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  • Bad Blood by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    Bad Blood by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 82 ratings
    New victims. New betrayals. New secrets. When Cassie Hobbes joined the FBI’s Naturals program, she had one goal: uncover the truth about her mother’s murder. But now, everything Cassie thought she knew about what happened that night has been called into question. Her mother is alive, and the people holding her captive are more powerful—and dangerous—than anything the Naturals have faced so far...
  • All In by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    All In by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 59 ratings
    Three casinos. Three bodies. Three days. After a string of brutal murders in Las Vegas, Cassie Hobbes and the Naturals are called in to investigate. But even with the team's unique profiling talents, these murders seem baffling: unlike many serial killers, this one uses different methods every time. All of the victims were killed in public, yet the killer does not show up on any tape...
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  • In an Instant by Suzanne Redfearn

    In an Instant by Suzanne Redfearn

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 73 ratings
    Life is over in an instant for sixteen-year-old Finn Miller when a devastating car accident tumbles her and ten others over the side of a mountain. Suspended between worlds, she watches helplessly as those she loves struggle to survive. Impossible choices are made, decisions that leave the survivors tormented with grief and regret...
  • The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson

    The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 92 ratings
    Ellingham Academy must be cursed. Three people are now dead. One, a victim of either a prank gone wrong or a murder. Another, dead by misadventure. And now, an accident in Burlington has claimed another life. All three in the wrong place at the wrong time. All at the exact moment of Stevie’s greatest triumph . . . She knows who Truly Devious is. She’s solved it. The greatest case of the century...
  • Remember Me Tomorrow by Farah Heron

    Remember Me Tomorrow by Farah Heron

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 34 ratings
    A missing student. A singular investigation. A new romance. Every bit of it is a mystery in a delightful novel of cosmic twists by the author of How to Win a Breakup. East House is the oldest and least desirable dorm on campus, but it has a draw for lonely university freshman Aleeza Kassam: Jay Hoque, the hot and broody student who vanished from East House five months ago without a trace...
  • Deadly Little Voices by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Deadly Little Voices by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    High school junior Camelia thought her powers of psychometry only gave her the ability to sense the future through touch. But now she’s started to hear voices. Mean voices. Berating her, telling her how ugly she is, and that she’d be better off dead...
  • Lion's Honor by Celia Kyle

    Lion's Honor by Celia Kyle

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Sometimes the Queen of the Jungle needs to lean on her King. Okay, she’s really not the queen and he’s totally not the king, but damn it, they need each other. Four years ago, werelioness Honor Mauer walked away from Ridgeville and hopped on a plane bound for London. She had college dreams and none of them included her pesky maybe-mate Grayson...
  • Blink by Ted Dekker

    Blink by Ted Dekker

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    The future changes in the BLINK of an eye. .. or does it? Seth Borders isn't your average graduate student. For starters, he has one of the world's highest IQs. Now he's suddenly struck by an incredible power--the ability to see multiple potential futures. Still reeling from this inexplicable gift, Seth stumbles upon a beautiful woman named Miriam...
  • The Lightning Conjurer: The Complete Series Collection by Rachel Rener

    The Lightning Conjurer: The Complete Series Collection by Rachel Rener

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Contains the complete Lightning Conjurer series:. Book I: THE AWAKENING. Book II: THE ENLIGHTNING. Book III: THE CHRISTENING. Book IV: THE RECKONING. Synopses (includes spoilers in sequel descriptions):. THE AWAKENING. Three years ago, Aspen (as she calls herself), woke up in an abandoned cabin without a single memory...
  • The Dying Breath by Alane Ferguson

    The Dying Breath by Alane Ferguson

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Cameryn? s ex-boyfriend is back . . . and ready to kill! Cameryn had thought she was in love with him. He was smart, strong, and would do anything for her? even kill. Kyle O? Neil disappeared after his first attempt on Cameryn? s life at the end of The Angel of Death . Now he is back for his second...
  • No Way Home by Annette Dashofy

    No Way Home by Annette Dashofy

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A relaxing trail ride turns tragic when Paramedic and Deputy Coroner Zoe Chambers discovers the body of a popular county commissioner in her Pennsylvania woods. Inconsistencies surround the horrible accident, but before she can investigate further, she's pried away by a plea for help from her best friend, whose son has been deemed a person of interest in a homicide over a thousand miles away...
  • Seven Minutes in Heaven by Sara Shepard

    Seven Minutes in Heaven by Sara Shepard

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    MY SISTER WANTS THE TRUTH. BUT SOMETIMES THE TRUTH HURTS. For months, my long-lost twin, Emma, has been living my life and trying to solve my murder. She's unearthed dark secrets about my friends, my family, and my tangled past. But when it comes to finding my killer, she keeps running into dead ends. Until my body shows up in Sabino Canyon...
  • Dark Secrets 1 by Elizabeth Chandler

    Dark Secrets 1 by Elizabeth Chandler

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    Two girls haunted by the past. .. and destined to relive it. In Legacy of Lies , Megan has to stay with the uptight grandmother she wants nothing to do with. She's determined to get through the visit without any drama, but when she falls into a twisted love triangle with potentially fatal consequences, Megan may be caught up in her family's legacy in more ways than she realizes...
  • Night School Fracture by C.J. Daugherty

    Night School Fracture by C.J. Daugherty

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Devastated by the loss of her friend and under constant threat from an unknown spy at Cimmeria Academy, Allie Sheridan is finding it hard to cope. In Fracture, the third book in the Night School series, she’s not the only one losing it – everything is falling apart. And when Nathaniel begins to reveal his game plan, Isabelle starts to lose control...
  • The List by Robert Whitlow

    The List by Robert Whitlow

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    In a world of secrets, where evil has reigned for over a hundred years, the power of an ancient covenant will change the life of one man forever. As a struggling young attorney fresh out of law school, Renny Jacobson pines for the day he can afford the luxuries of the partners in his Charlotte firm. With news of his father's death and a secret inheritance, Renny's life will surely change forever...
  • Three by Ted Dekker

    Three by Ted Dekker

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    By all accounts seminary student Kevin Parsins is leading a good, if not virtuous, life. But like all people, Kevin has his secrets. And someone wants them revealed. While driving home from a day at graduate school, Kevin receives a call from a mysterious stranger who calls himself Slater...
  • Hurt by Travis Thrasher

    Hurt by Travis Thrasher

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    His Rebellion Will Soon Turn to Hope  When Chris Buckley first encountered the mysteries of creepy Solitary, North Carolina, he had little idea how far he would fall into the town’s shadows. After losing the love of his life, Chris tried to do things his way. He hunted answers. Then he gave up trying to find them.  But now Chris comes back to Solitary knowing there’s a purpose for his being there...
  • Dark Premonitions by Heather Topham Wood

    Dark Premonitions by Heather Topham Wood

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Psychic Kate Edwards had her first premonition—a vision of her own murder by a faceless attacker. With very few clues to go on, she has to use her psychic gifts to uncover who wants her dead. Paranoia sets in and Kate wonders if there’s anybody she can trust. As Kate fears her impending death, she’s desperate to seek comfort with her ex-boyfriend Jared Corbett...
  • 'Til Death by Carol J. Perry

    'Til Death by Carol J. Perry

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The staff at Salem, Massachusetts’s local station, WICH-TV, is looking forward to the wedding of their program director, Lee Barrett. But when Lee heads off on her Maine honeymoon, she’ll be haunted by the ghosts of her own past . . . Lee and Detective Sergeant Pete Mondello are finally tying the knot—and Lee is tying up loose ends before the big day...
  • Forevermore by Cindy Miles

    Forevermore by Cindy Miles

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    On a misty cliffside, mystery and romance await. . . . Ivy Calhoun's life has been turned upside down. Her new stepdad has uprooted Ivy and her mom, bringing them to live in an actual castle in the misty Scottish countryside. There are stone-faced servants and shadowy corridors, and the ancient walls seem full of secrets. Ivy is at once frightened and intrigued...
  • Gasp by Lisa McMann

    Gasp by Lisa McMann

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    After narrowly surviving two harrowing tragedies, Jules now fully understands the importance of the visions that she and people around her are experiencing. She’s convinced that if the visions passed from her to Sawyer after she saved him, then they must now have passed from Sawyer to one of the people he saved...
  • Coral Moon by Brandilyn Collins

    Coral Moon by Brandilyn Collins

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The figure remained still as stone. Leslie couldn’t even detect a breath. Spider fingers teased the back of her neck. Leslie’s feet rooted to the pavement. She dropped her gaze to the driveway, seeking … what? Spatters of blood? Footprints? She saw nothing...
  • Echoes by Melinda Metz

    Echoes by Melinda Metz

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Can't believe she did that . . . . . . at four-thirty I have to . . . . . . I hate this place . . . Rae Voight is losing her mind. When she walks down the halls of Sanderson Prep, she hears voices . . . even when no one is talking. Other people's thoughts crowd her head, a confusing tangle of insecurities and dark secrets...
  • Gravestone by Travis Thrasher

    Gravestone by Travis Thrasher

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    His Fear Will Soon Turn to Anger….   At first, Chris Buckley was simply warned. And watched. But as Chris unravels the haunting riddles of the town of Solitary, he finds that much more than the life of a town is at stake.  Whether facing a pastor with a house full of skeletons or a cousin he never knew existed, Chris is forced to choose between light and darkness, life and nightmarish death...
  • Black Ice by Becca Fitzpatrick

    Black Ice by Becca Fitzpatrick

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 58 ratings
    Danger is hard to resist in this sexy thriller from Becca Fitzpatrick, the New York Times bestselling author of the Hush, Hush saga. Brit Pheiffer has trained to backpack the Teton Range, but she isn't prepared when her ex-boyfriend, who still haunts her every thought, wants to join her...
  • Cross My Heart, Hope to Die by Sara Shepard

    Cross My Heart, Hope to Die by Sara Shepard

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    IT'S NOT EASY BEING ME. BUT MY TWIN SISTER HAS NO CHOICE. When I died two months ago, my killer told my twin sister to become me - or else. Now Emma has it down to a T. She tosses her hair with the signature Sutton Mercer flip and can lead a Lying Game prank with the best of them. She's even repairing my relationship with my adoptive family. The only thing she hasn't done is solve my murder...
  • Blink Once by Cylin Busby

    Blink Once by Cylin Busby

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    West is a high school senior who has everything going for him until an accident leaves him paralyzed. Strapped down in his hospital bed, slipping in and out of consciousness, West is terrified and alone. Until he meets Olivia. She's the girl next door-sort of...
  • Hide and Seek by Sara Shepard

    Hide and Seek by Sara Shepard

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    MY FRIENDS AND I USED TO PLAY LYING GAMES. NOW MY TWIN SISTER IS LIVING ONE. When I was alive, my family seemed picture-perfect. My adoptive parents adored me, and my little sister, Laurel, copied my every move. But now that my long-lost twin, Emma, has taken my place to solve my murder, we’re both learning just how flawed my family really is...
  • Desert Dark by Sonja Stone

    Desert Dark by Sonja Stone

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Hogwarts meets The Bourne Identity in this action-packed thriller about teenage spies—for fans of Marie Lu's Legends series and James Dashner's Maze Runner trilogy. Sixteen-year-old Nadia Riley is delighted to earn a spot at an elite, government-funded boarding school...
  • Ominous by Kate Brian

    Ominous by Kate Brian

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    After the shocking revelations made in the Private prequel, The Book of Spells , Noelle and Reed know they are descendants of the original Billings Girls, and their legacy includes a mysterious coven of witches...
  • Vengeance by Kate Brian

    Vengeance by Kate Brian

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    After the devastating events at Reed's birthday party, Noelle is determined to put the past to rest, but Reed is adament about rebuilding Billings. Coming up against endless roadblocks from the headmaster, not to mention Billings alumni, Reed will not let her legacy end with a pile of rubble. As if that weren't enough, old ghosts come back to haunt to the Billings Girls...
  • The Silver Prince by Lyndsey Hall

    The Silver Prince by Lyndsey Hall

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 6 ratings
    *See all of the books in the Once Upon a Prince Series HERE. *. A soldier who conjures shadows. A princess cursed to dance. A mystery none can solve. The people of the Silver Isle are brutes. Savages who live in darkness for half the year. They are not to be trusted, or so Princess Isadora has been raised to believe. As Crown Princess of the Golden Isle, she is the shining light of her kingdom...
  • Deadly Cool by Gemma Halliday

    Deadly Cool by Gemma Halliday

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Hartley Grace Featherstone is having a very bad day. First she finds out that her boyfriend is cheating on her with the president of the Herbert Hoover High School Chastity Club. Then he’s pegged as the #1 suspect in a murder. And if that weren’t enough, now he’s depending on Hartley to clear his name...
  • The Enigma Game by Elizabeth Wein

    The Enigma Game by Elizabeth Wein

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Don’t miss Elizabeth Wein’s stunning new novel, Stateless#1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Wein delivers an exhilarating, unmissable thriller that finds three very different young adults united to decode a secret that could turn the tide of World War II Facing a seemingly endless war, fifteen-year-old Louisa Adair wants to fight back, make a difference, do something--anything to...
  • Vanished by Kate Brian

    Vanished by Kate Brian

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Against all odds, Reed Brennan re-established Billings as an underground literary society. She and the new initiates created a glamorous secret headquarters and were ready to show Easton Academy that even though Billings House is gone, the Billings Girls are stronger than ever. But before Reed had a chance to revel in her success, something horrible happened:. Noelle disappeared...
  • Wicked by Sara Shepard

    Wicked by Sara Shepard

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 50 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling series. The fifth book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the hit ABC Family TV show Pretty Little Liars. In idyllic Rosewood, Pennsylvania, four very pretty girls just can't help but be bad. Hanna will do anything to be Rosewood's queen bee. Spencer's digging up her family's secrets. Emily can't stop thinking about her new boyfriend...
  • Untraceable by Shelli R. Johannes

    Untraceable by Shelli R. Johannes

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    16-year-old Grace has lived in the Smokies all her life, patrolling with her forest ranger father who taught her about wildlife, tracking, and wilderness survival. When her dad goes missing on a routine patrol, Grace refuses to believe he’s dead and fights the town authorities, tribal officials, and nature to find him...
  • Tempest by C.L. Stone

    Tempest by C.L. Stone

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Kayli Winchester is on the run. Chased out of the hospital when Alice returns with a warning that she'll be coming for Kayli soon. Emergency protocol is initiated. Axel, Raven, Corey, Brandon, and Marc are preparing to run themselves. They need to separate from the Academy to protect everyone from the danger...
  • The Wilde Trials by MacKenzie Reed

    The Wilde Trials by MacKenzie Reed

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From the acclaimed author of The Rosewood Hunt comes a thrilling new mystery about a high-stakes competition packed with shocking twists, second chances, and deadly deceit, where allies—and enemies—are the people you’d least expect. Chloe Gatti will do whatever it takes to win her elite boarding school’s annual competition, the Wilde Trials...
  • Never Apart by Romily Bernard

    Never Apart by Romily Bernard

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    How many times would you die for love? What if you had to relive the same five days over and over? And what if at the end of it, your boyfriend is killed…. And you have to watch. Every time. You don’t know why you’re stuck in this nightmare. But you do know that these are the rules you now live by:. Wake Up. Run. Die. Repeat. Now, the only way to escape this loop is to attempt something crazy...
  • Perfect by Sara Shepard

    Perfect by Sara Shepard

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 59 ratings
    IN ROSEWOOD, PENNSYLVANIA, FOUR PERFECT-LOOKING GIRLS AREN'T NEARLY AS PERFECT AS THEY SEEM. Aria can't resist her forbidden ex. Hanna is on the verge of losing her BFF. Emily is freaking out over a simple kiss. And Spencer can't keep her hands off anything that belongs to her sister. Lucky me. I know these pretty little liars better than they know themselves...
  • Twisted by Sara Shepard

    Twisted by Sara Shepard

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 50 ratings
    Four pretty girls have more ugly secrets than ever. It's been a year since the mystery of their former friend's disappearance was finally laid to rest, and Aria, Spencer, Hanna, and Emily have worked hard to put their lives back together. Now seniors in high school, the pretty little liars are older, but they're not any wiser. Last spring break in Jamaica, they did something unforgivable...
  • This is Not a Horror Movie by Sara Dobie Bauer

    This is Not a Horror Movie by Sara Dobie Bauer

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Emory Jones loves two things: horror movies and Connor Nichols. For the past four years, Emory, Connor, and their families have vacationed side by side on Longboat Key, Florida. Eighteen-year-old Emory has pined for his neighbor from behind the covers of Stephen King books, but college boy Connor has never noticed him. Probably because Emory looks like Jack Skellington with good hair...
  • The Redpoint Crux by Morgan Shamy

    The Redpoint Crux by Morgan Shamy

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fans of The Phantom of the Opera and Black Swan will enjoy this thrilling debut. When Megan Van Helsburg gets kicked off the U. S. A. Climbing Team, she has no choice but to return home and leave her climbing career behind. With no coach, no money, and no prospects, she joins the corps de ballet determined to improve her strength and agility. But the ballet theater is in dire straits...
  • Secret Princess by Rachel Angel

    Secret Princess by Rachel Angel

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My name is Tempest Ryan, and I am the first student without Royal blood, admitted to the elite prestigious Kingsbury Prep Academy, an academy just for royals on a scholarship. When I first entered Kingsbury Prep, the Black Envelope was invoked on me by the Student Body's head, Crown Princes Kaz, Orion, and Hunter - three of the most popular, hottest, but arrogant and cruel boys at Kingsbury...
  • Two Truths and a Lie by Sara Shepard

    Two Truths and a Lie by Sara Shepard

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Sutton Mercer watches from the afterlife as her long-lost twin, Emma Paxton, takes over her identity to solve her murder. But after ruling out her early leads, Emma still hasn’t found Sutton’s killer. A lot of people wanted her dead—but one name keeps popping up: Thayer Vega...
  • Thorne by Charlotte McConaghy

    Thorne by Charlotte McConaghy

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    An enthralling romantic fantasy about finding true love against all odds, Thorne is the second book in the Chronicles of Kaya series. Lovers in Kaya have always died together, bonded in death as in life. But a cure for the bond has sent rumours like wildfire through the land...
  • Never Have I Ever by Sara Shepard

    Never Have I Ever by Sara Shepard

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 50 ratings
    My perfect life was a lie. Now I'd do anything to uncover the truth. Not long ago, I had everything a girl could wish for: amazing friends, an adorable boyfriend, a loving family. But none of them know that I'm gone--that I'm dead. To solve my murder, my long-lost twin sister, Emma, has taken my place. She sleeps in my room, wears my clothes, and calls my parents Mom and Dad...
  • The Watcher in the Shadows by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

    The Watcher in the Shadows by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    It was an unforgettable summer. .. . When fourteen-year-old Irene Sauvelle moves with her family to Cape House on the coast of Normandy, she's immediately taken by the beauty of the place--its expansive cliffs, coasts, and harbors. There, she meets a local boy named Ishmael, and the two soon fall in love...
  • Asleep by Krystal Wade

    Asleep by Krystal Wade

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    "To cure fear, you must use fear. ". Rose Briar claims no responsibility for the act that led to her imprisonment in an asylum. She wants to escape, until terrifying nightmares make her question her sanity and reach out to her doctor...
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