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Gone Without a Trace by Mary Torjussen Thank you to Berkley and Netgalley for a copy of the ARC in exchange for a fair review. Whew where to start... my mind is blown!!! Hannah is a successful business woman who returns home one night with some exciting news.  When she arrives home to find her boyfriend of four years Matt is gone. Everything he owned is gone, all of her old stuff is put back in its original place. Where has he gone? What happened? She is so humiliated that the only person she tells at first is her best friend Katie. As time goes on Hannah continues to fall apart. She finds that his number is disconnected and even his mother has moved. She finds out she is pregnant and gets in trouble at work. But weird things are going on in her house. Stuff has been moved, new flowers put in, a cd in her car... Is Matt messing with her? Is she losing her mind? Gah I have like a ton of things I want to say about this book, but spoilers for real I can't comment on what...

From the imprint that published Fiona Barton’s instant New York Times bestseller The Widow and Clare Mackintosh’s global phenomenon I Let You Go , comes Mary Torjussen ’s GONE WITHOUT A TRACE (Berkley Trade Paperback Original; 978-0-399-58501-2; April 11, 2017; $16.00)—an electric, compulsive thriller about a boyfriend’s unexplained disappearance, and its corrosive effects on the woman he left behind.   In GONE WITHOUT A TRACE , young professional Hannah returns from work to find her live-in boyfriend, Matt, is gone. His belongings have disappeared from their house. Every call she ever made, every text she ever sent, every photo of him and any sign of him on social media have vanished. It’s as though their last four years together never happened. As she struggles to get through the next few days, with humiliation and recriminations whirring through her head, she knows she’ll do anything to get answers. Where has he gone?   Why has he left?   Then the mes...

A Twist in Time by Julie McElwain My rating: 5 of 5 stars Once again Julie McElwain proves that she's an author whose here to stay. Her prose and grasp of Regency England's justice system and social mores is dead on..pun intended. This is no run of the mill murder mystery nor is it a straight laced romance novel. Kendra Donovan, the youngest FBI recruit goes on a mission of vengeance in 2015 and winds up going through a wormhole and ending up in Regency England right after the war with America and Napoleon. Kendra has to try to adjust to a world where women are regarded as property and unintelligent while also trying to solve a series of murders. In Julie McElwain's follow up novel 'A Twist in Time' Kendra Donovan's hopes of returning to her own time prove unsuccessful. At the same time Lady Dover is brutally murdered and Alec is accused of the crime. The Duke of Aldridge and Kendra journey from Aldridge Castle to London to clear Alec's...

Cover Reveal & Giveaway: Trusting Tanner by Lexi Lawton Release date: May 8, 2017 To win her trust, he’ll have to surrender his heart. Trusting Tanner is a sexy new adult romance coming May 8 th from Entangled Embrace. Check out the cover! About Trusting Tanner: The Collins Brothers #1 Tanner Collins is the embodiment of perfection—tall, dark, sinfully sexy—and completely out of Juliana Shea’s league. Knowing she’d never survive a repeat of her last disastrous relationship, she parks Tanner firmly in the friend zone. But man, he’s hard to resist. Juliana is exactly what Tanner wants, and he’s determined to win her over with his kindness and humor… But one night—a night he can’t even remember—threatens to take it all away. With the flick of a “send” button, their hope for a future together is shattered. But Tanner isn’t the type to give up on what he wants—and he wants Juliana. TRUSTING TANNER releases May 8, 2017 Add to Goodreads: https://www...

Here is an interview about Katie Ray's new book Don't Kiss the Messenger. I wanted to kick things off with a fun question, so what is your favorite book of 2017 so far? I loved The Sun is Also a Star , by Nicola Yoon.   How do you come up with the names for your characters? A lot of the names in this book come from the play, except for Emmett’s. His name is a pretty funny story—at first his name was going to be Robin, but my editor thought it sounded like a girl’s name and it might confuse readers. So, we went back and forth for weeks trying to rename him. He had always been Robin to me, so I was having a hard time imagining him as anyone else. Then one night I was watching Legally Blonde on TV. Reece Witherspoon’s love interest in the movie (played by Luke Wilson) is named Emmett. I jumped up from the chair and screamed, “EMMETT! THAT’S HIS NAME!” My husband just looked at me like I was nuts, which his usual reaction to my random outbursts.   Did...