From USA Today bestselling author Lacy Williams, writing as Lacy Yager and Haley Yager comes a young adult novel: Alliance     How do you choose between destiny and love?  Forever seventeen, vampire Maggie Wells has spent her life in the shadows. A master at blending in, she lives among the troubled teens she's made it her mission to protect, along with her best friend and witch, Hannah Morgan.  Eighteen-year-old Shane Campton knows his destiny: he was born to kill vampires. When he crosses paths with Maggie, the only thing that keeps her alive are the witnesses present.  When Shane's younger sister, a mysterious supernatural, needs Maggie help, Shane is torn between his duty to kill and his sister's safety. He starts to get to know Maggie, and finds there is much more to her than he thought. But Maggie has a secret past that could destroy them all.---------------------------------- *  USA TODAY on this vampire series:  “And here I thought the vampire teen romance thing was pretty played out! I’m glad to be wrong, thanks to Lacy Yager’s Unholy Alliance series.”  *  Netgalley library reviewer on Shadow Allegiance, a young adult best seller:  “This one is for the paranormal romantics, a modern day Romeo and Juliet with fangs. Enjoy!”   ----------------------------------    Young Adult Romance Book Categories:  >  Teen Fiction Romance  >  Paranormal Teen  >  YA Adventure

Enter the fantasy world of Underwall! When Jack Eastman is awakened by noises in his basement, he encounters a pair of unusual creatures who will change the course of his life. They tell Jack of an impending war that will devastate the earth. They tell him that it is his destiny to join them and take his place as rightful king of the Eastern realms of Underwall. With an army of mythical creatures, he will battle the forces of the Scourge King of the West. It will be a conflict of epic proportions and an adventure that will decide the fate of the world forever.

Hiding inside the hollow pedestal of the statue standing just outside the castle walls, sixteen-year-olds Lavinia and her visiting-for-the-summer cousin, Beatrice, develop a crush on one of the night sentries patrolling the perimeter. When, by chance, they learn of the debilitating illness of the sentry's ten-year-old son, Benjy, they resolve to bring secret medical help to the family after the Duke, Lavinia's father, refuses their pleas. At the same time, it is summer in the Midlands and the two young ladies begin to flirt with two lads their own age that they meet in the forest. The working class lads, who serve as apprentice milliners – hat-makers – in town, do not suspect at first anything more than romance is involved with these privileged daughters of English nobility. But they both soon become swept up in something more, an ill-fated scheme to kidnap a sick lad from his home while a doctor is deceived by the disguised-as-servants cousins into treating the boy on a moonlit forest trail. The plan takes an unpredictable, tragic turn when the mother of the boy is awakened in the middle of the night to find her son missing. She takes the news directly to her husband walking his rounds at the castle, and, still bearing the sentry's sword upon his hip, he flies on horseback after the two milliners responsible. Set in Elizabethan England around 1600, the book mixes adventure and romance in equal measure with the text in the form of a Hollywood script.

When you’re caught in a traffic jam, you’ve got nowhere to go… Val Delton’s life is spiraling and there’s nothing she can do to stop it. Her dad lost his job, her mom works fourteen hour days to pay the bills and yet somehow there are high-end shopping bags and an iPod in her older sister’s room. Naturally, Val becomes suspicious but her sister’s lips are sealed. Then by accident, she uncovers a dark, dangerous secret hidden behind her sister’s bright smiles and cool indifference. Val has no idea how far and how deep the repercussions of her sister’s secret will reach but she’ll do whatever it takes to keep her family safe. Will she succeed before her sister’s secret destroys everyone she loves?