3/4/2023 0 Comments Jeanne m dams shadows of doubt![]() ![]() It isn't until their professional entanglements are finally over, that London and Jackson are finally ready to take the next step in their relationship. Not only that, but he also happens to be the same guy she turned down at the bar a few months ago.As they begin to spend more time together, their working relationship blossoms into something more. Just when she thinks she has nailed her presentation, the company's CEO, Jackson Holt, walks in and inserts himself into the meeting. As luck would have it, a multi-million-dollar company calls a few months later asking for a meeting to discuss a potential partnership, and London is eager to prove to her sisters, and herself, that she can land this deal. As the business administrator for their family's event hotel, the Spark House, London has more important things to worry about, like bringing in new clientele. So when a very attractive man pays for their drinks and then slips her his number, she passes it right back to him with a 'thanks, but no thanks'. Especially not when she's out celebrating her single status with her sisters. "Charming, hilarious, and emotional.Starry-Eyed Love is Helena Hunting at her very best! Having just broken up with her boyfriend, London Spark is not in the mood to be hit on. ![]() Now the only thing she's sure of is that she can't trust anyone. And as Mona spirals further from her once cozy reality, a devastating revelation shatters everything she thought she knew. Determined to reunite with her son and prove his innocence, Mona follows an increasingly cryptic trail of clues on social media, uncovering a sinister side of suburbia, and unveiling lies and betrayal from those she trusted most. A young girl has turned up dead in their quiet town, and her missing son is the prime suspect. but deep down she knows there's something else going on. She tells her friends that boys will be boys, that he'll be back as soon as his money runs dry. But when Mona's son gets entangled with the wrong crowd and runs away from home, her blissful suburban world begins to unravel. She has a successful husband, a loving son, a beautiful home, and a supportive group of girlfriends ever ready for their weekly wine night. "Mona Ellison's life is as perfect as the porcelain dolls lined up on her shelves. Dealing with all the aspects of contemporary womanhood, as well as being phenomenally powerful witches, Niamh, Helena, Leonie and Elle may have grown apart but they will always be bound by the sisterhood of the coven" Juno Dawson explores gender and the corrupting nature of power in a delightful and provocative story of magic and matriarchy, friendship and feminism. With conflicting beliefs over the best course of action, the four friends must decide where their loyalties lie: with preserving tradition, or doing what is right. A young warlock of extraordinary capabilities has been captured by authorities and seems to threaten the very existence of HMRC. In what Helena perceives as the deepest betrayal, Leonie has defected to start her own more inclusive and intersectional coven, Diaspora. Elle is trying to pretend she's a normal housewife, and Niamh has become a country vet, using her powers to heal sick animals. Yet Helena is the only one of her friend group still enmeshed in the stale bureaucracy of HMRC. Now, decades later, the witch community is still reeling from a civil war and Helena is now the reigning High Priestess of the organization. At the dawn of their adolescence, on the eve of the summer solstice, four young girls-Helena, Leonie, Niamh and Elle-took the oath to join Her Majesty's Royal Coven, established by Queen Elizabeth I as a covert government department. We are stronger than Mundanes, plain and simple. Why is it we help in times of crisis? We have a gift. "If you look hard enough at old photographs, we're there in the background: healers in the trenches Suffragettes Bletchley Park oracles land girls and resistance fighters.
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