The Queen of Hearts

Thanks to the lovely people at Berkley Publishing for my copy of The Queen of Hearts by Kimmery Martin.  All thoughts and images are my own.

Synopsis: (as told by the back of the book)

Pediatric cardiologist Zadie Anton and trauma surgeon Emma Colley have been best friends since medical school.  Their domestic and professional lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, are chaotic but fulfilling – until the return of a former colleague unearths a secret one of them has been harboring for years. Continue reading

A Most Extraordinary Pursuit

Thank you to the team at Berkley Pub for gifting me this copy of A Most Extraordinary Pursuit by Juliana Gray.  All thoughts and images are my own.

Synopsis: (as told by the back of the book)

February 1906.  As the personal secretary of the recently departed Duke of Olympia – and a woman of scrupulous character – Miss Emmeline Rose Truelove never expected her duties to involve steaming through the Mediterranean on a private yacht under the prodigal eye of one Lord Silverton, the most charmingly corrupt bachelor in London.  But here they are, improperly bound on a quest to find the duke’s enigmatic heir, current whereabouts unknown. Continue reading