New Year And New VIB!!!

The Rocky Mountains have cast their spell over the Courtlands, a family from the plains taking a last summer vacation before their daughter begins college.

For eighteen-year-old Caitlin, the mountains loom as the ultimate test of her runner’s heart, while her parents hope that so much beauty, so much grandeur, will somehow repair a damaged marriage. But when Caitlin and her younger brother, Sean, go out for an early morning run and only Sean returns, the mountains become as terrifying as they are majestic, as suddenly this family find themselves living the kind of nightmare they've only read about in headlines or seen on TV.

As their world comes undone, the Courtlands are drawn into a vortex of dread and recrimination. Why weren't they more careful? What has happened to their daughter? Is she alive? Will they ever know? Caitlin's disappearance, all the more devastating for its mystery, is the beginning of the family's harrowing journey down increasingly divergent and solitary paths until all that continues to bind them together are the questions they can never bring themselves to ask: At what point does a family stop searching? At what point will a girl stop fighting for her life?

Written with a precision that captures every emotion, every moment of fear, as each member of the family searches for answers, Descent is a perfectly crafted thriller that races like an avalanche toward its heart-pounding conclusion, and heralds the arrival of a master storyteller.

Read an excerpt HERE.

Read what Johnston says about writing the book HERE  (pages 24-26)

Cathy says:
"Eighteen year old Caitlin Courtland's abduction while running in the Colorado mountains, witnessed by her younger brother, sets the stage for a heart pounding and heartbreaking thriller. Descent is masterfully crafted by Tim Johnston as he chronicles the devastating psychological damage done to Caitlin's family and builds on the suspense of Caitlin's whereabouts and fate. It delivers what only the best thrillers can: a page-turning plot with complicated, fully drawn characters, and a whopper of a punch. Descent is a thriller that I'll be thrilled to handsell."

Every now and then we encounter a new book that we’re so excited about we want to shout it from the rooftops, so we've created a special tag to distinguish it from the rest: TC VIB (very impressive book)! That means it’s a true stand-out in a season of many excellent and compelling new books.