Favorite books of 2021

Although I've mostly published in romance (just wait, my GreatAmericanNovel is not romance--more later!), I read across most genres. This year I particularly enjoyed sci-fi/speculative science and mystery, but as always a complex character with a rewarding developmental arc stays with me long past the end of the book!

In no particular order, here are my favorite 10 books (why is it always ten?)

• The Storyteller's Secret
• After Alice Fell
• The Midnight Library
• The Stand In
• Reluctantly Home
• The Marriage Code
• The Dispatcher
• Polar Vortex
• A Dark Lure
• Mars One