March And April 2023 Reads
Just so you know, I’m still reading. I’m not ever not reading. I’m always reading. I just haven’t updated and shared them on the blog or on my Instagram. I make sure to update my Goodreads Reading Challenge though so I know I’m keeping up with my goal of 40 books for 2023. Anyhoo, here are the novels I’ve read for the months of March and April.
DEAR EMMIE BLUE by Lia Louis – 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
At sixteen, Emmie Blue stood in the fields of her school and released a red balloon into the sky. Attached was her name, her email address… and a secret she desperately wanted to be free of. Weeks later, on a beach in France, Lucas Moreau discovered the balloon and immediately emailed the attached address, sparking an intense friendship between the two teens.
Now, fourteen years later, Emmie is hiding the fact that she’s desperately in love with Lucas. She has pinned all her hopes on him and waits patiently for him to finally admit that she’s the one for him. So dedicated to her love for Lucas, Emmie has all but neglected her life outside of this relationship—she’s given up the search for her absentee father, no longer tries to build bridges with her distant mother, and lives as a lodger to an old lady she barely knows after being laid off. And when Lucas tells Emmie he has a big question to ask her, she’s convinced this is the moment he’ll reveal his feelings for her. But nothing in life ever quite goes as planned, does it?(GOODREADS)
WHITE PINES SUMMER by Sherryl Woods: There are 2 novels in this book.
Unexpected Mommy – 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
A MAN WITH A PLAN
Stubborn sexy rancher and, single father Chance Adams would do anything to get back his share of the family ranch–even if it meant seducing his uncle’s ornery stepdaughter, schoolteacher, Jenny Runningbear Adams. Even if it meant marrying her. Even if it meant loving her?
A WOMAN WITH A DREAM
Jenny had always dreamed of finding the perfect man, but perhaps Chance, with his hellion, if lovable, son and his unbending grudge against her family, didn’t exactly fit the bill. She knew he had a one-track mind, all right–but was it just her imagination, or was he starting to get …derailed? (GOODREADS)
The Cowgirl & The Unexpected Wedding – 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
SHOTGUN BRIDE
Half virginal innocence, half saucy temptress, willful little Lizzy Adams had long since stolen rancher Hank Robbins’s heart. And then one night, passion overcame common sense and left them both with a little more than just wonderful memories–and the determination to do the “right thing.” For Lizzy, that meant not roping the rugged rancher into marriage. And for Hank, well…what would it take to make the beloved mother-to-be his wife? (GOODREAS)
The Girl in the Pink Shoes by Stacy Green – 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
My baby girl. This morning she was so excited for school. I bought her new shoes last night. Pink, sparkly shoes. She loved them so much. She wore them for the first time today. And now she is gone…
It is every mother’s worst nightmare. Eight-year-old Kailey Richardson skips out of the school gates in her brand-new pink shoes and never makes it home. Between the school and the safety of her shiny red front door, someone has taken her.
Private Investigator Lucy Kendall sees the fliers of a smiling gap-toothed Kailey and knows she won’t be able to sleep until the little girl is found. Having lost her own sister to the darkest evil, she is determined to help find Kailey before it is too late.
As Lucy talks to Kailey’s friends, desperate to find out who has taken the happy little girl, she begins to form a worrying picture of the days before Kailey’s disappearance. The blue car idling in the street outside the school. The friendly man across the road. And Kailey’s mother, Jenna, hollow-eyed and jumpy, clutching Kailey’s teddy bear and not telling Lucy everything.
Lucy has promised Jenna she will do everything to find her daughter. But then she discovers Jenna has a connection to the prime suspect in Kailey’s disappearance… and one which brings Lucy’s past rushing back to haunt her. Time is running out to find Kailey, but will Lucy be able to save this innocent little girl before her own demons destroy her? (GOODREADS)
Secrets Hidden in the Glass by Cate Beauman – 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ – FYI, this book has 600 pages and it was ALL GOOD!
The secrets of the past are always closer than we think…
Stained glass artist Callie Davis is in desperate need of a vacation. Burnt out and on the edge of a nervous breakdown, she’s fleeing the pressures of her career and is taking refuge on Massachusetts’ tiny Carter Island. Callie yearns for long, lazy days and pretty walks on the beach—blessed solitude and an escape from the complications of her life. Then she bumps into gorgeous Nate Carter and everything changes.
Sheriff Nathan Carter couldn’t be happier now that the height of the summer season has finally come and gone. After four endless months, tourists have packed their bags and headed for the mainland. The quiet days of autumn are about to befall the town—the way Nate and his fellow Sandersonians like it best.
But nothing ends up quite the way Nate expects when he meets the beautiful blonde with the big blue eyes. Callie’s pretty smiles hide secrets—deep, dark mysteries that could cost them both their lives if they continue digging into the past and cross a killer’s path. (GOODREADS)
