Kate is struggling with a commitment to marriage with her beau, Rowan, even after four years of dating.  For the first time in her life, she also knows that she won’t fully love until she confronts her past. It’s time to act.  Told in alternating time periods, we find that from the tender age of fourteen, Kate and Jack fell in love, but never fell out.  Today, Kate fears that her heart may still belong to Jack, the man who fathered their child, a little girl she gave up for adoption thirteen years ago.  When the mistakes have been made, and the running is over, it’s time to face the truth.  Can she travel to the place where it all began, to the one who shares her secret?  Can the lost ever be found?

And Then I Found You gives new life to the phrase “inspired by a true story.”  Patti bases her novel on a period in her family’s life and exposes the price of a selfless act.

Caroline Paul was recovering from the crash of her small experimental plane. She was depressed, in a daze from painkillers  and thought things couldn’t get worse.  But her beloved cat, Tibby, disappeared.  She and her partner, illustrator Wendy McNaughton,  mourned his loss. After five weeks of calling his name, placing flyers, consulting a psychic,Tibby waltzed back into their lives, fat and healthy.  His owners were overjoyed, but they were mystified.Tibby refused to eat and disappeared for a time every day.  Where had their sweet anxious cat been and where is he going?  This amusing and poignant memoir, Lost Cat,  follows their search. Using a GPS unit and a kitty-camera, they tracked his movements around their San Francisco neighborhood. In the process, they managed to cure Caroline’s depression, meet their neighbors and finally figured out where the adventurous Tibby had been.

What does a perfect life look like?  Libby, Justin and their beautiful teenage daughter, a gorgeous townhouse in Boston, a multmillion dollar construction business–What more could one want?  But, after 16 years, their marriage is falling apart.  On a “date” to discuss their personal problems, Justin and Libby arrive home, find the door open, the alarm off –and three menacing men waiting for them.  Just as they hear their daughter scream, a touch of a taser changes their lives.Waking from a drug-induced sleep, all  three are caged in a small cell in a now-abandoned  prison built by non-other than Justin himself.  The dark secrets they each harbor threaten everything they hold dear.  Tessa Leone, a private investigator and Wyatt Foster, the local sheriff along with the FBI are trying to recover the kidnapped family alive.  Why were all three taken?  Why are there no calls, no ransom notes?  Their lives hang in the balance in Touch and Go.

In a compelling memoir, Bouton, a former senior editor of the New York Times, chronicles her twenty-two year struggle with hearing loss. It started when she had difficulty hearing what her colleagues were saying and it was getting worse. She became profoundly deaf in one ear, and the other had a severe loss.  She says hearing loss follows the traditional stages of grief:  denial, anger, depression and finally a grudging acceptance. She speaks with doctors, audiologists and a variety of people struggling to cope with hearing loss.  She concludes on an encouraging note about ongoing research for a biological cure. Shouting Won’t Help is a deeply felt look at a widespread and misunderstood phenomenon. At present, some 50 million Americans suffer some degree of hearing loss.

Others may dread the chill of winter, but he relishes it.  The way the frigid water preserves his victims, the feel of their icy skin beneath his fingers…And soon the world will see his victims’ beauty and behold his vengeance.

The town of Grizzly Falls is on edge in the wake of a serial killer, and Detective Selena Alvarez is no exception. A new nightmare is about to unfold.  Two victims so far bodies found frozen solid and naked bodies publicly displayed.  Both are women she knows and each wears a piece of Selena’s jewelry.

Selena’s partner, Detective Regan Pescoli, the entire department and PI Dylan O’Keefe are on the case.  This killer knows too much about Selena’s secret terror, her flaws and the past she has hidden. Soon, he’ll show her she has every reason to be Afraid to Die.

Sheriff Joanna Brady’s daughter, Jenny, stumbles across the body of her high school principal, Debra Highsmith, in the Arizona desert near their home. The Cochise County Sheriff’s  personal and professional worlds collide, forcing her to tread the difficult middle ground between being an officer of the law and a mother.  The search for justice leads straight to her own door and forces her to face the possibility that her beloved daughter may be less perfect than she hoped–especially when a photo from the crime scene ends up on Facebook–a photo that only one person could have taken. The gruesome picture is just the tip of the iceberg.  The details build, from a hushed-up student suspension, to a group of teenagers with a grudge against the late Ms. Highsmith, to a hateful video call for the principal’s death.  Judgment Call is the fifteenth entry in Jance’s Joanna Brady series.  The series begins in Desert Heat when Joanna’s Sheriff husband is killed in the line of duty and Joanna takes over the job.

Flying to America from London for a holiday, Stephanie Harker watches helplessly as her young charge, Jimmy, is kidnapped from the airport security checkpoint. But this is no ordinary abduction–Jimmy is the son of Scarlett, a reality TV star in London.  Scarlett, dying of cancer, and estranged from her unreliable family, entrusts her son to her best friend and ghost writer of her biography, Stephanie.  Assisting the FBI to recover the missing boy, Stephanie reaches into the past.  Has Jimmy been taken by one of his own relatives?  Is Stephanie’s obsessive ex-lover trying to teach her a lesson?  Has one of Scarlett’s stalkers come back to haunt them? In Vanishing Point, McDermid draws readers into a country where afternoon tea and biscuits may differ from American fare, but her riveting read reaches across cultures.

Did you enjoy R.L. Stine’s teen series, Goosebumps and Fear Street?  Stine has a new adult chiller, Red Rain!  On an isolated island of the Carolina coast,  travel blogger, Lea Sutter, witnesses a mysterious ritual supposed to bring back the dead. Soon after, a massive hurricane devastates the island.  Among the few survivors, Lea sees two young orphaned boys and decides to take them back to her family and adopt them. Back home, her husband and two children are apprehensive about these beautiful blond children.  Soon, a murder occurs. And then another.  Stine’s brutal  story of  evil children is a gory but  fun read, with an unpredictable outcome.