The Little Shop of Found Things by Paula Brackston
New York Times bestselling author of The Witch’s Daughter Paula Brackston returns to her trademark blend of magic and romance guaranteed to enchant in The Little Shop of Found Things, the first book in a new continuing series.
An antique shop haunted by a ghost.
A silver treasure with an injustice in its story.
An adventure to the past she’ll never forget.Xanthe and her mother Flora leave London behind for a fresh start, taking over an antique shop in the historic town of Marlborough. Xanthe has always had an affinity with some of the antiques she finds. When she touches them, she can sense something of the past they come from and the stories they hold. When she has an intense connection to a beautiful silver chatelaine she has to know more.
It is while she’s examining the chatelaine that she’s transported back to the seventeenth century where it has its origins. She discovers there is an injustice in its history. The spirit that inhabits her new home confronts her and charges her with saving her daughter’s life, threatening to take Flora’s if she fails.
While Xanthe fights to save the girl amid the turbulent days of 1605, she meets architect Samuel Appleby. He may be the person who can help her succeed. He may also be the reason she can’t bring herself to leave.
The Consuming Fire —the second thrilling novel in the bestselling Interdependency series, from the Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author John Scalzi
The Interdependency, humanity’s interstellar empire, is on the verge of collapse. The Flow, the extra-dimensional conduit that makes travel between the stars possible, is disappearing, leaving entire star systems stranded. When it goes, human civilization may go with it–unless desperate measures can be taken.
Emperox Grayland II, the leader of the Interdependency, is ready to take those measures to help ensure the survival of billions. But nothing is ever that easy. Arrayed before her are those who believe the collapse of the Flow is a myth–or at the very least, an opportunity that can allow them to ascend to power.
While Grayland prepares for disaster, others are preparing for a civil war, a war that will take place in the halls of power, the markets of business and the altars of worship as much as it will take place between spaceships and battlefields. The Emperox and her allies are smart and resourceful, but then so are her enemies. Nothing about this power struggle will be simple or easy… and all of humanity will be caught in its widening gyre.
The Winters by Lisa Gabriele
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After a whirlwind romance, a young woman returns to the opulent, secluded Long Island mansion of her new fiancé Max Winter—a wealthy politician and recent widower—and a life of luxury she’s never known. But all is not as it appears at the Asherley estate. The house is steeped in the memory of Max’s beautiful first wife Rebekah, who haunts the young woman’s imagination and feeds her uncertainties, while his very alive teenage daughter Dani makes her life a living hell. She soon realizes there is no clear place for her in this twisted little family: Max and Dani circle each other like cats, a dynamic that both repels and fascinates her, and he harbors political ambitions with which he will allow no woman—alive or dead—to interfere.
As the soon-to-be second Mrs. Winter grows more in love with Max, and more afraid of Dani, she is drawn deeper into the family’s dark secrets—the kind of secrets that could kill her, too. The Winters is a riveting story about what happens when a family’s ghosts resurface and threaten to upend everything.
Home and Away by Candice Montgomery
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Tasia Quirk is young, Black, and fabulous. She’s a senior, she’s got great friends, and a supportive and wealthy family. She even plays football as the only girl on her private high school’s team.
But when she catches her mamma trying to stuff a mysterious box in the closet, her identity is suddenly called into question. Now Tasia’s determined to unravel the lies that have overtaken her life. Along the way, she discovers what family and forgiveness really mean, and that her answers don’t come without a fee. An artsy bisexual boy from the Valley could help her find them—but only if she stops fighting who she is, beyond the color of her skin.
Ohhh secrets in the 2nd
Secrets can be fun!
The Winters sounds good!! Thanks for sharing!
I agree!
i'm more into home and away, seems to be there's some juicy mystery there
It does sound interesting!
I want to read The Winters but am actually planning on reading Rebecca in November so I'll save this for afterwards.
I have never read Rebecca! I feel like I should get to it at some point.
I love the sound of the first one and the cover is great too!
I have heard great things about that one and can't wait to start reading it.
I reviewed Final Day today and I'm reading and reviewing Dear Santa for HoHoHoRAT next month. Anne – Books of My Heart
It is hard to believe that Christmas isn't really all that far away.
They all look good. Thanks for sharing.
You are very welcome!
Those look good. Probably not for me at this time though.
Not every book is for everyone.
I had my eye on Home and Away, but then I saw reviews, and they made me sad.
Oh no!
The Little Shop of Found Things is on my TBR pile. I can't wait to dive into that one. I am really curious about Winters as well. And you can't go wrong with Scalzi. Well, I don't know that for a fact–but I loved Redshirts by him. LOL Home and Away is new to me, but one I will definitely have to check out. Dear Santa sounds fun too! They all do. 🙂
I can't wait to get started with The Little Shop of Found Things!
I really like the cover for Home and Away. Thanks for sharing!
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It is a great cover!
The Little Shop of Found Things is calling my name hard. It looks gorgeous!
I am in love with that cover!
The new release I'm waiting for is the Hunter Shea release The Devil's Fingers!
I do need to read Hunter Shea soon!
The Little Shop of Found things has such a cute title, and yay for a new Megan Erickson book being out! I really like that author and her social media accounts are really nice to follow too. The Winters has a beautiful cover <3
I love the cover and title of The Little Shop of Found Things.