Hi Reader,

I read some terrific books in September.

I started with The Shop on Hidden Lane by Jayne Ann Krentz.

In a modern twist on the Hatfield-McCoy feud, Sophy Harper and Luke Wells work together to find her aunt and his uncle. Their suspicions about each other's families make working together a challenge. However, they each want to find the missing couple. And for that, they will need their psychic abilities. Because together, they are more than they are separately. Especially since they need to unravel a conspiracy about those psychic abilities.

There are a couple of changes in this book from Krentz's earlier books:

• The romance is a very slow burn. That's not Krentz's normal style.
• Worse, the subtitle says "Psychic Dogs #1". I loved this dog and would have loved even more of him.

I still enjoyed the read, so I'm recommending it.

Then, I read an older Nora Roberts book, Second Nature. (Many of Roberts' older books have characters that smoke, as this one does.)

A go-getting journalist, Lee Radcliffe, desperately wants an interview with the reclusive horror writer, Hunter Brown. In exchange for an exclusive interview, she agrees to camp with him for two weeks.

While we all can tell what will happen during that camping trip, what happens after Lee discovers they are camping less than a mile from his house is even better. Terrific banter, which is one of my favorite things in a romance.

I wrapped the month with a futuristic police procedural, Thankless in Death (#37) by J. D. Robb.

Just before Thanksgiving, Eve Dallas investigates a double homicide of a married couple. She quickly realizes that the son did it. And that all the other people who he thinks have slighted him are on his list.

Plus Roarke's (her husband's) family is coming for Thanksgiving. Then there's the matter of receiving a medal. Family is good. A medal ceremony? Eve just wants to get back to work.

Yes, I love these books. I want to know how Eve solves the murder mystery, including how she will trap the perp into revealing what he thinks and his guilt. If I was a cat, this would be catnip to me.

That's it for my fiction reading.

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I have a short story (a romance!) in Romance for All Seasons.

I'm so happy the editors took this story. I rarely write romances with sweet young things. Instead, I tend to write romances about people who are already fully formed. This couple is in their 80s—and was a pleasure to write. I hope you decide to pick up the anthology.

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If you know of a book I should read, let me know. Have a great October and read on,

Johanna