Review: The Bridge - Rebecca Rogers Maher - September 2013 I was scrolling through my Kindle one evening, looking for something to read, when this cover caught my eye. I'll be honest, I couldn't have told you much about it at the time of buying. The blurb must have done its job, though, because once I started reading, I realised it was right up my alley. The Bridge is an edgy YA/NA read that opens in the middle of the night, with two strangers meeting on top of the Brooklyn Bridge, both ready to jump. Christa has already had a mastectomy and has just learned there is now a tumour in her other breast. Henry lives with chronic depression. Neither of them expected company that night, but once they start talking, they make a pact. They'll spend 24 hours together, doing the things they both love, each trying to convince the other to stay. When the time is up, they'll go their separate ways, and if either still wants to go through with it, that will be their decision. At the...

Review: TradWife - Michelle Brandon - August 2026 Could you ever be a tradwife? I’ll be honest, from the outside it all looks so cosy and homely, with the baking, the tidy kitchen and the table full of family. But I can’t help feeling there’s pressure bubbling away underneath. Cooking, cleaning and serving my family around the clock simply isn’t for me. I’m definitely not the homemaker type, and I’ve got far too much ambition for other things, like a potential career. So I was really excited to dive into this paperback ARC, especially after hearing such good things. Tradwife peels back the curtain on the hidden lives behind the perfectly polished aprons, and it’s another story fuelled by revenge. Back in high school, where most of our characters were classmates, one student was bullied and presumed drowned. That night, the group made a pact: never speak of it, and if they absolutely had to, they’d all stick to the same story. Years later, a few of them still carry the memory, and it ...

If You Were Mine A.S. Kelly Publication date: October 14th 2026 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, LGBTQ+, Romance Levi Anderson has never felt more alone. Since saying goodbye to his husband, he has drifted between long shifts at the hospital and quiet, empty hours in his apartment, surrounded by boxes he can’t bring himself to unpack. He refuses to face the pain or imagine a life without him. Shay Miller has never been more furious. In one devastating moment, he lost the man he loved, his job, and the home they shared. He’s barely holding himself together. He’s tried to start over, but deep down, he knows he can’t move on until he lets go of the past and stops hurting himself. When fate brings Levi and Shay together, they immediately see how different they are and can’t imagine ever being drawn to one another. Levi is still learning how to live again, while Shay is learning how to forgive. Yet, with this stranger who’s appeared out of nowhere, Levi slowly begins to open up and ...

Review: Nightshade - Book #1 Sorrowsong University - Autumn Woods - January 2025 Nightshade opens with a heartbreak that settled right into my chest. Ophelia Winters is the daughter of two hardworking parents: her dad a chef, her mum a gardener, both employed at Sorrowsong, the wealthy elite university on the hill. They always warned her to keep away from the place, never wanting her stuck in a world of ungrateful adults. Then one night, while Ophelia waits at home for them to return, their helicopter crashes in a fiery wreck and she loses them both. The whole thing is swiftly covered up, and nobody will answer her questions. So when a scholarship to Sorrowsong lands in her lap, Ophelia doesn’t hesitate. She wants the truth, and she wants revenge on the people who took everything she loved. I adored her. She’s spunky, stubborn and fiercely loyal to her parents’ memory, and I was rooting for her from the first chapter. Then there’s Alex. He’s already at Sorrowsong, and he simply canno...

VBT# Review - The Woman In My Home - D.L Fisher - October 2026 The Woman In My Home opens with a moment I’m sure many of us would recognise: a message lights up on her husband’s phone, and she reads it. Of course she does, who wouldn’t? She’s turning thirty in two weeks and thinks she’s about to be surprised with a birthday gift, so she’s thrilled to learn he’s bought them their dream log cabin in the Poconos, tucked beside a private lake. But when she drives out to see it while he’s supposedly away on a work trip, his truck is already there. And so is another woman. What a hook! The double life storyline is one of my all-time favourite themes, and I’m always on the lookout for a new take on it. What makes this one different is that the woman he truly loves is the one who doesn’t have his children. Usually it’s the other way round, with the other woman as the secret, and the family at home. DL Fisher turns that on its head, and it made me look at every character in a completely new li...

Synopsis: The Last Time I Saw Her - Rhiannon Bardsley - October 2026 The stranger appeared in her dreams. Now she’s invading her life. Sage has a recurring nightmare: a woman she doesn’t know is drowning, fighting desperately as the dark water closes over her. It’s unsettling, but Sage shrugs it off when she wakes. Until she sees the same woman in a South London supermarket. Her name is Lara, she is a psychology student and small-time influencer. And Sage is certain—she is about to die. Sage feels she has to do everything she can to save Lara, and slowly, quietly, she begins to infiltrate her life—following her online, engineering a chance encounter, earning her trust. When Lara confides she's being stalked, Sage knows she’s right—the nightmare is coming true. But what can Sage actually do? She can’t tell Lara she was appearing in her dreams before they ever met—that would sound insane. All she can do is watch over her, try to protect her. Then, as she gets ever closer to Lara, Sag...