Planning A Summer Escape? Here’s Three Great Reads to Escape With!
As the temperatures continue to rise and the days get longer, there’s nothing better than knowing the perfect summer escape is on the horizon. Without work, school or major priorities to attend to, your upcoming trip gives you the perfect excuse to get lost in a new book while in a faraway place. As you busy yourself with plans for your summer vacation and you start packing your bags, don’t forget to add these new thrilling novels to your carry-on bag. Get ready to run away to new places with these enticing books, perfect reads to escape with for your summertime travels.
Her Pretty Face by Robyn Harding
From bestselling author Robyn Harding comes a new story about two mothers who harbor dark secrets that will either tear them apart or bring them closer together. Frances Metcalfe is doing everything she can to provide a good life for her troublesome son and keep her sanity in the process. When he’s accepted into an exclusive school, she starts to believe it’s the fresh start they’ve been in desperate need of. Adjusting to the new school, Frances can’t help but feel left out of the well-off circle of mothers who run the school so when she meets equally down-to-earth mother, Kate, she begins to feel that everything’s turning around. But one of them is secretly a killer, living under a different name and hiding a past that she’s less than proud of. Can the women’s friendship survive such a dark secret in a school determined to unleash everyone’s past?
The Completionist by Siobhan Adcock
The future of America looks pretty grim in this new dystopian thriller from Siobhan Adcock. With infertility rates rising every day, Fredericka knows that getting pregnant is a true blessing but when her sister goes missing, she finds herself unable to chase after the young Nurse Completionist. Assigning her brother to the case of finding their sister, he takes the opportunity to start his life anew and make his sisters proud. But as he gets deeper into the now dangerous world, he finds a dark underground community that leads him to the family’s father and a difficult past full of secrets that no one is prepared to deal with. If you find yourself missing Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Adcock’s novel will give you the dystopian storyline you’re craving.
She Was the Quiet One by Michele Campbell
Rose and Bel Enright may be twins but in reality, they’re polar opposites and when they are accepted to The Odell School in New England, their pre-existing rivalry becomes more dangerous than they ever thought. After one of the sisters is murdered, everyone becomes weary of what’s actually going on at the school and a few place their suspicions on an overzealous teacher at the school. As officials investigate the murder, it becomes clears that a school full of wealth and privilege has a lot more to hide than the mysterious death of one girl. This new thriller from the author of It’s Always the Husband will have you on the edge of your set from beginning to end as you analyze who the true killer is.
