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At the recommendation of a friend, I downloaded this book and spent the next 17 hours transfixed. Be careful what you wish for is the lesson of this novel. Adeline LaRue, about to be married to man she has not even met, begs God to spare her. When that one doesn’t answer, she prays to the gods who answer after dark…and one comes through. Make me free, A…

After reading Daisy Darker, I’ll read anything Alice Feeney writes. Good Bad Girl is a wonderful, twisting story of four women—Edith, Cleo, Frankie and Patience. How they’re all linked is a complete mystery, though, and not one I could wrangle before it was revealed in a most satisfying sentence. Edith, a crusty and cranky octagenerian, lives in a care …

Incandescent with humor, wisdom and vulnerability, The Wedding People was everything I want in women’s fiction—sadness, depth, humor, detestable people, wonderful people (sometimes the same person, in fact). Phoebe, an adjunct professor of literature, finds the weight of loneliness too much to bear. Infertility, a divorce, the loss of a friendship and t…

Small towns are a favorite of mine, and K.M. Jackson understands them…the gossip, the cliques, the awkward feeling of not quite belonging while having everyone know your business. Too Sweet to be Good is filled with deeply emotional, eloquent writing and relatable characters, this book is pitch-perfect.