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The First to Lie by Hank Phillippi Ryan The New Novel by USA TODAY Bestselling Author and EMMY- Winning Reporter HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN Released August 4th, 2020 The First To Lie (A Forge Hardcover, ebook, and Macmillan Audio) book will be available worldwide, in digital, print, and audio format, across all platforms! We all have our reasons for being who we are―but what if being someone else could get you what you want?After a devastating betrayal, a young woman sets off on an obsessive path to justice, no matter what dark family secrets are revealed. What she doesn’t know―she isn’t…

The Queen of Tuesday by Darin Strauss Review is here. This novel is a mix of non-fiction and fiction centering around the beloved I Love Lucy actress, Lucille Ball. The story of the book goes that the author’s grandfather had an affair with the Lucille Ball years ago. We get taken back in time in this novel, where we visit America’s sweetheart in an entirely different light. It all starts at The Beach at Coney Island, where Isidore Strauss meets Lucille Ball for the first-time. He is captivated and hardly able to recall proposing to his wife on Coney Island…

Not That Girl by Alisha Perkins is on Amazon! When Finley Harper returns to Hadleigh, the objective is clear: clean out the old house and wrap up Grace’s estate as quickly as possible so Finn can return to Boston and leave this town behind for good. After all, it wasn’t exactly a storybook childhood. Finn was never close with Grace, who had been a detached mother at best, and Finn made sure to keep a safe distance all these years from the old friends who might bring back not-so-fond memories —Nick, of Gramps, of a nameless father Finn, has never…

A Sister’s Courage by Molly Green Review is here. This novel centers around Lorraine ‘Raine’ Linfoot. She dreams of becoming a pilot, but her French mother doesn’t approve. However, her father encourages her to follow her dreams and find a way to achieve it. While viewing the takeoff of the plane, Raine meets the dashing and older Doug Williams. He offers to teach her how to fly, allowing Raine to accomplish her dreams. Raine looks up to him, and her schoolgirl crush on him is something she keeps to herself. Everything changes though when war breaks out, and Doug gets…

Forbidden Inheritance by L. Paul Dorsey is out now on Amazon. ‘All families have scars. Some less visible than others.’ This novel takes place in a small town, and there is no discrimination amid family struggles. Rich or poor, it affects you, and it bridges your present life with your past. Years have gone by, and still, a father remains troubled by something unspoken. However, as his health starts declining, everything blurs, crumbling family dynamics. When an estranged uncle arrives uninvited, Larry Copper uncovers evidence that alters what he knows about himself, his family, and the town. Challenged by the…

Paris is Always A Good Idea by Jenn McKinlay Review is here. This novel centers around Chelsea Martin. It’s been almost over seven years since she had her post-college adventure in Europe falling in love with three very different guys. One was from Ireland, the other from France, and finally the last from Italy. Since that summer, Chelsea lost her mother and is now solely focused on raising money for the American Cancer Coalition. She is excellent at her job, but she has slowly closed herself off to love ever since she lost her mother. Something her father and sister…

The Witches of Vegas by Mark Rosendorf is out now! Where can witches and their vampire mentor practice their powers without being discovered or persecuted? By using their magic, the Witches of Vegas become the number one act performing on the Las Vegas Strip—a great achievement for them, but not so much for the magicians—who can’t possibly keep pace. Isis Rivera is the adopted fifteen-year-old daughter of The Witches of Vegas. Zack Galloway is the teenage nephew and assistant to the last magician left in the city. Although they should be rivals, when Valeria, a four-hundred-year-old witch with a long-seeded…

The Mourning Report by Caitlin Garvey is out in October 2020. Two years after her mother’s death from breast cancer, Caitlin, then 20 years old, was admitted to a psychiatric facility after a suicide attempt. There, a therapist diagnosed her with major depression and anxiety, and she spent time as an inpatient. Years later, still suffering from grief and depression, Caitlin decided to embark on a “grief journey,” interviewing the people involved in her mother’s dying process: a hospice nurse, a priest, an estate planner, a hairstylist, and a funeral director. If she figured out how they could function after…

Two mothers. Two countries. One adoption story. Contemporary art museum curator Julie Cowan’s life is far from perfect. Her pathologist husband, Mark, is distracted by his gorgeous young intern, while her hotshot new boss doubts Julie’s curatorial chops. And Julie’s six-year-old son, Jack (born Juan), may never recover from trauma inflicted by early life spent in a Guatemalan orphanage. At the same time, Jack’s birth mother, an Indigenous Ixil Maya, navigates her own tumultuous path, beginning with surviving a horrific massacre during Guatemala’s civil war. In this elegantly-woven braided narrative, both mothers of Jessica O’Dwyer’s Mother Mother (Apprentice House Press; October…

Pale Morning Light With Violet Swan by Deborah Reed comes out October 2020. The story of a world-renowned artist at the end of her life—and the long-buried secrets that she can’t keep hidden much longer. Ninety-three-year-old Violet Swan has spent a lifetime translating tragedy and hardship into art, becoming famous for her abstract paintings, which evoke tranquility, innocence, and joy. For nearly a century Violet has lived a peaceful, private life of painting on the coast of Oregon. The “business of Violet” is run by her only child, Francisco, and his wife, Penny. But shortly before Violet’s death, an earthquake…

Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens Review is here. Catherine Danielle Clark, also known as Kya or the Marsh Girl, lives in a shack with her family within the marshes of North Carolina. The novel starts off with her mother, leaving all her children behind. Kya, no older than seven, sits on the porch steps and believes her mother will be back. Jodie, her older brother, tells her she will, even though deep down, they know their mother left to escape their abusive father. It isn’t long before all her brothers and sisters leave the house, abandoning Kya, forcing…

This is a story about reclaiming your life. “Not that anyone stole mine. I just lost who I’d wanted to be.” — From Virtue Virtue explores the vulnerability and randomness of human existence through the lives of Tom and Hannah Holder, each of whom are grappling with midlife crises. Scarred by an incident from his youth that broke up his family and left him estranged from his father, Tom has carried self-doubt, buried in a battered soul, his entire life. In the span of a few short months, Tom, now a philosophy professor, watches his adult life unravel as the…