Retreat House by Sarah Yasin is a fiction thriller about a young woman, Holly, running a youth group to bring the youth of her congregation together. With the plans made to have a co-sleepover at Holly’s uncle’s old lake house, parents begin to take their...

Tainted is a brilliant and intense young adult novel written by Jody Calkins. Shep and Charlie met each other unexpectedly when Shep saved her life in a dire situation. Ever since they first met they could not get enough of each other, but all the...

Lindsey and her younger sister, Bridget, are very talented young ladies. When the family moves to New York so that Bridget can pursue her studies on the violin at the world famous school for the arts, Julliard, Lindsey, a very promising dancer, feels a little...

The Silver Six is the second novel in the Uncanny Valley series by C.A. Gray. Readers are once again taken on an exciting adventure. Rebecca Cordeaux has learned that her mother is the mysterious leader M of the renegades. Considering that her mother had...

Don't Look Back by Jeff Magnuson is a young adult thriller with well developed themes and strong characters. Jason Markum is not only bullied but faces suspension. But then Jason and his friend, Lori, stumble on a secret, part of a technology developed for a...

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...

A few teenagers get more than they bargained for in Nine Candles of Deepest Black by Matthew S. Cox. It all starts with the appearance of Paige, who recently lost her bigger sister and moved to a small, peaceful town with her parents and her...

Hooked is the first book in the Hard Wired Trilogy by DeAnna Browne. In the future, virtual reality is part of everyday life. People go on dates in VR, have parties in VR and experience the wildest things in relative safety. Some, however, take VR...

Kings and Criminals is a work of thriller fiction written for young adults by author Mungo Magennis. The novel focuses on the visionary young Max, who sees the intense problems of the world he’s about to become an adult in, and wants to devote his...