Teen & Young Adult

Frenzied – A Suspense Thriller by Brandon Massey

LIVE . . . WORK . . . PLAY . . . DIE . . .

South Haven is the premier mixed-used community in metro Atlanta, a vibrant place where old-fashioned country living gets a modern update. There’s the town square where residents watch family movies on the lawn on warm summer nights. The corner market stocked with organic foods. The bakery with fresh coffee and Wi-Fi. The stately homes on shaded, gently winding streets. The water park where children splash, laugh, and run . . .

There’s also something deadly lurking.

The first incident is dismissed as an aberration: a college student goes berserk and hacks his family to chunks with a machete. But a day later, a young woman riding her bicycle is chased through the streets by her own neighbors. Then a teenager takes a deadly joyride, using his pick-up truck to mow down everyone in sight. As the incidents pile up, the only thing they share is that each person launched into an inexplicable, uncontrollable frenzy.

Mark Deacon, an ex-cop and chief of South Haven’s private security force, has never seen anything like it. And it’s about to get a whole lot worse.

Within twenty-four hours, South Haven is declared a quarantine zone, with every entrance barricaded and military snipers positioned outside the perimeter with orders to shoot on sight. Fearful residents huddle inside, uncertain whom to trust, anxiously watching one another for clues of where the terror might strike next.

Together with Dr. Hannah Bailey, a brilliant CDC scientist dispatched to investigate the threat, Deacon teams up with a motley crew of neighbors, and they hatch a desperate plan to find out answers–and stay alive.

But the spreading menace might not have arrived by accident . . .

RAVES FOR BRANDON MASSEY’S SUSPENSE THRILLERS :

“An intense thriller . . . a wild ride!”
-Kevin O’Brien, New York Times bestselling author

“A razor-sharp thriller guaranteed to keep you turning pages well into the night. Start this one on your day off—you won’t be able to put it down.”
–Douglas Clegg, bestselling author of The Queen of Wolves and The Hour Before Dark

“The talented Mr. Massey has the rare knack of grabbing the reader early and not letting go. Massey knows how to ratchet up the suspense.”
–John Lutz, New York Times bestselling author

“A taut, involving, and utterly convincing thrill ride.”
–Gregg Olsen, New York Times bestselling author

Neverwhere: A Novel by Neil Gaiman

The #1 New York Times bestselling author's ultimate edition of his wildly successful first novel featuring his "preferred text"—and including his special Neverwhere tale "How the Marquis Got His Coat Back"

Published in 1997, Neil Gaiman's darkly hypnotic first novel, Neverwhere, heralded the arrival of a major talent and became a touchstone of urban fantasy. Over the years, a number of versions were produced both in the U.S. and the U.K. Now Gaiman's preferred edition of his classic novel reconciles these works and reinstates a number of scenes cut from the original published books.

Neverwhere is the story of Richard Mayhew, a young London businessman with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he discovers a girl bleeding on the sidewalk. He stops to help her—an act of kindness that plunges him into a world he never dreamed existed.

Slipping through the cracks of reality, Richard lands in the Neverwhere—a London of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth. The Neverwhere is home to Door, the mysterious girl Richard helped in the London Above. Door, a noblewoman whose family has been murdered, is on a quest to find the agent that slaughtered her family and thwart the destruction of this underworld kingdom. If Richard is ever to return to his former life, he must join the journey to save Door's world—and find a way to survive.

A hallucinatory fantasia of mystery, mythology, and terror that "draws equally from George Lucas, Monty Python, Doctor Who, and John Milton" (USA Today), Neverwhere is an "Alice in Wonderland with a punk edge" (Poppy Z. Brite), "that is both the stuff of dreams and nightmares" (San Diego Union-Tribune).

The Other Wife by Michael Robotham

Childhood sweethearts William and Mary have been married for sixty years. William is a celebrated surgeon, Mary a devoted wife. Both have a strong sense of right and wrong.

This is what their son, Joe O’Loughlin, has always believed. But when Joe is summoned to the hospital with news that his father has been brutally attacked, his world is turned upside down. Who is the strange woman crying at William’s bedside, covered in his blood – a friend, a mistress, a fantasist or a killer?

Against the advice of the police, Joe launches his own investigation. As he learns more, he discovers sides to his father he never knew – and is forcibly reminded that the truth comes at a price.

A mesmerising psychological thriller from one of the greatest crime writers of today, Michael Robotham, the internationally bestselling author of THE SECRETS SHE KEEPS.

Cursed Princeby Jade Kerrion

Never accept gifts from strangers…
Especially if it glows…

Ginny’s first mistake was becoming one of the world’s leading experts on ancient civilizations…

Her second mistake was getting kidnapped by Atlantean cultists who believed she knew more than she did…

Her third?

Accepting an energy vortex from a captive mer-prince.

Its reality-altering power entangles her in the millennia-long conflict between Atlantis and the Lords of the Ocean–the mer-people.

To free the mer-prince, she will have to trust a man afflicted with a chimeric personality and tormented by conflicted memories. She’ll have to figure out how to control the devastating power the mer-prince entrusted to her…

Because if she doesn’t succeed, Atlantis will rise again, and all the human nations of the Earth will fall.

Love You, Love You Notby Jo Watson

There’s a fine line between love and hate…

Poppy Peterson is about to be evicted if she doesn’t pay her rent. She used to be an actress on a telenovela until her character, Ramona Gonzalez, Executive Administrative Assistant to the CEO, was killed off. Unfortunately, dead characters can’t pay the bills.

Ryan Stark is a tough boss – especially if you’re his assistant. He’s been through five in the last two months and now no one wants to work for him. He needs an assistant who can meet his demands. And he can be very demanding.

Poppy’s been an assistant before – well, on screen anyway. It can’t be that hard to do in real life, right?

Two things are for sure. Poppy is about to play the role of a lifetime. And Ryan is about to learn a whole new lesson about what’s really important in life.

“Jo has delivered another brilliant read that gave me so much enjoyment to read. I wasn’t disappointed with this new romantic comedy.” -Hopeless Romantic Book Blogs
“Another brilliant romantic comedy from Jo Watson”- Jo Reads Romance
Jo Watson’s Love You, Love You Not book is definitely one everyone should read. It had me laughing out loud, turning to mush over the cute scenes and crying a river over the emotional ones.”- Courtney A, Netgalley Reviewer
“Loved this book! Entertaining and well written, I couldn’t put it down.” Rachel K, Netgalley Reviewer
“I cannot emphasise enough how much I loved this book.” Tara K, Netgalley Reviewer
“I’m glad I decided to give it a read. There are parts that are laugh-out-loud funny.” Stacey R, Netgalley Reviewer
“Had me chuckling throughout. This is a hilarious read.” Zoe, Goodreads Review

Beastly Lords Collection Books 1 – 3: A Regency Historical Romance Collectionby Sydney Jane Baily

With books 1-3 in the Beastly Lords series, indulge in the dark, sexy tales set in Victorian England. Damaged aristocrats and destitute women find love in a dangerous and unpredictable world…

Book Included in the Collection are:

Book 1 Lord Despair – From the lush English countryside to the glittering society of Victorian London, and the shabbier side of its gambling hells, Lord Despair thought he’d left the worst behind in the Burmese jungle. He was wrong. Jenny Blackwood is determined not to let her mother and sisters succumb to an unkind fate. With a head for numbers, she becomes the skilled bookkeeper “Mr. Cavendish.” One unexpected client is the nobleman cruelly named by gossips as Lord Despair.

Book 2 Lord Anguish – Contented, privileged, and eligible until a carriage accident hurls him to the cobbled street, John Angsley, Earl of Cambrey, awakens to broken bones and a battered head. Can it get worse? Opium, which eases his pain at first, brings suffering of its own, creating Lord Anguish, who must choose between the lure of laudanum and the woman he loves. Miss Margaret Blackwood is the jammiest bit of jam and all John has ever wanted in a woman. Unfortunately, it’s clear from the start she’s too young and too fickle to make him a good wife, especially with rival suitors cropping up at every turn.

Book 3 Lord Vile – Viscount Alder never meant to earn the nickname Lord Vile, yet he fully embraces it after a nasty betrayal–combining bitter resentment with the soothing taste of gin and a fondness for females. One wronged woman seeking revenge shreds his self-centered world, painfully capturing the heart he didn’t know he had. Worshiping him from afar, Ada Kathryn is thrilled to encounter the dash-fire viscount in the darkened garden. Minutes later, her innocence in tatters, she waits for the noble Lord Alder to do the honorable thing. Instead, she watches as the most vile lord in London saunters away.

The Gator Pit by J. Morneau

Lured on by his freshman classmate and friend (dubbed Mole by most), Tod Whitney believes he’s taken the easy route through life when he hops onto Mole’s fast track fueled by dishonesty and bullying. But has he? Gradually, Tod’s natural instincts are noticeably at odds with Mole’s. The highs that Mole experiences when the pair inflicts cruelty on others are Tod’s lows–lows that still haunt him three and a half years later when, as a high school grad, he feels compelled to tell his story. It is the most unlikely of friends who softens Tod’s heart and opens his eyes to the issues of his past, but his story does not end there. It proves more difficult than Tod could have imagined to leave his past and Mole behind, and he learns that doing so comes at a heavy price.

Note to Parents and Teachers:
This timely coming-of-age novella has been classroom tested and is age appropriate. Echoing the findings of bully consultant Dr. Malcolm Smith in his Courage to Care program, the story invites discussion of classic bully behaviors and mindsets, the forces of peer pressure and the desire to belong, the role of core family values, the potential support of the bystander, and both hope and encouragement for both victims and perpetrators.
A separate comprehensive discussion guide is available on Amazon.

The Faithful Palate Diet: Discover the 7 Essential Raw Food Eating Habits that will Redesign Your Diet, Reboot your Taste Buds, and Defend your Health as you Age! by Jeannie Hughes

This is lifestyle book with recipes organized into 7 categories called Habits.