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  An excellent suspense!!  I searched out books by this author after reading Behind Closed Doors.  It did not disappoint. The story is about Cass who is having an incredibly hard time after learning that a new friend of hers has been murdered in her car—-and she had driven by her as she was pulled over on the side of the road during a rainstorm the night she was murdered.  Could she have prevented the murder?  Then Cass starts having a lot of memory issues —to the point of thinking no she may have the start of early onset dementia like her mom had,  and paranoia. She feels eyes on her. She starts getting constant hang up calls with the caller never saying anything.  This is all so life shattering to her that she is seen by a Dr and given pills to take the edge off except all that it does is knock her out which complicates her memory problems and credibility even more.  Soooo many twists and turns towards the end as the story unfolds and we learn w...

  Oh my gosh.  Why haven’t I jumped on the Nicholas Sparks bandwagon years ago?!?!?  Now I shall be going through all of his book I think!  Incredible!  It’s like a Hallmark movie (well—with a lot more depth) in a book! I think maybe I haven’t read him in the past because his books are somewhat known to be super sad/tear-jerkers/sob-stories???  While there was definitely sad elements throughout,  there are SO many emotions actually!  I almost felt like this book was a mix somewhere between an Elin Hilderbrand and a Kristin Hannah.   Hope is 36 and staying at her parents cottage on the water in North Carolina for the last time (they recently sold due to her dads failing health-ALS) as it is in close proximity to a friends wedding she is standing up in as a bridesmaid that coming weekend.  She’s there alone and without her boyfriend of the last 6 years because they are again on a “break.”  He went to Vegas with buddies for the weekend...

  This was such a fun and unexpected book!  It goes back and forth taking place in 1791 in an old apothecary—or basically “natural pharmacy” for women, and present day (London).   In 1791 Nella runs this apothecary where she makes treatments for all of the ailments of women. Her mother actually started it. Since Nella has taken over, however, she has also been known, through the underground, to be able dish out some other recipes (poison) to help women with additional problems they may have (the men in their lives). Eliza is a young girl of 12 who gets tangled up in this apothecary at the time as well.  Present day London —Caroline is supposed to be there on a 10 year anniversary trip with her husband, however—is there alone. She recently found out about her husbands affair.   So, scrapping her original itinerary, she ends up going “mud larking” by the Thames River after meeting a friendly, interesting older man who has group there doing the same. She finds an i...

  Highly. Recommend.  Definitely gave me similar vibes to Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale.  This story is told, however, from the perspective of the daughter to a top commanding Nazi officer, who also has his hands very deep into the paper/press/media. The official synopsis of the book is as follows (I’m copying and pasting because honestly it gives such a great overview!): She must choose between loyalty to her country or a love that could be her destruction… As the dutiful daughter of a high-ranking Nazi officer, Hetty Heinrich is keen to play her part in the glorious new Thousand Year Reich. But she never imagines that all she believes and knows will come into stark conflict when she encounters Walter, a Jewish friend from the past, who stirs dangerous feelings in her. Confused and conflicted, Hetty doesn’t know whom she can trust and where she can turn to, especially when she discovers that someone has been watching her. Realizing she is taking a huge risk—but unable...