In  this blog post, I reviewed Leah Konen’s Keep Your Friends Close. This thriller will keep you in suspense from start to finish. It would deliver you goosebumps and gasping breaths in every turned page. For Mary Haywood, all she wanted is to move to Old Forge New York with her young son Alex. But her husband George is making it difficult for her to do so with vile threats and intimidating tactics. But when she meets Willa, her looks could kill, they would be more than deceiving when she befriends her, and later learns who she was, when she discovered her husband’s dead body at her home. At first, she’s a prime suspect, but she didn’t know who would be vindictive to kill him in cold blood. She later becomes hesitant and doubts Willa after she ghosted her for a time. In the end, she later discovered the shocking truth on who killed him and why… that would leave you breathless.

 In this blog post, I reviewed Kristin Higgins’s Anything for You, the fifth installment in the Blue Heron contemporary romance series. This romance is about star-crossed lovers with the opposites attract trope nestled inside. For the past decade, Connor O’Rourke have been in love with Jessica Dunn since 6th grade, even if she lived on the opposite side of the tracks. He would do anything to win her love, but it wasn’t easy as it seemed, since she needed to take care of her special needs younger brother, who hated Connor ever since the dog mauling incident years ago. She worked two jobs, and dealt with her absentee father who was always on a bender. But every time he proposed to her, she said no.  While she fell hard for him, Connor made sure they kept their relationship a secret, until he found a way to befriend him to earn his trust, to win her heart. But when she thought she couldn’t trust him, she learned the hard way that he always took care of her, and would do anything for her, until she professed her love for him.

 In this blog post, I reviewed Amy Lillard’s Dairy Dairy Quite Contrary, the first installment in the Sunflower Cafe Amish cozy mystery series. (I finished this book last month.) You’ll be enchanted and intrigued in this debut novel. For Sissy Yoder, she left her hometown of Tulsa to live with her aunt and her cousin Lizzie. In Yoder, Kansas. It was supposed to be a temporary visit, while she helped her cousin at the cafe, until she had gotten caught up in a mystery. Who killed Kevin, the local milkman? And when she was the first one to find him, she became the prime suspect, though she’s new to town? To clear her name, she gathered up clues on Kevin, and learned about his family life, while running into some unwelcomed guests who didn’t want to pry into their business. With help from Gavin, who’s a reporter from the local newspaper, they team up to discover the clues to lead them to the true culprit right under their noses, before it would be too late.

 In this blog post, I reviewed PD James’s the Skull Beneath the Skin, the second installment in the Cordelia Gray mystery series. (I finished reading this book in mid-September last year.) This mystery has all the fixings of a locked-room mystery set in an island.  For Cordelia Grey, this was her first installment as a female private eye, when Clarissa Lile’s husband asks her to protect her from vile death threats and other mishappenings on the sunlit island of Courcy, Scotland. But it was anything but a simple assignment for Cordelia. She met the people who were closest to her, and discovered shocking secrets about her, up until when she discovered Clarissa was dead in her room. That’s when the local police were brought in, when more shocking twists and turns to the end would leave you guessing whodunit literally.

 In this book blog post, I read Kaitlyn Hill’s Wild About You. This YA romcom will give you all the feels on every turned page. For Natalie Hart, she embarked on a new adventure, when she signed up to become a contestant in the WIld Adventures reality competition show to win some money to pay for financial aid. She was paired up with Finn Markum as her partner during the competition. For Finn, he mourned the loss of his father, and missed him much. During the challenges, they faced their fears, made new friends, and discovered new insights about each other, when they’ve gotten closer together. But when Natalie had gotten high anxiety, she feared she would let Finn down as partner and potential boyfriend. Her parents had neglected her, and she didn’t want to become a failure. With help from Finn and Harper, they excelled every challenge along the Appalachian Trail, and won more than a handful of money in the end.

 In Melanie Cellier’s A Dance of Silver and Shadow, the first installment in the Beyond the Four Kingdoms YA Fairytale Retelling series, this enchanted story is based on the Twelve Dancing Princesses story. For Lilianna and Sophia, twin princesses from the Arcadia Kingdom, they were both invited to a Princess Tourney on the island of Marin. For Lily, she was always protecting her twin sister Sophie, while both had shared a special gift of projecting thoughts to each other. While they meet other princesses for this tournament of dances and danger, she falls in love with Prince Jonathan from Marin, and helps save his kingdom from treasonous betrayals and coups. But it;s winner takes all to become betrothed to Prince Dominic of Palinar, a Beastly Prince, who's the most dangerous person to meet. And in the end, Lily’s twin sacrifices herself to give her sister true love and to become her own person.

 In  this blog review post, I read Stacey Kennedy’s Stranded with a Cowboy, the second installment in the Devil’s Bluffs Contemporary Romance series. This tender-hearted love story is all about second chances and redemption to make things right. For Levi Kingsley, his liquor business and ranch business is in a public turmoil ever since his father had passed away. He had made a mess between him, his brother, and two half-brothers, who were all heirs. But during this publicity crisis, he needed someone fast, even if it made his heart hurt. For Kendra Davies, she didn’t expect to see the man who broke her heart and ruined her father’s life from three years ago. But when he asked for her help, she knew this would help elevate her PR career to new heights. After she arranged a goodwill publicity tour across the country, she agreed to be his plus one, though it brought her closer than ever. But then with her mother’s reappearance in his life and her father’s drinking problems, it had hit a nasty monkeywrench to her plans. When she had gotten closer to Levi, he had put the brakes into their relationship since he didn’t know what he felt to her. To make it right, he had to make amends to her and to sweep her off her feet.