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May 3, 2024

Forty Days in Hicksville

Kate doesn’t want to spend one minute in the “Hicksville” her mother moved them to. Zach, the boy who lives next door, tries to befriend Kate even though she ignores him. Then they find the crevasse on her grandfather’s property and the skeletons hidden inside. Kate and Zach start working together to solve the cold case that has silenced her mother for thirty-five years. Kate doesn’t want to be here; she’s been forced to leave behind an extensive Youtube following of her urban exploration videos, to move with her mom to what might as well be the end of the […]

May 3, 2024

Generation Retaliation

In this thrilling conclusion to the Blackthorn Peak duology, secrets and manipulations are revealed, and no one is who they seem. Six months after Shaun Treadway and his friends escaped Blackthorn Peak Asylum, they are hiding deep in the Appalachian Mountains where food and help are scarce. When Shaun discovers that both the Agency and law are coming after them, he knows it’s be annihilated by the Agency or face the death penalty if arrested. Still, it’s always worth the fight when you’re fighting for what’s right. Though the second in a duo, this novel can also stand alone. It’s […]

February 2, 2024

Secrets Never Die

A chilling new young-adult thriller about four teens whose dark secrets come back to terrorize them. Someone from the past is blackmailing Sam and his friends with their dangerous secrets. Sam isn’t sure who he can trust, who’s watching him – or how far he’s willing to go to bury the past once and for all. Sam Hall hopes he has left everything in the past about his fall from stardom. He participates in a secret cathartic ritual with a few of his friends where they vocalize their worst secrets in private in a wooden hut in the woods. […]

October 6, 2023

Generation Annihilation

For seventeen-year-old Shaun Treadway, terror and rage are a way of life. Living with the fear that his abusive stepfather will one day kill his mother, Shaun decides to kill him first—by setting fire to his childhood home with his stepfather inside. Fleeing Baltimore to his mother’s hometown in West Virginia, he hides out in his family’s isolated cabin. Except the small town of Blackthorn Peak is anything but welcoming. The streets are deserted, there is no sign of life, and at the end of Main Street is the creepiest abandoned building he’s ever seen: Blackthorn Peak Lunatic Asylum. Investigating […]

May 5, 2023

Apartment 713

Secret ballrooms, hidden artwork and unlikely friends—welcome to the Regency. The city plans to demolish it. Jake feels powerless. And then he’s summoned to apartment 713, an apartment he has been told is off-limits. When he opens the door… he travels to the past. Alongside Beth, his new friend and guide, Jake begins searching for any clue that might help him save the Regency. As their friendship blooms, the mystery around the building’s makers deepens. The Regency’s own storied past will give Jake the key to saving his own future—if only he knows where to look. Jake Simmons hates his […]

November 5, 2022

The Grave Thief

A twelve-year-old grave thief gets caught up in a royal heist in this compelling middle-grade fantasy in the vein of Kelley Armstrong’s A Royal Guide to Monster Slaying. Twelve-year-old Spade is a grave thief. With his father and brother, he digs up the recently deceased to steal jewels, the main form of trade in Wyndhail. Digging graves works for Spade — alone in the graveyard at night, no one notices his limp or calls him names. He’s headed for a lifetime of theft when his father comes up with the audacious plan to rob a grave in the Wyndhail castle cemetery. […]

October 7, 2022

Murder at the Hotel Hopeless

Helping his mother run the family hotel doesn’t usually offer much excitement. The only other people around are Penny Price, a spoiled child actor and star of the hit TV series Little Miss Murder being shot in town, and Mr. Ignato, an elderly resident at the hotel. When Mr. Ignato dies from a fall down the stairs, Charlie suspects foul play. Nobody believes him except for Penny, who jumps at the chance to solve a real murder. The two of them discover that Mr. Ignato was once a famous international jewel thief who stole a million-dollar diamond that was never recovered. Is […]

June 30, 2022

Dead Flip

Growing up, Cori, Maz and Sam were inseparable best friends, sharing their love for Halloween, arcade games and one another. Now it’s 1992, Sam has been missing for five years, and Cori and Maz aren’t speaking anymore. How could they be, when Cori is sure Sam is dead and Maz thinks he may have been kidnapped by a supernatural pinball machine?

These days, all Maz wants to do is party, buy CDs at Sam Goody and run away from his past. Meanwhile, Cori is a homecoming queen, hiding her abiding love of horror movies and her queer self under the bubble-gum veneer of a high school queen bee. But when Sam returns—still twelve years old while his best friends are now seventeen — Maz and Cori are thrown back together to solve the mystery of what really happened to Sam the night he went missing. Beneath the surface of that mystery lurk secrets the friends never told one another, then and now. And Sam’s is the darkest of all.

Award-winning author of If You Could Be Mine and Here to Stay, Sara Farizan delivers edge-of-your-seat terror as well as her trademark referential humor, witty narration and insightful characters.

June 30, 2022

The Case of the Rigged Race

Windy Lake First Nation is hosting the annual Trappers Festival, and the four Mighty Muskrats are excited about the sled-dog races and the chance to visit with family and friends from far and wide. But during the Teen Sled Race, the lead dog is the victim of a frightening accident that may be more than it seems.

Between mysterious strangers seen lurking by the trail and a loud group of animal rights protestors, the Muskrats have a lot of suspects. Despite the chill of winter, the case is heating up for Sam, Otter, Atim and Chickadee!

The fourth book in the Mighty Muskrats Mystery series, The Case of the Rigged Race is a warm-hearted window into the lives of people living in remote indigenous communities. The plot revolves around the attempted poisoning of sled dogs during the Windy Lake Teen Dogsled Race, and the mystery of who might be behind it.

May 6, 2022

Terminal Dispatch

When unidentified ships begin sabotaging Thalinraya’s terraforming project, Tab must trust in his synthetic companions and lifelong friends, Vie and Wil, to help him escape before the planet comes apart in this mind-bending sci-fi adventure. “Dayr, decrypt this word squirt with the protocol we used in EllGray3. Your mom always said you were porous, but I think you’ll remember. I need you to know about Vie and Wil. I know our friendship was a long time ago for you now, but it’s still pretty recent for me.

“Things here are poggs. Thalinraya is spiraling into its sun. And so you know, I never intended to kill myself. I’m only doing this because I have to. See you soon.” —Tab Terminal Dispatch is set in a meticulously drawn future with complex characters and heart-pounding battles. This is the first installment in the Dispatch Sequence, a riveting new series that explores transhumanism, artificial intelligence and the price of our drive to survive.

- Kevin Velayo