Jencey's Corner

Have you ever had someone that you thought of as a mystery?   Someone from your past that has impacted you but there were suspicious circumstances of their death.   Nora Robert tells us the story of Cilla and her famous grandmother Janet Hardy in Tribute . Synopsis:   Cilla has recently bought the family farm.   She purchased it from her mother this farm is the former home to her grandmother Janet Hardy who bought it from her biological father’s family.   Cilla hopes to rehab it and make it a home.   This farm is located across the road from a former lawyer and author Sawyer Ford.    As she proceeds with the renovations mishaps occur.   Will she be able to continue once the damage has been done?   Is Ford Sawyer more than neighborly?    Are these mishaps connected the mystery of Janet Hardy’s death?   Will Cilla also be at risk? My Thoughts: I liked this Nora Roberts novel.   The plot where the pr...

Jane has a very special gift for my readers to celebrate the launch of my sixteenth novel, SAVING GRACE, on December 30th in the US. If you pre-order SAVING GRACE, you’ll get a Jane Green book for free, and not just any old book…             Most of you know that I not only love to cook, I had some chef training at the French Culinary Institute in New York a few years ago. I have finally penned my very own cookbook. HAPPY FOOD is filled with recipes I have created, collected, and cooked for years. This truly is the food that makes my family and friends happy. I’m sharing these recipes with you, my loyal friends, straight from my heart. There are desserts and entrees, appetizers and sides. Each recipe is accompanied by a story from me about what that particular dish means to me, or how it features in my life, including some of the mishaps. A beautifully designed e-book, HAPPY FOOD is filled with gorgeous never-before-seen ph...

The Widow’s Choice is one of the few remaining novels in the House of Winslow series that I hadn’t read.   We are into World War II and how does this impact the members of the Winslow family?   We meet a new character Alona Winslow Jennings who is the daughter of Cassidy and Serena Winslow.   She is not mentioned in previous novels.   So what do I think of this one? Synopsis: Alona Jennings couldn’t be happier with her family, her husband Truman Jennings and their three sons Tim, Carl, and Zachary.   One day out while out with her husband and family he points out a bunch of crows in the sky.   He then refers to it as a crow summer.   This means that something bad is about to happen.   Alona doesn’t put much stock in this saying until she gets news of her husband’s death.   Although she receives a settlement from the quarry where he worked, she finds herself a widow during the Great Depression.   How will she provide for he...