"David Kettlehake's Gray is a roller-coaster ride of suspense and horror for YA fans. Follow Scout and a small group of friends as they survive a world destroyed by catastrophic flooding and a shorted life expectancy known as GRAY. Kettlehake delivers a thriller with an original plot!" -Johnnie Bernhard, author of A Good Girl, How We Came to Be, and Sisters of the UndertowThe Storm was a disaster of epic proportions. Billions perished and...

"In Sleeper, David Kettlehake created an intense, immersive atmosphere that kept me turning the pages, even when the suspense became unbearable...(the book) explores various themes such as morality and justice. I was conflicted about Boon's character, particularly his social projects funded by illegal proceeds. Boon was not a clear-cut hero; while his actions were good, they were tainted by criminal behavior. This complexity amplifies the tension, keeping readers on edge about the ...

THE FIREBRAND TRILOGYWhere the young fight for survival against thesavage monsters they are destined to become.By the time you reach 240 months old on this flooded earth, you've already gone Gray. One month later, you're dead.That's the reality facing Scout.To save herself and everyone she loves, she dedicates the remainder of her life to finding a cure to going Gray. Together with her brother, Lord, and their young...

In a world where going Gray means certain death, Scout's relentless quest for a cure becomes a race against time to save her loved ones. When she's nearly claimed by a deadly blizzard, her survival is miraculously ensured by the unexpected visitation of a long-lost friend. Shortly thereafter, she and her companions uncover the life-saving cure, but their triumph is short-lived as Grays overrun their sanctuary.Once again on the run, with nowhere to turn, Scout and her companions fin...

Return to the brutal world of GRAYBook Two of The Firebrand Trilogy"My name is Scout, and I'm a killer. And it gives me no pride in saying so, but I'm very good at it."The Storm that wiped out civilization five years ago killed billions across the globe, leaving only a handful of people alive. Scout is one of those few.Now on her own, she is desperate to find a cure for going Gray, the worldwide...

Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, and the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction. One of the Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2023. One of The New York Times' 10 Best California Books of 2023. Longlisted for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award.“Open Throat is what fiction should be.” —The New York Times Book Revie...

The Bourne Identity meets Divergent in this action-packed debut thriller with a Katniss-esque heroine fighting to regain her memories and stay alive, set against a dystopian hospital background.Sarah finds herself in a battle for her life within the walls of her hospital-turned-prison. A procedure to eliminate her memory goes awry, and she starts to remember snatches of her past. Was she an urban terrorist or vigilante? Has the procedure been her salvation or her d...

The final book in the Assured Destruction series!Jan Rose may already be expunged from the police department's High Tech Crime Unit. Her mother's hospitalized, and Assured Destruction's on the cusp of bankruptcy. But Jan doesn't wait on anything, she seeks out the customers who used to keep the family business afloat. That's when everything starts to go wrong.A computer virus--aka the Zombie Worm--threatens not only her school and Shadownet, but the entire ...

Trapped in a ruined city, Elizabeth and her brother Henry try to avoid the dangers that seem to lurk on every street. But even when they manage to get home, they face an entirely different kind of threat.Meanwhile, hundreds of miles away, Thomas struggles to keep his brother alive. First, though, he needs to find out what happened to his father, and he also has to make a difficult decision about his ailing mother.Days 5 to 8 is the second book in the Mass Extinction Event s...

Love isn’t only blind—it’s dangerous.My best friend is too self-absorbed to notice what’s happening in my life, and that’s how I like it. The less attention on me, the better. Especially now—when footsteps echo from empty rooms and the phone keeps ringing with no one on the other end.I can’t shake the feeling of being watched any more than I can shake the possibility that I’m losing my mind.Then there’s John Beller—green-eyed, charming, and too perf...

Sam’s first year of teaching is over and life is smooth sailing. He couldn’t be happier if he tried. Then everything changes in one terrible day and he’s not ready for any of it.The world has gone mad. Millions of people run the streets, ravenous and filled with an unthinking rage. The government almost immediately falls, leaving survivors entirely on their own. Left with one student and no safe place to turn, mild-mannered Sam must learn to be strong if he’s to survive and keep th...

  Catori has all the odds stacked against her: a loner with mismatched eyes who hates school and just about everybody who goes there. Her ability to see things nobody else does makes her an oddball at school. She accidentally boards the wrong bus to school one morning and is transported to a strange parallel world. There’s no way back for her; the bus she boarded doesn't do return trips and she has to figure out her own way back. She discovers that the evil forces over-running...