads Lead to You by Jennifer Probst

This is the cutest story about how a spirited, emotionally healing racehorse quality horse brings together two hurt people. Both Aidan and Harper know there is a time limit to their relationship and are wary to cross lines until they can tolerate it no longer. Aiden may one day return to his Irish home leaving Harper to recover from what could be the greatest love of her life.

Labyrinth by Catherine Coulter

Two stories, both serious on their own work together to form a labyrinth of deceit, lies and dead ends in searching for the truth and resolution.

One story is of struck by the kidnapping of a teen girl with no leads but the coincidence of two other missing teen girls from neighboring towns. Enter a psychic woman with the power to affect minds. In the other story, a master plan to infiltrate and spy on the Federal Reserve meeting in order to benefit financially from the outcome. Through it all, Lacey Sherlock has amnesia caused by a car wreck involving another victim of the spying ring.

Tense moments abound with you wondering what is going to happen next and to whom.

Love at First Like by Hannah Orenstein

Great book for lovers of social media! It is an interesting take on how you can promote yourself and your business and get caught up in a messy situation to boot-especially when it seems like there is no solution!

The Oysterville Sewing Circle by Susan Wiggs

This novel is a compassionate and telling one about lost love, lost career, and new beginnings woven into a tapestry that includes the ravages on women of spousal abuse. It is uplifting many times, hard at others. Truly a heartfelt novel that is not to be missed.

The Book Charmer by Karen Hawkins

This is such an engaging book drawing upon the difficulties that life can present to create a picture of how one can not only survive but create a better life. A sort of magic weaves its way into the relationship between Grace and Sarah. On is determined to leave her new home within a year; the other is determined to find a way that Grace will stay forever.

The Russian's Pleasure Proposition by Joanne Walsh

Beware of hot scenes and a sexy male lead in this novel! Sergei is known as the Russian Rake: love ‘em and leave ‘em satisfied. Then he meets Hannah and everything starts to change. His resolve after a surprising break up to leave women until he figures out his lack of commitment flies out the window. Sergei has to find the right pathway to Hannah minus all his animal magnetism. Hannah has her own issues that keep her away from romance or love. Sergei has a lot of work to do.

Five Wakes and a Wedding by Karen Ross

I wasn’t caught by the book at first. The more I read, the more I got into the life happenings of Nina, undertaker with a new business. Her friends, Gloria and Edo, are true blue. They keep her

moving forward in her pursuit of business. There are several surprises that add to the flavor of the book.

I loved it overall.

Lone Star Defender by Jennie Jones

First off, I have to say that I have loved the entire Calamity Valley series. Each story was so clever with some complex guessing going on and each had its own tangled knots to unravel.

Lone Star Defender was terrific! I love second chance romances with lots of “what if’s” and “maybe’s” in them. Plus, Jack and Pepper play so well against each other.

It is a great book and a great series!

Meant to Be by Nan Reinhardt

Meant to Be is the perfect title for this novel in the Four Irish Brothers Winery series. It is all about Sean and Megan-friends since grade schools that discover (uncomfortably) that they have deeper than friend feelings for each other. But, there is the worry of ruining a great and wonderful friendship that puts a hold on each for their dreams of being together.

True Gold by Michelle Pace

True Gold is a thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat! There are culprits, thieves, mysteries, and a second chance at love.

Searching for her lost Alaskan bush pilot mother, Delilah is reunited with pilot Connor after years of remorse, anger and difficult feelings to say the least. There is more to the disappearance than a plane crash…so much more!

Crashing the A List by Summer Heacock

Cleaning out abandoned storage sheds to earn some much needed money, Clara lands on a goldmine that could change her monetary situation. But, it ends up changing her life in this topsy-turvy novel. There are some really funny sections that will make you roll your eyes in humor.

Flash Point by Shellie Stevens

This is such a clever story mixing crazy romance, a culprit, crimes and blooming love. Such a delightful read!

What Happens in the Ruins by Kelsey McKnight

Friends to lovers to separated by her fears, Danny and Sorcha are truly meant to be together in this lovely story set in the Highlands of Scotland.

It is really Sorcha’s story of regaining a whole self after years of mourning the death of her twin, Johnny, She has compartmentalized her grief and shut herself off until her dear friend, Danny, shows her how love and life still exist for her.

Surfside Sisters by Nancy Thayer

Keely and Isabelle always thought they would be best friends for the long haul, through thick and thin. Jealousy and envy divide them, each having accomplishments the other wants. They are drawn further apart by life and its unfair or petty turns. Isabelle is raised rich and her upbringing shows through in her jealousy, anger and inability to move on. Keely moves forward each day wishing things were back to where they once were with Isabelle.

It is a moving novel of friendship on the edges of turmoil, strife and underlying love for each other that somehow must burst through to make the world right again.

Summer Heat by Rachel VanDyken

This is the first installment in a series called Cruel Summer that will prove to be a favorite! In Summer Heat, you meet Marlo and Ray, enemies since forever, thrown together as staff in a summer drama camp. True enemies they are not-just warring should be loves. His rage at her maltreatment of him in high school boils over but the love he has for her takes control. He sees her as a favored princess but in reality her life was hell.
I cannot wait for the next installment!

Never Have I Ever by Joshilyn Jackson

Hoo-whee! What a thriller! It’s fraught with tension triple times! I almost could not read it as it starts out so scary and spine chilling. Just the thought of someone you do not know entering your life and knowing your deepest, darkest secrets and evilly willing to use them against you is chilling enough.

Great read for all you psychological reader buffs.

Game On by Joanne Rock

Game On was not one of my favorites by Joanne Rock but there are a lot of good points to the novel. There’s a good storyline involving second chances. The two main characters, Keely  and Nate, both have problems that seem insurmountable to their reunion. There is a cool secondary storyline involving Keely’s sister, Alexis, and another baseball player, Ty, that continues into the next book in the series. The story is a bit slow to get going and drags in a few areas, too.

On The Market by Audrey Wick

I loved the absolute sweetness of this book about Hutch and Valerie in Last Stand, TX. Hutch is an endearing person-no pretensions, just being himself. Valerie is rather lost between her life in San Antonio and her resurfacing memories of summers in Last Stand, determined to sell the house her grandmother left her and return to her “home.” Home is the operative word for the story. Is home where you live day to day or is it a bigger notion of belonging, of community and of love? Their back and forth play is adorable.