Nick Finn is a marine interdiction agent with Customs and Border Protection. His job is to patrol the waters off Southern California in a go-fast boat, looking for smugglers. One morning before dawn, he and his patrol partner, Diego Jimenez, spot a boat creeping along the coast of Catalina Island with her lights out. They investigate, a gun battle ensues, and Finn becomes embroiled in a terrifying criminal enterprise that forces him to confront his own heart of darkness.
We got the chance to interview Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, authors of The Nanny Diaries, about their new book: How To Be a Grown-Up.The Nanny Diaries is a novel that I will always adore. I remember voraciously re-reading in the summer of 2003, as I was a teenager completely obsessed with...
When we heard that Marci Jefferson’s books are about ‘remarkable women in history who dared to defy powerful men,’ we knew that we needed to interview her and learn more. We loved chatting with Marci Jefferson, author of Girl on the Golden Coin and the new book to read – Enchantress of...
The Nightmare Place is about Zoe Dolan, a detective hunting a serial rapist who is breaking into women’s homes and attacking them, and Jane Webster, a woman working as a volunteer on a helpline who receives a call from a man claiming to be the perpetrator. Below the surface, I suppose it’s a little about misogyny, and the things we hide from ourselves: the stories and lies we tell about our own lives to make them more bearable.
We LOVED The Paris Wife. When we found out that Paula McLain had a new release on the horizon, Circling the Sun, we all did a happy dance in the office. Now that we have had time to read her new best selling historical fiction, we wanted to know more about her inspirations for...
Tell us a little bit about your new release, We Are All Made of Molecules.
It’s the story of a blended family. Two narrators. 13 year old Stewart is academically gifted, socially not so much. 14 year old Ashley (fans of my work will recognize her from Dear George Clooney, Please Marry My Mom) is socially gifted, academically not so much. Ashley’s mom and Stewart’s dad have fallen in love, and Stewart and his dad move in with Ashley and her mom off the top of the novel.