Girls of Glass When the granddaughter of one of Florida’s most powerful judges disappears, it triggers a personal trauma for Detective Alice Garner: the kidnapping and murder of her own child. As a flood of painful memories comes rushing back, Alice sees herself in the guilt-ridden and emotionally fragile mother Charlotte Burke, who has become […]
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Then She Was Gone Ellie Mack was the perfect daughter. She was fifteen, the youngest of three. She was beloved by her parents, friends, and teachers. She and her boyfriend made a teenaged golden couple. She was days away from an idyllic post-exams summer vacation, with her whole life ahead of her. And then she
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Summertime Is The BEST Time For Reading Okay, so yes, I’m clearly biased and definitely think ANY time is the best time for reading. That said, summer seems practically made for getting lost in a great book. Let’s dig into five reasons why, now. 1. Summer is a time to pause. If you look at
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First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a “haunting”; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor,
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TBR – To Be Read. Every reader has one of these piles. Maybe it consists of stacks of books on your nightstand, or hundreds of eBooks in your Kindle, or audio files in your iPhone. What does yours say about you as a person? Let’s dig in and find out. 1. Which of the following
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The Haunting of Ashburn House People whisper rumors about a family murdered at Ashburn House. They say its old owner, Edith, went mad in the building, and that restless ghosts walk the halls at night. When Adrienne arrives on the gothic house’s doorstep, all she has is a suitcase, twenty dollars, and her pet cat.
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5 Reasons Why Mixed-Genre Novels Are Best Before I was an author, I was a reader. I read A LOT of books over the years. (In fact, I taught myself to read at three years old because I wanted to write stories so badly.) And, one of the things I realized early on is that
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Naomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods. In freeing the girl trapped in the root cellar, Naomi revealed the horrible extent of her father’s crimes and made him infamous. No matter how close she gets to happiness, she can’t outrun the sins of Thomas David Bowes. Now a
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