Editorial Content for I Would Die for You
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Inspired in part by her teenage devotion to the ’80s band Duran Duran, Sandie Jones’ new novel, I WOULD DIE FOR YOU, features a different boy band and a groupie who was even more obsessed with the band than she was. While Nicole Forbes is the main character, and her first-person narration tells the story of the "present" in Coronado, California, in 2011, the other thread is about her family in London in 1986 and revolves around her sick mother and her sister, Cassie. Read More
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California, 2011: A writer knocks on Nicole Forbes’ door asking for her personal insight into the downfall of the biggest British band of the 1980s. The same day, her daughter goes missing. The school claims her aunt picked her up…but she doesn’t have an aunt. Convinced of a link between the two, Nicole is forced to revisit long-abandoned memories from her past to protect everything she now holds dear. London, 1986: Sixteen-year-old Cassie is obsessed with Secret Oktober, the hottest band of the moment. Harboring an intense crush on the leading man, Ben Edwards, she will do anything she can to capture his attention. But when Ben discovers her older sister, Nicole, singing at a local bar one night, he can’t help but feel drawn to her, setting in motion a collision course that could tear their family apart.
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California, 2011: A writer knocks on Nicole Forbes’ door asking for her personal insight into the downfall of the biggest British band of the 1980s. The same day, her daughter goes missing. The school claims her aunt picked her up…but she doesn’t have an aunt. Convinced of a link between the two, Nicole is forced to revisit long-abandoned memories from her past to protect everything she now holds dear. London, 1986: Sixteen-year-old Cassie is obsessed with Secret Oktober, the hottest band of the moment. Harboring an intense crush on the leading man, Ben Edwards, she will do anything she can to capture his attention. But when Ben discovers her older sister, Nicole, singing at a local bar one night, he can’t help but feel drawn to her, setting in motion a collision course that could tear their family apart.
About the Book
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese's Book Club Pick THE OTHER WOMAN and THE GUILT TRIP comes an electrifying next novel.
California, 2011: Nicole Forbes lives a quiet life in the small seaside town of Coronado with her husband and daughter. She is not expecting a writer to knock on her door asking for her personal insight into the downfall of the biggest British band of the '80s --- unveiling the threads of a life she left behind years ago. The same day, her daughter goes missing and the school claims her aunt picked her up...but she doesn’t have an aunt. Convinced of a link between the two, Nicole is forced to revisit long-abandoned memories from her past to protect everything she now holds dear.
London, 1986: Sixteen-year-old Cassie is obsessed with Secret Oktober, the hottest band of the moment. Harboring an intense crush on the leading man, Ben Edwards, she will do anything she can to capture his attention among the throngs of groupies at the band’s scandalous backstage parties. But when Ben discovers her older sister, Nicole, singing at a local bar one night, he can’t help but feel drawn to her, setting in motion a collision course that could tear their family apart.
Infused with the sounds of the '80s, this thrilling novel from the inimitable Sandie Jones explores the chaos that the frenzy of fandom can provoke.
Audiobook available, read by Imogen Wilde
Editorial Content for Wizard of Most Wicked Ways
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Whimbrel House was supposed to be a trilogy. This delightful series is about an enchanted house on a remote island off the coast of Rhode Island and the magician who inherited it from a previously unknown relative. Merritt Fernsby becomes trapped in the house by the spirit, and when he reaches out for help, he meets the woman who becomes his wife. But after the third book, BOY OF CHAOTIC MAKING, Charlie N. Holmberg felt that the house's spirit, the soul of a boy named Owein who had died as a youngster but had lived in the house for centuries, deserved his own story. Read More
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Whimbrel House is changing. Merritt and Hulda are raising a family. Owein has signed a marriage contract with the magically compatible Lady Cora, a heavyweight of British nobility who’s an ocean away. And the lovely shape-shifting druid Fallon makes a distractingly fetching friend for Owein. But another change is in the air. The greatest wizard of the millennium, Silas Hogwood, is back --- after five years dead. New body, same foul scent, and driven by madness and revenge. Fearing he isn’t strong enough to fend off Silas, Owein seeks Cora’s help and influence in England. Queen Victoria dispatches her League of Magicians, including her personal necromancer, to aid in Owein’s defense. As magic, both good and evil, converges on Blaugdone Island, Owein realizes how harrowing the forces against them are.
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Whimbrel House is changing. Merritt and Hulda are raising a family. Owein has signed a marriage contract with the magically compatible Lady Cora, a heavyweight of British nobility who’s an ocean away. And the lovely shape-shifting druid Fallon makes a distractingly fetching friend for Owein. But another change is in the air. The greatest wizard of the millennium, Silas Hogwood, is back --- after five years dead. New body, same foul scent, and driven by madness and revenge. Fearing he isn’t strong enough to fend off Silas, Owein seeks Cora’s help and influence in England. Queen Victoria dispatches her League of Magicians, including her personal necromancer, to aid in Owein’s defense. As magic, both good and evil, converges on Blaugdone Island, Owein realizes how harrowing the forces against them are.
About the Book
When dead enemies rise, grave matters of the heart, mind and body clash in the fantastical fourth Whimbrel House novel by Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Charlie N. Holmberg.
Whimbrel House is changing. Merritt and Hulda are raising a family. Owein has signed a marriage contract with the magically compatible Lady Cora, a heavyweight of British nobility who’s an ocean away. And the lovely shape-shifting druid Fallon makes a distractingly fetching friend for Owein. But another change is in the air and this time it’s something wicked.
The greatest wizard of the millennium, Silas Hogwood, is back --- after five years dead. New body, same foul scent, and driven by madness and revenge. Owein, fearing he isn’t strong enough to fend off Silas, seeks Cora’s help and influence in England. Alarms ringing, Queen Victoria dispatches her League of Magicians, including her personal necromancer, to aid in Owein’s defense.
As magic, both good and evil, converges on Blaugdone Island, Owein realizes how harrowing the forces against them are. Combating them will require some digging --- literally --- for half-formed secrets of magic Hulda doesn’t want him to have. But no promise, lock or government red tape will keep Owein from doing what’s necessary to protect those he loves. One way or another, Silas will only take Whimbrel House over Owein’s third dead body.
Audiobook available; read by Graham Halstead, Amanda Leigh Cobb and Nicholas Boulton
March 28, 2025
I feel like I spend a good amount of time organizing and reorganizing my bookshelves. The other day, Francesca and I did a “re-file” of the shelves of upcoming books, pruning those that I already read --- and lining up April, May, June and July books on shelves. We also re-shelved the January through March books that I never got to read, but insist I still want to read. Now mind you, there are hundreds of books (actually a lot more than that) that I have wanted to read from the last 27 years since we started Bookreporter, and they are shelved beside those that I have read.
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March 28, 2025, 461 voters
