52 Books in 52 Weeks

Well I have been busy reading but too busy to post more book reviews. In the past few weeks I have read three more books. First was Peter Pan by J.M. Barre. I have always wanted to read the original unabridged book so I took the oppurtunity to also read it out loud to Abi. We have both enjoyed this classic tale of the little boy who never grew up. 

For  my own reading, I found the book Secrets by Kristen Heitzmann. This book opens in a hospital room in Brooklyn N.Y. Lance Machelli's Nonna (Grandmother in Italian) has had a stroke and the family is keeping a "vigil" for her at the hospital. In a moment alone, with great effort, she communicates to Lance that he needs to find "something" or "someone" and make things right. She sends him on a trip to Liguaria Italy to visit a cousin who can communicate some of Nonna's wishes. From there, Lance follows a trail of "secrets" that leads him to a villa in Sonoma California. But he still doesn't have the whole picture of what it is he is looking for. The owner of the villa, Rese Bennet, hires him as a cook and maid for her new Bed & Breakfast she is opening at the villa. One thing leads to another and Lance finds himself seeking more at the villa than the secrets he has come to expose. 

Unforgotten is book two in this series by Kristen Heitzmann. After the secrets are revealed in book 1, Lance returns to Brooklyn to bring his findings to Nonna. Being around the old neighborhood brings back memories, some good-some not so good. In the end it leads to more discoveries about the life that Nonna led before she married Lance's Nonno. Another mystery is revealed which begins to put a strain on the budding relationship between Lance and Rese. When will all the secrets end? Not with this book- it's number 2 in series.