Jun 25, 2026

Books from the Backlog #192

Books from the Backlog is a fun way to feature some of those neglected books sitting on your bookshelf unread.  If you are anything like me, you might be surprised by some of the unread books hiding in your stacks. This is a fun meme hosted by Carole's Random Life in Books!


Leslie van Dorn needs to make a major life change—getting away from the dog-eat-dog corporate world, as well as a personal loss, so she buys a large turn-of-the-century home in order to turn it into an inn.

She doesn’t care about the rumors that it’s haunted—she just wants a new life.

And she sure wouldn’t mind finding the missing gems that belonged to Red Eye Sal, a bootlegger who used to live in the house.

Blacksmith Declan Zyler, who has more work than he can handle working on historical restorations, has suddenly acquired a fifteen-year-old daughter he never knew he had. This turns his life upside down when he decides to take on the role of single father.

When Leslie hires Declan to restore the iron staircase in her inn, neither of them realize they are disturbing a spirit from days gone by…and until they determine how to put that ghost to rest, neither Leslie nor Declan will be able to move on with their lives.

Set in a small, touristy town filled with quirky characters, The Gems of Vice and Greed is a fun, fast-paced, sweet, sexy and spooky story for readers who love Nancy Drew, Barbara Michaels, or any intriguing mystery.


I added Colleen Gleason's Sinister Secrets to my TBR pile via Kindle in February of 2018. Now this would be after its original pub date...but again, I have the tendency to forget my kindle reads so it's possible I had it in 2016! Although I know these first two (I think it was the first 2 unless it was just the first one) were tweaked a bit at one point to fit the series as a whole better. I can't remember which version I had, maybe both! Lol. But yeah, it's Gleason and it's paranormal so I still want to give this a read someday!






 

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