By Patricia Rice / Genre: Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars (13 reviews)
Maya Alyssum has a rebel’s dream: to open a school where kids can find unconditional acceptance—an acceptance she and her sister had never experienced while growing up in foster homes.
But Axell Holm, the town council’s representative, holds Maya’s unconventional dream in his hands.
By Alison Strobel / Genre: Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (23 reviews)
Can a brand-new marriage withstand the weight of generations-old baggage?
Newlyweds Amelia and Marcus Sheffield are recent college grads, trying to stay afloat in LA while searching for their dream jobs. Marcus hopes to become a mega-church pastor. Amelia has an esteemed music degree, and longs to play piano professionally. The Sheffields are clearly city people.
By Mel Odom / Genre: Mystery & Thrillers / Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (26 reviews)
Lance Corporal Bekah Shaw joined the United States Marine reserves to help support herself and her son when her ex-husband, Billy Roy, decided they were no longer his responsibility. But when her team is activated and sent to Somalia on a peacekeeping mission, Bekah struggles with being separated from her son and vows to return safely.
By Alexandra Sokoloff / Genre: Mystery & Thrillers / Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (84 reviews)
FBI Special Agent Matthew Roarke is closing in on a bust of a major criminal organization in San Francisco when he witnesses an undercover member of his team killed right in front of him on a busy street, an accident Roarke can’t believe is coincidental. His suspicions put him on the trail of a mysterious young woman who appears to have been present at each scene of a years-long string of “accidents” and murders, and who may well be that most rare of killers: a female serial.
By Melissa Luznicky Garrett / Genre: Paranormal & Urban, Fantasy / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (32 reviews)
After her mother and grandparents die in a raging house fire, eleven-year-old Sarah Redbird ends up in the custody of her aunt and uncle. Six years later, Sarah discovers the fire may not have been an accident at all, but a deliberate act of revenge.
Sarah’s family has kept the truth of their Native American heritage secret her entire life, refusing to acknowledge where they came from. But when a family that has direct ties to their past moves to town, Sarah’s true identity is revealed.