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The Kingdom and The Crown by S.R. Ford

Blood has coated the land in slippery sheets from the moment Tolucan took the throne. Lies, rumors, and sorcery destroyed the treaties which had been in place for two-thousand years. Friendships were forgotten, alliances were betrayed, and an entire race was plunged into the terrifying realms of annihilation.

Now only three of their kind remain. They do not know they are the last and they are kept in hiding. What is to become of them? It is rumored they will overcome the king and restore the peaceful days of old. Will they? Can they? We can only hope.

Tolucan’s power is spreading across the continent while it is reported that dragons have been sighted along the mountainous skyline to the north. It seems the time is drawing near sooner than I had expected…

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Title: The Kingdom and The Crown

Author: S.R. Ford

Publisher: CreateSpace/Self

Release Date: March 29, 2012

ISBN: 978-1470154943

Size: 512 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Fantasy

Edenbrooke by Julianne Donaldson

Marianne Daventry will do anything to escape the boredom of Bath and the amorous attentions of an unwanted suitor. So when an invitation arrives from her twin sister, Cecily, to join her at a sprawling country estate, she jumps at the chance. Thinking she’ll be able to relax and enjoy her beloved English countryside while her sister snags the handsome heir of Edenbrooke, Marianne finds that even the best laid plans can go awry.

From a terrifying run-in with a highwayman to a seemingly harmless flirtation, Marianne finds herself embroiled in an unexpected adventure filled with enough romance and intrigue to keep her mind racing. Will Marianne be able to rein in her traitorous heart, or will a mysterious stranger sweep her off her feet? Fate had something other than a relaxing summer in mind when it sent Marianne to Edenbrooke.

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Title: Edenbrooke

Author: Julianne Donaldson

Publisher: Shadow Mountain

Release Date: March 27, 2012

ISBN: 978-1609089467

Size: 240 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Regency Romance

The Avenues by Sheralyn Pratt

Ty Kimball doesn’t know who Rhea Jensen is or anything about her past when they meet in a park at dawn.

All he knows is that her distaste for him seems to be as immediate and intense as his attraction to her.

And as much as Ty tries to walk away from the challenge Rhea represents, deep down he knows he’s met the one girl he can’t let get away.

A Rhea Jensen tie-in novel.

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Title: The Avenues (Rhea Jensen 1.5)

Author: Sheralyn Pratt

Publisher: Self

Release Date: March 26, 2012

ASIN: B007P0HYL6

Size: 176 pages, ebook

Genre: Mystery/Suspense

Rhea Jensen Series: City of Angels (bk 1), Welcome to Stalk Lake City (bk 2), City Limits (bk 3), Kay’sVille (bk 4),

Ethos: Morning Star by Desiree Finkbeiner

When a mysterious stranger interrupts Brianna’s mundane routine, her eyes are opened to the dark underbelly of reality—immortal rogues, ancient conspiracies, prophetic revelations, savage tribes, mammoth dragonflies.

She’s thrust into a race for her life when Kalen, a warrior from Ethos, discovers that she is harboring a secret… a secret that he’d give his life to protect. There’s just one little problem—they are tempted by a forbidden romance, which threatens to compromise a divinely appointed mission.

They are faced with a choice—love eternal, or the end of the world.

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Title: Ethos: Morning Star

Author: Desiree Finkbeiner

Publisher: Hydra Publications

Release Date: March 28, 2012

ASIN: B007PSUV2W

Size: 426 pages, eBook

Genre: YA Paranormal Romance

Woodrose Mountain by RaeAnne Thayne

Evie Blanchard was at the top of her field in the city of angels. But when an emotional year forces her to walk away from her job as a physical therapist, she moves from Los Angeles to Hope’s Crossing seeking a quieter life. So the last thing she needs is to get involved with the handsome, arrogant Brodie Thorne and his injured daughter, Taryn.

A self-made man and single dad, Brodie will do anything to get Taryn the rehabilitation she needs…even if it means convincing Evie to move in with them. And despite her vow to keep an emotional distance, Evie can’t help but be moved by Taryn’s spirit, or Brodie’s determination to win her help—and her heart. With laughter, courage and more than a little help from the kindhearted people of Hope’s Crossing, Taryn may get the healing she deserves—and Evie and Brodie might just find a love they never knew could exist.

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Title: Woodrose Mountain (Hope’s Crossing Book 2)

Author: RaeAnne Thayne

Publisher: Harlequin HQN

Release Date: March 27, 2012

ISBN: 978-0373776375

Size: 352 pages, 4 x 6.5, softcover

Genre: Romance

Hope’s Crossing Series: Blackberry Summer

Barely Alive by Bonnie R. Paulson

In twelve weeks, seventeen-year-old Paul Ledger will be dead.

At least he hopes so.

Paul is trapped in the worst cult the United States has ever seen. Infected with a zombie virus, symptoms culminate in a dead body but thriving mind over a course of twelve weeks. If he doesn’t earn the final death he longs for, he’ll be chained in a basement facility, moaning for human flesh for eternity.

Sent out to kidnap girls for food, toys, or whatever the boss wants, Paul nabs Heather McCain. He’s not a fan of humans as a general rule, but even his graying skin and insatiable hunger for her flesh don’t stop her from reaching out to him. Give him the second chance he doesn’t know he needs.

Overcome by his cravings, Paul bites her delectable skin. Amazingly, she doesn’t develop the zombie-like side effects. When the boss discovers Heather’s immunity, he gives Paul an ultimatum—deliver up Heather and her family to continue the research or watch as Paul’s brother suffers the zombie fate.

Paul has a chance to endure his short zombie existence knowing his brother is safe. But he’ll have to sacrifice Heather to do it.

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Title: Barely Alive

Author: Bonnie R. Paulson

Publisher: CreateSpace/Self

Release Date: March 26, 2012

ISBN: 978-1475078480

Size: 290 pages, 5×8, softcover

Genre: YA Paranormal

Protected by Cindy M. Hogan

She has the guy.

The terrorists have been taken care of.

She has a shot at becoming popular.

Life is great!

Until they find her.

Now she must run and leave behind everything she knows, including herself.

Protected is the sequel to Watched: Murder was Just the Beginning.

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Title: Protected

Author: Cindy M. Hogan

Publisher: O’Neal Publishing

Release Date: March 24, 2012

ISBN: 978-0985131807

Size: 341 pages, softcover

Genre: Young Adult Suspense

Series: Watched (Book 1)

A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck

An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he’ll be reunited with his loved ones in an eternal hereafter.

Then, he dies.

Soren wakes to find himself cast by a God he has never heard of into a Hell whose dimensions he can barely grasp: a vast library he can only escape from by finding the book that contains the story of his life.

In this haunting existential novella, author, philosopher, and ecologist Steven L. Peck explores a subversive vision of eternity, taking the reader on a journey through the afterlife of a world where everything everyone believed in turns out to be wrong.

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Title: A Short Stay in Hell

Author: Steven L. Peck

Publisher: Strange Violin Editions

Release Date: March 23, 2012

ISBN: 978-0983748427

Size: 108 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Speculative, Horror

Promises by Carolyn Twede Frank

Hattie is barely twelve when her pa’s “business adventures” disrupt her family and move them to the new town of Tropic, nestled in the shadows of old Ebenezer Bryce’s Canyon. Her pa views the town as opportunity. Hattie is hopelessly shy and views it with apprehension; she dreads the task of making new friends. More than anything else, Hattie wants to be like her father—not afraid of meeting new people, talking to strangers, and standing up for herself. So it is with trepidation that she accepts her pa’s challenge and promises to make new friends.

Hattie forms more promises as she struggles to make friends, finding companionship in places she wouldn’t have expected and learning that there is a difference between complaining and standing up for oneself.

Promises is a heartwarming story of friendship with a touch of mystery and adventure set in the days before Bryce Canyon became a national park. Drawn from the memoirs of Hattie Adair Jolley and her children, it is a realistic glimpse into the past and a delightful story for readers ages eight to eighty.

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Title: Promises

Author: Carolyn Twede Frank

Publisher: August Corp Press

Release Date: March 24, 2012

ISBN: 978-0985251307

Size: 212 pages, softcover

Genre: Historical

A Cold Creek Reunion by RaeAnne Thayne

He was the one you called when you needed rescuing

But who was Taft Bowman going to call when he needed help? Because ten years ago Laura Pendleton, the love of his life, had left town without a word, then or since. Now she was back, with a new last nameand two adorable, high-needs little ones in tow. Well, Taft had been stupid enough to let her go once beforehe wasn’t about to make the same mistake again. He’d never stopped loving herand one look at those adorable little faces and he knew that he was meant to be with Laura and her kids forever. All he had to do was convince her that this time he was a man she could count on!

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Title: A Cold Creek Reunion

Author: RaeAnne Thayne

Publisher: Harlequin

Release Date: March 20, 2012

ISBN: 978-0373656615

Size: 288 pages, 4×6.6, softcover

Genre: Romance

Sylvia, Come Home by Tom Roulstone

In 1893 eighteen-year-old Mormon girl Sylvia Prescott elopes with Rex Boyd, a non-Mormon hired ranch-hand. After a brief wedding, they flee to boom town Butte, Montana.

Soon, Rex returns to his old vices of drinking and gambling. Sylvia regrets her rashness in running off with Rex, but resolves to stick with him.

She takes a job at the local mercantile, to help pay off Rex’s debts. There she meets the amoral Virgil Slade, who vows to steal her from Rex and make her the mistress of Slade House, his Gothic revival mansion he’s building.

In the meantime, Rose, a young Irish girl and half-sister of the local Catholic priest, befriends Sylvia and becomes fascinated with Mormonism.

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Title: Sylvia, Come Home

Author: Tom Roulstone

Publisher: Self

Release Date: March 20, 2012

ASIN: B007N86E2A

Size: 192 pages, ebook

Genre: Historical Romance

The Most Important Catch by Jaclyn M. Hawkes

Run or die!

She knew too much, and she’d seen too much. And the police refused to help. Knowing that she was to be the next scheduled death, Kelly Campbell hid under head to toe black leather and a tinted motorcycle helmet and ran for her life. When the weather turned cold, she turned south.

She ended up in North Carolina, home to one of the most famed and eligible NFL football stars in the whole league; only she didn’t know that. She thought he was a businessman. Not being a huge fan, all she knew was that he was incredibly attractive, kind, generous, and that she was safe with him.

Or was she?

His brand of fame proved to be all but deadly, but his fame wasn’t nearly as lethal as his attraction. He kept her safe and protected. All except for her heart.

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Title: The Most Important Catch

Author: Jaclyn M. Hawkes

Publisher: Spirit Dance Books

Release Date: March 16, 2012

ISBN: 978-0985164805

Size: 318 pages, 5.5×8.5, softcover

Genre: Romance

The Secret Sisters Club by Monique Bucheger

Twelve-year-old BFF’s Ginnie and Tillie, want to be sisters. Tillie’s divorced mom plus Ginnie’s widowed dad could equal a lifetime of round-the-clock girl talk and slumber parties. Too bad Dad vowed to never marry again. Ginnie and Tillie form a secret club. They come up with the perfect mission to change his mind: ‘Operation Secret Sisters’.

Before long, Tillie seems happier about gaining a dad than a sister. Ginnie suspects Tillie has turned ‘Operation Secret Sisters’ into a scam called ‘Operation Steal My Dad.’ Things get more complicated when Ginnie stumbles across her real mom’s hidden journals. Ginnie can finally get to know the mother she doesn’t remember and Dad doesn’t talk about.

When Dad discovers she has the journals, he takes them away. Ginnie needs to figure out what the big mystery is before her relationship with her father and her best friend are ruined forever.

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Title: The Secret Sisters Club

Author: Monique Becheger

Publisher: True West Publishing

Release Date: March 18, 2012

Size: ebook, approx 53,000 words

Genre: Middle Grade

The Haunted by Michaelbrent Collings

They have the beginnings of a perfect family. A husband, a wife, a baby on the way.

But something will stop them from being happy as they move into their new house: the power of the undead that roam the halls of their home.

The demons that have come to claim them.

The darkness that seeks to destroy them.

The haunted.

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Title: The Haunted

Author: Michaelbrent Collings

Publisher: Self

Release Date: March 2012

ISBN:

Size: ebook

Genre: Horror

Dispirited by Luisa M. Perkins

Cathy sees things that are invisible to everyone else:

Her new stepbrother’s bizarre behavior.

A ghostly little boy.

An abandoned house in the woods.

But she doesn’t see how they’re all connected. And what she doesn’t see might just kill her.

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Title: Dispirited

Author: Luisa M. Perkins

Publisher: Zarahemla Books

Release Date: March 15, 2012

ISBN: 978-0984360369

Size: 254 pages, 5.5×8.5, softcover

Genre: Speculative

Dragonbound: Blue Dragon by Rebecca Shelley

Life started at Stonefountain.

Near the bubbling fountain of power, the humans and dragons grew up together. Bound by blood, the two races became great and powerful. But with power came division. For not all were bound, and those with the power brought on by the bonding abused that power, subjecting all powerless ones to servitude.

In time the servants rebelled against their masters. Their violent uprising left almost all the bonded dragons and humans dead. From that day on the races separated, fleeing from Stonefountain and claiming their own lands. Distrust and war grew up between humans and dragons. The humans, fearing the power of the dragon bond, killed all those born to bond with the dragons. But some survived.

When Kanvar’s brother comes down with the dragon sickness, his mother learns that her husband and both her sons are Nagas, human traitors that bond with the Great Gold dragons. All three must die. Kanvar’s father is shot in the back and falls from a high window with Kanvar’s brother, leaving Kanvar to escape execution, survive on his own, and face the wrath of a Great Blue dragon whose family has been killed by the humans.

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Title: Dragonbound: Blue Dragon

Author: Rebecca Shelley

Publisher: Wonder Realm Books

Release Date: March 21, 2012

ISBN: 978-1475042474

Size: 252 pages, 5×8, softcover

Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy

Defenders of the Covenant by Angie Lofthouse

Hannah and her friends have been warned about the danger lurking outside of their secret refuge from the alien invaders who devastated the Earth years before. Their leaders have raised them in the Latter-day Saint faith, teaching them to trust God, but when McKenzie and her rebellious boyfriend, Jeremy, decide to run away, Hannah and Derek follow, determined to bring their friends home.

Once outside, the four teens soon realize they cannot return to the refuge without endangering everyone there. Captured, enslaved, and separated, Hannah, Derek, and McKenzie each learn the unique role they must play in liberating the Earth. The friends must battle with android soldiers and attack vessels, and face their own inner struggles to overcome the invaders. After all, not even an alien invasion can stop the work of God.

Title: Defenders of the Covenant

Author: Angie Lofthouse

Publisher: Walnut Springs Press

Release Date: March 14, 2012

ISBN: 978-1599928487

Size: 378 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Young Adult Science Fiction

Change of Heart by Roseanne Evans Wilkins

Christina Andrews is trying to put the pieces of her broken heart together. She accepts a generous offer from her aunt and uncle to accompany them to Israel to watch their infant son.

While watching her cousin, she finds herself face to face with the Japanese Mafia and becomes the only obstacle for them to execute a plan none can hope to survive.

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Title: Change of Heart

Author: Roseanne Evans Wilkins

Publisher: Self

Release Date: March 15, 2012

ISBN: 978-1460960257

Size: 216 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, softcover

Genre: Contemporary Romance

On Little Wings by Regina Sorois

Jennifer’s mother is not an only child.

Jennifer’s aunt has thirty seven freckles.

And life just stopped making sense for this sixteen-year-old girl from Nebraska.

It will take one forbidden journey, an octogenarian movie star, three old pirates, and one scarred genius to put all the pieces back together.

If that is even possible.

When Jennifer finds a dog-eared photograph of a freckled girl, she never dreams the innocent picture will tear open a gaping wound to her mother’s concealed past.

Jennifer must leave her home, parents, and best friend in the wheat fields of Nebraska and travel to the rocky shores of Maine to find the aunt she’s never met. Her search for the truth is distracted by the strange and hilarious characters she finds in the tight-knit town of Smithport. From the 88 year old movie star who likes to show off her tattoo, to the fishermen who have a passion for rockets, to the aunt who recites poetry in the long, Maine nights, Jennifer is intrigued by the lives swirling around her.

In the midst of madness she meets Nathan, the tight-lipped, reluctant prodigy who is surrounded by women who need him to be brother, father, protector, provider, and now, first love.

A story about all the ways we get love wrong, and why, despite every disappointment, we keep fighting to get it right.

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Title: On Little Wings

Author: Regina Sorois

Publisher: CreateSpace/Self

Release Date: March 16, 2012

ISBN: 978-1468096477

Size: 362 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, softcover

Genre: Young Adult

Dominant Traits by Eric Freeze

Enslaved by their own fears, the characters in this riveting collection are straining for redemption. Their choices reflect the well-worn patterns we carve for ourselves through our idiosyncrasies—our dominant traits.

A basketball coach teaches moral ambiguity; a divorce clutches at sanity; a mother struggles with her son’s paternity; a childless man regrets his youthful onanism.

Through their shared experiences these tangible characters undergo the sad, hilarious search for wholeness and security.

Set in the stark isolated landscape of Southern Alberta, Eric Freeze’s debut collection is a deftly-crafted study of desperate mortals careening through their liminal moments, grasping for certainty.

Title: Dominant Traits: Stories

Author: Eric Freeze

Publisher: Dufour Editions

Release Date: March 15, 2012

ISBN: 978-0802313508

Size: 192 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, softcover

Genre: Short story collection; literary fiction

Short story collections are not eligible for Whitney awards.

Crater Lake: Battle for Wizard Island by Steve Westover

Wailing and thrashing for escape, Allie’s dad disappeared, the dirt covering the crown of his head. Ethan and Jordan’s parents followed, gasping for breath before the dirt covered their faces and muffled their screams. Mercifully, they descended faster than Allie’s mom. She had been the appetizer and the other three adults were the main course.

While thirteen-year-old Ethan is visiting his crazy Uncle Bart at Crater Lake National Park, his world collapses when all the adults disappear, including his parents. Now Ethan must rally his new friends and deciper the legends of the lake to find the key to rescuing his parents from their earthen prison before he’s captured too and their imprisonment becomes permanent.

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Title: Crater Lake: Battle for Wizard Island

Author: Steve Westover

Publisher: Sweetwater (CFI)

Release Date: March 13, 2012

ISBN: 978-1599559605

Size: 256 pages, 5.5×8.25, hardover

Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy

Caller ID by Rachelle J Christensen

Everyone has a secret. How far will a kidnapper go to keep his?

When twenty-three-year-old Courtney Beckham, the privileged daughter of a highly successful land developer, is abducted from the mountains near her home, FBI agent Jason Edwards investigates the ten-million-dollar ransom and turns up more than just a kidnapping crime. He stumbles upon something he wasn’t meant to find.

And when Courtney catches a glimpse of the caller ID in her kidnapper’s home, what she sees sends ice through her veins. Even if she escapes her captors, something more dangerous lies ahead.

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Title: Caller ID

Author: Rachelle J Christensen

Publisher: Sweetwater (CFI)

Release Date: March 13, 2012

ISBN: 978-1599559902

Size: 272 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Mystery/Suspense

Jason Edwards Series: Wrong Number

Bound by Annie Oldham

After her mother dies, Elowyn Challis would do anything to bury the pain, but being shipped off to boarding school isn’t what she had in mind.

Things could be worse. Wyn finds a place for herself in the academy and living in the capital is just sparkling. But under it all, her mother’s death still haunts her.

Then Wyn discovers a secret that changes everything she believes: the bedtime stories her mother told her as a child are real, the faerie realm exists, and she is the Binder—the one mortal on earth with the power to seal the gate to Fae. It’s a power Wyn’s not sure she wants or can even wield. But she must confront her nightmares and her grief, or two worlds will be torn apart.

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Title: Bound

Author: Annie Oldham

Publisher: Self

Release Date: March 13, 2012

ISBN: 978-1470154684

Size: 304 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, softcover

Genre: YA Paranormal

Dancing on Broken Glass by Ka Hancock

Lucy Houston and Mickey Chandler probably shouldn’t have fallen in love, let alone gotten married. They’re both plagued with faulty genes—he has bipolar disorder; she, a ravaging family history of breast cancer. But when their paths cross on the night of Lucy’s twenty-first birthday, sparks fly, and there’s no denying their chemistry.

Cautious every step of the way, they are determined to make their relationship work—and they put their commitment in writing. Mickey will take his medication. Lucy won’t blame him for what is beyond his control. He promises honesty. She promises patience. Like any marriage, there are good days and bad days—and some very bad days. In dealing with their unique challenges, they make the heartbreaking decision not to have children. But when Lucy shows up for a routine physical just shy of their eleventh anniversary, she gets an impossible surprise that changes everything. Everything. Suddenly, all their rules are thrown out the window, and the two of them must redefine what love really is.

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Title: Dancing On Broken Glass

Author: Ka Hancock

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Gallery Books

Release Date: March 13, 2012

ISBN: 978-1451637373

Size: 416 pages, 5×8, softcover

Genre: Romance