Review: Dani - Women of Strength Series - Adelle Laudan - April 2013 In a small town where the mill is the majority of income support, what happens when it closes down and even worst goes into bankruptcy? For a single mother, Dani who has been working at the mill for the past twelve years, she is now without a job to pay the bills, feed her daughter and keep the roof over their heads. It's time for her to suck it up and get another job quick. The only place is hiring and Dani uses it as a last resort is a strip club. Dani gets a job bartending and isn't that happy about it but what else can she do? What's worst now is that her teenage daughter Emily won't talk to her and is embarrassed that her mother is working at the club. Dani's next door neighbor and best friend Ryan keeps offering Dani money, but she doesn't want to be his charity case, what she doesn't realize is he would do absolutely anything for her. Dani has a sec...

Review: Eva - Women of Strength Series - Adelle Laudan - July 2014 I have made it one of my 2018 reading goals to go through my Kindle/E-readers and read books that have been sitting on their for a while. One of the series I am going through is the Women of Strength series by Adelle Laudan.  The book Eva starts off with her having a crush on one of the buskers Jeremy we later learn but of course, like most things in her life she has steered away from relationships as Eva has a dark secret and if it was to come out, it could ruin her family's political stance and life. Eva Dennison only has existed since she was 18 years old and before that, she was Eric Langley.  When one of the potential designers who Tempest Designs are wanting to sign up to questions her about being a man. It sparks something in Eva, is she ready for her secret to come out? Is she brave enough to let the people close to her know the truth? When it looks like she could potentially h...

Review: Grace - Women of Strength Series - Adelle Laudan - January 2013 Christmas time for Grace is always a hard time as five years ago she lost not only her parents but also her fiance - the man she loved in a house fire which she was the lone survivor. Every time Christmas comes around ; Grace has nightmares and flashbacks to that moment of watching them burn alive and be carried out in body bags. She also avoids fireplaces. Newcomer Justin has just gained custody of his sixteen-year-old niece as her parents have just died in a car accident. Justin's niece happens to be deaf due to a boating accident and also doesn't speak as her friends made fun of her and so she stopped speaking completely. It also happens to be Christmas time and Grace is asked a favour via a friend if she can help Justin with Mykaela . On their way home from the airport, their car turns upside down, and they have an accident themselves. They are found by a good Samaritan ...

  Review: Juliana - Women of Strength Series - Adelle Laudan - October 2012 This was quite a difficult read in parts as if you are not one to read abusive stories ; then this is definitely not the read for you. In Juliana, we learn that she has been married for the past seven years to an abusive husband. In parts, the book is quite graphic to the abuse that Juliana suffered, and in parts, it did make me tear up, and I felt disgusted. Now her husband is dead as he was killed in an accident, Juliana is finally free. The first thing she does is call her sister Cyndi whom she hasn't had contact with in all those years as her husband distanced and made sure she cut all contact. Her sister is shocked and horrified when she learns what she has suffered the past seven years. Cyndi and her husband Josh take Juliana into their home and help her to overcome her past and to show her that it's alright to move on. What I loved about this book was that in the en...