What She's Read

A young widow restores a dilapidated mansion with the assistance of a charming, eccentric genius, only to find the house is full of dangerous secrets in this effervescent Gilded Age debut novel

It's 1875, and Alva Webster has perfected her stiff upper lip after three...

In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed.

Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor, a manor by the sea, with her sisters, their father, and stepmother. Once they were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls' lives have been...

They call him the Duke of Ruin.

To an undaunted wallflower, he's just the beast next door. 

Wealthy and ruthless, Gabriel Duke clawed his way from the lowliest slums to the pinnacle of high society—and now he wants to get even.

Loyal and passionate, Lady Penelope Ca...

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Happy Tuesday, y'all! We're nearly halfway through 2019. Time flies when you're having fun, I guess...or whatever your predominant emotion for 2019 has become. 

For Top 10 Tuesday, what almost-halfway-through-the...

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If you grew up with a mom like mine, I bet you heard the old cliche comparing opinions to assholes, but here we are anyway. 

It's been a minute since I posted a Top Ten Tuesday post, but I'm happy to be back this...

Best friends Marine Duval and Kate Sanders have trained at the Paris Opera Ballet School since childhood, where they’ve formed an inseparable bond forged by respective family tragedies and a fierce love for dance. When the body of a student is found in the dorms just b...

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What kind of out-there things have you done for the love of books? This week's Top Ten Tuesday makes me feel perhaps a little too pointed at because I feel I've done some outrageous things in my time all for books. A...

A girl who can speak to gods must save her people without destroying herself.

A prince in danger must decide who to trust.

A boy with a monstrous secret waits in the wings. 

Together, they must assassinate the king and stop the war.

In a centuries-long war where beauty...

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We're big fans of the series in these parts. And by we, I mean me. And by "these parts," I mean my house and this blog. The summer I realized that sequels and book series were a thing will always be firmly lodged in...

Robin of Locksley is dead. 

When news comes that he's fallen in battle at the King's side in the Holy Land, Maid Marian doesn’t know how she’ll go on. Betrothed to Robin, she was free to be herself, to flout the stifling rules of traditional society and share an equal...