Not So Perfect Strangers by L. S. Stratton
Paperback published by Union Square and Co 22nd June 2023
ISBN 9781454947431
“I’m a big believer that women should help each other, Tasha, says Don’t you think?”
Tasha Jenkins has finally found the courage to leave her abusive husband. Taking her teenage son with her, Tasha checks into a hotel the night before their flight out of D.C. and out of Kordell Jenkin’s life forever. But escaping isn’t so easy, and Tasha soon finds herself driving back to her own personal hell. As she is leaving a white woman pounds on her car window, begging to be let in. Behind the woman, an angry man is in pursuit. Tasha makes a split second decision that will alter the course of her life she lets her in and takes off.
Tasha and Madison Gingell may have very different everyday realities, but what have they in common is marriage they need out of. The two women want to help each other, but they have very different ideas of what that means.
They are on a collision course that will end up in the case files of the D.C. MPD homicide unit. Unraveling the truth of what really happened may be impossible and futile. Because what has the truth ever done for women like Tasha and Madison?
MY REVIEW
My mega big shout out today, Not So Perfect Strangers is a must buy, must read, it’s absolutely brilliant!
I love reading about fictional marriage problems. I was hooked right into this page-turning novel with two women that happened meet, who are both very unhappy being married to their husbands in different ways.
Tasha is in an abusive marriage to Kordell. It had taken her years to pluck up the courage to leave her husband, taking her grown up son with her. I thought she was mad going back home to her abusive husband, where she had the chance to get away from him for good.
Maddie had been married to Phil for eight years. She met Phil ten years ago when he was still married. Maddie knows she is married to a liar and a cheater, as her husband is having an affair with another woman at his work.
Maddie comes up with an awful plan for her husband and Tasha’s husband, but how far will Tasha go with Maddie’s plan?
Many years ago I was in an abusive marriage, I made a plan to get my daughter and I away from him, and never looked back.
Since then I found happiness and fell in love again to my partner, which I have been with him for thirty two years.
I would like to thank Midas Pr for me this fantastic early proof copy to read and review and for inviting me to take part in the blog tour.
L.S. Stratton is a NAACP Image Award-nominated author and former crime newspaper reporter who has written more than a dozen books under different pen names in just about every genre from thrillers to romance to historical fiction. She currently lives in Maryland with her husband, their daughter, and their tuxedo cat.
As long as she could remember, Shelly Ellis (who also writes under the name, Shelly Stratton) has wanted to be a writer. In college, she studied journalism and started out as a crime reporter for a small local newspaper. Now she is an editor at a trade journal in Virginia.
Her fiction writing career began when she became one of four finalists in the BET Books First-Time Writers Contest when she was 19 years old. The prize was having her first short-story romance published in the book, All That and Then Some!
Her first novel, The Right Maneuver, debuted in April 2011 and her second, A Love Built to Last, was released in November 2011 and nominated for the African American Literary Award in the romance category. Shelly started her women’s fiction series with Kensington Publishing in 2013. The series earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly for the first novel in the series,Can’t Stand the Heat, and a 46th annual NAACP Image award nomination for the Gibbons Gold Digger novel, Another Woman’s Man.
She lives in Prince George’s County, Maryland with her husband and their daughter. She loves to paint, read, and watch movies
Her latest book, Not So Perfect Strangers, a thriller, was chosen as Barnes & Noble April Mystery/Thriller of the Month pick and as one of Amazon’s April Mystery/Thriller Editor’s Picks.
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