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  • Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson

    Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 165 ratings
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The highly anticipated sequel to the international bestseller, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder! More dark secrets are exposed in this addictive, true-crime fueled mystery. Pip is not a detective anymore.With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year...
  • The Original Crowd by Tijan

    The Original Crowd by Tijan

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    This is the original version of A Whole New Crowd. It has only gone through one round of edits so it is rough. I make no apology for this. The edited version was released as A Whole New Crowd. This is being published at readers' requests. They want to own the original version as well so here it is in all its gritty and monstrously long glory. There is lots of sex so the reader is forewarned...
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  • The Bay by L.J. Ross

    The Bay by L.J. Ross

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    SECRETS NEVER STAY BURIED FOR LONG... In the picturesque seaside town of St Ives, Detective Sergeant Sophie Keane is a pillar of the community. Between the occasional collar and lazy weekends spent on the beach, it seems a perfect life. But for Sophie, the golden sands and crystal waters hide a dark secret, one that’s lain buried for twenty years...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  contemporary  young adult
  • Under the Surface by Diana Urban

    Under the Surface by Diana Urban

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    An epic survival-thriller about four teens who get lost in the Paris catacombs for days—a gripping and propulsive story of love, danger, betrayal, and hope… even when all seems lost.Ruby is terrified to cave to her feelings for Sean and risk him crushing her heart...
  • Get Dirty by Gretchen McNeil

    Get Dirty by Gretchen McNeil

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Now streaming on Netflix and BBC iPlayer! The Breakfast Club  meets Pretty Little Liars in Gretchen McNeil's sharp and thrilling sequel to Get Even. Perfect for fans of E. Lockhart, Karen M. McManus, and Maureen Johnson.The members of Don't Get Mad aren't just mad anymore . . . they're afraid...
  • D.O.G.S by M.A. Bennett

    D.O.G.S by M.A. Bennett

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    After the dramatic events of the last few weeks, Greer Macdonald is trying to concentrate on her A levels. Stuck for a play to direct for her drama exam, she gets help from an unexpected quarter . . .A priceless lost play, buried by time, is pushed under her door. It is Ben Jonson's The Isle of Dogs, a play considered so dangerous in Elizabethan times that every copy was burned . . . except one...
  • Delia's Crossing by V.C. Andrews

    Delia's Crossing by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Kidnapped by cruel fate...Secuestrado por sino cruel After her parents are killed in a truck accident, Delia Yebarra's life is turned upside down. At fifteen, she leaves the rural Mexican village where she grew up and embarks on a new life in America...
  • Someone at the Door by Richie Tankersley Cusick

    Someone at the Door by Richie Tankersley Cusick

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    BEWARE THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERSThe phone and the radio were dead, but they'd already heard the news: a mass murderer was on the loose. Hannah and her younger sister Meg were miles from the nearest neighbor, trapped in a raging blizzard, home alone. Until the knock at the door. Two strangers burst into the house, wounded, bleeding and nearly frozen...
  • Fatal Secrets by Richie Tankersley Cusick

    Fatal Secrets by Richie Tankersley Cusick

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After her sister drowns, Ryan McCauley is haunted by the dead girl’s pastTwo sisters walk through a snowy wood, collecting pinecones for Christmas decorations. Something has frightened Marisa, and she’s about to explain it to Ryan, her younger sister, when she steps onto a patch of thin ice. Marisa plummets into the frigid water below, and though Ryan tries to save her, there’s nothing she can do...
  • Out of the Rain by V.C. Andrews

    Out of the Rain by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Following the events of The Umbrella Lady, young Saffron Faith Anders searches for family and love in this spine-tingling gothic fairy tale from the New York Times bestselling author of the Flowers in the Attic series and Landry series—now popular Lifetime movies...
  • Ruby by V.C. Andrews

    Ruby by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    In the heart of the bayou, Ruby Landry lives a simple, happy life. But innocence can't last forever... The only family Ruby Landry has ever known are her loving guardian, Grandmère Catherine, a Cajun spiritual healer, and her drunken, outcast Grandpèrb Jack...
  • We Were Warned by Chelsea Ichaso

    We Were Warned by Chelsea Ichaso

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Everyone knows the legend of Fairport Village: twenty-five years ago, a shocking murder closed the place down. This year, the ruins will be bulldozed at last. But tonight, it's not too late to die...
  • Love and Heart, Vol. 1 by Chitose Kaidō

    Love and Heart, Vol. 1 by Chitose Kaidō

    Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After a messy breakup, college freshman Yoh Yagisawa returns home only to find she has an unexpected male roommate! Introducing himself as her old childhood friend who moved abroad, handsome Haruma Hirose is back to do a homestay. He's totally hot, super nice, and always there when Yoh's in trouble..
  • Unreal by Riley Moreno

    Unreal by Riley Moreno

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Riley Moreno’s First Thriller Series takes you on a whirlwind of an emotional roller coaster ride.When an innocent road trip takes a dark turn, two young women will end up fighting for their lives.To celebrate her college graduation, Julie Edwards and her best friend, Kim, take off on a road trip across the country...
  • Into the Garden by V.C. Andrews

    Into the Garden by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    THEY BEGAN AS STRANGERS -- FOUR TEENAGE GIRLS WITH NOTHING IN COMMON BUT THEIR MISERABLE CHILDHOODS. SOON, THEY WOULD REALIZE THAT THEIR SECRET PASTS HAD BOUND THEM TOGETHER FOREVER....Misty, Star, Jade, and Cat first came together in Dr. Marlowe's group therapy sessions. They trusted no one but each other -- and even that bond was fragile at best...
  • The Shadows of Foxworth by V.C. Andrews, Andrew Neiderman

    The Shadows of Foxworth by V.C. Andrews, Andrew Neiderman

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Continuing the events from Beneath the Attic and Out of the Attic, the prequel trilogy to the Dollanganger series comes to a riveting end with The Shadows of Foxworth, a passionate novel about Corrine Foxworth’s intense desire to flee her overbearing life trapped in the Foxworth estate...
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    suspense  horror  young adult  length-medium
  • One Was Lost by Natalie D. Richards

    One Was Lost by Natalie D. Richards

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Damaged. Deceptive. Dangerous. Darling. Are they labels or a warning? The answer could cost Sera everything.Murder, justice, and revenge were so not a part of the plan when Sera set out on her senior camping trip. After all, hiking through the woods is supposed to be safe and uneventful.Then one morning the group wakes up groggy, confused, and with words scrawled on their wrists: Damaged...
  • Gone Too Far by Natalie D. Richards

    Gone Too Far by Natalie D. Richards

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Keeping secrets ruined her life. But the truth might just kill her.Piper Woods can't wait for the purgatory of senior year to end. She skirts the fringes of high school like a pro until the morning she finds a notebook with mutilated photographs and a list of student sins. She's sure the book is too gruesome to be true, until pretty, popular Stella dies after a sex-tape goes viral...
  • You Will Be Mine by Natasha Preston

    You Will Be Mine by Natasha Preston

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 38 ratings
    ROSES ARE REDVIOLETS ARE BLUEWATCH YOUR BACKI'M COMING FOR YOULylah and her friends can't wait to spend a night out together. Partying is the perfect way to let loose from the stress of life and school, and Lylah hopes that hitting the dance floor with Chace, her best friend, will bring them closer together. She's been crushing on him since they met. If only he thought of her the same way..
  • Win Lose Kill Die by Cynthia Murphy

    Win Lose Kill Die by Cynthia Murphy

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    An explosive new YA thriller, from the author of Last One To Die. The students at Morton Academy are high-achievers, selected based on academic excellence. So when a series of murders target the school's brightest and best, the pressure is on. Someone is determined to stop at nothing to clear their path to the top. But who is it? And can they be stopped? A high-school slasher with a lethal twist...
  • Girl on the Run by Abigail Johnson

    Girl on the Run by Abigail Johnson

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A fast-paced original paperback thriller about a girl who discovers that her mother might not be who she says she is . . . and now someone is hunting them both.Katelyn wants the best for her widowed mom. Surprising her with an online dating profile seems like a good idea.It isn't. Katelyn's mom hasn't just been acting overprotective all these years--she's been hiding something...
  • Awake by Natasha Preston

    Awake by Natasha Preston

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Scarlett Garner doesn’t remember anything before the age of four—but a car accident changes everything. She starts to remember pieces of a past that frighten her. A past her parents hid from her…and a secret that could get her killed...
  • The Cutting Room Floor by Dawn Klehr

    The Cutting Room Floor by Dawn Klehr

    Rated: 3.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Behind-the-scenes secrets could turn deadly for Desmond and Riley Life in the Heights has never been easy for seventeen-year-old Riley Frost, but when she's publicly dumped and outed at the same time, she becomes an immediate social outcast at her high school. So Riley swears off romance and throws herself into solving the shocking murder of her favorite teacher, Ms. Dunn...
  • Want to Go Private? by Sarah Darer Littman

    Want to Go Private? by Sarah Darer Littman

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Abby and Luke chat online. They've never met. But they are going to. Soon.Abby is starting high school--it should be exciting, so why doesn't she care? Everyone tells her to "make an effort," but why can't she just be herself? Abby quickly feels like she's losing a grip on her once-happy life. The only thing she cares about anymore is talking to Luke, a guy she met online, who understands...
  • Lying in the Deep by Diana Urban

    Lying in the Deep by Diana Urban

    Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    A juicy mystery of jealousy, love, and betrayal set on a Semester at Sea-inspired cruise ship, with a diverse cast of delightfully suspicious characters who’ll leave you guessing with every jaw-dropping twist...
  • The Believing Game by Eireann Corrigan

    The Believing Game by Eireann Corrigan

    Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A private academy. A cult leader. A girl caught in the middle. After Greer Cannon discovers that shoplifting can be a sport and sex can be a superpower, her parents pack her up and send her off to McCracken Hill-a cloistered academy for troubled teens. At McCracken, Greer chafes under the elaborate systems and self-help lingo of therapeutic education. Then Greer meets Addison Bradley...
  • Captive by A.J. Grainger

    Captive by A.J. Grainger

    Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I open my eyes. The cell is flooded with sunlight; the window is a slice of pale blue. Dust particles dance in the sparkling light, pirouetting in a golden line from the window to the opposite wall of the cell, where they seem to converge into shapes. It is like looking into a kaleidoscope. Dad isn't here. No one is, but me...
  • Awake by Natasha Preston

    Awake by Natasha Preston

    Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Scarlett Garner doesn’t remember anything before the age of four—but a car accident changes everything. She starts to remember pieces of a past that frighten her. A past her parents hid from her…and a secret that could get her killed...
  • Nightmares of Caitlin Lockyer by Demelza Carlton

    Nightmares of Caitlin Lockyer by Demelza Carlton

    Rated: 3.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A bestselling romantic suspense thriller that will keep you captivated until the end. There are real monsters out there. The worst part is that they're human. "Name?" "Nathan Miller." "What happened?" "I was shot." "By whom?" "A homicidal lunatic with a gun and bad aim." "Her name?" "Caitlin Lockyer." "What happened to her?" "Looks like someone tried to kill her...
  • Ten by Gretchen McNeil

    Ten by Gretchen McNeil

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 37 ratings
    SHHHH!Don't spread the word!Three-day weekend. Party at White Rock House on Henry Island.You do NOT want to miss it. It was supposed to be the weekend of their lives—an exclusive house party on Henry Island. Best friends Meg and Minnie each have their reasons for being there (which involve T.J...
  • Killer Game by Kirsty McKay

    Killer Game by Kirsty McKay

    Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    At Cate's isolated boarding school, Killer Game is a tradition. Only a select few are invited to play. They must avoid being killed by a series of thrilling pranks, and identify the murderer. But this time, it's different: the game stops feeling fake and starts getting dangerous and Cate's the next target. Can they find the culprit ..
  • Murder on a School Night by Kate Weston

    Murder on a School Night by Kate Weston

    Rated: 3.46 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A hilarious murder mystery–rom-com from author and comedian Kate Weston investigates the sinister side of social media when bullying turns bloody—and a string of classmate deaths by menstrual cup and sanitary pad sets amateur sleuth Kerry hot on the trail of a menstrual murderer. Perfect for fans of Truly Devious and Fleabag.There’s never a good time to find a dead body, sure...
  • Wicked Games by Sean Olin

    Wicked Games by Sean Olin

    Rated: 3.36 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Wicked Games is the first book in a sexy thriller series where passion, lies, and revenge collide-perfect for fans of Simone Elkeles and Sara Shepard. To all the locals in the small beach town of Dream Point, Carter and Lilah seem like the perfect It Couple-but their relationship is about to brutally unravel before everyone's eyes...
  • Little Creeping Things by Chelsea Ichaso

    Little Creeping Things by Chelsea Ichaso

    Rated: 3.52 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A compulsively readable debut with a narrator you just can't trust, perfect for fans of Natasha Preston.As a child, Cassidy Pratt accidentally started a fire that killed her neighbor. At least, that's what she's been told. She can't remember anything from that day. She's pretty sure she didn't mean to do it. She's a victim too...
  • The Ruining by Anna Collomore

    The Ruining by Anna Collomore

    Rated: 3.48 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Annie Phillips is thrilled to leave her past behind and begin a shiny new life on Belvedere Island, as a nanny for the picture-perfect Cohen family. In no time at all, she falls in love with the Cohens, especially with Libby, the beautiful young matriarch of the family. Life is better than she ever imagined. She even finds romance with the boy next door...
  • Hidden Pieces by Paula Stokes

    Hidden Pieces by Paula Stokes

    Rated: 3.49 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Embry Woods has secrets. Small ones about her past. Bigger ones about her relationship with town hero Luke and her feelings for someone new. But the biggest secret she carries with her is about what happened that night at the Sea Cliff Inn. The fire. The homeless guy. Everyone thinks Embry is a hero, too, but that couldn’t be further from the truth...
  • The Violent Season by Sara Walters

    The Violent Season by Sara Walters

    Rated: 3.51 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    There is something terribly wrong in Wolf Ridge. Every November, every teen is overwhelmed with a hunger for violence…at least, that’s the urban legend.After Wyatt Green’s mother was brutally murdered last Fall, she’s convinced that the November sickness plaguing Wolf Ridge isn’t just a town rumor that everyone ignores…it’s a palpable force infecting her neighbors...
  • The Girl Who Knew Too Much by Tiffany Brooks

    The Girl Who Knew Too Much by Tiffany Brooks

    Rated: 3.37 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    You think it's a game? Think again.High school senior Riley Ozment is desperate to change her reality after making a fool of herself on social media. She needs to do something drastic to repair her social standing—like trying out for a Survivor-style reality TV show...
  • Shutter by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Shutter by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sixteen-year-old Day Connor views life through the lens of her camera, where perspective is everything. But photographs never tell the whole story. After Day crosses paths with Julian, the world she observes and the truths she believes—neatly captured in black and white—begin to blur.Julian does not look like a murderer, but his story is full of holes, and his alibis don’t quite add up, either...
  • Gossip Girl, Psycho Killer by Cecily von Ziegesar

    Gossip Girl, Psycho Killer by Cecily von Ziegesar

    Rated: 3.39 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I live, go to school, play, and sleep-sometimes with each other. It's a luxe life, but someone's got to live it . . . until they die...
  • The New Girl by Jesse Q. Sutanto

    The New Girl by Jesse Q. Sutanto

    Rated: 3.44 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Lia Setiawan has never really fit in. When she wins a full ride to the prestigious Draycott Academy on a track scholarship, she's determined to make it work even though she's never felt more out of place. But on her first day there she witnesses a girl being forcefully carried away by campus security...
  • The Game by Linsey Miller

    The Game by Linsey Miller

    Rated: 3.13 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    If you loved American Horror Story 1984, you'll die for this paperback original thriller mashup of Agatha Christie's The A.B.C. Murders and Riverdale in which a game turns deadly with a killer who picks his victims one by one, letter by letter.Every year the senior class at Lincoln High plays assassin...
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