When Andy and her mother, Laura, go to the mall to celebrate her birthday, things turn violent when a teenage boy starts shooting people in the diner. While urging her daughter to flee, Laura draws the killer's attention and Andy watches in horror as the killer then tries to stab her mother. However, Laura turns the tables on him and before long it is the boy who is lying dead at her feet. A stunned Andy is barely able to comprehend how her mother, a cancer-survivor, could pull off such a ... Read the Post
The Last Concubine by Lesley Downer
Eleven year old Sachi is excited when she learns an imperial princess will be travelling through her village, however she is even more shocked when she is told she will be accompanying Princess Kazu to Edo Castle. Kazu's subsequent marriage to Shogun Tokugawa Iemochi was arranged to end the rivalry between the imperial court and the shogunate, however Kazu fails to conceive an heir and she gifts Sachi to her husband. After four years of learning how to be a court lady, Sachi is surprised to ... Read the Post
The Shogun’s Queen by Lesley Downer
Raised in the Satsuma region of Japan, seventeen-year-old Okatsu expects to marry and have children like any other village girl, however her life takes an unexpected turn when Lord Nariakira announces his plans to adopt her as his daughter. As Princess Atsu, Okatsu spends the next three years learning the accomplishments a young woman of her rank needs to make a good marriage, however she is still shocked when Lord Nariakira informs her she will be marrying Iesada, the thirteenth Tokugawa ... Read the Post
The Dead Ex by Jane Corry
When Vicki's ex-husband goes missing, she suddenly finds herself the prime suspect in his disappearance but even she's not sure if she's innocent. After an accident left her with severe epilepsy, Vicki has lapses of memory which leave her unsure of what she's done so when the police present their evidence she's unable to refute it. When Vicki is eventually arrested, things go from bad to worse as the evidence mounts against her and it becomes increasingly obvious she is being set up. Or does it? ... Read the Post
The Storyteller’s Secret by Sejal Badani
Distraught after suffering her third miscarriage, Jaya decides to travel to India to meet her dying grandfather, Deepak, however she gets there too late. However, Jaya soon meets Ravi, a former servant of her grandparents', who reveals Deepak had a gift for Jaya's mother but he must first tell her about her grandmother Amisha. Amisha's tale turns out to be a tragic story of love and betrayal during the British Raj but Jaya finally begins to understand why her own mother is so distant with ... Read the Post