cover image Alaska Virgin Air

Alaska Virgin Air

Izzy Ballard. 40 Below Ink, $12.50 ISBN 978-0-9818267-0-7

Fans of Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum will find a kindred spirit in reticent clairvoyant Abbey Vertuccio, the beleaguered heroine of Ballard’s charmingly sassy AVA series. Traveling the country in a past-its-prime RV ever since her pilot ex-husband crash-landed in another woman’s bed, nomadic Abbey’s visit to her outspoken and oversexed mom on Long Beach Island, N.J., is cut short when Grandma Luna calls the itinerant psychic back home to save the family airline in Fairbanks, Ala.—the last place Abbey wants to be. But even as Abbey plots her next great escape—while juggling corporate spies, would-be killers, a suspiciously repentant ex, and a vision-inducing old photograph her suddenly tight-lipped mother refuses to discuss—a sweet, sensitive, super-sexy hottie who’d like to see her stick around has her thinking that maybe she can come home again. Ballard’s snappy dialogue and endearingly eccentric characters will win over readers and have them flying to the next installment. (BookLife)