Xepherus Reads

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,                An Anonymous Girl is written by the author duo of Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, and it is published by St. Martins Press. In it, we are introduced to freelance makeup artist, Jessica Farris. She lives in New York City in a whole-in-the-wall studio apartment and does her best to help her parents afford her sister's special needs care. But money is tight and she needs to catch a break. Her job at BeautyBuzz is not entirely safe since she is asked to go to strangers' homes to do their makeup. There has to be another way. Then she meets Taylor, a college student that has been asked to join a study at her university. But Taylor decides to not attend the study, which is offering to pay her five hundred dollars. Jessica, posing as Taylor, enters the study and no one seems the wiser. But the creator of the study, Dr. Lydia Shields,...

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,         The Wife Between Us is Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen's debut collaboration and is published by St. Martin's Press. In this tense thriller, we are introduced to Nellie and Vanessa. Vanessa is bitterly divorced and is seemingly angry at Nellie, who is about to marry her ex-husband, Richard. Stalked by the ex-Mrs. Thompson, Nellie goes about her daily life as a preschool teacher. She is a bubbly and happy woman with lots of friends. Vanessa is a part-time Saks Fifth Avenue employee living with her aunt and coming down from her extravagant life with Richard. The two women live on opposite sides of Manhattan. Two sides of a coin that is about to collide.   Vanessa has many tales to tell the future, Mrs. Thompson. Tales of abuse, both mental and physical. Tales of infidelity. Tales of suspicious behavior. But will Nellie listen? Or will she dive head-first into a terrible mistake? Can she deal with the wif...