What We’re Reading this March
Dangerous strangers. Illegal drugs. Haunted homes. March is the harbinger of eerie reads that will force you to question everything, trust no one, and watch your back. These reads aren’t for the faint of heart, so get ready for all the curious and nail-biting reads that lay in the month ahead.
ME: I make a secret promise as Tom kisses me and pours a glass of ice-cold wine to toast the first night in our dream house: I’m going to forget about his past.
HER: Chloe is the only friend I’ve made since the move. Tom hates me spending time with her, but I ignore his warning to stay away. I’ve seen the way he looks at her. It’s better to keep your enemies close …
A detective on a downward spiral following the vicious murder of his wife is sent to therapy to sort himself out. From the moment he enters the doctor’s office, she finds it a struggle to maintain the professional boundaries that keep her own tragic past at a safe distance. As the detective closes in on his wife’s murder, he and his therapist attraction may compromise both their careers and their lives.
The most respected citizen in Union Springs, Alabama, is Judge Mary Stone. She holds two responsibilities sacred: running her family farm and presiding over her courtroom. It’s there she draws the most controversial case in the history of the South. Criminally, it’s open-and-shut. Ethically, there is no middle ground. Essentially, it’s a choice between life and death. No judge can satisfy everyone. It would be dangerous to try. But Judge Stone is willing to fight to bring justice to the people and place she loves.
On the isolated Eastern Shore of Virginia, Edith is a healer, a woman of knowledge—and a woman watched. Terrified she has opened her home to the Devil, Edith makes a desperate choice.
Claire doesn’t believe in ghosts—until she returns home to care for her dying father and finds her childhood house… listening.
Is the house haunted? What compels this lurking darkness? As the danger mounts, Edith and Claire will discover they’ll need each other to survive. But they are separated by four hundred years. And time is running out for them both.
Single mother Elodie’s life has become a fairy tale. She’s met Bren, equal parts Golden-retriever-devoted and sinfully handsome. He’s whisked her and her autistic son, Jude, to the crumbling family house he’s renovating. She has a new husband, a new house, and a new baby on the way. Everything is perfect. Until Jude claims he can hear voices in the walls. He says their renovations are “hurting” the house. Even Elodie can’t ignore it-something strange is going on.
The question is, Is it with the house, or with her son? And what is Elodie hiding?
Life hasn’t been easy for Finlay Donovan lately, but it just got a whole lot harder. Her nanny and partner-in-crime, Vero, has been extradited from Virginia to Maryland, where she’s facing criminal charges for a theft she swears she didn’t commit. A prisoner to an ankle bracelet as she awaits her trial, Vero is forced to live with her overbearing mother and nosy aunt. Threatening messages keep arriving on her mother’s door, demanding Vero “turn over the money . . . or else.” And if she doesn’t figure out who really stole her former sorority’s treasury funds, her next home might be a prison cell.
One offers a helping hand. The other is your worst nightmare…
Social media influencer, Elly Parker, had the perfect life, that is until she discovered her husband had been having an affair with her best friend. But as hurt, betrayed, unmoored as Elly is, she has made it her mission to help others in need. Even strangers. When Elly meets a man on the steps to the subway platform, crutches in one hand and a yellow suitcase by his feet, she can’t help but feel sorry for him.
Just as he planned.
