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AUDIO BOOK REVIEW: When She Returned by Lucinda Berry

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Release Date:  October 15, 2019 Publisher:  Brilliance Audio Format:  Audio Length:  8 hours 22 minutes Narrator:  Coleen Marlo, Lauren Ezzo, Amy McFadden   Genre:  Psychological Thriller  Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle Synopsis:  One woman’s reappearance throws her family into turmoil, exposing dark secrets and the hidden, often devastating truth of family relationships. Kate Bennett vanished from a parking lot eleven years ago, leaving behind her husband and young daughter. When she shows up at a Montana gas station, clutching an infant and screaming for help, investigators believe she may have been abducted by a cult. Kate’s return flips her family’s world upside down - her husband is remarried, and her daughter barely remembers her. Kate herself doesn’t look or act like she did before. While the family tries to help Kate reinteg...

Audio Book Review: Goodbye Paradise by Sarina Bowen

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Release Date:  May 9, 2017 Publisher:  Blackstone Audio Format:  Audio Length:  8 hours 1 minutes Narrator:  Teddy Hamilton, Dake Bliss Genre:  Romance/ LGBT Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  Synopsis:  Most people called it a cult. But for 20 years, Josh and Caleb called it home. In Paradise, there is no television. No fast food. Just long hours of farmwork and prayer on a dusty Wyoming ranch and nights in a crowded bunkhouse. The boys of the Compound are kept far from the sinners' world. But Joshua doesn't need temptation to sin. His whole life he's wanted his best friend, Caleb. By day they work side by side. Only when Josh closes his eyes at night can they be together the way he craves. It can never be. And his survival depends on keeping his terrible desires secret. Caleb has always protected Josh against the worst of the bullying at the Compound. But he has secrets of his own and a plan to get away - until it all backfire...

ARC Review: Cover Me In Darkness by Eileen Rendahl

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Release Date: December 8, 2016 Publisher: Midnight Ink Format: Kindle Pages: 288 pages Genre: Mystery Buy: Kindle | Paperback Synopsis:  Amanda Sinclair has to fight harder than most for everything she has after fleeing the cult that left her brother dead at her mother’s hand. Amanda works a quiet job in quality control for a small cosmetics company, trying to leave her past behind her—until she learns that her mother has committed suicide in the mental ward where she’s been locked away for the past ten years. At first, Amanda believes that her mother killed herself, but when she looks through the personal belongings left behind, it seems her death may be related to the upcoming parole hearing for cult leader Patrick Collier. Teaming up with her mother’s psychologist, Amanda starts to peel away the layers of secrets that she’s built between herself and her own past, and what she finds is a truth that’s almost too big to believe. Review: Amanda still struggles w...