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Storm - The Elemental Series
Synopsis: (Book 1 in the Elemental Series)
Ever since her ex-boyfriend spread lies about her, Becca Chandler is suddenly getting all the guys - the ones she doesn't want. Then she saves Chris Merrick from a beating in the school parking lot. Chris is different. Way different: he can control water - just like his brothers can control fire, wind, and earth. They're powerful. Dangerous. Marked for death.

And now that she knows the truth, so is Becca.

When Hunter, the mysterious new kid in town, turns up with a talent for being in the wrong place at the right time, Becca thinks she can trust him. But then Hunter goes head-to-head with Chris, and Becca wonders who's hiding the most dangerous truth of all...
Publication Date: 05/01/12
Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Romance
Life Guards in the Hamptons
Synopsis: Graphic novelist Willow Tate is a Visualizer, able to draw images of beings from the realm of Faerie and possibly to “draw” them from their world to ours in the process. Maybe she shouldn’t have decided to make her latest book about the god from Faerie whom she’d “rescued” when the fire bugs came to her for help. Or maybe she just shouldn’t have given him a part fish/part fowl sidekick. Had the creature shown up in Paumanok Harbor because she’d drawn it, or had she drawn it because it was calling out to her for assistance?
 
Either way, more weird things are happening in the Hamptons: robberies, embezzlement, rare bird sightings, rogue waves, and dolphins keeping the surfers out of the water. And though Willow swears she has nothing to do with any of it, none of the locals really believe her. Except, of course, the hero of her latest book—patterned after the new man in her life, a handsome Harbor veterinarian—happens to be a sea god....
Publication Date: 05/01/12
Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Romance
Pure Blood: Time Spirit Trilogy (Volume 3)
Synopsis: It is only a matter of time before Gemma's parents find out she traveled through time to bring Harrison back into existence. The fear of being found out is a heavy weight on her shoulders, but she refuses to give up on everything she's fought for. Harrison is worth the risk. The couple draws closer together as they battle opposing forces from all sides. They stay strong until Gemma's parents welcome an exchange student into their home. Simeon, a gorgeous Californian, is as smooth as coffee and, supposedly, a fellow time spirit. Gemma's parents expect her to take him everywhere and, of course, fall in love with him. After all, he is the boy they have chosen for her. No longer able to sneak off alone, Gemma must watch every step as she waits for the inevitable nightmare to catch up to her. Her parents ultimate goal is to get that last necklace and open the box hidden in their safe. If they do, Gemma knows her entire world will unravel. As the danger mounts, Gemma must decide if she has the courage to make the ultimate sacrifice to save the ones she loves and stop to her parents' destructive plans.
Publication Date: 04/23/12
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
BaSatai: Outside In
Suzan Battah
Synopsis: BaSatai: Outside In Seventeen year old, Armani Radnelaq a full blooded BaSatai is plagued by a curse in her blood. A curse created from hate and designed to break the divide between two parallel worlds of Earth and H-trae when Armani's blood is spilled in attack and she dies. S'teuqoubs have been travelling back and forth across the divide for centuries without trouble. The BaSatai and Guardians monitoring activity and enforcing rules to ensure peace and harmony but if the divide splits and opens, a much greater number of supernatural S’teuqoubs will filter into earth destroying equilibrium which the BaSatai and Guardians will be unable to control. Humanity and the BaSatai will suffer and perish. The parallel divide must remain secure at all costs. Armani has remained hidden on earth with her adopted father Elijah since her birth. She has been raised in the human way and fights her natural instinct to evolve into a BaSatai. The BaSatai in her requires her to evovle and shift, use her powers and strength. Yet Armani is freaked out by the need to shift. She smokes, has a bad attitude, must deal with aggressive bullies and control her natural BaSatai instinct. Her Guardian with BaSatai Warriors are coming for her. She refuses to accept her fate and doesn't believe any BaSatai should die to protect her. The blood curse maturing in her veins makes her a target for her enemies. Her Guardian Karhl and an elite BasSatai Warrior Rafael are the first to arrive and prepare her for her crossing over. Her attraction to Rafael complicates her purpose to stay on earth even more. They both insist she fall into line and follow their lead but she is not ready to leave earth just yet...
Publication Date: 04/14/12
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Amaranthine
Tricia Rigli
Synopsis: Amaranthine is a tale of the dark side of desire. Crimson Wilkinson is a seemingly normal high school senior who, bored with life, finds her kicks in reading a popular vampire series. But her boredom is well remedied when she becomes an active part in the very true vampire stories the world thought were fiction and falls in love with their author, Nicholae Albaric, the dangerously gorgeous and sweetly lonely vampire celebrity. The rush she once so longed for becomes a burden as Crimson discovers she has a rare gene that makes the carrier extremely powerful once they are made into a vampire, and she is targeted as the vampire community's number-one most wanted, some who want to kill her before she can become a threat and others who want to use her powers to their own ends.
Publication Date: 04/10/12
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Julie Rayzor - Romance, Adventure, Zombies
Richard Howes, Richard Howes
Synopsis: What do you do when you're 17, in a fortress surrounded by a zombie apocalypse, and your boyfriend is outside and lost? If you're Julie Rayzor, you lock and load. Reviews: “Crisp, fast-paced action novel... Writing style is very impressive... usually found in male adventures, yet his heroine is a woman in love... he pulls off the balancing act between realistic feminine energy and highly effective tough combat... Successfully blends all three genres: sci-fi, a love story, and a war story, and it works on all three levels... Great dialogue in this entertaining novel... Elmore Leonard type: short, character-revealing, and advancing the story conflict. And conflict is everywhere... I will not give away any secrets in the plot... I won’t tell you about the train scenes, wow, you’ll have to discover those yourself. I will say that the love story kicks in like an afterburner...” says John Hill, Author and Screenwriter of "Quigley Down Under", and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (uncredited), "LA Law" and "Quantum Leap". 17 year-old Julie is caught between a world of zombies outside of "Fort Tulsa" and a life of drama inside. When everything she loves in life is stolen away; her soldier-boyfriend missing-in-action; troubles with Jill, her best friend; Felix, a nerdy medical researcher fawning over her; plus a broken leg in a cast to weigh her down, she has to join the zombie war to fight or be killed. When she learns of a plan to rescue her boyfriend and save the city, she uncovers a dark secret - a secret that she must keep hidden deep inside until she can complete the most dangerous task of her life. The sequel, Rayzor-Wire, is in production. Zombies zombies zombies, killing zombies, Zombie brains, brains, horror, Zombie horror, zombie books, How to zombie, how to zombie in books, how to be a zombie, how to be a zombie in books, how to kill zombies, how to survive zombie, how to survive zombie apocalypse, how to speak zombie, how to speak zombie - a guide for the living, zombie infection, zombie survival, zombie survival kit, zombie attack, zombie attack weapons, zombie romance, zombie romance in kindle store, zombie romance in books, zombie apocalypse, infection. zombie apocalypse in kindle store, zombie in books, zombie in games, zombie in toys, zombie apocalypse, zombie apocalypse survival kit, zombie apocalypse survival gear, zombie war, zombie plan, Julie Razor, Razor. infecti The hunger games, World War Z, Zombie survival Guide, Zombies zombies zombies, killing zombies, Zombie brains, brains, zombie infection. horror, Zombie horror, zombie books, How to zombie, how to zombie in books, how to be a zombie, how to be a zombie in books, how to kill zombies, how to survive zombie, how to survive zombie apocalypse, how to speak zombie, how to speak zombie - a guide for the living, zombie survival, zombie survival kit, zombie attack, zombie attack weapons, zombie romance, zombie romance in kindle store, zombie romance in books, zombie apocalypse, zombie apocalypse in kindle store, zombie in books, zombie in games, zombie in toys, zombie apocalypse, zombie apocalypse survival kit, zombie apocalypse survival gear, zombie war, zombie plan, Julie Razor, Razor. The hunger games, World War Z, Zombie survival Guide, zombie infection, Zombies zombies zombies, killing zombies, Zombie brains, brains, horror, Zombie horror, zombie books, How to zombie, how to zombie in books, how to be a zombie, how to be a zombie in books, how to kill zombies, how to survive zombie, how to survive zombie apocalypse, how to speak zombie, how to speak zombie - a guide for the living, zombie survival, zombie survival kit, zombie attack, zombie attack weapons, zombie romance, zombie romance in kindle store, zombie romance in books, zombie apocalypse, zombie apocalypse in kindle store, zombie in books, zombie ga
Publication Date: 04/10/12
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Zombyre My Love
Traci Hall
Synopsis: “As always, Ms. Hall manages to beautifully convey real characters--and the human emotion that rules us through all time. I love her work!” – Heather Graham, New York Times Bestselling Author of PHANTOM EVIL and KREWE of HUNTERS series 18 year old Lolita Howard is one of the last uninfected humans on earth, and Valdric has six hundred years of vampirism under his cloak when he faces medical evolution, or extinction. He chooses to survive and becomes part vampire and part zombie. His duty is to protect the human race. He wants to save the world. She wants a boyfriend who doesn't think of her body parts as appetizers. Zombyre, My Love is a post apocolyptic survival story about a girl and a new breed of monster – or hero? 
Publication Date: 03/29/12
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Black Blood: Time Spirit Trilogy (Volume 2)
Synopsis: Gemma's parents have put enough rules around her relationship with Harrison that she feels like she's living on parole. But she wins one battle—a summer job working for Harrison's step-father. It is the perfect chance to spend the steamy, hot Florida days with her boyfriend. It's also a great distraction from the cellphone hiding in her underwear drawer—her only contact with Gabe, the mystery man who's stalking her.  When she confronts Gabe, he tells her that her parents are not who she thinks they are, and Harrison has the gall to believe him. Surrounded by conflict, Gemma doesn't know what to believe, and it takes a trip back in time for her to glimpse the sickening truth.  Thanks to her parents, she returns to the present to find the love of her life no longer exists. His family line was broken and now, so is she. This betrayal forces her to seek out Gabe. Setting aside her fear of the truth, she must trust this man and learn what he can teach her... otherwise, she'll never get her boyfriend back.
Publication Date: 03/26/12
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Timeless
Alexandra Monir
Synopsis:

When tragedy strikes Michele Windsor’s world, she is forced to uproot her life and move across the country to New York City, to live with the wealthy, aristocratic grandparents she’s never met. In their old Fifth Avenue mansion filled with a century’s worth of family secrets, Michele discovers a diary that hurtles her back in time to the year 1910. There, in the midst of the glamorous Gilded Age, Michele meets the young man with striking blue eyes who has haunted her dreams all her life – a man she always wished was real, but never imagined could actually exist. And she finds herself falling for him, into an otherworldly, time-crossed romance.
 
Michele is soon leading a double life, struggling to balance her contemporary high school world with her escapes into the past. But when she stumbles upon a terrible discovery, she is propelled on a race through history to save the boy she loves – a quest that will determine the fate of both of their lives.




From the Hardcover edition.
Publication Date: 03/13/12
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Somewhere Over the Freaking Rainbow
Synopsis: Jamison is crushing on the new girl next door. Bad news—the neighbors are Somerled cult-members killing off their own. Worse news—she’s next in line for sacrifice. Jamison will have to rise above the coward he thinks he is to get to the bottom of it all. Something is drastically wrong with Skye. She’s experiencing emotions like the mortal teenager she’s pretending to be. When she finally asks the right questions, she finds answers that will rock the Somerled world... ...and none of her options include Jamison, the boy who has stolen the heart she was never meant to have.
Publication Date: 03/03/12
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Golden Blood: Time Spirit Trilogy (Volume 1)
Synopsis: Gemma Hart never knows when her father is going to whisk her back in time. Her toes start tingling and she has a few minutes to find a secret haven where she can disintegrate and appear in another time and place. While "across the line," her training and skills are put to the test as she completes a mission that will change history for the lucky few her father has selected. 

Gemma's parents are adamant that secrecy is paramount to her family's safety. If people knew what they were capable of, they could be "used and abused", as her mother always says. Afraid she might accidentally utter the truth and break the ancient oath of her people, Gemma spends her school days as a loner. Only one thing can throw her sheltered life askew... Harrison Granger.

Harrison never expected to talk to the strange Hart girl, but after a brief encounter he can't stop thinking about her. He begins a campaign to chisel away her icy veneer and is met with unexpected consequences. As he slowly wins this girl over, he enters a surreal world that has him fighting to keep his newfound love and his life.
Publication Date: 02/27/12
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Believe in Me
Judith Dickerman-Nelson
Synopsis: Believe in Me: A Teen Mom's Story traces the emotional journey of Judith, a cheerleader and honors student at a Catholic girls' school in Massachusetts. When her 17-year-old boyfriend, Kevin O'Brien, gives her a diamond ring the summer before her senior year, she feels as if her life is perfect. But her pregnancy changes everything. Kevin's parents don't want him to start a family at such a young age, and Mrs. O'Brien tells Judith to get an abortion. As a Catholic and an adopted child, Judith must look within her own heart and decide what to do.

This beautifully written coming-of-age story will appeal to students of women's studies as well as teenagers and their parents and grandparents.

"Believe in Me is the honest and courageous story of 16-year-old Judith's transformation into a responsible young woman. Highly recommended reading for teens, parents, and educators."
--Joyce Allan, R.N., author of Because I Love You
Publication Date: 02/15/12
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Graffiti Moon
Cath Crowley
Synopsis: Senior year is over, and Lucy has the perfect way to celebrate: tonight, she's going to find Shadow, the mysterious graffiti artist whose work appears all over the city. He's out there somewhere—spraying color, spraying birds and blue sky on the night—and Lucy knows a guy who paints like Shadow is someone she could fall for. Really fall for. Instead, Lucy's stuck at a party with Ed, the guy she's managed to avoid since the most awkward date of her life. But when Ed tells her he knows where to find Shadow, they're suddenly on an all-night search around the city. And what Lucy can't see is the one thing that's right before her eyes.
Publication Date: 02/14/12
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
The Jade Notebook
Laura Resau
Synopsis: Down-to-earth Zeeta and her flighty mom, Layla, have spent years traveling the globe and soaking up everything each new culture has to offer. Now they've settled in the beachside town of Mazunte, Mexico, where Zeeta's true love, Wendell, has an internship photographing rare sea turtles. At first glance, Zeeta feels sure that Mazunte is paradise—she envisions dips in jade waters, sunsets over sea cliffs, moonlit walks in the surf. And she is determined to make Mazunte her home . . . for good. But as she and Wendell dig deeper to unearth her elusive father's past, Zeeta finds that paradise has its dark side.
Publication Date: 02/14/12
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Shadow and Light
Lanie Jordan
Synopsis: To see the light, sometimes you have to stay in the shadows.

Banished to Shadowland, Jeneca and the other Shadow Walkers have learned to adapt. They live in shadows and thrive where no one should. So when she finds two Light Walkers, she knows they won't last long on their own. But they refuse to leave until they find who they're looking for: her.

Jolsa doesn't want to be there. Shadowland isn't the place for light--or Light Walkers. The Shadow Walkers are nothing but savages that can't be trusted, but he made a promise to keep his best friend, Layli, safe. He'll do whatever it takes to accomplish that, even if it means going to Shadowland for protection.

Jeneca knows what it's like to have to hide, and she agrees to help--as long as the Light Walkers follow her rules. But even as both sides begin to depend on each other, secrets come to light and they learn that danger lurks in more than just shadows...


Other titles by Lanie Jordan:

THE BREED CHRONICLES (Teen & Young Adult Urban Fantasy/Paranormal):
Breed of Innocence, Book #01
Breed of Envy, Book #02
Book of Havoc, Book #03, coming soon!

SINGLE TITLES:
Twin Tied (Teen & Young Adult Paranormal)
Shadow and Light (Teen & Young Adult Fantasy/Paranormal)
Publication Date: 02/13/12
Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Romance
Two Milliners
James Connor
Synopsis: 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.
Publication Date: 02/03/12
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance

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