My Reading Blog

Book Cover: "In search of adventure, 29 year old Conor Grennan traded his day job for a year=long trip around the globe, a journey that began with a 3 month stint volunteering at the Little Princes Children's Home, an orphanage in war-torn Nepal. Conor was initially reluctant to volunteer, unsure whether he had the proper skill, or enough passion, to get involved in a developing country in the middle of a civil war. But he was soon overome by the herd of rambunctious, resilient children who would challenge and reward him in a way that he had never imagined. When Conor learned the unthinkable truth about their situation, he was stunned: The children were not orphans at all. Child traffickers were promising families in remote villages to protect their children from the civil war - for a huge fee - by taking them to safety. They would then abandon the children far from home, in the chaos of Nepal's capital, Kathmandu. For Conor, what began as a footloose adventure b...

Book Cover: " Ancient stories bring a community together. Secrets threaten to tear them apart. One journalist has the power to expose it all. Nothing much ever happens in Monksford. Still, Jemma Durham, an ambitious young reporter, dreams of the story that will take her from covering cow pat throwing contests at the Monksford Gazette to working for a prestigious national newspaper. Then the town revives the tradition of the medieval mystery plays performed across England hundreds of years ago, and life in Monksford turns decidedly more interesting. With the town caught up in the compelling and ancient plays, Jemma goes undercover, taking the role of Mary Magdalene to record the experience for the Gazette. As Jemma begins to uncover some of the town's secrets, she stumbles upon her big story the one that could be her ticket out of Monksford. But writing that story would mean betraying friendships and destroying careers. When Jemma begins to feel herself falling i...