New Fiction: Thursday, May 22

Another rainy day in Macedon—but we have new books coming in to keep you occupied! Stop by when you can (we’re open til 8 pm). If you’d like to place a title on hold online, go to https://owwl.org and sign in to your account using your library card number. Pick up your book in the shelves near the circulation desk when you have time.

Here are a few of the new fiction books that have arrived at the library recently. We invite you to check them out.

The Retirement Plan

After thirty years of friendship, Pam dreams of her perfect retirement with Nancy, Shalisa, Marlene, and their husbands—until their husbands pool their funds for an investment that goes terribly wrong, and their dreams of beachfront condos vanish. The golden years are looking as dreary as their marriages. But when one husband dies in a freak accident, the other three women are shocked to see his widow rebound with a huge life insurance payout and a new life in Florida.A new dream forms, and this time, it involves a hitman. Meanwhile, their husbands have a secret retirement plan of their own. The husbands scramble to stay alive, but they may not be fast enough to outmaneuver their wives.

Tough Choices: An Amish Romance

Decisions have always been hard for Mary. Her whole life, she has found herself so controlled by the stern voice of her father that she struggles to hear God’s voice or even know her own desires. What does it mean to give up one’s will when you can’t tell what your own will is, never mind God’s? Finally, Mary commits to marriage, and so begins a tumultuous journey into life as a wife and mother. Will she pass her insecurities on to her daughter, or will she choose a new way of parenting? And will her daughter be able to navigate life and love without the same pain that Mary faced?

Thunder Game

Diego Campos has come home to die. The GhostWalker is tired of treading a dark path shaped by countless losses. But as he makes his way to his family’s homestead in the Appalachian Mountains, his plans are interrupted by a violent ambush that sets his life on a new course. While fighting off a small army of assailants, Diego chances on a beautiful, brutal warrior woman unlike anyone he’s encountered before. Compelled to rescue her, Diego uses his psychic gifts to make Leila’s broken body whole again and save her from certain death. With each new breath she regains her strength, and her humor, intelligence and courage are revealed as she discloses the truths of her past and inspires feelings Diego never thought his heart could experience.