Dear Reader

James (Restoration) opens her Devil’s Backbone series with a red-hot new adult contemporary with a dangerous edge. Ashley, 21, doesn’t know what she did to make her wealthy new stepbrother, Nate, and his three best friends hate her, but the young men seem determined to ruin her reputation when she joins them at Neveah University. As Ashley settles into graduate school, she finds and becomes obsessed with a diary kept by former student Abigail, a member of the secretive Devil’s Backbone Society who died before Ashley arrived at the school. Her investigation into Abigail’s death takes a dangerous turn after Ashley is kidnapped by the DBS and left for dead in the woods. She suspects Nate and his friends of being somehow involved—but instead, they close ranks around her, claiming to want to protect her and kicking off steamy romances between Ashley and all four men. James keeps the pages flying with a tense mystery and ever-increasing sexual tension, culminating in a massive cliff-hanger that will have readers clamoring for more. Readers of Kate Stewart’s Ravenhood Legacy series will want to check this out. (May)