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Merissa (13961 KP) created a post

May 14, 2026  
"Two mothers. One daughter. Sixteen years of lies." 👶🔍

Today's showcase features DAUGHTER OF MINE (A STOLEN AT BIRTH NOVEL) by ANGIE STANTON! This gripping blend of crime, literary fiction, women's fiction, domestic suspense, and psychological thriller unravels sixteen years of carefully kept secrets, asking just how far a mother will go to protect what she believes is hers. 💔✨

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Merissa (13961 KP) created a post

Apr 8, 2026  
"Hidden in the Welsh hills, among ancient stones, the answers her mother never gave her are waiting." – Merissa 🔮🏴‍☠️

WIRED FOR MAGIC by JANET ROBERTS has earned a full and exceptional 5 out of 5 stars, and there's a giveaway to celebrate! This genre-bending blend of fantasy, suspense, thriller, and cybersecurity intrigue takes readers deep into the ancient Welsh landscape, where family secrets and something altogether more mysterious are waiting to be uncovered. 🏴️✨

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Fire and Heist
Fire and Heist
Sarah Beth Durst | 2018 | Young Adult (YA)
5
6.0 (2 Ratings)
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I picked this up off the library shelf for the title; I took it home for the description. Were-dragon thieves? Awesome. It turns out it's not that simple. For one, the were-dragons have lost the ability to transform over the years - the last dragon to transform was Sir Francis Drake, and the book is set in modern times, so, at least a couple hundred years have passed. And humans know the were-dragons exist! I suppose without the ability to transform, they're little more than rich celebrities with parlor tricks. (Immune to fire to certain temperatures, ability to breathe fire.) What humans don't know is how much the wyverns tend to steal to enrich their hoards. And that some of them can do limited magic.

We open on Sky, sixteen, rattling around her mansion, dealing with her now dysfunctional family of three brothers and their father. Her mother went missing not very long ago, during a heist. The kids have been told she's gone, she's alive, she's not coming back, and to drop the matter. Were-dragon society almost exiled all of them for whatever their mother got into, so they're all on thin ice. Sky, of course, is having none of this. When she stumbles on a lead for where her mother went, she pursues it, and learns all kinds of secrets.

The book was okay, I suppose. I was a little appalled at were-dragon society, and that the dragons just - bow to the authority of the Council. Dragons should have more spine. The heist part was pretty cool, with Sky and her friends figuring out how to take apart every layer of security piece by piece.

I don't know. It was a fluffy book, but not a feel-good book, and I just wasn't that enthused.

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Finding Our Forever (Silver Springs, #1)
Finding Our Forever (Silver Springs, #1)
Brenda Novak | 2017 | Contemporary, Romance
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9.3 (3 Ratings)
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Cora has just moved to the town of Silver Springs California, hoping to start a new life with a new job teaching art. She's teaching a a school for troubled boys called, New Horizons and Cora is really drawn to its founder Aiyana. Besides the teaching job, Cora has other reasons to be in Silver Springs. Will she be able to find the answers she is looking for, or will the decisions she makes along the way hinder her ability to discover the truth about herself?

While I have many Brenda Novak books on my Kindle, this is the first of her titles that I have actually read. I was drawn to this book initially because of its setting of Silver Springs, the town I live in is called Silver Spring. I was even more drawn to the book by the characters because I have members of my immediate family with similar names to the characters in the book.

Cora Kelly was adopted 28 years ago. Since that time she has been on a quest to find her mother and find out why. She loves her adoptive parents wholeheartedly, but still has a desire to know where she comes from. Her birth mother was at a reasonable age to keep a child, 21, so what were the circumstances that made her decide that adoption was the best idea, especially since in her investigation she finds out that her birth mother has adopted several children over the years.

This was a very compelling story. It drew me in immediately and I couldn't put it down. I read it in just a few hours over a couple of days. I can't imagine what it would be like to not know your birth parents. And then searching your whole life to find them, with a closed adoption. In Cora's quest to find all this information, she falls in love and faces conflict with her adoptive parents. It's a great story for everyone who likes a little romance in their lives.