What Are You Reading?
Summer time is in full swing. Time for trips to the beach,
car rides across the country, sitting by the pool, and lots of time to relax
and read. I love sitting on the deck of a beach house overlooking the ocean and
catching up on my reading.
One of the many perks as an author is that I get asked to
read and blurb about new books. So I’m
often discovering new books and new authors.
Recently, I read a great page turner, Jane Anonymous. Now it
doesn’t release until January, but if you like nail biting suspense, preorder
it now.
Bestselling author Laurie Faria Stolarz’s thrilling novel Jane Anonymous is a revelatory confessional of a seventeen-year-old girl’s fight to escape a kidnapper—and her struggles to connect with loved ones and a life that no longer exists.
Seven
months.
That’s
how long I was kept captive.
Locked
in a room with a bed, refrigerator, and adjoining bathroom, I was instructed to
eat, bathe, and behave. I received meals, laundered clothes, and toiletries
through a cat door, never knowing if it was day or night. The last time I saw
the face of my abductor was when he dragged me fighting from the trunk of his
car. And when I finally escaped, I prayed I’d never see him again.
Now that I’m home, my parents and friends want everything to be
like it was before I left. But they don’t understand that dining out and
shopping trips can’t heal what’s broken inside me. I barely leave my bedroom.
Therapists are clueless and condescending. So I start my own form of
therapy—but writing about my experience awakens uncomfortable memories, ones
that should’ve stayed buried. How far will I have to go to uncover the truth of
what happened—and will it break me forever?
Find out more about
Laurie Faria Stolarz and her books at https://lauriestolarz.com/stand-alones/.
I also just bought Lea Nolan’s Hoodoo
Apprentice series. I haven’t started it, but I’m about to. It sounds amazing
and came highly recommended. I’m going to start it tomorrow, curled up on my
porch swing, sipping sweet tea. I can’t wait!
Be careful what you wish for…
Emma Guthrie expects this summer to be like any other in the South Carolina Lowcountry–hot and steamy with plenty of beach time alongside her best friend and secret crush, Cooper Beaumont, and Emma’s ever-present twin brother, Jack. But then a mysterious eighteenth-century message in a bottle surfaces, revealing a hidden pirate bounty. Lured by the adventure, the trio discovers the treasure and unwittingly unleashes an ancient Gullah curse that attacks Jack with the wicked flesh-eating Creep and promises to steal Cooper’s soul on his approaching sixteenth birthday.
But when a strange
girl bent on revenge appears, demon dogs become a threat, and Jack turns into a
walking skeleton; Emma has no choice but to learn hoodoo magic to undo the hex,
all before the last days of summer–and her friends–are lost forever.
Find out more about Lea Nolan and her Hoodoo Apprentice series
at http://leanolan.com/ln/books-new/.
What are you reading? Any books you’d like to recommend?
Winner!!
The winner of last week’s t-shirt giveaway is Elizabeth Kenney. Congratulations! Please email your postal address and your t-shirt size to cc@cchunterbooks.com.
