The Fault Between Us by Bette Lee Crosby

Can it really be that Templeton married after she vowed she would never marry…well until she met John on the trolley.​​

Am I really Mrs. Morehouse?

A whirlwind romance and reservations by her parents and even herself followed Templeton to the altar and to California….three thousand miles from Philadelphia.​​

She gave up her loving family and her business, but she knew that’s what she wanted.​​

Things in San Francisco were wonderful, and Templeton drew designs and found a shop owner who could help her sew the dresses.

Things were looking up…she just hoped she wasn’t expecting. She couldn’t wear her designs and show them to prospective customers if she didn’t fit in the dresses.​​

Templeton was so obsessed with her business, that John felt neglected.  She realized that he wasn’t ready like all the men of this time to have a woman with a career.  

She needed to make him feel as if he were the most important thing in her life. It made her sad, but he was the most important thing in her life.​​

Ms. Crosby has given her readers another marvelous story with characters you will love and admire except for Charlie.

I loved Templeton’s determination to make her business work and to show the city that a woman can make it in business.  Such fun hearing about the dresses and the work involved with her new fashion lines.​​

She then asked herself again? Could it all work if she were expecting?  

It was all working out until the earthquake happened in San Francisco while she was in Philadelphia and she could not get in touch with her husband, and then she had to worry about her father because he went to look for John.

Master storyteller, Bette Lee Crosby, will have you feeling everything the characters are feeling and have you glued to the pages.​

Thank you for another heartfelt, splendid book.​​  5/5

This book was given to me by the author via BookFunnel in exchange for an honest review.

The Three Shades of Justice by Carolyn J. Rose

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THE THREE SHADES OF JUSTICE

CAROLYN J. ROSE

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ALL INFORMATION IN THIS POST IS COURTESY OF THE AUTHOR.

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PUBLICATION DATE:  OCTOBER 1

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PRAISE FOR THREE SHADES OF JUSTICE:

"I really liked this book.  Loved the mischief in this, and the secondary characters who really did care. I also want the chef. For myself. Hilarious." - From an Amazon Review by Melanie

ABOUT THE THREE SHADES OF JUSTICE:

Emma Preston’s best friends are dead.

But not departed.

Killed in a car crash, they return to their senior residence to take care of unfinished business—getting the goods on the malicious assistant administrator. Sadye Connor has been stealing supplies and skimming accounts; now she’s upping her crime game.

Stubborn and opinionated in life, Eddie, Ida, and Loren are no different in their afterlives. Instead of honing their haunting skills, they bicker about strategy, blow off training, belittle teamwork, and badger Emma about the quality of their urns and the care and feeding of their entitled pets. Worse yet, they read her thoughts, butt in on conversations, and allow her no privacy to pursue a budding romance.

Can Emma wrangle the wraiths in the direction of detection in time? Do the Three Shades of Justice have a ghost of a chance of stopping Shady Sadye? Or will the ectoplasm hit the fan?

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Carolyn J. Rose grew up in New York's Catskill Mountains, the setting for her Hemlock Lake mystery trilogy. 

She emerged from the University of Arizona with a degree and a tan, and stayed on for graduate school. 

Thanks to boredom and a public service announcement on late-night TV, she abandoned literary studies for two years with Volunteers in Service to America in Little Rock. 

From there a series of coincidences and chance encounters led her to the land of TV news and 25 years as a researcher, writer, producer, and assignment editor in Arkansas, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington. 

She’s now a high school substitute teacher in Vancouver, Washington. Her subbing experiences, and her sometimes rocky relationship with the dogs in her life, led her to create the canine character Cheese Puff and the Subbing isn’t for Sissies series. 

Other than writing, her interests are reading, swimming, walking, gardening, and NOT cooking.

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Three Sisters by Heather Morris

The sisters promised their father that they would always stay together, but can that happen when WWII begins and one of the sisters is summoned by the Germans?

Livi is ordered to report to the train station and to Auschwitz.  Her sister Cibi can’t let her go alone so she reports too.

Their sister Magda was in the hospital so at this time was not required to report.  She does have to hide, but to no avail.  Magda is sent to the camp too a few years later.

The two sisters endure the horrors and hardships of the camp together and welcome their sister even though it isn't a pleasant reunion.

All three do not leave each other’s side and endure together.

As the war ends and the prisoners are on a march, the sisters and other women run and escape.

Heartwrenching, heartbreaking, and well written with hope being what gets them through it all.

We then follow the sisters as they leave their country for Israel but never have the horror of their concentration camp ordeals out of their minds.

This is a true story told to Heather Morris by two of the three sisters who are still living in Israel with their extended family. 

The acknowledgements by the children will bring tears to your eyes.

Another well-done, well-researched book by Ms. Morris. 5/5

This book was given to me by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

His Loving Wife by Miranda Smith

We meet Andrew, Kate, Willow, and Noah who were the victims of a home invasion and whose effects are still with them.

When the police find out who the intruder was and that he was someone Kate dated in college, her husband raises questions about why Kate never told him that her old college boyfriend had been stalking her and that she was meeting with him before the invasion.   

Is this the reason he invaded their home?  Did he want Kate back?

To help with the trauma, a year later the family takes a surprise vacation as they try to forget that night, but no one will ever forget it.

We follow the family in the present and months before.

Andrew and Kate seem more distant than usual, and the vacation didn't seem to be helping.

Andrew is always on his computer talking to his friends and Kate can’t get over the fact that she still thinks the intruder is there at the beach and that Andrew still doesn’t believe that she and the intruder didn’t have an affair.

On top of everything, they have to deal with a moody teenager, a son who is timid, and secrets.

You can just feel the underlying tension everywhere.  Ms. Smith did a great job with having that tension felt.

HIS LOVING WIFE has twists, turns, lies, and surprises.

The ending is a HUGE surprise. 4/5

This book was given to me by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This Week At Silver's Reviews

Some very good books are reviewed this week.

Have you read any of them?

Books Read In September

I had a very enjoyable, busy reading month.

How about YOU?

The Keeper of Happy Endings by Barbara Davis

Two women - Soline and Rory - one that owned a bridal salon who made magical wedding gowns that guaranteed happy endings and one who was starting an art gallery.

How were they connected?  Both had similar heartaches, and the art gallery Rory bought was the one Soline owned.

How did they find each other since Soline was a recluse after her salon had caught fire?  

A box containing a wedding dress, letters from customers, and mementos from a lover connected them and created a marvelous friendship.

We follow both women through their sorrows and their successes - one whose sorrows started during WWII and the other present day.

Ms. Davis has outdone herself with this book…historical fiction, love, heartaches, forgiveness, secrets kept for years, but most of all hope in all of it.

A beautiful, beautiful read.  I know you will love it too.  5/5

This book was given to me by the author via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.