Verity By: Colleen Hoover Published: December 7, 2018 by Hoover Ink, Co 250 pages, Kindle edition Genre: New Adult, Thriller, Suspense, Romance Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of what really happened the day her daughter died. Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, know...

The Masterpiecers (Masterful #1) By: Olivia Wildenstein Published: April 15, 2016 352 pages Source: Netgalley ARC from publisher ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Nineteen-year-old Ivy Redd’s talent with a needle and thread has earned her a spot on a coveted reality TV art competition set in New York’s Metropolitan Museum. The prize: a significant amount of money and instant acceptance into the Masterpiecers, the school that ensures new artists fame and fortune. Her talent has also thrust her and her twin sister, Aster, into the spotlight.  Not that Aster needed help with becoming a media favorite. She managed that on her own by running over a wanted mobster. She told the police it was self-defense, because she couldn’t tell them the truth—the truth would make her sister look bad. Locked in an Indiana jail to await her trial, Aster watches Ivy on the small TV hanging in the dayroom. It’s the highlight of her day, until she finds out what her sister truly thinks...

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly post hosted by Breaking the Spine . Each week bloggers participate to share a book they can't wait to get their hands on. This week I'm waiting on: The Foxglove Killings by Tara Kelly Expected Publication: September 1, 2015 by Entangled Teen Preorder Buy Link: Amazon Gramps always said that when the crickets were quiet, something bad was coming. And the crickets have been as silent as the dead. It started with the murdered deer in the playground with the unmistakable purple of a foxglove in its mouth. But in the dying boondock town of Emerald Cove, life goes on. I work at Gramps's diner, and the cakes―the entitled rich kids who vacation here―make our lives hell. My best friend, Alex Pace, is the one person who gets me. Only Alex has changed. He's almost like a stranger now. I can't figure it out...or why I'm having distinctly more-than-friend feelings for him. Ones I shouldn't be having. Then one ...

Marrow By: Tarryn Fisher Published: April 16, 2015 286 pages Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon  ($.99 at time of posting) Summary: In the Bone there is a house.  In the house there is a girl.  In the girl there is a darkness.  Margo is not like other girls. She lives in a derelict neighborhood called the Bone, in a cursed house, with her cursed mother, who hasn’t spoken to her in over two years. She lives her days feeling invisible. It’s not until she develops a friendship with her wheelchair-bound neighbor, Judah Grant, that things begin to change. When neighborhood girl, seven-year-old Neveah Anthony, goes missing, Judah sets out to help Margo uncover what happened to her.  What Margo finds changes her, and with a new perspective on life, she’s determined to find evil and punish it–targeting rapists and child molesters, one by one.  But hunting evil is dangerous, and Margo risks losing everything, including h...

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly post hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm . Anyone can play along. Just go HERE to learn how to participate. This week my teasers come from  Marrow by Tarryn Fisher: Teasers: "I have legs, Judah, and I don't know how to use them. Your life walks, and you're going to walk out of the Bone and be something." (Loc 15%, page 40 of 289) What are you reading this week? Share a teaser with me!

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly post hosted by Breaking the Spine . Each week bloggers participate to share a book they can't wait to get their hands on. This week I'm waiting on: The Rules by Nancy Holder & Debbie Viguie Expected Publication: June 23, 2015 by Delacorte Books for Young Readers Preorder Buy Link: Amazon Narrated by alternating unreliable narrators, this dark thriller will have readers on the edge of their seats. No one is safe and everyone is a suspect. It's  Saw  meets  I Know What You Did Last Summer . Junior Robin Brisset has no idea what she's in for when she accepts an invitation to one of Callabrese High's most exclusive parties. And when the trademark scavenger hunt begins, Robin must go against every rule she's lived by to survive. What are you waiting on this week?