Just in case your New Year's resolutions had something to do with reading, too, here's a title for anyone who loves a good, suspenseful yarn involving creepy old houses, mistaken identities, and ghosts from high school past. In NEVER TELL A LIE, Ivy and David Rose seem to have the perfect life--a Victorian fixer-upper, a happy marriage, a first baby on the way--until a woman who claims to know them shows up at their yard sale. She introduces herself as Melinda White, but she looks and acts...

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I’m one of those people who read the last few pages of a book before I even glance at the first chapter. Most think that’s weird. After all, romance novels always have a happy ending. But does that ending bring tears to your eyes? Or leave a silly smile on your face well after the book is back on the shelf? There are happy endings, and then there are the really satisfying happy endings. If you can leave your reader with an end­ing they’ll remember for a long time, then your job is done.

In deference to those who don’t want to know the ending before they start a book, I’ll just note that one of my favorite endings can be found in Julia Quinn’s On the Way to the Wedding.

Erika Tsang, Senior Editor

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