The 4th book in the Aloha Reef Series. Lani is on her aunt's coffee farm, and is shot. She lives but wakes up blind. A good friend Pam has died. Enter into the seen, ex-cop Ben who trains guiding eye dogs. Ben brings Fischer to help Lani adjust to her new blindness. Lani is insists she will get her sight back. In the meantime they have to find out who shot at her and Pam and why. Ben's brother is mixed up in this as well. Secrets from the past come back to haunt Lani's Aunt. Something that happened years and years ago is resurfacing.

It's a quick story! Bane and Leia are getting married at Christmas on the beach! Eva her younger sister who has Down Syndrome is kidnapped. Will Leia and Bane be able to handle the stress of this incident. Who kidnapped and why? It's a great ending to the Aloha Reef Series.

Incredible book! It gives a context for why we are kept away from learning the truth about our nation's history.

This work of fiction is both disturbing and uplifting at the same time. It follows the story of a child whose father was a meth dealer and whose mother was an addict and the family she made for herself outside of the traditional definitions of family.

As I've been continuing my journey through all of the Bridgerton books, they get more enjoyable. I find myself reading through them very quickly and it's an enjoyable read. Definitely a good beach/summer read if you want something quick and easy. I'm looking forward to reading the next book in the series.

The Babysitters Club Boy Crazy Stacey is about Stacey that fell in love with a lifeguard and his name was Scott. She soon found out Scott already had a girlfriend that he kissed. Stacey soon fell in love with a boy named Toby.

Crawford Hunt is a Texas Ranger. His wife has died in a car accident. He slips into a bad place, so he lets his in-laws take care of his daughter Georgia. Now he has got his act together and he wants custody of his daughter back. His in-laws are ready for a fight. While in the courtroom to hear the decision of the judge someone comes in and takes shots. The books is great. Very interesting with a few twists and turns. I really enjoyed this one.

Book Two in the Country Store Mystery Series. The story just continues but this time Robbie Jordan finds Erica dead on the floor of the store. She didn't hear anything and now she is scared. Who wanted to kill Erica and why? Robbie of course decides to help the police find the killer, while putting herself in danger. Quick, easy and fun read. I will continue to read the rest of the series.

This is very much more of a character-driven story, and a character-exploration story, rather than a page turning, thrilling mystery novel. The main character, Anna, has just recently returned home after suffering a family tragedy and being kicked out by her husband. A detective who specializes in missing children, Anna's hometown has long haunted her as a girl she went to school with went missing in a still-unsolved case. Just as she returns, as it happens, another girl has gone missing - and Anna very quickly finds herself involved in solving the case. As she does so, her past trauma comes to light and becomes a force she will need to deal with if she is going to find Cameron and return to her family. I didn't really find this to be a page turner. In fact, it took me a while to get past the first section, because it's really just setting the stage and nothing much happens. I finally sat down and just plowed through the book in a day. It wasn't bad, but everything felt kind of flat and I didn't really care about Anna as a character. Even as she cried about the unknown trauma she had experienced, I never felt myself dying to know what had happened to her that led to her husband kicking her out. I just didn't care. I also don't love using real-life cases in a fictional story. It just felt exploitive and gross to me. Polly was a real girl who underwent something terrible, as did her family, and using it as some form of entertainment just doesn't sit right with me. Especially when you're going to make it a big piece of your plot, with your character investigating her bedroom and listening to a psychic talk about her.

Book Eleven in the Maggie Hope series. Maggie sets out to 1943 Hollywood where she agrees to help her previous beau, John Sterling, solve the mystery of Gloria Hutton's death. It is here she encounters American Nazism, the Zoot Suit Riots, Segregation, and the glittery stars of Hollywood. There is also a great, highly anticipated (at least by this reader) foreshadowing of a storyline for Book 12! Love this series!!