If you like to read about strong women, this is a book you will greatly enjoy. Hannah, a victim of human trafficking in 5th-century Sinai, is taken to a land in which she is unfamiliar with their ways and customs. She manages to rise above all the hardships she experiences there to become a woman…
Do you believe in angels? Do you believe in demons? Do you believe that one being could be both? Vivien is a reporter that lives in Crescent City. Working on the story about Hurricane Katrina left her feeling burnt out. Then something happens that reinvigorates the investigative journalist in her. After digging deep into the…
Imagine having a very rare type of blood flowing through your veins. Now imagine that someone very high up is in need of what you have. How smart would you be to put yourself on an organ donor list? The title of this book puzzled me. I had never heard of Bombay blood, a blood…
Could a land be so haunted that the residents of any houses or apartments built on that land are doomed? We’ve all heard about the possessed house in Amityville, but are you ready for the horrors of Hubertson? The supernatural occurrences at Hubertson and the land it is built on are subtle, but that doesn’t…
Escape to Redemption takes you inside the minds of two people who have each killed another person. We see their nightmares, their lies, the way each tries to escape what has been done. Once I started this book, it was hard for me to take a break from reading it. Set in England and Poland,…
Do you groan or grown when you are in pain? Is the person who owns a grocery store a grocer or a grosser? Is someone who comes to visit you a guest or a guessed? Would you play a guitar or a catarrh? groan, grown A groan is a low, mournful sound uttered in pain…
During a banquet, the lights go out. A parrot’s screams are heard as it is strangled, and a dead man is discovered close by. Who was the intended victim? Lord and Lady Faversham were holding a banquet to honor the new Prime Minister. They weren’t holding it out of their own desire, but they had…
Do sheep and goats grays or graze in the fields? Are greaves or grieves more than one piece of medieval leg armor? If you are displeased with the service you receive in a restaurant, do you grip, gripe, or grippe? grays, graze Grays are colors between black and white. Grays also means matures or ages. As…
Homonyms are confusing enough, but there is another category of confusing words: contronyms. Contronyms—also spelled contranyms—are also known as auto-antonyms, antagonyms, enantiodromes, self-antonyms, antilogies, and Janus words. Janus was the Roman god of beginnings and endings. He is often depicted with two faces looking in opposite directions. dabster A dabster is one who is…
How devious can one be? Is it worth it to blackmail someone for a crime they’ve committed, or should you inform the police? Should you stick with family even when they are breaking the law? What if they are involved in the human trafficking of young girls? Tisha is a prisoner when the book opens.…
