Xepherus Reads

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,   Watching You is Lisa Lewell's twisty novel of revenge and betrayal. It is published by Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.  In it, we are introduced to Melville Heights, a beautiful housing community with homes owned by some of Bristol, England's more affluent residents.  After marrying her husband and moving in with her brother and his wife, Josephine Mullen seems to be in a great place. But Josephine has her mind on someone else, her dashing older neighbor, Tom Fitzwilliam. Day by day her obsession with Tom intensifies, and she seems powerless to stop it. All she knows is that she would rather be with Tom than her husband.   Down the road, teenager Jenna Tripp is dealing with her increasingly paranoid mother who believes that Tom Fitzwilliam is stalking her.  Then murder rocks Melville Heights. Who hated the victim so much that they would stab to death someone that viciously? When you are being w...

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,          I Found You is written by Lisa Jewell, and it is published by Atria Books, an imprint of Simon and Schuster.   Alice Lake is a single mother of three children living in the seaside town of Ridinghouse Bay. One day she notices a strange man sitting on the beach outside of her home. He appears to be confused; without knowledge of who he is. Alice feels bad for the man and asks him to stay with her and her family. He is dubbed "Frank" by her youngest and perplexes the woman. How can this handsome gentleman be alone and without any resources? Surely someone must know him.    Miles away Lily Monrose, a newlywed of three weeks, notices that her husband is extremely late coming home. It is unlike Carl to be this late. She worries to the point that she calls the authorities. After some checking, Lily is hit with the revelation that no such man named Carl Monrose exists. Baffled by this news, Lily ...

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,       Then She Was Gone is written by Lisa Jewell, and published by Simon and Schuster under their Atria Books imprint. In it, we are introduced to the Mack family and their matriarch, Laurel. They are ten years into suffering the loss of young Ellie Mack, who disappeared without a trace only streets away from her home. The teenager was bright and headed for big things. She was loved by all and would never run away from home, as many believed she had. But ten years is a long time for a mother to mourn the loss of a child. And after ten years Laurel Mack is a shell of her former self. Divorced and living alone, she thinks of her daughter Ellie every day, knowing deep down that she would never have run away.   Then one day, in a small cafe Laurel meets Floyd Dunn, a handsome author. After some time she becomes aware that she has not had the company of anyone in a while. As the days go by she becomes involved with Floyd,...

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,       The Third Wife is written by Lisa Jewell and is published by Atria Books, an imprint of Simon and Schuster. In it, we are introduced to Maya Wolfe one cold early morning, as she stumbles drunk down Charing Cross Road in London. She is a woman on the edge, and her personal demons are out this early morning. She lurches forward, taking in all the sights she sees, including a bright light heading toward her. And minutes later Maya lies dead in the road, having been hit by a bus.    Her husband, Adrian, is beside himself with grief. He lives for months in his small home with Maya's cat, Billie. Unshaven, thin, and inconsolable, Adrian decides the time to move on has come. He hangs an advertisement in the local post office for someone to adopt Billie. This brings Jane into his life. She is young, pretty, and gets along with Billie rather fast. But Jane is nosy. Jane asks a lot of questions, but not about the cat...

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,        Live To Tell is written by Lisa Gardner, and is the fourth book in her bestselling Detective D.D. Warren series. It is published by Penguin Random House under their Bantam imprint. In it, we are introduced to Danielle Burton, a psychiatric nurse who is the sole survivor of her family's massacre at the hands of her father decades prior. She works day to day trying to do her best to help the child who is a patient in the locked ward that she works in; her own twisted past haunts her daily.    Across town Sergeant Detective D.D. Warren is on a date that seems to be going well. But she is interrupted by her precinct as she is called to a horrific crime scene: an entire family has been butchered, and the lead suspect is the father, currently fighting for his life at a local hospital after a botched attempted suicide. But the scene reads against murder-suicide for D.D., and she is determined to find ou...