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When Erin decides it’s finally time to move on from her on-again-off-again boyfriend Silas, she knows she’s making the right choice. Silas can’t stay clean and Erin wants to leave their drug use in the past. But when Silas overdoses on a...
Sam and his friends have an annual tradition that on Halloween they go to a hut in the woods called the Dark Place and confess their secrets in order to break free of them. Only this year, there’s someone watching their confessions—someo...
Four years ago, respected psychiatrist Dr. Adrienne Hale disappeared from her remote estate. Young newlyweds Tricia and Ethan move in to Dr. Hale’s home, Tricia quickly discovers cassette tapes of patient interviews. As Tricia continues ...
Emory is having a hard enough time surviving high school when she and her brother become the most hated people in Mill Haven. One drunken night led to a friend jailed and a friend killed. Emmy and her family realize just how far gone her...
Biz has been floating since her dad died when she was young. Now at 17, Biz still finds herself outside of her body, dissociating and having panic attacks while just trying to be a functioning person. Nothing and no one is permanent, and...
Five years ago, Sal Singh murdered his girlfriend Andie Bell and then killed himself. The case was closed almost as soon as it was opened. But Pippa thinks there’s more to the story than the citizens of Fairview know. That’s why she deci...
The island of Kisapmata would be a beautiful tourist destination if it wasn’t cursed. The locals know to steer clear of the island for fear of a dreamer god that dwells in its cave, only to wake after eight specific sacrifices are made. ...
Brooke is a single mom struggling to find a job as a nurse practitioner. When her parents are killed in a car accident, she’s forced to return to her hometown—the place she almost died a decade ago. With limited options, Brooke takes a n...
Nora has been many girls in her life—Katie, Ashley, Rebecca, Samantha, Haley—forced to personify these characters by her con artist mother. Now at 17, Nora wants to be able to leave all these girls behind and discover who she truly is. B...
Millie is living in her car, on parole after a ten-year prison sentence. Jobs aren’t easy to come by for a former convict, so when she’s interviewed to be a housemaid at the Winchesters glamorous estate, it’s an offer she literally can’t...
Reclusive Hollywood icon Evelyn Hugo is ready to tell her life’s story. Her life has been full of lies, secrets, money, fame, scandals, and men. But not all is as it may seem. Monique is a nobody trying to make a name for herself as a wr...
In the not-so-distant future, planet Earth is becoming more uninhabitable by the day. Forced to colonize elsewhere, NASA recruits 24 of the world’s greatest young minds to compete for a spot in the final six: six elite finalists to trave...
“Long red thread - someone’s dead.” Abby lives in a small town plagued by disappearances. In the town, everyone knows you never walk alone or go out after dark. Not unless you want to be The Stitcher’s next victim. When her younger siste...
Eelyn’s Aska clan has been at war with the Riki and their god for many years. They live a brutal Viking lifestyle. When Eelyn is captured by the enemy, she discovers that her brother is now fighting for them. The brother she watched die ...
“This Day is Dark” is a haunting poetry collection by Rh Sin. It is love, loneliness, grief, and perseverance in the written word.
Christa doesn’t consider herself the outdoorsy type, but when her devoted boyfriend Kiernan asks her to accompany him on a trip to the mountains where he grew up, Christa soon finds herself deep in the Rocky Mountain wilderness. When a c...
First book of 2024: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. This middle-grade novel is filled with themes like bravery, loyalty, love, and betrayal. Our three main protagonists—Percy, Annabeth, and Grover—are relatable and unique in their o...
“We are the only gods here.” During their 16th year, all girls in Garner County are sent out to the wilderness to release their magic and return purified and ready for marriage. Determined to survive her Grace Year, Tierney James will ha...
In 1975, George and Kathy Lutz moved into a small New England house of their dreams. The same house where Ronald DeFeo murdered his whole family a year prior. The paranormal activity that ensued drove the Lutz and their young children to...
Ed Warren is a demonologist, and his wife Lorraine a gifted clairvoyant. Together, this couple helped thousands of people across the country in their lifetime with their supernatural experiences, hauntings, and possessions. They investig...
Oedipus saved Thebes before by defeating the formidable Sphinx. Now, as their new king, his people look to him, again, to save them from an encroaching plague. Determined to solve the murder of the previous King Laius, Oedipus uncovers t...
When Vivian, a witch from Grave’s Glen, cursed her ex-boyfriend Rhys when they were 19, she didn’t think the curse would actually stick. Fast forward a decade and the spell-binding Rhys has returned to town from Wales, his home country. ...
“Snow always lands on top.” It’s the 10th annual Hunger Games and Coriolanus Snow is a senior at the Academy. He’s just been chosen as a mentor for one of the tributes in the upcoming Games. Snow is assigned to district 12 tribute Lucy G...
This is a contemporary, young adult romance novel, but it’s also so much more than that. This story centers on Daniel, a Korean-American hopeless romantic, and Natasha, an undocumented immigrant who has no time for romance. When fate—or ...
I loved this story. This book is basically a retelling of the original myth that movies like The Ring are based on. Told in the perspective of Okiku, a 300-year-old spirit who avenges murdered children, you follow her journey alongside t...
