Summer's Opus

  Title: The Afterlife of Holly Chase Author: Cynthia Hand Genre: YA Supernatural Fantasy Rating: Five Stars! Seventeen-year-old Holly Chase has it all — a famous father, a million followers, and every luxurious thing her spoiled-rotten heart desires. Life in her Malibu mansion couldn’t be better. Sure her mother died when she was younger, and sadly, her stepmother, who Holly had grown to revere, hadn’t lasted long either, but Holly doesn’t feel alone, or isolated, or even cares, because she has it all   —  or so she tells herself . Then one night, on Christmas Eve to be precise, three ghosts arrive to show her how selfish and spoiled she’s become. They assure her that it isn’t a dream; that it’s really a premonition that will come true if she doesn’t mend her ways before it’s too late. Naturally, Holly doesn’t believe them and she’s unimpressed with their spooky, Scrooge-esque themed nightmare. Her life is picture perfect and she doesn’t ...

  Title: Kate & Blake vs The Ghost Town Author: Dakota Kahn Genre: Adult Romantic Mystery Rating: Four Stars Kate Becker flees the big city chaos of San Francisco to return to her hometown for the same peace and quiet she had hoped to escape from not too terribly long ago. But there’s an opportunity for her to do some good as the local public defense attorney and of course, there’s Blake, her high school sweetheart turned fiancé. As one of sheriff deputies in Whispering Pines, Blake’s job is pretty laid back, so Kate foresees nothing but a lifetime of simplicity and wedded bliss for their future. That is until the local ghost town is picked to be the site of a major new resort, with two developers bidding for the rights to build there. The residents of Whispering Pines are none too pleased by the prospect of a garish resort, and just as Kate decides to join the fight to save her town, one of the developers is murdered — right on the gaudy gallows he had erec...