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#NewAdult Book Spotlight: Beyond Parallel by Matthew Turner

Title: Beyond Parallel Author: Matthew Turner Genre: NA (Romance) Synopsis. One boy. One girl. One insignificant moment that changes their lives forever. Bella and Clark are two young twenty-somethings, finding themselves in a chaotic and crazy world. One craves love; the other avoids it. Will they find one another, or will a single what-if moment send them down different paths? In the same mould as Sliding Doors, Uncertainty, and Smoking/No-Smoking, Beyond Parallel flips between two parallel tales. One follows Bella and Clark as a couple, the other as if they never meet. Friendships

Cover Reveal: Anomaly by JC Emery

Title: Anomaly Series: Book #1 of Birthright Series Author: JC Emery Genre: YA (small amounts of Romance, History & Mystery) Synopsis. How far would you go to save your sister? Life as a college senior is stressful enough. Between mid-terms, stupid boys, and a rare blood condition, Eliza Landry is just trying to figure out what normal is—whatever that means—when she discovers that vampires aren’t just a thing of legend. In a matter of moments, her life changes forever when she and her older sister Kate suffer a vampire attack which leaves Eliza with two puncture wounds on her neck

Review: Stained by Ella James

Title: Stained Series: Book #1 of Stained Author: Ella James Pages: 157 Genre: YA (Nephilim, Paranormal Romance) Rating: 4 Stars Synopsis. After a fire destroys seventeen-year-old Julia’s home and kills her foster parents, she chases the half-demon responsible across the country and back, determined to avenge her family and discover why a host of celestial baddies want her dead. With Julia is enigmatic hottie - Cayne, who has his own score to settle with the half-demon, and who might be just as dangerous as the creature he and Julia hunt. View on Goodreads | &nb

Book Excerpt: The Camp by Karice Bolton

Title: The Camp Author: Karice Bolton Genre: YA ( Suspense/Romance) Synopsis. Emma has always strove for perfection in her almost eighteen years of existence, but it has never been good enough. As she finds herself counting the days until she’s officially free from her parents’ reins, her stepfather hands her a plane ticket explaining that she must attend the Re-Boot Camp in the wilds of Alaska. Once she lands in the middle of nowhere, she realizes the camp is nothing like she imagined, and she wants out immediately. That is until she meets Liam. The camp is full of teens with dark pa

Title: Unknown Series: Book #1 of The Elements Trilogy Author: Melissa Pearl Genre: YA (Romance) Synopsis. Darkness is covering the land. As the city of Mezrah grows with power and greed, the rest of the world can only stand by and wait for their inevitable destruction. The only hope against this growing power is an ancient prophecy that people have stopped believing in. Then a star begins to fall. Princess Kyla of Taramon stopped believing in the power of light the day her father died. Trapped in a city she does not care for, under the watchful glare of her mother, the queen, she s

Title: Precious Things Author: Stephanie Parent Genre: NA (Contemporary) Synopsis. Isabelle Andrews isn’t supposed to be here. She isn’t supposed to be a freshman at Hartford Community College, she isn't supposed to be living at home and working at her dad’s failing bakery, and she definitely isn’t supposed to be taking Intro to Electronic Music Production, a class that will get her nowhere toward her goal of an English Ph.D. by age twenty-five. But when her dad’s latest business fiasco eats up her college fund, Hartford Community College is exactly where Isabelle finds herself—and thanks t

Title: Daisy Madigan's Paradise Series: Book #1.5 of the Morgan Sisters Series Author: Suzy Turner Genre: YA (Fantasy/Paranormal) Synopsis. When tragedy falls upon 15 year old Daisy Madigan, she escapes to the only place she feels safe, the cemetery of Abney Park. There, in the company of the dearly departed, she realizes she is changing, growing stronger and faster by the day. But in the darkness lurks a terror even she can't imagine facing. Profile Name: Daisy Madigan Age: Just turned 16 Physical description: Mass of red curls, intense green eyes, pale skin, very prett

Cover Reveal: Blood and Snow by RaShelle Workman

Title: Blood and Snow Series: Full Series Bind-Up Author: RaShelle Workman Genre: YA (Paranormal Romance) Synopsis. Every thousand years the Vampire Queen selects a new body, always the fairest in the land, and this time she's chosen Snow White. Snow isn't an ordinary girl. She doesn't know that yet. When Snow gets bitten by a Hunter, her life is thrown into a whirlwind of change where instead of worrying about what to eat, she has to fight not to drink the blood of fellow high school students. She becomes a revenant - not quite human, not quite vampire. With the help of an eccent

Title: Shades of Gray Author: Susanne Jacoby Hale Genre: NA/Adultish (Contemporary) Synopsis. In inner-city New York, horrors lurk in the unruly hallways of Malcolm High School. As in-school riots and gang violence consistently envelop the classroom, Olivia Dalton attempts to teach her students while simultaneously directing a drop-out prevention program that embraces an ever-increasing group of at-risk students. Left with little hope she will ever have children of her own, Olivia becomes entrenched in her students' lives, partly out of love, but also out of an unconscious desire to avoid

Title: The Diamond of Freedom Series: Book #3 of The Unaltered Series Author: Lorena Angell Genre: YA (Science Fiction, Paranormal) Synopsis. Calli Courtnae and Chris Harding race against the clock to identify the mysterious power-neutralizing stone that will help them hide from their enemy, but that will also prevent Calli from healing her life-threatening injuries. Their challenge is not simply to identify the stone; they must also learn how to counter its effects so they can fight against the rogue Diamond Bearer named Freedom. View The Unaltered Series on Goodreads NO

Title: Sea Wenches, Book #1 Author: Elle Casey Genre: YA (Fantasy, Paranormal) Synopsis. The year is 1717. Queen Ann's War has been fought and won by some, lost by others. Merchants and privateers run the seas, while pirates - the scourge of all who venture to sail - prowl the open waters for those who do not guard their ships as they should - with goodly care and an abundance of gunpowder. Cassandra. Eeking out a living near the docks as a scullery maid by day and a fiddling troubadour by night, she does whatever it takes to survive. She's sixteen, and for as long as she can remember,

Title: Lucifer Series: Book #1 of Sons of Old Author: Annabell Cadiz Genre: YA (Paranormal Romance) Synopsis. Have you ever wondered what could be hiding in the shadows? Well, for eighteen-year-old Zahara Faraday, she doesn’t have to wonder. You see she comes from a lineage of Light Witches, those who have chosen to help protect and serve between the supernatural world and the human world. The only problem is Zahara, like her father Solomon, is as human as a human being can be whereas her mother, Mia, and her Aunt Catalina, were born as Light Witches. As a family they hunt down rogue su