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Days after a tragedy leaves Marin Blythe alone in the world, she receives an invitation from Alice Lovelace, a horror writer and childhood friend of Marin's mother. Alice offers her a nanny position at Lovelace House, the family's Maine estate. Marin accepts and soon finds herself minding Alice's...

Raffy can make anything - and turn the most ordinary objects into fabulous costumes. This year he's determined to win the biggest cosplay competition in Boston. There's only one small problem - Raffy's ex-boyfriend, Luca, is his main competition. Last year Luca and Raffy made the perfect team aft...

Perpetual daydreamer Liz Buxbaum gave her heart to Michael a long time ago. But her cool, aloof forever crush never really saw her before he moved away. Now that he's back in town, Liz will do whatever it takes to get on his radar - and maybe snag him as a prom date - even befriend Wes Bennet. Th...

In New Orleans gods meddle and magic will betray you, but this time justice will reign. Thirty years ago, a young woman was murdered, a family was lynched, and New Orleans saw the greatest magical massacre in its history. In the days that followed, a throne was stolen from a queen. On the anniver...

Now she wasn't Molly Cassidy, St Anne's pain-in-the-hole princess. She was nine-year-old Molly who was my best friend in the whole world. Nobody had put her in the recovery position. All these people and they'd just left her like that. I held her hand until the ambulance came. Finbar and Molly li...

The Rippocalypse turned the whole world upside down, but Rippers are now free, happy and calm once a month. Until they suddenly become uncontrollably angry after Howl Night.

Mira is a wrecker, one of the seven chosen to swim out and plunder the wrecked ships beyond the Isle of Rosevear. The waves seem to sing to her soul, the call of the sea beckoning her into deeper waters. But Rosevear needs her, and she could never abandon her home. Until one evening when lightnin...

Tuva is starting seventh grade, and her checklist of goals includes: writing a diary, getting a cool look, building the best fort in the woods with her BFFs, and sharing everything with them. But when she starts school, nothing is how she hoped it would be. Seventh grade has split her friends int...

Ruby Brookes and her best friend Deva have won free places at the Ash Tree Foundation Performing Arts Camp over the summer, but only if their school grades seriously improve. So when Deva suddenly starts getting high marks in all their subjects, leaving Ruby behind, she is confused and jealous. U...

Eddy Smallbone is grappling with identity, love, loss, and religion. It's two years since he blew up his school life and the earthquakes felled his city. Home life is maddening. His pet-minding job is expanding in peculiar directions. And now the past and the future have come calling - in unexpec...