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  • Bad Blood by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    Bad Blood by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    New victims. New betrayals. New secrets.When Cassie Hobbes joined the FBI’s Naturals program, she had one goal: uncover the truth about her mother’s murder. But now, everything Cassie thought she knew about what happened that night has been called into question. Her mother is alive, and the people holding her captive are more powerful—and dangerous—than anything the Naturals have faced so far...
  • In an Instant by Suzanne Redfearn

    In an Instant by Suzanne Redfearn

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Life is over in an instant for sixteen-year-old Finn Miller when a devastating car accident tumbles her and ten others over the side of a mountain. Suspended between worlds, she watches helplessly as those she loves struggle to survive.Impossible choices are made, decisions that leave the survivors tormented with grief and regret...
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  • From Bad to Cursed by Katie Alender

    From Bad to Cursed by Katie Alender

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 21 ratings
    Alexis is the last girl you'd expect to sell her soul. She already has everything she needs--an adorable boyfriend, the perfect best friend, and a little sister who's finally recovering after being possessed by an evil spirit, then institutionalized. Alexis is thrilled when her sister joins a club; new friends are just what Kasey needs...
  • The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson

    The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 51 ratings
    Ellingham Academy must be cursed. Three people are now dead. One, a victim of either a prank gone wrong or a murder. Another, dead by misadventure. And now, an accident in Burlington has claimed another life. All three in the wrong place at the wrong time. All at the exact moment of Stevie’s greatest triumph . . .She knows who Truly Devious is. She’s solved it. The greatest case of the century...
  • No Time to Die & The Deep End of Fear by Elizabeth Chandler

    No Time to Die & The Deep End of Fear by Elizabeth Chandler

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Secrets taken to the grave don’t always stay buried. In No Time to Die, Jenny is devastated by the recent death of her sister, Liza. Looking for a sense of closure, she secretly signs up for the drama camp where Liza died. Jenny knows that someone here holds the key to what really happened to Liza that night, but if she doesn’t find out the truth soon, she may become the next victim...
  • The Dying Breath by Alane Ferguson

    The Dying Breath by Alane Ferguson

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Cameryn?s ex-boyfriend is back . . . and ready to kill! Cameryn had thought she was in love with him. He was smart, strong, and would do anything for her?even kill. Kyle O?Neil disappeared after his first attempt on Cameryn?s life at the end of The Angel of Death . Now he is back for his second...
  • Lion's Honor by Celia Kyle

    Lion's Honor by Celia Kyle

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Sometimes the Queen of the Jungle needs to lean on her King. Okay, she’s really not the queen and he’s totally not the king, but damn it, they need each other. Four years ago, werelioness Honor Mauer walked away from Ridgeville and hopped on a plane bound for London. She had college dreams and none of them included her pesky maybe-mate Grayson...
  • Hurt by Travis Thrasher

    Hurt by Travis Thrasher

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    His Rebellion Will Soon Turn to Hope  When Chris Buckley first encountered the mysteries of creepy Solitary, North Carolina, he had little idea how far he would fall into the town’s shadows. After losing the love of his life, Chris tried to do things his way. He hunted answers. Then he gave up trying to find them. But now Chris comes back to Solitary knowing there’s a purpose for his being there...
  • The Back Door of Midnight by Elizabeth Chandler

    The Back Door of Midnight by Elizabeth Chandler

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Psychic...or psychotic? Anna knows her family is crazy. But when she goes to visit her aunt and uncle for the summer and learns that her uncle’s charred body has been found, her life reaches a new level of insanity. Her erratic aunt’s “psychic” abilities are exaggerated by her grief, and have become borderline violent...
  • No Way Home by Annette Dashofy

    No Way Home by Annette Dashofy

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A relaxing trail ride turns tragic when Paramedic and Deputy Coroner Zoe Chambers discovers the body of a popular county commissioner in her Pennsylvania woods. Inconsistencies surround the horrible accident, but before she can investigate further, she's pried away by a plea for help from her best friend, whose son has been deemed a person of interest in a homicide over a thousand miles away...
  • Velocity by Abigail Boyd

    Velocity by Abigail Boyd

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The final book in the "Gravity" series. The end is finally here. After being threatened by Phillip Rhodes, Ariel confronts her father and finds out just how deeply the conspiracies in town run. She discovers more about what she is and where she came from...
  • Gasp by Lisa McMann

    Gasp by Lisa McMann

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    After narrowly surviving two harrowing tragedies, Jules now fully understands the importance of the visions that she and people around her are experiencing. She’s convinced that if the visions passed from her to Sawyer after she saved him, then they must now have passed from Sawyer to one of the people he saved...
  • Dark Premonitions by Heather Topham Wood

    Dark Premonitions by Heather Topham Wood

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Psychic Kate Edwards had her first premonition—a vision of her own murder by a faceless attacker. With very few clues to go on, she has to use her psychic gifts to uncover who wants her dead. Paranoia sets in and Kate wonders if there’s anybody she can trust. As Kate fears her impending death, she’s desperate to seek comfort with her ex-boyfriend Jared Corbett...
  • Gravestone by Travis Thrasher

    Gravestone by Travis Thrasher

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    His Fear Will Soon Turn to Anger….   At first, Chris Buckley was simply warned. And watched. But as Chris unravels the haunting riddles of the town of Solitary, he finds that much more than the life of a town is at stake. Whether facing a pastor with a house full of skeletons or a cousin he never knew existed, Chris is forced to choose between light and darkness, life and nightmarish death...
  • Forevermore by Cindy Miles

    Forevermore by Cindy Miles

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    On a misty cliffside, mystery and romance await. . . . Ivy Calhoun's life has been turned upside down. Her new stepdad has uprooted Ivy and her mom, bringing them to live in an actual castle in the misty Scottish countryside. There are stone-faced servants and shadowy corridors, and the ancient walls seem full of secrets. Ivy is at once frightened and intrigued...
  • Uncertainty by Abigail Boyd

    Uncertainty by Abigail Boyd

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Book 1, GRAVITY, is still free to download! Last year, Ariel Donovan's life was shattered. She lost a friend, a love, and her sight into the afterlife. She's only beginning to move on, facing a summer without school as a distraction. Then she dreams of the mysterious Dexter Orphanage again, the place where all the trouble began...
  • Coral Moon by Brandilyn Collins

    Coral Moon by Brandilyn Collins

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The figure remained still as stone. Leslie couldn’t even detect a breath. Spider fingers teased the back of her neck. Leslie’s feet rooted to the pavement. She dropped her gaze to the driveway, seeking … what? Spatters of blood? Footprints? She saw nothing...
  • Seven Minutes in Heaven by Sara Shepard

    Seven Minutes in Heaven by Sara Shepard

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    MY SISTER WANTS THE TRUTH.BUT SOMETIMES THE TRUTH HURTS.For months, my long-lost twin, Emma, has been living my life and trying to solve my murder. She's unearthed dark secrets about my friends, my family, and my tangled past. But when it comes to finding my killer, she keeps running into dead ends.Until my body shows up in Sabino Canyon...
  • Echoes by Melinda Metz

    Echoes by Melinda Metz

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Can't believe she did that . . . . . . at four-thirty I have to . . . . . . I hate this place . . . Rae Voight is losing her mind. When she walks down the halls of Sanderson Prep, she hears voices . . . even when no one is talking. Other people's thoughts crowd her head, a confusing tangle of insecurities and dark secrets...
  • Unfed by Kirsty McKay

    Unfed by Kirsty McKay

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The good news: Bobby survived her Undead school trip. Bad news: her best mate, Smitty, is missing. Bobby knows she's got to find him even if it means risking it all and going out into the starving-zombie-infested wastelands again. Even if it means taking fellow survivors including a couple of old frenemies along for the ride...
  • Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult

    Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 48 ratings
    For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe that she would be abandoned as a young child, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice’s old journals...
  • Three by Ted Dekker

    Three by Ted Dekker

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    By all accounts seminary student Kevin Parsins is leading a good, if not virtuous, life. But like all people, Kevin has his secrets. And someone wants them revealed. While driving home from a day at graduate school, Kevin receives a call from a mysterious stranger who calls himself Slater...
  • The MacKinnon Curse by J.A. Templeton

    The MacKinnon Curse by J.A. Templeton

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sixteen-year-old Riley Williams has been able to see ghosts since the car crash that took her mother's life and shattered her family. Guilt-ridden over the belief that she's somehow responsible for her mom's death, Riley is desperate to see her mother's elusive spirit to gain her forgiveness...
  • Legacy of Lies & Don't Tell by Elizabeth Chandler

    Legacy of Lies & Don't Tell by Elizabeth Chandler

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Two girls haunted by the past... and destined to relive it In Legacy of Lies , Megan has to stay with the uptight grandmother she wants nothing to do with. She's determined to get through the visit without any drama, but when she falls into a twisted love triangle with potentially fatal consequences, Megan may be caught up in her family's legacy in more ways than she realizes...
  • 44: Book Four by Jools Sinclair

    44: Book Four by Jools Sinclair

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sometimes the living haunt the dead… It’s been several months since Abby Craig was kidnapped and held prisoner on a small island. Several months since Nathaniel Mortimer conducted his experiments, trying to find out why she was the only one of his victims to survive. After returning home, Abby is more determined than ever to have a normal life...
  • Blink Once by Cylin Busby

    Blink Once by Cylin Busby

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    West is a high school senior who has everything going for him until an accident leaves him paralyzed. Strapped down in his hospital bed, slipping in and out of consciousness, West is terrified and alone. Until he meets Olivia. She's the girl next door-sort of...
  • The Oceanography of the Moon by Glendy Vanderah

    The Oceanography of the Moon by Glendy Vanderah

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A heartfelt novel of shedding secrets, facing the past, and embracing the magic of love and family by the Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Where the Forest Meets the Stars.After the untimely deaths of her aunt and mother, young Riley Mays moved from Chicago to her cousins’ Wisconsin farm...
  • Ominous by Kate Brian

    Ominous by Kate Brian

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    After the shocking revelations made in the Private prequel, The Book of Spells , Noelle and Reed know they are descendants of the original Billings Girls, and their legacy includes a mysterious coven of witches...
  • Twisted by Sara Shepard

    Twisted by Sara Shepard

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    It’s been a year since the torturous notes from A stopped and the mystery of Alison DiLaurentis’s disappearance was finally put to rest. Now seniors in high school, Aria, Spencer, Hanna, and Emily are older, but they’re not any wiser. The pretty little liars have more secrets than ever - twisted secrets that could destroy the perfect lives they’ve worked so hard to rebuild...
  • Vengeance by Kate Brian

    Vengeance by Kate Brian

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    After the devastating events at Reed's birthday party, Noelle is determined to put the past to rest, but Reed is adament about rebuilding Billings. Coming up against endless roadblocks from the headmaster, not to mention Billings alumni, Reed will not let her legacy end with a pile of rubble. As if that weren't enough, old ghosts come back to haunt to the Billings Girls...
  • First Visions by Heather Topham Wood

    First Visions by Heather Topham Wood

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Two years ago, 21-year-old Kate Edwards became deathly ill and slipped into a coma. While unconscious, she crept into the mind of a missing boy and awoke with the knowledge of his location. Friends and family were skeptical and wary of her new ability to see into the minds of others. Their fears prompted Kate to keep her psychic powers a secret...
  • Paranoia by J.R. Johansson

    Paranoia by J.R. Johansson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the aftermath of the events that nearly killed him, Parker Chipp is trying to learn to cope better with life as a Watcher. And it seems to be working...until he wakes up in jail with a hangover and 12 hours of missing time. Darkness has somehow taken control and Parker doesn't have a clue how to stop him...
  • It Waits in the Forest by Sarah Dass

    It Waits in the Forest by Sarah Dass

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Unlike the other residents of the small Caribbean Island of St. Virgil, Selina DaSilva does not believe in magic. With a logical mind and a knack for botany, Selina used to dream of leaving the island to study Pharmacology—until a vicious, unsolved attack left her father dead and her mother in a coma...
  • The Dead and Buried by Kim Harrington

    The Dead and Buried by Kim Harrington

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A haunted house, a buried mystery, and a very angry ghost make this one unforgettable thriller. Jade loves the house she's just moved into with her family. She doesn't even mind being the new girl at the high school: It's a fresh start, and there's that one guy with the dreamy blue eyes. . . . But then things begin happening. Strange, otherworldly things...
  • Until the End by Christopher Pike

    Until the End by Christopher Pike

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    It’s the start of the school year, and the popular girls have decided to throw the best party, one their friends will never forget. But hooking up and hanging out are the farthest things from their minds when the unthinkable happens: Someone doesn't make it out of the party alive. The death is declared a suicide, but nothing quite adds up...
  • Vanished by Kate Brian

    Vanished by Kate Brian

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Against all odds, Reed Brennan re-established Billings as an underground literary society. She and the new initiates created a glamorous secret headquarters and were ready to show Easton Academy that even though Billings House is gone, the Billings Girls are stronger than ever. But before Reed had a chance to revel in her success, something horrible happened: Noelle disappeared...
  • Cross My Heart, Hope to Die by Sara Shepard

    Cross My Heart, Hope to Die by Sara Shepard

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    IT'S NOT EASY BEING ME.BUT MY TWIN SISTER HAS NO CHOICE.When I died two months ago, my killer told my twin sister to become me - or else. Now Emma has it down to a T. She tosses her hair with the signature Sutton Mercer flip and can lead a Lying Game prank with the best of them. She's even repairing my relationship with my adoptive family. The only thing she hasn't done is solve my murder...
  • Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime by Mizuki Nomura

    Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime by Mizuki Nomura

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    For self-styled "book girl," third-year high school student Tohko Amano, being the head of the literary club is more than just an extracurricular activity with minor perks. It's her bread and butter . . . literally! Tohko is actually a literature-gobbling demon, and instead of the less palatable option of water-soaked bread, she opts to munch on torn out pages from all kinds of stories...
  • Hide and Seek by Sara Shepard

    Hide and Seek by Sara Shepard

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    MY FRIENDS AND I USED TO PLAY LYING GAMES.NOW MY TWIN SISTER IS LIVING ONE.When I was alive, my family seemed picture-perfect. My adoptive parents adored me, and my little sister, Laurel, copied my every move. But now that my long-lost twin, Emma, has taken my place to solve my murder, we’re both learning just how flawed my family really is...
  • 44: Book Two by Jools Sinclair

    44: Book Two by Jools Sinclair

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When she was 17, Abby Craig died. But after falling through the ice on a frozen mountain lake and having no vital signs for 44 minutes, she somehow came back to life. It’s taken two years to recover from her accident. And while most of what she lost at the bottom of that dark lake has returned, some things haven’t...
  • Untraceable by Shelli R. Johannes

    Untraceable by Shelli R. Johannes

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    16-year-old Grace has lived in the Smokies all her life, patrolling with her forest ranger father who taught her about wildlife, tracking, and wilderness survival. When her dad goes missing on a routine patrol, Grace refuses to believe he’s dead and fights the town authorities, tribal officials, and nature to find him...
  • Untraceable by S.R. Johannes

    Untraceable by S.R. Johannes

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    This book is free right now! Book 2 Uncontrollable is also now available! Book 3 is scheduled for June 3, 2014. 16-year-old Grace has lived in the Smokies all her life, patrolling with her forest ranger father who taught her about wildlife, tracking, and wilderness survival...
  • Unbroken by Paula Morris

    Unbroken by Paula Morris

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Welcome back to New Orleans. Where the streets swirl with jazz and beauty. Where the houses breathe with ghosts. A year ago, Rebecca Brown escaped death in a New Orleans cemetery. Now she has returned to this haunting city. She is looking forward to seeing Anton Grey, the boy who may or may not have her heart. But she also meets a ghost: a troubled boy who insists only she can help him...
  • Epiphany by Gemma James

    Epiphany by Gemma James

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Librarian's note: This is an alternate cover edition of ASIN B00E0LUEKQ. “For all the times I'd witnessed the murders of other women in my dreams, I'd failed to see my own.” For 23-year-old Mackenzie Hill, tossing her life down the garbage disposal is easy after a painful incident shatters her life...
  • The Heidelberg Effect by Susan Kiernan-Lewis

    The Heidelberg Effect by Susan Kiernan-Lewis

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ella Stevens never knew a mother’s love. Her fierce independence was always seen as the keystone of her whole identity—unfettered by romantic involvements or family demands—until the day she moved to Heidelberg, Germany and her world began to unravel. There, she discovered the terrible secret her mother died to protect...
  • Silent Harmony by Michele Scott

    Silent Harmony by Michele Scott

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Small town seventeen-year-old Vivienne Taylor is a talented equestrian with Olympic dreams and a little something extra going on she is also an equine empath, someone who has the ability to read horses minds and moods...
  • Undead by Kirsty McKay

    Undead by Kirsty McKay

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Out of sight, out of their minds: It's a school-trip splatter fest and completely not cool when the other kids in her class go all braindead on new girl Bobby. The day of the ski trip, when the bus comes to a stop at a roadside restaurant, everyone gets off and heads in for lunch. Everyone, that is, except Bobby, the new girl, who stays behind with rebel-without-a-clue Smitty. Then hours pass...
  • Runaway by Meg Cabot

    Runaway by Meg Cabot

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Emerson Watts is on the run: from school, from work, from her family, from her friends, from herself. With everyone she loves furious with her for something she can't explain, and nothing but the live Stark Angel fashion show on New Year's Eve to look forward to, Em's reached the end of her rope..
  • Nearly Gone by Elle Cosimano

    Nearly Gone by Elle Cosimano

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Bones meets Fringe in a big, dark, scary, brilliantly-plotted urban thriller that will leave you guessing until the very end. Nearly Boswell knows how to keep secrets. Living in a DC trailer park, she knows better than to share anything that would make her a target with her classmates...
  • Dead of Night by Lynn Viehl

    Dead of Night by Lynn Viehl

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    True love . . . and an undying obsession Catlyn Youngblood has a secret life. Despite being a natural-born vampire hunter like her two older brothers, Cat has fallen for Jesse--an ageless boy from a centuries-old vampire clan. Cat's job cataloguing rare, mystical texts at a bookstore allows her to meet with Jesse alone every evening...
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