2011 Releases – Page 3 – LDS Publisher

When Kyle Came Back by Melanie Marks

Title: When Kyle Came Back

Author: Melanie Marks

Publisher: Teen Love Publishing

Release Date: November 10, 2011

ISBN: 978-0983931539

Size: 78,000 words, ebook

Genre: YA paranormal

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Seventeen-year-old Rain Tolley’s childhood friend, Kyle Ryan, was abducted 10 years ago. Now, mysteriously, he is back—only where has he been?

Though Kyle is still kind and sweet—and yeah, smokin’ hot—Rain is drawn to him, but afraid of him as well. Kyle seems haunted by the demons from his past—literal demons. Kyle keeps warning Rain to stay away from him—to not get too close. But Rain can’t keep her distance from Kyle. She feels connected to him in a way she can’t explain. But soon Rain discovers she has gotten too involved with Kyle. The dark forces haunting Kyle are now after Rain as well.

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The Bad Mothers Club by Heather Horrocks

Title: Murder Is Misunderstood (The Bad Mothers Club Cozy Mystery #1)

Author: Heather Horrocks

Publisher: Word Garden Press

Release Date: November 9, 2011

Size: 260 pages, eBook

Genre: Cozy Mystery

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When Denver stay-at-home mom Becky Montgomery caught her husband of twenty years in their bed with another woman, she never dreamed her three children would blame her for the resulting divorce.

Feeling like maternal failures, she and two friends (feisty PI Sam and No-One’s-Accused-Me-Of-Being-Mother Teresa) form the Bad Mothers Club in order to deal with their various child-related heartaches more positively.

When her ex-husband, Jack, is accused of murdering Becky’s first post-divorce date, the Bad Mothers set out to prove his innocence, but only for the sake of her children.

These Bad Mothers have faced everything from terrible twos and sleep deprivation to rebellious teens and heartbreak — they’re not about to let a mere murderer stop them from winning the Worst Mother of the Month award.

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Cinder and Ella by Melissa Lemon

Title: Cinder and Ella

Author: Melissa Lemon

Publisher: Cedar Fort

Release Date: November 8, 2011

ISBN: 978-1599559063

Size: 280 pages, 5.5×8, hardcover

Genre: YA Fantasy

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After her father’s disappearance, Cinder leaves home for a servant job at the castle. But it isn’t long before her sister Ella is brought to the castle herself. What Ella finds there starts a quest that will change her life and the entire kingdom. Cinder and Ella is a Cinderella story like no other, and one you’ll never forget.

Afterlife (Fall of Angels #3.5) by Keary Taylor

Afterlife is the 11,000 word novelette companion to Vindicated (Fall of Angels). It is included in the paperback version of Vindicated.

Cole Emerson never was and never will be a good man. He has his position for a reason. But there are consequences for returning to the world of the living. He is about to lose the one thing he still has, his leadership of the condemned. As if that wasn’t punishment enough, one of his brothers is hell bent on exposing what has happened to Jessica and Cole has no choice but to protect her. And he’ll stop at nothing to do it. Even if it means ending a few lives.

Cole never was and never will be a good man.

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Title: Afterlife (Fall of Angels #3.5)

Author: Keary Taylor

Publisher: K&T Publishing

Release Date: November 8, 2011

ASIN: B00653YZ2A

Size: 43 pages, ebook

Genre: Paranormal

Fall of Angels Series: Branded (bk 1), Forsaken (bk 2), Vindicated (bk 3)

Vindicated (Fall of Angels #3) by Keary Taylor

With the pain of the past behind them, Jessica and Alex are ready to move on with their lives. But moving on is hard when it involves reconnecting with the family who wanted to send Jessica to an institution. And living life isn’t easy when someone who doesn’t belong is watching her, threatening her life, determined to take Jessica back to the afterlife she should have joined months ago.

And every day becomes a little harder for Alex. Time is ticking and if it runs out, Alex won’t be returning to the world of the living. It all boils down to Cole’s final words to Jessica: What are you willing to do to save him?

The answer to keeping Alex lies in Jessica returning to the place he saved her from.

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Title: Vindicated (Fall of Angels #3)

Author: Keary Taylor

Publisher: CreateSpace/Self

Release Date: November 8, 2011

ISBN: 978-1467909471

Size: 382 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, softcover

Genre: Paranormal

Fall of Angels Series: Branded (bk 1), Forsaken (bk 2)

The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson

Title: The Alloy of Law (A Mistborn Novel)

Author: Brandon Sanderson

Publisher: Tor Books

Release Date: November 8, 2011

ISBN: 978-0765330420

Size: 336 pages, hardcover

Genre: Fantasy

Series: Mistborn (vol. 1), The Well of Ascension (vol. 2), The Hero of Ages (vol. 3)

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Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds.

Kelsier, Vin, Elend, Sazed, Spook, and the rest are now part of history—or religion. Yet even as science and technology are reaching new heights, the old magics of Allomancy and Feruchemy continue to play a role in this reborn world. Out in the frontier lands known as the Roughs, they are crucial tools for the brave men and women attempting to establish order and justice.

One such is Waxillium Ladrian, a rare Twinborn, who can Push on metals with his Allomancy and use Feruchemy to become lighter or heavier at will. After twenty years in the Roughs, Wax has been forced by family tragedy to return to the metropolis of Elendel. Now he must reluctantly put away his guns and assume the duties and dignity incumbent upon the head of a noble house. Or so he thinks, until he learns the hard way that the mansions and elegant tree-lined streets of the city can be even more dangerous than the dusty plains of the Roughs.

The Scholar of Moab by Steven L. Peck

Title: The Scholar of Moab

Author: Steven L. Peck

Publisher: Torrey House Press, LLC

Release Date: November 8, 2011

ISBN: 978-1937226022

Size: 300 pages, 5×8, paperback

Genre: General? Speculative? Not sure.

Caution: This book may contain objectionable content.

What happens when a two-headed cowboy, a high school dropout who longs to be a scholar, and a poet who claims to have been abducted by aliens come together in 1970’s Moab, Utah? The Scholar of Moab, a dark-comedy perambulating murder, affairs, and cowboy mysteries in the shadow of the La Sal Mountains.

Young Hyrum Thane, unrefined geological surveyor, steals a massive dictionary out of the Grand County library in a midnight raid, startling the people of Moab into believing a nefarious band of Book of Mormon assassins, the Gadianton Robbers, has arisen again.

Making matters worse, Hyrum’s illicit affair with Dora Tanner, a local poet thought to be mad, ends in the delivery of a premature baby boy who vanishes the night of its birth. Righteous Moabites accuse Dora of its murder, but who really killed their child? Did a coyote dingo the baby? Was it an alien abduction as Dora claims? Was it Hyrum? Or could it have been the only witness to the crime, one of a pair of Oxford-educated conjoined twins who cowboy in the La Sals on sabbatical?

In God Is Our Trust by L.C. Lewis

Title: In God Is Our Trust (Free Men & Dreamers, vol 5)

Author: L.C. Lewis

Publisher: Walnut Springs

Release Date: October 26, 2011

ISBN: 978-1599928029

Size: 452 pages, 6×9, paperback

Genre: Historical

Series: Dark Sky at Dawn (v1), Twilight’s Last Gleaming (v2), Dawn’s Early Light (v3), Oh, Say Can You See (v3)

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And this be our motto In God is our trust.

America exits the War of 1812 battered but determined under the leadership of the last men tutored by the Founding Fathers. As she is welcomed onto the world stage, new leaders prepare to thrust an aggressive platform on the nation, threatening America’s unity and her brief period of prosperity and peace.

The country’s trials have prepared a choice generation, but as adversity afflicts the Pearson home, Hannah enters a crisis of faith, questioning man’s interpretation of God’s word. The struggles plaguing the Pearsons affect Frannie and the six families with whom the Pearsons have become entangled during the war.

As a new religious reformation dawns in America, the Pearsons and Snowdens become involved with a young man from Hannah’s past Joseph Smith whose accounts of visions and dealings with angels strain tender relationships and test the Constitution’s guarantees of religious liberty.

Nightingale by David Farland

Title: Nightingale

Author: David Farland

Publisher: East India Press

Release Date: October 31, 2011

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Size: ebook (print available in December)

Genre: YA Speculative

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“We all become lost children at one time or another. When no one else can find us, we must find ourselves.”
– Olivia

Bron Jones was abandoned as a newborn. Thrown into foster care, he is rejected by one family after another, until he meets Olivia, a gifted and devoted high-school teacher who recognizes him for what he really is—what her people call a “nightingale.”

But Bron isn’t ready to learn the truth. There are secrets that have been hidden from mankind for hundreds of thousands of years, secrets that should remain hidden. Some things are too dangerous to know.

Bron’s secret may be the most dangerous of all.

A Texas Ranger’s Christmas by Rebecca Winters

Title: A Texas Ranger’s Christmas

Author: Rebecca Winters

Publisher: Harlequin

Release Date: November 1, 2011

ISBN: 978-0373753819

Size: 224 pages, 4×6, mass market paperback

Genre: Romance

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Life can get complicated for a single father working undercover. No one knows that better than Caige Dawson, currently posing as an employee of the Texas Forest Service. He’s there to investigate a fellow forester with a missing husband, and to determine whether she’s a suspect.

Five years ago, Blaire Farley’s world imploded. But ever since she met Caige and his sweet, lovable eight-year-old son—the survivor of a tragic accident—she’s ready to start reclaiming her life. And the first order of business is giving Josh the best Christmas any little boy ever had.

Blaire may be a person of interest, but Caige believes in her innocence. His code of honor prevents him from getting too close until he can come clean about his identity. But he needs Blaire’s help to solve the case. He only hopes it will give her the closure she needs—and the future all three of them deserve.

The Death of a Disco Dancer by David Clark

Title: The Death of a Disco Dancer

Author: David Clark

Publisher: Zarahemla Books

Release Date: October 21, 2011

ISBN: 978-0984360338

Size: 336 pages, 5.5×8.5, paperback

Genre: General

One night, eleven-year-old Todd Whitman receives a terrifying but hilarious midnight visitor: his cockatoo-plumed, dementia-stricken, John Travolta-smitten Grandma Carter. In constant nocturnal search of the mysterious “Dancer,” Grandma clutches her absurdly precious Saturday Night Fever album cover and giggles her way through the dance steps of her youth.

When forty-something Todd returns home to help his dying mother, he reflects on that pivotal summer of 1981: the unique relationship he developed with his grandmother, the chaos of finding his place in a large Mormon family, the near misses of impressing the one-and-only Jenny Gillette, and the utter social catastrophe of junior high.

Ultimately, despite the ups and downs of life, Todd finds peace and strength through the selfless and dedicated lives of his grandmother and mother.

Called To Serve Again by Jeffrey Olsen

Title: Called To Serve Again

Author: Jeffrey Olsen

Publisher: CreateSpace

Release Date: November 1, 2011

ISBN: 978-0-61555-557-7

Size: 243 pages, 6×9, paperback

Genre: General

Called To Serve Again tells the story of Bill Hughes, a recent college graduate who has everything going for him: a new job, two beautiful daughters, and a loving wife. However, when he is tragically killed in a car accident, Bill reluctantly learns there is no such thing as coincidence, and there was a special reason for his death. The events that transpire have eternal consequences not only for Bill and his wife, but also for his nineteen-year-old brother who is struggling with his decision whether to serve a mission for the LDS Church. This book follows Bill and his family through a unique and faith-promoting journey told from both sides of the veil that will appeal to adult and young adult readers alike.

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Spellbound by Larry Corriea

Title: Spellbound: Book II of the Grimnoir Chronicles

Author: Larry Correia

Publisher: Baen

Release Date: November 1, 2011

ISBN: 978-1451637755

Size: 448 pages, hardcover

Genre: Speculative

Series: Hard Magic

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Dark fantasy goes hardboiled in #2 of the hard-hitting Grimnoir Chronicles by the New York Times best-selling creator of Monster Hunter International.

The Grimnoir Society’s mission is to protect people with magic, and they’ve done so—successfully and in secret—since the mysterious arrival of the Power in the 1850s, but when a magical assassin makes an attempt on the life of President Franklin Roosevelt, the crime is pinned on the Grimnoir. The knights must become fugitives while they attempt to discover who framed them.

Thing go from bad to worse when Jake Sullivan, former p.i. and knight of the Grimnoir, receives a telephone call from a dead man—a man he helped kill. Turns out the Power jumped universes because it was fleeing from a predator that eats magic and leaves destroyed worlds in its wake. That predator has just landed on Earth.

Tiger’s Voyage by Colleen Houck

Title: Tiger’s Voyage (Book 3)

Author: Colleen Houck

Publisher: Splinter

Release Date: November 1, 2011

ISBN: 978-1402784040

Size: 560 pages, hardcover

Genre: Young Adult Fantasy

Series: Tiger’s Curse (bk 1), Tiger’s Quest (bk 2)

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*The first two books in this series were re-releases, but I cannot find any references to this title being published before. It may or may not be eligible for a Whitney award. ??

With the head-to-head battle against the villainous Lokesh behind her, Kelsey confronts a new heartbreak: in the wake of his traumatic experience, her beloved Ren no longer remembers who she is. As the trio continues their quest by challenging five cunning and duplicitous dragons, Ren and Kishan once more vie for her affections–leaving Kelsey more confused than ever.

Fraught with danger, filled with magic, and packed with romance, TIger’s Voyage brings Kelsey and her two tiger princes one step closer to breaking the curse.

Aglow by Michelle Pennington

Title: Aglow

Author: Michelle Pennington

Publisher: CreateSpace

Release Date: November 1, 2011

ISBN: 978-1466499904

Size: 152 pages, 6×9, paperback

Genre: Romance

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Christmas is only days away when Ashley Wright leaves Utah and college life behind, with nothing to show for the last four years but a bachelor’s degree. Her hopes of finding love with a good Mormon boy have eluded her. She believes that a family Christmas at home will lift her spirits and maybe even help her forget the man her heart yearns for. But life has other plans, and soon her lonely heart will be set … Aglow.

Crossed by Ally Condie

Title: Crossed

Author: Ally Condie

Publisher: Dutton Juvenile

Release Date: November 1, 2011

ISBN: 978-0525423652

Size: 367 pages, hardcover

Genre: YA Dystopian

Series: Matched

In search of a future that may not exist and faced with the decision of who to share it with, Cassia journeys to the Outer Provinces in pursuit of Ky—taken by the Society to his certain death—only to find that he has escaped, leaving a series of clues in his wake.

Cassia’s quest leads her to question much of what she holds dear, even as she finds glimmers of a different life across the border. But as Cassia nears resolve and certainty about her future with Ky, an invitation for rebellion, an unexpected betrayal, and a surprise visit from Xander—who may hold the key to the uprising and, still, to Cassia’s heart—change the game once again. Nothing is as expected on the edge of Society, where crosses and double crosses make the path more twisted than ever.

Darkspell by Elizabeth Mueller

Title: Darkspell

Author: Elizabeth Mueller

Publisher: TreasureLine Publishing

Release Date: October 31, 2011

ISBN: 978-1617520808

Size: 360 pages, 6×9, paperback

Genre: YA Paranormal Romance

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Winter Sky believes she is everything ordinary . . . until she is kissed by Alex Stormhold.

As seer of Stormhold Coven, Alex is sworn to be Winter’s protector against the darkness that hunts her. Violently thrust into the magickal realm she always thought impossible, she stumbles upon a disturbing secret of her own.

Will love prove thicker than magick?

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Roxanne In La La Land by L.A. DeVaul

Title: Roxanne In La La Land

Author: L.A. DeVaul

Publisher: WiDo Publishing

Release Date: October 18, 2011

ISBN: 978-0979607066

Size: 220 pages, 5×8, paperback

Genre: Romance

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“Love and success, isn’t that what every girl wants? At eighteen, I moved to Southern California, hoping to find it. And I did, eventually…but nothing like I expected.”

New to Los Angeles, Roxanne Donally spends her days dressing indecent mannequins, and her nights drawing pictures of her cat, Danny Boy. Definitely the wrong way to find stardom, or Prince Charming either, for that matter . . . .

“But forget love, I am pursuing my dream to become a famous movie star. I moved to L.A. to be successful, and be successful I will. I m just not getting any parts yet. Which totally sucks. Success is the only thing I really want in life. Besides love. Success and love. Sigh…”

The Princess and the Horse by Mette Ivie Harrison

Title: The Princess and the Horse

Author: Mette Ivie Harrison

Publisher: Self

Release Date: October 2011

Size: ebook

Genre: YA Speculative Romance

Series: Princess and the Hound (bk 1) The Princess and the Bear (bk 2), The Princess and the Snowbird (bk 3),

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Fierce’s mother has left her pack to become a human. Left behind, Fierce is determined to have nothing to do with humans. But one day she finds a woman who reminds her of her mother in the forest. She hesitates for a moment, just long enough for the woman–Princess Jaleel–to turn her into a human with the wild magic. Soon Fierce is dragged into human concerns about the effects of the misuse of wild magic by Princess Jaleel. Will Fierce choose to be human and save the world or to be a hound again and save herself?

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Christmas In Cold Creek by RaeAnne Thayne

Title: Christmas In Cold Creek

Author: RaeAnne Thayne

Publisher: Harlequin

Release Date: October 18, 2011

ISBN: 978-0373656318

Size: 224 pages, 4×6, paperback

Genre: Romance

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She claimed to be a waitress and a single mother, but Rebecca Parsons doesn’t look like any hash-slinger Pine Gulch Police Chief Trace Bowman has ever seen. And she doesn’t seem particularly maternal toward her little girl, either. Still, one look in her vulnerable green eyes and his protective instincts go into overdrive. Attention from local law enforcement is the last thing Becca needs. She’ll do anything to protect her little sister Gabi from their con-artist mother, even lie about their identities. When Trace shows up at their house carrying a Christmas tree and stirring desires she can’t afford to indulge, she longs to surrender to the magic of the season with him. But Becca’s past is catching up—fast. Can her sexy police chief perform a Christmas miracle?

A Christmas Homecoming by Anne Perry

Title: A Christmas Homecoming

Author: Anne Perry

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Release Date: October 25, 2011

ISBN: 978-0345524638

Size: 224 pages, hardcover

Genre: Mystery

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Charlotte’s mother, Caroline—travels with her young husband, Joshua Fielding, and his theatrical troupe to Whitby, the Yorkshire fishing village where Dracula the vampire first touched English soil in the sensational novel named after him. Joshua has arranged to produce a stage adaptation of Dracula by the daughter of Whitby millionaire Charles Netheridge during the Christmas holiday, but after the disastrous first read-through of her amateurish script, only the fact that the company is depending on Netheridge’s financial backing for their spring tour keeps them at work.

As tempers flare and wind and snow swirl around Netheridge’s lonely hilltop mansion, a black-cloaked stranger emerges from the storm—an eerily opportune arrival, for this enigmatic figure, one Anton Ballin, turns out to be a theatrical genius. At the same time, a brooding evil makes itself felt. Instead of the theatrical triumph that Netheridge desired for his daughter, there is murder—shocking and terrifying.

The Snow Angel by Glenn Beck

Title: The Snow Angel

Author: Glenn Beck

Publisher: Threshold Editions

Release Date: October 25, 2011

ISBN: 978-1439187203

Size: 288 pages, 5×7, hardcover

Genre: General, Christmas

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The woman in the picture was so young she looked like a child. Her hair was loose, eyes wide, blue T-shirt stark against the pale lines of arching collarbones. I felt the air leave me in a quiet rush. Not because of the way the photo captured her fleeting youth, but because of the way it highlighted the bruise.

It was a photo of me.

Rachel Price has just one happy memory from her childhood: the moment her father took her hands while playing outside on a cold, snowy day and called her his angel. It was a rare and sacred moment in her young life, one in which she finally felt safe, loved, and protected.

But it didn’t last long.

Years later, Rachel’s daughter is the only light in what has become a dark life. Rachel repeats the patterns she learned as a child and exposes her own daughter to those same destructive behaviors. Consumed by an abusive marriage, but secure in the safety of the familiar, she is too afraid to escape.

Rachel accepts what her life has become, even as she makes excuses for those who keep her in a constant state of despair and regret.

But then, an unexpected phone call from an old friend changes everything. Her ordered world is turned upside down as she’s set on a journey that might be her last chance to salvage the life she’d given up on long ago.

While new friendships tentatively blossom, Rachel realizes that everything she once believed may be nothing but lies and misunderstandings. But knowing the truth is not as easy as it seems. Sometimes ignorance truly is bliss. As the snow falls and the promise of Christmas redemption nears, Rachel begins to see her entire childhood in a brand-new light and must now decide what her future holds—and what her past really means. Will knowing the truth set her free, or will it condemn her to a life full of regret and “what ifs”?

The Snow Angel is a poignant tale about family, forgiveness, and the freedom to live a future free of the past.

The Clone Redemption by Steven L. Kent

Title: The Clone Redemption

Author: Steven L. Kent

Publisher: Ace

Release Date: October 25, 2011

ISBN: 978-1937007027

Size: 368 pages, 4×6.8, paperback

Genre: Science Fiction

Series: The Clone Republic (bk 1), Rogue Clone (bk 2), The Clone Alliance (bk 3), The Clone Elite (bk 4), The Clone Betrayal (bk 5), The Clone Empire (bk 6)

Earth, 2516 A.D.: The Unified Authority has spread human colonies across the Milky Way, keeping strict order with a powerful military made up almost entirely of clones. But now the clones have formed their own empire, and they aim to keep it…no matter who they must defeat.

In Close by Brenda Novak

Title: In Close (The Bulletproof Trilogy, Book 3)

Author: Brenda Novak

Publisher: Mira

Release Date: October 25, 2011

ISBN: 978-0778312666

Size: 400 pages, 4×6″ mass market paperback

Genre: Suspense

Series: Inside (bk 1), In Seconds (bk 2)

Caution: This book may contain objectionable content.

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The truth can be murder. . .

Claire O’Toole’s mother, Alana, went missing when her daughters were just teenagers. Then Claire’s younger sister was confined to a wheelchair. And more recently her husband, David, died in a freak accident — after launching his own investigation into Alana’s disappearance. It seems odd that so much could happen to one family, especially in Pineview, Montana, where nothing ever happens to anyone.

Is Alana dead? Claire’s determined to find out, even if the culprit is the stepfather who’s been so good to her. And her former boyfriend, Isaac Morgan, wants to help. Although their relationship didn’t end well, he still has feelings for Claire. But it isn’t until he starts to suspect that David’s death wasn’t an accident that he’s drawn back into her life.

Together, they dig for answers to the questions that have haunted Pineview for fourteen years. But as they soon discover, someone’s prepared to kill so those answers won’t be found. . .