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The final Judgement is here...My sisters hate their gifts, but they don’t know how lucky they are. They have a home and family. I have nothing. But, I am Courage, and I know my purpose. I exist for one reason only: to complete the Judgement.Olivia is blind, yet sees. And what she sees, she keeps to herself. Her father conspires for control while Olivia does her own plotting with forces that only she understands. Now, time is running out, and choices that will impact the world must be made.

I hate. I thought I hated before the letter, before the werewolves, but now I understand that was nothing more than a chip on my shoulder. The urbat took what was mine. And, they will pay.Isabelle leads a very normal life...for an emotional syphon. If not for Ethan and his bar, she would have lost her sanity long ago. But everything changes with the crash of her fighting cage and a man who transforms into a wolf. There’s something about Carlos—when he’s not growling at her—that makes her do things she wouldn’t normally do, like sigh and daydream.Attraction aside, she is faced the very real evidence that werewolves and urbat exist, and the urbat are after her. And the only way she can keep Ethan safe is to join with the werewolves and Carlos. It’s a race against time to stop a war, fight for love, and find the last Judgement.

I left home because I didn’t want to end up in a cage like a lab rat. Hitching rides, begging for cash, and sleeping on the ground got old fast. That was the only reason I braved an overgrown path to a group of buildings. I’d hoped to find a bed and a decent night’s sleep. However, what I found was a place overrun by werewolves.While on the run, Charlene finds herself surrounded by werewolves, creatures she can’t control with her mind like she can humans. Their existence has her believing she’s found a safe place to stay, a place where secrets are okay. However, she soon discovers she’s anything but safe. Charlene must learn how to use her abilities to influence the strange new species because if she can’t, the next bite she suffers might just kill her.Read how the cycle begins, and have no doubt. Charlene’s past will shape the future of the Judgements.

They kept me prisoner for four years, using me for my predictions. They thought they had me subdued, meekly following orders, but they were wrong. I was waiting for a chance to run. I had to be careful, though. They had my brothers, and the leader wasn't exactly human. The sudden death of her stepfather gives Michelle the only chance she may ever have to escape, and she takes it. She needs a place to hide and someone to listen to her predictions so her head doesn't explode. Yet, there's nowhere she can hide and no one to protect her from the monsters pursuing her. Then, she meets Emmitt. He's calm, kind, caring...and a werewolf. If she can find a way to trust him, he might be able to do more than just keep her safe. He might be the one who can help her fight for answers about her gift and the other women like her. Only time will tell if what she discovers is enough to keep those she loves safe from an emerging evil.

Freedom is so close Gabby can taste it. After years of meeting single werewolves and successfully dodging the mating bullet, she's on her way to her last Introduction to say "No, thanks" one final time. As a human, she has no plans to attach herself to a werewolf. But, she didn’t count on meeting Clay.With a single look, Gabby knows Clay is the one. And, unfortunately, he knows it too. The silent, ruggedly-handsome werewolf is determined to win his mate by any means necessary. Gabby does what any sane girl would do and runs. Not only does Clay follow, but something truly dangerous does as well.Now, hunted for the secrets she’s spent her whole life protecting, Gabby must turn to the one man she didn't want for the help she needs. Time is running out to discover who or what wants her, and Gabby’s just starting to realize there’s more at stake than the heart and freedom of one human girl.

When Alyx Eris convinced him to become a keeper of the watch, Chase Walker knew he gained the ability to traverse the twelve dimensions.He knew there were others-the hunters-who would do anything to put an end to the watches' existence.He knew his status as a keeper was completely binding until his nineteenth birthday.Most importantly, he knew he'd be spending the year by Alyx's side.What he didn't know was that in this dimension resides a ruling mage that poses more of a threat than the hunters ever could.He didn't know that magic-born hybrid beasts lurk in every corner of the surrounding forests.And he didn't know that nothing-and no one-is what it seems in the mystical world of Dimension 8.

Charlotte Flynn is on a mission. Betrayed by both Penumbra and her Uncle Baron, Charlotte is seeking the missing Flying Ponies in the hopes of uniting them against their wayward leader. Joined by Dreadful, a crazy cavalry horse; Black, her new boyfriend; and her family and friends, she plans to find the missing carousel horses before Penumbra and Baron do.But the hunt won't be easy. An old friend of Black's shows up, with intentions that might not be as honorable as she says. The Tyranny holds some of the Flying Ponies in their possession - and they're not givnig them up. Penumbra, determined to have all the carousel horses to himself, will stop at nothing to defeat Charlotte and Dreadful. And if that isn't enough, Charlotte discovers she, like her traitorous uncle, has magic flowing throug her. Determined to bring the Flying Ponies back together no matter the cost, the sixteen-year-old may end up paying the ultimate price.

Wisdom and love from grandparents. This is a different kindof family story! It is one that most never hear of in public, butso many families experience in private. Often we read and hearthe testimonies about the determination of a strong mother orgrandmother that guided her family along, through the pain andsorrow, no money, no education and no hope. Yet, with muchwisdom and determination, made it and so did her children.Grandmother Mildred is that character in this book, but she is onthe different side, she is standing back watching her daughter'semotional turmoil erupt in her granddaughter's life. It is aboutthe best for your child, every child. To have the love, care andsupport of a parents and family, believing for hope and healingfor every child!

Can an uptown teen solve a murder mystery in down-home Oklahoma?Bella Kirkwood loves her glam life in New York City. But her faith is tested when her mom falls for a blue-collar country bumpkin and relocates them both to rural Oklahoma. After her brutally honest blog rant goes viral, the former trendsetter turns into a social reject.Relegated to the school paper, Bella jumps at the chance to win over classmates she burned-and maybe even impress the hot editor. But when she overhears a cryptic conversation about a football player's fatal so-called accident, she sets her sights on the scoop of a lifetime… one someone would kill to keep hidden.Can Bella expose a small town's shocking secret before she's dead on arrival?So Not Happening is the first book in The Charmed Life series of YA mysteries. If you like charismatic teen characters, witty humor, and a sprinkling of romantic intrigue, then you'll love Jenny B. Jones' captivating tale. Buy So Not Happening to enjoy a riches-to-rags story today!

A mysterious fae-shifter. A battle royale. A discovery of a lifetime.I've always been different. Awkward. Horrible at magic. A square peg shoved into a round hole.But after I'm sucked into Faerie, I have a chance to start over, to find love, and discover my lost bloodline.Crazily enough, my magic is finally cooperating too.And yet, there's one hitch. Because there's always a hitch, isn't there?To get what I want most, I have to fight gladiator style-and I must win.The competition is infinitely more powerful than me, cunning, and a thousand times more charming. Still, when I really want something, I don't give up.And I won't start now.If you like the atmosphere of Holly Black's The Cruel Prince and the action of Leigh Bardugo's Grishaverse, you'll love Ashley McLeo's twisted Bonegates Series.Discover a unique take on Faerie and magic today.

Emma Loukas had a typical teenage life. Until she didn't. After choosing to stay home instead of accompanying her family to a minor league baseball game, Emma is not present when a suicide bomber detonates an explosive device at the entrance to the stadium just as her family arrives. In the months that follow, grief therapy and the gloomy looks from friends and her extended family do nothing but drag Emma further down into the rubble left behind by that deadly April afternoon.To escape the sad reality of her new life, Emma heads across the country to California to spend her senior year with her grandmother. Getting away from her former life is the only way to survive. It doesn't take long, though, for Emma to experience Grandma Connie's dementia, and it's more than a seventeen-year-old is capable of handling on her own. Now, Emma fears she has just made her bad situation worse, and she begins to wonder if it's even worth trying to survive.But when the family mementos on the dresser catch her eye, Emma feels a bit of light flicker inside her. Maybe the way to make sense of her new life is to live the lives her mom, dad, and brother no longer can. So she sets out to achieve each of their dreams. It won't be easy, but it's all Emma has left, and in the process, she just may find out who she's supposed to be.

Teenage life (with a playlist).Nearly sixteen, Kila Lorens showers herself in music, lives in plush corduroys, and always applies a double layer of lip gloss. She longs for the answers to this irritating trio of questions: When will she have her first kiss? Will Angus Lyr ever stop obsessi-texting Reese Seratine? And why did her former best friend, Brixton Kading, silently bow out of her life six months ago? The particulars of these unknowns, along with her mission to convince Maya Malta to share some sizeable news with a certain seventeen-year-old before he finds out from someone else, keep Kila's eyes open at night.But one late hour delivers something worth hiding: a private Nektir message from Timothy Cardiff, the tall, inky-haired enigma who rarely speaks in school, yet somehow morphs into Salt for Swordsmen's frontman on the weekends. Amidst tandem listening and dizzying revelations, the two form an unlikely attachment. When their covert communication spills into the halls of Cypress High, they both wonder if this will be a short-lived or long-lasting entanglement.Ethan Lorens, Kila's cautious but optimistic older brother, mostly focuses on his new drums and his indie band's potential. An after-school visit to Casper's Music Underground presents some unexpected industry intel. Following years of hiatus, Emerald Rock plans to host another EmOpen. Casper encourages the boys to prepare for the contest, but Ethan, Brixton, and Angus wrestle with the group's shortcomings. Could the young French chef they meet at The Hidden Meridian be the band's missing link?Sometimes dreams come out to play. Mixing Kila and Ethan's friends together on a parentless weekend induces irreversible crushes, late-night courtship, and stinging heartache. With an elaborate, 67-song playlist to embed you in every magnetic moment and missed connection, you'll experience the rush of Everything All At Once, the first book in the CHORDUROYS AND TOO MANY BOYS(TM) series.Gold Award Recipient, Mom's Choice AwardsReaders' Favorite 5-star sealFirst Place, 2020 Royal Dragonfly Awards, Young Adult FictionFirst Place, 2020 Royal Dragonfly Awards, Performing ArtsFirst Place, 2020 Royal Dragonfly Awards, New Author: Fiction¿2020 Wishing Shelf Book Awards Finalist, Books for Teenagers 2020 American Fiction Awards Finalist, Coming of Age2020 International Book Awards Finalist, Best New Fiction2020 New York Book Festival Honorable Mention, Young Adult2020 Paris Book Festival Honorable Mention, Young Adult2019 Best Book Awards Finalist, Fiction: Young Adult *Spotify is a registered trademark of Spotify AB. Neither The Hidden Meridian, LLC or its CHORDUROYS AND TOO MANY BOYS(TM) books are sponsored by or otherwise affiliated with Spotify.

Jessica has never liked playing games, but when her twin sister dares her to switch places, she doesn't chicken out. Against her better judgement, Jessica says yes.She should have said no.Their stunt has deadly consequences, and Jessica believes the tragedy that unfolds is all her fault. Haunted by the secret of what she did to her sister, Jessica can't face the ghost she sees every time she looks in the mirror.Daniel tries his best to put Jessica back together when she falls apart, but can he help her find the strength to go on? Can Jessica forgive herself for what she did, or will the guilt break her forever?The Other Side of Me is part four of All the Things, a Young Adult Contemporary series where finding forgiveness is the answer to everything.

Truth or dare. Broken hearts. Deadly consequences.Katie has loved Levi for as long as she can remember. They were best friends, but now her heart breaks a little more every time he pretends she doesn't exist. When Katie gets roped into a game of truth or dare, Levi hurts her in a way she never thought he would. She's not sure if she can ever forgive him.Levi is dealing with his own problems, and he has his reasons for shutting Katie out, but can he convince her he only wanted to protect her?After summer break, Katie and Levi might finally be able to put the past behind them, but tragedy strikes too soon. With Levi's future now uncertain, and her world falling apart around her, can Katie find the courage not to give up on everything?Read the three-part Young Adult Contemporary series that will break your heart and put it back together again.

Carter Dixon deals with rumors every day. That's the way he likes it. One little hookup, combined with a bathroom scandal during his homecoming dance, sent the rumor mill into overdrive. Now he's The Man. At least, as far as everyone believes. Who cares if he's not really what everyone thinks. But when he accidentally texts the wrong person, he starts to wish he'd never let the rumor mill run rampant.Emma Sanchez couldn't care less about high school drama. Senior year is halfway over, and she's only focused on applying to a good art school, graduating, and not getting involved. Okay, there is the occasional boy talk with her best friend. Then she gets a text message from an unknown number and starts to think maybe there is a guy out there, unlike every other high school boy. Especially guys like Carter Dixon.One wrong number can lead to the right person.

Sometimes it takes going back to finally BREAK FREE.After fleeing the Theosian authorities and acclimating to their new home, teenage aliens Joshua and Mani have at long last carved out lives for themselves on Earth. With a circle of human friends more supportive than they ever imagined, Joshua and Mani discover true friendship is universal. And, for Joshua, so is true love, in the form of an Earthling named Emma.But the Theosian authorities are not so easily thwarted. The decree of no first contact with Earth must be upheld. A spy sent to Earth aims to find, capture, and return Joshua and Mani to Theos for prosecution.To protect Mani, safeguard his human friends, and preserve his idyllic existence with the love of his life, Joshua risks going back in order to finally BREAK FREE.Get your copy today!Joshua: Life After Theos (Book 1 in the series) was a finalist in the 2019 Next Generation Indie Book Competition in the category of Young New Adult (ages 17+).

Compared to life on tour with her wannabe rock star mother, finishing high school in Rye is a snooze. At least Roxy has her best friend, Zoë, her dad, and her music. When her standoffish Civics class partner, Jag Monroe, breaks ranks and randomly friends her on Instagram, Roxy swiftly declines.Jag is Roxy's total opposite: stinking rich, conceited, and hot in that obvious kind of way. Roxy's sure that his repeated friend requests must be a joke. Then Zoë does the unthinkable: snatches Roxy's phone, accepts Jag's latest friend request, and follows him back.As the posts (and sparks) fly, Roxy begins to suspect that Jag may not be as shallow as everyone thinks, and that he may be into more than just her music.

Everyone talks to animals. Some do it every day, although very few stop to listen for a reply.Lizbet Wood does, and this is just one of the things that set her apart. She really doesn't understand how different she is until violence shatters her solitary existence.While Lizbet seeks to understand why mother sought refuge on a deserted island in the Pacific Northwest, she comes face to face with the dangers her mother tried but failed to escape. When her mother is gravely injured, Lizbet is forced from the island and thrust into a world even more complex and threatening than she could have ever imagined. A world where the animals have no say…or do they?Declan's life is on trajectory mode. He's a star on East End High's basketball team. He's months away from graduation and has plans to attend Duke University. And Nicole has just invited him to her party...But the moment Declan meets Lizbet, his life is thrown into turmoil. She's unlike anyone he's ever met and the creatures she introduces him to will change not only his plans for the future, but everything he believes about life, science, and the animals surrounding him.If you like breathtaking action, mystery, schnauzers, and a hint of romance, then you'll love this edge-of-your-seat story by USA Today bestselling author, Kristy Tate.Read Menagerie today and learn what your pets would really like to tell you.

The Gray Clan has scattered. The shadows thirst for blood. The end has come.Trapped in the Academy where the beauty of magic is only a myth, Jacob and Emilia struggle to recover from terrible losses after their battle with the Pendragon. The horror stories of life in the Academy did not prepare the Grays for what the students truly face. With the Headmistress refusing to tell her students of the murder and chaos the Dragons have wrought, escape is Jacob and Emilia's only option.But the war outside the Academy's walls rages on without them, and the Dragons have scented the Gray Clan's blood. When death comes from below, will the tethering be enough to keep Jacob and Emilia together, or will their bond finally be broken?

A fierce elite guard. A loyal lady in waiting. They must work together to save three princesses from certain death.On the verge of dying after giving birth to twins, the queen of Mercia pleads with Lady Felicia to save her infant daughters. With the castle overrun by King Ethelwulf's invading army, Lady Felicia vows to do whatever she can to take the newborn princesses and their three-year old sister to safety, even though it means sacrificing everything she holds dear, possibly her own life.Gravely wounded in battle and knowing all is lost to his enemy, the king of Mercia tasks Lance, one of his fiercest elite guards, to protect his family along with keys to an ancient treasure. As Lance makes plans to sneak the princesses out of the capital city, he doesn't need or want Lady Felicia's help.With the dark enemy in pursuit, Lance and Felicia must put aside their differences to outrun King Ethelwulf and prevent him from killing the princesses. In a desperate attempt to hide the young girls, Lance and Felicia agree to a marriage of convenience, a decision that will change their lives-and hearts-forever.

Graceland Johnson and Noble Chavis had a secret he took with him to the grave. Now, Noble is back and Graceland must find a way to keep him around. As eyes shift and lips meet, Graceland knows he's using Jamie Locklear to communicate with her. What is Noble trying to say? Will Graceland figure it all out before the Reaper finds him and carries him to Heaven? What's so special about Angel Creek, North Carolina that keeps the undead around? Find out in this sweet paranormal romance series by Jen Lowry.

In doing her part for world peace, she puts one crosser's whole world at risk. Conspiracy theories, werewolf scares, and protest rallies have hampered the peace process in America, where social and political unrest keep most Amaranthine from declaring themselves. Those not in seclusion rely heavily on illusion to mask their true nature.As the newly appointed principal of a small elementary school, Tamiko Reaverson is doing her part for world peace. She rallies her community's support and applies for Hisoka Twineshaft's school revitalization project, which will bring Amaranthine to her hometown. Little does Tami realize that Fletching was founded by one of the oldest and largest urban enclaves in the United States. And two of her staunchest supporters-janitors at her school-share a secret neither wants exposed.

Die sechzehnjährige Maryam fällt aus allen Wolken, als der coolste Typ der Schule völlig unbekümmert mit ihr flirtet, obwohl Jungs wie er doch auf ganz andere Mädchen stehen.Und warum lässt er einfach nicht locker, obwohl sie ihn mit Witz und frechen Sprüchen auf Abstand zu halten versucht?Als eines Tages Maryams Schulfreund Liam spurlos verschwindet, begreift sie, dass sie Teil eines perfiden Spiels ist.Doch da schwebt sie bereits in Lebensgefahr.Ein Roman über große Gefühle, falsche Entscheidungen und echte Freundschaft.Turbulent! Witzig! Spannend!Mit einem Ausschnitt dieser Geschichte gewann die Autorin den Literaturpreis Nordost.