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Connie N.’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

Yellow Submarine - Part 2

McCartney (9/9)
M - Author Jael McHenry - The Kitchen Daughter - 5/28/18 ♥♥♥♥
C - Christmas in Kilts by Terri Brisbin - 7/3/18 ♥♥♥♥
C - Chocolat by Joanne Harris - 7/26/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Agatha Christie - Mrs. McGinty's Dead - 6/10/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Red Delicious Death by Sheila Connolly - 7/21/18 ♥♥♥♥
T - The Travel Writer: A Mystery by Jeff Soloway - 3/25/18 ♥♥
N - The Nightingale Sisters by Donna Douglas - 7/6/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Emily March - Lover's Leap - 10/13/18 ♥♥♥
Y - Author Yvonne Whittal - House of Mirrors - 4/26/18 ♥♥♥♥

Nowhere (7/7)
N - Nurse Smith, Cook by Joyce Dingwell - 12/15/18 ♥♥♥
O - Author Olivia Dade - Hidden Hearts - 1/24/19 ♥♥♥
W - Author Yvonne Whittal - The Light Within - 11/30/18 ♥♥♥
H - Hard Sell by Lauren Layne - 11/26/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Richard Paul Evans - A Step of Faith - 3/7/18 ♥♥♥♥
R – Author Roxanne St. Claire - Space in His Heart - 3/8/18 ♥♥♥♥
E – Author Janet Evanovich - Turbo Twenty-Three - 2/21/18 ♥♥♥♥

Ono (3/3)
O - Author Karen E. Olson - Driven to Ink - 2/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - Author Nancy Martin - Dead Girls Don't Wear Diamonds - 1/4/19 ♥♥♥♥
O - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by Agatha Christie - 3/14/19 ♥♥♥♥

Paul (4/4)
P - Author Renita Pizzitola - Just a Little Kiss - 12/11/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Donna Alward - The Crown Prince's Bride - 6/13/18 ♥♥♥♥
U - Unlawful Contact by Pamela Clare - 5/11/18 ♥♥♥
L - Author Laura Drewry - How Forever Feels - 8/10/18 ♥♥♥

Quarrymen (9/9)
Q - Author Spencer Quinn - The Sound and the Furry - 8/23/18 ♥♥♥♥
U - Up from the Grave by Jeaniene Frost - 8/15/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Donna Andrews - Cockatiels at Seven - 6/28/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Author Nora Roberts - Blood Brothers - 7/30/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Author J.D. Robb - Calculated in Death - 8/7/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
Y - You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour - 6/25/18 ♥♥♥
M - Make It Hurt by Jackie Ashenden - 7/12/18 ♥♥♥
E - Author Lissa Evans - Wed Wabbit - 10/21/18 ♥♥♥♥
N - Author Nalini Singh - Visions of Heat - 7/20/18 ♥♥♥♥

Ringo (5/5)
R - Author M.L. Rowland - Murder Off the Beaten Path - 8/11/18 ♥♥♥♥
I - Author Ilona Andrews - Magic Bleeds - 5/31/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
N - Author Nicole Michaels - Start Me Up - 8/16/18 ♥♥♥
G - Author Tess Gerritsen - Keeper of the Bride - 9/25/18 ♥♥♥♥
O - Odin's Shadow by Erin S. Riley - 9/11/18 ♥♥♥♥

Starr (5/5)
S - Summer Nights by Susan Mallery - 4/11/18 ♥♥♥♥
T - Take Me Deeper by Jackie Ashenden - 5/20/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Along Came a Spider by James Patterson - 9/12/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rock Chick Reckoning by Kristen Ashley - 8/28/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
R - Author Richard Doetsch - The 13th Hour - 9/9/18 ♥♥♥♥

Twist (5/5)
T - Tall, Dark & Hungry by Lynsay Sands - 6/16/18 ♥♥♥♥
W - Wrong for Me by Jackie Ashenden - 4/27/18 ♥♥♥♥
I - It Happened One Wedding by Julie James - 5/31/18 ♥♥♥♥
S - The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis - 4/12/18 ♥♥♥♥
T - Trying It All by Christi Barth - 7/31/18 ♥♥♥♥♥

U - USSR (4/4)
U - Until Trevor by Aurora Rose Reynolds - 5/4/18 ♥♥♥
S - The Sunny Side: Short Stories and Poems for Proper Grown-Ups by A.A. Milne - 4/20/18 ♥♥♥♥
S - The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie - 5/3/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Author Rochelle Alers - Sweet Silver Bells - 9/23/18 ♥♥

V - Revolution (10/10)
R - Rocky Mountain Angel by Vivian Arend - 10/9/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - 11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass - 11/8/18 ♥♥♥
V - Author Vina Jackson - The Pleasure Quartet: Autumn - 8/24/18 ♥♥♥♥
O - Only a Promise by Mary Balogh - 10/29/18 ♥♥♥♥
L - Author Lee Kilraine - You Can't Hurry Love - 8/14/18 ♥♥♥♥
U - Unseen by Karin Slaughter - 1/15/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
T - Thankless in Death by J.D. Robb - 10/7/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
I - I've Been Thinking . . .Reflections, Prayers, and Meditations for a Meaningful Life by Maria Shriver - 6/7/18 ♥♥♥
O - The Other Side by J.D. Robb - 3/25/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - Author Natasha Preston - You Will Be Mine - 9/18/18 ♥♥♥

White Album (10/10)
W - When Love Comes by J.H. Croix - 9/5/18 ♥♥♥♥
H - Hawke by Sawyer Bennett - 7/28/18 ♥♥♥
I - It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet by James Herriot - 6/11/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
T - Trick or Treat Murder by Leslie Meier - 10/19/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Jennifer Egan - Manhattan Beach - 11/10/18 ♥♥♥
A - Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley by M.C. Beaton - 10/21/18 ♥♥♥♥
L - Love without a Compass by Lindy Zart - 10/3/18 ♥♥♥
B - Author Serena Bell - Do Over - 6/23/18 ♥♥♥♥
U - Unplugged by Lois Greiman - 3/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
M - Mystery of the Brass-bound Trunk by Carolyn Keene - 8/2/18 ♥♥♥♥

X - Sixties (7/7)
S - Author Phoef Sutton - Fifteen Minutes to Live - 8/27/18 ♥♥♥
I - Author Alexandra Ivy - When Darkness Comes - 8/31/18 ♥♥♥
X - X Marks the Spot by Opal Carew - 8/17/18 ♥♥♥
T - Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris - 11/5/18 ♥♥♥♥
I - I Dared the Duke by Anna Bennett - 9/15/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - An Ex for Christmas by Lauren Layne - 11/13/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
S - Someone like You by Lauren Layne - 9/2/18 ♥♥♥♥

Yellow Submarine (15/15)
Y - Author Sabrina York - Spurred On - 7/11/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Janet Evanovich - Look Alive Twenty-Five - 12/19/18 ♥♥♥♥
L - Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran - 10/14/18 ♥♥♥
L - The Legendary Lord by Valerie Bowman - 11/23/18 ♥♥♥♥
O - One Death, Nine Stories by Marc Aronson - 4/2/19 ♥♥♥♥
W - A Wild Goose Chase Christmas by Jennifer AlLee - 12/8/18 ♥♥♥♥
S - Six Geese A-Slaying by Donna Andrews - 7/15/18 ♥♥♥♥
U - The Unsung Hero by Suzanne Brockmann - 4/30/19 ♥♥♥
B - Author Patricia Briggs - Silver Borne - 10/2/18 ♥♥♥♥
M - Author Carol Madison - Serena's Plight - 10/12/18 ♥♥♥
A - Author Ilona Andrews - Magic Slays - 11/9/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Author Annie Rains - Welcoming the Bad Boy - 10/20/18 ♥♥♥♥
I - I See Life Through Rosé-Colored Glasses by Lisa Scottoline - 7/25/18 ♥♥♥♥
N - Author Nalini Singh - Caressed by Ice - 9/19/18 ♥♥♥♥
E – Author Emma Douglas - Need You Now - 3/4/18 ♥♥♥♥

Zebra Crossing (13/13)
Z - Zoned for Murder by Evelyn David - 9/4/18 ♥♥♥
E - Author Jennifer Estep - Spider's Bite - 2/7/19 ♥♥♥♥
B - Beach Happens by Jamie K. Schmidt - 11/16/18 ♥♥♥♥
R – Author R.L. Mathewson - Checkmate - 2/2/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Animal Magnetism by Jill Shalvis - 11/19/18 ♥♥♥♥
C - Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases by Cory Franklin - 10/16/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Author M.L. Rowland - Murder on the Horizon - 1/2/19 ♥♥♥♥
O - One Day in December by Josie Silver - 5/20/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
S - Author Samantha Kane - Jacked Up - 9/20/18 ♥♥♥
S - Author Sawyer Bennett - Bishop - 12/3/18 ♥♥♥♥
I - I Knew You Were Trouble by Lauren Layne - 11/2/18 ♥♥♥♥
N - Author Nora Roberts - The Hollow - 10/18/18 ♥♥♥♥
G - Author Dorothy Gilman - The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax - 10/23/18 ♥♥♥♥♥

****************CHALLENGE COMPLETE 5/20/19**************

Crossing another spell-out off my list!

YELLOW SUBMARINE
Timeframe: 2/1/18 to 5/20/19
200/200
26/26 Words

Apple Records (12/12)
A - Accidental Cowgirl by Maggie McGinnis - 2/14/18 ♥♥♥♥
P - Playing Dirty by C.L. Parker - 2/11/18 ♥♥♥
P - Author Patricia Briggs - Bone Crossed - 6/26/18 ♥♥♥♥
L – Author Lauren Layne - I Think I Love You - 12/13/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie - 2/3/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rock Chick Redemption by Kristen Ashley - 3/2/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - Author Janet Evanovich - Hardcore Twenty-Four - 3/9/18 ♥♥♥♥
C – Author Colum McCann - Let the Great World Spin - 12/7/18 ♥♥
O - One Grave at a Time by Jeaniene Frost - 3/9/18 ♥♥♥♥
R – Author J.D. Robb - Concealed in Death - 12/18/18 ♥♥♥♥
D – Author Diane Mott Davidson - Killer Pancake - 11/21/18 ♥♥♥♥
S - Shopaholic Ties the Knot by Sophie Kinsella - 2/6/18 ♥♥♥♥

Beatles (7/7)
B - A Bone to Pick by Charlaine Harris - 4/19/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Ellen Marie Wiseman - The Life She Was Given - 4/6/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Arm Candy by Jessica Lemmon - 3/23/18 ♥♥♥♥
T – Truth or Die by Jack Lynch - 3/13/18 ♥♥♥♥
L - Love Me Again by Jaci Burton - 5/7/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - The Escape Diaries by Juliet Rosetti - 4/7/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
S – Author Susan Mallery - Just One Kiss - 12/5/18 ♥♥♥

Cavern Club (10/10)
C - Author Cassie Mae - Doing It for Love - 3/21/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Praveen Asthana - The Woman in the Movie Star Dress - 2/20/18 ♥♥
V - Author Virna DePaul - Mr. Rich - 2/27/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Nicole Edwards - Bad Reputation - 4/22/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Risk It by Jennifer Chance - 4/2/18 ♥♥♥
N - New York to Dallas by J.D. Robb - 2/9/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
C - The Curse of Tenth Grave by Darynda Jones - 4/29/18 ♥♥♥♥
L - Love Struck by Laurelin McGee - 5/9/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
U - Unpredictable by Eileen Cook - 2/13/18 ♥♥♥
B - Body Shot by Kelly Jamieson - 5/2/18 ♥♥♥♥

Drummers (8/8)
D - Demons are a Ghoul's Best Friend by Victoria Laurie - 8/20/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Author J.D. Robb - Celebrity in Death - 4/5/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
U - Uncovered by Kathryn Taylor - 2/5/18 ♥♥♥
M - Author Megan Crane - Devil's Mark - 2/4/18 ♥♥♥♥
M – Author Maggie McGinnis - A Cowboy's Christmas Promise - 12/24/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Emily March - Heartache Falls - 6/12/18 ♥♥♥
R - Rock Chick Renegade by Kristen Ashley - 4/24/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
S - Single White Vampire by Lynsay Sands - 3/22/18 ♥♥♥♥

Ed Sullivan (10/10)
E - Author Ellery Adams - Peach Pies and Alibis - 7/8/18 ♥♥♥
D - Don't Call Me Sweetheart by Codi Gary - 11/11/18 ♥♥
S - Author Karin Slaughter - Criminal - 3/30/18 ♥♥♥♥
U - Unlucky in Love by Maggie McGinnis - 3/28/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
L - L is for Lawless by Sue Grafton - 5/23/18 ♥♥♥♥
L - Author Lilian Jackson Braun - The Cat Who Saw Red - 6/18/18 ♥♥♥♥
I - Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs - 2/24/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
V - Author Valerie Bowman - The Accidental Countess - 6/30/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Anna Bennett - My Brown-Eyed Earl - 3/29/18 ♥♥♥♥
N - Author Nalini Singh - Slave to Sensation - 2/16/18 ♥♥♥♥

Fab Four (7/7)
F - The Final Score by Jaci Burton - 6/27/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - All Summer Long by Susan Mallery - 5/18/18 ♥♥♥♥
B - Breakfast in Bed by Sandra Brown - 6/6/18 ♥♥♥
F - Fatal Affair by Marie Force - 2/21/18 ♥♥♥♥
O - One Less Problem Without You by Beth Harbison - 6/3/18 ♥♥♥
U - The Unexpected Duchess by Valerie Bowman - 5/5/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Author J.D. Robb - Delusion in Death - 6/9/18 ♥♥♥♥♥

George (6/6)
G - Author George Plimpton - The X Factor: A Quest for Excellence - 10/24/18 ♥♥♥
E - Author Jill Alexander Essbaum - Hausfrau - 10/26/18 ♥♥♥♥
O - On the Line by Liz Lincoln - 10/25/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy - 11/29/18 ♥♥♥
G - Gem & Dixie by Sara Zarr - 11/15/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Ellery Adams - Pecan Pies and Homicides - 10/30/18 ♥♥♥♥

Harrison (8/8)
H - Hell on Heels by Victoria Vane - 5/24/18 ♥♥♥
A -Author Anne George - Murder Runs in the Family - 4/10/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Author Annie Rains - Forbidden Kisses - 6/15/18 ♥♥♥
R - Rock Chick Revenge by Kristen Ashley - 6/21/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
I - Indiscreet by Kasey Michaels - 4/16/18 ♥♥♥♥
S - The Secret of the Wooden Lady by Carolyn Keene - 3/31/18 ♥♥♥♥
O - Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman - 4/20/18 ♥♥♥
N - Author Nora Roberts - A Will and a Way - 2/28/18 ♥♥♥♥

Imagine Peace (12/12)
I - The Illusion of Separateness by Simon Van Booy - 5/12/18 ♥♥♥♥
M - Author Trish McCallan - Forged In Ash - 3/17/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Almost Forever by Kathy Clark - 4/13/18 ♥♥♥
G - Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner - 3/15/18 ♥♥♥♥
I - Author Alyssa Rose Ivy - Soar - 5/19/18 ♥♥♥♥
N - Author Sheryl Nantus - Game On - 3/1/18 ♥♥♥
E - Enemy Lover by Pamela Kent - 7/31/18 ♥♥♥♥
P - Playing with Fire by Kate Meader - 7/27/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Erin McCarthy - Dream Maker - 8/21/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - The Art of Hiding by Amanda Prowse - 6/8/18 ♥♥♥♥
C - Author Megan Crane - Devil's Own - 5/30/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Erin McCarthy - Love Taker - 8/30/18 ♥♥♥

John (4/4)
J – Author Jenn McKinlay - Death by the Dozen - 5/25/18 ♥♥♥♥
O - Once Upon a Thanksgiving by Holly Jacobs - 4/25/18 ♥♥♥♥
H - Hot Asset by Lauren Layne - 7/17/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
N - The Necklace by Claire McMillan - 3/3/18 ♥♥♥

K - Yoko (4/4)
Y - Author Beth Yarnall - Rush - 6/24/18 ♥♥♥
O - Author Molly O'Keefe - Can't Buy Me Love - 7/13/18 ♥♥♥
K - Author Kathleen Long - Counting Stars - 11/18/18 ♥♥♥♥
O - Author Karen E. Olson - Pretty in Ink - 8/8/18 ♥♥♥♥

Lennon (6/6)
L - The Last Suppers by Diane Mott Davidson - 7/7/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Elin Hilderbrand - The Matchmaker - 9/27/18 ♥♥♥♥
N – Author Nalini Singh - Mine to Possess - 1/6/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - Nothing Personal by Jaci Burton - 4/18/18 ♥♥♥♥
O - Only Enchanting by Mary Balogh - 6/4/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
N - Now and Then by Mira Lyn Kelly - 4/19/18 ♥♥♥

That would be great. But as you already know, I can make a spell-out from any challenge idea, so don't be surprised when my name pops up in another section. Plus I've been inspired to do some of those again...

Yup, I've done every single one of the ones at CYOA, I think. Will you be adding any new ones? Because I'm the QUEEN of spell-outs!

While I appreciate your creativity in creating a variety of challenge options, I'm a spell-out girl at heart. And I can get my fill here at NBRC, so keep up the good work!

Needles & Stitches - Page 2

Overlay (7/7)
O - Only My Heart To Give by Nan Asquith - 6/23/19 ♥♥♥♥
V - Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa by R.A. Scotti - 1/5/20 ♥♥♥
E - Emily March - Nightingale Way - 12/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Ruta Sepetys - Out of the Easy - 5/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
L - Lacey Alexander - French Quarter - 12/8/19 ♥♥♥
A - Author Jane Arbor - The Other Miss Donne - 6/27/19 ♥♥♥
Y - Yates, Maisey - Heir to a Dark Inheritance - 2/20/20 ♥♥♥

Pattern (7/7)
P - Phinn, Gervase - The Other Side of the Dale - 11/17/19 ♥♥♥
A - Apprentice in Death by J.D. Robb - 1/6/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
T - Tangled Threads by Jennifer Estep - 1/2/20 ♥♥♥♥
T - Tribute by Nora Roberts - 1/13/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - Ever After by Phyllis A. Whitney - 1/14/20 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rodriguez, Deborah - Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil - 12/19/19 ♥♥♥
N - Nancy Naigle - Dear Santa - 12/27/19 ♥♥♥

Quilt (5/5)
Q - Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus with a Will of Its Own by Doreen Orion - 11/13/19 ♥♥♥♥
U - The Unwilling Executive by Miranda P. Charles - 7/25/19 ♥♥♥
I - Ink Flamingos by Karen E. Olson - 9/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
L - Louise Gornall - Under Rose-Tainted Skies - 1/2/20 ♥♥♥♥
T - To Have and to Hold by Lauren Layne - 7/29/19 ♥♥♥♥♥

Ribbon (6/6)
R - Ross Petras - Unusually Stupid Americans: A Compendium of All-American Stupidity by - 6/6/19 ♥♥♥♥
I - In the Mood Fur Love by Eve Langlais - 10/17/19 ♥♥♥
B - Bitter Sweets by G.A. McKevett - 7/21/19 ♥♥♥♥
B - Balogh, Mary - Only a Kiss - 11/4/19 - ♥♥♥♥♥
O - One Perfect Kiss by Jaci Burton - 7/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - Nalini Singh - Branded by Fire - 8/19/19 ♥♥♥♥

Stitches (8/8)
S - Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris - 9/5/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - Troutte, Kimberley - Forbidden Lovers - 9/7/19 ♥♥♥
I - I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass - 12/9/19 ♥♥♥
T - A True Cowboy Christmas by Caitlin Crews - 10/19/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
C - The Clue in the Old Stagecoach by Carolyn Keene - 11/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
H - Halston, Sidney - What About Us - 9/17/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman - 1/31/20 ♥♥♥♥
S - Shannon Stacey - Under Control - 9/21/19 ♥♥♥♥

Thread (6/6)
T - Tayari Jones - An American Marriage - 2/26/20 ♥♥♥
H - Heller, Joseph - Catch-22 - 2/9/20 ♥♥
R - Roman by Sawyer Bennett - 1/26/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Educated by Tara Westover - 1/19/20 ♥♥♥♥
A – Alex Michaelides - The Silent Patient - 3/31/20 ♥♥♥♥
D - Dick Francis - Bolt - 10/7/19 ♥♥♥♥

Upholstery (10/10)
U - Until the End of Time by Danielle Steel - 7/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
P - Playing Hurt by Kelly Jamieson - 10/31/19 ♥♥♥♥
H - Hot Response by Shannon Stacey - 7/27/19 ♥♥♥♥
O – Oke, Janette - When Comes the Spring - 3/14/20 ♥♥♥♥
L - Lynsay Sands - Bite Me If You Can - 3/11/20 ♥♥♥♥
S - Author Karin Slaughter - The Kept Woman - 8/3/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
T - Thomas, Richard - Disintegration - 3/8/20 ♥♥♥
E - Emma Hart - Stripped Down - 2/4/20 ♥♥♥♥
R – Rosenfelt, David - Open and Shut - 4/6/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
Y - Yeonmi Park - In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom - 5/18/19 ♥♥♥

Velcro (6/6)
V - Valentine, Marquita - Hard to Fall - 4/23/20 ♥♥
E - Elizabeth Hoyt - Sweetest Scoundrel - 2/28/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
L - Lorelei James - One Night Rodeo - 7/16/19 ♥♥♥♥
C - Caitlin Crews - Untamed - 8/18/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Roxane Gay - Difficult Women - 5/29/19 ♥♥♥
O - Once Upon A Christmas by Holly Jacobs - 8/9/19 ♥♥♥♥

Wool (4/4)
W - White Heat by Jill Shalvis - 8/22/19 ♥♥♥♥
O - Once a Moretti Wife by Michelle Smart - 9/22/19 ♥♥♥♥
O - Old Before My Time: Hayley Okines' Life with Progeria by Hayley Okines - 10/4/19 ♥♥♥
L - A Lover's Secret by Bethany Bloom - 3/16/20 ♥♥

X - Textile (7/7)
T - Treading Water by Marie Force - 3/25/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Eleventh Grave in Moonlight by Darynda Jones - 3/19/20 ♥♥♥♥
X - X, Monique - Sugar: My Life as a Sugar Babe - 4/9/20 ♥♥♥
T - Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center - 3/30/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
I - I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter - 3/7/20 ♥♥♥
L - Lavinia Kent - Unsuitable - 4/18/20 ♥♥♥
E - Emma Chase - Appealed - 2/7/20 ♥♥♥♥

Yardage (7/7)
Y - Young, Rena - Catch A Falling Star - 4/15/20 ♥♥♥
A - All I Want by Jill Shalvis - 2/29/20 ♥♥♥♥
R - Reid, Henrietta - Sister of the Bride - 3/3/20 ♥♥♥♥
D - Dick Francis - Bonecrack - 11/29/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
A - Ann Brashares - Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood - 3/5/20 ♥♥♥♥
G - Green, Crystal - When the Sun Goes Down... - 11/7/19 ♥♥♥
E - Echoes in Death by Robb, J.D. - 2/23/20 ♥♥♥♥♥

Zigzag (6/6)
Z - Author Rebecca Zanetti - Claimed - 6/17/19 ♥♥♥
I - Ilona Andrews - Magic Breaks - 1/28/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
G - Go Down Hard by Craig Faustus Buck - 8/8/19 ♥♥♥
Z - Zo White and the Seven Morphs by Barbara Silkstone - 11/12/19 ♥♥♥
A - Ann Marie Walker - Black Tie Optional - 9/29/19 ♥♥♥♥
G - Author Donna Grant - Cowboy, Cross My Heart - 8/29/19 ♥♥♥♥

*******CHALLENGE COMPLETE 4/23/20*****

I did this one a few years ago, but I'm back with a whole new set of words.

Needles & Stitches
Timeframe: 5/7/19 to 4/23/20
153/153
26/26 Words

Awl (3/3)
A - Author Agatha Christie - The Clocks - 8/2/19 ♥♥♥♥
W - Author William Wright - Jailhouse Doc: A Doctor in the County Jail - 7/6/19 ♥♥♥
L - Author Liz Lipperman - Beef Stolen-Off - 8/17/19 ♥♥♥

Baste (5/5)
B - Author Jessica Beck - Fatally Frosted - 8/26/19 ♥♥♥
A - Aunt Dimity: Detective by Nancy Atherton - 9/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
S - Slap Shot by Kelly Jamieson - 8/15/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - Author Karen Templeton - Yours, Mine... or Ours? - 8/31/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Janet Evanovich - Smitten - 8/23/19 ♥♥♥

Cloth (5/5)
C - Author J.H. Croix - Follow Love - 5/25/19 ♥♥♥♥
L - Looking For Rachel Wallace by Robert B. Parker - 6/20/19 ♥♥♥♥
O - One Day in December by Josie Silver - 5/20/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
T - Then Came You by Jill Shalvis - 6/5/19 ♥♥♥♥
H - Author Sloane Howell - Scored - 5/12/19 ♥♥♥♥

Darts (5/5)
D - Down with Love by Kate Meader - 6/18/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Annette Blair - Cloaked in Malice - 6/16/19 ♥♥♥
R - Rumor Has It by Jill Shalvis - 5/8/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - Author Tracy Wolff - Royal Pain - 6/4/19 ♥♥♥
S - Second Chance Summer by Jill Shalvis - 7/5/19 ♥♥♥♥

Embroidery (10/10)
E - Author Elizabeth Hoyt - Dearest Rogue - 6/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
M - Max by Sawyer Bennett - 5/27/19 ♥♥♥♥
B - Back Check by Kelly Jamieson - 5/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rock Chick Revolution by Kristen Ashley - 5/14/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
O – One of These Nights by Susan Sizemore - 12/14/19 ♥♥♥♥
I – Isabella Bradford - When You Wish Upon a Duke - 3/28/20 ♥♥♥♥
D - Author Dick Francis - For Kicks - 6/25/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - Author Janet Evanovich - Back to the Bedroom - 7/7/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Ruthless by Gillian Archer - 7/9/19 ♥♥♥♥
Y - The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store by Cait Flanders - 9/14/19 ♥♥♥

Facing (6/6)
F - Falling Up by Shel Silverstein - 11/25/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Autumn Song by Margaret Pargeter - 6/26/19 ♥♥
C - A Curve in the Road by Julianne MacLean - 6/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
I - Ilona Andrews - Magic Rises - 5/19/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
N - The Nightingale Nurses by Donna Douglas - 5/21/19 ♥♥♥♥
G – Gallant, Jannine - Wilde One - 2/25/20 ♥♥♥♥

Gusset (6/6)
G - Greer Hendricks - The Wife Between Us - 6/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
U – Until Now by Cristin Cooper - 1/12/20 ♥♥♥
S - Silver Linings by Debbie Macomber - 7/13/19 ♥♥♥♥
S - Author Carla Swafford - Full Heat - 7/31/19 ♥♥♥
E - Author Jennifer Estep - Web of Lies - 7/20/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
T - Three Daughters of Madame Liang by Pearl S. Buck - 6/8/19 ♥♥♥

Hem (3/3)
H - His Wicked Wish by Olivia Drake - 9/27/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Everything Under by Daisy Johnson - 10/25/19 ♥♥
M - Marie Force - Fatal Justice - 10/9/19 ♥♥♥

Iron (4/4)
I - Illegally Yours by Kate Meader - 8/25/19 ♥♥♥
R - Author J.D. Robb - Devoted in Death - 8/7/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
O - Obsession in Death by J.D. Robb - 6/7/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
N - Nalini Singh - Hostage to Pleasure - 5/31/19 ♥♥♥♥♥

Jersey (6/6)
J - Julia Quinn - The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever - 12/16/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - Edwards, Nicole - Bad Business - 9/10/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rebellious by Gillian Archer - 10/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
S – Still the One by Jill Shalvis - 12/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Erin McCarthy - The Breakup - 9/15/19 ♥♥♥♥
Y - Yvonne Whittal - Dark Heritage - 11/11/19 ♥♥♥

Knit (4/4)
K - Karen Marie Moning - Shadowfever - 10/22/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - No Interest in Love by Cassie Mae - 11/22/19 ♥♥♥
I - In a Marrying Mood by Raye Morgan - 11/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - Tina Wainscott - Falling Free - 11/28/19 ♥♥♥♥

Lace (4/4)
L - Lois Greiman - Unscrewed - 10/24/19 ♥♥♥
A - Agatha Christie - Ordeal by Innocence - 8/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
C - A Cry In The Night by Mary Higgins Clark - 7/23/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Erin McCarthy - The Hookup - 8/11/19 ♥♥♥♥♥

Material (8/8)
M - My Kind of Wonderful by Jill Shalvis - 10/28/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Angel in Scarlet by Lavinia Kent - 12/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - Thompson, Vicki Lewis - Old Enough to Know Better - 12/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Eternal Summer by Anne Hampson - 11/14/19 ♥♥♥
R - Robb, J.D. - Brotherhood in Death - 10/30/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
I - The Inherited Bride by Rebecca Stratton - 11/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Anita Hughes - Christmas at the Chalet: A Novel - 12/20/19 ♥♥♥
L - Lee Kilraine - Bringing Delaney Home - 11/8/19 ♥♥♥♥

Needle (6/6)
N - Norton Juster - The Phantom Tollbooth - 7/17/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - Estep, Jennifer - Venom - 9/18/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Emma Chase - Sustained - 11/19/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
D - The Diva Takes the Cake by Krista Davis - 7/2/19 ♥♥♥♥
L - Liane Moriarty - Nine Perfect Strangers - 11/23/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Emergency!: True Stories From The Nation's ERs by Mark Brown - 11/21/19 ♥♥♥

Mother's Day - Part 2

Mom (3/3)
M - Mary Higgins Clark - A Cry In The Night - 7/23/19 ♥♥♥♥
O - One Perfect Kiss by Jaci Burton - 7/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
M - My Kind of Wonderful by Jill Shalvis - 10/28/19 ♥♥♥♥

Nurture (7/7)
N - No Interest in Love by Cassie Mae - 11/22/19 ♥♥♥
U - Untamed by Caitlin Crews - 8/18/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rodriguez, Deborah - Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil - 12/19/19 ♥♥♥
T – Then Came You by Kate Meader - 4/26/20 ♥♥♥
U - Under Control by Shannon Stacey - 9/21/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - R.A. Scotti - Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa - 1/5/20 ♥♥♥
E - Eternal Summer by Anne Hampson - 11/14/19 ♥♥♥

Orchid (6/6)
O - One Night Rodeo by Lorelei James - 7/16/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Roberts, Nora - Tribute - 1/13/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
C – Center, Katherine - What You Wish For - 4/13/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
H - Holt, Desiree - Fourth Down - 3/27/20 ♥♥♥♥
I - In the Mood Fur Love by Eve Langlais - 10/17/19 ♥♥♥
D - Donna Grant - Cowboy, Cross My Heart - 8/29/19 ♥♥♥♥

Parent (6/6)
P - Password to Larkspur Lane by Carolyn Keene - 3/15/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Anita Hughes - Christmas at the Chalet: A Novel - 12/20/19 ♥♥♥
R - Roman by Sawyer Bennett - 1/26/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Estep, Jennifer - Tangled Threads - 1/2/20 ♥♥♥♥
N - Nightingale Way by Emily March - 12/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - Tina Wainscott - Falling Free - 11/28/19 ♥♥♥♥

Queen for a Day (12/12)
Q - Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus with a Will of Its Own by Doreen Orion - 11/13/19 ♥♥♥♥
U - Unscrewed by Lois Greiman - 10/24/19 ♥♥♥
E - Emma Chase - Sustained - 11/19/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - Emergency!: True Stories From The Nation's ERs by Mark Brown - 11/21/19 ♥♥♥
N - Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty - 11/23/19 ♥♥♥♥
F - Fatal Justice by Marie Force - 10/9/19 ♥♥♥
O - Once a Moretti Wife by Michelle Smart - 9/22/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Robb, J.D. - Echoes in Death - 2/23/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
A - Apprentice in Death by J.D. Robb - 1/6/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
D - Drake, Olivia - His Wicked Wish - 9/27/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Andrews, Ilona - Magic Breaks - 1/28/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
Y - The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store by Cait Flanders - 9/14/19 ♥♥♥

Roses (5/5)
R - Reid, Henrietta - Sister of the Bride - 3/3/20 ♥♥♥♥
O - Once Upon A Christmas by Holly Jacobs - 8/9/19 ♥♥♥♥
S - Author Jill Shalvis - White Heat - 8/22/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Ever After by Phyllis A. Whitney - 1/14/20 ♥♥♥♥
S - Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris - 9/5/19 ♥♥♥♥

Son (3/3)
S - Shadowfever by Karen Marie Moning - 10/22/19 ♥♥♥♥
O - Old Before My Time: Hayley Okines' Life with Progeria by Hayley Okines - 10/4/19 ♥♥♥
N - Nancy Naigle - Dear Santa - 12/27/19 ♥♥♥

Tiara (5/5)
T - Treading Water by Marie Force - 3/25/20 ♥♥♥♥
I - I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass - 12/9/19 ♥♥♥
A - Appealed by Emma Chase - 2/7/20 ♥♥♥♥
R - Richard Thomas - Disintegration - 3/8/20 ♥♥♥
A - An American Marriage by Tayari Jones - 2/26/20 ♥♥♥

U - Bouquet (7/7)
B - Bolt by Dick Francis - 10/7/19 ♥♥♥♥
O - Only a Kiss by Mary Balogh - 11/4/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
U - Until Now by Cristin Cooper - 1/12/20 ♥♥♥
Q - Quinn, Julia - The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever - 12/16/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
U - Unsuitable by Lavinia Kent - 4/18/20 ♥♥♥
E - Educated by Tara Westover - 1/19/20 ♥♥♥♥
T - A True Cowboy Christmas by Caitlin Crews - 10/19/19 ♥♥♥♥♥

Visit (5/5)
V - Valentine, Marquita - Hard to Fall - 4/23/20 ♥♥
I - I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter - 3/7/20 ♥♥♥
S - Shannon Stacey - Hot Response - 7/27/19 ♥♥♥♥
I - Isabella Bradford - When You Wish Upon a Duke - 3/28/20 ♥♥♥♥
T - Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center - 3/30/20 ♥♥♥♥♥

Wine (4/4)
W - What About Us by Sidney Halston - 9/17/19 ♥♥♥♥
I - In a Marrying Mood by Raye Morgan - 11/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - Night Broken by Patricia Briggs - 2/19/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman - 1/31/20 ♥♥♥♥

X - Jewelry Box (10/10)
J - Janette Oke - When Comes the Spring - 3/14/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Emma Hart - Stripped Down - 2/4/20 ♥♥♥♥
W - Wilde One by Jannine Gallant - 2/25/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Elizabeth Hoyt - Sweetest Scoundrel - 2/28/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
L - A Lover's Secret by Bethany Bloom - 3/16/20 ♥♥
R - Rena Young - Catch A Falling Star - 4/15/20 ♥♥♥
Y - Yvonne Whittal - Dark Heritage - 11/11/19 ♥♥♥
B - Buck, Craig Faustus - Go Down Hard - 8/8/19 ♥♥♥
O - The Other Side of the Dale by Gervase Phinn - 11/17/19 ♥♥♥
X - X, Monique - Sugar: My Life as a Sugar Babe - 4/9/20 ♥♥♥

Y - Family (6/6)
F - Falling Up by Shel Silverstein - 11/25/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - All I Want by Jill Shalvis - 2/29/20 ♥♥♥♥
M - The Mystery at Lilac Inn by Carolyn Keene - 2/12/20 ♥♥♥♥
I - The Inherited Bride by Rebecca Stratton - 11/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
L - Lauren Layne - To Have and to Hold - 7/29/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
Y - Yates, Maisey - Heir to a Dark Inheritance - 2/20/20 ♥♥♥

Zen Garden (9/9)
Z - Zo White and the Seven Morphs by Barbara Silkstone - 11/12/19 ♥♥♥
E - Eleventh Grave in Moonlight by Darynda Jones - 3/19/20 ♥♥♥♥
N - Nalini Singh - Blaze of Memory - 4/2/20 ♥♥♥
G - Grafton, Sue - M is for Malice - 2/13/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Ann Brashares - Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood - 3/5/20 ♥♥♥♥
R - Roxane Gay - Difficult Women - 5/29/19 ♥♥♥
D - Dick Francis - Bonecrack - 11/29/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - Elizabeth Spann Craig - A Body in the Backyard - 4/19/20 ♥♥♥♥
N - 9 1/2 Days by Mia Zachary - 5/6/20 ♥♥♥♥

******CHALLENGE COMPLETE 5/6/20*****

As always, I have to turn this into a long-term spell-out challenge. Thanks for a great idea! And I'm going to start on Mother's Day.

Mother's Day
Timeframe: 5/12/19 to 5/6/20
167/167
26/26 Gifts

A - Spa (3/3)
S - Author Sawyer Bennett - Max - 5/27/19 ♥♥♥♥
P - Playing Hurt by Kelly Jamieson - 10/31/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Kristen Ashley - Rock Chick Revolution - 5/14/19 ♥♥♥♥♥

Breakfast in Bed (14/14)
B - Back Check by Kelly Jamieson - 5/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Royal Pain by Tracy Wolff - 6/4/19 ♥♥♥
E - Author Elizabeth Hoyt - Dearest Rogue - 6/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Annette Blair - Cloaked in Malice - 6/16/19 ♥♥♥
K - Keene, Carolyn - The Clue in the Old Stagecoach - 11/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
F - Follow Love by J.H. Croix - 5/25/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Autumn Song by Margaret Pargeter - 6/26/19 ♥♥
S - Second Chance Summer by Jill Shalvis - 7/5/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - Then Came You by Jill Shalvis - 6/5/19 ♥♥♥♥
I - In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park - 5/18/19 ♥♥♥
N - The Nightingale Nurses by Donna Douglas - 5/21/19 ♥♥♥♥
B - Bitter Sweets by G.A. McKevett - 7/21/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Janet Evanovich - Back to the Bedroom - 7/7/19 ♥♥♥♥
D – Donna Grant - My Favorite Cowboy - 3/24/20 ♥♥♥♥

Card (4/4)
C - Carew, Jean - The Marrying Kind - 3/10/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Alex Michaelides - The Silent Patient - 3/31/20 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rosenfelt, David - Open and Shut - 4/6/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
D - Dina Silver - One Pink Line 3/21/20 ♥♥♥♥

Daughter (8/8)
D - Dick Francis - For Kicks - 6/25/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
A - Agatha Christie - The Clocks - 8/2/19 ♥♥♥♥
U - Until the End of Time by Danielle Steel - 7/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
G - Greer Hendricks - The Wife Between Us - 6/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
H – Holly Jacobs - Once Upon a Valentine's - 4/7/20 ♥♥♥
T - Three Daughters of Madame Liang by Pearl S. Buck - 6/8/19 ♥♥♥
E - Author Jennifer Estep - Web of Lies - 7/20/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
R - Rebecca Zanetti - Claimed - 6/17/19 ♥♥♥

Earrings (8/8)
E - Erin McCarthy - The Hookup - 8/11/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
A - Agatha Christie - Ordeal by Innocence - 8/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Robert B. Parker - Looking For Rachel Wallace - 6/20/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Ruthless by Gillian Archer - 7/9/19 ♥♥♥♥
I - Ilona Andrews - Magic Rises - 5/19/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
N - Nalini Singh - Hostage to Pleasure - 5/31/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
G – Grant, Donna - A Cowboy Like You - 4/17/20 ♥♥♥♥
S - Silver Linings by Debbie Macomber - 7/13/19 ♥♥♥♥

Flowers (7/7)
F - Fatally Frosted by Jessica Beck - 8/26/19 ♥♥♥
L - Liz Lipperman - Beef Stolen-Off - 8/17/19 ♥♥♥
O - One Day in December by Josie Silver - 5/20/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
W - William Wright - Jailhouse Doc: A Doctor in the County Jail - 7/6/19 ♥♥♥
E - Author Janet Evanovich - Smitten - 8/23/19 ♥♥♥
R - Author J.D. Robb - Devoted in Death - 8/7/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
S - Author Carla Swafford - Full Heat - 7/31/19 ♥♥♥

Grandma (7/7)
G – Green, Crystal - When the Sun Goes Down... - 11/7/19 ♥♥♥
R - Rebellious by Gillian Archer - 10/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Aunt Dimity: Detective by Nancy Atherton - 9/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - Norton Juster - The Phantom Tollbooth - 7/17/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
D - The Diva Takes the Cake by Krista Davis - 7/2/19 ♥♥♥♥
M - Author Julianne MacLean - A Curve in the Road - 6/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Ann Marie Walker - Black Tie Optional - 9/29/19 ♥♥♥♥

Heart (5/5)
H - Heller, Joseph - Catch-22 - 2/9/20 ♥♥
E - Edwards, Nicole - Bad Business - 9/10/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Angel in Scarlet by Lavinia Kent - 12/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Robb, J.D. - Brotherhood in Death - 10/30/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
T - Troutte, Kimberley - Forbidden Lovers - 9/7/19 ♥♥♥

I Love You (8/8)
I - Illegally Yours by Kate Meader - 8/25/19 ♥♥♥
L - Lee Kilraine - Bringing Delaney Home - 11/8/19 ♥♥♥♥
O – One of These Nights by Susan Sizemore - 12/14/19 ♥♥♥♥
V - Venom by Jennifer Estep - 9/18/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Erin McCarthy - The Breakup - 9/15/19 ♥♥♥♥
Y - Yours, Mine... or Ours? by Karen Templeton - 8/31/19 ♥♥♥♥
O - Obsession in Death by J.D. Robb - 6/7/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
U - Unusually Stupid Americans: A Compendium of All-American Stupidity by Ross Petras - 6/6/19 ♥♥♥♥

Journal (7/7)
J - Jill Shalvis - Still the One - 12/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
O - Only My Heart To Give by Nan Asquith - 6/23/19 ♥♥♥♥
U - The Unwilling Executive by Miranda P. Charles - 7/25/19 ♥♥♥
R - Ruta Sepetys - Out of the Easy - 5/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - Nalini Singh - Branded by Fire - 8/19/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Alexander, Lacey - French Quarter - 12/8/19 ♥♥♥
L - Louise Gornall - Under Rose-Tainted Skies - 1/2/20 ♥♥♥♥

Kiss (4/4)
K - Kate Meader - Down with Love - 6/18/19 ♥♥♥♥
I - Ink Flamingos by Karen E. Olson - 9/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
S - Author Karin Slaughter - The Kept Woman - 8/3/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
S - Slap Shot by Kelly Jamieson - 8/15/19 ♥♥♥♥

Love (4/4)
L - Lynsay Sands - Bite Me If You Can - 3/11/20 ♥♥♥♥
O - The Other Miss Donne by Jane Arbor - 6/27/19 ♥♥♥
V - Vicki Lewis Thompson - Old Enough to Know Better - 12/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Everything Under by Daisy Johnson - 10/25/19 ♥♥

Apple Pie Day - Part 3

Rome (4/4)
R - Richard Thomas - Disintegration - 3/8/20 ♥♥♥
O - Ordeal by Innocence by Agatha Christie - 8/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
M - Marie Force - Fatal Justice - 10/9/19 ♥♥♥
E - Educated by Tara Westover - 1/19/20 ♥♥♥♥

Sundance (8/8)
S - Slap Shot by Kelly Jamieson - 8/15/19 ♥♥♥♥
U - Untamed by Caitlin Crews - 8/18/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - Nan Asquith - Only My Heart To Give - 6/23/19 ♥♥♥♥
D - Dina Silver - One Pink Line 3/21/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Apprentice in Death by J.D. Robb - 1/6/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
N - 9 1/2 Days by Mia Zachary - 5/6/20 ♥♥♥♥
C – A Cowboy Like You by Donna Grant - 4/17/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman - 1/31/20 ♥♥♥♥

Tolman Sweet (11/11)
T - Tina Wainscott - Falling Free - 11/28/19 ♥♥♥♥
O - Once a Moretti Wife by Michelle Smart - 9/22/19 ♥♥♥♥
L - Lavinia Kent - Angel in Scarlet - 12/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
M - The Mystery at Lilac Inn by Carolyn Keene - 2/12/20 ♥♥♥♥
A – Alcott, Kate - The Daring Ladies of Lowell - 6/4/20 ♥♥♥
N - Normandie Alleman - Daddy's Game - 5/23/20 ♥♥♥
S - Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris - 9/5/19 ♥♥♥♥
W - Wilde One by Jannine Gallant - 2/25/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Emma Hart - Stripped Down - 2/4/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Elizabeth Hoyt - Sweetest Scoundrel - 2/28/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
T - Thompson, Vicki Lewis - Old Enough to Know Better - 12/30/19 ♥♥♥♥

U - Mutsu (5/5)
M - M is for Malice by Sue Grafton - 2/13/20 ♥♥♥♥
U - Under Control by Shannon Stacey - 9/21/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - Treading Water by Marie Force - 3/25/20 ♥♥♥♥
S - Shadowfever by Karen Marie Moning - 10/22/19 ♥♥♥♥
U - Until Now by Cristin Cooper - 1/12/20 ♥♥♥

V - Envy (4/4)
E - Eleventh Grave in Moonlight by Darynda Jones - 3/19/20 ♥♥♥♥
N - N.L. Wilson - The Case of the Flashing Fashion Queen - 5/28/20 ♥♥♥
V - Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa by R.A. Scotti- 1/5/20 ♥♥♥
Y - Yvonne Whittal - Dark Heritage - 11/11/19 ♥♥♥

Winesap (7/7)
W - When Comes the Spring by Janette Oke - 3/14/20 ♥♥♥♥
I - In the Bag by Kate Klise - 5/30/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
N - No Place Like You by Emma Douglas - 6/2/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Elizabeth Spann Craig - A Body in the Backyard - 4/19/20 ♥♥♥♥
S - The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever by Julia Quinn - 12/16/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
A - An American Marriage by Tayari Jones - 2/26/20 ♥♥♥
P - Patricia Briggs - Fire Touched - 4/20/20 ♥♥♥♥

X - Cox's Orange Pippin (16/16)
C - Catch-22 by Joseph Heller - 2/9/20 ♥♥
O - Old Before My Time: Hayley Okines' Life with Progeria by Hayley Okines - 10/4/19 ♥♥♥
X - X, Monique - Sugar: My Life as a Sugar Babe - 4/9/20 ♥♥♥
S - Shalvis, Jill - My Kind of Wonderful - 10/28/19 ♥♥♥♥
O - Only a Kiss by Mary Balogh - 11/4/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
R - Rosenfelt, David - Open and Shut - 4/6/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
A - All I Want by Jill Shalvis - 2/29/20 ♥♥♥♥
N - Nobody But You by Jill Shalvis - 6/14/20 ♥♥♥♥
G - Grant, Donna - My Favorite Cowboy - 3/24/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Emma Douglas - A Season of You - 5/24/20 ♥♥♥♥
P - Pearl S. Buck - Three Daughters of Madame Liang - 6/8/19 ♥♥♥
I - Ilona Andrews - Magic Shifts - 6/30/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
P - Private by James Patterson - 4/30/20 ♥♥♥♥
P - Paige Shelton - Fruit of All Evil - 5/16/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Echoes in Death by J.D. Robb - 2/23/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
N - Nancy Atherton - Aunt Dimity: Detective - 9/3/19 ♥♥♥♥

York (4/4)
Y - Yates, Maisey - Heir to a Dark Inheritance - 2/20/20 ♥♥♥
O - One of These Nights by Susan Sizemore - 12/14/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rena Young - Catch A Falling Star - 4/15/20 ♥♥♥
K - Keene, Carolyn - The Clue in the Old Stagecoach - 11/24/19 ♥♥♥♥

Zestar (6/6)
Z - Zo White and the Seven Morphs by Barbara Silkstone - 11/12/19 ♥♥♥
E - Emma Chase - Appealed - 2/7/20 ♥♥♥♥
S - Shel Silverstein - Falling Up - 11/25/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center - 3/30/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
A - Ann Brashares - Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood - 3/5/20 ♥♥♥♥
R - Robb, J.D. - Secrets in Death - 5/5/20 ♥♥♥♥♥

*****CHALLENGE COMPLETE 7/15/20*****

Apple Pie Day - Part 2

Jonathan (8/8)
J - Jill Shalvis - Still the One - 12/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
O – Once Upon a Valentine's by Holly Jacobs - 4/7/20 ♥♥♥
N - Nalini Singh - Branded by Fire - 8/19/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Gillian Archer - Ruthless - 7/9/19 ♥♥♥♥
T – Templeton, Karen - Dear Santa - 4/27/20 ♥♥♥♥
H - Hot Response by Shannon Stacey - 7/27/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Agatha Christie - The Clocks - 8/2/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - Nicole Edwards - Bad Business - 9/10/19 ♥♥♥♥

Kanzi (5/5)
K - Katherine Center - What You Wish For - 4/13/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
A – Ashley, Kristen - Rock Chick Reawakening - 5/12/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
N - No Interest in Love by Cassie Mae - 11/22/19 ♥♥♥
Z - Author Rebecca Zanetti - Claimed - 6/17/19 ♥♥♥
I - I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass - 12/9/19 ♥♥♥

Liberty (7/7)
L - A Lover's Secret by Bethany Bloom - 3/16/20 ♥♥
I - Ilona Andrews - Magic Breaks - 1/28/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
B - Bonecrack by Dick Francis - 11/29/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - Erin McCarthy - The Breakup - 9/15/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Robb, J.D. - Brotherhood in Death - 10/30/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
T - A True Cowboy Christmas by Caitlin Crews - 10/19/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
Y - The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store by Cait Flanders - 9/14/19 ♥♥♥

Mcintosh (8/8)
M - Author G.A. McKevett - Bitter Sweets - 7/21/19 ♥♥♥♥
C - Crystal Green - When the Sun Goes Down... - 11/7/19 ♥♥♥
I - I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter - 3/7/20 ♥♥♥
N - Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty - 11/23/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - To Have and to Hold by Lauren Layne - 7/29/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
O – The Other Woman by Sandie Jones - 4/28/20 ♥♥♥♥
S - Silver Linings by Debbie Macomber - 7/13/19 ♥♥♥♥
H - Halston, Sidney - What About Us - 9/17/19 ♥♥♥♥

Northern Spy (11/11)
N - Nightingale Way by Emily March - 12/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
O - One Perfect Kiss by Jaci Burton - 7/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rodriguez, Deborah - Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil - 12/19/19 ♥♥♥
T - Troutte, Kimberley - Forbidden Lovers - 9/7/19 ♥♥♥
H - His Wicked Wish by Olivia Drake - 9/27/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Estep, Jennifer - Venom - 9/18/19 ♥♥♥♥
R – Reluctantly Royal by Gillian Archer - 5/29/20 ♥♥♥♥
N - Nancy Naigle - Dear Santa - 12/27/19 ♥♥♥
S - Author Carla Swafford - Full Heat - 7/31/19 ♥♥♥
P - Phyllis A. Whitney - Ever After - 1/14/20 ♥♥♥♥
Y - Yours, Mine... or Ours? by Karen Templeton - 8/31/19 ♥♥♥♥

Opal (4/4)
O - One Night Rodeo by Lorelei James - 7/16/19 ♥♥♥♥
P - Password to Larkspur Lane by Carolyn Keene - 3/15/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Alexander, Lacey - French Quarter - 12/8/19 ♥♥♥
L - Lavinia Kent - Unsuitable - 4/18/20 ♥♥♥

Pinata (6/6)
P - The Playboy by Carly Phillips - 4/3/20 ♥♥♥♥
I - Into the Fire by Amanda Usen - 5/7/20 ♥♥♥♥
N - Nalini Singh - Blaze of Memory - 4/2/20 ♥♥♥
A - Alex Michaelides - The Silent Patient - 3/31/20 ♥♥♥♥
T - Then Came You by Kate Meader - 4/26/20 ♥♥♥
A - Arbor, Jane - The Other Miss Donne - 6/27/19 ♥♥♥

Q - Devonshire Quarreden (19/19)
D - Donna Grant - Cowboy, Cross My Heart - 8/29/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Everything Under by Daisy Johnson - 10/25/19 ♥♥
V - Valentine, Marquita - Hard to Fall - 4/23/20 ♥♥
O - Once Upon A Christmas by Holly Jacobs - 8/9/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - Nora Roberts - Tribute - 1/13/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
S - Author Karin Slaughter - The Kept Woman - 8/3/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
H - Holt, Desiree - Fourth Down - 3/27/20 ♥♥♥♥
I - Isabella Bradford - When You Wish Upon a Duke - 3/28/20 ♥♥♥♥
R - Roman by Sawyer Bennett - 1/26/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Emma Chase - Sustained - 11/19/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
Q - Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus with a Will of Its Own by Doreen Orion - 11/13/19 ♥♥♥♥
U - The Unwilling Executive by Miranda P. Charles - 7/25/19 ♥♥♥
A - Anita Hughes - Christmas at the Chalet: A Novel - 12/20/19 ♥♥♥
R – Resilient by Gillian Archer - 5/31/20 ♥♥♥♥
R - Reid, Henrietta - Sister of the Bride - 3/3/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Emergency!: True Stories From The Nation's ERs by Mark Brown - 11/21/19 ♥♥♥
D - Dick Francis - Bolt - 10/7/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Estep, Jennifer - Tangled Threads - 1/2/20 ♥♥♥♥
N - Night Broken by Patricia Briggs - 2/19/20 ♥♥♥♥

LOL, there are ALWAYS enough words to make anything into a long spell-out challenge! I'm choosing all different kinds of apples.

Apple Pie Day
Timeframe: 5/1/19 to 7/15/20
193/193
26/26 Apples

Apples (6/6)
A - Amanda Prowse - The Girl in the Corner - 7/15/20 ♥♥♥♥
P - Playing Hurt by Kelly Jamieson - 10/31/19 ♥♥♥♥
P - Phinn, Gervase - The Other Side of the Dale - 11/17/19 ♥♥♥
L - Lois Greiman - Unscrewed - 10/24/19 ♥♥♥
E - Author Janet Evanovich - Smitten - 8/23/19 ♥♥♥
S - Author Jill Shalvis - White Heat - 8/22/19 ♥♥♥♥

Baldwin (7/7)
B - Back Check by Kelly Jamieson - 5/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Kristen Ashley - Rock Chick Revolution - 5/14/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
L - Author Liz Lipperman - Beef Stolen-Off - 8/17/19 ♥♥♥
D - Author Debbie Macomber - Love Letters - 5/5/19 ♥♥♥♥
W - Author William Wright - Jailhouse Doc: A Doctor in the County Jail - 7/6/19 ♥♥♥
I - In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park - 5/18/19 ♥♥♥
N - The Nightingale Nurses by Donna Douglas - 5/21/19 ♥♥♥♥

Cortland (8/8)
C – Carew, Jean - The Marrying Kind - 3/10/20 ♥♥♥♥
O - Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys - 5/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Royal Pain by Tracy Wolff - 6/4/19 ♥♥♥
T - Then Came You by Jill Shalvis - 6/5/19 ♥♥♥♥
L - Lee Kilraine - Bringing Delaney Home - 11/8/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Annette Blair - Cloaked in Malice - 6/16/19 ♥♥♥
N - Author Nalini Singh - Hostage to Pleasure - 5/31/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
D - Difficult Women by Roxane Gay - 5/29/19 ♥♥♥

Delicious (9/9)
D - Down with Love by Kate Meader - 6/18/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Elizabeth Hoyt - Dearest Rogue - 6/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
L - Louise Gornall - Under Rose-Tainted Skies - 1/2/20 ♥♥♥♥
I - Illegally Yours by Kate Meader - 8/25/19 ♥♥♥
C - A Curve in the Road by Julianne MacLean - 6/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
I - Ink Flamingos by Karen E. Olson - 9/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
O - Obsession in Death by J.D. Robb - 6/7/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
U - Unusually Stupid Americans: A Compendium of All-American Stupidity by Ross Petras - 6/6/19 ♥♥♥♥
S - Second Chance Summer by Jill Shalvis - 7/5/19 ♥♥♥♥

Empire (6/6)
E - Author Janet Evanovich - Back to the Bedroom - 7/7/19 ♥♥♥♥
M - Max by Sawyer Bennett - 5/27/19 ♥♥♥♥
P - Author Robert B. Parker - Looking For Rachel Wallace - 6/20/19 ♥♥♥♥
I - In the Mood Fur Love by Eve Langlais - 10/17/19 ♥♥♥
R - Author J.D. Robb - Devoted in Death - 8/7/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - Author Jennifer Estep - Web of Lies - 7/20/19 ♥♥♥♥♥

Fuji (4/4)
F - Follow Love by J.H. Croix - 5/25/19 ♥♥♥♥
U - Until the End of Time by Danielle Steel - 7/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
J - Jessica Beck - Fatally Frosted - 8/26/19 ♥♥♥
I - In a Marrying Mood by Raye Morgan - 11/3/19 ♥♥♥♥

Gala (4/4)
G - Go Down Hard by Craig Faustus Buck - 8/8/19 ♥♥♥
A - Ann Marie Walker - Black Tie Optional - 9/29/19 ♥♥♥♥
L - Lynsay Sands - Bite Me If You Can - 3/11/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Anne Hampson - Eternal Summer - 11/14/19 ♥♥♥

Honeycrisp (10/10)
H - Author Greer Hendricks - The Wife Between Us - 6/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
O - One Day in December by Josie Silver - 5/20/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
N - Norton Juster - The Phantom Tollbooth - 7/17/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - E.L. Konigsburg - The View from Saturday - 5/4/19 ♥♥♥
Y - You're Saying It Wrong: A Pronunciation Guide to the 150 Most Commonly Mispronounced Words--And Their Tangled Histories of Misuse by Ross Petras - 5/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
C - A Cry In The Night by Mary Higgins Clark - 7/23/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rumor Has It by Jill Shalvis - 5/8/19 ♥♥♥♥
I - Ilona Andrews - Magic Rises - 5/19/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
S - Scored by Sloane Howell - 5/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
P - PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives by Frank Warren - 5/7/19 ♥♥♥

Idared (6/6)
I - The Inherited Bride by Rebecca Stratton - 11/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
D - Dick Francis - For Kicks - 6/25/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
A - Autumn Song by Margaret Pargeter - 6/26/19 ♥♥
R - Rebellious by Gillian Archer - 10/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Erin McCarthy - The Hookup - 8/11/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
D - The Diva Takes the Cake by Krista Davis - 7/2/19 ♥♥♥♥

Quests & Legends - Part 2

Narrative (9/9)
N - Author Natasha Preston - You Will Be Mine - 9/18/18 ♥♥♥
A - Author Donna Andrews - Cockatiels at Seven - 6/28/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rock Chick Reckoning by Kristen Ashley - 8/28/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
R - Author Richard Doetsch - The 13th Hour - 9/9/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Jackie Ashenden - Make It Hurt - 7/12/18 ♥♥♥
T - Trying It All by Christi Barth - 7/31/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
I - It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet by James Herriot - 6/11/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
V - Author Valerie Bowman - The Accidental Countess - 6/30/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Ellery Adams - Pecan Pies and Homicides - 10/30/18 ♥♥♥♥

Ode (3/3)
O - Author Karen E. Olson - Driven to Ink - 2/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
D – Author Diane Mott Davidson - The Last Suppers - 7/7/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Katy Evans - Real - 2/9/19 ♥♥♥

Parable (7/7)
P - Playing with Fire by Kate Meader - 7/27/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Along Came a Spider by James Patterson - 9/12/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Author Rochelle Alers - Sweet Silver Bells - 9/23/18 ♥♥
A - Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley by M.C. Beaton - 10/21/18 ♥♥♥♥
B - Author Patricia Briggs - Silver Borne - 10/2/18 ♥♥♥♥
L - Love without a Compass by Lindy Zart - 10/3/18 ♥♥♥
E - 11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass - 11/8/18 ♥♥♥

Quest (5/5)
Q - Author Spencer Quinn - The Sound and the Furry - 8/23/18 ♥♥♥♥
U - Unseen by Karin Slaughter - 1/15/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - Author Jennifer Egan - Manhattan Beach - 11/10/18 ♥♥♥
S - Someone like You by Lauren Layne - 9/2/18 ♥♥♥♥
T - Thankless in Death by J.D. Robb - 10/7/18 ♥♥♥♥♥

Rune (4/4)
R - Author Nora Roberts - Blood Brothers - 7/30/18 ♥♥♥♥
U - Unplugged by Lois Greiman - 3/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - Author Nalini Singh - Mine to Possess - 1/6/19 ♥♥♥♥
E – Author Evelyn David - Zoned for Murder - 9/4/18 ♥♥♥

Saga (4/4)
S - Serena's Plight by Carol Madison - 10/12/18 ♥♥♥
A - Author Ilona Andrews - Magic Slays - 11/9/18 ♥♥♥♥
G - Author Codi Gary - Don't Call Me Sweetheart - 11/11/18 ♥♥
A - Animal Magnetism by Jill Shalvis - 11/19/18 ♥♥♥♥

Tale (4/4)
T - Top Shelf by Kelly Jamieson - 1/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Jennifer AlLee - A Wild Goose Chase Christmas - 12/8/18 ♥♥♥♥
L - Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann - 12/7/18 ♥♥
E - Author Janet Evanovich - Look Alive Twenty-Five - 12/19/18 ♥♥♥♥

Undertaking (11/11)
U - Up from the Grave by Jeaniene Frost - 8/15/18 ♥♥♥♥
N - Author Nalini Singh - Caressed by Ice - 9/19/18 ♥♥♥♥
D - Author Laura Drewry - How Forever Feels - 8/10/18 ♥♥♥
E - An Ex for Christmas by Lauren Layne - 11/13/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
R - Rocky Mountain Angel by Vivian Arend - 10/9/18 ♥♥♥♥
T - Trick or Treat Murder by Leslie Meier - 10/19/18 ♥♥♥♥
A – Author Agatha Christie - The Secret Adversary - 5/3/18 ♥♥♥♥
K – Author Kelly Jamieson - Body Shot - 5/2/18 ♥♥♥♥
I - I See Life Through Rosé-Colored Glasses by Lisa Scottoline - 7/25/18 ♥♥♥♥
N - Nurse Smith, Cook by Joyce Dingwell - 12/15/18 ♥♥♥
G - Gem & Dixie by Sara Zarr - 11/15/18 ♥♥♥♥

Valor (5/5)
V - Author Valerie Bowman - The Legendary Lord - 11/23/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Animal Attraction by Jill Shalvis - 1/10/19 ♥♥♥♥
L - Author Lauren Layne - Hard Sell - 11/26/18 ♥♥♥♥
O - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by Agatha Christie - 3/14/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy - 11/29/18 ♥♥♥

Wayfarer (8/8)
W - When Love Comes by J.H. Croix - 9/5/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Donna Andrews - Six Geese A-Slaying - 7/15/18 ♥♥♥♥
Y - Author Sabrina York - Spurred On - 7/11/18 ♥♥♥♥
F - Author Jeaniene Frost - Home for the Holidays - 12/26/18 ♥♥♥
A – Author Jackie Ashenden - Take Me Deeper - 5/20/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Author Annie Rains - Welcoming the Bad Boy - 10/20/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Emma Hart - Stripped Bare - 2/27/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Author Renita Pizzitola - Just a Little Kiss - 12/11/18 ♥♥♥♥

X - Expedition (10/10)
E - Eggs in Purgatory by Laura Childs - 2/28/19 ♥♥♥♥
X - X Marks the Spot by Opal Carew - 8/17/18 ♥♥♥
P - Author Phoef Sutton - Fifteen Minutes to Live - 8/27/18 ♥♥♥
E - The End of Everything by Megan Abbott - 3/31/19 ♥♥
D - Demons are a Ghoul's Best Friend by Victoria Laurie - 8/20/18 ♥♥♥♥
I - I Dared the Duke by Anna Bennett - 9/15/18 ♥♥♥♥
T - Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris - 11/5/18 ♥♥♥♥
I - I Knew You Were Trouble by Lauren Layne - 11/2/18 ♥♥♥♥
O - On the Line by Liz Lincoln - 10/25/18 ♥♥♥♥
N - Author Nancy Martin - Dead Girls Don't Wear Diamonds - 1/4/19 ♥♥♥♥

Y - Voyage (6/6)
V - Author Vina Jackson - The Pleasure Quartet: Autumn - 8/24/18 ♥♥♥♥
O - Only a Promise by Mary Balogh - 10/29/18 ♥♥♥♥
Y - You Can't Hurry Love by Lee Kilraine - 8/14/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Aunt Dimity Beats the Devil by Nancy Atherton - 1/19/19 ♥♥♥♥
G - Author Donna Grant - The Christmas Cowboy Hero - 1/29/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Elly Griffiths - The Crossing Places - 4/3/19 ♥♥♥♥

Z - Wizard (6/6)
W - Author Yvonne Whittal - The Light Within - 11/30/18 ♥♥♥
I - I Think I Love You by Lauren Layne - 12/13/18 ♥♥♥♥
Z – Author Allen Zadoff - Hungry: Lessons Learned on the Journey from Fat to Thin - 2/14/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
A – Author Kristen Ashley - Rock Chick Renegade - 4/24/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
R - Author J.D. Robb - Concealed in Death - 12/18/18 ♥♥♥♥
D - Author Donna VanLiere - The Christmas Star - 12/31/18 ♥♥♥

******CHALLENGE COMPLETE 4/3/19*******

It took a year, but I'm done!

Quests & Legends
Timeframe: 4/20/18 to 4/3/19
164/164
26/26 Words

Adventure (9/9)
A - Author Jackie Ashenden - Wrong for Me - 4/27/18 ♥♥♥♥
D - Author Darynda Jones - The Curse of Tenth Grave - 4/29/18 ♥♥♥♥
V - Author Victoria Vane - Hell on Heels - 5/24/18 ♥♥♥
E - Author Nicole Edwards - Bad Reputation - 4/22/18 ♥♥♥♥
N - Author Nina LaCour - You Know Me Well - 6/25/18 ♥♥♥
T – Tangerine by Christine Mangan - 1/16/19 ♥♥♥♥
U - Until Trevor by Aurora Rose Reynolds - 5/4/18 ♥♥♥
R – River Marked by Patricia Briggs - 1/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Emily March - Heartache Falls - 6/12/18 ♥♥♥

Bold (4/4)
B – Beach Happens by Jamie K. Schmidt - 11/16/18 ♥♥♥♥
O - Once Upon a Thanksgiving by Holly Jacobs - 4/25/18 ♥♥♥♥
L - Love Me Again by Jaci Burton - 5/7/18 ♥♥♥♥
D - Death by the Dozen by Jenn McKinlay - 5/25/18 ♥♥♥♥

Crusade (7/7)
C – A Cowboy's Christmas Promise by Maggie McGinnis - 12/24/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Author J.D. Robb - Delusion in Death - 6/9/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
U - The Unexpected Duchess by Valerie Bowman - 5/5/18 ♥♥♥♥
S – Author Sawyer Bennett - Bishop - 12/3/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - All Summer Long by Susan Mallery - 5/18/18 ♥♥♥♥
D - Devil's Own by Megan Crane - 5/30/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Ellery Adams - Peach Pies and Alibis - 7/8/18 ♥♥♥

Daring (6/6)
D - Do Over by Serena Bell - 6/23/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - The Art of Hiding by Amanda Prowse - 6/8/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rock Chick Revenge by Kristen Ashley - 6/21/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
I - The Illusion of Separateness by Simon Van Booy - 5/12/18 ♥♥♥♥
N - The Nightingale Sisters by Donna Douglas - 7/6/18 ♥♥♥♥
G - Author Sue Grafton - L is for Lawless - 5/23/18 ♥♥♥♥

Epic (4/4)
E - Enemy Lover by Pamela Kent - 7/31/18 ♥♥♥♥
P - Author Patricia Briggs - Bone Crossed - 6/26/18 ♥♥♥♥
I - Author Alyssa Rose Ivy - Soar - 5/19/18 ♥♥♥♥
C - Counting Stars by Kathleen Long - 11/18/18 ♥♥♥♥

Fearless (8/8)
F - The Final Score by Jaci Burton - 6/27/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Erin McCarthy - Dream Maker - 8/21/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Agatha Christie - Mrs. McGinty's Dead - 6/10/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Red Delicious Death by Sheila Connolly - 7/21/18 ♥♥♥♥
L - Love Struck by Laurelin McGee - 5/9/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - Author Erin McCarthy - Love Taker - 8/30/18 ♥♥♥
S - Author Sandra Brown - Breakfast in Bed - 6/6/18 ♥♥♥
S – A Snowbound Scandal by Jessica Lemmon - 12/28/18 ♥♥♥

Goal (4/4)
G - Author Tess Gerritsen - Keeper of the Bride - 9/25/18 ♥♥♥♥
O - Author Karen E. Olson - Pretty in Ink - 8/8/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Alexandra Ivy - When Darkness Comes - 8/31/18 ♥♥♥
L - Author Lauren Layne - Hot Asset - 7/17/18 ♥♥♥♥♥

Hero (4/4)
H – Author Joanne Harris - Chocolat - 7/26/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Jennifer Estep - Spider's Bite - 2/7/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Author M.L. Rowland - Murder on the Horizon - 1/2/19 ♥♥♥♥
O - Author Olivia Dade - Hidden Hearts - 1/24/19 ♥♥♥

Imagination (11/11)
I - It Happened One Wedding by Julie James - 5/31/18 ♥♥♥♥
M - Mystery of the Brass-bound Trunk by Carolyn Keene - 8/2/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Donna Alward - The Crown Prince's Bride - 6/13/18 ♥♥♥♥
G - Author Dorothy Gilman - The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax - 10/23/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
I - Author Ilona Andrews - Magic Bleeds - 5/31/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
N - Author Nalini Singh - Visions of Heat - 7/20/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Annie Rains - Forbidden Kisses - 6/15/18 ♥♥♥
T - Tall, Dark & Hungry by Lynsay Sands - 6/16/18 ♥♥♥♥
I - I've Been Thinking . . .Reflections, Prayers, and Meditations for a Meaningful Life by Maria Shriver - 6/7/18 ♥♥♥
O - One Less Problem Without You by Beth Harbison - 6/3/18 ♥♥♥
N – Author Nancy Martin - Some Like it Lethal - 1/27/19 ♥♥♥♥

Journey (7/7)
J - Jacked Up by Samantha Kane - 9/20/18 ♥♥♥
O - Only Enchanting by Mary Balogh - 6/4/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
U - Unlawful Contact by Pamela Clare - 5/11/18 ♥♥♥
R - Author J.D. Robb - Calculated in Death - 8/7/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
N - Author Nicole Michaels - Start Me Up - 8/16/18 ♥♥♥
E - Author Elin Hilderbrand - The Matchmaker - 9/27/18 ♥♥♥♥
Y - Author Yvonne Whittal - House of Mirrors - 4/26/18 ♥♥♥♥

K - Folklore (8/8)
F - Author Cory Franklin - Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases - 10/16/18 ♥♥♥♥
O - Author Molly O'Keefe - Can't Buy Me Love - 7/13/18 ♥♥♥
L - Author Lilian Jackson Braun - The Cat Who Saw Red - 6/18/18 ♥♥♥♥
K - The Kitchen Daughter by Jael McHenry - 5/28/18 ♥♥♥♥
L – Lifeguard by James Patterson - 1/23/19 ♥♥♥
O - Odin's Shadow by Erin S. Riley - 9/11/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Author M.L. Rowland - Murder Off the Beaten Path - 8/11/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Emily March - Lover's Leap - 10/13/18 ♥♥♥

Legend (6/6)
L - Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran - 10/14/18 ♥♥♥
E - Author Lissa Evans - Wed Wabbit - 10/21/18 ♥♥♥♥
G - Author George Plimpton - The X Factor: A Quest for Excellence - 10/24/18 ♥♥♥
E - Author Jill Alexander Essbaum - Hausfrau - 10/26/18 ♥♥♥♥
N - Author Nora Roberts - The Hollow - 10/18/18 ♥♥♥♥
D - Author Diane Mott Davidson - Killer Pancake - 11/21/18 ♥♥♥♥

Myth (4/4)
M - Author Susan Mallery - Just One Kiss - 12/5/18 ♥♥♥
Y - Author Beth Yarnall - Rush - 6/24/18 ♥♥♥
T - Author Terri Brisbin - Christmas in Kilts - 7/3/18 ♥♥♥♥
H - Hawke by Sawyer Bennett - 7/28/18 ♥♥♥

Vanguard - Part 3

Reconnoiter (11/11)
R - Author Annie Rains - Welcoming the Bad Boy - 10/20/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - 11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass - 11/8/18 ♥♥♥
C - Author C.S. Lewis - The Silver Chair - 4/12/18 ♥♥♥♥
O - Only a Promise by Mary Balogh - 10/29/18 ♥♥♥♥
N - Author Nora Roberts - The Hollow - 10/18/18 ♥♥♥♥
N - Author Nancy Martin - Dead Girls Don't Wear Diamonds - 1/4/19 ♥♥♥♥
O - Author Karen E. Olson - Driven to Ink - 2/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
I - I Knew You Were Trouble by Lauren Layne - 11/2/18 ♥♥♥♥
T - Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris - 11/5/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Janet Evanovich - Look Alive Twenty-Five - 12/19/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Author Renita Pizzitola - Just a Little Kiss - 12/11/18 ♥♥♥♥

Source (6/6)
S – Author Susan Mallery - Just One Kiss - 12/5/18 ♥♥♥
O - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by Agatha Christie - 3/14/19 ♥♥♥♥
U - Until Trevor by Aurora Rose Reynolds - 5/4/18 ♥♥♥
R - Author M.L. Rowland - Murder Off the Beaten Path - 8/11/18 ♥♥♥♥
C - Chocolat by Joanne Harris - 7/26/18 ♥♥♥♥
E – Author Eileen Cook - Unpredictable - 2/13/18 ♥♥♥

Trend (5/5)
T – Author Tracy H. Tucker - I Kill Me: Tales of A Jilted Hypochondriac - 1/26/18 ♥♥
R - Author J.D. Robb - Concealed in Death - 12/18/18 ♥♥♥♥
E – Author Janet Evanovich - Turbo Twenty-Three - 2/21/18 ♥♥♥♥
N - Author Nalini Singh - Mine to Possess - 1/6/19 ♥♥♥♥
D - Author Diane Mott Davidson - Killer Pancake - 11/21/18 ♥♥♥♥

Ultramodern (11/11)
U - Unlawful Contact by Pamela Clare - 5/11/18 ♥♥♥
L – Author Lauren Layne - Someone like You - 9/2/18 ♥♥♥♥
T - Top Shelf by Kelly Jamieson - 1/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rock Chick Reckoning by Kristen Ashley - 8/28/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
A - All Summer Long by Susan Mallery - 5/18/18 ♥♥♥♥
M - Make It Hurt by Jackie Ashenden - 7/12/18 ♥♥♥
O - The Other Side by J.D. Robb - 3/25/19 ♥♥♥♥
D - Death by the Dozen by Jenn McKinlay - 5/25/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Jennifer Estep - Spider's Bite - 2/7/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Author Richard Doetsch - The 13th Hour - 9/9/18 ♥♥♥♥
N - Author Nalini Singh - Caressed by Ice - 9/19/18 ♥♥♥♥

Vanguard (8/8)
V - Author Vina Jackson - The Pleasure Quartet: Autumn - 8/24/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Along Came a Spider by James Patterson - 9/12/18 ♥♥♥♥
N - Author Nancy Atherton - Aunt Dimity Beats the Devil - 1/19/19 ♥♥♥♥
G – Author Sue Grafton - L is for Lawless - 5/23/18 ♥♥♥♥
U - Up from the Grave by Jeaniene Frost - 8/15/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley by M.C. Beaton - 10/21/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Author Rochelle Alers - Sweet Silver Bells - 9/23/18 ♥♥
D - Demons are a Ghoul's Best Friend by Victoria Laurie - 8/20/18 ♥♥♥♥

W - New Wave (7/7)
N - Author Nancy Martin - Some Like it Lethal - 1/27/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Katy Evans - Real - 2/9/19 ♥♥♥
W - When Love Comes by J.H. Croix - 9/5/18 ♥♥♥♥
W - Author Yvonne Whittal - The Light Within - 11/30/18 ♥♥♥
A - Animal Magnetism by Jill Shalvis - 11/19/18 ♥♥♥♥
V - Author Valerie Bowman - The Legendary Lord - 11/23/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Emma Hart - Stripped Bare - 2/27/19 ♥♥♥♥

X - Explorer (8/8)
E - Eggs in Purgatory by Laura Childs - 2/28/19 ♥♥♥♥
X - X Marks the Spot by Opal Carew - 8/17/18 ♥♥♥
P - Author Phoef Sutton - Fifteen Minutes to Live - 8/27/18 ♥♥♥
L - Love without a Compass by Lindy Zart - 10/3/18 ♥♥♥
O - One Death, Nine Stories by Marc Aronson - 4/2/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rocky Mountain Angel by Vivian Arend - 10/9/18 ♥♥♥♥
E – Author Emma Douglas - Need You Now - 3/4/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Author M.L. Rowland - Murder on the Horizon - 1/2/19 ♥♥♥♥

Y - Preliminary (11/11)
P - Author Patricia Briggs - Silver Borne - 10/2/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - River Marked by Patricia Briggs - 1/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - The End of Everything by Megan Abbott - 3/31/19 ♥♥
L - Author Laura Drewry - How Forever Feels - 8/10/18 ♥♥♥
I - Author Alexandra Ivy - When Darkness Comes - 8/31/18 ♥♥♥
M - Author Carol Madison - Serena's Plight - 10/12/18 ♥♥♥
I - I Dared the Duke by Anna Bennett - 9/15/18 ♥♥♥♥
N - Never Trust a Pirate by Valerie Bowman - 2/6/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Agatha Christie - Mrs. McGinty's Dead - 6/10/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rugged Texas Cowboy by Lora Leigh - 2/11/19 ♥♥♥
Y - Author Sabrina York - Spurred On - 7/11/18 ♥♥♥♥

Z - Trailblazer (11/11)
T - The Travel Writer: A Mystery by Jeff Soloway - 3/25/18 ♥♥
R - Author Rebecca Zanetti - Total Surrender - 1/29/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Praveen Asthana - The Woman in the Movie Star Dress - 2/20/18 ♥♥
I - Author Ilona Andrews - Magic Strikes - 1/17/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
L - Love Struck by Laurelin McGee - 5/9/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
B - Beach Happens by Jamie K. Schmidt - 11/16/18 ♥♥♥♥
L - Author Lee Kilraine - You Can't Hurry Love - 8/14/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Arm Candy by Jessica Lemmon - 3/23/18 ♥♥♥♥
Z - Author Rebecca Zanetti - Blind Faith - 1/24/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Elly Griffiths - The Crossing Places - 4/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - The Reluctant Duchess by Sharon Cullen - 1/18/18 ♥♥♥♥

******CHALLENGE COMPLETE 4/3/19*******

Vanguard - Part 2

Innovation (10/10)
I - Author Alyssa Rose Ivy - Soar - 5/19/18 ♥♥♥♥
N - The Nightingale Sisters by Donna Douglas - 7/6/18 ♥♥♥♥
N - Author Nalini Singh - Visions of Heat - 7/20/18 ♥♥♥♥
O - Only Enchanting by Mary Balogh - 6/4/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
V - Author Victoria Vane - Hell on Heels - 5/24/18 ♥♥♥
A – Author Jennifer AlLee - A Wild Goose Chase Christmas - 12/8/18 ♥♥♥♥
T - Thankless in Death by J.D. Robb - 10/7/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
I - It Happened One Wedding by Julie James - 5/31/18 ♥♥♥♥
O - Author Molly O'Keefe - Can't Buy Me Love - 7/13/18 ♥♥♥
N - Author Nora Roberts - Blood Brothers - 7/30/18 ♥♥♥♥

J - Get the jump on (12/12)
G - Author Codi Gary - Don't Call Me Sweetheart - 11/11/18 ♥♥
E - Author Erin McCarthy - Dream Maker - 8/21/18 ♥♥♥♥
T - Truth or Die by Jack Lynch - 3/13/18 ♥♥♥♥
T - Author Trish McCallan - Forged In Ash - 3/17/18 ♥♥♥♥
H - Hard Sell by Lauren Layne - 11/26/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Erin McCarthy - Love Taker - 8/30/18 ♥♥♥
J - Jacked Up by Samantha Kane - 9/20/18 ♥♥♥
U - Uncovered by Kathryn Taylor - 2/5/18 ♥♥♥
M - Make Me Stay by Sidney Halston - 1/31/18 ♥♥♥♥
P - Author Patricia Briggs - Bone Crossed - 6/26/18 ♥♥♥♥
O - Author Karen E. Olson - Pretty in Ink - 8/8/18 ♥♥♥♥
N – No One to Trust by Katie Reus - 3/6/19 ♥♥♥

Kickoff (6/7)
K - Author Carolyn Keene - Mystery of the Brass-bound Trunk - 8/2/18 ♥♥♥♥
I - Author Ilona Andrews - Magic Bleeds - 5/31/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
C – Author Colum McCann - Let the Great World Spin - 12/7/18 ♥♥
K - Author Kathleen Long - Counting Stars - 11/18/18 ♥♥♥♥
O - Odin's Shadow by Erin S. Riley - 9/11/18 ♥♥♥♥
F - Author Cory Franklin - Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases - 10/16/18 ♥♥♥♥
F - Author Jeaniene Frost - Home for the Holidays - 12/26/18 ♥♥♥

Leader (6/6)
L - The Last Suppers by Diane Mott Davidson - 7/7/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Evelyn David - Zoned for Murder - 9/4/18 ♥♥♥
A - Author Donna Andrews - Cockatiels at Seven - 6/28/18 ♥♥♥♥
D - Do Over by Serena Bell - 6/23/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Elin Hilderbrand - The Matchmaker - 9/27/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Red Delicious Death by Sheila Connolly - 7/21/18 ♥♥♥♥

Maverick (8/8)
M - Author Susan Mallery - Summer Nights - 4/11/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Jackie Ashenden - Wrong for Me - 4/27/18 ♥♥♥♥
V - Author Valerie Bowman - The Unexpected Duchess - 5/5/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Emily March - Lover's Leap - 10/13/18 ♥♥♥
R - Rock Chick Renegade by Kristen Ashley - 4/24/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
I - Indiscreet by Kasey Michaels - 4/16/18 ♥♥♥♥
C - The Cat Who Saw Red by Lilian Jackson Braun - 6/18/18 ♥♥♥♥
K - The Kitchen Daughter by Jael McHenry - 5/28/18 ♥♥♥♥

Navigate (8/8)
N - Author Nicole Michaels - Start Me Up - 8/16/18 ♥♥♥
A - Author Donna Alward - The Crown Prince's Bride - 6/13/18 ♥♥♥♥
V - Author Valerie Bowman - The Accidental Countess - 6/30/18 ♥♥♥♥
I - I've Been Thinking . . .Reflections, Prayers, and Meditations for a Meaningful Life by Maria Shriver - 6/7/18 ♥♥♥
G - Gem & Dixie by Sara Zarr - 11/15/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Donna Andrews - Six Geese A-Slaying - 7/15/18 ♥♥♥♥
T - Trick or Treat Murder by Leslie Meier - 10/19/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Lissa Evans - Wed Wabbit - 10/21/18 ♥♥♥♥

Origin (6/6)
O - On the Line by Liz Lincoln - 10/25/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rock Chick Revenge by Kristen Ashley - 6/21/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
I - It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet by James Herriot - 6/11/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
G - Author Donna Grant - The Christmas Cowboy Hero - 1/29/19 ♥♥♥♥
I - I See Life Through Rosé-Colored Glasses by Lisa Scottoline - 7/25/18 ♥♥♥♥
N - Author Natasha Preston - You Will Be Mine - 9/18/18 ♥♥♥

Pioneer (7/7)
P – Author Amanda Prowse - The Art of Hiding - 6/8/18 ♥♥♥♥
I - Author Ilona Andrews - Magic Slays - 11/9/18 ♥♥♥♥
O - Author Olivia Dade - Hidden Hearts - 1/24/19 ♥♥♥
N - Nurse Smith, Cook by Joyce Dingwell - 12/15/18 ♥♥♥
E - Author Jennifer Egan - Manhattan Beach - 11/10/18 ♥♥♥
E - An Ex for Christmas by Lauren Layne - 11/13/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
R - The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy - 11/29/18 ♥♥♥

Q - Prequel (7/7)
P - Playing with Fire by Kate Meader - 7/27/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Author J.D. Robb - Calculated in Death - 8/7/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - Author Jill Alexander Essbaum - Hausfrau - 10/26/18 ♥♥♥♥
Q - Author Spencer Quinn - The Sound and the Furry - 8/23/18 ♥♥♥♥
U - Unlucky in Love by Maggie McGinnis - 3/28/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - Author Ellery Adams - Pecan Pies and Homicides - 10/30/18 ♥♥♥♥
L - Love Me Again by Jaci Burton - 5/7/18 ♥♥♥♥

It took a while, but I'm done!

Vanguard
Timeframe: 1/15/18 to 4/3/19
218/218
26/26 Words

Antecedent (10/10)
A - Author Anna Bennett - My Brown-Eyed Earl - 3/29/18 ♥♥♥♥
N - Nothing Personal by Jaci Burton - 4/18/18 ♥♥♥♥
T - Take Me Deeper by Jackie Ashenden - 5/20/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Ellen Marie Wiseman - The Life She Was Given - 4/6/18 ♥♥♥♥
C - Criminal by Karin Slaughter - 3/30/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - The Escape Diaries by Juliet Rosetti - 4/7/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
D - Author Darynda Jones - The Curse of Tenth Grave - 4/29/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Nicole Edwards - Bad Reputation - 4/22/18 ♥♥♥♥
N - Now and Then by Mira Lyn Kelly - 4/19/18 ♥♥♥
T - Tall, Dark & Hungry by Lynsay Sands - 6/16/18 ♥♥♥♥

Beginning (9/9)
B - A Bone to Pick by Charlaine Harris - 4/19/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie - 2/3/18 ♥♥♥♥
G - Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner - 3/15/18 ♥♥♥♥
I – I Think I Love You by Lauren Layne - 12/13/18 ♥♥♥♥
N - New York to Dallas by J.D. Robb - 2/9/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
N - Author Nalini Singh - Slave to Sensation - 2/16/18 ♥♥♥♥
I - Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs - 2/24/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
N - Author Nora Roberts - A Will and a Way - 2/28/18 ♥♥♥♥
G - Author Anne George - Murder Runs in the Family - 4/10/18 ♥♥♥♥

Catalyst (8/8)
C - Author Carolyn Keene - The Secret of the Wooden Lady - 3/31/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Almost Forever by Kathy Clark - 4/13/18 ♥♥♥
T - Author Terri Brisbin - Christmas in Kilts - 7/3/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author A.A. Milne - The Sunny Side: Short Stories and Poems for Proper Grown-Ups - 4/20/18 ♥♥♥♥
L – Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran - 10/14/18 ♥♥♥
Y - Author Yvonne Whittal - House of Mirrors - 4/26/18 ♥♥♥♥
S - Author Sawyer Bennett - Hawke - 7/28/18 ♥♥♥
T - Trying It All by Christi Barth - 7/31/18 ♥♥♥♥♥

Develop (7/7)
D - Devil's Mark by Megan Crane - 2/4/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Christy English - How to Tame a Willful Wife - 1/23/18 ♥♥♥
V - Author Virna DePaul - Mr. Rich - 2/27/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Easy by Tammara Webber - 1/25/18 ♥♥♥♥
L - Author Lynsay Sands - Single White Vampire - 3/22/18 ♥♥♥♥
O - One Grave at a Time by Jeaniene Frost - 3/9/18 ♥♥♥♥
P - Playing Dirty by C.L. Parker - 2/11/18 ♥♥♥

Edgy (4/4)
E - Author Emily March - Heartache Falls - 6/12/18 ♥♥♥
D - Devil's Own by Megan Crane - 5/30/18 ♥♥♥♥
G - Author Tess Gerritsen - Keeper of the Bride - 9/25/18 ♥♥♥♥
Y - Author Beth Yarnall - Rush - 6/24/18 ♥♥♥

Forefront (9/9)
F - Fatal Affair by Marie Force - 2/21/18 ♥♥♥♥
O - Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman - 4/20/18 ♥♥♥
R - Author R.L. Mathewson - Checkmate - 2/2/28 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Richard Paul Evans - A Step of Faith - 3/7/18 ♥♥♥♥
F - The Final Score by Jaci Burton - 6/27/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rock Chick Redemption by Kristen Ashley - 3/2/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
O - Once Upon a Thanksgiving by Holly Jacobs - 4/25/18 ♥♥♥♥
N - Author Sheryl Nantus - Game On - 3/1/18 ♥♥♥
T – Tangerine by Christine Mangan - 1/16/19 ♥♥♥♥

Groundbreaker (13/13)
G - Author Dorothy Gilman - The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax - 10/23/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
R - Author Roxanne St. Claire - Space in His Heart - 3/8/18 ♥♥♥♥
O - One Less Problem Without You by Beth Harbison - 6/3/18 ♥♥♥
U – Unseen by Karin Slaughter - 1/15/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
N - The Necklace by Claire McMillan - 3/3/18 ♥♥♥
D - Doing It for Love by Cassie Mae - 3/21/18 ♥♥♥♥
B - Body Shot by Kelly Jamieson - 5/2/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Risk It by Jennifer Chance - 4/2/18 ♥♥♥
E - Author Janet Evanovich - Hardcore Twenty-Four - 3/9/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Accidental Cowgirl by Maggie McGinnis - 2/14/18 ♥♥♥♥
K - Author Sophie Kinsella - Shopaholic Ties the Knot - 2/6/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Ellery Adams - Peach Pies and Alibis - 7/8/18 ♥♥♥
R - Author J.D. Robb - Celebrity in Death - 4/5/18 ♥♥♥♥♥

Harbinger (9/9)
H - Hot Asset by Lauren Layne - 7/17/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
A - Author Agatha Christie - The Secret Adversary - 5/3/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Author J.D. Robb - Delusion in Death - 6/9/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
B - Breakfast in Bed by Sandra Brown - 6/6/18 ♥♥♥
I - The Illusion of Separateness by Simon Van Booy - 5/12/18 ♥♥♥♥
N - Author Nina LaCour - You Know Me Well - 6/25/18 ♥♥♥
G - Author George Plimpton - The X Factor: A Quest for Excellence - 10/24/18 ♥♥♥
E - Enemy Lover by Pamela Kent - 7/31/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Author Annie Rains - Forbidden Kisses - 6/15/18 ♥♥♥

National Humor Month - Part 2

Nutty (5/5)
N - Nancy Naigle - Dear Santa - 12/27/19 ♥♥♥
U - Unusually Stupid Americans: A Compendium of All-American Stupidity by Ross Petras - 6/6/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - Three Daughters of Madame Liang by Pearl S. Buck - 6/8/19 ♥♥♥
T - A True Cowboy Christmas by Caitlin Crews - 10/19/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
Y - The You-Can't-Make-Me Bride by Leanne Banks - 4/19/19 ♥♥♥♥

O - Joke (4/4)
J - Jill Shalvis - Still the One - 12/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
O - Only My Heart To Give by Nan Asquith - 6/23/19 ♥♥♥♥
K - The Kept Woman by Karin Slaughter - 8/3/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - Erin McCarthy - The Breakup - 9/15/19 ♥♥♥♥

Playful (7/7)
P - PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives by Frank Warren - 5/7/19 ♥♥♥
L - Lavinia Kent - Angel in Scarlet - 12/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Aronson, Marc - One Death, Nine Stories - 4/2/19 ♥♥♥♥
Y - You're Saying It Wrong: A Pronunciation Guide to the 150 Most Commonly Mispronounced Words--And Their Tangled Histories of Misuse by Ross Petras - 5/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
F - For Kicks by Dick Francis - 6/25/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
U - Until the End of Time by Danielle Steel - 7/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
L - Lacey Alexander - French Quarter - 12/8/19 ♥♥♥

Quirk (5/5)
Q - Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus with a Will of Its Own by Doreen Orion - 11/13/19 ♥♥♥♥
U - Under Rose-Tainted Skies by Louise Gornall - 1/2/20 ♥♥♥♥
I - The Inherited Bride by Rebecca Stratton - 11/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Robb, J.D. - Apprentice in Death - 1/6/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
K - Keene, Carolyn - Password to Larkspur Lane - 3/15/20 ♥♥♥♥

Ridiculous (10/10)
R - Rebellious by Gillian Archer - 10/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
I - I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass - 12/9/19 ♥♥♥
D - Dick Francis - Bolt - 10/7/19 ♥♥♥♥
I - Ilona Andrews - Magic Breaks - 1/28/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
C - A Cry In The Night by Mary Higgins Clark - 7/23/19 ♥♥♥♥
U - The Unwilling Executive by Miranda P. Charles - 7/25/19 ♥♥♥
L - Lynsay Sands - Bite Me If You Can - 3/11/20 ♥♥♥♥
O - The Other Miss Donne by Jane Arbor - 6/27/19 ♥♥♥
U - Under Control by Shannon Stacey - 9/21/19 ♥♥♥♥
S - Second Chance Summer by Jill Shalvis - 7/5/19 ♥♥♥♥

Slapstick (9/9)
S - Author Carla Swafford - Full Heat - 7/31/19 ♥♥♥
L - A Lover's Secret by Bethany Bloom - 3/16/20 ♥♥
A - Anita Hughes - Christmas at the Chalet: A Novel - 12/20/19 ♥♥♥
P - Phyllis A. Whitney - Ever After - 1/14/20 ♥♥♥♥
S - Slap Shot by Kelly Jamieson - 8/15/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - Tayari Jones - An American Marriage - 2/26/20 ♥♥♥
I - I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter - 3/7/20 ♥♥♥
C - Cowboy, Cross My Heart by Donna Grant - 8/29/19 ♥♥♥♥
K - Karen Marie Moning - Shadowfever - 10/22/19 ♥♥♥♥

Tomfoolery (10/10)
T - Thomas, Richard - Disintegration - 3/8/20 ♥♥♥
O - One Perfect Kiss by Jaci Burton - 7/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
M - Author Kristina McMorris - Sold on a Monday - 9/5/19 ♥♥♥♥
F - Fatally Frosted by Jessica Beck - 8/26/19 ♥♥♥
O – Oke, Janette - When Comes the Spring - 3/14/20 ♥♥♥♥
O - Once Upon A Christmas by Holly Jacobs - 8/9/19 ♥♥♥♥
L - Lorelei James - One Night Rodeo - 7/16/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Estep, Jennifer - Venom - 9/18/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Roberts, Nora - Tribute - 1/13/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
Y - The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store by Cait Flanders - 9/14/19 ♥♥♥

U - Humorous (8/8)
H - Halston, Sidney - What About Us - 9/17/19 ♥♥♥♥
U - Unscrewed by Lois Greiman - 10/24/19 ♥♥♥
M - Marie Force - Fatal Justice - 10/9/19 ♥♥♥
O - Ordeal by Innocence by Agatha Christie - 8/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Roman by Sawyer Bennett - 1/26/20 ♥♥♥♥
O - Once a Moretti Wife by Michelle Smart - 9/22/19 ♥♥♥♥
U - Until Now by Cristin Cooper - 1/12/20 ♥♥♥
S - Author Jill Shalvis - White Heat - 8/22/19 ♥♥♥♥

V - Clever (6/6)
C - Crystal Green - When the Sun Goes Down... - 11/7/19 ♥♥♥
L - Lauren Layne - To Have and to Hold - 7/29/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - Estep, Jennifer - Tangled Threads - 1/2/20 ♥♥♥♥
V - The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg - 5/4/19 ♥♥♥
E - Educated by Tara Westover - 1/19/20 ♥♥♥♥
R - Robb, J.D. - Echoes in Death - 2/23/20 ♥♥♥♥♥

Wisecrack (9/9)
W - Wilde One by Jannine Gallant - 2/25/20 ♥♥♥♥
I - Isabella Bradford - When You Wish Upon a Duke - 3/28/20 ♥♥♥♥
S - Sue Grafton - M is for Malice - 2/13/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman - 1/31/20 ♥♥♥♥
C - The Clue in the Old Stagecoach by Carolyn Keene - 11/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Reid, Henrietta - Sister of the Bride - 3/3/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Appealed by Emma Chase - 2/7/20 ♥♥♥♥
C - Catch-22 by Joseph Heller - 2/9/20 ♥♥
K - Katherine Center - What You Wish For - 4/13/20 ♥♥♥♥♥

X - Hoax (4/4)
H - Hart, Emma - Stripped Down - 2/4/20 ♥♥♥♥
O - Old Before My Time: Hayley Okines' Life with Progeria by Hayley Okines - 10/4/19 ♥♥♥
A - All I Want by Jill Shalvis - 2/29/20 ♥♥♥♥
X - X, Monique - Sugar: My Life as a Sugar Babe - 4/9/20 ♥♥♥

Y - Funny (5/5)
F - Falling Up by Shel Silverstein - 11/25/19 ♥♥♥♥
U - Unsuitable by Lavinia Kent - 4/18/20 ♥♥♥
N - Night Broken by Patricia Briggs - 2/19/20 ♥♥♥♥
N - Nancy Atherton - Aunt Dimity: Detective - 9/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
Y - Yates, Maisey - Heir to a Dark Inheritance - 2/20/20 ♥♥♥

Z - Dizzy (5/5)
D - Dick Francis - Bonecrack - 11/29/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
I - Into the Fire by Amanda Usen - 5/7/20 ♥♥♥♥
Z - Author Rebecca Zanetti - Claimed - 6/17/19 ♥♥♥
Z - Zo White and the Seven Morphs by Barbara Silkstone - 11/12/19 ♥♥♥
Y - Yvonne Whittal - Dark Heritage - 11/11/19 ♥♥♥

*******CHALLENGE COMPLETE 5/7/20*****

I'm going to do a spell-out, although I know it'll take longer than a month or two.

National Humor Month
Timeframe: 4/1/19 to 5/7/20
172/172
26/26 Words

Amusement (9/9)
A - Annie Rains - Stolen Kisses - 4/15/19 ♥♥♥♥
M - Madly by Ruthie Knox - 4/6/19 ♥♥♥♥
U - The Unsung Hero by Suzanne Brockmann - 4/30/19 ♥♥♥
S - Scored by Sloane Howell - 5/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Elly Griffiths - The Crossing Places - 4/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
M - Max by Sawyer Bennett - 5/27/19 ♥♥♥♥
E – Elizabeth Hoyt - Sweetest Scoundrel - 2/28/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
N - The Nightingale Nurses by Donna Douglas - 5/21/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - Ten Tiny Breaths by K.A. Tucker - 4/12/19 ♥♥♥

Banter (6/6)
B - Balogh, Mary - Only a Kiss - 11/4/19 - ♥♥♥♥♥
A - Anne Hampson - Eternal Summer - 11/14/19 ♥♥♥
N - No Interest in Love by Cassie Mae - 11/22/19 ♥♥♥
T - Tina Wainscott - Falling Free - 11/28/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Everything Under by Daisy Johnson - 10/25/19 ♥♥
R - Robb, J.D. - Brotherhood in Death - 10/30/19 ♥♥♥♥♥

Comical (7/7)
C - Cleat Chaser by Celia Aaron - 4/10/19 ♥♥
O – One of These Nights by Susan Sizemore - 12/14/19 ♥♥♥♥
M - Author Kate Meader - Down with Love - 6/18/19 ♥♥♥♥
I - Isobel Chace - To Marry a Tiger - 4/20/19 ♥♥
C - Author J.H. Croix - Follow Love - 5/25/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Annette Blair - Cloaked in Malice - 6/16/19 ♥♥♥
L - Leslie Meier - Back to School Murder - 4/24/19 ♥♥♥♥

Droll (5/5)
D - Author Kyra Davis - Sex, Murder And A Double Latte - 4/5/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rumor Has It by Jill Shalvis - 5/8/19 ♥♥♥♥
O - One Day in December by Josie Silver - 5/20/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
L - Love Letters by Debbie Macomber - 5/5/19 ♥♥♥♥
L - Looking For Rachel Wallace by Robert B. Parker - 6/20/19 ♥♥♥♥

Entertaining (12/12)
E - Elizabeth Hoyt - Dearest Rogue - 6/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - Nalini Singh - Hostage to Pleasure - 5/31/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
T - Tracy Ewens - Candidate - 4/28/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Janet Evanovich - Back to the Bedroom - 7/7/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rock Chick Revolution by Kristen Ashley - 5/14/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
T - Then Came You by Jill Shalvis - 6/5/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Autumn Song by Margaret Pargeter - 6/26/19 ♥♥
I - Iceberg by Robyn Donald - 4/25/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - Norton Juster - The Phantom Tollbooth - 7/17/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
I - In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park - 5/18/19 ♥♥♥
N - Nalini Singh - Branded by Fire - 8/19/19 ♥♥♥♥
G - Author Roxane Gay - Difficult Women - 5/29/19 ♥♥♥

Farce (5/5)
F - Frost Burned by Patricia Briggs - 4/11/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Agatha Christie - The Clocks - 8/2/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Royal Pain by Tracy Wolff - 6/4/19 ♥♥♥
C - A Curve in the Road by Julianne MacLean - 6/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Jennifer Estep - Web of Lies - 7/20/19 ♥♥♥♥♥

Grin (4/4)
G - G.A. McKevett - Bitter Sweets - 7/21/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Ruthless by Gillian Archer - 7/9/19 ♥♥♥♥
I - Ilona Andrews - Magic Rises - 5/19/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
N - Nicole Edwards - Bad Business - 9/10/19 ♥♥♥♥

Hoopla (6/6)
H - Author Greer Hendricks - The Wife Between Us - 6/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
O - Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys - 5/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
O - Obsession in Death by J.D. Robb - 6/7/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
P - Playing Hurt by Kelly Jamieson - 10/31/19 ♥♥♥♥
L - Liz Lipperman - Beef Stolen-Off - 8/17/19 ♥♥♥
A – Ann Brashares - Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood - 3/5/20 ♥♥♥♥

I - Wit (3/3)
W - William Wright - Jailhouse Doc: A Doctor in the County Jail - 7/6/19 ♥♥♥
I - Illegally Yours by Kate Meader - 8/25/19 ♥♥♥
T – Treading Water by Marie Force - 3/25/20 ♥♥♥♥

Jest (4/4)
J - Julia Quinn - The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever - 12/16/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - Erin McCarthy - The Hookup - 8/11/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
S - Silver Linings by Debbie Macomber - 7/13/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - Author Karen Templeton - Yours, Mine... or Ours? - 8/31/19 ♥♥♥♥

Kidding (7/7)
K - Kelly Jamieson - Back Check - 5/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
I - Ink Flamingos by Karen E. Olson - 9/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
D - The Diva Takes the Cake by Krista Davis - 7/2/19 ♥♥♥♥
D - Drake, Olivia - His Wicked Wish - 9/27/19 ♥♥♥♥
I - In the Mood Fur Love by Eve Langlais - 10/17/19 ♥♥♥
N - Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty - 11/23/19 ♥♥♥♥
G - Go Down Hard by Craig Faustus Buck - 8/8/19 ♥♥♥

Laughter (8/8)
L - Lee Kilraine - Bringing Delaney Home - 11/8/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Ann Marie Walker - Black Tie Optional - 9/29/19 ♥♥♥♥
U - Untamed by Caitlin Crews - 8/18/19 ♥♥♥♥
G - Gervase Phinn - The Other Side of the Dale - 11/17/19 ♥♥♥
H - Hot Response by Shannon Stacey - 7/27/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - Troutte, Kimberley - Forbidden Lovers - 9/7/19 ♥♥♥
E - Author Janet Evanovich - Smitten - 8/23/19 ♥♥♥
R - Author J.D. Robb - Devoted in Death - 8/7/19 ♥♥♥♥♥

Merriment (9/9)
M - My Kind of Wonderful by Jill Shalvis - 10/28/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Emma Chase - Sustained - 11/19/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
R - Rodriguez, Deborah - Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil - 12/19/19 ♥♥♥
R - R.A. Scotti - Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa - 1/5/20 ♥♥♥
I - In a Marrying Mood by Raye Morgan - 11/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
M - The Mystery at Lilac Inn by Carolyn Keene - 2/12/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Emergency!: True Stories From The Nation's ERs by Mark Brown - 11/21/19 ♥♥♥
N - Nightingale Way by Emily March - 12/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - Thompson, Vicki Lewis - Old Enough to Know Better - 12/30/19 ♥♥♥♥

I finished another one that I added in 2012. Fairly readable non-fiction.

The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium by Robert Lacey - 3/17/19 ♥♥♥♥ (Added 9/28/12)