WWW Wednesday: January 15th, 2025

WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme Sam hosts at Taking on a World of Words.

The Three Ws are:

What are you currently reading?

What did you recently finish reading?

What do you think you’ll read next?

Here is what I am currently reading, recently finished, and plan to read from Thursday to Wednesday.

Let me know if you have read or are planning on reading any of these books!!

Happy Reading!

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What I am currently reading:

True love crosses all boundaries in award-winning New York Times bestselling author Mary Jo Putney’s captivating historical romance, in which a young countess flees revolutionary France for London, becomes a maid, learns about life downstairs, and finds unexpected love.

A countess turned servant…

Forced to escape the French Revolution, resilient young Comtesse Marie-Christine D’Estelle flees to London. But when she finds herself unexpectedly penniless, Christa hides her aristocratic background to become a lady’s maid… Until rebuffing advances from both her tyrannical mistress’s husband and her lover gets Christa cast into the street—directly into a hero’s arms…

A Royal Navy commander…

After a long absence, Captain Lord Alexander Kingsley has returned to England on medical leave. Now head of his family, he must take charge of his younger siblings. He feels a special duty to his sister Annabelle, a shy debutante in need of a maid. So Alex is delighted to discover that the intriguing, outspoken, and lovely young woman who serendipitously landed in his arms is in need of just such a position…

The heart of a household…

With her warmth, charm, and surprisingly refined intellect, Christa soon wins the hearts of all the Kingsleys—especially Alex. And while their mutual attraction deepens to something more, the gap in their social stations seems an impossible obstacle. Only when Alex and Annabelle become the targets of fortune hunters, will the truth about Christa have a chance to be revealed. But will it mean a chance for true love to triumph?

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What I recently finished reading:

Everyone wondered about Shaye Archer’s past. Including Shaye.

Shaye Archer’s life effectively began the night police found her in an alley, beaten and abused and with no memory of the previous fifteen years, not even her name. Nine years later, she’s a licensed private investigator, with a single goal—to get answers for her clients when there aren’t supposed to be any.

And maybe someday, answers for herself.

Emma Frederick thought her nightmare was over when she killed her abusive husband, but someone is stalking her and tormenting her with mementos from her past. With no evidence to support her claims, the police dismiss her claims as post-traumatic stress, but Shaye is convinced that someone is deliberately terrorizing Emma…playing a cat and mouse game with only one goal in mind.

To kill Emma.

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What I plan on reading next:

No one ever said surviving life would be easy.

Ben Reed is not who everyone thinks, and worse, he can’t remember anything.

Overcome with curiosity, he has taken over the body of a distraught soul. After this, there’s no way back…at least for one of them. And with breaking the laws of nature by being decidedly not dead after washing up on a riverbank, he must face the relentless suspicions of Detective Olivia Jones.

Olivia has had enough excitement in life before taking her new job, and having one of two dead bodies wake up at her crime scene is not appreciated. Resourceful and determined, she must find out what really happened the night Ben ended up in the murky and cold Ashdale River.

Meanwhile, Ben’s inherited companions must deal with the fact that their childhood friend has changed in strange ways. All Ben knows is that he isn’t human and that he doesn’t want to be one. He only wants to leave, but soon finds himself trapped in his newly acquired vessel. Life doesn’t get any easier when the only person who can help is terrified of him.

While forced to face the needs of his new friends, Ben struggles to find the truth that could free him from this fragile existence. But when a shocking danger emerges, he must work together with his enemy to fight the deadly threat.
Can Ben survive life?

Deadly Awakening is the first novel in the Ashdale Reaper Series, a tale of loyalty and friendships, memories, and dead bodies refusing to stay that way.

A year has passed since Clover Kwon witnessed the brutal death of her boyfriend, Frankie, and even with the help of a therapist she is unable to come to terms with what she saw that night. Not only did she lose Frankie, but Clover’s best friend, Saskia, hasn’t spoken to her since.

Jared Van Clayborne seems to have it all. He is a gorgeous, newly-turned vampire, an heir to a fortune. On the inside, he’s a mess. Atrocities he’s committed in the past year torture his thoughts. Jared is forced into counseling, but because he must keep his vampirism a secret, it hasn’t helped.

Jared makes a desperate decision one night, but fate brings him face to face with Clover, a girl he had a crush on when they were in elementary school. A passionate magnetism draws them to one another. They both have secrets, but find solace in each other’s arms.

Things begin looking up when Clover is finally reunited with Saskia. The young women are determined to figure out what happened to Frankie, and launch an investigation to bring those responsible to justice. As Clover and Saskia start piecing together clues, it draws the attention of some powerful individuals and puts their lives, and everyone around them, in jeopardy.

(Warning – This books contains sex, violence, bad language, and hot vampires.)

An erotic supernatural romance.Three months have passed since Clover and Jared’s cataclysmic breakup at the end of ‘Summer’s Deadly Kiss.’ Clover is now is living in the local bed and breakfast, focusing on finding her mother’s provoker while trying hard to put Jared Van Clayborne behind her. In the meantime Jared has descended into a life of debauchery in an attempt to get over losing the only person he has truly loved. He’s residing with his mentor, Sutton, and his days and nights are one big blur of sex and drugs. When someone from his past moves into the bed and breakfast under an assumed name, very bad things begin to happen in the community. The incidents rapidly escalate and Sheriff Gable Trent enlists Jared’s help in finding the person responsible.Once Clover and Jared’s investigations converge, the battle begins. Passions erupt, identities are revealed, lives are lost and no one has a clue what will happen next. Only one thing is certain. Chapel Green and its residents will not emerge from the inferno unscathed.The Fire Goddess is book two in The Vampire Inheritance Saga. The first, Summer’s Deadly Kiss is also available.WARNING – Suitable for 18 and over. Contains scenes of sex, violence, swearing and hot vampires.

The third book in the steamy and action packed Vampire Inheritance Saga!After a savage werewolf attack, Adrian realises a hit has been put out on his life. Clover vows to help him, unaware he is developing feelings for her. Jared, meanwhile, gets to know the town’s resident Fey princess a little better on orders of the sheriff, discovering a devastating secret in the process that could blow the supernatural world apart. And what really happened on the night Jared was turned into a vampire and murdered Clover’s boyfriend? All is about to be revealed, and things in Chapel Green will never be the same again.WARNING – Only for mature audiences only, 18 and over. Contains violence, sexual situations, bad language, hot vampires and sexy werewolves.