Today, I am featuring several books that I have read or that I am reading or that I have in my “next to read” line up.
Highly recommend this book for fans of clean psychological suspense. The book is intense and suspense-filled, as you can tell from the first line! You can check out my review on here on my blog page since I reviewed the book on 4-28-26, the release date: https://vicklea.com/2026/04/28/review-of-the-girl-upstairs-by-jessica-r-patch/
I am on the launch team for this book and I am reading it now. It releases on 5-26. Here is the First Line:
“K-9 Officer Maren Anderson battled the fatigue she’d been facing since driving from Colorado Springs to the Barren Valley Clinic in Barren Valley, Colorado. Grief could do that to a person.”
I am part of a book promo group for Suzanne Woods Fisher’s new book. This series takes place in national parks and all can be read as stand-alone novels. If you are interested in reading the book and joining my Zoom meeting later in the summer (date TBD), I will add you to the list for the Zoom link. Just email or DM me from Facebook. My email is watts.vickie@gmail.com. The book releases on May 5th, but I plan to give everyone who wants to participate at least a month to read the book, so I am thinking perhaps late June or sometime in July for the meeting. Bonus! The author will join us virtually with a PowerPoint presentation about the history of the national parks. How exciting is that?!?
Now, for the First Line:
“Ranger Scout Johnson was the kind of person who loved allowing room for error. Leaving ten minutes early to beat traffic. Double-checking weather before a hike.”
By the way, Baker Book House has freebies and 40% off if you order from them before release day!
https://bakerbookhouse.com/products/9780800745325_chase-the-light
If you would like to join us just to join the discussion and find out what the book is about before you buy it that is okay with me, too. Again, just let me know so that I can send you the Zoom link. I would love to meet some of you virtually!
Vickie's Book Nook and Meditation Corner 
I will definitely look for the audio version of these, Vickie. I don’t know if you have read my fictional trilogy, “Awakening,” (“Counselor,” “Vision,” and “Sparrows”), but if so, you might remember the dream Liz, the main character, has in the middle of “Vision” about spiritual warfare going on at the Christian Artists’ convention in Estes Park, where she is having an existential crisis. That dream was originally a short story, entitled “Danger in the Rockies.” (!) Small world – or is it “great minds think alike”? 😏
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