If you are a Downton Abbey fan like I am, then you don’t want to miss this fantastic opportunity to meet Hugh while he speaks about his new book which he is also signing.
Here is all the information from Succeed2gether’s.
Join us for a night of entertainment with one of today’s best-loved British actors, Hugh Bonneville, whose credits include Downton Abbey, Notting Hill, and Paddington.
Hugh will be live and in person talking about his memoir Playing Under the Piano: From Downton to Darkest Peru with CBS News senior national correspondent Jim Axelrod.
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
7 p.m. In Person!
Tickets cost $35 and include a copy of the book Playing Under the Piano (value $29). Books will be signed at the event.
Blood and Chaos by Emma Dean (A Syndicate of Blood and Chaos, #2) Publication date: January 20, 2023 Genres: Adult, Mafia, Reverse Harem, Romance
Synopsis:
Two kingdoms: one of shadows, and one of blood.
Damien Chaos was a devil of his own making, and yet, somehow he found himself agreeing to a deal with Kira Cain instead of the other way around. She’d manipulated him into a position where the only solution was to do exactly as she wanted.
Shadow was his, but the cost was almost more than he could stand.
Kira Cain was going to be his wife, and the arranged marriage would put her at his side as his queen and equal.
The only problem was Damien couldn’t control her, and she already had Aeron and Kaito wrapped around her little finger. Things may not be going as planned, but there was no way he’d let anyone else f*cking touch her.
Dante would suffer for putting her in danger, and this time Damien wasn’t going to let it slide.
Emma Dean is the autistic author of Draga Court and the Council of Paranormals. Juggling work, life, higher education, and a rambunctious toddler leaves little room for much else, but when she gets the chance she dives into a good book and likes to re-read the Black Jewels series by Anne Bishop every year during Christmas.
In August, Barnes and Noble in Paramus, NJ, hosted a book event featuring Harlan Coben in conversation with Lisa Jewell. My last in-person book event at B&N was with Lisa during her book release of The Family Upstairs. The book was part of the B&N Book Club. After so many events were canceled due to COVID, it is great to see a good turnout this year. It is recommended that you read The Family Upstairs before continuing with The Family Remains. Lisa is one of my favorite psychological thriller authors that write captivating stories with real-life issues that readers can relate to.
Goodreads Blurb
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell comes an intricate and affecting novel about twisted marriages, fractured families, and deadly obsessions in this standalone sequel to The Family Upstairs.
Early one morning on the shore of the Thames, DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene of a gruesome discovery. When Owusu sends the evidence for examination, he learns the bones are connected to a cold case that left three people dead on the kitchen floor in a Chelsea mansion thirty years ago.
Rachel Rimmer has also received a shock—news that her husband, Michael, has been found dead in the cellar of his house in France. All signs point to an intruder, and the French police need her to come urgently to answer questions about Michael and his past that she very much doesn’t want to answer.
After fleeing London thirty years ago in the wake of a horrific tragedy, Lucy Lamb is finally coming home. While she settles in with her children and is just about to purchase their first-ever house, her brother takes off to find the boy from their shared past whose memory haunts their present.
As they all race to discover answers to these convoluted mysteries, they will come to find that they’re connected in ways they could have never imagined.
In this masterful standalone sequel to her haunting New York Times bestseller, The Family Upstairs, Lisa Jewell proves she is writing at the height of her powers with another jaw-dropping, intricate, and affecting novel about the lengths we will go to protect the ones we love and uncover the truth.
Author Biography
Her first novel, Ralph’s Party, was the best-selling debut novel of 1999. Since then she has written another twenty novels, most recently a number of dark psychological thrillers, including The Girls, Then She Was Gone, The Family Upstairs, and The Night She Disappeared.
Lisa is a New York Times and Sunday Times number one bestselling author who has been published worldwide in over twenty-five languages. She lives in north London with her husband, two teenage daughters, and the best dog in the world.
In this twisty, mind-bending thriller from the bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes, Emma Averell worries that her crippling insomnia is a sign that she’s slowly going insane—like the mother she’s worked so hard to leave in her past.
Emma Averell loves her life—her high-powered legal career, her two beautiful children, and her wonderful stay-at-home husband—but it wasn’t always so perfect. When she was just five years old, Emma and her older sister went into foster care because of a horrific incident with their mother. Her sister can remember a time when their mother was loving and “normal,” but Emma can only remember her as one thing—a monster. And that monster emerged right around their mother’s fortieth birthday, the same age Emma is approaching now.
Emma desperately wants to keep her successful life separate from her past, so she has always hidden her childhood trauma. But then she’s unable to sleep, and now losing time during the day, also one of the first symptoms her mother showed. Is the madness in her blood, just as her mother predicted? Could she end up hurting her family in her foggy, frenetic state? Or is she truly beginning to lose her mind?
My Review: Rated 3 out of 5 Stars
A mind-blowing thriller that will have you frightened of your fortieth birthday. Turning forty for many does seem life-changing, especially for women. In this thriller novel, I found myself frightened of turning forty, worried about insomnia, crazy thoughts, and loss of time, and seeing my life go upside down without a clear ending. The dreaded countdown had me just as insane as the character.
I wanted the day to arrive as much as Emma dreaded her birthday’s arrival. This psychological thriller has the reader thinking the main character Emma, is going mad just like her mother: but the story flips around, and the unexpected dread that someone is causing all her torture becomes a reality. This story foresaw the future at the time Emma’s mother went mad and how that future becomes the present for Emma. Two visions drove the characters mad because of the darkness they revealed. Will you survive your fortieth birthday?
Author Biography
Sarah Pinborough is a New York Times bestselling and Sunday Times Number one and Internationally bestselling author who is published in over 30 territories worldwide. Having published more than 25 novels across various genres, her recent books include Behind Her Eyes, now a smash hit Netflix limited series, Dead To Her, now in development with Amazon Studios, and 13 Minutes and The Death House in development with Compelling Pictures. Sarah lives in the historic town of Stony Stratford, the home of the Cock and Bull story, with her dog Ted. Her next novel, Insomnia, is out in 2022. You can follow Sarah on Twitter at @sarahpinborough.
Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs, Perdu mends broken hearts and souls. The only person he can’t seem to heal through literature is himself; he’s still haunted by heartbreak after his great love disappeared. She left him with only a letter, which he has never opened.
After Perdu is finally tempted to read the letter, he hauls anchor and departs on a mission to the south of France, hoping to make peace with his loss and discover the end of the story. Joined by a bestselling but blocked author and a lovelorn Italian chef, Perdu travels along the country’s rivers, dispensing his wisdom and his books, showing that the literary world can take the human soul on a journey to heal itself.
Internationally bestselling and filled with warmth and adventure, The Little Paris Bookshop is a love letter to books, meant for anyone who believes in the power of stories to shape people’s lives.
My Review: Rated 3 out of 5 Stars
A book about a heartbreak that will shatter a man for the rest of his life. As quickly as he finds the love of his life, Perdu also loses her. It’s twenty years later, and he continues to torment himself for losing the one woman he loved madly. Twenty years before he received a letter from his love, he was so heartbroken that he didn’t dare to read it. Perdu owns a floating bookstore in Paris where he helps those who are heartbroken, sad, depressed or have lost a loved one by recommending books that will help them find peace.
He is an apothecary with books that will provide a little light to those who need it. But as ironic as that sounds, he chooses to live his life in seclusion and not open his heart to love. One day he decides to finally read the letter that will turn his life upside down. The reason for the letter was not to say sorry but to ask him to see her one last time. Now it’s twenty years too late, and he decides to take his boat bookstore on an adventure of finding answers and finding peace and love.
Author Biography
Born 1973 in Bielefeld, Germany, Nina George is a prize-winning and bestselling author (“Das Lavendelzimmer” – “The Little Paris Bookshop”) and freelance journalist since 1992, who has published 26 books (novels, mysteries, and non-fiction) as well as over hundred short stories and more than 600 columns. George has worked as a cop reporter, columnist, and managing editor for a wide range of publications, including Hamburger Abendblatt, Die Welt, Der Hamburger, “politik und kultur” as well as TV Movie and Federwelt. Georges writes also under three pen-names, for ex “Jean Bagnol”, a double-andronym for provence-based mystery novels.
After the death of her mother and losing her job, Sarah realizes there’s nothing keeping her in the small town where she grew up, and she travels to New York to stay with her best friend. Upon her arrival, she literally falls for a sexy, dark man with mesmerizing emerald-green eyes.
Chance encounters continue to bring them together, and Sarah finds herself drawn into a sinful world she’s never known. Wilder is unlike any other man, and although she tries, she can’t resist him or his dominating temperament.
Try as she might, Wilder will not let Sarah escape him, and with a stalker coming after her, he is determined to protect her with everything he has—even when he has to punish her in the bedroom for disobeying his commands.
The Selective Mute Princess by Samantha Jayne Grubey Publication date: August 29, 2022 Genres: New Adult, Romance
Synopsis:
Princess Amelia has been silent for ten years, ever since Amelia and Ava were kidnapped. One returned home the other did not. Amelia has always kept herself guarded with her twenty-first birthday approaching things are going to be changing.
Ethan Sparks is on his first assignment, guard the Princess in the Palace. The longer he’s there the more he finds himself being drawn to Princess Amelia, he can see she’s drowning and he wants to help.
Romantic interests stir in a mixing pot of emotions as Amelia and her family recover from the kidnapping and murder of her sister. Unsure what to feel or who to believe, Amelia needs to find her truth, as she deals with her trauma and finally brings her family to mend. Along the way they find themselves hitting challenges at every wall. So many questions left unanswered by the kidnapping and murder, can she finally find the answers she’s searching for? Can Amelia finally allow herself to live and be freed from the guilt she feels? Can Ethan survive the challenges that come with falling for a Princess in line for the throne?
Samantha Jayne Grubey is the author of new adult romance.
When she’s not writing, or reading, you can probably find her heading back to university for teaching training. If she’s not doing any of that then she’s probably playing sims (sims 3&2 is the best out of the franchise) or coloring.
Midnight Blaze by Anya Summers (Dungeon Singles Night, #8) Publication date: July 26, 2022 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Synopsis:
All she wants is to help her best friend.
Tessa’s bestie has been dying for a night of ecstasy with a certain sexy doctor at The Eros Pit. When Tessa winds up with the doctor’s marker at the singles night event, she swaps. There’s no harm in it, not when she knows her best friend will get to have the night of her dreams.
Except Tessa ends up with a Dom she wants nothing to do with – Cooper Livingstone. Danger surrounds him. The sexy alpha is a total badass, fighting wildfires on the front range. He’s potent. Makes her body come alive in ways she has never experienced before. It worries her how much she craves his wicked brand of lovemaking after a single night.
Cooper lives and breathes his daredevil lifestyle. For him, there is nothing like coming up against Mother Nature’s wrath – that is, until Tessa winds up in his bed. Underneath her serene façade lies a feisty, passionate woman who calls to him on an elemental level. After a single night, he yearns to claim the intoxicating submissive. She’s in his blood. He dreams about her taste and her surrender. The need to claim her, make her his in every way, is a hunger he cannot deny. He will do whatever it takes to earn her surrender, and possibly even her love.
But Tessa doesn’t take chances. They’re way too dangerous. She knows far too well how devastating the consequences can be. And submitting to Cooper might just be the biggest risk of all.
Can Cooper convince Tessa to take a chance on him?
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Anya grew up listening to Cardinals baseball and reading anything she could get her hands on. She remembers her mother saying if only she would read the right type of books instead binging her way through the romance aisles at the bookstore, she’d have been a doctor. While Anya never did get that doctorate, she graduated cum laude from the University of Missouri-St. Louis with an M.A. in History.
Anya is a bestselling and award-winning author published in multiple fiction genres. She also writes urban fantasy, paranormal romance, and contemporary romance under the name Maggie Mae Gallagher. A total geek at her core, when she is not writing, she adores attending the latest comic con or spending time with her family. She currently lives in the Midwest with her two furry felines.
Hanna has barely spoken to her family since the tragedy that rocked their lives fourteen years ago. The tragedy for which they held Hanna responsible.
Then she sees her family home listed as the scene of a horrific crime. Number of victims: three. Date of crime: today. Frantic, Hanna tries to contact her family, only to find they have disappeared.
To find them, Hanna will have to confront what happened all those years ago.
And the person determined to make her pay for it …
My Review: 4 out of 5 Stars
A dark thriller with a secret that could destroy a family. The book slowly reveals a past Hannah wants to forget and a future where the past haunts her. Can Hannah locate her family and figure out who is using Adams’s website to post terrifying content about her family? It is impossible for the readers to escape from this dark mystery. Vanessa created a story that some can relate to since this story revolves around family drama, teenagers going wild, and vengeance. It’s a thriller filled with mystery, secrets, vengeance, and forgiveness. It’s a dark thriller that’ll keep you guessing until the end.
Author Biography
Vanessa Savage is a graphic designer and illustrator. She has twice been awarded a Writers’ Bursary by Literature Wales, most recently for The Woman in the Dark. She won the Myriad Editions First Crimes competition in 2016 and her work has been highly commended in the Yeovil International Fiction Prize, short listed for the Harry Bowling Prize, and the Caledonia Fiction Prize. She was longlisted for the Bath Novel Award.
Vanessa lives by the sea in South Wales with her husband and two daughters.
Love You Again by Julia Kent (Love You, Maine, #2) Publication date: July 19, 2022 Genres: Adult, Comedy, Contemporary, Romance
Synopsis:
Set in the woodsy small town of Luview, “Love You,” Maine – a tourist favorite where every day is Valentine’s Day – local police officer and single dad Luke Luview has spent the last two years making his young daughter his priority after his wife’s death. When first-love Kylie Hood comes back into town under bizarre circumstances, he learns that nothing’s a coincidence – and maybe second chances are possible after all. If you’re looking for a fun read about first kisses, second chances, featuring a hot single dad small town police officer and his accidental nanny, set in a small town in New England, with a golden retriever named Jester, a heroine whose dream in life is to run a fairy camp, and a hero who wants to build a place where everyone belongs – then this is your book.
Grab a cup of coffee, tea, and maybe some edible glitter, and get your happy meter ready as you read the second book in the Love You, Maine series – where love isn’t just a feeling – it’s a way of life.
✓Single Dad ✓Second chance ✓Small town romance ✓Local police officer and his last-minute nanny …and a Golden Retriever named Jester
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Julia Kent writes romantic comedy with an edge. Since 2013, she has sold more than 2 million books, with 4 New York Times bestsellers and more than 21 appearances on the USA Today bestseller list. Her books have been translated into French, German, and Italian, with more titles releasing in the future.
From billionaires to BBWs to new adult rock stars, Julia finds a sensual, goofy joy in every contemporary romance she writes. Unlike Shannon from Shopping for a Billionaire, she did not meet her husband after dropping her phone in a men’s room toilet (and he isn’t a billionaire she met in a romantic comedy).
She lives in New England with her husband and three children where she is the only person in the household with the gene required to change empty toilet paper rolls.
She loves to hear from her readers by email at julia@jkentauthor.com, on Twitter @jkentauthor, on Facebook at @jkentauthor, and on Instagram @jkentauthor. Visit her at http://jkentauthor.com
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