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She has the guy.
The terrorists have been taken care of.
She has a shot at becoming popular.
Life is great!
Until they find her.
Now she must run and leave behind everything she knows, including herself.
Protected is the sequel to Watched: Murder was Just the Beginning.
Title: Protected
Author: Cindy M. Hogan
Publisher: O’Neal Publishing
Release Date: March 24, 2012
ISBN: 978-0985131807
Size: 341 pages, softcover
Genre: Young Adult Suspense
Series: Watched (Book 1)
An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he’ll be reunited with his loved ones in an eternal hereafter.
Then, he dies.
Soren wakes to find himself cast by a God he has never heard of into a Hell whose dimensions he can barely grasp: a vast library he can only escape from by finding the book that contains the story of his life.
In this haunting existential novella, author, philosopher, and ecologist Steven L. Peck explores a subversive vision of eternity, taking the reader on a journey through the afterlife of a world where everything everyone believed in turns out to be wrong.
Title: A Short Stay in Hell
Author: Steven L. Peck
Publisher: Strange Violin Editions
Release Date: March 23, 2012
ISBN: 978-0983748427
Size: 108 pages, 6×9, softcover
Genre: Speculative, Horror
Hattie is barely twelve when her pa’s “business adventures” disrupt her family and move them to the new town of Tropic, nestled in the shadows of old Ebenezer Bryce’s Canyon. Her pa views the town as opportunity. Hattie is hopelessly shy and views it with apprehension; she dreads the task of making new friends. More than anything else, Hattie wants to be like her father—not afraid of meeting new people, talking to strangers, and standing up for herself. So it is with trepidation that she accepts her pa’s challenge and promises to make new friends.
Hattie forms more promises as she struggles to make friends, finding companionship in places she wouldn’t have expected and learning that there is a difference between complaining and standing up for oneself.
Promises is a heartwarming story of friendship with a touch of mystery and adventure set in the days before Bryce Canyon became a national park. Drawn from the memoirs of Hattie Adair Jolley and her children, it is a realistic glimpse into the past and a delightful story for readers ages eight to eighty.
Title: Promises
Author: Carolyn Twede Frank
Publisher: August Corp Press
Release Date: March 24, 2012
ISBN: 978-0985251307
Size: 212 pages, softcover
Genre: Historical
He was the one you called when you needed rescuing
But who was Taft Bowman going to call when he needed help? Because ten years ago Laura Pendleton, the love of his life, had left town without a word, then or since. Now she was back, with a new last nameand two adorable, high-needs little ones in tow. Well, Taft had been stupid enough to let her go once before he wasn’t about to make the same mistake again. He’d never stopped loving herand one look at those adorable little faces and he knew that he was meant to be with Laura and her kids forever. All he had to do was convince her that this time he was a man she could count on!
Title: A Cold Creek Reunion
Author: RaeAnne Thayne
Publisher: Harlequin
Release Date: March 20, 2012
ISBN: 978-0373656615
Size: 288 pages, 4×6.6, softcover
Genre: Romance
In 1893 eighteen-year-old Mormon girl Sylvia Prescott elopes with Rex Boyd, a non-Mormon hired ranch-hand. After a brief wedding, they flee to boom town Butte, Montana.
Soon, Rex returns to his old vices of drinking and gambling. Sylvia regrets her rashness in running off with Rex, but resolves to stick with him.
She takes a job at the local mercantile, to help pay off Rex’s debts. There she meets the amoral Virgil Slade, who vows to steal her from Rex and make her the mistress of Slade House, his Gothic revival mansion he’s building.
In the meantime, Rose, a young Irish girl and half-sister of the local Catholic priest, befriends Sylvia and becomes fascinated with Mormonism.
Title: Sylvia, Come Home
Author: Tom Roulstone
Publisher: Self
Release Date: March 20, 2012
ASIN: B007N86E2A
Size: 192 pages, ebook
Genre: Historical Romance
Run or die!
She knew too much, and she’d seen too much. And the police refused to help. Knowing that she was to be the next scheduled death, Kelly Campbell hid under head to toe black leather and a tinted motorcycle helmet and ran for her life. When the weather turned cold, she turned south.
She ended up in North Carolina, home to one of the most famed and eligible NFL football stars in the whole league; only she didn’t know that. She thought he was a businessman. Not being a huge fan, all she knew was that he was incredibly attractive, kind, generous, and that she was safe with him.
Or was she?
His brand of fame proved to be all but deadly, but his fame wasn’t nearly as lethal as his attraction. He kept her safe and protected. All except for her heart.
Title: The Most Important Catch
Author: Jaclyn M. Hawkes
Publisher: Spirit Dance Books
Release Date: March 16, 2012
ISBN: 978-0985164805
Size: 318 pages, 5.5×8.5, softcover
Genre: Romance
Twelve-year-old BFF’s Ginnie and Tillie, want to be sisters. Tillie’s divorced mom plus Ginnie’s widowed dad could equal a lifetime of round-the-clock girl talk and slumber parties. Too bad Dad vowed to never marry again. Ginnie and Tillie form a secret club. They come up with the perfect mission to change his mind: ‘Operation Secret Sisters’.
Before long, Tillie seems happier about gaining a dad than a sister. Ginnie suspects Tillie has turned ‘Operation Secret Sisters’ into a scam called ‘Operation Steal My Dad.’ Things get more complicated when Ginnie stumbles across her real mom’s hidden journals. Ginnie can finally get to know the mother she doesn’t remember and Dad doesn’t talk about.
When Dad discovers she has the journals, he takes them away. Ginnie needs to figure out what the big mystery is before her relationship with her father and her best friend are ruined forever.
Title: The Secret Sisters Club
Author: Monique Becheger
Publisher: True West Publishing
Release Date: March 18, 2012
Size: ebook, approx 53,000 words
Genre: Middle Grade
They have the beginnings of a perfect family. A husband, a wife, a baby on the way.
But something will stop them from being happy as they move into their new house: the power of the undead that roam the halls of their home.
The demons that have come to claim them.
The darkness that seeks to destroy them.
The haunted.
Title: The Haunted
Author: Michaelbrent Collings
Publisher: Self
Release Date: March 2012
ISBN:
Size: ebook
Genre: Horror
Cathy sees things that are invisible to everyone else:
Her new stepbrother’s bizarre behavior.
A ghostly little boy.
An abandoned house in the woods.
But she doesn’t see how they’re all connected. And what she doesn’t see might just kill her.
Title: Dispirited
Author: Luisa M. Perkins
Publisher: Zarahemla Books
Release Date: March 15, 2012
ISBN: 978-0984360369
Size: 254 pages, 5.5×8.5, softcover
Genre: Speculative
Life started at Stonefountain.
Near the bubbling fountain of power, the humans and dragons grew up together. Bound by blood, the two races became great and powerful. But with power came division. For not all were bound, and those with the power brought on by the bonding abused that power, subjecting all powerless ones to servitude.
In time the servants rebelled against their masters. Their violent uprising left almost all the bonded dragons and humans dead. From that day on the races separated, fleeing from Stonefountain and claiming their own lands. Distrust and war grew up between humans and dragons. The humans, fearing the power of the dragon bond, killed all those born to bond with the dragons. But some survived.
When Kanvar’s brother comes down with the dragon sickness, his mother learns that her husband and both her sons are Nagas, human traitors that bond with the Great Gold dragons. All three must die. Kanvar’s father is shot in the back and falls from a high window with Kanvar’s brother, leaving Kanvar to escape execution, survive on his own, and face the wrath of a Great Blue dragon whose family has been killed by the humans.
Title: Dragonbound: Blue Dragon
Author: Rebecca Shelley
Publisher: Wonder Realm Books
Release Date: March 21, 2012
ISBN: 978-1475042474
Size: 252 pages, 5×8, softcover
Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy
Hannah and her friends have been warned about the danger lurking outside of their secret refuge from the alien invaders who devastated the Earth years before. Their leaders have raised them in the Latter-day Saint faith, teaching them to trust God, but when McKenzie and her rebellious boyfriend, Jeremy, decide to run away, Hannah and Derek follow, determined to bring their friends home.
Once outside, the four teens soon realize they cannot return to the refuge without endangering everyone there. Captured, enslaved, and separated, Hannah, Derek, and McKenzie each learn the unique role they must play in liberating the Earth. The friends must battle with android soldiers and attack vessels, and face their own inner struggles to overcome the invaders. After all, not even an alien invasion can stop the work of God.
Title: Defenders of the Covenant
Author: Angie Lofthouse
Publisher: Walnut Springs Press
Release Date: March 14, 2012
ISBN: 978-1599928487
Size: 378 pages, 6×9, softcover
Genre: Young Adult Science Fiction
Christina Andrews is trying to put the pieces of her broken heart together. She accepts a generous offer from her aunt and uncle to accompany them to Israel to watch their infant son.
While watching her cousin, she finds herself face to face with the Japanese Mafia and becomes the only obstacle for them to execute a plan none can hope to survive.
Title: Change of Heart
Author: Roseanne Evans Wilkins
Publisher: Self
Release Date: March 15, 2012
ISBN: 978-1460960257
Size: 216 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, softcover
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Jennifer’s mother is not an only child.
Jennifer’s aunt has thirty seven freckles.
And life just stopped making sense for this sixteen-year-old girl from Nebraska.
It will take one forbidden journey, an octogenarian movie star, three old pirates, and one scarred genius to put all the pieces back together.
If that is even possible.
When Jennifer finds a dog-eared photograph of a freckled girl, she never dreams the innocent picture will tear open a gaping wound to her mother’s concealed past.
Jennifer must leave her home, parents, and best friend in the wheat fields of Nebraska and travel to the rocky shores of Maine to find the aunt she’s never met. Her search for the truth is distracted by the strange and hilarious characters she finds in the tight-knit town of Smithport. From the 88 year old movie star who likes to show off her tattoo, to the fishermen who have a passion for rockets, to the aunt who recites poetry in the long, Maine nights, Jennifer is intrigued by the lives swirling around her.
In the midst of madness she meets Nathan, the tight-lipped, reluctant prodigy who is surrounded by women who need him to be brother, father, protector, provider, and now, first love.
A story about all the ways we get love wrong, and why, despite every disappointment, we keep fighting to get it right.
Title: On Little Wings
Author: Regina Sorois
Publisher: CreateSpace/Self
Release Date: March 16, 2012
ISBN: 978-1468096477
Size: 362 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, softcover
Genre: Young Adult
Enslaved by their own fears, the characters in this riveting collection are straining for redemption. Their choices reflect the well-worn patterns we carve for ourselves through our idiosyncrasies—our dominant traits.
A basketball coach teaches moral ambiguity; a divorce clutches at sanity; a mother struggles with her son’s paternity; a childless man regrets his youthful onanism.
Through their shared experiences these tangible characters undergo the sad, hilarious search for wholeness and security.
Set in the stark isolated landscape of Southern Alberta, Eric Freeze’s debut collection is a deftly-crafted study of desperate mortals careening through their liminal moments, grasping for certainty.
Title: Dominant Traits: Stories
Author: Eric Freeze
Publisher: Dufour Editions
Release Date: March 15, 2012
ISBN: 978-0802313508
Size: 192 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, softcover
Genre: Short story collection; literary fiction
Wailing and thrashing for escape, Allie’s dad disappeared, the dirt covering the crown of his head. Ethan and Jordan’s parents followed, gasping for breath before the dirt covered their faces and muffled their screams. Mercifully, they descended faster than Allie’s mom. She had been the appetizer and the other three adults were the main course.
While thirteen-year-old Ethan is visiting his crazy Uncle Bart at Crater Lake National Park, his world collapses when all the adults disappear, including his parents. Now Ethan must rally his new friends and deciper the legends of the lake to find the key to rescuing his parents from their earthen prison before he’s captured too and their imprisonment becomes permanent.
Title: Crater Lake: Battle for Wizard Island
Author: Steve Westover
Publisher: Sweetwater (CFI)
Release Date: March 13, 2012
ISBN: 978-1599559605
Size: 256 pages, 5.5×8.25, hardover
Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy
Everyone has a secret. How far will a kidnapper go to keep his?
When twenty-three-year-old Courtney Beckham, the privileged daughter of a highly successful land developer, is abducted from the mountains near her home, FBI agent Jason Edwards investigates the ten-million-dollar ransom and turns up more than just a kidnapping crime. He stumbles upon something he wasn’t meant to find.
And when Courtney catches a glimpse of the caller ID in her kidnapper’s home, what she sees sends ice through her veins. Even if she escapes her captors, something more dangerous lies ahead.
Title: Caller ID
Author: Rachelle J Christensen
Publisher: Sweetwater (CFI)
Release Date: March 13, 2012
ISBN: 978-1599559902
Size: 272 pages, 6×9, softcover
Genre: Mystery/Suspense
Jason Edwards Series: Wrong Number
After her mother dies, Elowyn Challis would do anything to bury the pain, but being shipped off to boarding school isn’t what she had in mind.
Things could be worse. Wyn finds a place for herself in the academy and living in the capital is just sparkling. But under it all, her mother’s death still haunts her.
Then Wyn discovers a secret that changes everything she believes: the bedtime stories her mother told her as a child are real, the faerie realm exists, and she is the Binder—the one mortal on earth with the power to seal the gate to Fae. It’s a power Wyn’s not sure she wants or can even wield. But she must confront her nightmares and her grief, or two worlds will be torn apart.
Title: Bound
Author: Annie Oldham
Publisher: Self
Release Date: March 13, 2012
ISBN: 978-1470154684
Size: 304 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, softcover
Genre: YA Paranormal
Lucy Houston and Mickey Chandler probably shouldn’t have fallen in love, let alone gotten married. They’re both plagued with faulty genes—he has bipolar disorder; she, a ravaging family history of breast cancer. But when their paths cross on the night of Lucy’s twenty-first birthday, sparks fly, and there’s no denying their chemistry.
Cautious every step of the way, they are determined to make their relationship work—and they put their commitment in writing. Mickey will take his medication. Lucy won’t blame him for what is beyond his control. He promises honesty. She promises patience. Like any marriage, there are good days and bad days—and some very bad days. In dealing with their unique challenges, they make the heartbreaking decision not to have children. But when Lucy shows up for a routine physical just shy of their eleventh anniversary, she gets an impossible surprise that changes everything. Everything. Suddenly, all their rules are thrown out the window, and the two of them must redefine what love really is.
Title: Dancing On Broken Glass
Author: Ka Hancock
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Gallery Books
Release Date: March 13, 2012
ISBN: 978-1451637373
Size: 416 pages, 5×8, softcover
Genre: Romance
After the cliffhanger ending of A World Without Heroes, Jason is back in the world he’s always known—yet for all his efforts to get home, he finds himself itching to return to Lyrian. Jason knows that the shocking truth he learned from Maldor is precious information that all of his friends in Lyrian, including Rachel, need if they have any hope of surviving and defeating the evil emperor.
Meanwhile, Rachel and the others have discovered new enemies—as well as new abilities that could turn the tide of the entire quest. And as soon as Jason succeeds in crossing over to Lyrian, he’s in more danger than ever. Once the group reunites, they strive to convince their most-needed ally to join the war and form a rebellion strong enough to triumph over Maldor. At the center of it all, Jason and Rachel realize what roles they’re meant to play—and the answers are as surprising as they are gripping.
Title: Beyonders: Seeds of Rebellion (Beyonders #2)
Author: Brandon Mull
Publisher: Aladdin
Release Date: March 13, 2012
ISBN: 978-1416997948
Size: 512 pages, hardcover
Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy
Beyonders Series: A World Without Heroes (bk 1)
A troubled soul. An impossible choice. A final battle.
Wrestling with the werewolf curse pulsing deep inside of her, Grace Divine was finally able to find her brother, but it nearly cost her everything.
With her boyfriend, Daniel, stuck in wolf form and Sirhan’s death approaching, time is running out for Grace to stop Caleb Kalbi and his gang of demons. If she fails, her family and hometown will perish. Everything rests on Grace’s shoulders.
The final installment in The Dark Divine trilogy brings Daniel and Grace’s love story to a breathtaking conclusion.
Title: The Savage Grace (book 3, Dark Divine Series)
Author: Bree Despain
Publisher: EgmontUSA
Release Date: March 13, 2012
ISBN: 978-1606842218
Size: 496 pages, hardcover
Genre: Young Adult Paranormal
Series: The Dark Divine (book 1), The Lost Saint (book 2)
Seventeen year-old Maggie Brown is the poster child for Heroin Chic, complete with jutting bones and dark-ringed eyes.
But drugs are not Maggie’s problem; her mother is.
Maggie’s struggling with her growing feelings for the new guy at school, Seth Prescott, and fears he is just another person who will let her down, like everyone in her life has done so far.
Seth Prescott is an undercover cop assigned to Port Fare High, and despite his job, he’s developed strong feelings for Maggie.
While Seth’s working tirelessly to flush out the sadistic drug peddlers that have invaded the small town of Port Fare, New York, Maggie’s fighting to stay alive as the fight turns deadly.
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Title: Unlovable
Author: Sherry Gammon
Publisher: Self
Release Date: March 10, 2012
ISBN: 978-1461060529
Size: 340 pages, 6×9, softcover
Genre: YA Contemporary
Fourteen-year-old Hap Hazzard is the most wanted teenager in the universe. His life has been pure pandemonium ever since he and his almost-friend Tara were beamed from their boring lives onto a spaceship where they were needed to fulfill an insanely dangerous assignment: recovering nine hidden books-records that would give the Dark Ones power to dominate the universe.
After overcoming a host of nearly impossible intergalactic challenges in the first leg of their journey, Hap and Tara have only two of the missing nine books-and the clock is ticking. Racing their nemesis Don Nova to a rock concert on the Lizard Comet, they meet up with Confucian, an eccentric young earthling who becomes their ally in the urgent search. But things go south quickly, and Hap and Tara and their unconventional crew must venture ever further into space, where dark and dreadful things lurk in the vast shadows.
With the fate of the entire universe at stake, Hap and his friends press on against the odds-fighting their fear as they race toward the unimaginable perils that loom ahead.
Title: The Magicians’s Last Word (Hazzardous Universe #2)
Author: Julie Wright
Illustrator: Kevin Wasden
Publisher: Covenant Communications
Release Date: March 1, 2012
ISBN: 978-1608619672
Size: 257 pages, 6×9, softcover
Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy
Series: Hazzardous Universe (book 1)
Sammy, a 14-year-old fugitive, accidentally discovers he has the powers of a Psion.
Plucked off the streets, he is thrust into the rigorously-disciplined environment of Psion Beta headquarters. As a new Beta, Sammy must hone his newfound abilities using holographic fighting simulations, stealth training missions, and complex war games. His fellow trainees are other kids competing to prove their worth so they can graduate and contribute to the war effort.
But the stifling competition at headquarters isolates Sammy from his peers. Learning to use his incredible powers is difficult enough, but when things go horribly wrong on a routine training mission, he must rely on the other Betas to stay alive.
The Silent War is at a tipping point; even one boy can be the difference.
But to do so, he must survive.
Title: Psion Beta
Author: Jacob Gowans
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date: March 10, 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1456362683
Size: 372 pages, 6×9, softcover
Genre: YA Science Fiction
Violet, the fourth book of the Silver Series, is about a teenage girl who awakens to the harsh reality of life as a werewolf. Protected by a wild werewolf with golden eyes, Colleen finds solace in his forest and control over her rapidly changing life. But Colleen’s control is put to the ultimate test when her loved ones are in danger, forcing her to choose between freedom or returning to the source of her nightmares.
Violet is a story of love amid loss and courage in the face of overwhelming odds. It is a story of finding a kernel of hope within a life torn apart by an accident and a cruel twist of fate.
Title:Violet (The Silver Series, book 4)
Author: Cheree Alsop
Publisher: Self
Release Date: March 8, 2012
ISBN: NA
Size: 161 pages, eBook
Genre: YA Paranormal
Series: Silver (bk 1), Black (bk 2), Crimson (bk 3)