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Cole Harper is struggling to settle into life in Wounded Sky First Nation. He may have stopped a serial killer, but the trouble is far from over. A creature lurks in the shadows of Blackwood Forest, the health clinic is on lockdown by a mysterious organization, and long-held secrets threaten to bubble to the surface. Can Cole learn the truth about his father's death? Why won't Choch give him a straight answer? Where the heck is Jayne? Oh, and high school sucks.

Sixteen-year-old Katie Camilleri can’t believe she’s accidentally created a teenage boy. A boy six feet tall with floppy hair and eyes like the sky on a clear summer’s day. A boy whose lips taste like cookie dough and whose skin smells like springtime. A boy completely devoted to Katie. But silly musings and kitchen antics with her best friend, Libby, have definitely taken a whimsical twist into something bigger than Katie could have ever daydreamed. Turns out the consequences of fumbling a human being into existence are rather complicated.

Mysterious murders, shadowy figures, and high school. Life can be hard, death can be harder. Cole Harper is dead. Reynold McCabe is alive and free. Mihko Laboratories has reopened the research facility and works to manufacture and weaponize the illness that previously plagued Wounded Sky. People are missing. The community has been quarantined. What deal did Eva strike with Choch? Who will defeat Reynold and Mihko? Time is running out.

Bitter is thrilled to have been chosen to attend Eucalyptus, a special school where she can focus on her painting surrounded by other creative teens. But outside this haven, the streets are filled with protests against the deep injustices that grip the town of Lucille. Bitter's instinct is to stay safe within the walls of Eucalyptus...but her friends aren't willing to settle for a world that the adults say is 'just the way things are'. Pulled between old friendships, her creative passion and a new a romance, Bitter isn't sure where she belongs - in the art studio or in the streets.

Thirteen-year-old Ivy and Ava watch in horror as their friend Brett mysteriously disappears while swimming in the river near their Australian outback farm. The girls soon discover they are suspects in his murder and must endure the taunts and accusations of their schoolmates. Desperate to escape, Ava climbs the massive ring tree on their farm, an ancient landmark believed to be from another time and place. Ivy watches from below as Ava spreads her arms and jumps from the tree...then disappears.

"Corruptide" invites you into the intimate realm of a queer teenager's mind, where the air is charged with the magic of self-discovery and the struggle for acceptance. This enchanting LGBTQIAP+ modern fantasy novel paints a vivid picture of a world where magic courses through a few queer individuals, manifesting as colorful streaks in their hair—a beautiful yet burdensome gift. In this realm, prejudice lurks in the shadows, and L'aurai, a spirited young woman adorned with a fiery red streak, finds herself thrust into a battle for justice.

She grew up with sand in her shoes and stories in her soul. But what if the stories were real? On an island of sun and sea, Neela has always felt like a stranger — until a storm unleashes the secrets of her bloodline and calls her into an ancient battle beneath the waves. Dive into a YA fantasy trilogy where myth meets power, love defies kingdoms, and a girl must choose who she’s meant to be… or who she was born to become.

"Who are you? You're familiar to me." A tree has appeared unexpectedly in the whimsical little town of Laplace, where the locals take inordinate pride in their gossip, their diner, and their modern wifi. Nobody knows what kind of tree it is, but they wonder about the woman who has burst into town, intent on clearing the space on the town square. Mary Claudia wants the tree gone. She's come all this way to Laplace for her own purposes, and she doesn't care what the town thinks. The tree's bulky roots and odd fruit only keep getting in her way. Something else stands in her way - the owner of ...

Twelve-year-old Arianna learns an asteroid threatens to wipe out Earth, she's terrified. But the impending disaster vanishes as mysteriously as it appeared, leaving her to wonder if it was nothing more than a strange dream. What's more mysterious is discovering her eleven new best friends shared a similar experience.

Sixteen-year-old Flannery Malone has it bad. She’s been in love with Tyrone O’Rourke since the days she still believed in Santa Claus. But Tyrone has grown from a dorky kid into an outlaw graffiti artist, the rebel-with-a-cause of Flannery’s dreams, literally too cool for school. Which is a problem, since he and Flannery are partners for the entrepreneurship class that she needs to graduate. And Tyrone’s vanishing act may have darker causes than she realizes.

A sword. A sacrifice. A war. Two broken hearts. She has failed. Thalia Valeikka left everything behind in order to find the ancient relic, Valindor, the only thing capable of killing Sindir, the traitorous king. At first, she succeeded. After a long journey of perilous landscapes and near-captures, she travelled into mysterious territory to retrieve the sword. It is a place where no man nor woman dares to enter. A place where no one returns. With the help of her accomplices and best friend, Killian Witherion, the prince of Lsthrain, they retrieved the relic. All for it to slip away. ...

From humble origins as a farm boy, Hailo, now the destined Paired Warrior, embarks on a transformative journey. Deep within the Emerald Mountain range, he and his Dronigon companion, Gagu, undergo grueling training, forging a bond crucial to saving the realm of Tarawin from looming devastation. Battling isolation, hunger, and the biting cold, Hailo confronts not only the harshness of his new life but also the specter of repeated failures in his training. Yet, the call of destiny is unrelenting, dragging him from the brink of despair back into the fray. With the fate of countless lives ...

Thea’s entire life has been a lie. As high school graduation nears, she yearns for a purpose... and for a family, but on the outskirts of town, along the streets Thea’s long avoided, an evil force lurks, hunting her. After one reckless night out, Thea awakens in a dark, dirty pit to the sounds of chanting and screaming. A narrow escape throws her into a hidden world of magic and danger. She finds herself in-between two opposing factions and learns she’s a vital key in an endangered lineage of energy witches tasked with protecting all earth’s existence.

The year is 2033. Herbie Hunter’s life has been turned upside down. After his father died, he and his mother had no choice but to go and live with Herbie’s grandmother in Paradise Rift. But Herbie quickly learns that this is no normal town—a UFO worshipping cult known as the Light Seekers have made it their headquarters, and strange happenings have plagued the town since their arrival. On his first night in the rift, Herbie sees mysterious lights floating in the sky followed by a frantic woman running into the desert. But what Herbie meets in the darkness is no normal woman, but a ...

In the final months of 2033, a brutal string of murders has rocked Northern Nevada. The work of a monstrous serial killer — the Djinnius Executioner. As the body count piles up, a strange pattern begins to emerge — whenever the mangled corpse of a victim is discovered, the same person is waiting at every crime scene. Herbie Hunter. Could Herbie have finally snapped from the endless trauma he’s faced since arriving in Paradise Rift, or has Don Balcom finally thought of a plan to get him out of the picture for good? Desperate to prove his innocence, Herbie must cross the globe, ...

In 2033, Pyramid Lake is drying up and the wicked are thriving. The bodies of over twenty men found floating in its waters baffle the locals of Gerlach, the nearby town where a crescendo in the rise of evil has slowly been creeping over them. When Herbie hears news of the mysterious Pyramid Lake massacre, he immediately suspects there's more to it than meets the eye. With the help of his friends and a local vampire slayer, they trigger a course of events that begin to uncover a massive conspiracy in the United States army, unveil the truth behind the reappearance of the Nephilim, and have ...

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Zebs appeared in the town and no one knows why, not even the Zebs themselves. They hid them in the high school gym. Jason has to figure out how to get them back. Meanwhile, a new wizard is in the land of Zebadon and he isn’t happy that Talcott is practicing magic. Jason has to get the Zebs back to Zebadon and get the wizards together to fix the portal, but then there are problems with pirates. It’s too many things at the same time. If Jason fails, the town will be overrun by Zebs and pirates. It's a lot for a high school senior.

Rayla Tate should not exist… Born from an unlikely union, Rayla is an Elemental with prophetic mystical powers she doesn’t know she possesses. After her mother disappears, leaving her with an overbearing aunt, she never feels like she fits in at home or at school. But Rayla has dreams she would do anything to achieve, even if she has to lie to do it. When Rayla cooks up a daring deception with her best friend and leaves her sleepy little town for the first time, she draws the attention of the Wild Hunt–an ancient Fae tradition, meant to crown a new ruler. Only the strongest get the ...

This collected edition includes all three books of the Channeler Trilogy—Moon & Shadow, Sun & Dream, and Death & Dragon—published together in one volume. A moon misplaced. A girl who dreams too well. A world beginning to bend. Sebastian never asked to be the hero of his village. But when nightmare creatures rise from the shadows, he finds himself gathering strange objects—gifts he doesn’t understand—to stand against the dark. What he doesn’t know is that the magic behind those gifts comes from a quiet girl named Anise, whose dreams stir ancient forces: Moon, Sun, and Death. As ...