1. Title: Second Honeymoon
Author: James Patterson and Howard Roughan
Publisher: Little, Brown
Synopsis: A nail-biting suspense thriller from James Patterson and Howard Roughan that involves an ingenious serial killer who preys on newlyweds on their honeymoon. As FBI agent John O'Hara and Special Agent Sarah Brubaker dig deeper into this strange mystery of missing honeymooning couples, a chilling trend emerges. After a newlywed couple never step out of their deluxe honeymoon suite, and another gets killed while boarding their honeymoon flight to Rome, it is about time John and Sarah closed in on the killer, or at least decipher his motive.
2. Title: Damaged 2
Author: H. M. Ward
Publisher: Laree Bailey
Synopsis: After Sidney gives into her feelings for the sexy stranger Peter in the first part of the book, in the second she embarks on a return journey to home to face her past. Sidney finds the prospect dangerous after the man who hurt her left her in the lurch, and her family too who did not believe in her. For Sidney they were dead, but things change for the worse with her mother on the death bed. While she doesn't realise that she is dragging Peter into his murky past, Peter wants to move forward with her while dealing with the demons that haunted him. But then he is not sure if he can get over the New York incident.
3. Title: Inferno
Author: Dan Brown
Publisher: Doubleday
Synopsis: Dan Brown has till date delivered nothing but international blockbusters. All his three novels - Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code, and The Lost Symbol have so far gripped readers with riveting plots and thriller endings. He now returns with yet another masterpiece, this time inspired by Dante's epic dark poem, Inferno. And with it returns his classic hero Robert Langdon, the Harvard University professor of Symbology. Hence begins another thrilling chase down history amidst perplexing art, codes and symbols. Set in Italy, Langdon finds himself deciphering landscapes of classic art, lost in secret passageways and probing futuristic science.
4. Title: The Newcomer
Author: Robyn Carr
Publisher: Harlequin Mira
Synopsis: McCain aka Mac is a single father and the deputy Sheriff of Thunder Point, a scenic little town on the Oregon Coast. Mac has worked hard all his life to keep the town safe, and his growing up daughter comforted and happy. But life takes a drastic turn after he runs into Gina James, a longtime friend with whom he has shared both rewards and challenges of bringing up adolescent girls. Despite the years, Mac and Gina cannot get enough of each other and feel like teenagers themselves, in love. And just when their lives together is about to take off, Mac's long-lost-ex-wife returns, and mayhem strikes. Both know they are meant to be with each other for the rest of their lives, but will they be able to overcome the challenges of past relationships to make way for new love.
5. Title: And The Mountains Echoed
Author: Khaled Hosseini
Publisher: Riverhead
Synopsis: It took almost 6 years for Khaled Hosseini to come out with his third book and the wait was certainly worth it all. Abdullah is inseparable from his little sister, Pari but it doesn't take a second for their father soon to sell her off to a wealthy family in Kabul, a price that ensures rest of the family doesn't die of hunger. Pari's life soon gets transported from Kabul to France, where she grows up to become a mathematician. It is only after her mother's demise that she discovers her real roots, takes a trip back to the village where she was born, and later to USA, to reunite with her elder brother, Abdullah. 'And The Mountains Echoed' is a beautiful family saga and a definite page turner.
6. Title: Beautiful Day
Author: Elin Hilderbrand
Publisher: Reagan Arthur/Little, Brown
Synopsis: The wedding day of the youngest daughter in the family is not very far and preparations are in full swing. Both families, the Carmichaels and the Grahams have come together for this auspicious occasion. The bride's late mother has left behind a notebook for her daughter that specifies all details and instructions on how the wedding should take place. Author Elin Hilderbrand, however, reverses the celebratory mood of the summer wedding and turns it into a cause of trouble for the families. The couple soon-to-be married is much in love but their dear ones find their lives breaking into pieces. Many questions, a dozen scandals and broken hearts make a cruel intrusion into this beautiful day of marriage. Will the couple be able to exchange vows with so much happening around?
7. Title: World War Z
Author: Max Brooks
Publisher: Broadway
Synopsis: Now a motion picture, World War Z is an 'oral history' of an imagined Zombie War that almost spells doom for civilization. Author Max Brooks inspired by the first-hand experiences of the survivors from the apocalyptic years takes up a journey across United States and all over the world, and even to ruined cities, to record the testimony of men, women and children who had encounters with the 'undead'. World War Z brings out the latent fears and trepidation that gripped the human race through those years.
8. Title: The Eye of God
Author: James Rollins
Publisher: Morrow/HarperCollins
Synopsis: James Rollins goes back to the history of the fall of the Roman Empire in 'The Eye of God'. History and science come together in fiction and readers are drawn into a mystery that Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma Force along with a pair of Vatican historians are out to unravel. The unfortunate crash of a U.S military research satellite in Mongolia has triggered a search expedition; a journey into the future that is connected to a dangerous past. An unidentified package arrive at the Vatican with a skull and tome wrapped in human skin as its only contents. The DNA test confirms it to be derived from Genghis Khan, the long dead Mongol king. Will this mystery ever be solved?
9. Title: Two of a Kind
Author: Susan Mallery
Publisher: Harlequin
Synopsis: This is a love story of a kind. Felicia and Gideon parted ways after a night of passion and romance. Felicia has come to Fool's Gold, California, in search of a normal life with friends hoping to start a family of her own one day. As fate would have it, Gideon too is in Fool's Gold pretending to keep his past at bay when one day they both happen to run into each other. They cannot deny their feelings for each other and start dating soon after. Gideon is not a man who understands the meaning of 'family', thanks to his military background. Felicia and Gideon are opposites who have to live with their differences while looking for similarities that will bring them closer.
10. Title: Entwined With You
Author: Sylvia Day
Publisher: Berkley
Synopsis: After 'Bared to You' and 'Reflected in You', Sylvia Day promises to completely get you hooked with her latest novel, 'Entwined With You' which again is a tug of war between obsessive desires and unpleasant memories of the past. Gideon and Eva have defied all odds to keep their relationship going but why is it that threats come in their way as new hindrances? Their passion for each other heats up in this novel despite many truths stumbling out of their respective closets. The question remains, will true love withstand all drama, history and everything else?
11. Title: The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Author: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: Morrow/HarperCollins
Synopsis: A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home in Sussex, England to attend a funeral. The house is no more but he has vivid memories of him as a seven year old boy, in love with a girl named Lettie who lived in the farm at the far end of the road with her mother and grandmother. Strangely, he has never thought about Lettie all these years but now that he is here, he feels drawn to the pond that lay behind the old farm house, the pond that she had called an ocean. He sits by the pond and tries to remember the horrific past - the past when a 40-year-old man had committed suicide and when Lettie had promised to be there for him, no matter what.
12. Title: Forged in Steele
Author: Maya Banks
Publisher: Berkley
Synopsis: Steele is the team leader of KGI, an elite family-run business which is kept secret from the rest of the world. He keeps his emotions to himself and his team mates aren't able to comprehend his mysterious ways. Surprisingly, his icy exterior cracks open only to Maren Scofield, a doctor by profession and someone who's determined to get under Steele's skin. And now, when Maren is in trouble, he will not let anyone else protect her. He knows she has secrets of her own but what he doesn't know is that her secrets are entwined with his destiny. He is left with two difficult choices: to shut her out or to give in and love her.
13. Title: Surrender Your Love
Author: J.C Reed
Publisher: J.C Reeds
Synopsis: Brooke Stewart, a New York-based realtor doesn't do relationships, but her reclusive existence is thrown out of gear when she runs into her new boss, Jeff Mayfield, the man she left naked in bed. Jeff, the green-eyed millionaire, is handsome, sexy and dangerous, and would not take no for an answer. And with Brooke he got more than he bargained for after their night of passion. He wants to continue this arrangement, of no strings sex, and Brooke though initially skeptical gives in. When Jeff realises he wants more from Brooke, and Brooke despite herself is unwilling to surrender to Jeff, you have a love story that is both gripping and evocative. The author plans to release the sequel 'Conquer Your Love' this June
14. Title: Bad Monkey
Author: Carl Hiaasen
Publisher: Knopf
Synopsis: A severed arm rests in former detective Andrew Yancy's freezer. It was reeled by a couple who were on a deep-sea fishing honeymoon trip at Florida Keys. Yancy, who was recently demoted to the post of a restaurant inspector, aka roach patrol, doesn't believe the boating accident explanation and feels there's more to the story. He wants to prove murder to his commander hoping he would relieve him off the derogatory duties as a health inspector. But his expedition to expose the murder leads him to encounter many bizarre events and meet several unusual characters like a voodoo witch, a greedy real estate developer and the eponymous Bad Monkey!
15. Title: The Witness
Author: Sandra Brown
Publisher: Grand Central
Synopsis: Kendall Deaton is the best public defender in her town, Prosper in South Carolina. She's married to the town's most powerful man with whom she has a child but the marriage is a living hell. She has unconsciously become a witness to the sinister deeds of her husband and his work. Under such circumstances, the only sane decision for her is to take her child and flee. But her escape will not be an easy one. A car accident leaves her and her child injured in a deep ravine and she barely manages to climb up to ask for help. Will her flight from the maniac husband and the dangers of his work be successful?
(Compiled by Anwesha Mittra, Arunima Mazumdar and Ipshita Mitra)
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