VBT# The Family Lies - Lorna Henderson - July 2026 There's a particular kind of ache that comes with childhood memories you can never quite trust again, and Lorna Henderson taps straight into it with The Family Lies. I went in expecting a straightforward family drama and came out with my heart in my throat and my loyalties in the wrong place entirely but more on that later. The story opens with a memory that colours everything after it: fourteen-year-old Suzie and her cousin Rachel on holiday in Canada with Aunt Linda, in what turns out to be their final day together. A car accident takes Linda and Rachel, and Suzie carries that loss for thirty years, never imagining she'll ever learn what really happened. Then her mother dies, and the past comes crashing back in. A box in the attic. A patient named Nicole who seems to know far more than she should. And cousin Jake, conveniently poised to inherit his father's estate now that Suzie's mother is gone. Lorna Henderson l...

Review: Dark Poison - Book #1 Dark Brothers Series - Bec Botefuhr/Bella Jewel - March 2013 Scrolling through my Kindle the other night, I was in the mood for something older, something that felt like coming home. That's when I clicked on Dark Poison by Bec Botefuhr. The cover I remember is different from the one floating around now , mine was the self-published OG version, sitting on my Kindle since 2013, patiently waiting for me to fall back into it. And fall back into it I did. Reading this book was like stepping into a time machine set to 2013, back when indie authors were just beginning to find their footing and the market hadn't yet been flooded with the endless sameness we see today. This was a world where writers released books because they had a story to tell, not because they were pumping them out on a conveyor belt like James Patterson. It was also a world before Fifty Shades of Grey changed everything, before dark romance and erotica fiction became the juggernaut gen...

Review: See Jane Run - Hannah Jayne - January 2014 I'll be honest when I picked up See Jane Run, I was practically buzzing with excitement. Hannah Jayne has become one of those authors whose books I snatch up the moment I spot them, and this premise? Absolutely brilliant. A mysterious postcard, a hidden birth certificate, parents who might not be who they claim , it's the kind of setup that should have had me racing through pages late into the night with my reading lamp on full blast. The story follows Riley, who receives an unsettling postcard with just four words: "I know who you are." Things spiral from there when she discovers a birth certificate for Jane Elizabeth O'Leary tucked inside her baby book. Suddenly, Riley's overprotective parents seem less endearing and more suspicious. Were they keeping her safe all these years, or were they hiding something far more sinister? I loved watching Riley transform from a sheltered teenager into someone determined...

When Love Becomes the Most Dangerous Risk of All One name to survive. One heart to lose. One secret that could destroy them both. If you're searching for a romantic suspense that will have you reading just one more chapter at 2 AM, let me introduce you to Life on the Run by Paula Phillips- a pulse-pounding New Adult thriller that's completely free to read on Wattpad. A Life Built on Lies Skye Salisbury's world shattered in a single night when she witnessed something that should have remained hidden. Now "Skye" is gone, erased, replaced by "Rose" - a carefully constructed identity courtesy of the Witness Protection Program. But a new name can't silence the panic attacks or ease the suffocating fear that her past is always just one mistake away from finding her. Living in a town that feels more like a prison than a sanctuary, Skye exists in survival mode: checklists, hypervigilance, and the constant weight of knowing that one wrong move could be ...

Josie Banks is a girl without a past.  Beautiful Addictions, an all-new must read, second chance romance from bestselling author Season Vining is now available! Josie Banks is a girl without a past. After being found unconscious with no memory, she was shuffled in and out of foster homes until the age of eighteen. An experience that left her broken, damaged, and clinging to drugs and meaningless hook-ups to numb her pain. Tristan Fallbrook is haunted by a dark past of his own. Tristan lost his first love when Josie disappeared years ago. Now a twist of fate has brought them back together, and he never wants to let her out of his inked arms again. But reentering her life puts them both in grave danger. The two find themselves unable to escape the gravity pulling them together. But now that they’re on the run from ruthless criminals, it’ll take much more than love to save them. Start reading today! FREE in Kindle Unlimited Amazon: https://amzn.to...

Tristan Fallbrook is haunted by a dark past. Beautiful Addictions, an all-new must read, second chance romance from bestselling author Season Vining is now available! Josie Banks is a girl without a past. After being found unconscious with no memory, she was shuffled in and out of foster homes until the age of eighteen. An experience that left her broken, damaged, and clinging to drugs and meaningless hook-ups to numb her pain. Tristan Fallbrook is haunted by a dark past of his own. Tristan lost his first love when Josie disappeared years ago. Now a twist of fate has brought them back together, and he never wants to let her out of his inked arms again. But reentering her life puts them both in grave danger. The two find themselves unable to escape the gravity pulling them together. But now that they’re on the run from ruthless criminals, it’ll take much more than love to save them. Start reading today! FREE in Kindle Unlimited Amazon: https://amzn....

Deadly Paradise Quinn Avery Publication date: October 18th 2022 Genres: Adult, Romance, Suspense As a child, Nova witnessed the murder of her parents. She is whisked away in the middle of the night to start a new life, however Nova can’t stop questioning the circumstances surrounding her parents’ deaths. As a teenager, Nova lives a lonely and sheltered existence until fate delivers a handsome Greek boy into her world. Although forbidden to speak to him, the teens navigate through first love until she discovers he’s guarding a secret that unravels everything between them. As a woman, Nova finally goes after the answers that have plagued her entire life. Answers that involve her first love, throwing them both in danger when he returns to save her life. Can she risk the dark secrets of their tangled past to collide with what could become a deadly present? Goodreads / Amazon / Barnes & Noble / iBooks / Kobo Get it for only 99c – this week only! — SNEAK PEEK: Nova ...

Title: Girl By Any Other Name Author: MK Schiller Genre: Contemporary Romance Release Date: July 15 , 2019 Blurb I fell in love with her. Then she died. But that’s not the end of our story. I met Sylvie Cranston when I was ten years old. Back then, she was the annoying, weird girl who had moved next door and got me in trouble. But by twelve, we became friends when I taught her how to bait a fishing line and she showed me the value of a selfless act. At fourteen, she owned my heart. At seventeen, she died. Or so I was told. But I don’t believe it. Sylvie is part of my soul. I would know if she was no more. I searched and prayed for her to come back to me. Finally, I just waited for her. Ten years later, she strolled into the English lit course I taught. Only this girl claimed her name was Sophie Becker and she had no idea who I was. But I’m not giving up. I’m going to get the girl I love back and protect her from the danger that took her away all those yea...

Review: Girl by Any Other Name - MK Schiller - July 2019 This book firstly is a re-release of a title earlier in MK Schiller's collection of the same name. This one I have to admit drew me in as the cover was amazing and then reading the synopsis, I knew I had to read it. The synopsis reminded me of a book I had read years ago called What If? By Rebecca Donovan. In this book, Cal Tanner makes reluctantly a new best friend with his next-door neighbor Sylvie. Her dad and she have moved to the smalltown of Prarie, Texas and though other kids call Sylvie a freak - to Cal she becomes his best friend and eventually his first love. Then one night when they are seventeen, tragedy strikes and Sylvie and her father are murdered and Cal winds up in hospital after also being shot. Cal doesn't believe Sylvie is dead and tries to tell everyone but they all look at him like his is crazy. Maybe he is. Years pass and Cal has never forgotten Sylvie - his Lenore or Raven Girl....