Review: The Award - Danielle Steel - November 2016 To try and clean my bookshelf and clear the books that have been sitting on there for quite a while, I picked up a Danielle Steel title. I haven't read her books in years, I think the last time I did was her book The Apartment. Back in March, I helped out with the Lions Booksale and the closedown. Unfortunately due to not having any space to store their books, after the sale what doesn't get sold ends up getting chucked out. I ended up with a box of about 50 books including a stack of Danielle Steel's which were in near to brand new condition. The Award was the first one I grabbed out and started reading it. Normally I am not a historical fan but this one had me hooked as we meet Gaelle who is a grandmother at 95 years old. After her granddaughter Dauphine's efforts, her grandmother is finally getting an award for her contribution during World War 2. She helped get children to safety and also returned stolen painting...

                Review: The Mitford Affair - Marie Benedict - January 2023  I don't normally enjoy reading historical fiction, but earlier this year I discovered that I love reading historical fiction based on real people and events, a bit like biographical fiction. An author who I discovered that writes a lot on this topic is Marie Benedict and I have a handful of hers to read. When it comes to the Mitford sisters, the only one I knew about because she was a writer was Nancy Mitford. I never really took much notice of her sisters, but after reading The Mitford Affair based loosely on real events, the family was an interesting bunch and for their time, the sisters were ahead of themselves. The book starts at a party which is being hosted by the eldest of the sisters Diana Mitford - Diana was married to Bryan Guiness - heir to the Guiness Beer Fortune. She ends up divorcing him for a man she calls "M" aka Oswald Mosely. Oswald is about Facis...

A Moment After Dark Janet Raye Stevens Publication date: December 7th 2021 Genres: Historical, Paranormal, Suspense She sees the future with a touch. A powerful gift in a time of war. The enemy wants her. The Allies need her . Addie Brandt is cursed. When she touches someone, or an object that belongs to them, she sees their future, and it’s rarely good. Mocked and teased her whole life, Addie hides from the world in her family’s funeral home. But when her second sight shows her a horrific vision of an attack on the Pearl Harbor Naval base, the gruesome images are too intense to ignore, and she tries to raise the alarm. Will anyone listen? Federal agent Jack Dunstan needs a miracle. He’s still reeling from the betrayal that nearly decimated his team of agents with paranormal powers, a vengeful Nazi spy with a terrifying ability of his own is out to destroy him, and he knows it’s only a matter of time before America is drawn into the war raging around the world. Hearing rumo...

When Love Simply Is Tracey L. Dragon (Return to the Home Front Series, #3) Published by: Soul Mate Publishing Publication date: October 2nd 2019 Genres: Adult, Romance Laurel Richards, freelance journalist and photographer, on assignment to write about old inns in Western New York couldn’t have been more surprised or stunned when Sergeant Clay Randall, the six-two, blue-eyed hunk she’d had the poor judgment to succumb to on one witless night during a layover in Israel answered the door to the Lily Pad Inn. The last image she had of him was his cute, khaki-clad behind scrambling to leave her hotel room at the break of dawn, never to be seen or heard from again–not that she tried very hard to find him. Now three years later she couldn’t help but wonder what he was doing there–wearing a cocky grin and a white-flowered, kitchen apron no less. When Ellie and Travis Johnson, the owners of the inn and Clay’s aunt and uncle, tell Laurel the history of the inn she becomes engrossed i...