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You Too  by Katharine Light You Too by Katharine Light Published 2025 This is the third book in the Millingham series . My thanks to Katharine for sending me a copy to review along with a lovely, personal thank you card and to  Rachel's Random Resources for inviting me onto the Book Tour. Synopsis Anna has finally got what she longed for. After years of focusing on her career—ignoring the quiet, insistent need for a child—a chance encounter with Rob led to an arrangement that changed everything. Now she’s pregnant. But nothing about what comes next is simple. This was never meant to be a relationship. As her pregnancy becomes more difficult, Anna retreats, unwilling to face Rob, or the feelings she can no longer ignore. Because wanting a baby was one thing. Letting someone in is something else entirely. Rob always knew their arrangement had limits. He didn’t expect Anna would quickly become the one person he can’t walk away from. Now, both must decide what they’re willing to ...

The Other Life Of Mary English by GD Harper The Other life of Mary English by G D Harper is published by Ginger Cat. My thanks to Glynn and the publisher for sending me a copy to review and to  Rachel's Random Resources for inviting me onto the book tour. Synopsis Two Different Women. One Shared Destiny. Mary English, a dockworker’s daughter from Faversham, England, travels to South America to escape a scandal from her past. She ends up running a cacao plantation in Colombia, at a time when women were not legally allowed to own businesses there. Manuela Sáenz, tempestuous lover of Venezuelan revolutionary Simón Bolívar, serves as a colonel in his army. She joins him in battle to fight the Spanish and twice saves his life from assassination attempts. This is the story of two real-life remarkable women, both fighting oppression, hardship and danger in 1820s Colombia, who come together to change the course of a nation’s history. My Thoughts This is a fascinating book about two rema...