New Adult Fiction Books

A Confederate's tale of intrigue and adventure at Shiloh, the bloodiest fighting in Tennessee, in this second volume in The Civil War Battles Series. Cory Brannon joins the crew of the riverboat Missouri Zephyr and must choose sides when the boat's crew is swept into the fighting for control of the river, and after a brief period as a prisoner, Cory finds himself taking up arms again at the Battle of Shiloh.

"Since the death of his fiance´e, Nathaniel Colton's polished boots have rested beneath the beds of countless wayward wives and widows of the ton. He's careful to leave each lady smiling, and equally careful to guard his heart. So seducing Lady Georgette should pose no problem. But the beautiful reformist is no easy conquest, and Nate's considerable charm fails to entice Georgette to his bed. To woo her, Nate will have to make her believe he cares about someone besides himself--and no one is mor

Audrey Thomas can't forget the night of passion she shared with Lucas Slade, the man she's loved for years. But it seems the sexy, superrich rancher has no clue who warmed his bed! The mystery seductress at his Lake Tahoe retreat was Audrey? His best friend's off-limits kid sister? Now she's back at Sunset Ranch and having his baby! Honor bound to do the right thing, Lucas never reckons she'll say I won't to his proposal or that sh''ll settle for nothing less than all this cowboy has to give.

The saga of the Brannon family of Culpeper County, Virginia, concludes in this tenth volume of the Civil War Battle series with sons in every theater of the war.

Milwaukee homicide detective Ellie MacIntosh is called to an arson scene. She finds bewildered home owners, an unidentified corpse, and cryptic clues that lead nowhere. Is it a random killing? The ritualistic nature of the crime points to no, and Ellie fears that the already-oppressive summer is just starting to heat up. Ellie doesn't like her obnoxious new partner, Jason Santiago. That's fine with Jason--he doesn't like her either. When Ellie becomes convinced that their investigation is tied

With vampire blood being the only thing that can cure her ailing mother, nurse Edie Spence hopes to procure some at the clinic where she works, but vampire gangs, old enemies, her zombie ex-boyfriend and handsome--and enigmatic--doctor all make things difficult.

Fleeing London to the safety of America, Gwenyth Fairchild seeks safety in the household of the Lane family in Maryland, but her safety is suspect when she discovers the Lanes are involved in espionage.

A young woman races to save her kidnapped husband, a used bookstore owner deals with the loss of a son on an Afghan battlefield, a mother travels to Kabul to tend to her wounded son, and two Afghans reveal the complexity of their culture.

Concludes the story of Meredith and Luke Stoltzfus, an Amish couple who are faced with the greatest challenge of their young lives.

Ending their marriage after a revelation of infidelity, Abe and Cassandra evaluate the compromises, legacies, and losses of their relationship, from their first encounter at a San Francisco public health clinic through their daughter's acceptance into Harvard.

A recently separated woman faces her highway driving phobia and takes a road trip with her best friend to their high school reunion.

Two motherless sisters--Bean and Liz--are shuttled to Virginia, where their Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying mansion that's been in their family for generations. When school starts in the fall, Bean easily adjusts and makes friends, and Liz becomes increasingly withdrawn. Then something happens to Liz and Bean is left to challenge the injustice of the adult world.

"Aspen, Colorado, 1979. Twenty-one-year-old Lee Shelby robs the town's most notorious cocaine dealer, Tom Tucker, fleeing the scene with five kilos of Peruvian flake and $75,000. Shelby escapes to the sagebrush hills of southwestern Wyoming, hoping to disappear into the wilderness until after the furor dies down. Then he plans to return and wrest his old girlfriend, Laura, from Tucker's clutches. Shelby's half-baked scheme goes awry when a chance encounter with a teenage Bonnie and Clyde implica

"A highly anticipated debut novel from 5 Under 35 National Book Foundation honoree featuring a Korean War refugee who emigrates to Brazil to become a tailor's apprentice and confronts the wreckage of his past"--

"A gritty, psychological thriller that asks the question: How well can you know anyone? On a fateful summer morning in 1986, two eleven-year-old girls meet for the first time. By the end of the day, they will both be charged with murder. Twenty-five years later, journalist Kirsty Lindsay is reporting on a series of sickening attacks on young female tourists in a seaside vacation town when her investigation leads her to interview carnival cleaner Amber Gordon. For Kirsty and Amber, it's the first

"After a blighted childhood, young Laura finds peace and purpose in the home of a midwife and healer. Later, she enrolls in Salerno's famed medical school--the first in the world to admit women. Laura and her adoptive mother hope that Laura can build a bridge between women's herbal healing and the new science of medicine developing in thirteenth century Italy. The hardest lessons are those of love; Laura falls hard for a fellow student who abandons her for a wealthy wife. Worse, her mother reje

Two childhood friends reunite at a summer retreat, each harboring a horrible secret that would test the bounds of their longtime relationship if revealed.

Traces the efforts of BBC filmmaker Ray Bhullar and her colleagues to document life in an experimental open prison where convicted murderers share their lives in a humble village, a site that becomes subject to the dubious moral codes of its drama-seeking visitors.

After years of skirting New York tenancy laws, unemployed former lawyer Jack Gorse is evicted by the new owners of his Manhattan building and ends up at a Vermont Buddhist retreat. An attraction to another man destabilizes his precarious balance and culminates in unexpected violence.

When an accident leaves translator Hanne Schubert without the ability to speak her native language, she heads to Japan to fight demons from her past and her present after a Japanese novelist accuses her of sabotaging his work.

Con artist and "spiritualist" Daisy Gumm Majesty, a medium to the rich and famous, engages in a passionate battle of wits with Sam Rotondo, an infuriating detective who exposes her clever scam and blackmails her into spying on her wealthy employer, in a delightful romance sent in the 1920s.

When CEO Nathaniel West, a skilled dominant, is looking for a new submissive, Abby King agrees to play the part and although Abby finds fulfillment in her new experiences, she realizes that Nathaniel can only remain cold and distant.

" The six-book series about four generations of the Morgan family living, fighting, and thriving amidst a turbulent Texas history spanning from 1845 to 1896 begins with Lone Star Trail. Judson (Jud) Morgan's father died for Texas' freedom during the warfor independence. So when the Society for the Protection of German Immigrants in Texas (the Verein) attempts to colonize a New Germany in his country, he takes a stand against them. After Wande Fleischers' fiancee marries someone else, the youn

A stunning tour-de-force of six women and four men who moved through and survived the dizzying atmosphere of World War II.

Lady Mercy likes her life neat and tidy. But things start to get messy when her best friend abandons her fiance´ at the altar, leaving it up to Mercy to help the couple. There's just one problem. The jilted man is Rafe Hartley, Mercy's former husband. Rafe has not forgiven Mercy for deserting him when they were seventeen. Their hasty marriage was declared void by law, but in his eyes she's still his wife. And Mercy "Silky Drawers" Danforthe still owes him a wedding night.

"As an extremely wealthy laird, Gowan Stoughton, Duke of Kinross, can have any of the maidens at the ball he attends. The only problem is they are all English and Gowan is not so certain they are suitable. He is accustomed to the hard-working lasses from his Highlands, not these dainty noblewomen who spend their days drinking tea or some other such nonsense. But then he makes the acquaintance of Lady Edith Gilchrist. Utterly bewitched by the emerald-eyed beauty with lush golden locks, he knows h

"A weary soldier returns from the War Between the States to discover his parents dead, his family farm in shambles, and his fiance´e married."--P. [4] of cover.

Special Trials prosecutor Rachel Knight teams up with Detective Bailey Keller to investigate the death of a Hollywood director that has far-reaching ramifications throughout Tinseltown.

Attending a masked Halloween party as part of his investigation into Jack Reynolds's drug enterprise, Detective Archie Sheridan recognizes the handiwork of killer Gretchen Lowell when one of the guests is murdered, a situation that forces Archie to risk everything and reevaluate the people he most trusts.

Tells the story of orchestra conductor Rafael Gomez who, inspired by the playing of an aspiring violin virtuoso who suddenly refuses to play another note, will do anything he can to change that.

Down on her luck and pregnant, Abby Winston meets a man who's been in love with her for a long time, and who wants to help her--and her baby--without her knowing it.

After she inherits her childhood home, a magnificent chateau in Le Cote d'Azur, France, Emilie de la Martinieres realizes that it may hold secrets to her family's enigmatic past during World War II.

Madeleine, returning home from Swiss finishing school, falls for a milkman instead of the wealthy man her parents intend, and her choice leaves her friendless and homeless.

Katherine, Daniel, and Nathan evaluate their feelings about each other in a shared world marked by such eccentricities as a mysterious cattle epidemic, an unwanted pregnancy, and a bio-domed workplace housing a perfectly engineered cornfield.

"In a captivating departure from the Deep South setting of his previous fiction, Steve Yarbrough now gives us a richly nuanced portrait of a marriage being reinvented in a small town in the Northeast, in his most surprising and compelling novel yet. When Kristin Stevens loses her job in California's higher-education system, she and her husband, Cal, relocate to Massachusetts. Kristin takes a position at a smaller, less prestigious university and promptly becomes entangled in its delicate, overh

Escaping the busy confusion of his homeland and moving to an almost-uninhabited lake shore where he plans on living simply and raising a family, a man descends into rage, obsession, and an abstract sense of reality when his wife suffers multiple miscarriages.

Lapidus returns to the streets of Stockholm with an electrifying tale of seedy police officers and vicious underworld criminals. Mahmud, an iron-pumping gym fiend fresh out of jail, is heavily indebted to a Turkish drug lord. He accepts a job from the henchman of brutal mob boss Radovan--a job that quickly becomes something he wishes he'd never agreed to. Meanwhile, Niklas is living at home with his mother after working as a security contractor in Iraq. When a man is found murdered in the laundr

Berlin, 1948. Still occupied by the four Allied powers and largely in ruins, the city has become the cockpit of a new Cold War. The legacies of the war have become entangled in the new Soviet-American conflict, creating a world of bizarre and fleeting loyalties--a paradise for spies. Meanwhile, Berlin's German inhabitants live in fear of the Soviet forces who occupy half the city. John Russell works for both Stalin's NKVD and the newly created CIA, trying his best to cut himself loose from both

"Experience the sultry Southern atmosphere of Atlanta and the magic of the Carolina Lowcountry in this funny and poignant tale of one audacious woman's quest to find the love she deserves, from New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank. Leslie Anne Greene Carter is The Last Original Wife among her husband Wesley's wildly successful Atlanta social set. His cronies have all traded in the mothers of their children they promised to love and cherish--'til death did them part--for tanned

Harboring sympathy for helpless creatures, Margie falls in love with her charismatic but troubled Latin professor and joins a group of animal-rights activists whose activities force her to take refuge on the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana.

Jamie Swift's job running the local newspaper in Beaumont is complicated by the arrival of her silent partner, Maximillian Holt, who is in town supporting his brother-in-law, former wrestler Frankie Fontana, in his campaign for mayor.

Forced to move with her Japanese mother to an internment camp after her white father dies at Pearl Harbor, Satomi endures brutal conditions and disease while forging dubious relationships and coming to terms with her identity.

" The Jamieson Family Legacy series follows the lives of the two Jamieson brothers in Boston, Kidd and Ace and their cousin Cameron from St. Louis. While Kidd, the older brother, is struggling with anger and resentment issues toward his absentee father who never married his mother, but had the audacity to demand his illegitimate sons carry his last name Jamieson. Ace, on the other hand, is on his collision course to be a chip off the old block when it comes to women. Their highly educated MIT gr

Trapping Ace is the furthest thing from Taleigh's mind when she learns she is pregnant, but Ace's big brother and cousins won't let the child who represents the twelfth-generation descendant of a royal African tribe leave the fold.

"The most relentless, deeply disturbing thriller writer since Jeffery Deaver and Gillian Flynn For years, best friends Sarah and Jennifer kept what they called the "Never List": a list of actions to be avoided, for safety's sake, at all costs. But one night, against their best instincts, they accept a cab ride with grave, everlasting consequences. For the next three years, they are held captive with two other girls in a dungeon-like cellar by a connoisseur of sadism. Ten years later, at thi

"Four women navigate twists and turns in Manhattan"--

"Willful, outspoken, and precariously naive, thirteen-year-old AnnMarie Walker dreams of a world beyond Far Rockaway, where the sway of the neighborhood keeps her tied to old ideas about success. Then one day, while attending a high school for pregnant girls, she comes across a flyer advertising movie auditions in Manhattan for an independent film. Astonishingly, improbably, and four months before she's due to give birth--she lands a lead role. For a time, AnnMarie soars, acting for the camera,

Alternating between two different possibilities, Lisa, a waitress, an aspiring singer-songwriter, and girlfriend to a Latin musician, makes a decision in 1982 and gets a second chance to make a different decision in the new 1982.

Just when it seems that international crook Nicolas Fox has been captured for good, he pulls off his greatest con of all: he convinces the FBI to offer him a job, working side by side with Special Agent Kate O'Hare. Problem is, teaming up to stop a corrupt investment banker who's hiding on a private island in Indonesia is going to test O'Hare's patience and Fox's skill -- if the two don't kill each other first.

Maureen Flynn goes on a quest for vengeance when long-suppressed memories resurface, at the same time Detective Inspector Ruth Morgan and her team are trying to solve a string of brutal murders in their quiet little town.

Moving to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career, Midwestern girl Callie Lambert endures a grueling schedule of waitressing and auditions before landing a role that she hopes will be a big break.

Sent to a home for chronic offenders, fifteen-year-old foster child Anais considers her bleak life in the hands of untrustworthy adults before discovering herself within an ad hoc family that helps her take first steps toward personal strength.

Trying to please her father, Julia Howard marries wealthy businessman Latham Miller and soon finds herself being controlled by her possessive husband, a situation that is further complicated when she give birth to a son and becomes reacquainted with war hero Martin Lee-Trafford.

Holly Fisher finally meets the Amish family her mother had kept hidden from her. Zach, a handsome Mennonite veterinarian proposes marriage but her mother and Amish grandmother think she's rushing into a commitment. Then she meets a charming Amish man and an old suitor shows up, as do a myriad of doubts.

"Nearly a year after leaving her successful but unsatisfying high-tech life, Annie Friesen wonders if she can truly succeed at being Amish. A lucrative job offer, a red dress, and the shadow of an Amish woman looking for a husband create a vortex that clouds Annie's choice. Her parents seem determined to sabotage her efforts, and Rufus Beiler, the Amish carpenter who captured her heart, leaves room for doubt about their future. When an explosion brings Annie under suspicion, she wrestles with ho

"One morning before school, two children find the naked bodies of five men hanging from the gym ceiling. The case leads detective Konrad Simonsen and his murder squad to the school janitor, who may know more about the killings than he is telling. Soon, Simonsen realizes that each of the five murdered men had a dark and terrible secret in common. And when Simonsen's own daughter is targeted, he must race to find the culprit before his whole world is destroyed."--Provided by publisher.

Quentin Compson gradually learns about a secret from the past that threatens to destroy the Sutpen family

Cursed with longevity and an immunity to the cold, a lovelorn eighteenth-century Russian noble traverses two hundred years of history and three continents while investigating the truth about his strange physiology.

When middle-aged executive Matthew finds his job, marriage, and well-being on a downward spiral, he embarks on a vision quest that has him participating in drug-running, mug-making, and extreme RVing across the globe in search of answers.

When Hannah Marsh meets businessman Win Harling, she struggles with what she needs and the centuries long feud between their families.

"When Elisha's bones resurface, archaeologist Jack Hawthorne knows what has to be done. But can he destroy the only thing that could heal his son?"--

After being kidnapped by the Commanches as a child, Billie Morgan escapes and is found by Ned Bright, a mail company driver, who brings her to an Ursuline convent, but after the Commanches come to recapture her, Ned and the sisters try to save her.

In Africa serving as an aid worker, American teacher Hickey is asked to save Ruth, a nurse, when tribal warfare erupts in Southern Sudan, but they and the children who have joined their flight get caught in the crossfire.

Explores the human cost of China's one-child policy in the story of rural family on the run from the state, describing their decision to conceive a second child before becoming subject to cruel government practices of forced abortion and sterilization.

Lawyer and ex-convict Landon Reed, desperate to prove his worth, takes a high-profile murder case, but when his boss and other lawyers in the firm are murdered, Landon must find the killer before he become the next target.

When her beloved Navy SEAL son goes missing during a mission in May 2011, single mother Sara unsuccessfully taps her Washington policymaker contacts for information and traces her son's emerging leadership as documented in letters back home.

In four romance novellas, a Victorian widow auctions herself off, a naturalist explores her own wild side during a jungle expedition, a vampire encounters the one man who can save her, and a young woman heads for an all-male school to the man of her dreams.

Tells the story of a detective who sees in a racially motivated murder case the chance to win a promotion

Born into first-century slavery under an abusive owner, twins Romulus and Fabiola are respectively sold into gladiator school and prostitution at the age of thirteen, a situation that separates them from their beloved mother.

When the rich, aristocratic Fairbairn family falls victim to a curse, the surviving members try to carve out happy, successful lives.

Noa P. Singleton sits on death row in a maximum security penitentiary, just six months away from her execution date. She is visited by a high-powered Philadelphia attorney who is a heartbroken mother of the victim and now wants to see the death penalty delayed--if only Noa reveals her motive.

When the shining star of the girls' softball team shoots and kills the most popular boy in school, Dolly, friend to the local teenage girls, asks her husband Dell to uncover the true motive behind the inexplicable crime.

Andrew Yancy, late of the Miami Police, soon-to-be-late of the Key West Police, has a human arm in his freezer. There is a logical explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he can prove murder, his commander might relieve him of Health Inspector duties, aka Roach Patrol. But first Yancy will negotiate an ever-surprising course of events, from the Keys to Miami to a Bahamian out isl

"Contemporary Chicago forensic scientist Sean McKinney tracks a serial killer who is targeting senior citizens associated with the 1930s era Barker-Karpis gang. Interwoven with his story is that of Delroy, a Kentucky farmer who comes to Chicago in the 1930s and reluctantly becomes aligned with the gang"--Provided by publisher.

Psychiatrist Nadine Lavoie has a true desire to help people put their demons at rest. But she has demons of her own, some she can barely think about and some she can't even remember. In the lockdown ward of a psychiatric hospital, she is in her element. She has the tools to help people, and she has the desire--healing broken families is what she lives for. But Nadine doesn't want to look too closely at her own past, because there are whole chunks of her life that are black holes. It takes all he