Tag: Whitney Award Finalist

Blood on the Water by Anne Perry

Blood on the Water by Anne Perry

Victorian Mystery. 320 pages. Print, e-Book, Audio. Set in London’s grand Mayfair mansions, where the arrogant masters of the Western world hold sway—and to the teeming Thames waterfront, where one summer afternoon, Monk witnesses the horrifying explosion of the pleasure boat Princess Mary, which takes nearly two hundred of the merrymakers on board to their deaths. The tragedy is no accident. As commander of the […]

September 9, 2014 / 0 Comments
Illusions of Fate by Kiersten White

Illusions of Fate by Kiersten White

The only fate that matters is the one you choose. Jessamin has been an outcast since she moved from her island home of Melei to the dreary country of Albion. Everything changes when she meets the gorgeous, enigmatic Finn, who introduces her to the secret world of Albion’s nobility, a world that has everything Jessamin doesn’t—power, money, status . . . and magic. But Finn […]

September 9, 2014 / 2 Comments
Still Time by Maria Hoagland

Still Time by Maria Hoagland

Thrust into the chaos of her mother-in-law’s hoarding and forgetfulness, LDS church member Alyssa Johnston wishes she could retreat to a simpler time when her kids were small and almost anything could be fixed with a hug. But reassurance and a quick distraction no longer erase the pain of a missionary son who is struggling, a young teen who is bullied, or a daughter who […]

August 8, 2014 / 0 Comments
This Darkness Light by Michaelbrent Collings

This Darkness Light by Michaelbrent Collings

A man with no past, but who holds the future of the world in his hands. A woman who has sworn to protect him, for reasons she does not understand. A killer who must destroy them, or lose all he holds dear. They are running—from each other, from the plague that is killing all around them, from the dark forces beyond their understanding. Running from […]

August 6, 2014 / 0 Comments
Time of the Fireflies by Kimberley Griffiths Little

Time of the Fireflies by Kimberley Griffiths Little

When Larissa Renaud starts receiving eerie phone calls on a disconnected old phone in her family’s antique shop, she knows she’s in for a strange summer. A series of clues leads her to the muddy river banks, where clouds of fireflies dance among the cypress knees and cattails each evening at twilight. The fireflies are beautiful and mysterious, and they take her on a magical […]

July 29, 2014 / 1 Comment
Becoming Lady Lockwood by Jennifer Moore

Becoming Lady Lockwood by Jennifer Moore

Amelia Beckett is delighted to be a widow. Married by proxy to a man she’d never met, Amelia recognizes that a fortuitous entry into widowhood frees her from meddlesome chaperones and matchmakers. Heiress to her mother’s sugar plantation in Jamaica, she happily anticipates working in a man’s world, with the additional credibility of her new title: Lady Lockwood. But with the arrival of Captain Sir […]

July 7, 2014 / 2 Comments
On the Fence by Kasie West

On the Fence by Kasie West

She’s a tomboy. He’s the boy next door. With three older brothers, Charlotte Reynolds, aka Charlie, has always been more comfortable calling the shots on a basketball court than flirting with the opposite sex. So when her police officer dad demands she get a summer job to pay for the latest in a long line of speeding tickets, she’s more than a little surprised to […]

July 3, 2014 / 1 Comment
Walking On Water by Richard Paul Evans

Walking On Water by Richard Paul Evans

Alan Christoffersen must say some painful goodbyes and learn some important lessons as he comes to the end of his cross-country walk to Key West. After the death of his beloved wife, after the loss of his advertising business to his once-trusted partner, after bankruptcy forced him from his home, Alan Christoffersen’s daring cross-country journey—a walk across America, from Seattle to Key West, with only […]

May 7, 2014 / 2 Comments
An Ocean atween Us by Angela Morrison

An Ocean atween Us by Angela Morrison

Historical. 254 pages. Print, e-Book. Will Glover, who spends his days picking in a 19th century, Scottish coal pit, realizes the girl who used to throw rocks at his back now frustrates him in a whole new way. Lucie, with her luxurious, rose-scented hair and penetrating green eyes, torments Will’s heart while they dance a reel to ring in the New Year. Will sees a […]

April 24, 2014 / 0 Comments
A Plentiful Rain by Elizabeth Petty Bentley

A Plentiful Rain by Elizabeth Petty Bentley

General. 285 pages. e-Book. When Ellis’s sister and widowed father both announce their engagements, Ellis decides it’s time he thought about marriage too. And when Cassandra—young, beautiful, smart, and as cynical as he is—pays attention to him, he’s tremendously flattered and becomes involved in the conversion process of Cassandra’s much older, not so beautiful, but far kinder sister, Hera. Ellis eventually becomes disenchanted with Cassandra […]

April 9, 2014 / 0 Comments