Spring to Early summer is a season in the publishing industry, and as such I find myself eagerly awaiting the release of several books! A few of these are by authors who I have talked about before, a few are by authors I am not yet familiar with but am looking forward to reading! Here are the books I am looking forward to reading this year!
Only the Beautiful by Susan Meissner
Susan Meissner has become one of my favorite authors; not only for her ability to tell an enrapturing story set against a historical backdrop, but also her books are clean! You don’t have to worry about what you might encounter within the pages of her books!
Her latest book Only the Beautiful tells the story of 17 year old Rosanne in California in 1938. Rosanne sees flashes of color according to different sounds that she hears, a secret she swore to her dying mother that, she would not disclose to anyone. Later, in a moment of vulnerability, she breaks this vow and soon after also finds herself pregnant. She is then sent to a place where inherited “flaws” are not tolerated…
In 1947 Helen returns home to California, after spending the war years witnessing the horrors of what trying to purify a race can cause. Helen begins to learn what really happened to her friend, Rosanne, and soon realizes that while a war was just fought in Europe, there are still battles to be fought at home too.
Daughters of Nantucket by Julie Gerstenblatt
Ms Gerstnblatt is a new author to me but I am looking forward to this historical fiction novel set in Nantucket in 1846. Many of the women who lived in Nantucket at this time enjoyed more freedoms than women in other regions at this time period; their husbands were largely sailors who were gone for months and even years at a time. Eliza Macy turns against her progressive ideals and targets Meg Wright, a pregnant free black woman who is trying to relocate her store to main street. Then there is Maria Mitchell who loves running Nantucket’s Atheneum and enjoys spending her nights observing the night sky, but she shoves down her heart’s deepest desires, which threaten to break through. Then one July evening a fire breaks out in town and quickly grows. Everything these three women own is at stake and they are forced to decide if working together to rebuild their lives is worth working together.
The Cuban Heiress by Channel Cleeton
Ms Cleeton’s books never fail to immerse into the world of the character’s. Set in 1934 on a luxury cruise ship, Catherine Donhan and Elena Palacio find that their pasts are colliding. Catherine is an heiress and seems to have it all- except for the fact that it’s all a lie. As soon as her ship sets sail Catherin’s life is threatened and she must team up with a jewel thief in order to discover who wants her dead and why. Elena has been betrayed and left penniless, returning to Havana will give her the chance to right the wrong that has been done to her… but she is hungry for revenge and the target of the fury is aboard ship… Set aboard the SS Morro Castle this story was inspired by the true story of the SS Morro Castle
The Woman with the Cure by Lynn Cullen
Again Lynn Cullen is a new Author to me, although I have heard of her Other book, Mrs Poe. This novel is based on the true story of a woman who is applying the same determination to finding a cure for polio as she did to rise out of poverty and become a doctor. The Woman With the Cure is set in America in the 1940s and 1950s polio is a petrifying illness. While many of her colleagues are racing to see who can come up with a vaccine first, Dorothy Horstmann just wants the world to have a cure. She searches out the virus where it dwells, in the blood. Her discovery thrusts her closest colleague to the front of the vaccine race, and Dorothy is asked to validate his vaccine, while receiving little credit for the part she played in it…
These are the books I am looking forward to this year; what about you? What are some of the titles you can’t wait to get your hands on? I’d love to hear from you! Connect with me on social media, on pinterest or Instagram @ EssentiallyEmmaMarie!