Author: Devin Service

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Little, Brown and Company.

Raised in the Czech countryside, Jakub Procházka [Jacob Pro-chah-z-ka] has gone from small-time scientist to premier national astronaut. When a dangerous solo mission to Venus offers him a chance at heroism, he takes it, leaving behind his devoted wife Lenka, whose love, Jakub realizes too late, he has sacrificed.

Alone in space, Jakub finds a companion in a possibly imaginary alien spider. Over a series of philosophical conversations, the pair form an intense emotional bond. But will it be enough to see Jakub through a clash with secret Russian rivals and return him safely to Earth for a second chance with Lenka?

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by The Girl Who Lied by Sue Fortin.

Sometimes the perfect friend tells the perfect lies… In Sue Fortin’s thrilling USA TODAY bestseller, Erin and Roisin were once friends until a fatal accident ruined both their lives. Now, Roisin has discovered a secret—one Erin has kept for over a decade—and she’s determined to make Erin pay for her lies. When Roisin suddenly disappears, suspicion soon lands on Erin. She would do anything to protect her family, but just how far is she willing to go when time is running out?

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by A Tragic Kind Of Wonderful by Eric Lindstrom.

For Mel Hannigan, bipolar disorder makes life unpredictable. Her latest struggle is balancing her growing feelings in a new relationship with her instinct to conceal her diagnosis by keeping everyone at arm’s length. But when a former friend confronts Mel with the truth about the way their relationship ended, deeply buried secrets threaten to upend her shaky equilibrium.

As the walls of Mel’s compartmentalized world crumble, she fears that no one will accept her if they discover what she’s been hiding. But would her friends really abandon her if they learned the truth? More importantly, can Mel risk everything to find out?

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by ​Fierce Reads​.

Taken meets The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Bourne Identity in this action-packed debut thriller (optioned for film by Jerry Bruckheimer) about a girl who must train as an assassin to deal with the gangsters who have kidnapped her father.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by A Tragic Kind Of Wonderful by Eric Lindstrom.

For Mel Hannigan, bipolar disorder makes life unpredictable. Her latest struggle is balancing her growing feelings in a new relationship with her instinct to conceal her diagnosis by keeping everyone at arm’s length. But when a former friend confronts Mel with the truth about the way their relationship ended, deeply buried secrets threaten to upend her shaky equilibrium.

As the walls of Mel’s compartmentalized world crumble, she fears that no one will accept her if they discover what she’s been hiding. But would her friends really abandon her if they learned the truth? More importantly, can Mel risk everything to find out?

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Henry Holt and Co., publisher of The Clairvoyants by Karen Brown.

The Clairvoyants is a modern gothic ghost tale filled with psychological thrills that follows the life of an unusual young woman. Ever since she was a child, Martha May could see ghost around her family home on the sea. Now a young woman, she desperately hopes to escape her past by fleeing inland to a small college town. Martha is swept up in a new life—young love, distance from a dysfunctional family, and unobservant of news of a disappeared woman. Until the missing woman appears outside of Martha’s apartment, in a down coat, her hair coated with ice.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by The Blue Moon Narthex by N.J. Donner.

Since the beginning of time, Karmanic matter has worked silently, keeping good and evil in balance, until the world’s growing greed made it harder for Karma to keep up. As World War I rages, the Karmanic Sovereign Legion works to help Karma.

A suspicious train accident and an odd stone-shaped object that belonged to his father thrust Cole and two schoolmates into the battle against dark forces. With only the powerful stone, a letter, and grandfatherly Norm, the trio must unravel clues and tap into unknown strengths to discover who Cole’s father really was and keep those they love safe.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by The Girl in the Garden by Melanie Wallace.

When June arrives on the coast of New England, baby in arms, an untrustworthy man by her side, Mabel—who rents them a cabin—senses trouble. A few days later, the girl and her child are abandoned.
June is soon placed with Mabel’s friend, Iris, in town, and her life becomes entwined with a number of locals who have known one another for decades: a wealthy recluse with a tragic past; a forsaken daughter returning for the first time in years; a lawyer, whose longings he can never reveal; and a kindly World War II veteran who serves as the town’s sage. Surrounded by the personal histories and secrets of others, June finds the way forward for herself and her son amid revelations of the others’ pasts, including loves—and crimes—from years ago.
In vivid, nuanced prose, Melanie Wallace explores the time-tested bonds of a small community, the healing power of friendship and love, and whether the wrongs of the past can ever be made right.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Flatiron Books.

Welcome, welcome to Caraval—Stephanie Garber’s sweeping tale of two sisters who escape their ruthless father when they enter the dangerous intrigue of a legendary game.