Book review: The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand

Summary: The Hotel Nantucket was bought by billionaire Xavier Darling and he poured money into the old hotel to renovate it to be the best hotel on Nantucket. His ultimate goal is to receive 5 out of 5 keys from a famous anonymous hotel blogger. Lizbet was to run the hotel after running another successful …

Book review: What Happened to the Bennetts

Summary: Jason Bennett is a court reporter who is your typical suburban dad with one girl and one boy…..until his life changes in the blink of an eye. After his daughter’s lacrosse game, their family is stopped in an apparent car jacking which ends in tragedy. Quickly they are visited by the FBI where they …

Book review: An Imperfect Plan by Addison McKnight

Summary: Colette has had some trauma throughout her childhood that nobody would want to experience. Finally she is at a good place in her life and ready to start a family with the eggs she had frozen years ago. Greta is a wealthy and successful woman in the finance field who has not made the …

Book review: The Lying Club by Annie Ward

Summary: Private schools and scandals go hand in hand right? Brooke, Natalie, and Asha are the three central women in this book. Natalie is a secretary at the school with some past struggles who hopes to move on with life and become like one of the moms at the school. Asha is a mother who …

Book review: Minka Kent again…….The Thinnest Air

Summary: Meredith is a wealthy wife living in a beautiful home in a resort town married to a successful financial broker. Meredith seems happy and enjoys her role as stepparent to her husband’s two children from a former marriage. Things aren’t what they seem when Meredith’s car is found in a parking lot of a …

Book review: Pretty Guilty Women by Gina LaManna

Summary: A destination wedding ending in murder! This is the making for a great vacation read. Ginger, Whitney, Kate, and Emily were the best of friends in college until something happened that changed everything. Now Whitney has invited her three best college friends to her luxury wedding at a luxe resort in California to reunite. …

Book review: The Neighbor’s Secret by L Alison Heller

Summary: Lena, Jen, and Annie are neighbors and at very different places in their lives, but their lives tend to interconnect in this domestic drama set in a neighborhood called Cottonwood Estates. All three women have secrets from their past that they’ve held deep inside. The Cottonwood Book Club reads books about mysteries but now …

Book review: The Other Husband by Kathryn Croft

Summary: Abby and Sienna become fast friends after meeting at a Pilates class. Eventually they plan to have a double date that night was filled with eating and drinking too much. The couples decide to do a “wife swap” to have the couples trade wives for one night with no intimacy. Not long after this, …

Book review: After the Wedding by Laura Elliot

Summary: Christine Lewis has a recurring dream that something horrible happened when she was a flower girl as a child. Jessica Newman grew up with her father and a woman named Margaret who lived as her mother until they left Margaret one day. Both women have memories that are unfamiliar. Their paths cross as Jessica …

Our Western Adventure……itinerary for Sedona, Grand Canyon, Page, Zion, and Vegas

This past July our family took a trip to see some of the national parks and many amazing sights in Arizona, Utah, and Nevada. I spent hours and hours researching on message boards, trip reviews, and reading information online on how to plan this trip. After our trip, I had so many friends ask me …