The Heretic's Daughter

In 1752 Sarah Carrier Chapman, confined to her home and weak with infirmity, writes a letter to her granddaughter, revealing the secret she has guarded closely for six decades. It is a haunting account of the horrors that enveloped a New England town called Salem, and compelled Sarah, then just a young girl, to make a decision that would change her life.

Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella

When twenty-eight-year-old Lexi Smart wakes up in a London Hospital, she's in for a big surprise. Her teeth are perfect. Her body is toned. Her handbag is Vuitton. Having survived a car accident-in a Mercedes no less-Lexi has lost a big chunk of her memory, three years to be exact, and she's about to find out just how much things have changed.

Blue Dahlia Synopsis

A Harper has always lived at Harper House, the centuries-old mansion just outside of Memphis. And for as long as anyone alive remembers, the ghostly Harper Bride has walked the halls, singing lullabies at night...

Trying to escape the ghosts of the past, young widow Stella Rothchild, along with her two energetic little boys, has moved back to her roots in southern Tennessee - and into her new life at Harper House and In the Garden nursery. She isn't intimidated by the house - nor its mistress, local legend Roz Harper. Despite a reputation for being difficult, Roz has been nothing but kind to Stella, offering her a comfortable new place to live and a challenging new job as manager of the flourishing nursery. As Stella settles comfortably into her new life, she finds a nurturing friendship with Roz and with expectant mother Hayley. And she discovers a fierce attraction with ruggedly handsome landscaper Logan Kitridge.

But someone isn't happy about the budding romance...the Harper Bride. As the women dig into the history of Harper House, they discover that grief and rage have kept the Bride's spirit alive long past her death. And now, she will do anything to destroy the passion that Logan and Stella share...

Book Club News

It was great to see some of you on Tuesday and those that weren't there, you were missed.

It's that time again...time to submit your next book pick. You can either IM Kelly or leave me a comment on here so that we can get the list posted.

Next, our club meeting on December 30 has been cancelled. So we will see everyone January 6th!

Merry Christmas to all and hope you have a happy New Year!

The Tea Rose Review

With an overwhelming consensus, The Tea Rose was a hit. Full of love, loss, murder and success, there was something for everyone. There was crying, laughing and horrible words said of a certain character (Millie Peterson)! So The Tea Rose gets our highest review yet: 5 stars!

The Tea Rose

"East London, 1888-a city apart. A place of shadow and light where theives, whores, and dreamers mingle, where children play in the cobbled streets by day and a killer stalks at night, where bright hopes meet the darkest truths. Here, by the whispering waters of the Thames, Fiona Finnegan, a worker in a tea factory, hopes to own a shop one day, together with her lifelong love, Joe Bristow, a costermonger's son. With nothing but their faith in each other to spur them on, Fiona and Joe struggle, save, and sacrifice to achieve their dreams. But Fiona's life is shattered when the actions of a dark and brutal man take from her nearly everything-and everyone-she holds dear. Fearing her own death, she is forced to flee London for New York. There, her indomitable spirit propels her rise from a modest West Side shop-front to the top of Manhattan's tea trade. But Fiona's old ghosts do not rest quietly, and to silence them, she must venture back to the London of her childhood, where a deadly confrontation with her past becomes the key to her future."

To My Fellow Book Clubers

I am so sorry that I have been out of reach. I missed the last book club meeting but am dying to know what everyone thought of the book. Please leave me some comments/thoughts so I can write a review for the page. Again, I'm sorry and hopefully we can talk tonight at the meeting.