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January 26, 2015

Today's Featured Title and Contest January 26, 2015
 

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that releases this winter. Read more about it, and enter today's Winter Reading Contest by Tuesday, January 27th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of DESCENT by Tim Johnston, which is now in stores. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

Today's Featured Book and Contest: DESCENT by Tim Johnston

The Rocky Mountains have cast their spell over the Courtlands, a young family from the plains taking a last summer vacation before their daughter begins college. For 18-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.

-Click here to read a review.
-Click here to read an excerpt.
-Click here to read more about the book on the publisher's website.

-Click here to read Tim Johnston's bio.
-Click here to visit Tim Johnston's official website.
-Connect with Tim Johnston on Facebook and Twitter.

Click here to enter the contest by 11:59am ET on Tuesday, January 27th.

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