Salem Falls- Jodi Picoult

Jack St. Bride was once a beloved teacher and soccer coach at a girls' prep school - until a student's crush sparked a powder keg of accusation and robbed him of his career and reputation. Now, after a devastatingly public ordeal that left him with an eight-month jail sentence and no job, Jack resolves to pick up the pieces of his life. He takes a job washing dishes at Addie Peabody's diner and slowly starts to form a relationship with her in the quiet New England village of Salem Falls. But just when Jack thinks he has outrun his past, a quartet of teenage girls with a secret turn his world upside down once again, triggering a modern-day witch hunt in a town haunted by its own history…

There's Karma, love, life, what-if's in this book, which made me want to buy all Jodi Picoult books.

There's a reason why your life is a sudden downhill, you basically have to look back at what you may have done to others....

This book is pure Karma...

The Kept Women- Susan Donavan

Ratings: 5/10

A women left by her husband, he turned out to be gay when she was pregnant with her last baby. She ends up with 3 kids without a husband. Working 12 hours shifts to support her family, she ends up singing a contract with the governor to be. Paid by him to become his "Fiance'" until the next election.

Trouble is: he is a womaniser, he has a horrible mother, his ex girlfriends all want to be his wife.

The book shares with us how she overcome those problems, and how she ends up falling in love...