After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian offers her her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin. Her opponents are men-thieves and assassins and warriors from across the empire, each sponsored by a member of the king's council. If she beats her opponents in a series of eliminations, she'll serve the kingdom for three years and then be granted her freedom. Celaena finds her training sessions with the captain of the guard, Westfall, challenging and exhilirating. But she's bored stiff by court life. Things get a little more interesting when the prince starts to show interest in her... but it's the gruff Captain Westfall who seems to understand her best.Then one of the other contestants turns up dead... quickly followed by another. Can Celaena figure out who the killer is before she becomes a victim? As the young assassin investigates, her search leads her to discover a greater destiny than she could possibly have imagined.

Levi Puskaric is an ordinary sixteen year old kid. He has a best friend, James; parents, a little sister and a weird Polish grandmother who walks around the house chanting, dressed in black and making signs to ward off evil.Together, Levi and James are ‘The Team’ and one day; the team is going to Make It Big. They just haven’t figured out how yet.Death has come to the small town of Larsenville. From the moment the poster calling for a town meeting was nailed to poles all over town; people had changed. Residents are reduced to a scowling eye looking out from a twitching curtain.The city sends specialists; but just like everyone else in Larsenville, they guess. Everyone except for Grandma Puskaric; because she knows the truth. She escaped death as a young girl growing up in a small village in Poland.But she is old and her old ways are foolish. This is the new land and there is no room for, or belief in legends.For ‘The Team’, it doesn’t come bigger than killing a monster and saving the town.But as Levi and James discover, there is much to lose.Levi’s younger sister Pauly is in the right age group to be chosen. They soon realize that the creature is real and it is smart enough to retaliate. In a bid to destroy the team, their strength.The Zmora’s second attempt to take Pauly takes Levi to the edge and he watches his family and the team, unravel. He understands that he must face evil alone and destroy the monster.

Aine believes herself to be a regular teenager in 1930s Alabama, but when a blue-eyed monster named Biblos attacks, she discovers that the reclusive woman raising her isn't really her grandmother and that she's been living inside a book for the past five years. With her blind brother, Spenser, she flees the pages of the novel she's called home, one terrifying step ahead of Biblos' black magic. Her only chance at survival lies in beating him to the three objects that he desires more than life. As she undertakes her strange and dangerous odyssey, Aine must choose between a family she doesn't remember and her growing attraction to a mysterious young man named Gilgamesh. Only through treacherous adventures into The Time Machine, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, A Tale of Two Cities, and the epic Indian saga The Ramayana will she learn her true heritage and restore the balance of the worlds... if she can stay alive. "Lourey never slackens the pace!" --St. Paul Pioneer Press "Riveting reading with a fascinating concept, 'The Toadhouse Trilogy' is not to be missed." --The Midwest Book Review "Readers will, like the protagonists, literally get lost in this book. Beautifully written and unquestionably entertaining, this projected trilogy truly does have the potential to become a young adult classic." --Paul Goat Allen (The Chicago Tribune reviewer) “Lourey's wonderful way with words will whisk readers away to an amazing new world!” --Anthony and Agatha Award winning author Chris Grabenstein

Tina Brooks lived in a quiet rural area that was incredibly normal until the Parker family moved in. Within no time at all, very strange things began to happen that affected both the Brooks and the Parker families. David, Cody and Sherry Parker get sucked into a mystery that is mysterious and frightening, but know that without their help, Tina will never figure it out.