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Willow Lamott’s best friend is a convicted killer, and no one in the small town of Gilt Hollow will let her forget it. Over four long years, she’s tried to fade into the background - but none of that matters when Ashton Keller comes striding into school, fresh out of juvie and fueled by revenge.

Ever since Margot was born, it’s been just her and her mother. No answers to Margot’s questions about what came before. No history to hold on to. No relative to speak of. Just the two of them, stuck in their run-down apartment, struggling to get along. But that’s not enough for Margot. She wants family. She wants a past. And she just found the key she needs to get it: A photograph, pointing her to a town called Phalene. Pointing her home. Only, when Margot gets there, it’s not what she bargained for. Margot’s mother left for a reason.

A windswept private island off the coast of Massachusetts. A hungry ocean, churning with secrets and sorrow. A fiery, addicted heiress. An irresistible, unpredictable boy. A summer of unforgivable betrayal and terrible mistakes. Welcome back to the Sinclair family. They were always liars.

Ever since her mother vanished, Selah Whitlock has been drawn to the unexplained. So it feels almost fated to live in Foggy Hollow, a place where mystery abounds. Even more so when her father accepts a job at the Vandenberg estate, the epicenter of the town's most infamous cold case. Moving into the estate's carriage house pulls Selah into the orbit of the Vandenberg cousins: Jude, the brooding heir with a tragic past, and Rafe, effortlessly charming and undeniably dangerous.

Obwohl Ruby dazu bestimmt ist, das unauffällige Leben einer Dienstmagd zu führen, sehnt sie sich nach einer echten Herausforderung. Dann passiert das Undenkbare: der König stirbt und ernennt sie zu seiner Thronfolgerin. Plötzlich sieht sich Ruby mit den Intrigen des Hofs konfrontiert, mit einer wütenden Witwe und den drei arroganten (und gut aussehenden) Prinzen. Damit nicht genug: Ruby entdeckt einen Hinweis darauf, dass der König ermordet wurde – und dass Ruby die Nächste sein könnte.

In the compelling sequel to Blackbird, Anna Carey delivers a gritty and adrenaline-filled story of a girl desperate to escape her mysterious and terrifying assailants. Told in second person, this heart-pounding thriller puts the reader in front of the target, and is perfect for fans of The Maze...

From the author of the Eve trilogy comes the breathless story of a girl racing to figure out who she is—and how to stay alive. When a nameless girl wakes up on the subway tracks, she knows only one thing for sure: people want her dead. Can she find them before they track her down? This...

Nach dem Unfalltod ihrer Eltern ist Grace auf sich allein gestellt. Die exklusive Katmere Academy im kalten Alaska, die ihr Onkel leitet, soll ihr neues Zuhause sein. Doch dort geschehen seltsame Dinge. Die Schüler verhalten sich mysteriös, allen voran Jaxon Vega, zu dem Grace sich auf unerklärliche Weise hingezogen fühlt - trotz aller Warnungen ihrer Cousine Macy. Aber Jaxon hat seinen Ruf nicht umsonst: Je näher sie und der unwiderstehliche Bad Boy einander kommen, desto größer wird die Gefahr für Grace. Offensichtlich hat es jemand auf sie abgesehen... Gelesen von Diana Gantner als Grace und Marios Gavrilis als Jaxon.

Hay veces en la vida de algunas personas en que de pronto ocurre algo que lo cambia todo. El miedo. Miedo a vivir. Miedo a no soportar la vida. Miedo a tener que hacerlo. Miedo a no saber cómo. Miedo al miedo. Esta historia trata de una de esas personas. También trata de los celos. Los celos nos destruyen por dentro. A menudo, también por fuera. Los celos lo destruyen todo. Y siempre pagamos por ellos un precio demasiado alto. Como Eric, como Xenia, como Hugo. Porque aprender a vivir nunca es fácil

Absuelto del cargo de asesinato, del que fue injustamente acusado a los 14 años de edad, y una vez probada su inocencia, el ahora joven Eric sale del Correccional de Menores tras cuatro años de internamiento. Sin embargo, la reinserción en una sociedad cargada de prejuicios resultará una realidad todavía más dura: no volver a caer en la delincuencia cuando el entorno parece empeñado en ello, continuar los estudios, encontrar un trabajo, alejarse de su barrio.

Luca Laine Thomas lives in Parris, the beautiful island plagued by the unsolved deaths of young women—most significantly, Luca's best friend. All Luca wants is to heal from the traumatic loss and leave her feelings of guilt and helplessness behind. Then Luca comes home to find the police at her house. Her sister, Whitney, is dead. Luca and Naomi, the new girl next door, decide to take the investigation into their own hands, and along the way, their connection deepens.

In this queer contemporary YA mystery, a nonbinary autistic teen realizes they must not only solve a 30-year-old mystery but also face the demons lurking in their past in order to live a satisfying life.

Was ist mit Vivien passiert? Was machst du, wenn alles, woran du geglaubt hast, von einem Moment zum nächsten nicht mehr zählt? Wenn es verschwunden ist, im großen Nichts der aufgelösten Träume? Ich brauche dich. Jetzt. Aber du hast alles kaputtgemacht... Zwischen den beiden besten Freundinnen Nora und Vivien herrscht absolute Funkstille. Seit Vivien sich mit Janus, dem Herzensbrecher der Schule, eingelassen hat, ist sie nicht mehr die Gleiche. Dann verschwindet Vivien spurlos und angeblich weiß keiner ihrer neuen Freunde, was mit ihr passiert ist.

After the car crash that leaves her best friend dead, Jenna is permanently scarred. She struggles to rebuild her life, but every stare in the street makes her want to retreat further from the world. Until she meets Ryan. Ryan's a traveller. When he and his mother arrive in the village, he can't imagine why this place shouldn't be as unwelcoming as the rest. Until he meets Jenna. But as Jenna and Ryan grow closer, repercussions from the crash continue to reverberate through the community. And then a body is found.

In the end, all that's left is an Echo. Before, Violet's morbid ability to sense the dead led her to uncover dark murders and long-buried secrets in her small town. Now that she's workingwith a special investigative team, Violet hopes she can help even more people - whether by saving a life or catching a killer. Although she's relieved to finally be honest about what she can do, her instant connection with her mysterious partner, Rafe, is both confusing and unsettling, and their unique bond creates tension with her boyfriend, Jay. When she discovers the body of a college student murdered by "the collector," Violet refuses to give upon the case.

The missing dead call to Violet. They want to be found.Violet can sense the echoes of those who've been murdered and the matching imprint that clings to their killers. Only those closest to her know what she is capable of, but when she discovers the body of a young boy she also draws the attention of the FBI, threatening her entire way of life. As Violet works to keep her morbid ability a secret, she unwittingly becomes the object of a dangerous obsession.

Taylor Markham is now a senior at the Jellicoe School, and has been made leader of the boarders. She is responsible for keeping the upper hand in the territory wars with the townies, and the cadets who camp on the edge of the school's property over summer. She has to keep her students safe and the territories enforced and to deal with Jonah Griggs - the leader of the cadets and someone she'd rather forget. But what she needs to do, more than anything, is unravel the mystery of her past and find her mother.

Xenia lucha por sacar las mejores notas, impulsada por la ilusión de entrar en Medicina, pero últimamente su rendimiento está bajando. Y es que Xenia se ha enamorado, aunque no de un chico de su entorno, sino de un fantasma, de una voz surgida de Internet con la que comparte su pasión por la lectura. Como Xenia es decidida y su amor virtual se niega a una cita, se propone sorprenderlo, de modo que inicia sus averiguaciones con los pocos datos de que dispone. Y todo resulta ser falso, una mentira, ni la foto ni el nombre son reales.

When a catastrophic hurricane devastates Stone Cove Island, a quaint New England resort community, everyone pulls together to rebuild. Seventeen-year-old Eliza Elliot volunteers to clean out the island's iconic lighthouse and stumbles upon a secret in the wreckage: a handwritten letter. On first glance, it hardly makes sense. But the longer Eliza studies it, the more convinced she becomes that it's an anonymous confession to a 30-year-old crime: the unsolved murder of a local teen named Bess Linsky.

The only thing August Pfeiffer hates more than algebra is living in a vampire town. Located at a nexus of mystical energy fields, Fulton Heights is practically an electromagnet for supernatural drama. And when a mysterious (and annoyingly hot) vampire boy arrives with a cryptic warning, Auggie suddenly finds himself at the center of it. An ancient and terrible power is returning to the earthly realm, and somehow Auggie seems to be the only one who can stop it.