Review: A Friend In The Dark - Samantha M. Bailey - March 2024 They say we never really know who we are talking to online and A Friend in The Dark by Samantha M. Bailey is about to prove that as we first start with a party happening twenty years ago in college where Eden went along hoping to hook up with singer Justin, only to end up in the bathroom blacked out and saved by Dave - her now-husband. The pair have just dropped off their daughter to college and Dave has told Eden he wants a divorce. This drives Eden to hop on Facebook and send a spontaneous friend request to Justin Ward - the guy she believes got away. That party has always stuck in her mind as it's also the party where one of their college friends disappeared and never was found. Of course, some people know what happened and have been hiding the secrets for the past twenty years but like any secret, when that person is pushed- they are willing to go to lengths to have that secret out in the open - no matter what the ...

Review: Woman on the Edge - Samantha M. Bailey - November 2019 With the sun shining today, it felt like a lovely day to read outside on my porch swing. It felt invigorating as I opened my Libby App and read Samantha M. Bailey's 2019 release "Woman on the Edge". I didn't have a huge expectation, which I think helped me as I enjoyed this book. In the beginning, we meet two women Nikki and Morgan at the train station. Nikki gives Morgan her daughter Quinn and then jumps in front of a train. The book then jumps to before which is back when Nikki first discovered she was pregnant with Quinn. Nikki never wanted children, but now she is pregnant she is happy but worried at the same time. Even more so, when a threatening letter turns up from her past. Twenty years ago when Nikki was 17 years old, she worked as a nanny and her daughter Amanda died of SIDS. The mother Donna told Nikki she had killed her baby and sent notes. As Quinn is born, the notes increase and strange thi...