Daily Archives: January 7, 2017

East Jesus Southby T.R. Pearson

Meet Buck Aldred, a former big-city homicide detective who has opted for a quieter and simpler life in the Virginia Blue Ridge. That was the plan anyway. When Buck noses around in an old missing persons case by way of returning a favor to a neighbor, he unearths more corruption and criminal mischief than he ever suspected the rugged uplands could hide. A departure for T.R. Pearson, East Jesus South is not a comedy. It’s a creepy, unsettling look at the rot beneath the honeyed, ‘Aw Shucks’ veneer of the American South.

The Real Dad: A Novel of Suspenseby Mary Lynn Roddy

Lulie and Nate Brannigan have had a loving, dreamlike marriage for the past four years. Nate’s stepchildren are calling him dad, and all is warm and cozy in the Brannigan home until an unexpected visit.

Police come to their door, arrest Nate, and won’t say why. Then, in an abuse of their power, they force the wife and children to come along, in a second squad. Lulie is seething. “What do you even think my husband’s done?”

She is to find out all too soon, and she wants him away from her kids. Must she choose between her long-sought love and the unthinkable?

Within nine days, Nate’s bailed out and thinks he can come home.

He keys himself in and refuses to leave, so she and the boys have to go. They run, keep moving, even hide, but they can’t shake him. “It’s not just me, he wants to be your real dad, again,” she tells them. Nate will stop at nothing to get his family back.

Be prepared to burn the midnight oil as you get lost in the horrifying realities of this dark thriller of a tale.

Alaska Wildby Helena Newbury

From the first moment I see Mason Boone, I can’t take my eyes off him. Everyone’s got a different story about the gorgeous, silent man in chains. He’s a hero, a former Navy SEAL. He’s a fugitive, on his way to a court martial. He’s a loner, a mountain man who hasn’t spoken to another soul in years. But when our plane crashes deep in the Alaskan wilderness, he becomes my only hope. I’m a FBI agent and he’s a prisoner, but to survive the wild animals, fierce weather and unforgiving terrain, I must put my faith in him.

Staying alive means staying close: but every time he touches me, I melt inside. I can’t resist this man, not when he looks at me as if he wants to push me up against the nearest tree and tear my clothes off…. Is it possible that he’s innocent? Can I help him overcome the demons of his past? I’m a city girl but to survive this I’m going to need to learn to live as wild as him…because the greatest danger we face isn’t from nature. The other prisoner from our flight is out there with his gang…and they’re hunting us.

Plague Houseby Tom Upton

Charlie Wainwright is a sickly child, whose life has been rigidly controlled due to his illness, a rare auto-immune disease. His protective parents don’t allow him to do anything normal children get to do. He can’t partake in sports. He can’t have friends or visitors at home. He must avoid anything that can cause him to have a flare-up of his condition.The only place his parents let him go is school, where Charlie is one of the Sicko Squad, a group of chronically sick kids often bullied by other students.

After Charlie starts high school, his illness worsens, and he discovers the true nature of his illness– not the auto-immune condition his parents led him to believe he had, but something much more startling.

Charlie is becoming a vampire.

THE ALIBIby Jaime Raven

A perfect crime needs a perfect alibi…

Crime reporter Beth Chambers is committed to uncovering the truth – and she’s not afraid of bending the rules to get there.

When troubled soap star Megan Fuller is found stabbed to death in her South London home, all eyes are on her ex-husband – the notorious gangster, Danny Shapiro.

Determined to expose Danny as a cold-blooded killer, Beth obsessively pursues him. But in her hunt for the truth, her family are set to pay the ultimate price…

Secrets, lies and revenge brim to the top in this gritty thriller. Perfect for fans of Martina Cole and Kimberley Chambers.

The Windwalker Trilogyby Michael James Ploof

From USA Today bestselling author Michael James Ploof comes an exhilarating new fantasy adventure series.

TALON: Book 1 of the Windwalker Archive follows the early years of a unique boy, a fifteen year old runt living on the barbarian island of Volnoss. Born premature during the frozen plague that took his mother, shunned by his father, and raised by his grandmother, Talon has always felt like he doesn’t belong.

For years he dreams of growing big and strong like the giants that surround him. But as the day of measure draws near, he begins to realize that he will never be named a Vald, and will be cast to the village of the Skomm to live a life of slavery.

Barely surviving the beating that follows his failure to meet the measure, Talon is banished to the village of misfits. There he finds friends in the most unlikely of places, and begins to hope he might find some happiness as a Skomm.

As Talon tries to settle into his life in the slave village he is challenged at every turn. The Vaka overseers have it in for him, as does the Chiefson of Timber Wolf Tribe. The Kelda Agaeti is drawing near, called by the Skomm the night of dying, when seven warriors from neighboring tribes win the right to go on a bloody rampage through the village.

After barely surviving a random attack by drunken Vald that left nearly a dozen dead, Talon and his friends decide that they must somehow escape the island. For Chiefson Fylkin has vowed to kill him first on the night of dying.

What follows is a fast-paced race against time, an underdog story wrought with action and adventure, rich with magic, culture, friendship and lore.

Set two hundred years before the events of Whill of Agora, The Windwalker Archive reveals the origins of Dirk Blackthorn’s spirit wolf, Chief. Fans of the Legends of Agora books will be introduced to unforgettable new characters, and revisit a few old friends.

Although this trilogy takes place chronologically before Whill of Agora, it can be read before or after as a standalone series.

Songs of Insurrectionby JC Kang

The Empire of Cathay teeters on the brink of rebellion, and only the lost magic of Dragon Songs can prevent the realm from descending into chaos.

Blessed with an unrivaled voice, Kaiya dreams of a time when music could summon typhoons and rout armies. Maybe then, the imperial court would see the awkward, gangly princess as more than a singing fool.

When members of the emperor’s elite spy clan uncover a brewing rebellion, the court hopes to appease the ringleader by offering Kaiya as a bride.

Obediently wedding the depraved rebel leader means giving up her music. Confronting him with the growing power of her voice could kill her.