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Ashlynn's Dreams
Julie C Gilbert
Synopsis: The kidnapping changes everything …

Twelve-year-old Jillian Blairington never thought she was particularly special.

She was wrong. She’s a Dream Shaper.

The scientists responsible for the genetic modifications kidnap her in order to teach Jillian how to use her Gift. But she isn’t alone. They also have her babysitter, Danielle Matheson, snatched to keep her in line.

They also have a task for her.

If Jillian can’t master her Gift quickly, Danielle might only be the first victim of many.

Interview with the Author:
Q: What makes the Devya’s Children series special?
A: At the heart, this series is about family and friendship as well as the ethical questions surrounding genetic engineering. It’s been likened to the Orphan Black TV show. I like to think of it as a more family-friendly take on those themes. The premise is that a brilliant scientist and his team created several genetically altered children who have special Gifts, such as telepathy, healing, and dream shaping.

The journal/letters style is not unique to this series, but I believe ultimately it suits my need to get in these people’s heads. I’ve worked very hard to fill the books with relatable characters. Some of them happen to have superpowers, but as Jillian points out, everybody has gifts, if not Gifts. It’s just a matter of finding out what those gifts are and how they can be applied for the good of the world.

Q: What order should I read them in?
A: I suggest the traditional order of:
- Ashlynn’s Dreams
- Nadia’s Tears
- Malia’s Miracles
- Varick’s Quest
… before jumping into the prequel—The Dark Side of Science—or the Ashlynn’s Dreams Shorts.

The prequel and the short stories can certainly be read as standalones, but they may be more enjoyable once the reader’s already familiar with some of the characters.

Q: Where does this book fit in the series? What theme(s) make it special?
A: Ashlynn’s Dreams is where it all started. This is definitely the place where you want to jump in and get connected. If I had to pick a few central themes, I’d say kidnapping, family, and genetic engineering.

Why kidnapping? Well, it’s awful and scary and just plain wrong, but in this case, there’s a specific reason the scientists do it.

How does family fit in? What makes a family? The truth is that family’s a complicated thing. For example, here, Jillian has a mother, a father, a step-father, and much more. It’s been fun to explore those connections.

Science fiction’s all about the what-ifs. We’re actually just getting into the advancements in real world genetics where some of these things could be in the near future. That’s going to open a whole can of ethical worms. Fiction’s a wonderful playground for delving into scientific ethics.

Q: Why should readers check out this series?
A: Because Devya’s Children will introduce you to a charming cast of characters dealing with some big issues. Right or wrong, the children exist, so now what? If you have the power to change the world, should you? What are the personal cost and consequences of shaping the world? These are all questions explored by the series.

Q: Can the reader get the whole series at once?
A: Readers can grab books 1-3 in a combination.
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Series
Book of the Sky God (Volume 1)
Synopsis: The clock is ticking down to the Day of Judgment. The gods are on their way back to Earth and they're not particularly happy with the mess humans have made of the planet. A powerful secret society is preparing to steal the gods’ divine power to enslave the rest of humanity.

In the meantime, eleventh-grader Ram Rajathani needs to figure out why his best friend, Henry Lipton, is acting like a zombie. Ram’s younger sister Laila may have a book of instructions for saving the world, but she has no idea how to read it. His older sister Nina isn't afraid of gods, but she’s totally annoyed by Ram and desperate to make friends for her senior year. Nina’s lab partner, Katie Chase, would really like to know who put the cursed iguana in her locker.

These five unlikely teens race against time and across two continents to save the world. The fate of humanity rests in their hands. No biggie!
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Adventure
Little Red Gem
D.L. Richardson
Synopsis: What harm can one little spell do? Plenty if you're not a witch.

Ruby Parker is a singer in an all-girl band. When she dies in a car crash and returns as a ghost, she uses magic to be with her boyfriend. Everyone except Ruby knows that magic comes with a price. Magic is meant to fix her problems, instead it's making things worse.

If magic can't get her out of this trouble, then nothing can, and her after-life depends on it.

For fans of 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch' and 'Glee'.

Author note: This book was originally published as "Little Red Gem". This version has a new chapter at the end. Everything else is the same.
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Pirates Alley
Robert Bresloff
Synopsis: An adventure story of Chinese pirates, magicians, ghosts and treasure ships.

Chen grew up in Annam, but it was soldiers of the Chinese Emperor of the Dragon Throne who laid waste to his village and tortured and killed everyone. Chen, just twelve years old, escaped with the help of a mysterious old man. After many days march with the old man, he finds himself on a Chinese Treasure Ship, and it is then that the real adventure begins.

But the old man has already revealed that he is a magician, and there is something very strange about Chen that the boy had never known and could not have possibly imagined. His skills may be unique, and without him the Chinese ships might not survive the pirates or come close to completing their mission halfway round the world…

Then, hundreds of years later, another boy finds an ancient knife on a beach after days of searching because, somehow, he knew it was there. As if that was not enough, he and his friends are then plunged into a modern-day adventure of pirates, thieves, ghosts, and buried treasure.


Recommended for readers aged 12 to adult.
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
Site Q: The Lost City
Robert Bresloff
Synopsis: Only weeks had passed since well-known archeologist, Richard ‘Woody’ Woodson, returned to his home in Chicago from the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Exhausted and recovering from wounds suffered while searching for The Fifth Codex, an ancient Mayan book of dark magic, Woody had decided to take the summer off before returning to the Yucatan.
Jon Panzer, a well-known collector of Mayan artifacts, had found evidence of a “Lost City” deep in the jungles of Guatemala. Stolen artifacts were turning up that came from no known Mayan archeological site
Discovering a lost Mayan city had always been Woodson’s dream. Accompanied by Woodson’s girlfriend Blue, Panzer, and his secretary Carla Jamison, Woodson and Pedro head for Guatemala to meet up with their good friend and mentor, Professor Lyons and Keh, an elderly Mayan shaman hoping to discover the ‘Lost City.’
The dangers of the wild Guatemalan jungles and rainforests were not the only obstacles in their way. The expedition had to battle a dangerous gang of smugglers. These villains would stop at nothing to keep Woodson, Pedro and friends from finding the ‘Lost City.’
Filled with plenty of action, adventure, and ancient Maya mysticism, Site Q: The Lost City, the sequel to, The Fifth Codex is a fun read for the young adult audience and the young at heart.


Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
Pendulum
Cora Artz, Ciara Knight
Synopsis: Haunting memories.
Terrifying dreams.
Crippling lies.

Trapped in a world of deception, my sanity rests with the love of Ryder Arteres and our renegade friends. Six months of scouring the ocean floor in a rebel ship fleeing our homeland, delivers us to a possible alliance with the opportunistic European Council. Our only hope is to utilize our forbidden gifts to free our people from slavery, proving our worth. But when a trusted ally turns traitor and a new breed of the queen’s weaponry is revealed, I’m forced to face the terror of my past to save our crumbling future.
Publication Date:
Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Fantasy
Saving Hascal's Horrors
Synopsis: Mike Hascal can’t wait for the day when he grows up and gets to take over his family’s horror shop. He and his friends go to Hascal’s Horrors every day after school where Mike’s sister, Julie, has run the store ever since their father died. However, a tragedy seven years ago forced the shop to close to the public. A boy, Shawn Mackey, went into the woods to try to take a picture of a ghost for a contest the shop was holding, and he never made it out. The Mackey family then forced the Hascal family to take customers by appointment only and never let any kids into the store.
When business, gets slow and a woman complains about her grandson, Freddy, hanging out at the store, Julie is forced to ban Mike and his friends from the shop. To save his store, Mike and his friends decide to solve the mystery of what happened to the missing boy, hoping that the Mackey family will let them reopen the shop to the public. Using their knowledge of horror movies, Freddy’s help, and Mike’s family’s supernatural powers, they go on an adventure to save the family’s shop and bring Shawn Mackey’s family peace.
Publication Date:
Age Level: 8 - 12
Genre: Paranormal
The Journey of the Marked
Rebecca P. McCray
Synopsis: Marked at age 16.
Forced to leave home.
You become the hunted.
Could you survive?                 

"A gripping fantasy adventure. A FINALIST and highly recommended." -- The Wishing Shelf Awards
"..Very adventurous, thrilling, and action-packed." -- Litpick.com
"What a rich, complex world this author has created!" -- author Sunshine Somerville

The mark means honor. The mark invites death.
On a distant planet, Eros thrives in the Human settlement he calls home. Raised to follow his grandfather's noble footsteps, he studies the details of each species that co-exist here. But when the mark appears, he's called to fight, which changes his life forever.

Forced to abandon his home, the mark makes him the hunted. He's attacked the night he arrives in the city. A tough, street fighter named Kenrya saves his life. When they join others on the same journey, her cynical attitude drives a wedge between the group.

Given the perils facing them, can they put aside their differences and trust each other long enough to survive?

Discover this epic adventure where an individual's unique abilities can change the course of the future.
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fantasy
Shadowscape - The Stevie Vegas Chronicles
Synopsis: Stevie Vegas is just your average 12 year old school kid living in suburban Valley Dale, with a passion for skateboarding. He thinks his life is pretty normal...that's until he discovers he's an Illuminator with extra-ordinary mind powers.

Then the Shadowcasters arrive and he's forced into a battle as ancient as time itself, one that pits Illuminators against Shadowcasters: lightbringers against demons.

Stevie Vegas must find a way to steal the source of the Shadowcasters' power, the cursed stones. Only then will he have the advantage in the fight for his life…
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Paranormal
Anna Was Here
Jane Kurtz
Synopsis:

Ten-year-old Anna Nickel is moving from Colorado to Kansas, and she is not happy about leaving her friends behind! This is a moving, often humorous coming-of-age story about family, faith, God's love, and the meaning of home, perfect for fans of Katherine Paterson and The Penderwicks.

Ten-year-old Anna Nickel's worst nightmare has come true. Her father has decided to move the family back to Oakwood, Kansas—where he grew up—in order to become the minister of the church there. New friends, new school, a new community, and a family of strangers await, and what's even worse, it's all smack-dab in the middle of Tornado Alley. Anna has always prided herself on being prepared (she keeps a notebook on how to cope with disasters, from hurricanes to shark bites), but she'll be tested in Oakwood! This beautifully written novel introduces a family who takes God's teachings to heart while finding many occasions to laugh along the way, and an irrepressible and wholesome ten-year-old who, with a little help from Midnight H. (her cat), takes control of her destiny.

Publication Date:
Age Level: 8 - 12
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
MOIRAI (Aberrant 2)
Ruth Silver
Synopsis: We will not stand idly by and await our destruction.

The government will never give up searching for me.
They destroy countless lives and towns
Wanting to instill fear.

I am not afraid.

I’ve acquired special powers, a gift from my new friends in Shadow.
The government has yet to fear me, but they should.
I am stronger and more determined than they know.

I will not go down without a fight.
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
The Kota: Book 1
Sunshine Somerville
Synopsis: The future is an ugly place, but we are not left without hope...
In a war-scorched future, the Dominion tyranny rules with an iron fist.  Genetic experimentation has created freaks and unbeatable soldiers alike.  The Elite thrive in technologically advanced cities while common citizens languish in poverty.  And always, the dehumanizing DRK virus threatens.Only a people called the Kota offer hope  - hope in the form of prophecies... It is Trok's responsibility, after 500 years, to find and unite four prophesied Kota Warriors destined to save Earth.  However, nothing about these children is what Trok expects.  Loree is an assassin with the uncanny ability to dematerialize.  Zaak is forced to grow up on an alien planet. Alex is a telepath mysteriously abducted for a year.  Ryu has incredible mutate-genes of strength.
Whether the Warriors are ready or not, Earth and its struggling rebels are in desperate need of saviors.  But can four Warriors really make a difference? Working as the immortal Interceder, Trok knows that winning this war will take a miracle - one even he cannot foresee. 
Publication Date:
Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Science Fiction
Deception
Stacy Claflin
Synopsis: What if your whole life was a lie?

Alexis Ferguson wasn't blessed with social graces, but the ambitious high school junior has used her book smarts to get her where she is today. It's too bad that everything she knows is wrong.

After meeting a gorgeous stranger on a blind date, Alexis feels like she's known him her entire life. Suddenly, dark long-forgotten memories swirl in her mind. She realizes she's powerful, stunningly beautiful, and marked for death.

As she faces the one who ordered her execution years ago, Alexis must learn her strange new powers and trust in unlikely allies to keep herself alive.

Deception is the first installment in the young adult Transformed Series by USA Today bestselling author, Stacy Claflin. It's a paranormal romantic suspense series that features gripping supernatural drama, surprising twists, dynamic characters, page-turning suspense, heart-pounding action, and angsty romance.

Pick up Deception today and you won't put it down until the stunning conclusion.

This urban fantasy romantic thriller will keep you on the edge of your seat. In this book and the rest of the series, you’ll find a supernatural world far beyond the normal scope of vampires and werewolves. Buckle up and get ready for a ride full of twists and turns. It’s one for all ages – as long as you have an imagination and love surprises!

Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Dark Lily
Nina Navarre
Synopsis: Modern Gothic Romantic Thriller. Lily lives in a world of darkness and light, love and possession, secrets and death. Her days are spent hunting with her animal companions but her nights are plagued by living nightmares of her abduction and dead lover.

Oliver- Hollywood’s latest ‘wild child’ is sent to Lily’s island estate to stay out of trouble. However, the safety of the island is compromised by the release of vicious hounds and Oliver becomes the beast’s first victim.

What are the shocking secrets that Lily hides? Is she the heartless, cold-blooded killer the town’s people suspect her to be?

A ‘gathering’ has been called. Soon the world’s most dangerous and powerful people will converge on the island and Lily will be forced to face the Matriarch. The night’s events will determine the fate of all. Secrets will be exposed; lifelong plans brought to ruin. Who will survive the ensuing carnage?


LOVE – DESIRE - POSSESSION - DEATH
Publication Date:
Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Romance
Radium Halos
Book Cover By Design, W.J. May
Synopsis: Everyone needs to be a hero at one point in their life.

The small town of Elliot Lake will never be the same again after Zoe, a high school senior from Elliot Lake, and five of her friends take shelter in an abandoned uranium mine during a violent thunderstorm. Over the next few days, Zoe’s hearing sharpens drastically… to supernatural levels. She tells her friends, only to learn that four others have an increased sense as well. Zoe is determined to use her new power for good, while trying to keep her growing feelings for Kieran, the new Scottish boy from their group, under control.

Fashioning themselves into superheroes, the group tries to stop the strange occurrences happening in their little town. Muggings, break-ins, disappearances, and murder begin to hit too close to home. It leads the team to think someone knows about their secret – someone who wants them all dead.

An incredulous group of heroes. A traitor in the midst. Some dreams are written in blood.

Join Zoe in this free paranormal suspense book. It is part one of the Senseless Series dealing with supernatural powers and first love. With it's comic book appeal, you can't help but try to figure out who the murderer is.

Sometimes following your heart and following your gut don't always give you the answer you want.

** This is Part 1 of 2 **
*Warning: This free book will end on a cliffhanger. Book 2 picks up where this book ends.*
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fantasy
Seventh Mark - Part 1
Book Covers By Design, W.J. May
Synopsis: Warning: There are werewolves in this story, and they are not friendly.

USA Today bestselling author, W.J. May brings you a twisted Red Riding Hood fairy-tale that'll get your heart thumping - for fear and love.

Beautiful Rouge has little knowledge about her past, she has questions but has never tried to find the answers. Everything changes when she befriends a strangely intoxicating family. Siblings Grace and Michael, appear to have secrets which seem somehow connected to Rouge. Forced to be apart, Michael and Rouge's worlds collide when a hidden terror threatens to destroy Michael's family. Rouge may be the only one who can find the answer.

An ancient journal, a Sioghra necklace and a special mark force life-altering decisions for a girl who grew up unprepared to fight for her life or others.

All secrets have a cost and Rouge’s determination to find the truth may force her and Michael apart. It can only lead to trouble…or something even more sinister.

*Warning: There are werewolves in this story... and they are not friendly.*

Hidden Secrets Saga:
Seventh Mark - Part 1
Seventh Mark - Part 2
Marked by Destiny
Compelled
Fate's Intervention
Chosen Three

Spin off:
Prophecy Series:
Only the Beginning
White Winter
Secrets of Destiny
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Paranormal

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