Now’s your chance to start your summer road trip (even if it’s just by being submerged in a hot summer read) — and win great prizes.  Join our 2013 Summer Reading Challenge!  Are you up for the challenge?  Make this your summer reading list, read each book, share your reviews, get to know the authors and enter to win weekly prizes.  The challenge kicks off today and will go through mid-August. Join the event on Facebook for more information!

Keep an eye out during the challenge for bonus picks to earn more points towards the prizes. The more you read and the more you share, the more you win. Happy reading!

Without further adieu, here is stop #8 in the Summer Reading Challenge, Emma’s Secret by Steena Holmes. 

 More about Emma’s Secret by Steena Holmes: 

Setting:  We’ve traveled all the way from Big Sky Country, Montana to the cool, serene municipality of Kincardine — just in time for Canada Day! We’ll grab the perfect spot along the pier to ooh and ahh over the fireworks. (Of course, we had to end our trip with a bang)!

Plot: Can you imagine what it would be like to bring your daughter — that has been missing — home? Finally? The walls you’ve built to protect yourself from the loss don’t disappear in the blink of an eye. The hurt still lingers. The fear. The much-anticipated follow up to Holmes’ best-selling Finding Emma, Emma’s Secret is about the joy, heartache and fear of bringing a lost child home …

Here’s what people are saying about Emma’s Secret:

• “Emma’s Secret offers hope and forgiveness, but shows that such things are not without price. Highly recommended, even though Megan has ruined my diet by her constant eating of chocolate croissants and home-made cinnamon rolls, baked by her close friend, which made me hungry. Seriously, do women really eat like that anymore? I recommend it anyway but be warned!” –5 Minutes for Mom
• “I read the first book and was so touched and affected by it, that I eagerly devoured this second book. It flows right along with the first book, and the story is every bit as gut-wrenching. I can’t imagine this happening to anyone in real life, but it does, and it is terrible. This story is very emotional, so be prepared with tissues!” –Hanging Off the Wire