Harlem Library

The latest Colleen Coble novel is “Ambush.” Paradise Alden has distrust in men, in God, and maybe in herself. Her parents were murdered when she was a child and she suffered abuse in the foster care system. Then she was betrayed by her first love and attacked by a jaguar. Fifteen years after leaving her hometown she has returned to try and find her life again as a veterinarian at The Sanctuary, a wildlife refuge. But soon a series of deadly events threaten her future.

“Broken Country” is by Clare Leslie Hall. Beth and her husband, Frank, are happily married even though they have something from...