Jencey's Writer's Corner

  A few years ago, Nora Roberts penned a series called The Inn Boonesboro.  I shared the first two books of the series.  Now I can share the finale of the series, The Perfect Hope.  I was given a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.  Synopsis:  “Ryder is the hardest Montgomery brother to figure out - with a tough-as-nails outside and possibly nothing too soft underneath. He’s surly and unsociable, but when he straps on a tool belt, no woman can resist his sexy swagger. Except, apparently, Hope Beaumont, the innkeeper of his own Inn BoonsBoro.... As the former manager of a D.C. hotel, Hope is used to excitement and glamour, but that doesn’t mean she can’t appreciate the joys of small-town living. She’s where she wants to be - except for in her love life. Her only interaction with the opposite sex has been sparring with the infuriating Ryder, who always seems to get under her skin. Still, no one can deny the electricity that crackles between t...

  Have you ever had questions about your past?  A mystery that you couldn’t solve?  Choices that were made that affected you greatly in how you lived your life.  Colette Marceau has many questions about the past and also about preserving her family’s legacy.  You can read her story in Kristin Harmel’s The Stolen Life of Collette Marceau.  Synopsis:  “Colette Marceau has been stealing jewels for nearly as long as she can remember, following the centuries-old code of honor instilled in her by her mother, Annabel: take only from the cruel and unkind, and give to those in need. Never was their family tradition more important than seven decades earlier, during the Second World War, when Annabel and Colette worked side by side in Paris to fund the French Resistance. But one night in 1942, it all went wrong. Annabel was arrested by the Germans, and Colette’s four-year-old sister, Liliane, disappeared in the chaos of the raid, along with an exquisite diamond b...

  The House on Prytania is the second book in the Royal Street series by Karen White. I will give you a spoiler alert.  If you have not read The Shop on Royal Street, the first book in the series, there are major spoilers in the second book. I loved the Tradd Street Series.  The Royal Street series focuses on Jack’s daughter, Nola, and her adventures in New Orleans.  Synopsis: “Nola Trenholm may not be psychic herself, but she’s spent enough time around people who are to know when ghosts are present, and there are definitely a few lingering spirits in her recently purchased Creole cottage in New Orleans. Something, or someone, is keeping them tethered to this world. And not all of them are benign. But with the sudden return of Sunny Ryan, Beau Ryan’s long-lost sister, Nola has plenty to distract her from her ghostly housemates. Especially when the tempting—yet firmly unavailable—Beau, wanting to mete out justice to those he blames for Sunny’s kidnapping, asks Nola fo...

  Emma is a writer who has aspirations of striking it big in Hollywood as a screenwriter.   Life gets in the way, but she has a good attitude going forward on how life should proceed.  Are you open to new opportunities and wherever they might take you?  This book is about second chances. Synopsis:  “Emma Wheeler desperately longs to be a screenwriter. She’s spent her life studying, obsessing over, and writing romantic comedies—good ones! That win contests! But she’s also been the sole caretaker for her kind-hearted dad, who needs full-time care. Now, when she gets a chance to re-write a script for famous screenwriter Charlie Yates—The Charlie Yates! Her personal writing god!—it’s a break too big to pass up. Emma’s younger sister steps in for caretaking duties, and Emma moves to L.A. for six weeks for the writing gig of a lifetime. But what is it they say? Don’t meet your heroes? Charlie Yates doesn’t want to write with anyone—much less “a failed, nobody screenwr...

  Since March is Women’s History Month, I have a book for you. Have you ever heard of Marie Madeline Meric?  You say no…She led one of the largest resistance networks in France during World War II.  I had never heard of this woman and her accomplishments.  I am drawn to books featuring strong female characters with courage and resilience .  I invite you to check out the Mademoiselle Alliance, a fictional biography of this great woman in history. Synopsis:  “Morocco, 1928. Marie-Madeleine Méric is not the kind of woman who stays quietly at her husband’s side. Polyglot, pianist, and pilot, she is a woman of many skills, with unconventional interests—like driving in car rallies—that earn her a daredevil reputation. But dabbling in intelligence work to assist her military officer husband and the French government helps her recognize who she is at heart: an adventurer. Paris, 1936. As Europe teeters on the brink of war, Marie-Madeleine is living in France, he...

  Karen White released her book That Last Carolina Summer last year.  Karen is known for her many writing projects, which means multiple book releases sometimes in one year.  This book centers around one family, a mother and her two daughters—a choice made within a family that had devastating consequences for those affected. Also, if you like birds, you will learn a lot from this book.    Synopsis: “As a child, Phoebe Manigault developed the gift of premonition after she was struck by lightning in the creek near her Charleston home. Plagued throughout her life by mysterious dreams, and always living in the shadow of her beautiful sister, Addie, Phoebe eventually moves to the West Coast, as far from her family as possible. Now, years later, she is summoned back to South Carolina, to help Addie care for their ailing mother. As Phoebe’s return lures her back into deep-rooted tensions and conflicts, she is drawn to Celeste, whose granddaughter went missing year...