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.

Fall of Poppies: Stories of Love and the Great War, Various Authors, William Morrow – These centenary years of the Great War have a particular poignancy. Few families in the combatant nations escaped the heartache of losing a loved one in the “war to end all wars.”