WHERE HOPE BEGINS

MY THOUGHTS: I was so looking forward to the continuation story of The Orchard House Bed and Breakfast Series.    Maggie Acker has always wanted a fa…

HOPE BETWEEN THE PAGES

MY THOUGHTS: Clara Blackwell helps her mother manage a 100 year old family bookshop in Asheville, North Carolina.    The bookshop is struggling to su…

A LESSON IN MURDER

MY THOUGHTS: When Lady Elenor Swift is invited back to her old boarding school by her favorite teacher Mrs. Wadsworth, to give a speech, she never ex…

THE GIRL ACROSS THE WIRE FENCE

MY THOUGHTS: In 1944 Holland, Saskia would carry messages from captives, in Amersfoort Concentration Camp, to their families living outside the camp.…

THE ITALIAN GIRL’S SECRET

MY THOUGHTS: It’s 1943 and the war rages on through Europe.  Carmela del Bosco lives a quiet life at her grandmother’s remote farmhouse.  Carmela is …

THE WOMAN AT THE GATES

MY THOUGHTS: Antonia risks her life every day sneaking messages and refugees across the border to safety.  But when she is hiding in the forest behin…

THE LOST SECRET OF IRELAND

MY THOUGHTS: Sandy Cove is a tiny coastal village in Ireland and Ella Caron is trying to recover.  Ella moved from Paris to Sandy Cove for the quie…