By Gary Kriss
Dear Dr. Phil:
Please help me! I’m desperate!
No matter how hard I try I can’t break my addiction to a solitary vice. The urge can overtake me at any time, but usually I’m able to keep it under control until I’m in bed, under the covers, clutching a device.
And, oh, the images that enter my mind when I do it! I know it’s fantasy, but it seems so real! The other night it was the bayou and horses. What pleasure! What indescribable pleasure! Even now I get all tingly just thinking about it.
But I feel so guilty. I know lots of people do what I do and that I shouldn’t be ashamed. Maybe it’s because of my upbringing. I mean, sure, I did it when I was a teen, but I always believed that when I was older there would be other outlets. And there are, but I still come back to this.
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In the future, teens rent their bodies to seniors who want to be young again. One girl discovers her renter plans to do more than party – she plans to use the body to murder someone.
Sixteen-year-old Callie lost her parents when the genocide spore wiped out everyone except those who were vaccinated first–the very young and very old. With no grandparents to claim Callie and her little brother, they go on the run, living as squatters, and fighting off unclaimed renegades who would kill for a cookie.
Hope comes via Prime Destinations, run by a mysterious figure known only as The Old Man. He hires teens to rent their bodies to seniors, known as Enders, who get to be young again. Callie’s neurochip malfunctions and she wakes up in the life of her rich renter, living in her mansion, driving her cars, even dating Blake, the grandson of a senator. It’s a fairy-tale new life . . . until she uncovers the Body Bank’s horrible plan…
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By J. H. Bográn
When an ancient demon targets Redgrave High, Eryn and her crew of hunters must face their innermost fears to prevent the Harvest Moon Dance from becoming one serious Monster Mash. Loyalties are tested and temptations abound. With questions ever brewing, can Eryn share a future with the brooding, noble, human Alec—the hunter after her heart? Or will she succumb to her enemy’s son, Wade, a seductive predator as bloodthirsty as she is? What happens when you’re both the beauty and the beast?
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By Nate Kenyon
Ever feel like someone’s watching you? Me, too. But lately it’s been happening in my room.
When I’m alone.
A friend posted a video of me dancing online, and now I’m no longer Alicia Ruffino. I’m dancergirl. And suddenly it’s like me against the world—everyone’s got opinions.
My admirers want more, the haters hate, my best friend Jacy—even he’s acting weird. And some stalker isn’t content to just watch anymore.
Ali. Dancergirl. Whatever you know me as, however you’ve seen me online, I’ve trained my whole life to be the best dancer I can be. But if someone watching has their way, I could lose way more than just my love of dancing. I could lose my life.
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By Virna DePaul
Prepare yourself for Jordan Dane’s incredible young adult novel, ON A DARK WING…
The choices I had made led to the moment when fate took over. I would learn a lesson I wasn’t prepared for.
And Death would be my willing teacher.
Five years ago Abbey Chandler cheated Death. She survived a horrific car accident, but her lucky break came at the expense of her mother’s life and changed everything. After she crossed paths with Death—by taking the hand of an ethereal boy made of clouds and sky—she would never be normal again.
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by Ethan Cross
Katie Alender has set herself apart as a master of supernatural suspense for the young reader, earning comparisons to Stephen King. Her new book, From Bad to Cursed, continues the stories of two sisters plagued by paranormal happenings that she began with her debut novel, Bad Girls Don’t Die.
Alexis is the last girl you’d expect to sell her soul for beauty and popularity. After all, she already has everything she needs–an adorable boyfriend, the perfect best friend, and a family that finally seems to be healing after her sister Kasey’s unfortunate possession by an evil spirit.
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I recently had an opportunity to interview Jordan Dane about her writing career and her new Young Adult releases from Harlequin Teen, IN THE ARMS OF STONE ANGELS (Apr 2011) and ON A DARK WING (TBA 2012). The move to young adult novels is something new for Jordan who launched her back-to-back debut suspense novels in 2008 after the 3-books sold in auction. Ripped from the headlines, Jordan’s gritty plots weave a tapestry of vivid settings, intrigue, and dark humor. Publishers Weekly compared her intense pacing to Lisa Jackson, Lisa Gardner, and Tami Hoag—naming her debut book NO ONE HEARD HER SCREAM as one of the Best Books of 2008. When not writing, Jordan and her husband share their Texas residence with two cats and a rescue dog named Taco.
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The hottest guy in school thought Weezy would be easy, but she wasn’t, so he got rough. And now he’s spreading stories about her. Jack’s first impulse is to apply his baseball bat to the guy’s knees, but no…in his inimitable way, he devises a punishment much worse than broken bones. But Jack’s revenge scheme takes a shocking and unexpectedly deadly turn.
In F. Paul Wilson’s third young adult novel, Jack: Secret Vengeance, the teenage Jack demonstrates the devious skills that will serve him later in life as the urban mercenary known as Repairman Jack.
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In Bonnie Hearn Hill’s Gemini Night, third in the young adult Star Crossed series, high school junior Logan McRae wants to be the teen astrologer for CRUSH, the San Francisco-based magazine where she is an intern. All she has to do is figure out the astrological chart of one of the celebrity guests who will be attending the magazine’s Halloween launch party. The mystery celebrity–a Gemini–is in trouble, and Logan must try to stop the costume party before it is too late.
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By From the delightful mysteries of Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse series to the brooding love affair of Edward Cullen and Bella Swan in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga, vampires have taken over the literary world in recent years, especially the young adult market. Why do these creatures fascinate us? Is the fangs? The immortality? The youth? And where did it all begin?
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Jonathan Maberry is making the transition from bestselling thriller writer to brand name. He’s written a Stoker Award-winning Horror series (The Pine Deep Trilogy), the wildly-successful, genre-creating Joe Ledger thriller trilogy (Patient Zero, Dragon Factory and next year’s King of Plagues) which has been called “Michael Crichton meets 24,” and which has been snapped up by Sony Pictures for development as an ABC Television series. Along the way he’s also written dozens of short stories and essays and a string of nonfiction books, the last five dealing with myths and legends of the supernatural, such as the Stoker Award-winning Cryptopedia (2007). Comic book fans know him from his work onPunisher, DeadPool, Black Panther and many other popular Marvel series.
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In debut author Kristina Schram’s The Chronicles of Anaedor: The Prophecies, strange things happen to fifteen-year-old Lavida Mors. Maybe that’s why her father sends her away to Portal Manor, a mysterious family estate she has never seen. Lavida quickly discovers that not everything at Portal Manor is as it seems when she stumbles across a secret passage to a hidden world–Anaedor.
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In legendary R.L. Stine’s lastest Goosebumps book, Weirdo Halloween, Meg has a weirdo Halloween in store when the boy in the orange costume turns out to be a Weirdo–an alien from another planet who refuses to leave her house. Are more Weirdos on the way?
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