2012 Releases – Page 3 – LDS Publisher

Regally Blonde by Heather Horrocks

Former beauty queen Jamie Summers has more problems than just world peace to worry about.

When Jamie returns to her hometown of Aspen Grove, her mother’s Chick Flick Clique friends are exceedingly curious about the state of her relationship with long-time boyfriend Christopher Ellington.

Jamie is curious, herself. When Christopher proposes for the third time, she hesitantly accepts. Since he immediately leaves for an extended overseas business trip, she’s relieved to have some time to get used to the idea, placing the ring safely beside her tiara and not mentioning it to anyone.

New neighbor David Stevens has good reason to avoid beautiful women, but when his three-year-old daughter Sunny sees Jamie, she’s convinced she’s her mommy. He begins to learn more about her, he realizes she’s not like his ex-wife, and he’s glad she’s not wearing any man’s ring.

How did life get so complicated so quickly? Jamie’s gone from Miss California to Miss America to Big Mistake. Is she about to lose everyone she’s come to care about?

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Title: Regally Blonde

Author: Heather Horrocks

Publisher: Word Garden Press

Release Date: May 29, 2012

ISBN: X

Size: 270 pages, ebook (print version coming soon)

Genre: Romantic Comedy

Journey to the Fringe by Kelli Swofford Nielsen

Long ago, Stone Mages were revered in Lyria. They were men and women who could use powerful tradestones to harness their unique gifts of wind, rain, and earth to help those around them. But war with the Southern realm has threatened the mages with extinction. The truth about the tradestones has been lost, and the remaining magic is dwindling.

When Princess Ivy, the beloved daughter of the king, is abducted, it seems that all hope for Lyria is lost as well. But when an unlikely group of loyal subjects embarks on a dangerous journey to the far-distant Fringe, the hope of restoring crown and kingdom is renewed. Among the group is Simon, a fool with wisdom beyond his years; Gilda, a nonmagical witch; Burr, a young thief; and Merrick, a jaded sea captain. Their quest will test their courage, their strength, and their friendship.

But at the Fringe, they encounter a truth that will change everything they thought they knew about themselves, and this small band of heroes must embrace the power that is their birthright and stand together as Stone Mages of Lyria.

Title: Journey to the Fringe (The Stone Mage Wars, #1)

Author: Kelli Swofford Nielsen

Publisher: Shadow Mountain

Release Date: May 1, 2012

ISBN: 978-1609088330

Size: 368 pages, 6×9, hardcover

Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy

The Anniversary Waltz by Darrel Nelson

At their sixtieth anniversary party, Adam Carlson asks his wife, Elizabeth, for their customary waltz. After the dance they gather the family and share their story—a story of love and courage overcoming adversity and thriving in the face of overwhelming odds.

It’s the summer of 1946, and Adam has just returned from the war to his home in Reunion, Montana. At a town festival he meets Elizabeth Baxter, a young woman going steady with his former high school rival and now influential banker, Nathan Roberts.

When Adam and Elizabeth share a waltz in a deserted pavilion one evening, their feelings begin to grow and they embark on a journey, and a dance, that will last a lifetime.

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Title: The Anniversary Waltz

Author: Darrel Nelson

Publisher: Realms

Release Date: May 15, 2012

ISBN: 978-1616387150

Size: 304 pages, 5.5 x 8, softcover

Genre: General

Eyes of Light by Charissa Stastny

Suvi Goldstein seems like she has it all, yet buried secrets bind her to misery. Emotionally scarred and wounded as a child, she has fled her past into a life of sensual pleasures. Craving light she perceives in a few, yet feeling unworthy of goodness and love, she fights a battle between darkness and light to discover the divine within herself.

Austan Sandoval is the master of disguise and transformation. After successfully stealing 20 million dollars from Carlos Camacho’s drug cartel, he discovers the whereabouts of Suvi Goldstein, the daughter of a capable Israeli Mossad agent, and determines to win her trust and recruit her to his team. In the process though, he inadvertently falls in love, placing her life in great peril.

James Hinton, a missionary in Guatemala, serves the Lord and sacrifices all in His behalf to bring light to others.

In Eyes of Light, these three characters are tossed by the whirlwinds of life to meet in dramatic ways. Danger, love, heartache, sin and the cleansing power of Christ’s atonement combine in a battle for these souls in a contemporary fairy tale that will capture your heart.

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Title: Eyes of Light

Author: Charissa Stastny

Publisher: Self

Release Date: May 9, 2012

ISBN: 978-1475008074

Size: 348 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Immortals and Melodies by Heather Jensen

“I found myself wishing for the power and whimsy of fairy tales. If only things were as simple as we’re led to believe as children. I remembered the story of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty. Both were saved by the power of a kiss, drawn out of their lifeless state to live happily ever after. Desperately, I bent and left a soft kiss on Trey’s lips. It was foolish. I knew that, but even that knowledge couldn’t prepare me for the agony that ripped at my heart when he didn’t respond.” -Aurora

Catalyst frontman Trey is no stranger to chaos, but even the life of a rock star couldn’t prepare him for the consequences of loving a vampire. Trey’s life is in danger; threatened by the very group he must join to stay alive. His struggle to continue his career and release a new album with the band is marred by events that force him to ask a powerful Synod Elder for help.

Aurora has to keep Trey alive until she can make him a vampire, but her own kind will stop at nothing to prevent it. The head of the Emissary is having her followed, and if she can’t figure out who is behind the violent attacks, Trey might not make it to the full moon. As Aurora battles her own kind, she’s also plagued by the risk she’s taking by changing Trey. Will her moon-given power be enough to carry Trey through the change, or will he be left floating in the wake of destruction?

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Title: Immortals and Melodies (book 2)

Author: Heather Jensen

Publisher: Self

Release Date: May 25, 2012

ASIN: B0086GMMAQ

Size: 264 pages, ebook

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Series: Blood and Guitars (bk 1)

Mists of Darkness by M.J. Evans

Having braved the evil powers in the Dark Kingdom and rescued a lost soul in Behind the Mist, the first book of the Mist Trilogy, Nick and Jazz proved themselves worthy to become members of the Legion of the Unicorn. In a ceremony passed down through the ages, Jazz is endowed with a glowing, amber-colored unicorn horn and a new name: Lazari. Nick becomes his partner as the first-ever unicorn rider.

However, the celebration is short lived as word reaches Celestia of an ominous, dark mist that descended upon Churchill Downs in Kentucky. When the mist dissipated, several horses had vanished.

The unicorns knew immediately that this was the work of the ruler of the Dark Kingdom, Hasbadana. This wicked unicorn’s desire is to conquer the earth and rule everything on it, including mankind, with an iron hoof.

Again and again, the mist of darkness descends at horse venues around the world. Horses, of all types, breeds, and sizes, disappear in its oppressive gloom. Urijah, the Lord of Celestia, and his Council of the Twelve Ancients watch helplessly, never knowing where it will strike next. Hasbadana’s mist of darkness comes down upon horse shows, herds of wild mustangs, polo matches and rodeos, anywhere there are numerous horses. And when the mist is gone, so are the horses.

Deep in the Black Hills of South Dakota, Hasbadana begins training his army of horses, controlling them through fear and intimidation. The lord of the Dark Kingdom drills his army relentlessly as he strives to prepare them to conquer the earth, one barn at a time, one house at a time, one town at a time.

Will the Legion of the Unicorn be able to stop him?

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Title: Mists of Darkness

Author: M.J. Evans

Publisher: Self

Release Date: May 18, 2012

ASIN: B0084P7KJC

Size: 171 pages, ebook

Genre: Young Adult Fantasy

Series: Behind the Mist (bk 1)

The Duke’s Undoing by G.G. Vandagriff

Meet the Duke of Ruisdell, the unlikely hero of this traditional Regency Romance, after the manner of Georgette Heyer and Candice Hern. The duke has just returned wounded from the Napoleonic wars. He is weary, cynical, and very bored. Known as the worst rake in England, he finds he has no interest in upholding that distinction, when his friend, the Marquis of Somerset, proposes a bet: “Five thousand guineas says that seducing Miss Elise Edwards will cure your ennui.” Because his friend has just lost a packet to him, he agrees that the bet be posted in White’s famous Betting Book.

The following day, while walking in Green Park, he spies a mysterious young woman, veiled, and obviously grieving. A disembodied voice, sounding strangely like that of his late adjutant, informs him, “The jig is up. That is the girl you are going to marry!” He scoffs, but is nevertheless intrigued by something about the slight figure. He even sketches her and asks if he can be of assistance to her. She declines his offer kindly.

At the opera that evening, he is captivated by a beauty across the Opera Hall. He hears the same voice, saying the same thing. The marquis informs him that the woman in question is Miss Elise Edwards. When he meets her, he recognizes her voice as that of the woman in the park. Now she is surrounded by a surfeit of ex-fiance’s, one of them dangerously unbalanced. Ruisdell discovers an actual bond between them which renders him honor bound to protect her.

Thus begins a train of unstoppable events—dangerous, humorous, devilish, and amorous—that carry his life along at such a pace that the duke soon knows not whether he is on his head or his heels. And then there is that bet . . .

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Title: The Duke’s Undoing

Author: G.G. Vandagriff

Publisher: Orson Whitney Press

Release Date: April 20, 2012

ISBN: 978-0983953678

Size: 200 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Historical Romance

The Rock of Ivanore by Laurisa White Reyes

The annual Great Quest is about to be announced in Quendel, a task that will determine the future of Marcus and the other boys from the village who are coming of age. The wizard Zyll commands them to find the Rock of Ivanore, but he doesn’t tell them what the Rock is exactly or where it can be found.

Marcus must reach deep within himself to develop new powers of magic and find the strength to survive the wild lands and fierce enemies he encounters as he searches for the illusive Rock. If he succeeds, he will live a life of honor; if he fails, he will live a life of menial labor in shame.

With more twists and turns than a labyrinth, and a story in which nothing is at it seems, this tale of deception and discovery keeps readers in suspense until the end.

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Title: The Rock of Ivanore

Author: Laurisa White Reyes

Publisher: Tanglewood Press

Release Date: May 15, 2012

ISBN: 978-1933718606

Size: 356 pages, hardcover

Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy

The Breakaway by Michelle Davidson Argyle

When Naomi Jensen is kidnapped, it takes her parents two days to realize she’s missing. Escape isn’t high on her list of priorities when all she has to return to is an abusive boyfriend and parents who never paid much attention to her. For the first time in her life she’s part of a family-even if it is a family of criminals. But she’s still a captive.

In a desperate attempt to regain some control in her life, Naomi embarks on a dangerous plan to make one of her kidnappers think she’s falling in love with him. The plan works too well, and when faced with the chance to escape, Naomi isn’t sure she wants to take it.

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Title: The Breakaway

Author: Michelle Davidson Argyle

Publisher: Rhemalda Publishing

Release Date: May 1, 2012

ISBN: 978-1936850617

Size: 320 pages, 5×8, softcover

Genre: YA Contemporary

Angels and Promises of Silver Falls by Rebecca Woods

“So, now that I’m ‘yours’,” she ventured once again, “do you suppose we’ll ever have more of a family than just us?”

Nathan was quiet for some time. “Four years? I don’t know. It is in God’s hands, Hannah, and if he chooses to bless us that way we will count ourselves fortunate.”

When Hannah married her sweetheart, she thought all her dreams were finally coming true. But the family she longs for still hasn’t arrived. Now more than ever she’ll have to trust that God has a plan for her.

Meanwhile there are big changes coming to the folks of Silver Falls. Some of them are exciting and others might best be called blessings in disguise—deep in disguise.

Catch up with all your favorite characters in the second installment of this beloved series. With a sweet story that evokes the romance of a forgotten era, Angels and Promises of Silver Falls is a taste of small town life that’s sure to bring a smile to any reader.

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Title: Angels and Promises of Silver Falls (book 2)

Author: Rebecca Woods

Publisher: Sweetwater (CFI)

Release Date: May 8, 2012 (previously published)

ISBN: 978-1599559971

Size: 208 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Young Adult

Series: Hannah of Silver Falls (bk 1)

The Housekeeper’s Son by Christopher Loke

72-year-old housekeeper, Eleanor Rose, is witty, gentle, and a remarkable cook. To the people of Amalga, Utah, she’s a petite old lady who wouldn’t hurt a fly. And to her employer, she is the perfect housekeeper—at least until she is found with a bloody knife in her hand beside the dead body of Katherine Cunningham, her employer’s 12-year-old daughter.

Eleanor quickly admits to the crime and surrenders herself, pleading guilty before her trial even begins. But to Victor Lee, a young and ambitious journalist who is assigned to cover the story, there is more to Eleanor’s confession.

Through his interviews with Eleanor within the confines of the penitentiary’s visiting hall, Victor pushes for the truth and finds himself drawn into her world where the line between right and wrong is blur—nothing is what it seems. What he discovers is a secret that, if revealed, will not only explain Katherine’s death, it will also challenge the moral obligation of every mother to her child. It is a secret that started forty-two years ago on the night Eleanor took the life of her only son.

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Title: The Housekeeper’s Son

Author: Christopher Loke

Publisher: Jolly Fish Press

Release Date: May 19, 2012

ISBN: 978-0984880102

Size: 282 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, hardcover

Genre: General? Mystery?

The Overtaking by Victorine E. Lieske

Shayne Barlet has been kidnapped, his powers disabled and his memory altered. He’s having a bad day—and he doesn’t even know it.

Shayne believes he’s living the ideal life. He attends a great school in the Midwest, gets along with his roommate, and has even met a girl who seems perfect for him. But it’s all a lie. His girlfriend is deceiving him, his roommate is in on it, and perhaps most unbelievably of all: he’s not from Earth. He’s not even human—and neither are they.

As he discovers his own buried psychic abilities, Shayne realizes the only truth he’s been told is perhaps the most improbable one: his girlfriend, a member of the invasion force, seems to truly love him, even though her actions are rife with deceit. Shayne soon uncovers a vast conspiracy involving planetary conquest, erased memories, holographic worlds, and dark agendas. He vows to expose the truth, set his people free, and stop The Overtaking—once, and for all.

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Title: The Overtaking

Author: Victorine E. Lieske

Publisher: Self

Release Date: April 2, 2012

ISBN: 978-1461189459

Size: 288 pages, 5×8, softcover

Genre: YA Sci-Fi

*This may have been previously published and therefore not eligible for a Whitney Award. Amazon says 2012; GoodReads says 2011. ??

Cold Justice by Kathi Oram Peterson

After overcoming missed connections, murder accusations, and years of living lives apart, Regi and Samuel’s happily ever after is finally within reach. On the eve of their wedding, however, Samuel disappears, and Regi wonders if he has once again run away from both a life with her and a membership in the Church.

Quite the opposite; Samuel has been kidnapped by the Raven Clan, a powerful Alaskan tribe, and is enroute to stand trial in front of their justice council for a puzzling crime that happened years ago.

When Regi and Samuel’s close friends suspect a kidnapping, Regi—with the help of her sister, Claudia, and friend Wakanda—resolves to follow Samuel to Alaska but soon learns secrets about her fiancé she hadn’t bargained for.

While Samuel struggles with his faith and with understanding why he has been accused, Regi risks life and love to set him free.

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Title: Cold Justice

Author: Kathi Oram Peterson

Publisher: Covenant

Release Date: May 2012

ISBN: 978-1621080466

Size: 272 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Two Days of a Dream by Kathryn Gilmore

Kelly Goins’ life didn’t match her four-point plan.

1. College at eighteen
2. Career at twenty-two
3. Marriage at twenty-four
4. Kids at twenty-six

Everything in its right order. Except, for Kelly, life didn’t follow the order after step two. After a hard day of corporate climbing in Lincoln, Nebraska, Kelly slips into a vintage nightgown and goes to sleep. The next thing she knows she’s in a dream … maybe.

The frustrating, stone-cold Captain Duran maybe just what she’s not looking for, but what she needs. She knows it’s only her subconscious creating the commanding and handsome man who orders his way into her heart so she dreads when her alarm clock will wrench her from her heart’s desire.

In Iraq, Duran had come to grips with the fact that he would be alone for the rest of his military career, but Kelly turns his orderly life upside down when she appears in his tent. The woman is more than interesting, but is also crazy. He doesn’t want to like the hard-nosed woman that keeps popping up in his cot, but maybe he’s crazy too.

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Title: Two Days of a Dream

Author: Kathryn Gilmore

Publisher: Sanguine Publishing

Release Date: May 5, 2012

ISBN: 978-0982412657

Size: 203 pages, eBook

Genre: Romantic Fantasy

Switchback by Clair M. Poulson

With warm sand between his toes, private investigator Rocky Revada is finally taking a well-deserved vacation. But the emotional pleas of a pretty woman have somehow lodged inside the usually practical investigator’s head. As he mulls it over, probing the theft of an expensive roping horse seems much more interesting than the mundane pleasures of sun, surf, and dinners alone.

However, when Rocky arrives at Glenn Gridley’s northern Utah ranch, he unearths far more trouble than he bargained for. Multiple horses have been stolen from the cantankerous rancher and have been mysteriously replaced with worthless look-alikes. Then Gridley’s attractive and persuasive daughter, Shanice, finds someone from her past on the family property, very much dead.

What started as a simple investigation of theft has escalated into a murder investigation, and as Rocky edges closer to the truth, he is targeted as the next victim. Tensions peak, and Rocky realizes he must shield Shanice and her daughter from an unknown enemy. It seems someone wants to destroy the entire Gridley family.

Now Rocky must summon every bit of his faith and courage to protect the woman he has come to love as he is tested in the fires of his most dangerous case to date.

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Title: Switchback

Author: Clair M. Poulson

Publisher: Covenant

Release Date: May 2012

ISBN: 978-1608618903

Size: 304 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Mystery/Suspense

Aligned by RaShelle Workman

An Immortal Essence short story.

Worlds divided them.

Chance brought them together.

Only love can save them.

A half-Eternal boy and an Eternal girl must free millions of tortured souls from a creature who has been feasting on their pain and suffering.

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Title: Aligned (short story)

Author: RaShelle Workman

Publisher: Polished Pen Press

Release Date: May 6, 2012

ASIN: B008198CIY

Size: 32 pages, ebook

Genre: YA Sci-fi Romance

Immortal Essence Series: Exiled (book 1), Beguiled (book 2)

Caution: This book may contain objectionable language. Author says PG-13.

Earthbound by Theresa Sneed

Heaven—a perfect place, beautiful and serene in every way, except one. As the time draws near for the first of the spirits to leave their home in heaven, a group of rebellious dissenters begins to appear at every blue-planet planning meeting, demanding that all spirits are ruled by compulsory choice as mortals on the planet, instead of having the freedom to choose for themselves.

Daniel is a courageous Freedom Fighter, who vehemently opposes the No Choice movement. Sophie is taken aback by his strong desire to do what’s right and his intense blue eyes. But she also has a strange attraction to the handsome and ostentatious Coe, a leader of the No Choice movement, who has his sights on her and will stop at nothing to claim her as his own.

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Title: Earthbound (prequel to No Angel)

Author: Theresa Sneed

Publisher: Walnut Springs Press

Release Date: May 1, 2012

ISBN: 978-1599928548

Size: 254 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Paranormal Romance

No Angel Series: No Angel (bk 1)

Homecoming by Heather Justesen

Alanna’s biggest secret is about to unravel when her lost love finally comes home.

Alanna is surprised by the return of her step-brother and former lover, Kyle, when he shows up to work at the newspaper she writes for as the new head photographer.

Unbeknownst to him, they have a daughter from the night before they last saw each other eight years previous.

Can they forgive each other and rekindle the trust and love they once shared?

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Title: Homecoming

Author: Heather Justesen

Publisher: BigWorldNetwork.com

Release Date: May 4, 2012

ISBN: 978-0615638768

Size: 118 pages, 5×8, softcover

Genre: Romance

Soulfire by Betsy Love

Will God hear Zephenia’s prayers?

It is 148 BC, and the city of Nephi is ruled by the wicked King Noah and his corrupt priests. Zephenia’s father has turned to his drink after the death of her mother, and her younger sister Sari dreams of living in the king’s palace. When the family’s hut is destroyed and the sisters are unjustly imprisoned, Zephenia wonders if God has forgotten her. If they survive their tribulations, whom will her father choose as her husband? The only unmarried believer she knows is Gideon, and he is smitten with Sari.

Zephenia’s thoughts keep drifting to Alma, the handsome high priest she met while gathering herbs in the jungle. She senses a goodness about him, yet because he is a priest in Noah’s court, she knows he couldn’t possibly be a righteous man. But when the prophet Abinadi is martyred and Zephenia must decide between her faith and her family, she learns of a mighty change that has happened in Alma’s heart.

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Title: Soulfire

Author: Betsy Love

Publisher: Walnut Springs

Release Date: May, 2012

ISBN: 978-1599928524

Size: 306 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Historical Romance

Four Times the Trouble by Tara Taylor Quinn

Girl trouble. Jacob’s seven-year-old triplets are a handful. Allie is organizing her teacher to death. Jessie is crying in class. Meggie is becoming almost reclusive. Jacob is told what the triplets need is a woman in their lives. But the last thing Jacob needs is to exchange girl trouble for…

Woman trouble. Jacob’s gone that route before. All it did was get his daughters’ hopes up—his hopes up—only to end in disappointment. Maybe the answer is to enlist the help of a friend, someone like his partner, Michelle.…

Big trouble. Unfortunately, what Jacob begins to feel for Michelle is more than just friendship. And while Michelle’s willing to be a surrogate mother to Jacob’s children, it’s going to take a lot of convincing for her to consider the idea of being a wife to him.

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Title: Four Times the Trouble

Author: Tara Taylor Quinn

Publisher: Harlequin Special Releases

Release Date: May 1, 2012

ASIN: B007BBV7LM

Size: 173 pages, ebook

Genre: Romance

Becoming Bayley by Susan Auten

Bayley Albrecht’s dream is to play soccer on BYU’s South Field. When she is invited to soccer camp the summer before her senior year in high school, she just knows she’s one step closer to her dream. Things get even better when she meets Matt Macauley, the star of the men’s soccer team. When they decide to write each other while Matt is on his mission, Bayley figures her life can’t get any better. But it certainly can get worse . . .

After she receives a minor concussion from playing soccer, Bayley discovers she had a disease called alopecia which causes her to lose her hair. As Bayley struggles to deal with the reality of her baldness she finds herself having to make some tough decisions. Can she still play soccer? Does she even want to? More importantly, should she tell Matt? And will he still want her when she does?

Becoming Bayley is the story of one girl’s journey through self-discovery, of the definition of true love, and of the realization that as a daughter of God, she is of infinite worth.

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Title: Becoming Bailey

Author: Susan Auten

Publisher: Deseret Book

Release Date: May 9, 2012

ISBN: 978-1-60907-196-7

Size: 214 pages, eBook

Genre: Romance

Waiting by Carol Lynch Williams

Growing up, London and Zach were as close as could be.

And then Zach dies, and the family is gutted.

London’s father is distant. Her mother won’t speak. The days are filled with what-ifs and whispers: Was it London’s fault?

Alone and adrift, London finds herself torn between her brother’s best friend and the handsome new boy in town as she struggles to find herself—and ultimately redemption.

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Title: Waiting

Author: Carol Lynch Williams

Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books

Release Date: May 1, 2012

ISBN: 978-1442443532

Size: 352 pages, hardcover

Genre: Young Adult

Shayla Witherwood by Tamra Torero

A brief moment of disappointment washed over me as I approached Jace’s motionless body. Here I was, about to kiss a boy on the lips for the very first time, and he was completely comatose—possibly paralyzed—and would never even know or remember the experience. This was not how I’d envisioned my first kiss—me invisible, him unconscious.

Shayla Witherwood is not exactly normal. First, she’s spent her entire life being homeschooled, traveling in an RV around the country with her grandparents. And second, there’s the kind of inescapable fact that her mom was a genuine faerie.

But now that she’s starting a real life in a regular high school, Shayla desperately needs to stay out of trouble in both worlds, because even her faerie powers might not be enough to protect her from what’s coming.

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Title: Shayla Witherwood: A Half-Faerie Tale

Author: Tamra Torero

Publisher: Sweetwater/Cedar Fort

Release Date: May 8, 2012

ISBN: 978-1599559636

Size: 312 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Young Adult Fantasy

Charlie’s Girl by Mary-Helen and Daniel Foxx

“Are you Rosalind?” Grace asked with doubt in her voice as she searched the young girl’s face for some sign of recognition. But there was none, just a blank expression that greeted her. How strange. She’d always pictured her granddaughter as a blond.

“Yes, and you are…” the girl hesitated for words.

“I’m Grace Matthews. I’m your grandmother,” the older woman said a little too stiffly.

By the time fourteen-year-old Rosalind arrives in Grayson, South Carolina, she’s spent nearly her whole life in the foster care system without a family, without a past, and without a home.

But the sudden discovery of a long-lost grandmother and a house full of momentos from her father’s childhood isn’t quite the happy ending Rosalind was hoping for. Instead, it’s just the first step in uncovering the secrets from her past—and maybe even the key to her future.

Set in the 1960s, this unique novel breathes life into a forgotten era and illustrates how much you can discover from your own family’s history. This unforgettable story of family, friendship, and faith is perfect for readers of all ages.

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Title: Charlie’s Girl

Author: Mary-Helen and Daniel Foxx

Publisher: Bonneville/Cedar Fort

Release Date: May 8, 2012

ISBN: 978-1599559681

Size: 200 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: YA