Tulsi Gupta is a third generation spice healer, expected to take up the mantle and carry on the legacy her grandmother built in their spice shop in Salem, MA. Despite the pressure to complete her training, Tulsi is delaying her decision. She wants more in life than to continue in her family’s footsteps. And when… Continue reading The Curious Secrets of Yesterday by Namrata Patel
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Anything for a Friend by Kathleen M. Willett
Carrie Colts is a writer whose recently-deceased mother-in-law left them a house in Montauk. She, her husband Pete, and their daughter Kelsey had packed up and moved from NYC. Even though Carrie loves her life in the city, the move seems to be a good way to temporarily escape from their troubles. But one day, she receives a call from her college roommate Maya, whom she hasn’t spoken with in years. Suddenly Maya is at her doorstep with her daughter Lola. Seeing as Maya recently became a widow, Carrie offers to let them stay for a few days to cope with the loss. But when strange things start happening around the house, Carrie isn’t sure if it was the best idea. Besides, Carrie has secrets that only Maya knows, and can’t afford to risk her family learning the truth about her past. Anything for a Friend by Kathleen M. Willett is a psychological suspense novel in which Carrie must somehow figure out Maya’s true motives before her own life unravels. Read more
When We Were Enemies by Emily Bleeker
Elise Branson is the CEO of her own PR company and newly engaged to her fiancé Hunter. She’s also the daughter of award-winning actress Gracelyn Branson. And the granddaughter of Hollywood icon Vivian Snow. Needless to say, her family name is very well-known, even if she has no interest in continuing the legacy herself. Now with a wedding to plan, her mother urges her to get married at the chapel where Vivian married her husband Tom, in Edinburgh, Indiana. Conveniently for Gracelyn, her filmmaker boyfriend Mac Dorman wants to make a documentary about the legendary matriarch who started it all. With the joyous occasion now becoming a film project, Elise reluctantly complies. And while filming, she discovers more details about her grandmother. And a shocking secret threatens to tarnish the Snow/Branson name forever. When We Were Enemies by Emily Bleeker is a dual-POV historical fiction novel that follows both Elise and Vivian during the most monumental times in their lives, and the choices they must make to save themselves. Read more
