Teen Scene
August 2025

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Kill creatures
by Rory Power

One year after Nan's three best friends disappear, no one is more surprised than her when one of them returns--because she is the one who killed them.
Predatory creatures
by Amy Goldsmith

Lara's dream job aboard a luxury train takes a strange turn when she discovers the mysterious botanical cargo in the caboose.
Best of All Worlds
by Kenneth Oppel

Xavier went to sleep at a lake house with his family, and woke up on a farm under an impenetrable dome. He’s surviving just fine until another family shows up, who may pose a greater threat than whoever put them all in this predicament. Read-alikes: Marieke Nijkamp’s At the End of Everything; Laura Bates’ No Accident.
Bound by Stars
by E. L. Starling

Never let go . . . A Love That Defies Gravity…and Fate. She never belonged in his world. He never thought he’d leave it. When Weslie Fleet wins a golden ticket aboard the Boundless, humanity’s most opulent starliner, it’s a dream―and a danger. Raised in the dust-ridden ruins of Earth, she is thrust into the gleaming luxury of Mars’s elite, where every whispered word carries weight and every glance is a silent judgment. And none watch her closer than Jupiter, the golden boy of Mars’s high society, bound by duty, legacy, and a future he never chose. Their reluctant partnership was supposed to be a one-off assignment. Instead, it becomes a battle of wills, a spark that ignites, and a love neither of them anticipated. But fate is as cruel as it is unpredictable, and when the Boundless veers off course, love won’t be enough to save them. The ship is failing. The odds are impossible. And in the darkness of space, survival is the only thing that matters. But some loves are worth defying the stars for. A sweeping, star-crossed romance with the thrill of first love, the weight of impossible choices, and the heartbreak of knowing that not every journey ends where you planned.
After We Burned
by Marieke Nijkamp

On the night Eden and her girlfriend Payton planned to run away from their abusive families, their high school burned to the ground with Eden trapped inside. Now, Payton and her classmates strive to protect the secrets that may emerge during the investigation. Read-alikes: Kacen Callender's We Are Villains; Megan Davidhizar's Silent Sister.
 
Dark Academia
Sinister scholars, secret societies, deadly conspiracies...no matter the storyline, you can count on dark academia for plenty of twists, as well as unsettling, ominous vibes.
 
The bone witch
by Rin Chupeco

Discovering her power for necromancy after accidentally resurrecting her brother from the dead, Tea is ostracized by her community but partners with an older bone witch who trains her as a wielder of elemental magic.
Heartless hunter
by Kristen Ciccarelli

Moonlighting as the Crimson Moth, a witch vigilante who rescues her kind from being purged, Rune courts Gideon Sharpe, an unforgiving witch hunter, while pretending to be a vapid young socialite during the day in order to gain the intel she desperately needs, but she can't help falling for him. 
This ravenous fate
by Hayley Dennings

In 1926 Jazz Age Harlem, where reapers, once-human vampires with a terrifying affliction, stalk the streets, 18-year-old Elise Saint, heir to her family's reaper-hunting business, reunites with a friend-turned-enemy to investigate why some reapers are turning part-human again, leaving a wake of mysterious and brutal killings.
The Witch Haven
by Sasha Peyton Smith

New York City, 1911: 17-year-old Frances is suspected of murdering her brother. Being whisked away to Haxahaven Sanitarium not only saves her from being arrested, but allows her to hone magical talents that could help solve the crime. This dramatic, suspenseful dark fantasy incorporates themes of justice and sisterhood.
 
Immortal dark
by Tigest Girma

Nineteen-year-old orphan Kidan Adane, heiress to a fallen House of humans tethered to vampiric creatures called draniacs, navigates her duty to foster human-draniac relations, but when her sister is kidnapped, Kidan suspects a draniac and will do anything to find her.
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