![]() We also get glimpses of the 17th century and the witch trials thanks to “The Grimoire of Patrick Roberts”. What a story! The narrative hops around in time between 19. But she doesn’t realize just how much the truth will change her. ![]() Luna has few memories of her time on the island, but she’ll have to return to find the truth of what happened to her family. Clover is the sister she remembers–except she’s still seven years old, the age she was when she vanished. When she receives a call about her youngest sister, Clover, she’s initially ecstatic. ![]() ![]() Twenty-two years later, Luna has been searching for her missing sisters and mother. Liv is told wildlings are dangerous and must be killed. The locals warn her about wildlings, supernatural beings who mimic human children, created by witches for revenge. She learns that the cave beneath the lighthouse was once a prison for women accused of witchcraft. When two of her daughters go missing, she’s frantic. When single mother Liv is commissioned to paint a mural in a 100-year-old lighthouse on a remote Scottish island, it’s an opportunity to start over with her three daughters–Luna, Sapphire, and Clover. ![]()
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![]() And in Oriana’s magical, willful mind, she believes that Harry is the key to righting her world.Īfter taking up residence in the woods behind Amanda’s house, Harry reluctantly agrees to help Oriana in a ludicrous scheme to escape his tragic past. She and her mother, Amanda, are struggling to pick up the pieces from their own tragedy-Amanda stoically holding it together while Oriana roams the forest searching for answers. But fate intervenes in the form of a fiercely determined young girl named Oriana. Leaving his job and his old life behind, Harry makes his way to the remote woods of northeastern Pennsylvania’s Endless Mountains, determined to lose himself. When his wife dies suddenly, he is unable to cope. ![]() Thirty-four-year-old Harry Crane works as an analyst for the US Forest Service. ![]() ![]() When you climb a tree, the first thing you do is to hold on tight… ![]() ![]() The 40-year-old Hapgood, quiet and reserved, had prospered as a banker before the war. Whitman was melancholic, impulsive, bohemian. The two men, however close, were a study in contrasts. Smithsonian with its brown turrets - to the right, far across, Arlington Heights, the forts, eight or ten of them - then the long bridge” that spanned the Potomac River.Īt the end of the description, Whitman noted, “I finish my letter in the office of Major Hapgood, a paymaster, and a friend of mine.” The major was Lyman Hapgood, a native New Englander with a reputation “The Potomac, very fine, nothing pretty about it - the Washington monument, not half finished - the public grounds around it filled with ten thousand beeves, on the hoof - to the left the At one point, he gazed out of his fifth-floor window at the wartime capital.Īfter a long pause he resumed writing and described the vista. On the morning of March 20, 1863, Walt Whitman sat at his desk in a bustling office building in Washington and penned a letter to friends. Disunion follows the Civil War as it unfolded. ![]() ![]() While Get a Life, Chloe Brown certainly starts out like any other romcom, with the promise of a delightful enemies-to-lovers romance, after the first fifty pages or so I realised that this book was going to be a lot more explicit than I’d anticipated …still, I wasn’t prepared for the sex in this book to be quite soĪfter escaping unscathed what could have been fatal accident Chloe Brown, a thirty-something-year-old whose fibromyalgia has led her to live a fairly controlled and risk-free life, decides to ‘get a life’. Having recently finished a romcom novel with a similar cover ( If I Never Met You by Mhairi McFarlane) I was under the misguided impression that Talia Hibbert’s book belonged to the same genre. ![]() I feel cheated by the cutesy illustration on the cover of Get a Life, Chloe Brown. ![]() ![]() Writing romance is a therapeutic process as it allows Monica to explore the themes of hope, trust and love in her work. Her determination to overcome these challenging life experiences is a reflection of her belief that there truly are happily ever afters. Her most recent tale of survival is her diagnosis of the genetic disorder Long QT syndrome and subsequent heart defibrillator implant. Her writing has helped her reclaim some of her self-worth. A survivor of date rape at the age of 19, writing erotic romance has aided her in the life-long process of healing. She is a survivor, and it’s a topic she has become well versed in. She has suffered from bipolar disorder since childhood, but was not diagnosed until much later in life. ![]() From the days when she hid her stories from her sisters to her first completed full-length manuscript, she always believed in her dream despite rejections and setbacks. Monica Burns penned her first short romance story at the age of nine when she selected the pseudonym she uses today. ![]() |