Welcome to today’s installment of #read99women! THE COMPANION, the latest release from today’s author, Kim Taylor Blakemore, just hit shelves last week. (I devoured my advance copy: you can take a peek at my BookBub recommendation, which is also my blurb for the book, here.)

More about Kim: Kim writes about the thieves and servants, murderesses and soiled doves, grifters and flimflam girls. The fierce women. The dangerous women with tangled lies and hidden motives. The Companion is her adult debut in historical mystery. Publishers Weekly calls it a "captivating tale of psychological suspense." She is also the author of the YA historical novels Bowery Girl and the WILLA Literary Award winner Cissy Funk. Recipient of a Tucson Festival of Books Literary Award, WILLA Literary Award, and three Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC) grants, she also teaches novel intensives in Portland, Oregon, and is a member of Women's Fiction Writers Association, and Historical Novel Society.

Kim’s recommendation for #read99women: THE OUTLANDER by Gill Adamson, which sounds amazing. “In 1903, a woman is chased across the vast Canadian frontier and into the Rockies by two men - the brothers of her husband seeking vengeance for his death at her hands….The characters she meets are strange and compelling, violent and filled with kindness, each person a product of the wild woods and unforgiving mountains.”

Read more of Kim’s recommendation on BookBub by clicking here.

Click here to see Kim’s other BookBub recommendations.

And come back tomorrow for another recommendation from another fabulous author!