Book Review: The Seaside Homecoming by Julie Klassen


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Desperate to reconcile with her family, disgraced Claire Summers replies to an advertisement for a “respectable female partner” in a Sidmouth boarding house. She hopes the proprietor will prove more trustworthy than the lord who betrayed her. But will her handsome, secretive business partner send her packing if he learns her genteel façade hides a less-than-respectable past?

When her family discovers Claire has left Scotland with no word..
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Book Review: Specters in the Glass House by Jaime Jo Wright


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An ominous butterfly house. A sinister legacy. An untraceable killer.

In 1921, Marian Arnold, the heiress to a brewing baron's empire, seeks solace in the glass butterfly house on her family's Wisconsin estate as Prohibition and the deaths of her parents cast a long shadow over her shrinking world. When Marian's sanctuary is invaded by nightmarish visions, she grapples with the line between hallucinations of things to come and malevolent forces at play in the present. With dead butterflies as the killer's ominous signature, murders unfold at a steady pace. Marian, fearful...
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Book Review: One Special Christmas by Amanda Cabot


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It will take a miracle to salvage her dreams, but Christmas is the season of miracles, isn’t it?

Fearing this may be her young brother’s last Christmas, Greta Engel is determined to make Otto’s dream of spending it at the foot of Pikes Peak come true. She’ll do anything, even selling a priceless family heirloom, to get them away from Houston and the man who threatened both of them. But the trip to the fabled mountain is more arduous than she’d anticipated and a crisis leaves them stranded in the Texas Hill Country.

Even though it’s only a temporary stay...
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Book Review: A Token of Love by Carrie Turansky


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In 1885 London, Lillian Freemont embarks on a treacherous journey to reunite with her long-lost niece who was abandoned at the Foundling Hospital eight years ago. Fueled by her sister’s plea and armed with the gold token that identifies her niece, Lillian teams up with investigative reporter Matthew McGivern to expose the grim reality of the shadowed streets of London. As Lillian and Matthew unravel the mystery of Alice’s disappearance, their partnership blossoms into one of shared purpose and undeniable attraction.
 
In present-day London, Janelle Spencer finds herself unexpectedly running the Foundling Museum...
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Book Review: Of Gold and Shadows and by Michele Griep


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The shadows hold secrets darker than they ever imagined . . .

In 1888 Victorian England, Ami Dalton navigates a clandestine dual life. By day, she strives to establish herself as a respected Egyptologist, overcoming the gender biases that permeate academia. But with a heart for saving black-market artifacts from falling into the wrong hands, she is most often disguised as her alter ego, the Shadow Broker.

After eight years in India, Oxford's most eligible bachelor, Edmund Price, has come out of the shadows to run for Parliament and is in search of...

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