Lindsey's Literary Leanings

Intriguing, Absorbing, Emotional Historical Fiction/Family Drama/Romance/Coming Of Age/Women’s Fiction Twilight’s Hidden Truth by Rachel Valencourt, book two of the ‘Winds of Change Trilogy’ Twyla Silverson is about to be confronted with the events of her past, both good and bad, when her mother Dawn, on her ninetieth birthday, makes a brave decision and hands her granddaughter Styla, her lifetime of memories with the soul condition that she use the information to write their matriarch’s memoirs. Why is it brave? She is letting go of the burden of truth that she has held for so many years, not having been able to find the words, and she knows that somewhere in that box, amongst the papers, letters, photographs, child’s drawings and stories, journals and other keepsakes from those closest to her, there lies a secret, one that could shatter the very foundations that her family have so lovingly built. It is also brave because she knows that she is the only one who can answer the questions...

  Intriguing, Touching, Entertaining Genre: Contemporary Fiction/Romantic/Relationship and Family Drama Shattered Yesterdays by Author Sarah Louise Dale Parker had always had far reaching aspirations and a yearning for more to his life than the small town of Nano Springs was able to provide. He loved to act, and as such was a member of the town’s amateur dramatics group. He longed to be somewhere with more happening, more action and somewhere he didn’t know every person that he passed as he walked down the street. Unfortunately, his girlfriend Gabby was the complete opposite. She was content to know everyone surrounding her, everyone’s business, and unbothered that it was a consequence of small town living that everyone should know hers. She worked in the town’s inn which she hoped to run as her own some day. How then, will she react when Parker hits her with the bombshell that he is imminently departing for the big city to pursue his future, and how will Gabby’s life go on witho...