Family Secrets (Oram)

A deathbed promise. A missing diary. Can she find her loved one's message and fulfill a last wish? Karina Walker is juggling an unexpected upheaval. Rushing to her dying grandmother's side, the grieving 24-year-old agrees to move home, take over the old café, and read a journal left behind. But she's shocked to her core when the little red book disappears from view the moment she turns her back. Building a list of suspects who may have overheard mention of a hidden stash of money, Karina teams up with her cousin and a former teacher to track down her inheritance. And while rumors run rampant around town, she discovers a buried secret that could change her forever…. Karina sets out to untangle the truth. But first she must find the courage to look into her family's past and face what she finds there. As she starts putting together the pieces of her family's past, she soon realizes she is building a new future for herself. If you like small town mysteries, determined heroines, family secrets, and dizzying plot twists, then you'll love Secrets at the Café.

Betrayed from within. Attacked from all sides. Can she avoid heartbreak and stop all who are intent on her destruction? Violet Cleveland's mind is running on high alert. Used to tough challenges, the ex-covert-ops leader worries about keeping her unstable hippie mom in line while opening a security business. And just as she lands a make-or-break protection detail, her parent's evasive comments about an upcoming trip trigger a loud alarm bell. Discovering that her inaugural job is tangled up in emotionally charged protests, Violet reaches out to the authorities for aid, only to be curtly dismissed as a fearmonger. And she's horrified when an anonymous tip to the source of the threats leads her to witness her own mom doxxing her to a potential lynch mob. Determined to hold her ground, will she burn her last bridge home? If you like driven heroines, complex relationships, and intense psychological drama, then you'll love Susan Specht Oram's high-stakes standoff.