Two seventeen-year-old teenagers, Beck and Dean, more like brothers than friends, want to run away from their small town of Clatskanie, Oregon. Defiant and reckless Beck wants to escape from the tortuous stranglehold of his abusive stepfather. For years, a world of his own has...

Silent Siren by L.B. Carter is the first book in the Climatic Climacteric series. Rena has a secret. One she doesn't tell anyone. Not even her closest friends or her grandpa. One that haunts her every moment. Her father didn't drown due to the car...

Someone To Kiss My Scars by Brooke Skipstone is a disturbing psychological thriller with young and elaborately developed characters. Hunter is a troubled young man who has experienced unspeakable trauma and at his father's behest, a doctor erased his memories. But now, some of his...

In Sam and James: The Missing Teen by AA Freda, as the granddaughter of wealthy tycoon Henry Greenwald takes her usual route home from school, little does she know she is being watched. On that fateful January afternoon in 1969, 14-year-old Penelope Campos is about...

Slow Drip by Gary Polisano is well named: that title describes the serial killer’s methodology, right from how he selects his victims to how he kills them. It also captures Polisano’s style: a slow drip of information following a block-buster opening chapter that shows the...

Shattered by Jody Calkins is a different kind of story, because the main character is dead. Marris is 15 years old and an orphan. She’s been living in a late 21st century academy for unwanted children for a few years, and has three more years...

Lia doesn’t fit into her world below ground, where the rules are absolute and favor men over women, adults over children, and government officials overall. Complying is not in her nature, though stories of a girl who let her curiosity overpower her judgment keep Lia...

Scavenger Girl: Season of Talium by Jennifer Arntson is a gripping young adult fantasy with a fascinating setting and strong characters. The season is Talium in the world of Ashlund and it's a horrible one. It's constantly dark during this season. It is also cold,...

An old camera, mysterious photos and a series of murders... Hailey Sloan is like anyone else, just trying to pave her way as a photojournalist. But when an old camera comes into her possession while helping her grandmother clean the attic, her life will change...

Super Me: Super Series, Book One is a paranormal coming of age novel for young and new adults written by Jessica Dazzo. She wasn’t going to have to take the bus to school that morning -- or ever again, Faye realized with delight, and still...