Eternal Starling (Emblem of Eternity #1) by Angela Corbett
A love so strong, even
eternity can't separate them. Evie Starling has lived a relatively
uneventful life hanging out with friends, gossiping about boys, and
driving her 1966 Mustang.
All of that changes when she moves to
Gunnison, Colorado, to start college and meets two mysterious men. For
centuries, Alex Night and Emil Stone have yearned for Evie but they each
have their own reasons for wanting to be with her. When both men claim
to be her soul mate and tell her about an unbelievable past, Evie learns
that she s not the person she thought she was. Soon, Evie finds herself
in the middle of an age-old battle between the Amaranthine Society the
soul protectors, and the Daevos Resistance the soul destroyers. With a
past she doesn t understand, and a future rife with danger, Evie has to
decide who she can trust. But Alex and Emil aren t the only ones who
want Evie, and her soul is about to become the rope in an eternal
tug-of-war.
Lenzi hears voices and
has visions - gravestones, floods, a boy with steel gray eyes. Her
boyfriend, Zak, can't help, and everything keeps getting louder and more
intense. Then Lenzi meets Alden, the boy from her dreams, who reveals
that she's a reincarnated Speaker - someone who can talk to and help
lost souls - and that he has been her Protector for centuries.
Now
Lenzi must choose between her life with Zak and the life she is
destined to lead with Alden. But time is running out: a malevolent
spirit is out to destroy Lenzi, and he will kill her if she doesn't make
a decision soon.
There isn’t much worth
living for in Gypsum, Missouri—or Trashtown, as the rich kids call the
run-down neighborhood where sixteen-year-old Hailey Tarbell lives.
Hailey figures she’ll never belong—not with the popular kids at school,
not with the rejects, not even with her cruel, sickly grandmother, who
deals drugs out of their basement. Hailey never knew her dead mother,
and she has no idea who her father was, but at least she has her
four-year-old foster brother, Chub. Once she turns eighteen, Hailey
plans to take Chub far from Gypsum and start a new life where no one can
find them.
But when a classmate is injured in gym class, Hailey
discovers a gift for healing that she never knew she possessed—and that
she cannot ignore. Not only can she heal, she can bring the dying back
to life. Confused by her powers, Hailey searches for answers but finds
only more questions, until a mysterious visitor shows up at Gram’s
house, claiming to be Hailey’s aunt Prairie.
There are people
who will stop at nothing to keep Hailey in Trashtown, living out a
legacy of despair and suffering. But when Prairie saves both Hailey and
Chub from armed attackers who invade Gram’s house in the middle of the
night, Hailey must decide where to place her trust. Will Prairie’s past,
and the long-buried secret that caused her to leave Gypsum years
earlier, ruin them all? Because as Hailey will soon find out, their
power to heal is just the beginning.
"I can't just storm
in and proclaim my intentions. I can't 'steal' you away. I just have to
wait and hope that, someday, you'll ask," Tamani said.
"And if I don't?" Laurel said, her voice barely above a whisper.
"Then I guess I'll be waiting forever."
Although
Laurel has come to accept her true identity as a faerie, she refuses to
turn her back on her human life - and especially her boyfriend, David -
to return to the faerie world.
But when she is summoned to
Avalon, Laurel's feelings for the charismatic faerie sentry Tamani are
undeniable. She is forced to make a choice - a choice that could break
her heart.
A captivating and witty dark fantasy that will have girls lusting after it. Morgan
Sparks has always known that she and her boyfriend, Cam, are made for
each other. But when Cam’s cousin Pip comes to stay with the family, Cam
seems depressed. Finally Cam confesses to Morgan what’s going on: Cam
is a fairy. The night he was born, fairies came down and switched him
with a healthy human boy. Nobody expected Cam to live, and nobody
expected his biological brother, heir to the fairy throne, to die. But
both things happened, and now the fairies want Cam back to take his
rightful place as Fairy King.
Even as Cam physically changes,
becoming more miserable each day, he and Morgan pledge to fool the
fairies and stay together forever. But by the time Cam has to decide
once and for all what to do, Morgan’s no longer sure what’s best for
everyone, or whether her and Cam’s love can weather an uncertain future.
Faerie Winter (Bones of Faerie #2) by Janni Lee Simner
Liza is a summoner. She
can draw life to herself, even from beyond the grave. And because magic
works both ways, she can drive life away. Months ago, she used her
powers to banish her dangerous father and to rescue her mother, lost in
dreams, from the ruined land of Faerie.
Born in the wake of the
war between humanity and Faerie, Liza lived in a world where green
things never slept, where trees sought to root in living flesh and bone.
But now the forests have fallen silent. Even the evergreens' branches
are bare. Winter crops won't grow, and the threat of starvation looms.
And deep in the forest a dark, malevolent will is at work. To face it,
Liza will have to find within herself something more powerful than magic
alone.
Rival by Sara Bennett Wealer What if your worst enemy turned out to be the best friend you ever had?
Meet
Brooke: Popular, powerful and hating every minute of it, she’s the “It”
girl at Douglas High in Lake Champion, Minnesota. Her real ambition?
Using her operatic mezzo as a ticket back to NYC, where her family lived
before her dad ran off with an up and coming male movie star.
Now
meet Kathryn: An overachieving soprano with an underachieving savings
account, she’s been a leper ever since Brooke punched her at a party
junior year. For Kath, music is the key to a much-needed college
scholarship.
The stage is set for a high-stakes duet between the
two seniors as they prepare for the prestigious Blackmore competition.
Brooke and Kathryn work toward the Blackmore with eyes not just on first
prize but on one another, each still stinging from a past that started
with friendship and ended in betrayal. With competition day nearing,
Brooke dreams of escaping the in-crowd for life as a professional
singer, but her scheming BFF Chloe has other plans. And when Kathryn
gets an unlikely invitation to Homecoming, she suspects Brooke of trying
to sabotage her with one last public humiliation.
As pressures
mount, Brooke starts to sense that the person she hates most might just
be the best friend she ever had. But Kathryn has a decision to make.
Can she forgive? Or are some rivalries for life?
Until now, high school
junior, John Keats, has only tiptoed near the edges of the vortex that
is schoolmate and literary prodigy, Gordon Byron. That is, until their
mutual friend, Shelly, drowns in a sailing accident.
After
stealing Shelly's ashes from her wake at Trinity Catholic High School,
the boys set a course for the small Lake Erie island where Shelly's body
had washed ashore and to where she wished to be returned. It would be
one last "so Shelly" romantic quest. At least that's what they think. As
they navigate around the obstacles and resist temptations during their
odyssey, Keats and Gordon glue together the shattered pieces of Shelly's
and their own pasts while attempting to make sense of her tragic and
premature end.
The same questions whirl
round and round in my head: What does he want from me? How could I have
let this happen? AM I GOING TO DIE? 17-year-old Grace wakes up in a
white room, with table, pens and paper - and no clue how she got there.
As Grace pours her tangled life onto the page, she is forced to remember
everything she's tried to forget. There's falling hopelessly in love
with the gorgeous Nat, and the unravelling of her relationship with her
best friend Sal. But there's something missing. As hard as she's trying
to remember, is there something she just can't see? Grace must face the
most important question of all. Why is she here? A story of dangerous
secrets, intense friendships and electrifying attraction.
Keys To The Repository (Blue Bloods #4.5) by Melissa de la Cruz
Lavish parties.
Passionate meetings in the night. Bone-chilling murders. Midterms. The
day-to-day life of Schuyler Van Alen and her Blue Bloods friends (and
enemies) is never boring. But there's oh-so-much more to know about
these beautiful and powerful teens. Below the streets of Manhattan,
within the walls of the Repository, exists a wealth of revealing
information about the vampire elite that dates back before the
Mayflower.
Finn has escaped
Incarceron only to find that he must defend his right to the throne from
another challenger. His life and Claudia's hang on Finn convincing the
Court that he is the lost prince, even though he has his own doubts
about being the true heir.
The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff Mackie Doyle is not one
of us. Though he lives in the small town of Gentry, he comes from a
world of tunnels and black murky water, a world of living dead girls
ruled by a little tattooed princess. He is a Replacement, left in the
crib of a human baby sixteen years ago. Now, because of fatal allergies
to iron, blood, and consecrated ground, Mackie is fighting to survive in
the human world.
Mackie would give anything to live among us, to
practice on his bass or spend time with his crush, Tate. But when
Tate's baby sister goes missing, Mackie is drawn irrevocably into the
underworld of Gentry, known as Mayhem. He must face the dark creatures
of the Slag Heaps and find his rightful place, in our world, or theirs.
Sixteen-year-old Kaye
is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she travels from city to city
with her mother's rock band until an ominous attack forces Kaye back to
her childhood home. There, amid the industrial, blue-collar New Jersey
backdrop, Kaye soon finds herself an unwilling pawn in an ancient power
struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms - a struggle that could very
well mean her death.
Bones of Faerie (Bones of Faerie #1) by Janni Lee Simner
The war between
humanity and Faerie devastated both sides. Or so 15-year-old Liza has
been told. Nothing has been seen or heard from Faerie since, and Liza’s
world bears the scars of its encounter with magic. Trees move with
sinister intention, and the town Liza calls home is surrounded by a
forest that threatens to harm all those who wander into it. Then Liza
discovers she has the Faerie ability to see—into the past, into the
future—and she has no choice but to flee her town. Liza’s quest will
take her into Faerie and back again, and what she finds along the way
may be the key to healing both worlds.
Nikki Beckett could
only watch as her boyfriend, Jack, sacrificed himself to save her,
taking her place in the Tunnels of the Everneath for eternity — a debt
that should’ve been hers. She’s living a borrowed life, and she doesn’t
know what to do with the guilt. And every night Jack appears in her
dreams, lost and confused and wasting away.
Desperate for
answers, Nikki turns to Cole, the immortal bad boy who wants to make her
his queen — and the one person least likely to help. But his heart has
been touched by everything about Nikki, and he agrees to assist her in
the only way he can: by taking her to the Everneath himself.
Nikki
and Cole descend into the Everneath, only to discover that their
journey will be more difficult than they’d anticipated — and more
deadly. But Nikki vows to stop at nothing to save Jack — even if it
means making an incredible sacrifice of her own.
In this
enthralling sequel to Everneath, Brodi Ashton tests the bonds of destiny
and explores the lengths we’ll go to for the ones we love.
I will not lose another person I love. I will not let history repeat itself.
Vincent
waited lifetimes to find me, but in an instant our future together was
shattered. He was betrayed by someone we both called a friend, and I
lost him. Now our enemy is determined to rule over France’s immortals,
and willing to wage a war to get what they want.
It shouldn’t be
possible, none of it should be, but this is my reality. I know Vincent
is somewhere out there, I know he’s not completely gone, and I will do
anything to save him.
After what we’ve already fought to achieve,
a life without Vincent is unimaginable. He once swore to avoid dying—to
go against his nature and forsake sacrificing himself for others—so
that we could be together. How can I not risk everything to bring my
love back to me?
Coraline's often wondered what's behind the locked door in the drawing room. It reveals only a brick wall when she finally opens it, but when she tries again later, a passageway mysteriously appears. Coraline is surprised to find a flat decorated exactly like her own, but strangely different. And when she finds her "other" parents in this alternate world, they are much more interesting despite their creepy black button eyes. When they make it clear, however, that they want to make her theirs forever, Coraline begins a nightmarish game to rescue her real parents and three children imprisoned in a mirror. With only a bored-through stone and an aloof cat to help, Coraline confronts this harrowing task of escaping these monstrous creatures. Gaiman has delivered a wonderfully chilling novel, subtle yet intense on many levels. The line between pleasant and horrible is often blurred until what's what becomes suddenly clear, and like Coraline, we resist leaving this strange world until we're hooked. Unnerving drawings also cast a dark shadow over the book's eerie atmosphere, which is only heightened by simple, hair-raising text. Coraline is otherworldly storytelling at its best.
A love so strong, even
eternity can't separate them. Evie Starling has lived a relatively
uneventful life hanging out with friends, gossiping about boys, and
driving her 1966 Mustang. 
