THE JEWEL BOX by ANNA DAVIS
This is about an exceedingly charming and compelling story about love, sisters and betrayal. The setting is in London in the Roaring ’20s. Under the pseudonym “Diamond Sharp,” Grace writes a naughty newspaper column about her escapades in the glittering nightclubs. Then she falls in love with two men who are bitter enemies and Grace has to choose between them.
BEL CANTO by ANN PATCHETT
Ever heard of the saying, “Love strikes in the strangest places”? Well, in the case of this novel, it is during a siege in an unnamed South American country awfully like Peru. Terrorists attack the president’s house during a party and the guests, including a Japanese businessman and an American soprano, are taken captive. This award-winning novel tracks the bonds that form between hostage and captor. This story is about a romance of the tenderest, most impossible kind.
THREE WEEKS TO SAY GOODBYE by C.J. BOX
A legal hiccup means a couple has to give their adored adopted baby daughter to her natural father, who is evil incarnate. There is tension, double-crossing and deception as the couple and their best friends – a cop and a lawyer – try to find the truth.