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As the Light Fades (Catherine West) – Review

Sometimes we’re placed in the strangest of circumstances for the most important reasons.

After her carefully constructed life crumbles, Liz Carlisle finds herself back on Nantucket, picking up the pieces. With the family estate under renovations, the solitude she craves seems out of reach. 

Matthew Stone intends to steer clear of his new tenant. She’s carrying a load of baggage

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Top Ten Tuesday – Best of 2018 So Far

Happy Tuesday, readers! Today’s topic at That Artsy Reader Girl is Series I’ve Given Up On/Don’t Plan to Finish. Since I found that to be an uninspiring topic, I’m going rogue again, and a couple of events have conspired to convince me that there is no better time to post my ‘best of’ list for January to June: Today is the last Top Ten Tuesday post for the first half of 2018. (I’ll pause for a moment to give you the chance to process that last sentence!) My hubby is going away at the end of the week for a little

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Author Chat + Giveaway with Catherine West

Welcome, book lovers! Today’s guest has single-handedly kept Kleenex in business this week with the release of her latest novel, Where Hope Begins. That’s right. It comes with it’s own tissue warning! Lol! But in all seriousness, it’s a fantastic read—full of hope, despite dealing with some heavy topics. You can find my review here. Right now, though, Cathy is joining me to answer some questions!

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Where Hope Begins (Catherine West) – Review

~ About the Book ~ Sometimes we’re allowed to glimpse the beauty within the brokenness . . . Savannah Barrington has always found solace at her parents’ lake house in the Berkshires, and it’s the place that she runs to when her husband of over twenty years leaves her. Though her world is shaken, and the future uncertain, she finds hope through an old woman’s wisdom, a little girl’s laughter, and a man who’s willing to risk his own heart to prove to Savannah that she is worthy of love. But soon Savannah is given a challenge she can’t run

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Weekend Book Buzz – 19/20 May 2018

Welcome to the Weekend Book Buzz! There’s been a lot of romance in the air this weekend, what with the Royal Wedding taking place on Saturday. Were you a Royal Wedding watcher, or did you shrug, wish them happy, and get on with your own life? I’ll confess to being a wedding watcher. 😊 It made a nice change from what was an emotional reading week for me, first with Heidi Chiavaroli’s The Hidden Side, and then Catherine West’s Where Hope Begins (review to come). I hope you managed to fit in a good book (or a few) this week!

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First Line Friday – 18 May 2018 – Where Hope Begins (Catherine West)

Welcome to First Line Friday, hosted by Hoarding Books! I’m having a particularly emotional week this week, thanks to some thoughtless book planning on my behalf. Perhaps I was doing it late at night (highly possible), because at some point I thought it would be a good idea to put Heidi Chiavaroli’s The Hidden Side and Catherine West’s Where Hope Begins (review to come) one after the other on my reading schedule. 😳 Can anyone say ’emotional overload’?! Seriously, though, they’re both fabulous books, and I highly recommend them. Just . . . perhaps not one after the other! Give yourself some recovery time in

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