An Iraq War veteran returns to Puerto Rico to reconnect with—and confront—the past in a heart-wrenching novel about duty, motherhood, and the healing power of home. As a combat medic, Lina LaSalle went to Iraq to save the lives of fellow soldiers. But when her convoy is attacked, she must set aside her identity as […] The post #BlogTour #BookReview At the Island’s Edge by C.I. Jerez @OverTheRiverPR @AmazonPub #AtTheIslandsEdge #CIJerez #lakeunion #OTRPR appeared first on What's Better Than Books ..read more

She took him in when no one else would. She didn’t expect to fall in love… London, 1939. When Finley offers her spare room to refugee Sebastien, she sees relief in his haunted eyes. Forced to flee the hatred in Germany, Sebastien has been desperately lonely in his adopted country. Finley lost her father in […] The post #BookReview The Only Light in London by Lily Graham @lilygrahambooks @GrandCentralPub #LilyGraham #TheOnlyLightInLondon #GCPInsider appeared first on What's Better Than Books ..read more

1946: World War II is over, and Emma Clarkson is poised to take flight. With dreams of attending university, she’s ready to leave behind the wild beauty of Sable Island, the only home she’s ever known. But when a handsome British sea captain is rescued from a nearby shipwreck, her destiny is forever changed. Emma […] The post #BookReview All Our Beautiful Goodbyes by Julianne MacLean @FireflyDist @AmazonPub #AllOurBeautifulGoodbyes #JulianneMacLean #LakeUnion #FireflyDist appeared first on What's Better Than Books ..read more

Finlay Donovan may have skeletons in her closet . . . but at least there’s not a body in her backyard. Finlay Donovan and her nanny/partner-in-crime, Vero, have not always gotten along with Finlay’s elderly neighbor, Mrs. Haggerty, the community busybody and president of the neighborhood watch. But when a dead body is discovered in […] The post #BookReview Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave by Elle Cosimano @ElleCosimano @MinotaurBooks @StMartinsPress #MinotaurInfluencers #FinlayDonovanDigsHerOwnGrave #FinlayDonovan #ElleCosimano appeared first on What's Better Than Books ..read more

Two exes. One mission. A trip she’ll never forget… Max is just your average girl. She works odd jobs, has a soul-crushing amount of debt and just happens to have an uncanny resemblance to Europe’s youngest female prime minister, Sofia Christensen . . . So when the prime minister receives a credible death threat, the […] The post #BookReview Code Word Romance by Carlie Walker @BerkleyRomance @PenguinRandomCA #CodeWordRomance #CarlieWalker #Berkley #BerkleyPartner #PenguinReads appeared first on What's Better Than Books ..read more

At the age of twelve, Eve Black was the only member of her family to survive an encounter with serial attacker the Nothing Man. Now an adult, she is obsessed with identifying the man who destroyed her life. Supermarket security guard Jim Doyle has just started reading The Nothing Man–the true-crime memoir Eve has written […] The post #BookReview The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard @BlackstoneAudio #CatherineRyanHoward #TheNothingMan #BlackstonePublishing #BlackstoneInfluencer appeared first on What's Better Than Books ..read more

The New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Book of Flora Lea returns with a novel spanning three generations of women about a famous lost book, a famous lost mother, and an artist searching for both. In 1927, in Bluffton, South Carolina, a famous American—former child prodigy author Bronwyn Newcastle Fordham—disappears, abandoning her eight-year-old […] The post #BookReview The Story She Left Behind by Patti Callahan Henry @pcalhenry @SimonSchusterCA @AtriaBooks #TheStorySheLeftBehind #PattiCallahanHenry #SimonSchusterCA appeared first on What's Better Than Books ..read more

A mother and daughter in hiding are threatened by more than secrets and lies in a twisting novel of paranoia, revenge, and psychological suspense by bestselling author Douglas Corleone. For two years, Kati Dawes and her teenage daughter, Zoe, have lived off the grid in Hawaii, hiding from a past Kati must forget as if […] The post #BlogTour #BookReview Falls to Pieces by Douglas Corleone @dougcorleone @OverTheRiverPR @AmazonPub #FallsToPieces #DouglasCorleone #thomasandmercer #OTRPR appeared first on What's Better Than Books ..read more

1956, Malibu, Something is not right on Paradise Circle. With her name on the Hollywood blacklist and her life on hold, starlet Melanie Cole has little choice in company. There is her next-door neighbor, Elwood, but the screenwriter’s agoraphobia allows for just short chats through open windows. He’s her sole confidante, though, as she and […] The post #BookReview A Map to Paradise by Susan Meissner @BerkleyPub @PenguinRandomCA #AMapToParadise #SusanMeissner #Berkley #BerkleyPartner #PenguinReads appeared first on What's Better Than Books ..read more

A glittering, laugh-out-loud second chance romance that reminds us true love is sometimes the one thing you never planned on. Ali Rubin has a reputation for spontaneity. Like that time she made a drunken bet in London that led to matching tattoos with a stranger. Her joie de vivre is one of her best qualities; […] The post #BookReview Never Planned on You by Lindsay Hameroff @YouHadMeAtHEA @StMartinsPress #LindsayHameroff #NeverPlannedOnYou #YouHadMeAtHEA #SMPInfluencers #StMartinsPress appeared first on What's Better Than Books ..read more