When the book begins at Claire’s engagement party I immediately get the feeling that she doesn’t quite know how she got to this place in her life and isn’t completely present. During her stepfather’s embarrassing toast, he insinuates that there is a secret past that she has overcome and that(more…)

It’s hard to imagine my parents having a life before I was born. It’s fascinating to go back through family albums and see pictures of my mother and father as children, teenagers and then as adults. I often wonder how they were before they had my brother and me. How(more…)

So many people are fascinated with the royal family and I can’t deny that I’m one of them. The inner workings of royalty is so different from anything we have in the United States and I enjoy reading about the history behind the monarchy. This is what caught my eye(more…)

Seraphine Mayes is a very persistent, stubborn young woman and without these traits she never would have been able to find out all her family’s secrets. She grows up at her family’s home called Summerbourn with her twin brother named Danny and her older brother called Edwin. When she’s in(more…)

When Theo Faber applies for and accepts the job at The Grove as a psychotherapist he is thrilled. He has been keeping track of Alicia Berenson for some time and wants to work at the failing psychiatric facility specifically to be her therapist. Alicia is locked up for killing her(more…)

All children grow up relying on and trusting their parents. We can never imagine our parents as being human themselves or being anything other than perfect. As we grow up we slowly realize our parents are capable of making mistakes and not being completely transparent. That is the hard lesson(more…)

This story grabbed me from the very beginning and kept me yearning to find out what happens to the ‘Marsh Girl’ who is accused of murder. Katherine Clark, who goes by the name Kya, is a young girl when the story begins. She lives with her family in the marshes(more…)