novels

"When disaster strikes and chef Bryce Weatherford is given guardianship of her three young nieces, her life goes from cooking with fire . . . to controlling a dumpster fire. . . . With all this chaos, Bryce jettisons hope for a life outside of managing her family and her new job. It's been years since Ryker Matthews had his below the knee amputation, yet the phantom pain for his lost limb and Marine career haunts him. . . . He knows he's lucky to be alive. Yet, 'lucky' feels more like 'cursed' to his lonely heart. When Ryker literally sweeps Bryce off her feet in the grocery store's baby aisle, they both feel sparks. But falling in love would be one more curveball neither is ready to deal with . . . or is it exactly the change of plans they need?"--Provided by publisher.

"Sadie Grace is wanted for witchcraft, dead (or alive). And every hired gun in Kansas is out to collect the bounty on her head, including bona fide witch hunter Old Tom and his mysterious, mute ward, Rabbit. On the road to Burden County, they're joined by two vagabond cowboys with a strong sense of adventure--but no sense of purpose--and a recently widowed school teacher with nothing left to lose. As their posse grows, so too does the danger. Racing along the drought-stricken plains in a stolen red stagecoach, they encounter monsters more wicked than witches lurking along the dusty trail. But the crew is determined to get that bounty, or die trying"--From the publisher's web site.

"Viv's career with the notorious mercenary company Rackam's Ravens isn't going as planned. Wounded during the hunt for a powerful necromancer, she's packed off against her will to recuperate in the sleepy beach town of Murk--so far from the action that she worries she'll never be able to return to it. What's a thwarted soldier of fortune to do? Spending her hours at a beleaguered bookshop in the company of its foul-mouthed proprietor is the last thing Viv would have predicted, but it may be both exactly what she needs and the seed of changes she couldn't possibly imagine. Still, adventure isn't all that far away. A suspicious traveler in gray, a gnome with a chip on her shoulder, a summer fling, and an improbable number of skeletons prove Murk to be more eventful than Viv could have ever expected. "Take a break from epic battles and saving the world."--.

Eleven-year-old Juniper sets out on a wild adventure to find her mother and protect a public park just days before Christmas.

Twelve-year-old Halle Thompson dreams of starring in a horror movie someday, so she can't believe her luck when she gets a chance to visit Price Manor, the home of her favorite director Maximus Price. Soon after she arrives, Halle discovers creepy, squid-like creatures have attached themselves to the faces of the manor's staff, putting them in a zombie-like stupor, and although Paisley and Argyle, Maximus's twin children, think it's just another of father's pranks, Halle realizes there's something more sinister going on. The three kids team up to stop these monsters and possibly save the world before it's too late.

In their final task, junior con artist Callan and his friends mastermind a prison break from the empire's most impenetrable island fortress.

When lonely twelve-year-old Ben is mistaken for a long-awaited hero, he finds himself sucked into a fantasy-world quest that turns out to be more complicated than he imagined.

Beatrice Fletcher, great-grandniece of famous mystery writer Jessica Fletcher, is obsessed with the unsolved mysteries and murders of Cabot Cove, Maine, but this time the case becomes personal when her best friend Jackson disappears and she must rely on the help of three students from the elite Broadmoor Academy to find him.

Butternut, a young rabbit who loves stories, makes friends among the other animals and birds of Milkweed Meadow, and convinces them to help her rescue a litter of orphaned coyote pups.

"In this second book in the semi-autobiographical middle grade series from MLB pitcher Marcus Stroman, young Marcus continues to learn hard lessons on and off the baseball field"--Provided by the publisher.