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Last summer Beatriz Williams enticed her readers   with a story about a private island and a mystery from long ago.   The novel is TheSummer Wives and it tells the story of   Miranda Schuyler and that fateful summer of 1951.   Could her connections from the past come back to haunt her? What impact could it have on her future? Facebook    Twitter     Instagram “In the summer of 1951, Miranda Schuyler arrives on elite, secretive Winthrop Island.   She is   still reeling from the loss of her father in the Second World War. When her beautiful mother marries Hugh Fisher, whose summer house on Winthrop overlooks the famous lighthouse, Miranda’s catapulted into a heady new world of pedigrees and cocktails,   and status. Isobel Fisher, Miranda’s new stepsister is engaged to a wealthy Island scion. But beneath the island’s patrician surface, there are really two clans: the summer families with their steadfast ways and quiet obsessions...

Author Karma Brown likes to explore various psychological illnesses in her writing.   In The Life Lucy Knew; she explores false memories.   What happens when these types of memories occur and what implications does it have for the person that experiences them?   The Life Lucy Knew is the first Karma Brown novel that I have had the opportunity to read. Facebook   Twitter     Instagram “After hitting her head, Lucy Sparks awakens in the hospital to a shocking revelation: the man she’s known and loved for years—the man she recently married—is not actually her husband. In fact, they haven’t even spoken since their breakup four years earlier. The happily-ever-after she remembers in vivid detail—right down to the dress she wore to their wedding—is only one example of what her doctors call a false memory: recollections Lucy’s mind made up to fill in the blanks from the coma. Her psychologist explains the condition as honest lying, because while Lucy’s mem...

In The GoodLiar by Catherine McKenzie, the author explores how a dramatic event such as nine-eleven effects three different women.   What would happen if the woman you thought you knew as a friend is someone else entirely?   How would your relationships be impacted by the loss of a loved one?   Who can you really trust? Facebook Twitter   Instagram “When an explosion rips apart a Chicago building, the lives of three women are forever altered. A year later, Cecily is in mourning. She was supposed to be in the building that day. Instead, she stood on the street and witnessed it going down, with her husband and best friend inside. Kate, now living thousands of miles away, fled the disaster and is hoping that her past won’t catch up with her. And Franny, a young woman in search of her birth mother, watched the horror unfold on the morning news, knowing that the woman she was so desperate to reconnect with was in the building. Now, despite the marks left ...

Wicked City is the first novel in the Jazz Age series by Beatriz Williams.   She begins the tale in New York City, but takes readers back to a very historical time in this city.   What were times like back then?   How will this tale begin? Facebook   Twitter     Instagram “When she discovers her banker, husband has been harboring a secret life, Ella Gilbert escapes her SoHo loft for a studio in Greenwich Village. Her charismatic musician neighbor, Hector, warns her to stay out of the basement after midnight, when a symphony of mysterious noise strikes up—laughter, clinking glasses, jazz piano, the occasional bloodcurdling scream—even though the space has been empty for decades. Back in the Roaring Twenties, the basement was home to one of the city’s most notorious speakeasies. In 1924, Geneva “Gin” Kelly, a quick-witted flapper from the hills of western Maryland, is a regular at this Village hideaway. Caught up in a raid, Gin lands in the offic...

Good morning!   Writer’s Corner presents exclusive access to Karen White’s next book Dreams of Falling .   Readers will get a chance to preview this upcoming book.  Her next book will once again visit secrets from the past. Larkin must find out what happened in the past to save the future. To preorder a copy of Dreams of Falling at these retailers: Amazon         Barnes and Noble       Indiebound Karen White is available on these platforms: Facebook     Twitter      Instagram Caol Ait: Thin Places. Gaelic for where this world and the next are said to be too close. According to legend, heaven and earth are only three feet apart, but in thin places, that distance is even closer. Carrowmore, in County Sligo, Ireland, is one of many such thin places found throughout the world, a place where time stands still and the secular world brushes against the sacred. chapter 1 ...

When you spend enough time with Karen White and Beatriz Williams you learn to enjoy their sense of humor.   I very much enjoyed their discussions on what would be the next title of this novel that they worked on with Lauren Willig .   I was bummed when the Memory of Air was not chosen as the title.   The title chosen was The Glass Ocean and it tells quite the tale, of the Lusitania. “ May 2013 Her finances are in dire straits and bestselling author Sarah Blake is struggling to find a big idea for her next book. Desperate, she breaks the one promise she made to her Alzheimer’s-stricken mother and opens an old chest that belonged to her great-grandfather, who died when the RMS  Lusitania was sunk by a German U-Boat in 1915. What she discovers there could change history. Sarah embarks on an ambitious journey to England to enlist the help of John Langford, a recently disgraced Member of Parliament whose family archives might contain the only key to the long-ago...