Strong Female Lead Reads for February

In horror movies, the final girl is the one who’s left standing when the credits roll. Lynnette Tarkington is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre twenty-two years ago. And she’s not alone. For more than a decade she’s been meeting with five other final girls in a support group. That is until one of the women misses a meeting and Lynnette’s worst fears are realized. But the thing about these final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife . . . they will never, ever give up.

London, 1915. As German bombs rain down on the East End of London, fifteen-year-old Florrie is forced to grow up fast. Florrie turns to her older sister Edith for comfort, but the war has changed Edith. When Florrie follows her sister through the dark one night, she is shocked by what she discovers. Years later, Kate is sorting through her dead aunt Florrie’s house, which she shared with her sister Edith. Determined to put her family’s ghosts to rest, Kate must unearth the secret past of her two aunts.

Meroe Island is a desolate spot in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with a mysterious history and even rumors of murder. Six twentysomethings are about to embark on a free-spirited journey, but it soon becomes clear that the group is even more cut off from civilization than they initially thought. When one person turns up dead, the remaining friends wonder what dark currents lie beneath this impenetrable paradise―and who else will be swept under its secluded chaos.

A dramatic, uplifting story of a young Polish Christian girl captured by the Nazis during WWII. Through hardships and trials her faith helps her to endure and conquer evil, with unexpected twists and turns in her journey to get back home. Alexa sets a great example for us all to follow today, to choose love over hate.

Shelby Tebow is the first to go missing. Not long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, vanish just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen. After a search that yields more questions than answers, the case goes cold. Now, eleven years later, Delilah shockingly returns. Everyone wants to know what happened to her, but no one is prepared for what they’ll find.

Only two can keep a secret if one of them is dead. David and Adele seem like the ideal pair. He’s a successful psychiatrist, she is his picture-perfect wife who adores him. But why is he so controlling? And why is she keeping things hidden? The only thing that is crystal clear is that something in this marriage is very, very wrong.

In the world of magick, Talamh, Breen Siobhan Kelly is not the ordinary young schoolteacher she was. Here she is learning to embrace the powers of her true identity. Keegan, the leader of the Fey, has trained Breen as a warrior, and his yearning for her has grown. As dark forces plot to destroy Talamh, there will be losses and sorrows, betrayal and bloodshed. But through it, Breenwill take the next step on the journey to becoming all that she was born to be.

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Genevieve is a senior nurse at the Salpetriere Asylum. After the childhood death of her sister, she shunned religion and placed her faith in both the celebrated psychiatrist Dr. Charcot and science. But everything begins to change when she meets Eugenie, the 19-year-old daughter of a bourgeois family that has locked her away in the asylum. Because Eugenie has a secret: she sees spirits. Eugenie is determined to escape from the asylum and for that she will need Genevieve’s help. 

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