Shadows and Ash — Laura Harner

Nestled in the forest surrounding Flagstaff, Arizona, Mountain Shadows offers residents and guests a refuge from a too-complicated world. A year ago, the isolated retreat, with its log cabins and stone lodge, could boast a convalescing new owner, one employee, two long-term tenants, and an uncertain future. As others joined the rag-tag collection and made the hideaway their home, tentative beginnings morphed into friendships…and more.

Over this past year, the perfect place for hiding became a sanctuary for healing, as one-by-one the residents discovered that learning to live in the light with a family you choose is better than shrouding yourself in loneliness. But just as everyone seems to settle into a new normal, shadows from the past drag one of their members back into the darkness and the fallout threatens their carefully constructed new beginnings.

Now, the family they've created there must band together to protect each other from someone determined to destroy the lives they've worked so hard to reclaim.

Pulp Friction 2014. Four authors. Twenty-four books. One fiery finale.