Book Spotlights: The She Reads’ Books of Spring Selections

Last week, the gals at She Reads announced the ‘Books of
Spring‘
selections. I’ll be reading both of these books and posting my reviews over the next few weeks, so keep an eye out for them. And do be sure to let me know if you’ve either read them or plan to.

So without further ado…here are the Books of Spring:
 

Title:A Bridge Across the Ocean

Author:Susan Meissner

Published:March 2017, Berkley Books

Format:Paperback, 384 pages

 

Wartime intrigue spans the lives of three women past and present in the latest novel from the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life.

February,
1946. World War Two is over, but the recovery from the most intimate of
its horrors has only just begun for Annaliese Lange, a German ballerina
desperate to escape her past, and Simone Deveraux, the wronged daughter
of a French Resistance spy.

Now the two women are joining hundreds of other European war brides aboard the renowned RMS Queen Mary
to cross the Atlantic and be reunited with their American husbands.
Their new lives in the United States brightly beckon until their
tightly-held secrets are laid bare in their shared stateroom. When the
voyage ends at New York Harbor, only one of them will disembark…

Present day. Facing a crossroads in her own life, Brette Caslake visits the famously haunted Queen Mary
at the request of an old friend. What she finds will set her on a
course to solve a seventy-year-old tragedy that will draw her into the
heartaches and triumphs of the courageous war brides and will ultimately
lead her to reconsider what she has to sacrifice to achieve her own
deepest longings.

Title:Almost Missed You

Author:Jessica Strawser

Published:March 2017, St. Martin’s Press

Format:Hardcover, 320 pages

 

Violet and Finn were
“meant to be,” said everyone, always. They ended up together by the
hands of fate aligning things just so. Three years into their marriage,
they have a wonderful little boy, and as the three of them embark on
their first vacation as a family, Violet can’t help thinking that she
can’t believe her luck. Life is good.

So no one is more surprised
than she when Finn leaves her at the beach—just packs up the hotel room
and disappears. And takes their son with him. Violet is suddenly in her
own worst nightmare, and faced with the knowledge that the man she’s
shared her life with, she never really knew at all.

Caitlin and
Finn have been best friends since way back when, but when Finn shows up
on Caitlin’s doorstep with the son he’s wanted for kidnapping, demands
that she hide them from the authorities, and threatens to reveal a
secret that could destroy her own family if she doesn’t, Caitlin faces
an impossible choice.

Told through alternating viewpoints of Violet, Finn and Caitlin, Almost Missed You
is a powerful story of a mother’s love, a husband’s betrayal,
connections that maybe should have been missed, secrets that perhaps
shouldn’t have been kept, and spaces between what’s meant to be and what
might have been.

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