| Make Me a Monster by Kalynn BayronMeka is more comfortable around death than most people, considering she grew up in her family’s funeral home...tragedy strikes, and Meka's world is torn apart. Nothing makes sense, especially the strange things start happening. Ravens are circling her home. Strangers are following her. Someone is leaving mysterious items at her door. And worst of all...the dead don't seem to be staying dead.
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Fortress of Ambrose
by J. Elle
With the future of the Order clouded in uncertainty, and the evil within its ranks coming to the surface, Quell Marionne has nowhere left to turn.
Everyone Quell cares about is gone and she still can’t escape the powerful legacy that wants to destroy her. But when she uncovers an earth-shattering revelation, she must choose...be the hero the magic world needs or save Jordan.
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The dysfunctional family's guide to murder
by Kate Emery
14-year-old Ruth was expecting a few fights on her family's vacation at their remote farmhouse. But she wasn't expecting a murder. And "death by typewriter" wasn't quite how she thought her step-grandmother, GG, would meet her end. As an avid reader of mystery novels, Ruth is more than a little excited to have a real mystery to solve. (Though she's sad about GG. Obviously.) And she's read enough Agatha Christie that catching a killer should be a breeze...right? With her annoyingly hot sort-of-cousin, Dylan, as the Watson to her Holmes, Ruth soon begins to uncover long-buried family secrets
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Monsters
by Ilsa J. Bick
When her parents died, Alex thought things couldn't get much worse until the doctors found the monster in her head. She headed into the wilderness as a good-bye, to leave everything behind. But then the end of the world happened, and Alex took the first step down a treacherous road of betrayal and terror and death. Now, with no hope of rescue-on the brink of starvation in a winter that just won't quit-she discovers a new and horrifying truth.
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Don't forget to breathe
by Sara Waxelbaum
Zoe’s always had a plan. Ballet has been her past, present, and future for so long that she’s never even considered otherwise. It’s been the escape she’s always needed. Yet when senior year arrives, it arrives with a feeling of uncertainty she never expected, and a paralyzing fear about choosing the wrong future. Hanna’s rarely stayed in a place longer than a year. The greatest consistency she has is her piano playing, and her dad diving back into his Jewish faith every time her mom leaves on assignment. So, when her senior year begins with yet another move to a new school, she’s not planning on putting down roots, she’s learned that hard way how that ends. But when the girls’ paths collide, everything they thought they knew is turned upside down. Their relationship could change them each forever...if they have the courage to let their worlds fall apart.
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The Dark Cove Theatre Society
by Sierra Marilyn Riley
Violet Costantino knows she is already on thin ice this school year. Her scholarship has taken a significant hit due to her panic attack during her final performance in acting class last semester, which simultaneously shattered her dreams of becoming a leading lady. This year, she is determined to keep her head down. However, the school seems to have other plans for Violet...she is cast as one of the leads in the annual Halloween play. What’s worse, the beautiful, infuriatingly talented Frankie Lin and Violet’s ex-crush, Hunter Kinsley, are both cast as her love interests. Despite her initial reluctance, Violet is drawn in by the glamor of the Dark Cove Theatre Society, and she cautiously starts believing that maybe she is cut out for this after all. But lurking in the shadows of Violet’s fragile self-confidence is the rumor of the Society curse, which is said to cause one cast member to drop out before opening night every year, mysteriously and without reason.
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Joy to the girls
by Alyson Derrick
Aside from sampling all the holiday cheer Barnwich has to offer, Alex and Molly have an important mission this weekend...to help their friend, Cora, get her crush to fall for her. Between ice skating, snowball fights, and matchmaking schemes, it becomes obvious that both of them have another mission this weekend, which is to not reveal the huge secrets they’re each keeping from the other. Secrets about their post-college plans that just might threaten to tear them apart.
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A Riddle of Thorns
by Sarena Nanua
Sana has waited years to return to her ancestral home in Paris, with its labyrinthine halls and overgrown gardens. Sent away as a child when her mother disappeared, Sana has long puzzled over whether her mother's departure was just another of her famously unsolvable riddles. Now eighteen and ready to claim her inheritance, Sana arrives at the dark and dilapidated estate to find three strangers awaiting her. Per her mother’s will, they’ve each received a cryptic invitation to compete in a contest of riddles for the deed to Razorthorn Manor, and the rumored treasure hidden within...a flower created by the gods themselves, able to grant any wish. Feeling betrayed by her mother, Sana sets out to uncover the truth of where her mother really went, what links the competitors together, and what secrets the crumbling and disquieting house conceals.
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