Atlantic Ave Magazine October 2019

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entertainment | gotta read By lisa marie
The Lying Room
By Nicci French
Released October 1st
One little secret between a married woman,
her lover, and a killer.
It should have been just a mid-life fling. A
guilty indiscretion that Neve Connolly could
have weathered. An escape from twenty
years of routine marriage to her overworked
husband, and from her increasingly distant
children. But when Neve pays a morningafter
visit to her lover, Saul, and finds him
brutally murdered, their pied-à-terre still
heady with her perfume, all the lies she has
so painstakingly stitched together threaten
to unravel.
After scrubbing clean every trace of her
existence from Saul’s life—and death—
Neve believes she can return to normal,
shaken but intact. But she can’t get out of
her head the one tormenting question: what
was she forgetting?
An investigation into the slaying could
provide the answer. It’s brought Detective
Chief Inspector Alastair Hitching, and
Neve’s worst fears, to her door. But with
every new lie, every new misdirection to
save herself, Neve descends further into
the darkness of her betrayal—and into
more danger than she ever imagined. Because
Hitching isn’t the only one watching
Neve. So is a determined killer who’s
about to make the next terrifying move in
a deadly affair…
The Grace Year
By Kim Liggett
Released October 8th
Survive the year.
No one speaks of the grace year. It’s
forbidden.
In Garner County, girls are told they
have the power to lure grown men from
their beds, to drive women mad with jealousy.
They believe their very skin emits a
powerful aphrodisiac, the potent essence
of youth, of a girl on the edge of womanhood.
That’s why they’re banished for
their sixteenth year, to release their magic
into the wild so they can return purified
and ready for marriage. But not all of them
will make it home alive.
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Sixteen-year-old Tierney James dreams
of a better life—a society that doesn’t pit
friend against friend or woman against
woman, but as her own grace year draws
near, she quickly realizes that it’s not just
the brutal elements they must fear. It’s not
even the poachers in the woods, men who
are waiting for a chance to grab one of the
girls in order to make a fortune on the
black market. Their greatest threat may
very well be each other.
With sharp prose and gritty realism, The
Grace Year examines the complex and sometimes
twisted relationships between girls,
the women they eventually become, and the
difficult decisions they make in-between.
Every Breath
By Nicholas Sparks
Released October 15th
Treat yourself to an epic love story that
spans decades and continents as two
people at a crossroads — one from North
Carolina and one from Zimbabwe — experience
the transcendence and heartbreak
of true love.
Hope Anderson is at a crossroads. At
thirty-six, she’s been dating her boyfriend,
an orthopedic surgeon, for six years. With
no wedding plans in sight, and her father
recently diagnosed with ALS, she decides to
use a week at her family’s cottage in Sunset
Beach, North Carolina, to ready the house
for sale and mull over some difficult decisions
about her future.
Tru Walls has never visited North Carolina
but is summoned to Sunset Beach by a
letter from a man claiming to be his father. A
safari guide, born and raised in Zimbabwe,
Tru hopes to unravel some of the mysteries
surrounding his mother’s early life and
recapture memories lost with her death.
When the two strangers cross paths, their
connection is as electric as it is unfathomable…but
in the immersive days that follow,
their feelings for each other will give way
to choices that pit family duty against personal
happiness in devastating ways.
Illuminating life’s heartbreaking regrets
and enduring hope, Every Breath explores
the many facets of love that lay claim to our
deepest loyalties—while asking the question,
How long can a dream survive?
Twice in a Blue Moon
By Christina LAUren
Released October 22nd
Sam Brandis was Tate Jones’s first: Her
first love. Her first everything. Including
her first heartbreak.
During a whirlwind two-week vacation
abroad, Sam and Tate fell for each other in
only the way that first loves do: sharing all
their hopes, dreams, and deepest secrets
along the way. Sam was the first, and only,
person that Tate—the long-lost daughter
of one of the world’s biggest film stars—
ever revealed her identity to. So, when it
became clear her trust was misplaced, her
world shattered for good.
Fourteen years later, Tate, now an upand-coming
actress, only thinks about
her first love every once in a blue moon.
When she steps onto the set of her first big
break, he’s the last person she expects to
see. Yet here Sam is, the same charming,
confident man she knew, but even more
alluring than she remembered. Forced to
confront the man who betrayed her, Tate
must ask herself if it’s possible to do the
wrong thing for the right reason...and
whether “once in a lifetime” can come
around twice.
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