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Vivian Miller is a CIA analyst tasked with identifying and locating Russian sleeper cells. When she gains access to a potential Russian operative’s computer, what she discovers sets off a chain of events that threatens not only her career, but her family as well. This book was equal parts Read the Post
Alice Law and Peter Murdoch are graduate students at a magic school in Cambridge. When their professor dies in a horrific magical accident, they decide, for various personal reasons, to journey into Hell to retrieve his soul and bring him back. I have a lot of mixed feelings about this book. On Read the Post
Minerva is a graduate student researching the life and work of Beatrice Tremblay, a lesser-known writer of macabre tales. When Minerva discovers that Tremblay’s most famous novel, The Vanishing, was inspired by a true story, her research takes a darker turn. During the Great Depression, Beatrice Read the Post
After wealthy, eligible bachelor Edmund Croaksworth drops dead at the Autumnal Ball, Beatrice Steele sees the perfect opportunity to put her detective skills to use before someone else ends up dead. I didn’t know what to expect when I pulled this book off my shelf, but it turned out to be a Read the Post
I read 64 books in 2025. My goal was to read 52 books - I figured that was one book per week, and if I went over, then great. Most of my reading happened on the bus, at silent reading parties, and curled up on my couch. I track my reading both on Goodreads and in my own spreadsheet. I love to see Read the Post
Fred Hallow-Hart is less than thrilled to be back home in Pine Bluff, the Scottish town she grew up in, after a bad breakup, an eviction, and losing her job. She’s never quite felt like she belonged there. But when she reconnects with her childhood friend Ryan and starts helping her mother with the Read the Post
The Balfour family is gathering for Christmas, and everyone is hiding a secret. Becky gets stranded at the airport, where she runs into her brother’s best friend, Will, who suggests they drive to Scotland together. Will has always been just a friend, but when they’re forced to spend the night Read the Post
Rosie is stuck in a dead-end job and feeling like her life is going absolutely nowhere, until she receives an unexpected inheritance from her great-aunt: a charming bookshop in a tiny Scottish town. The catch? She has to run it for an entire year to claim it. Once she arrives, the locals welcome her Read the Post
When Melanie’s ex-boyfriend Finn shows up unexpectedly at her door asking for a favor, she is furious. After all, this is the same man who publicly dumped her at his sister’s engagement party. Now, just six months later, Finn wants her to pretend they’re back together for a week-long Christmas trip Read the Post
Hazel is the thirteenth child, unwanted, overlooked, and claimed at birth by her godfather, Merrick, better known as the Dreaded End, the god of death. On her twelfth birthday, he whisks her away to begin a new life as a healer. Years later, at eighteen, Hazel is summoned to court to save the ailing Read the Post
