Mailbox Monday -- September 28 (or, Let's Pretend It's Monday)

I had one heck of an exhausting weekend, between helping The Girl with her science fair proposal and attending two book festivals (more on those later).  I missed my Sunday nap (boo-hoo), and yesterday was a stressful day at work that left me with a splitting headache by the time I got home.  I'm feeling much better today, thank goodness, but I was absent from the blogosphere for a few days and I'm really behind.

Today, I'm going to pretend it's Monday and post my mailbox.

Only one book this week:

The Company by K.J. Parker, which I received from Hachette.

From the back cover:

Hoping for a better life, five war veterans colonize an abandoned island.  They take with them everything they could possibly need -- food, clothes, tools, weapons, even wives.

The colonists feel sure that their friendship will keep them together.  But an unanticipated discovery shatters their dream and replaces it with a very different one.  Only then do they begin to realize that they've brought with them rather more than they bargained for.


One of them, it seems, has been hiding a terrible secret.  And when the truth begins to emerge, it soon becomes clear that the war is far from over.

I can't wait to read this one!

Thanks to Marcia from The Printed Page for hosting Mailbox Monday.  You can click the link to see what other bookworms received over the last week.

What books have you welcomed into your home recently?