VBT# Lie in the Bay - Book #2 A Little White Lies Thriller - Holly Danvers - June 2026 There's a particular kind of comfort in a small town, the kind where everyone waves from their porch, the diner knows your order, and duck hunting season means casseroles and gossip in equal measure. I curled up with Lie in the Bay expecting exactly that kind of cozy, familiar backdrop. What I got instead was a slow, delicious unraveling of just how little "cozy" and "familiar" actually mean once you start looking closely at the people behind the porch lights. That's the real magic of this book. Holly Danvers doesn't hand you a town full of obvious villains, she hands you neighbours. The kind you'd bring a pie to. The kind you'd trust to watch your dog. And then, one thread at a time, she shows you how much of that trust was never really earned, just assumed. I found myself thinking about my own street more than once while reading this. Do I actually know t...

Review: I Dare You - Book #1 Ruin Me Duet - Monica James - July 2026 I have to be honest  I was hooked before I even opened the first page. That blurb alone had me convinced this was going to be a 5-star read, and honestly? I love it when a book actually lives up to that kind of hype, because it doesn't always happen. This one did, and then some. The story kicks off with a bang (quite literally)  a popular cheerleader turns up dead, and from there we're pulled into this gripping dual timeline of past and present as we piece together not just who killed her, but who Hallie Holiday really is. We get her before, the girl she used to be, and her after ,  the version of herself she built from the ashes of one brutal night that changed everything. Watching that transformation unfold, layer by layer, was honestly one of my favourite parts of the whole book. Three years on, Hallie is living under a new name, tucked away in a town where nobody knows her history, just trying to s...

Review: All the Dark Places - Terri Parlato - December 2022 There’s something about settling in with a good psychological thriller on the Libby that just feels like the ultimate cosy escape and All the Dark Places by Terri Parlato absolutely delivered that for me. From the very first chapter, I was hooked. The story opens with Molly planning a beautifully thoughtful 40th birthday surprise for her husband, Jay. You can feel the warmth of the celebration, the comfort of friendships, and the ease of a life well-built together. It’s the kind of opening that lulls you into a false sense of security and then everything shatters. Molly wakes to find Jay missing from their bed, only to discover him in his office, murdered in the most brutal way. That moment gave me chills. What follows is a tangled, slow-burn unraveling of secrets within their close-knit friendship group. I loved how the story peeled back layer after layer, revealing hidden affairs, long-buried resentments, and the unset...

Review: He is Mine - Theo Baxter - March 2026 Oh, where do I even begin with this one? I picked this up on a Saturday morning with a cup of tea and a couple of milk arrowroot biscuits and absolutely did not move from my bed until I'd turned the last page. You know that feeling when a book just grabs you by the collar and refuses to let go? That's exactly what this did to me. From the very first chapter, I got those delicious, unsettling vibes that took me straight back to The Housemaid  that creeping sense that something in this beautiful, perfect house is deeply, horribly wrong. And if you, like me, have a soft spot for those "I'm the nanny and this is going to end very badly for everyone" psychological thrillers, then pull up a chair, because this one belongs right at the top of that pile. Crystal Tannenbaum arrives in LA with stars in her eyes and dreams tucked under her arm. She's going to make it. She just knows it. And in a way, she does land herself a...

When Love Becomes the Most Dangerous Risk of All One name to survive. One heart to lose. One secret that could destroy them both. If you're searching for a romantic suspense that will have you reading just one more chapter at 2 AM, let me introduce you to Life on the Run by Paula Phillips- a pulse-pounding New Adult thriller that's completely free to read on Wattpad. A Life Built on Lies Skye Salisbury's world shattered in a single night when she witnessed something that should have remained hidden. Now "Skye" is gone, erased, replaced by "Rose" - a carefully constructed identity courtesy of the Witness Protection Program. But a new name can't silence the panic attacks or ease the suffocating fear that her past is always just one mistake away from finding her. Living in a town that feels more like a prison than a sanctuary, Skye exists in survival mode: checklists, hypervigilance, and the constant weight of knowing that one wrong move could be ...