by lauralizbuckley | 29 Jun, 2019 | Book Reviews
Hannah Gold, the only child of high-flying professional parents, has always been intelligent and mature beyond her years. She knows how to take care of herself, and she knows how to get what she wants. Most of the time. Unfortunately, due to a misunderstanding and a...
by lauralizbuckley | 25 Jun, 2019 | Author Interviews
Caroline Giammanco—college educated, daughter of a deputy sheriff—seems an unlikely candidate to find herself inside a maximum-security prison. When she got a teaching job at the South Central Correctional Center she assumed she’d need to watch out for the...
by lauralizbuckley | 22 Jun, 2019 | Book Reviews
Hope is sweet, optimistic and more than a little naive. She has firm ideas about how the world should work, including (if not especially) how her own future is supposed to pan out. If only her family, and reality, would stop getting in her way… Happy Girl Lucky...
by lauralizbuckley | 18 Jun, 2019 | Blog Posts
Almost anybody who’s done a lot of reading can give you an example of an opening that hooked them right away, and we all know how important it is to grab a reader’s attention right off the bat. But what is it that makes a strong opening? In my opinion, a great opening...
by lauralizbuckley | 15 Jun, 2019 | Book Reviews
I received an ARC of this book for free. All thoughts and opinions expressed are my own. When Caroline Giammanco got a job teaching in a maximum-security prison, she wasn’t sure what to expect. She thought it might be unsafe, unpleasant, intimidating – but she...
