By Sarah Sundin

Allie has never felt pretty enough to please her beautiful Mother.  But Allie will do whatever it takes to make her Mom happy even if that means Allie marry a man she does not love and feels she may never love.  Allie has been asked to be part of a friends wedding and has gone to CA for the wedding and some time to think.  On her train ride to CA Allie meets Lt. Waker Novak, a handsome, sweet, pilot also on is way to CA to take his last furlough and help a friend who is getting married.

Little do Allie and Walter know that this short  train trip is going to turn into friendship the begins to grow as more.  Walk and Allie soon realize that have much in common including their love for music.  Allie and Walt build a friendship so tight that once Allie returns home and Walt returns back to war they continue to write and keep connected, by letters and by spirit.

But Allie soon has a tough decision to make and she knows that if it is the wrong one her Mother will never forgive her.  So will Allie marry the man she has no feeling for or will she take a leap of faith not knowing if Walt shares the same feelings Allie has.

A Distant Melody is the first of the Wings of Glory Series.

This is one book that I seriously could not put down and ended up staying up late into the night to finish.  I could not put the book down and had to know what was going to happen next.  Sarah Sundin grabs your attention at the beginning of the book and never lets it go.  Even once you finish the first book you can’t wait for the second book to come out so you can pick up where you left off.

44 Cranberry Point is the fourth book in Debbie Macomber’s Cedar Cove Series.

Peggy Beldon owns a beautiful bed and breakfast at 44 Cranberry Point in Cedar Cove, Washington. Peggy loves living in Cedar Cove but recently strange things have been happening.  Like Fidning a man named Max Rusell dead in one of thier B and B rooms.  With no idea whey Max was in Cedar Cove and even worse who killed him Peggy is iching for someone to solve the case soon.

But you know small towns.  The murder is not the only news floating around.  Jon Bowman and Maryellen Sherman are going to be getting married soon.  And Maryellen’s Mom Grace has a couple men chasing after her since she became a widow. But Grace does not know who she is going to choose.  She feels love for both men and they both have there own wonderful qualities.

There is much more gossip going on in Cedar Cove but you just need to read the book to find out all the rest of the great juicy gossip.  Debbie does a wonderful j0b of picking up where where 311 pelican Court leaves off and continues her story.  This is book for in the series of Cedar Cove Series.  Debbie keeps the mystery and romance going through each book in the series and makes you feel like you are right there in Cedar Cove living and listening to the daily gossip.

Deidre Knight

Eternity is Ajax Petrakos’s prison.  Centuries later after Ajax and his Spartan brothers made a bargain to become immortal, Ajax is struggling to keep himself disciplined.  He only has one true source of strength and that is that he will one day find is other half Shay Angel.

When Ajax finally finds his soul mate he realizes he is not the first to find her.  Ajax enemy finds her first and that begins the story of a bond that can’t be broken.

Shay is the youngest of a demon-hunting family and wonders if her angel hero is a angel or a demon.  As the story goes on Ajax continues to have to rescue Shay until the tables are turned and it is up to Shay to rescue her angel in disguise.

As Ajax and shay rush to solve the mysterious prophesy, a prophesy that will lead to Ajax’s death if they don’t succeed, they begin to fall deeper into love and Shay soon realizes that she can not live without her Ajax.

Deidre kept me turning the pages and I got to the point where I could not put the book down because I had to know what happened next.  There is adventure, passion and mystery in the book and that is just the type of books I love to read.  The best part is that this is the first book in the series A God of Midnight Novel.

Book two Red Kiss Came out June 2009

Bride on the Loose

Jason Manning love living the bachelor life, he loves sports, loves not having to pick up after himself. Then one of his tenents daughters decides her mom needs some companionship, so she decides she is going to get her Mom Charlotte and Jason to fall in love.

Jason refuses to have anything to do with this whole game that Charlotte’s daughter is playing, but soons finds himself wanting to spend more time with Charlotte.  Jasons feelings grow deeper but he is not sure he is ready to take the next step.  Will Jason land his bride on the loose?

I love this story.  I love how Jason is in love one minute and the next minute is pretending he does not want anything to do with Charlotte.  Debbie captures the true nature of a man falling in love and a single mom not wanting to get involved.

Same Time Next Year

At one time James Wilkens was about to marry a Manning Sister. But with his broken engagement in his past he decides to spend New Year’s Eve in Las Vegas.  While wondering around Las Vegas he meets Summer Lawton. She is broken hearted and to make things even worse she has been betrayed. James makes her a promise that she will be over it within a year and to make sure that he is serious he also tells her he will meet her back there same time next year.

During that year they being to contact and comminucate with each other more and more and by the time they meet again on New Year’s Eve the following year they are having more then a date.  They are getting married.

This is a wonderful story about love at first sight and how a friendship can blossom into so much more.  I love how Debbie shows the reader that a relationship can be so much more if there is a friendship first.

Never Seduce a Scoundrel

Sabrina Jeffries

Lady Amelia Plume has men wanting to court her at ever corner.  If only they were not after her fortune, but wanted her for her and her love. Amelia wants adventure, love and passion.  Lady Amelia goes to yet another boring ball, but this time it becomes more exciting then she ever imagines.  She meets an american named Major Lucas Winter.  And Lucas turns her borning life into adventure.

But Lucas has many things he is hiding and as he beings to woo her she begans to think that he has other reasons for wooing which might include her step mother. Lucas begins to call on Amelia in her home and takes her on adventures full of passion and leaving her yerning for more.

But will it all be a lie? Amelia intends to find out what Lucas true motive is no matter what she has to do…….

City of Ashes (Mortal Instruments)

By Cassandra Clare

Book two ~ The Mortal Instruments

Clary Fray’s life is anything but normal. Now that she is a shadowhunter and her mom is in a coma due to a magical spell that was placed on her, and she can see downworlders such as faeries, and vampires, Clary just wishes that she could go back the her normal life before all this happened. Now that Simon and Clary are become more then just friends she wants the normal life more then ever. But the shadowhunters are not wanting to let her go. Clary has only one hope to save her mother, to hunter down her rogue, insane, evil, shadowhunter father Valentine. And to make things worse someone or something is killing downworlders in New York, and Valetine might be behind it all.

When the Soul-Sword is stolen the Inquisitor is sure that Jace is teaming up with thier father Valentine. And then Clary thinks things could not get worse then the worst of the worst happens to Simon. Can Clary hand off of this and figure out how to get to Valentine if her brother Jace is helping him.

Clary has a wonderful spark about her that just draws you in and helps bring you into her world. She is a character that feels out of place, like many teenagers do. She is someone I remember being when I was a teenager.

I really like this book. It was one of those books that you pick up and have a hard time setting it down. And when you do set it down all ou can think about is getting back to it to see what happens next. There is something new and exciting happening around every corner.

By Cassandra Clare

Clary Fray a typical teenager is headed into a New York City Club not expecting anything but to have a good time. But she finds herself in much more then she expect. Just when Clary is ready to call the police to report a murder, the body disappears and to make matters worse she is the only one that can see the three teenagers that committed the murder. Clary unsure what to do begins to talk to the three teenagers and finds out that she has a supernatural ability to see, demons, shadowhunters, fairys and much more.

Clary returns home full of confusion to find out that her mother is acting weird and later comes up missing. All in one night Clary fights and kills a demon, is worried sick about her mother and passes out on her front lawn staring into the face of a beautiful boy marked with strange tattoos. Clary awakens later to find out that she has been out for three days and she and her new found friends must fight demons, save the world and save her Mother from the Evil Valentine who died years ago.

Clary unsure what to do or how to handle her new ability turns to her new friends the shadowhunters for help. With demons all around them and after something only Clary can find, Clary decides it is time to take matters into her own hands and user her abilities instead of feel hateful about all the lies her mother told her growing up.

What will Clary do and how will she handle finding out her whole life is one big lie?

Cassandra Clare spins a tale of love, demons and lies into a beautifully told story that keeps you up late at night because you just can’t put the book down until you find out what happens next.

Book Two ~ City of Ashes

By Stephenie Meyer

When I first thought about reading the Twilight series I was not too sure if I was going to like it.  Both my children had read Twilight and could not put it down.  Before my kids had read Twilight I had not even heard of the Novel much less had any interest in reading the book.  Now I have to admit once I picked up Twilight by Stephenie Meyers I could not put it down.  The book keep me interest from the start until the finish and once I was finished Twilight I was ready to pick up the next book in the series. Below you will find a short review of the book and thoughts at the end.

Bella decides it is time to go and live with her Dad for a while in the small town of Fork where the sun never shines and they says always seem gray.  After the first day of school Bella has made a new friends, a boy hate her and a boy hot on her heels.

But after a few weeks of school she is sure of two things.  One she can not stay away from Edward who is sure positive is a vampire and two she want to find out as much as she can about vampires, Edward and Edwards family.  Plus she starts to notice that Edward is always there when she gets herself into trouble.

It all comes down to will Edward be able to get her out of the last mess she has gotten herself into or will he have to leave town to get away from her?

Stephenie Meyer is an amazing author who keeps you on your toes and wondering what is going to happen next and who is hiding around the next corner.  She finds a way to make Vampires and love seem normal.  Not even halfway into the first chapter of this book I could not put it down.  I had to now what kind of trouble Bella was going to get into next and how she was going to get out of it.

New Moon is the next book in the Twilight Series.

311 Pelican Court

By: Debbie Macomber

Rosie Cox

311 Pelican Court

Cedar Cove, Washington

Dear Reader,

One thing about Cedar Cove – people sure are interested in what other people are doing. Take me, for instance. Everybody in this town knows that my husband, Zach, and I recently got a divorce. Everybody also knows that Judge Olivia Lockhart decreed a pretty unusual custody arrangement. It won’t be the kids moving between my place and Zach’s. We’re the ones who’ll be going back and forth!

Olivia isn’t immune to gossip herself. Will she stay with Jack, the guy who runs our local paper, or will she get back with her ex? Inquiring minds want to know!

But the really big gossip has to do with the dead guy – the man who died at a local bed-and-breakfast. Who is he and why did he show up there in the middle of the night? Roy McAfee, our local private investigator, is absolutely determined to find out. I hope he does – and then I’ll let you know! See you soon . . .

Rosie

From the moment I picked up this book, I could not put it down. After Olivia gave such a odd court order I just had to see how it worked. But you think why does not not happen in real life. Why don’t more judges tell the parents they have to move back and forth and the kids get to stay in their home the whole time. It seems like a good plan. The kids have to sometimes get sick of going back and forth. Through the whole book the kids are trying to hard to get Zack and Rosie back together. But will it work. Just when you think it will things take a turn.

All this time Olivia is in Love with Jack but will the love she shares for her ex husband be stronger then the love she has for Jack. Olivia almost seems destine to be back with her Ex husband. They have so much in common and just seem to make that perfect couple. Jack and Olivia on the other hand are total opposites. But you know that old saying, ” Opposites attached.” Is that saying going to keep Olivia and Jack together or will it force Olivia back into her ex husbands arms.

But the best part of the book is the whole mystery of who is this dead guy and where did he come from and what was he doing in Cedar Cove. I thought I had it all figured out. I was sure I knew who he was and what is was doing there. And then things take a big old twist and get all turned around.

Debbie has outdone herself with this book and truly kept me turning the pages for more.

By: Catherine Anderson

A man of honor, Ace Keegan returned to No Name intending to avenge his stepfather’s murder. But when his calculated anger damages the good name of his dead enemy’s daughter, Ace vows to make amends by marrying the flame-haired Caitlin. For the Secret Pain, insecurity and cruel innuendo cannnot dim the proud spirit of the women they wrongly called “Keegan’s Whore.” And Ace is determined to nurture with patience and love the light his lady Caitlin guards in her damaged heart… until it blazes with the power of a thousands suns.

Catherine Anderson brings you into No Name and make you feel so warm and at home. This was one of those books that I just could not put down. The more I read the more I wanted to know. The deeper I got into the book the harder it became to put down. I could not stop reading this book until I was at the end and then I wanted more. I was glad to find out that this book was part of a squeal.

Caitlin does the unthinkable to save her family name. And Ace accepts her proposal. Caitlin learns to love a man that she started out hating just as Ace begins to fall for a women he is ready to ruin. Caitlin and Ace have a love hate relationship but every once in a while you can see a spark in their eyes and they try to hard to hate each other.

I would suggest this great book to anyone and everyone that likes a good romance with a little twist.
Review By Tricia Gardner