Fiction as Self-Help – The Secret, Book & Scone Society

As soon as the healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else. – Maya Angelou

The Secret, Book & Scone Society by Ellery Adams is the first in a series but for me, it could totally stand alone and in fact, does (at the moment, anyway) as I have none of the others. Yet! I’ll get them one day. For now, I’m still in the afterglow of having just finished the first one. I was reading until after midnight!

The thing is… I just couldn’t put it down! I had to find out… NOT who the killer was, though I was interested. Nope, it was about the secret. See, the “Secret” in the title is not because the Society is secret. It’s because the four women who make up the society each have a secret. We’d learned three of the four by the last chapter of the…