Let’s take a quick look to see what’s arrived in the mail here at the Geek Compound.
Snakeskin Road by James Braziel
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After losing her husband to the merciless desert of southeast Alabama, Jennifer Harrison vows to flee with her unborn child intact. But safe passage to the fabled North may be nothing more than an illusion, as life-threatening dust storms brutally take down travelers, friends, and family. It is under these conditions that a young girl named Mazy, abandoned by her mother, comes under Jennifer’s care.
Their only hope may be a smuggler willing to transport them to the free zones of the Midwestern Territories…if they’re willing to sell themselves into indentured servitude for three years. But can anyone guarantee Mazy’s freedom? Or a place for Jennifer’s child? Or will it again lead to a life on the run, hunted by lawmen desperate to bring them back from where they came?
No Prisoners (Star Wars: The Clone Wars) by Karen Traviss
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The Clone Wars rage on. As insurgent Separatists fight furiously to wrest control of the galaxy from the Republic, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine cunningly manipulates both sides for his own sinister purposes.
Torrent Company’s Captain Rex agrees to temporarily relieve Anakin Skywalker of Ahsoka, his ubiquitous–and insatiably curious–Padawan, by bringing her along on a routine three-day shakedown cruise aboard Captain Gilad Pellaeon’s newly refitted assault ship. But the training run becomes an active–and dangerous–rescue mission when Republic undercover agent Hallena Devis goes missing in the middle of a Separatist invasion.
Dispatched to a distant world to aid a local dictator facing a revolution, Hallena finds herself surrounded by angry freedom fighters and questioning the Republic’s methods–and motives. Summoned to rescue the missing operative who is also his secret love, Pellaeon–sworn to protect the Republic over all–is torn between duty and desire. And Ahsoka, sent in with Rex and six untested clone troopers to extract Hallena, encounters a new and different Jedi philosophy, which shakes the foundation of her upbringing to the core. As danger and intrigue intensify, the loyalties and convictions of all involved will be tested. . . .
The Dresden Files: Storm Front by Jim Butcher, Mark Powers (Adapter), and Ardian Syaf (Illustrator)