Review: The Usual Silence - Book #1 Arles Shepherd Thriller - Jenny Milchman - October 2024 I was excited to read this one as it sounded interesting and overall the book was a good thriller, but I did feel that it had a bit too many storylines and along the way, the story for me started to get muddled and confusing. It gave me the same vibes of Family of Liars by E.Lockhart where you enjoy the book, but you are still left with that feeling of what I read as I sat here afterward trying to process and wrap my head around the book. The book starts with a young girl kidnapped and then it jumps to a therapist named Arles Shepherd whose therapy skills are seen as out of the box she gets a few complaints and the board decide to let her go. She then inherits her family's old house to open it as a residential therapy. There she invites Louise and her son. Arles has been searching for the identity of Louise as she has had in her possession for the past 20+ years a photo of a young girl. The ...

Review: The Selective Mute Princess - Samantha Jayne Grubey - August 2022 For the past ten years, Princess Amelia has not spoken a word. Not since that fateful time when she and her twin sister Ava were kidnapped and Amelia saw her sister murdered and the reason the kidnappers gave, was because Amelia talked. This rendered her mute and she shut down completely. That is until Agent Ethan Sparks came along and he sparked (no pun intended) something in Amelia. Slowly, she starts to come out of her shell, and to the surprise of everyone, she even starts to slowly talk. What happens though when she is about to get the fright of her life and learns that everything, she has thought for the past ten years has been a lie? Now Amelia who has only just come to terms with the past is about to have Pandora's Box re-opened and a can of worms is about to spill out. Can Amelia with the help of Ethan handle this or will it revert her to not talking and lead her into a depressive state and render...

The Selective Mute Princess Samantha Jayne Grubey Publication date: August 29th 2022 Genres: New Adult, Romance Princess Amelia has been silent for ten years, ever since Amelia and Ava were kidnapped. One returned home the other did not. Amelia has always kept herself guarded with her twenty-first birthday approaching things are going to be changing. Ethan Sparks is on his first assignment, guard the Princess in the Palace. The longer he’s there the more he finds himself being drawn to Princess Amelia, he can see she’s drowning and he wants to help. Romantic interests stirs in a mixing pot of emotions as Amelia and her family recover from the kidnapping and murder of her sister. Unsure what to feel or who to believe, Amelia needs to find her truth, as she deals with her trauma and finally brings her family to mend. Along the way they find themselves hitting challenges at every wall. So many questions left unanswered by the kidnapping and murder, can she finally find the answ...

  Review: Clair - Book #4 Beach Bride Series - Grace Greene - May 2017 Clair has gone to the Carribean with her online book club, and the girls had written messages in bottles and chucked them into the ocean.  Clair thinks it is silly fun as she has already got a good fiance and is living her life the way she wants. Her friends beg her to do it , so she grabs the nearest thing she can to write on the back.  Talk about irony as it turns out to be a card for a Divorce lawyer.  Fast-forward to now, she is not living the life she had planned as her parents are dead, her fiance left her, and now she is living at home with her older sister looking after their younger sister who is currently a selective mute after being a witness to her parent's deaths. Greg is a P.I and has been hired by a client to find out all that there is about Clair as they found her message in a bottle. It turns out that the client is her ex- Sean and he are worried a...

Title: Where Promises Die Author: R.C. Stephens Release Date: Feb 20, 2017 Add to TBR Haunted by a childhood trauma that leaves her orphaned, eleven-year-old Grace finds herself on the doorstep of the Duncans, her new adoptive family, broken and unable to speak. Catapulted from a bustling New York City life, she must find a way to call the rural town of Sade, Iowa her new home. Twins Eisav and Jacob Duncan immediately take a liking to Grace, wanting to erase the dark shadows etched on her perfect features. As the twins vie for her affection, it becomes clear which one makes her smile. Grace never has a choice for falling in love. What starts as a way to coax his adopted sister to speak and smile, blossoms into the kind of love that lasts a lifetime. In this small town it shouldn’t be a crime to fall in love . . . Isaac Duncan warns his son to stay away from the forbidden fruit. Eisav never listens. Now an intricate web of lies and secrets stand...