The Composition of Order (The Seedling Homestead #1) by Hilary Dartt Genre: Women’s Fiction Age category: Adult Release Date: September 19, 2018 Blurb: A moving story of rediscovery … and the healing power of hope. Adopted as a young child, Sarah Ward has always preferred order to chaos. Structure is safety. That’s why she’s worked so hard to craft a life that checks all the boxes: raise a happy, healthy child, be a supportive wife, and maintain friendships and hobbies. So Sarah is stunned when Donny—her high school sweetheart and husband of twenty years—announces that her pursuit of order has done significant damage to their relationship. Salvaging their marriage seems impossible. Still, if there’s any hope of reconnecting, it’s during the trip they’d promised their daughter before they take her to college. At the family home in Wyoming, immersed in the place and people Sarah has always considered a refuge, she starts to realize the truth in Donny’s words. During a ...

  Review: Never Let Go - Book #1 Uncommon Justice Series - Elizabeth Goddard - February 2019 Lately, I have been on a bit of a mystery buzz, and in the past, I had gone off ECF type books as they just seemed to be the same story over and over again. I had never read any of this author's before, but it had captured my attention as featured the case of a baby who was abducted via hospital when it was a few hours old over twenty years ago.  Katelyn Mason had just given birth only to have her baby stolen from her; she spent many years searching but eventually ended up as a cold case with the FBI. Given only a few months left to live now twenty-one years later, she wants to try again and went to the experts JT Anderson. He was about to take the case when he was killed in a biking accident. Now his granddaughter Willow has accepted the case, only to have her home burn down. It seems that someone out there doesn't want the baby to be found and is sabot...

Review: True to You - Book #1 Bradford Sisters Series - Becky Wade - May 2017 After a heartbreak three years ago, Nora Bradford chucked herself into her work as the owner of the local Historical village complex which I thought personally was excellent and wish that we could have that with our local historical village. It used to be a museum and now due to rent prices a lot of the shops have closed. Nora's sister Britt tells Nora that she needs some fun and new experiences in her life which leads her to play a hostage in a hostage stimulation being operated by Lawson Training. With Nora's expertise, John decides that he wants to hire her as he is trying to track down his birth mother. Nora agrees and loves spending time with John - may be a bit too much as he has a girlfriend, Allie . I loved this book as one of my favorite things to read is stories of characters trying to do genealogy and find their birth parents. I wonder if that's because my ...

  Review: Wake the Hollow - Gaby Triana - August 2016 As a reader , you learn to discover topics and themes that will become favourites to read about - no matter what the setting of the book is. One of my favourite things is "Sleepy Hollow". I love the legend and any books that have the slightest hint of a rendition or about the characters of Sleepy Hollow - I will read. Hence my reading of Wake the Hollow by Gaby Triana. Micaela has just come back home after moving away years ago to live with her father in Miami when her parents separated as her mother decided not to follow them and remain in Sleepy Hollow. Her mother's whole life has been about the Legend of Sleepy Hollow and discovering the true ancestors of Washington Irving as it was rumoured he had a child out of wedlock but nobody could prove it. With the town built on old blood and history , there are people and families out there who do not want the truth to be revealed and will go to lengths ...

Check out the promo event for Danette J. Hansen's historical mystery debut, Coincidence . The blitz is hosted by Itching for Books . Continue below for an excerpt and giveaway: Release Date: November 20, 2014 Publisher: Silverlined Press Genre: World War II Historical-genealogy Mystery Purchase: Amazon Synopsis via Goodreads : The lamp tumbled to the floor.  “No!” I threw my arms out to try to catch it, but I was too late.  Glancing back at the mess on the floor, I noticed a strange doily was tucked inside the lip of the vase lid. I pulled it out gently. Ribbon, on a doily?  The left corner was burned, and the thin ribbon was sewed on one side. I held the bumpy fabric in my hands. How odd. Why would anyone stuff this in the lid of a vase? Annaliese VanLuyk soon discovers there's more than a hidden doily dating to World War II in this old Dutch house. It also contains a family mystery and she’s the only one who can solve it. Unfortuna...