Title: NYXIA UNLEASHED (The Nyxia Triad #2) Author: Scott Reintgen Pub. Date: July 17, 2018 Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers Formats: Hardcover, eBook, audiobook Pages: 400 Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Audible, B&N, iBooks, TBD Getting to Eden brought Emmett and his crewmates one step closer to their promised fortune. But surviving Eden may be the biggest reward of all. Discover book two in the trilogy Marie Lu called, “a high-octane thriller.” Emmett Atwater thought B

A group of woman from the same neighborhood spend the evening around a bonfire, drinking and telling stories, the perfect evening. In the morning though one of them, Kristen, has vanished without a trace, along with her two twin children. What follows is a character driven story about the woman who inhabit the neighborhood and how their lives form around the tragedy. There’s Clara, who seems to stick her nose right into the middle of the investigation and Izzy, who is dealing

The View from Rainshadow Bay was an implausible tale with bits of great story telling sprinkled within. It’s the story of a recently widowed woman who gets dragged into a mystery with multiple deaths and a scary killer after her. There are deep buried secrets to be uncovered and a romance quickly building. I was drawn to the main character, Shauna, for several reasons. I admired her strength to move on after her husbands death and I liked how fiercely she loved her son, thoug

Title: The Wolves of Winter Author: Tyrell Johnson Release Date: 1/2/18 Rating: 4/5 Stars Synopsis from Goodreads: Forget the old days. Forget summer. Forget warmth. Forget anything that doesn’t help you survive. Lynn McBride has learned much since society collapsed in the face of nuclear war and the relentless spread of disease. As memories of her old life haunt her, she has been forced to forge ahead in the snow-covered Canadian Yukon, learning how to hunt and trap to su

Title: Olivia Twist Author: Lorie Langdon Release Date: March 6, 2017 Rating: 4.5/5 Stars Synopsis from Goodreads: Olivia Brownlow is no damsel in distress. Born in a workhouse and raised as a boy among thieving London street gangs, she is as tough and cunning as they come. When she is taken in by her uncle after a caper gone wrong, her life goes from fighting and stealing on the streets to lavish dinners and soirees as a debutante in high society. But she can’t seem to esca

Title: A Mortal Likeness Series: Victorian Mystery #2 Author: Laura Joh Rowland Release Date: 1/9/2018 Rating: 4/5 Stars Synopsis from Goodreads: A photographer in Whitechapel, London, Sarah Bain is also a private detective—skilled at capturing others’ dark secrets, and expert at keeping her own. When a wealthy banker, Sir Gerald Mariner, posts a handsome reward for finding his missing infant, all of London joins in, hoping to win that money for themselves. Usually discourag

Title: Wintersong Series: Wintersong #1 Author: S. Jae-Jones Release Date: 2/7/17 Rating: 4/5 Stars Synopsis from Goodreads: Beware the goblin men and the wares they sell. All her life, nineteen-year-old Liesl has heard tales of the beautiful, mysterious Goblin King. He is the Lord of Mischief, the Ruler Underground, and the muse around which her music is composed. Yet, as Liesl helps shoulder the burden of running her family’s inn, her dreams of composition and childish f

Title: The Vanishing Season Author: Joanna Schaffhausen Release Date: December 5th, 2017 Rating: 3.5/5 Stars Synopsis from Goodreads: Ellery Hathaway knows a thing or two about serial killers, but not through her police training. She's an officer in sleepy Woodbury, MA, where a bicycle theft still makes the newspapers. No one there knows she was once victim number seventeen in the grisly story of serial killer Francis Michael Coben. The only victim who lived. When three p

Title: Army Wife Author: Vicki Cody Release Date: August 16, 2016 Rating: 4/5 Stars Synopsis from Goodreads: From the last days of the Vietnam War to the present-day war on terrorism, this story is a moving and poignant tribute to love, marriage, family, and the men and women who serve this nation. In describing her thirty-three-year journey as an Army wife, Cody gives an in-depth look at what it takes to keep a marriage strong, raise a family--oftentimes as a single parent-

Title: The House on Foster Hill Author: Jaime Jo Wright Release Date: December 5, 2017 Rating: 3.5/5 Stars Synopsis from Goodreads: Kaine Prescott is no stranger to death. When her husband died two years ago, her pleas for further investigation into his suspicious death fell on deaf ears. In desperate need of a fresh start, Kaine purchases an old house sight unseen in her grandfather's Wisconsin hometown. But one look at the eerie, abandoned house immediately leaves her ques