It's Monday. What Are You Reading?

Good morning - things still a bit hectic here - getting ready for back to school tomorrow for one - and starting uni in 3 weeks for the other!!

I am reading The Turning Point by Freya North. I love this author and have heard lots of great things about this book - one is to have a tissue or 2 handy near the end.

Everyone deserves a new beginning. But sometimes fate isn’t on your side…

Over one short weekend, when Canadian musician Scott Emerson and British children's author Frankie Shaw meet by chance, a profound connection is made. Their homes are thousands of miles apart: Frankie and her children live by the coast of North Norfolk while Scott’s roots lie deep in the mountains of British Columbia. Against all advice, they decide to see where this might go.

Over oceans and time zones, they make sacrifices and take risks, discovering along the way new truths about love and family. For the first time in a long while, it seems life could be very good. But fate has a tragic twist in store, one that could destroy all that was hoped for.

Later on I will be starting A Time For Living by Ruth Saberton. This is the second in the Polwenna Bay series. I was lucky enough to be sent a digital copy of the book by the author.

Is there ever a right time for love? 

Feisty horsewoman, Morwenna Tremaine, has always known what she wants from life and success as a three day event rider is all she’s ever dreamed of. Mo has neither the time nor the inclination for love. Even if she did it wouldn’t be with a man who stands for everything she despises… 

Beneath a tough and determined exterior, businessman Ashley Carstairs harbours a dark secret that threatens to destroy everything he holds dear. Although aware that he is heading for trouble, he finds himself increasingly drawn to the one woman he knows he should stay away from – for both their sakes. 

As the autumn nights draw in and the trickling sands of time gather speed, emotions run higher than the tides and Mo finds herself unable to step away. What is Ashley hiding? Is there more to him that meets the eye? And will his secret destroy everything she now holds dear? 

So the last thing I needed this morning was this!

It's Monday. What Are You Reading.

An overdue book from the library. Which in hindsight probably should have been returned back to the library on time - unread.  I am reading Gifted and Talented by Wendy Holden and I'm afraid I am struggling with it - Diana is the only character who is likeable and who is the only reason I am plodding on with the book - will she find love second time around? As for the university brigade - I am afraid you can keep them all - including Coco the irritating dog.

It's the new university term among the dreaming spires. The start of a whole new life.
Meet Isabel, beautiful, clever, shy - and leaving home for the first time.
Meet Olly, recently graduated, idealistic and a little hopeless, a man whose heart leads his brain and for whom opportunity just hasn't come knocking - yet.
Meet Amber, the It girl who is soon partying with the fast set - and no-one is faster than Jasper de Borchy, glamorous leader of the notorious Bullinger club.
Meet the grown-ups: Diana, recently divorced mother-of-one, newly arrived in town to take up a post as college gardener - and Richard, the new college head, a widower, a scientist, and as lonely as some of the specimens he captures in his science lab.
The rich, the poor, the shy, the extrovert, the givers, the takers. Meet the Gifted and Talented.

Alongside ths book I am reading Say You Will by Kate Perry for a Kindle challenge over on Facebook. A group of us have decided to pick one Kindle book a month (it has to be free so we can all join in) Someone every month picks a selection and we have to vote on which one the group will read. I am afraid this one isn't going down well - but I'm 50% through and it is quick reading so I will finish it.

Rosalind Summerhill is on the verge of becoming the next Vera Wang, as far away from her family and their drama as she can get. The last thing she wants is to leave San Francisco for London, especially not to deal with her father's latest scandal—dying in his mistress's arms. At least she can find comfort in knowing she can leave after the memorial.

Little did she know.

Not only is her father's will missing but, according to his lawyer, her mother will lose everything if it's discovered. Reluctantly joining forces with her sisters to seek and destroy the will is the only way of ensuring her father doesn't win in the end.

Enter Nick Long, the one bright spot about being in London. Nick's everything she's ever dreamed of in a man—supportive, eager to help, and bone-meltingly hot. But Nick's motives aren't as pure as they seem, and the secret he's keeping may tear Rosalind's family and fortune apart.

All doom and gloom this week - hopefully my reading can only get better. Which it will as on Friday I have to go back to the optitcians and choose the frames for my new varifocals. My distance vision has remained the same but I need a new prescription for my reading glasses - which explains why I am struggling to read in bed of an evening - even with the big light on!!

Please popver to The Book Journey to see what everyone else is reading this week.