2012 Releases – Page 7 – LDS Publisher

Beyonders: Seeds of Rebellion by Brandon Mull

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.

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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)

The Savage Grace by Bree Despain

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.

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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)

Unlovable by Sherry Gammon

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

Hazzardous Universe 2: The Magicians’s Last Word by Julie Wright

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.

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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)

Psion Beta by Jacob Gowans

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.

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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 by Cheree Alsop

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.

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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)

The Super Spies and the Cat Lady Killer by Lisa Orchard

In a small town in Michigan, fifteen-year-old Sarah Cole is stuck spending the summer at her Aunt and Uncle’s with her sister, Lacey. She’s not happy with the situation until she befriends a girl named Jackie.

The three girls stumble upon the ruthless murder of a reclusive neighborhood woman and what’s worse? One of the officers investigating the crime believes the girls are responsible for her death.

Fearing that this officer will frame them for the murder, the girls organize their own detective squad. They become the Super Spies and start their own investigation.

The Super Spies can’t understand why anyone would want to murder the “Cat Lady” until they start digging into her past and discover a horrible crime that happened thirty years ago. They uncover a connection between the two crimes and attempt to bring this information to the police, only to be reprimanded for meddling in the investigation. Not only are the girls upset by the admonition, but they also struggle with the fact that their exuberant investigating could provide a legal loophole allowing the killer to go free. Frustrated by this turn of events, the Super Spies realize it’s up to them to snare the Cat Lady killer.

Or die trying…

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Title: The Super Spies and the Cat Lady Killer

Author: Lisa Orchard

Publisher: Astraea Press

Release Date: March 12, 2012

ASIN: B007JZH61K

Size: 175 pages, eBook

Genre: YA Mystery

Twitterpated by Melanie Jacobson

Jessie Taylor is furious when her roommate secretly posts her picture on the dating website LDS Lookup — furious, that is, until she spends all night instant messaging Ben Bratton. Their first date is a smashing success (literally), but Ben’s overall awesomeness can’t save Jessie from having to deal with Craig, her competitive coworker.

Jessie spends long office hours finishing projects and putting out fires, but while her performance wows her boss, it only makes Ben skittish— after a failed engagement to an up-and-coming lawyer, he’s not about to pair up with someone who’s married to her job.

Will Jessie figure out how to be true to herself and take her big chance at love before it’s gone with a click of the mouse?

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Title: Twitterpated

Author: Melanie Jacobson

Publisher: Covenant Communications Inc.

Release Date: March 1, 2012

ISBN: 978-1608610655

Size: 304 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Contemporary Romance

The Secret Life of Copernicus H. Stringfellow by Lorin Barber

Copernicus H. Stringfellow, a.k.a. Nick, is far from your average, run-of-the-mill genius. His brains are really more like brawn now that he’s learned to control things with his mind.

From fending off would-be muggers to rescuing down-and-out traverlers, there’s no job too small for this superhero, especially after he learns that Twinkies® by the caseload send his super powers skyrocketing!

But with powers so fantastic—he can stop a speeding automobile or stem internal bleeding—he’ll have to face more than a few enemies.

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Title: The Secret Life of Copernicus H. Stringfellow

Author: Lorin Barber

Publisher: Sweetwater (CFI)

Release Date: March 13, 2012

ISBN: 978-1599559292

Size: 304 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Young Adult Speculative

Banana Split by Josi Kilpack

A tropical paradise seems like the ideal place for amateur detective Sadie Hofmiller to relax and unwind from the panic attacks that have begun to control her life. But when Sadie accepts the offer to stay at a friend s condo on the island of K auai, her perfect vacation turns into a nightmare.

On a snorkeling trip with the Blue Muumuus, a community group of adventurous older women, Sadie finds herself entangled, quite literally, with the dead body of Noelani Pouha, a local drug addict. The police are convinced they know exactly what happened to Noelani.

Reeling from the shock of her own near-drowning, Sadie has no interest in looking for any other possible answers until Noelani s son appears on her doorstep, presenting her with a reason to gather her inner strength, rally her investigative powers, and use what she s learned from her past cases to try and find closure…for both of them.

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Title: Banana Split

Author: Josi S. Kilpack

Publisher: Shadow Mountain

Release Date: March 6, 2012

ISBN: 978-1609089030

Size: 368 pages, 5×8″, softcover

Genre: Culinary Mystery

Sadie Hoffmiller Series: Lemon Tart (bk 1), English Trifle (bk 2), Devil’s Food Cake (bk 3), Key Lime Pie (bk 4), Blackberry Crumble (bk 5), Pumpkin Roll (bk 6)

The Heirs of Southbridge by Jennie Hansen

When tragedy strikes Southbridge plantation, young Clayton and his brother, Travis, are forced from the only home they’ve ever known. Fleeing the drunken rage of their grandfather, with bounty hunters and horse thieves thick on their trail, the boys and their father try to eke out a lonely life as fugitives and cowboys.

As Clayton nears adulthood, his greatest desire is for a strong and stable family, but his father’s death and his brother’s departure leave him more alone than ever. Seeking for roots, Clayton visits Southbridge en route to college and kneels on his mother’s grave, only to be accosted by a gun-wielding girl named Lucy, whose father will stop at nothing to make the plantation his own.

Can Clayton realize his deepest desires of marrying the woman he loves, having a family, and reclaiming the plantation that is his rightful heritage?

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Title: The Heirs of Southbridge

Author: Jennie Hansen

Publisher: Covenant

Release Date: March, 2012

ISBN:

Size: 224 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Historical Romance

That Kind of Love by J Adams

Strong and fiercely independent, Evangeline Patton has never experienced love in any shape or form—not from her parents, or a man. She has overcome some major obstacles in her life, but at twenty-five she is still alone.

All of that changes when Adagio St. John the third walks off a plane from Italy and into her life.

Evangeline and Adagio are both looking for love, but can she trust her heart to someone she will never see?

And can he look past her blindness and see into her heart?

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Title: That Kind of Love

Author: J Adams

Publisher: Jewel of the West

Release Date: February 29, 2012

ISBN: 978-0615609690

Size: 82 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, softcover

Genre: Romance

*This book may be too short to be eligible for a Whitney Award ??

Night Sky by Jolene Perry

Girl I’ve loved, girl I’m falling for. Now that they’re both in view, the problem is clear.

After losing Sarah, the friend he’s loved, to some other guy, Jameson meets Sky. Her Native American roots, fluid movements, and need for brutal honesty become addictive fast. This is good. Jameson needs distraction – his dad leaves for another woman, his mom’s walking around like a zombie, and Sarah’s new boyfriend can’t keep his hands off of her.

As he spends time with Sky and learns about her village, her totems, and her friends with drums – she’s way more than distraction. Jameson’s falling for her fast.

But Sky’s need for honesty somehow doesn’t extend to her life story – and Jameson just may need more than his new girl to keep him distracted from the disaster of his senior year.

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Title: Night Sky

Author: Jolene Perry

Publisher: Tribute Books

Release Date: March 1, 2012

ISBN: 978-0983741862

Size: 247 pages, eBook

Genre: Young Adult Contemporary

Vodnik by Bryce Moore

Teacups: great for tea. Really sucky as places-to-live-out-the-rest-of-your-eternal-existence. Very little elbow room, and the internet connection is notoriously slow. Plus, they’re a real pain in the butt to get out of, especially when you’ve gone non-corporeal.

When Tomas was six, someone–something–tried to drown him. And burn him to a crisp. Tomas survived, but whatever was trying to kill him freaked out his parents enough to convince them to move from Slovakia to the United States.

Now sixteen-year-old Tomas and his family are back in Slovakia, and that something still lurks somewhere. Nearby. Ready to drown him again and imprison his soul in a teacup.

Then there’s the fire víla, the water ghost, the pitchfork-happy city folk, and Death herself who are all after him.

All this sounds a bit comical, unless the one haunted by water ghosts and fire vílas or doing time in a cramped, internet-deprived teacup is you.

If Tomas wants to survive, he’ll have to embrace the meaning behind the Slovak proverb, So smrťou ešte nik zmluvu neurobil. With Death, nobody makes a pact.

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Title: Vodnik

Author: Bryce Moore

Publisher: Tu Books

Release Date: March 1, 2012

ISBN: 978-1600608520

Size: 368 pages, 6×9, hardcover

Genre: YA Fantasy

To Monkey with Love by Rebecca Shelley

In book 7 of the Smartboys Club, Monkey and Bean face off at the science fair. One of their projects will win, the other won’t. It’s a battle of wits between two of the smartest boys in school. And to top it off, Monkey gets a mysterious Valentine and has to hunt down its sender.

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Title: To Monkey with Love. Yuck! (Smartboys Club #7)

Author: Rebecca Shelley

Illustrator: Abby Goldsmith

Publisher: Wonder Realms

Release Date: February 27, 2012

ISBN: 978-1470151959

Size: 106 pages, 5×8, softcover

Genre: Childrens (Grades 4–6)

Series: Bees In My Butt (bk 1), We Flushed It Down the Potty (bk 2), I Took a Burp (bk3), I Lost My Head (bk4), My Stomach Explodes (bk 5), All I Got for Christmas (bk 6)

Espionage by A.L. Sowards

France, 1944: Nobody expects Peter Eddy to survive his first commando mission, to retrieve a code book stolen by the Nazis, so his success is rewarded with an even more daunting assignment. Partnered with fellow soldier Jacques Olivier, Eddy must identify which of the three Allied contacts in Calais is a double agent and use the traitor to help implement a strategic Allied diversion that might win the war.

Eddy and Olivier secretly cross the English Channel to confront their suspects one at a time, but what appears to be a clean assignment soon turns disastrous, and a shocking betrayal leaves Eddy in the grip of the Gestapo. With the courageous aid of Olivier and his sister, Genevieve, Eddy evades his captors in a highspeed chase through the streets of Calais.

But as the Allied invasion approaches, treachery in the least likely places leads to fresh graves in the bloodied European soil, and only the power of loyalty and love can transform tragic endings into new beginnings.

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Title: Espionage

Author: A.L. Sowards

Publisher: Covenant Communications

Release Date: February 29, 2012

ISBN: 978-1608611485

Size: 256 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Historical

The Stones by A.D. Duling

Anna Kippling has collected the final fourth Token and now must quickly learn how to use them all. With the Red stone and the book “Dominion” now in his possession; the Chancellor only needs the “Sister” Blue stone to raise the undefeatable Serpentine Army.

Time is ticking and preperations are being made. More allies are joining their forces…but Anna and her friends must get to the Stones and destroy them or find themselves headed towards a horrific battle.

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Title: The Stones (Anna Kippling Book 3)

Author: A.D. Duling

Publisher: Self

Release Date: February 26, 2012

ASIN: B007EDMN2Y

Size: 169 pages, ebook

Genre: YA Paranormal Romance

Anna Kippling Series: The Key (bk 1), The Tokens (bk 2)

Partials by Dan Wells

The human race is all but extinct after a war with Partials—engineered organic beings identical to humans—has decimated the population. Reduced to only tens of thousands by RM, a weaponized virus to which only a fraction of humanity is immune, the survivors in North America have huddled together on Long Island while the Partials have mysteriously retreated. The threat of the Partials is still imminent, but, worse, no baby has been born immune to RM in more than a decade. Our time is running out.

Kira, a sixteen-year-old medic-in-training, is on the front lines of this battle, seeing RM ravage the community while mandatory pregnancy laws have pushed what’s left of humanity to the brink of civil war, and she’s not content to stand by and watch. But as she makes a desperate decision to save the last of her race, she will find that the survival of humans and Partials alike rests in her attempts to uncover the connections between them—connections that humanity has forgotten, or perhaps never even knew were there.

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Title: Partials

Author: Dan Wells

Publisher: Balzer + Bray

Release Date: February 28, 2012

ISBN: 978-0062071040

Size: 480 pages, hardcover

Genre: Young Adult Dystopian

Hindsight by Sherry D. Ficklin

Grace Archer has come into her full powers as an immortal and has taken up the mantle offered by her father, Prometheus.

Leaving behind everything and everyone she loves, Grace becomes a pawn in a dangerous game that threatens to undo an ancient truce between Gods of Olympus and the Fae.

Can Grace find a way to prevent war or will she become the Harbinger predicted by the Gods of Fate?

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Title: Hindsight (vol. 3)

Author: Sherry D. Ficklin

Publisher: Dragonfly Publishing

Release Date: February 6, 2012

ISBN: 978-1936381388

Size: 162 pages, 5.5×8.5, softcover

Genre: Young Adult Fantasy

The Gods of Fate Series: Foresight (vol 1), Second Sight (vol 2)

Tell Me Who I Am: Stories of Faith, Family, and Identity by DeNae Handy, et al

Tell Me Who I Am is a collection of stories and essays depicting everyday life for sixteen LDS writers. Told with humor and sensitivity, these stories offer a glimpse into a religious culture that is alternately criticized, admired, and misunderstood. While dogma may define a people, it’s individual stories that ultimately tell us who we are.

Contributing writers: Becca Wilhite; Stephanie Sorensen; Luisa Perkins; Jana Winters Parkin; Annette Lyon; Patrick Livingston; Melanie Jacobson; DeNae Handy; Debbie Frampton; Ken Craig; Christopher Clark; Karen Burton; Gideon Burton; Michelle Budge; Joshua Bingham; Cari Banning.

Cover art, illustrations, and design by award-winning artist Jana Winters Parkin.

Title: Tell Me Who I Am: Stories of Faith, Family, and Identity

Compiled by: DeNae Handy

Publisher: Stansbury House Publications

Release Date: February 23, 2012

ISBN: 978-0615605722

Size: 224 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Anthology

Highland Sorceror by Clover Autrey

Charity Greves has the gift of healing. So when a naked bleeding Highlander materializes out of the air into her kitchen, she does what any rational free-thinking herbalist under the same circumstances would do—she heals him.

She didn’t expect to be drawn back to the 13th Century where a dangerous whacked-out witch holds the handsome Highlander captive. Nor is she prepared to be drawn so strongly to him that she’ll do whatever it takes to save him.

Imprisoned by the witch, Toren Limont the High Sorcerer and Protector of the Faes’ magic, uses the last of his magical reserves to go forward in time and find a healer the witch doesn’t have any influence over. He merely seeks the small respite a healing can give him in order to continue to withstand the witch’s tortures long enough for his clan and siblings to flee. Until Charity falls with him through time as either his salvation or his entire clan’s downfall.

Title: Highland Sorceror

Author: Clover Autrey

Publisher: CreateSpace

Release Date: February 17, 2012

ISBN: 978-1470088200

Size: 182 pages, 5×8, softcover

Genre: Fantasy, Romance

Final Call by Rachel Ann Nunes

Sometimes what you can’t see means everything.

Autumn Rain is accustomed to using her ability to read imprints to solve seemingly unsolvable cases. Yet when she goes searching for the sister of a friend, she is embroiled in the make-believe world of live theater, where it’s difficult to tell reality from playacting and where everyone appears to have something to hide.Autumn must team up again with Detective Shannon Martin to learn the truth about and eight-year-old mystery that involves a new murder and more missing actors. Working so closely with the compelling detective further complicates their uncertain relationship and tests her loyalty to her once-boyfriend Jake Ryan.When her sister, Tawnia, becomes involved in the case, Autumn finds herself in a deadly struggle to save them both from facing their own final call.

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Title: Final Call (Book 4 in the Autumn Rain Series)

Author: Rachel Ann Nunes

Publisher: Shadow Mountain

Release Date: February 21, 2012

ISBN: 978-1609088996

Size: 262 pages, 6×9, paperback

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Autumn Rain Series:

Kicking Ashe by Pauline Baird Jones

With hearts and lives on the line, a kiss may be all they have time for…

Time has dumped Ashe on a dying planet and she needs to figure out why before she ceases to exist.

Or gets vivisected by some Keltinarian scientists.

Or worse.

Vidor Shan might help—since someone somewhere is trying to hose him, too—if she can convince him to trust her. Probably shouldn’t have told him that only someone he trusts can betray him. Also wouldn’t mind if he kissed her on the mouth.

Vid would love to kiss the girl, but his brother is lost, he’s got hostile aliens on his tail, and the stench of betrayal all around him. Can he trust the woman who told him to trust no one?

Then a time quake hurls them to a nasty somewhere and some when…

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Title: Kicking Ashe (Project Universe bk 6)

Author: Pauline Baird Jones

Publisher: L & L Dreamspell

Release Date: February 20, 2012

ISBN: 978-1603184489

Size: 214 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, softcover

Genre: YA Science Fiction

Project Universe Series: The Key (bk 1), Girl Gone Nova (bk 2), Tangled in Time (bk 3), Steamrolled (bk 4)

The Keeper’s Calling by Kelly Nelson

They come from two different worlds. One fateful discovery will bring them together. Neither of their lives will ever be the same.

Chase Harper’s to-do list for senior year never included fall in love and fight for your life, but things rarely go as planned. Tarnished gold and resembling a pocket watch, the counter he finds in a cave during the summer of 2011 will forever change the course of his life, leading him to the beautiful Ellie Williams and unlocking a power beyond his wildest imagination.

In 1863, Ellie Williams completes school in Boston and returns to the Utah Territory only to discover that her grandfather and his counter, a treasured family heirloom, are missing. When Ellie is abducted and told she must produce the counter or die, an unexpected rescuer comes to her aid.

Title: The Keeper’s Calling

Author: Kelly Nelson

Publisher: Walnut Springs Press

Release Date: February 20, 2012

ISBN: 978-1599928449

Size: 312 pages, softcover

Genre: YA Speculative Romance/Time Travel