The Inn at Ocean's Edge by Colleen Coble

Luke and Megan's mother disappeared 25 years ago. Did their abusive alcoholic father have anything to do with her disappearing?  Claire witnesses a hotel employee murdered and then she is knocked unconscious and when she awakes the body is gone.  She finds information about herself that happened when she was 4.  And then there is Kate who is the product of an affair her mother her with her biological father. Kate is in never of a bone marrow transplant and needs a close relative to give her. Are of these events related.  With each new piece of information that was present I got more involved in the story and could not put the book down until I finished.  By the time I was about 60 percent finished with the book I was able to figure out some things but there was some things in the book that was a complete surprise to me. I liked most of the females in the book but Luke was the only male in the book who was nice.

I'm looking forward to reading more stories in this series.  Thanks to Netgalley and Thomas Nelson for allowing me to read this book and review it.  This book is due to be released on April 14, 2015.

Past Suspicion by Therese Heckenkamp

This book is classified as youth fiction but I still enjoyed it. The heroine in the story is just 3 weeks shy of her 18th birthday.  Her father had died when she was quite young and her mother has recently died. Since she was a minor she was sent to live with her mother's brother, an uncle that she had never met.  Robin did not know anything about her mother's past. Her mother had kept her past a secret.  Robin grew up in California and the uncle lives in Wisconsin.  Robin cannot wait until she is 18 so she can return to California. While living with her uncle she begins to find out more about her mother. She meets two different young men who take an interest in her.  All through the book you don't know which young man to trust. Both of the young men had secrets that they kept from her. As Robin begins to unravel her mother's past she is put into danger. I kept flipping the pages to see what will happen next. This book was a free download and I am so happy I gave this writer a chance even though I've never read her before. The character in the book and the character's mother shared a love of Victoria Holt. I read Victoria Holt more than 30 years ago and reading this book renewed an interest in me to re-read some of Victoria Holt's books again. I look forward to reading more of this author.

A Heart's Disguise, Book 1 of the Journey of the Heart Series by Colleen Coble

This book is the first part in a three part series. I am enjoying this series but am wishing each book was longer or combining the three books into one longer book would have been better. I am going to have to wait one month for the next book and two months for part three. So far I am enjoying the characters but getting aggravated with them. I don't know why Sarah feels she has to make everyone happy. At the beginning she is willing to marry a man she does not love just to make her father happy? I got aggravated at Rand too. I felt he could have been a little more understanding with Sarah. I don't really like the way the book ends but I guess that will be resolved in the next book.

Plain Killing by Emma Miller

A young woman dressed Amish has been found dead in a pond. She has been missing for some time so her family assumed she no longer wanted to be Amish and left. There are a number of girls missing. Can Rachel help solve the mystery? Rachel was raised Amish but was never officially baptized so she is comfortable with both the Amish and English world. She can relate to the Amish and is very helpful with the local people in letting them know the Amish culture. She is close to her first cousin who is Amish and her cousin helps her solve mysteries. One of her cousin's best friends has been gone from the Amish for nearly two years so when a lead comes up that this girl is in New Orleans Rachel and her cousin travel to seedy parts of New Orleans to find the girl. One bothered me about the book is that Rachel's father quickly agreed that the cousin could accompany Rachel for New Orleans to find the girl. This would involve getting on an airplane. It is highly unlikely that the Amish would agree to this so this part of the story bothered me. The mystery about the girl in the pond is solved and most of the girls accounted for. Only one was not accounted for and I do wish this one could have been found too. Maybe the next book. I enjoyed this book and hope the author will write some more in this series.