Jenny Hudson is the daughter of the mine foreman. With the mine being the old major business in the area, that makes her and her father rather important figures in the town of Jonsonville. But when the mine starts running dry, with the only vein practically unreachable, fewer and fewer of the miners are getting the shifts that they need to feed their families. It breaks Jenny's heart that she can't do more to help them.But when Jenny's crush, the mysterious black haired girl that m...

Marissa Gorning has been going to Crowbarland Preparatory School since first grade. Its unique curriculum has given her skills beyond the norm for a teen her age. She didn't think much about it until the new girl came to school. Now, Mare and Ellie have to solve the disappearance of Ellie's father and, in the process, stumble upon the mysteries of their world beyond anything they had considered.This stand alone book takes place in the Crowbarland Chronicles universe.

Hidden within an impassible mountain range was the small kingdom of Hilland. The crown princess, Her Royal Highness Princess Talia VI, was meant to get married to Prince Bleeker of Lolland. The two neighboring kingdoms had been at odds with each other for centuries. Except that Talia really did love Bleeker, and they were both looking forward to their marriage. But on the day of the wedding, Hilland was attacked, by Lolland. No one who was in attendance at the wedding survived. No one but ...

When Drilora first arrived on Earth, all the humans saw was an alien. Something to fear. It didn't help that ze attacked another alien right in front of them, even if that other alien was trying to kill the humans. No matter how much Drilora tried to help the humans, they would never see zer as anything else.Cecilia was a normal human, but everyone underestimates her, which put her as out of the normal as Drilora was. It was practically a superpower, one that she couldn't control. ...

Ousted from her home and sentenced to death by both sides, Scar Bron is left with few people that she could truly trust. Helping her long lost brother, and the band of humans that he had fallen in with, might be her only way forward, as the battle for the future of Earth starts in earnest. Only, perhaps, there is more going on in the slave camps than meets the eye.

From a young age, Cary Simms knew that she wasn't like the other boys her age. While she still wasn't sure the hows or whys, she was starting to think that it was more than just that she was a sorcerer. Moreover, that her parents were sorcerers too. But with her grandparents refusing to tell her anything about them, or how they died, Cary is left digging up the past herself.Cary is home for summer break, after an interesting first year at Thorbjorg Prep. But as she tries to settle ...

When Ellie first started at college, thinking her high school concerns were behind her, she expected the biggest issue of the new semester was avoiding being embarrassed by her professor of a father. But, when a strange group of students showed an unnatural interest in her, she's forced to dust off that special set of skills they had taught her at boarding school. With her new friends, Ellie searches for information on the group, trying to subvert their plans before they came for her. She ...

To some, it looks like a normal, innocuous, black pebble. It has been smoothed and shined over the years of hiding out in people's pockets, making its surface almost reflective. All the better to see the undead stalking you from behind. Because this stone isn't a normal stone. It is the death stone, and you're just as likely to die from seeing it as from the undead that stalk the world. No one knows where the death stone came from, or how long it's been creating the undead that have ravage...

Maya San Lucas had been lost in her dreamworld for the better part of five years. But Desparia was no longer a fantasy world for her. It was a nightmare, full of powers and creatures beyond her control. Going to that world took everything from her, destroying her sanity, and bringing her and her friends to certain doom. The life of a thief, and a mage, was so much more exciting than high school, but in all the wrong ways.After returning from that world of horrors, Maya is left with ...

Paige grew up in the undercity, the remnants of the old city of London, in the shadow of New London, high overhead. The sound of zombies at the gates were a constant reminder of how close her death could be. Like most morlocks in the undercity, Paige was an NI, non-immune to the zombie virus that had taken over the world. The immune live in the upper city, focusing on spreading their immunity into the next generation of humans. But Paige had something thing that the other morlocks didn't: ...

From a young age, Cary Simms knew that she wasn't like the other boys her age. While she still wasn't sure the hows or whys, she was starting to think that it was more than just that she was a sorcerer. Learning magic at the Thorbjorg Prep School was interesting, once she got past the fears for her immortal soul. But with fifth graders not being allowed out of the magical realm, Cary and her friends are stuck behind at school for Christmas break.When the school's own traditions are...

Dest has been dreaming about dying in a fire for weeks, and a boy screaming at her, blaming her for everything. Her shrink kept insisting that it was related to her parents' divorce and her own guilt around that. She just wanted to put the dream behind her and focus on starting anew at her new school, with her new cheer squad.But when her new classmates all revealed that they were having not just similar dreams, but the same dream, they quickly figure out that something more is goi...