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Today's books I suggest are: Beg, Borrow or Steal by Sarah Smith and Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix.

BEG, BORROW OR STEAL

by

Sarah Smith

Emily Walker hates having her carefully crafted world disrupted by anyone, most of all her legendary nemesis Jack Bennett, He's the opposite of the wonderful heroes she dreams up in her double life as a romance writer, with his fiancee. The last thing Emily saw coming was Jack's return at the start of summer after calling off the wedding and ending his relationship, but he's here to stay—as her colleague and her neighbour.

Jackson Bennett is glad to be back, Seager to renovate his house and work on the next mystery novel under his bestselling pen name. But when he realizes he's now neighbours with the one woman who has always pushed his buttons, he discovers something he's even more excited for—thwarting Emily and her petty plans to sabotage his return.

With their Chemistry-fuelled animosity at an all time high, Emily accidentally sends an email to their school's principal that could reveal her secret literary side hustle. She needs to steel back, her manuscript and Jack—she hates to admit-- is just the man to help her. Surprisingly Jack agrees. Will their unlikely alliance put an an end to their rivalry?, Or could it lead to a steamy plot twist they never saw coming?.

• Beg, Borrow or Steel Goodreads page

Beg Borrow or Steal will be released on January 7th 2025 by Dell.

WITCHCRAFT FOR WAYWARD GIRLS

by

Grady Hendrix.

They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they're sent to the Wellwood Home in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened.

Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, terrified and alone. Under the watchful eye of the stern Miss Wellwood, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. There's Rose, a hippie who insists she's going to find a way to keep her baby and escape to a commune. And Zinnia, a budding musician who knows shes going to go home and marry her baby's father. And Holly, a wisp of a girl, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who.

Everything the girls eat, every moment of their waking day, and everything they're allowed to talk about is strictly controlled by adults who claim to know what's best for them. Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult book about Witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first time in their lives. But power can destroy just as easily as it creates, and it's never given freely. There's always a price to be paid...and it's usually paid in blood.

• Witchcraft for Wayward Girls Goodreads page

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls will be released on January 14^th 2025 by Berkley/

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