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Diavola

“Keep cursed and carry on.” Author: Jennifer Thorne The Pace family is ready for another dysfunctional vacation. Single, carefree, cavorting Anna knows that she will once again be bullied by her entire family throughout the trip, all her past infractions brought to life over the dinner table, the subject of snide jokes and pointed comments. She also knows that she’ll be family translator, the one with the app-based knowledge, putting up with and apologizing for her oblivious, tourist family. Yet, she packs up and goes to the remote Italian villa in the tiny village of Monteperso anyway. Perhaps she is a [...]

2025-01-11T17:17:50-07:00January 11th, 2025|Tags: , , , |

Stranger Upstairs, The

"Endings are Loud" Author: Lisa M. Matlin Waning social media star and self-help book blitz Sarah Slade is looking to revitalize her fading fame and marriage with a little fixer-up project. She’s bought and plans to renovate an infamous murder/suicide house (Black Wood House) with the help of her hubby and inflexibly angry cat (Reaper), all while keeping up her façade as a good therapist. Of course, Sarah is doing more than trying to keep her perfect career going. She’s keeping her careful façade in place. Sarah has a past. Sarah has a lot of things to hide. And what better [...]

2025-01-06T15:40:20-07:00January 6th, 2025|Tags: , , , , , |

Malorie

“But a madman at ease is safer than a sane woman unsettled.” Author: Josh Malerman It’s been 12 years since the events in Bird Box when Malorie and her two children traveled, blind folded, up a treacherous river towards hope. Since then, the flame of optimism has been extinguished. Malorie and her children, girl (Olympia) and boy (Tom), now live in complete isolation. Malorie is paranoid. She will do whatever it takes to keep her children alive, even if that means killing her son’s dreams, his experiments, his hopes for a world of site, of people. This all changes when a [...]

2025-01-05T19:47:55-07:00January 5th, 2025|Tags: , , , , , |
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