Ben has been running his whole life, trying to escape the memories that he left in back in Wisconsin. Now a marine in Afghanistan, those memories have finally caught up with him. Instead of running he decides to write, recalling every fragmented thought, every gruesome detail that occurred the night Billy died. Immersing himself back into the dark world of a boy whose life changed from the moment he chose to help a grieving family and their son, Ben recounts every action, every word that drew his darkest demons to the surface and pushed him closer to the brink of insanity.
Plum Coyle is an interesting and poetic fourteen-year-old girl, ready to leave behind her childhood and embrace adulthood. Like many young teens, she is self-conscious and ready to explore the world on her own.
Jane is just like all the other girls in the island orphanage, a Jane with a number. Searching for her own name starts when she meets John who tells her that his real name is Nova. It turns out that the whole island has a lot more secrets other than names. Like the fact that she has magical powers and that she, just another orphan, is destined to save the whole island.
Sophie is a young teenage girl who thought her life was that of any teenage girl; that was until she found out she was a Greek goddess named Persephone. Sophie's memories of being Persephone came back to her slowly after she kissed a guy named Kai. Kai isn't just a normal guy though, he was the son of the Greek God of the Underworld, Hades. Theo is one of Sophie's best friends and is also a Greek God named Prometheus. Prometheus puts Persephone's goddess qualities into a human form when she almost died; Persephone becomes Sophie.
The book starts off with a boy named Alex that is always getting bullied by a kid named Jackson. One day a dog came and helped Alex. Jason got distracted with the dog so much that Alex hears a voice in his head that says “run”. Then he gets a weird book and necklace for his birthday. After he finds out the powers of the necklace he goes on an awesome adventure through time and Egypt, and finds out more than what his textbooks say. He gets beaten up badly helping a friend. Will he ever make it back to his own time?
Beth Risk has spent her whole life protecting her mom's secret but then her uncle comes back into her life and she has to start over in a whole new town where she definitely doesn't fit in.
Ryan Stone is viewed as the perfect son of the perfect couple in town, but even he has his own secrets he won't share with even his closest friends.
Can you imagine sitting in the kitchen with your mother, eating cookies, and all of a sudden she stops mid-sentence and walks out the door, never to return? That's exactly what happened to Natalie Gordon. Four years later, now a sophomore in high school, Natalie decides to find her mother, the reason she left, and to hear the rest of her mom's story. Natalie takes a twenty-four hour bus ride to Florida in which she meets people who also have stories of love and loss to share. When Natalie finds her mother, will she find the answers she's been searching fo
In this touchy subject novella, 15 year old Emily Wheiler just wants to be like normal girls her age, especially after her mother's death. With many responsibilities as the lady of the manor, and no free time, she starts to realize that her father is threatening in more than one way once drunk. Thinking she's found a way out, she finds a man to court her. Her father then beats and violates her, scarring her for life. After escaping, she is found by a vampire and marked as a fledgling, that must reside at the House of Night.
Quicksilver is the sequel to Ultraviolet, now in the point of view of Tori. Ever since Tori and Allison have gotten back nobody will stop questioning her. She is forced to move and change her name. She actually has to change her whole identity. Then soon all the people trying to chase her finally find her. Now what is she going to do?
