Highly Illogical Behavior, John Corey Whaley, Dial Books – Solomon Reed is an agoraphobic with a panic disorder. In middle school while suffering a panic attack, he stripped and dived into the school’s fountain.

Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty, Ramona Ausubel, Riverhead Books – Fern and Edgar come from serious money. In Fern’s case it’s old money, dating back to the trade in slaves and rum.

The Last Days of Magic, Mark Topkins, Viking – Medieval Ireland has long been a stronghold of magic in the world. It resisted attempts by many foreign powers to conquer it thanks to the Morrígna, a divine female trinity manifesting as twins Aisling and Anya in the mortal world and a third, Anann, in the spirit realm.

The Girl From Home, Adam Mitzner, Gallery Books – Jonathan Caine is a true Wall Street high flier, a man with supreme confidence in his abilities to ride the thermals of finance and soar ever higher in wealth and power.

In the Clearing, Robert Dugoni, Thomas & Mercer – The 1976 Bicentennial was memorable for the people of Stoneridge, Washington in more ways than one.

The Invisible Guardian, Dolores Redondo, Atria Books – Police Inspector Amaia Salazar had good reasons for leaving her home town of Elizondo, a small community in Spain’s beautiful Basque country.

Blood Defense, Marcia Clark, Thomas & Mercer – Samantha Brinkman is an ambitious lawyer operating out of a low-rent office in an undesirable neighborhood of LA.

Boy Erased, Garrard Conley, Riverhead Books – A life spent questioning one’s self-worth, one’s faith, one’s sanity is not a life worth living.

The Prey, Tom Isbell, Harper Teen — Twenty years ago, the Omega Event brought the modern world to a crashing stop. The massive blast of electromagnetic radiation fried every electronic device to useless scrap and plunged the Earth into chaos.

The Capture, Tom Isbell, Harper Teen — Fugitives Hope, Book, Cat and their comrades turned back from the verge of safety in order to free other Sisters and Less Thans from the clutches of the Western Federation.