{"id":7079061,"date":"2026-11-12T20:53:47","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T20:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accountants4yourbusiness.co.uk\/?p=7079061"},"modified":"2026-11-12T20:53:47","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T20:53:47","slug":"five-on-friday-with-vera-mercer-jills-book-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accountants4yourbusiness.co.uk\/?p=7079061","title":{"rendered":"Five on Friday with Vera Mercer \u2013 Jill&#8217;s Book Cafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today I\u2019m delighted to feature author Vera Mercer who writes psychological suspense about women, records, and the systems that remember what powerful people try to erase. Her stories blend domestic tension, institutional pressure, and documentary clues, with a recurring fascination for the paper trail that survives when memory is forced to doubt itself.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-85098\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"85100\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/jillsbookcafe.blog\/2026\/10\/30\/five-on-friday-with-vera-mercer\/vera-mercer-author-photo-for-jill\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/jillsbookcafe.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/vera-mercer-author-photo-for-jill.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"878,878\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"vera-mercer-author-photo-for-jill\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/jillsbookcafe.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/vera-mercer-author-photo-for-jill.jpg?w=225\" width=\"878\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/jillsbookcafe.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/vera-mercer-author-photo-for-jill.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-85100\" style=\"width:473px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jillsbookcafe.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/vera-mercer-author-photo-for-jill.jpg 878w, https:\/\/jillsbookcafe.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/vera-mercer-author-photo-for-jill.jpg?w=96&amp;h=96 96w, https:\/\/jillsbookcafe.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/vera-mercer-author-photo-for-jill.jpg?w=225&amp;h=225 225w, https:\/\/jillsbookcafe.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/vera-mercer-author-photo-for-jill.jpg?w=768&amp;h=768 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 878px) 100vw, 878px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Over to Vera <\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center has-light-gray-background-color has-background wp-block-heading\" id=\"which-5-pieces-of-music-songs-would-you-include-in-the-soundtrack-to-your-life-and-why\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:#4a7c4f;\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>Which five pieces of music\/songs would you include in the soundtrack to your life and why?<\/strong><\/mark><\/h3>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Aerosmith \u2013 \u201cDream On\u201d<\/strong> It reminds me that ambition does not expire just because time passes. I like dreams that survive a more realistic understanding of the work required.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Aerosmith - Dream On (Audio)\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/89dGC8de0CA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Augustana \u2013 \u201cBoston\u201d<\/strong> It captures the urge to go somewhere no one knows the version of you they expect. Reinvention can begin with distance.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Augustana - Boston\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4ASJBXu8tNo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4ASJBXu8tNo&amp;list=RD4ASJBXu8tNo&amp;start_radio=1\">John Lennon \u2013 \u201cWatching the Wheels\u201d<\/a><\/strong> I love its refusal to live at the speed other people prescribe. Stepping outside expectation can look like failure from the outside and freedom from within.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Watching The Wheels (Ultimate Mix)\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IZBsTeGwSyE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Cranberries \u2013 \u201cDreams\u201d<\/strong> It brings lightness to the list. It reminds me that even cautious people can still be surprised by hope and change.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Cranberries - Dreams (Dir: Peter Scammell) (Official Music Video)\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Yam5uK6e-bQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sting \u2013 \u201cShape of My Heart\u201d<\/strong> It makes me think about how easily motive is misread. The visible game is rarely the whole reason a person is playing.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sting - Shape of My Heart (Official Music Video)\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NlwIDxCjL-8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center has-light-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-block-heading\" style=\"color:#0071a1;\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#4a7c4f;\" class=\"has-inline-color\">What five things (apart from family and friends) would you find it hard to live without.<\/mark><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Books<\/strong> They are not only entertainment. They let me enter other lives and understand choices I might never face myself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Music<\/strong> It can preserve an emotion after ordinary language has stopped working.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Uninterrupted time alone<\/strong> Solitude is how I hear my own thoughts again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The loneliness of travelling alone in a foreign country<\/strong> I value the strange freedom of being somewhere no one knows my history or expects a familiar version of me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A valid passport<\/strong> I need the knowledge that leaving, observing and beginning again are still possible.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center has-light-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-block-heading\" style=\"color:#5bc955;\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#4a7c4f;\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Give five pieces of advice to your younger self?<\/mark><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Be brave enough to leave. Do not remain somewhere simply because your staying makes other people comfortable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do not be afraid to make mistakes. Some mistakes are the price of finally choosing your own life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the opportunity appears, buy a little NVIDIA, Apple and Tesla, and be patient enough to keep it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do not confuse being needed with being loved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do not wait until you feel completely ready. Readiness often arrives after the first step.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center has-light-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-block-heading\" style=\"color:#4a7c4f;\"><strong>Tell us five things that most people don\u2019t know about you<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am almost entirely a night writer. I can go several daylight days without producing a line, then write fluently late at night or in the very early morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I check a real calendar before assigning dates to a fictional year. If a scene happens on a Thursday, I want it to have been a real Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I keep a private knowledge ledger for complicated stories. When several characters are hiding information from one another, I track who knows what, when they learned it and what they still misunderstand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I often begin a story by asking what is missing rather than what happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I study low-star reviews as carefully as praise. They often reveal the exact moment a reader stopped believing a story.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center has-light-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-block-heading\" style=\"color:#4a7c4f;\"><strong>Tell us five things you\u2019d still like to do or achieve.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Complete ten book-length manuscripts in a single year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See one of my books translated into another language.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See one of my stories adapted into a film or limited series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Complete an entire novel while living alone for a time in an unfamiliar foreign city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Build a lasting community of readers who want to discuss characters\u2019 choices, moral responsibility and what an ending changes about everything that came before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Many thanks for joining me today Vera, I enjoyed learning more about you.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-light-gray-background-color has-background\" id=\"s-books\"><strong>Vera\u2019s Books<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">(NB This post features\u00a0Amazon affiliate links\u00a0from which I earn a very small commission on qualifying purchases)<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/717QliCLA4L._SL1500_.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:250px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Wife He <s>Rehe<\/s>arsed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her divorce settlement was missing one page.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her ex-husband\u2019s new fiancee knew exactly what was on it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neither of them knew he\u2019d already written their ending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Claire Whitlock thought she had escaped Grant six years ago. She signed the papers, kept the townhouse, protected her daughter, and learned to make fear look like routine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then Grant\u2019s beautiful new fiancee appears at a school fundraiser with Claire\u2019s private words written on a sign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Words Claire never said aloud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Words from a journal no one was supposed to have read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jenna Cole is younger, calmer, and easier for everyone to like. She wears Claire\u2019s old colors. She knows things she should not know. And she keeps asking questions about a woman Claire was warned not to mention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everyone thinks Claire is jealous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everyone thinks Jenna is naive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One missing page says otherwise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To protect her daughter, Claire has to find out what she signed before Grant\u2019s perfect new life becomes impossible to question.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/71+LeHnVcQL._SL1500_.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:250px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Version That Survived<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>She built an empire from a dead man\u2019s grief. Now her last words have gone missing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When Lydia Vale steps away from the microphone and falls from the gallery at Corbett Hall, the world calls it a tragedy. Nora Bell knows better. Lydia had invited her there for a reason.<\/p>\n<p>For more than a decade, Lydia turned the death of Owen Mercer into a movement: bestselling books, sold-out retreats, a foundation built on radical honesty. Nora kept the private version of Lydia safe until the public one became unbearable. Then the recordings appeared. Lydia was ruined. Hours later, she was dead.<\/p>\n<p>But one page vanished from the lectern before the police secured the scene. One page Lydia had touched moments before she died. One page that may name Owen, Nora, or the truth both women spent eleven years surviving.<\/p>\n<p>As a journalist, a detective, and Lydia\u2019s own people begin pulling apart the old story, Nora must decide how much truth the dead are owed, and how much of herself can remain if the right version finally comes to light.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/71MTmk-P1mL._SL1500_.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:250px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Compliance Kill Switch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>They put her name on the slide before anyone asked her a question.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Compliance analyst Mara Voss knows exactly what she approved: temporary view-only access. No exports. No transfer authority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But when a confidential investor packet appears outside Luminex Health\u2019s controlled environment, the company names Mara as the internal source in an all-hands meeting. By the time anyone asks for her version, her badge is dead, her accounts are locked, and a severance agreement is waiting with a deadline one hour before the board packet closes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then Mara remembers an exception ID.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With a facilities ticket, an altered audit trail, and a company lawyer willing to look where management would rather not, Mara has less than forty-eight hours to reconstruct a record designed to disappear before the official story hardens around her.<\/p>\n<div id=\"jp-post-flair\" class=\"sharedaddy sd-like-enabled sd-sharing-enabled\">\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\">\n<div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\">\n<h3 class=\"sd-title\">Shares are always appreciated.<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I\u2019m delighted to feature author Vera Mercer who writes psychological suspense about women, records, and the systems that remember what powerful people try to erase. 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