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The Guardians of Light, Book One: The Betrayer

By Christine Liston

About The Guardians of Light, Book One: The Betrayer:

An ancient demon is released upon the world of Anoera, seeking vengeance against those who first imprisoned him. The only beings with the power to stop him are the Guardians of Light, immortal warriors and protectors of humanity. However, the strength of the Guardians is crippled by treachery, and the threat of destruction lingers for another five-thousand years until a boy named Kandin and his sister are both born with Guardian powers. When his sister is kidnapped by the demon’s forces, Kandin joins with the mysterious Andreena, his childhood friend Bandin, and the fierce princess Shaena to rescue his sister and stop the destruction of the world. An ancient prophecy holds the key to victory, but when Kandin discovers the identity of the one who betrayed the Guardians, he will have to fully embrace his powers, and face his own worse fears, in order to save humanity.

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After the Green Withered by Kristin Ward

By Christine Liston

About After the Green Withered by Kristin Ward:

They tell me the country looked different back then.
They talk of open borders and flowing rivers.

They say the world was green.

But drought swept across the globe and the United States of the past disappeared under a burning sky.

Enora Byrnes lives in the aftermath, a barren world where water has become the global currency. In a life dominated by duty to family and community, Enora is offered a role within an entity that controls everything from water credits to borders. But it becomes clear that not all is as it seems. From the wasted confines of her small town to the bowels of a hidden city, Enora will uncover buried secrets that hide an unthinkable reality.

As truth reveals the brutal face of what she has become, she must ask herself: how far will she go to retain her humanity?

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Emerald Green by Lindsay Marie Miller

By Vinny O'Hare

About Emerald Green by Lindsay Marie Miller

Free for a Limited Time Only! (5/22/18-5/24/18)

On a chilly December night in Savannah, Georgia, seventeen-year-old Addie Smith dreams of an alluring young man, too mysteriously handsome to be real. When spring semester commences the following week, at Maple Creek High, a new student, named Tom Sutton, arrives, bearing a striking resemblance to the beautiful stranger from Addie’s dream.

Addie feels inextricably drawn to Tom, and his rare, unwavering resiliency, as the enchanting nature of first love takes hold. But when a cold-blooded criminal returns to Savannah, in pursuit of a long-forgotten possession, Addie must confront the darkest secrets of an elusive, hidden past that threaten to destroy her future.

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If You Were Here

By Christine Liston

About If You Were Here:

A school shooting in 2016 leaves Daniel Girch in a coma. As he’s hovering between life and death, he inexplicably wakes up in his own bedroom…but instead of an iPhone plugged in next to his bed, there’s a radio. On the dresser is a stack of cassette tapes. On the wall is a poster of a young Christie Brinkley. And in the closet are parachute pants and polo shirts. Downstairs, Daniel’s dead grandmother is making pancakes, and his mom is suddenly an annoying eleven-year-old who plays with Barbies. It’s 1986.

With the help of his new best friend, Daniel assimilates to life as a teenager in the 1980s. He learns how to dress the part, to like the music, and to live without the conveniences of the modern world…and he also falls in love with a girl more interesting than any he’s ever known.

As Daniel fights for his life in 2016, he’s awake in 1986 and struggling to save his uncle from the untimely death that changed the course of his whole family’s lives. What will happen after he wakes up? And how will the things Daniel does in the past affect the future?

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Truth Seekers by Cecilia Dominic

By Vinny O'Hare

About Truth Seekers by Cecilia Dominic

Even if you can escape from the tunnels, you will not leave unscathed.

After a dare goes wrong, Philippe Ormandie finds himself the mouse in a metaphysical chase that takes him far from home. It isn’t until he finally confronts the redhead stalking him that he discovers he’s in more danger than he ever dreamed possible.

When Truth-Seeker, Margaret of Cornwall, catches up to Philippe in San Antonio she whisks him away to what she hopes is a safe place. Unfortunately, the builders of the tunnels won’t be foiled so easily, and she finds herself hunted, as well. Betrayal and old family drama follow Maggie and Philippe no matter where they land, forcing Philippe into rash action.

Maggie needs all the help she can get as time grows short for Philippe and the battle ends up being not only for control of the tunnels, but for Philippe’s soul. In the end, the ultimate question is not how Maggie will recover, but who will pay the price.

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Wind Catcher

By Vinny O'Hare

About Wind Catcher:

WINNER: 2015 Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal – Young Adult Coming-of-Age

Lies. Betrayal. Destiny. A choice that changes everything.

My name is Juliet Wildfire Stone, and I am special. I see visions and hear voices, and I have no idea what they mean.

When someone murders medicine men in my sleepy Arizona town, I can’t help but worry my crazy grandfather is involved. He’s a medicine man and more than a just a little eccentric. He likes to tell me stories about the Great Wind Spirit and Coyote, but none of it makes any sense. I thought I knew the truth, but in order to clear his name I dive into his alien world and uncover an ancient secret society formed over two hundred years ago to keep me safe—me! And I can’t help but to start to wonder whether there’s some truth to those old stories my grandfather has been telling me.

I just want to be an average sixteen-year-old girl, but apparently I’ve never been average. Could never be average. I didn’t know it before, but I’m a Chosen, and those voices I’ve been hearing… well, they’re not just “voices.” I’ve started to develop abilities, but they might not be enough. A powerful entity called a Seeker is hunting me and he’s close—really close.

I thought I knew the answers but truth is, I don’t. Betrayed by those I love, I must choose to run or risk everything in order to fulfill my destiny. I hope I make the right choice. Don’t you?

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Shadowzone by Simon Rose

By Vinny O'Hare

About Shadowzone by Simon Rose:

While watching intense flashes of lightning during a violent storm, Ben experiences mysterious and disturbing visions of another world, one very different from his own.
In the chain of events that follow, Ben encounters Charlie, a girl from a dark version of Earth, a planet doomed by the effects of environmental catastrophe, where the leaders will stop at nothing to complete their deadly mission.

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13 Ways to Midnight by Rue Volley

By Christine Liston

About 13 Ways to Midnight by Rue Volley:

With thousands of copies sold we invite you to dive into this award-winning REVERSE HAREM YOUNG ADULT PARANORMAL ROMANCE SERIES for those who love the romance of Twilight, the action of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the quick wit of Gilmore Girls, and the dark humor of Supernatural.

You’ll never miss the sunlight until it’s gone.

Sixteen-year-old Echo Navarri, daughter of world-famous archaeologists, Alice and Peter Navarri, had spent her life traveling from one expedition to the next as her parents unearthed lost civilizations.
On their thirteenth dig, Midnight, Echo’s twin sister, disappears without a trace. This prompts a year-long search that leaves the family nearly broken.
In an attempt to find some closure they reluctantly host a mock funeral for Midnight without ever recovering her remains.
Nearing the one year anniversary of Midnight’s assumed death, Echo is sent to live with her eccentric Aunt Luna who is the caretaker of the centuries-old Navarri Estate in Port Royal, Maine.
Echo attempts to settle into her new life in Port Royal but soon finds that she’s destined for adventure as the mystery of her family’s history, the sunless town, and its oddly intriguing people teeter on the supernatural.

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Nocturnal Meetings of the Misplaced

By Vinny O'Hare

About Nocturnal Meetings of the Misplaced:

Mystery surrounds the town of Summertime, Indiana, where fifteen-year-old Tommy Walker and his little sister are sent to live with relatives they’ve never met. Tommy soon makes friends with Finn Wilds, a rebellious local who lives with his volatile and abusive stepfather, who also happens to be the town’s sheriff.

Finn invites Tommy to late night meetings in the woods, where Tommy gets to know two girls. He forms a special and unique connection with both girls. The meetings become a place where the kids, who don’t fit in at school, or home can finally belong. As the group of friends begin to unravel clues to a cold case murder and kidnapping— they learn the truth is darker and closer than they ever imagined. Even if they live to tell, will anyone believe them?

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Forsaken Prince

By Vinny O'Hare

About Forsaken Prince:

Sometimes magic comes to those who least expect it…

Jacob Clark doesn’t have time to believe in fantasies. He goes to school, works his after-hours job hard, and does what he can to keep his family above water. So after a mysterious girl tells him he’s a prince from another world, he laughs the story off as fiction. But when his family is kidnapped by very-real attackers, Jacob has no choice but to team up with the girl to get them back…

In just 48 hours, Jacob must cross worlds to retrieve a magical key and rescue his family. With only the girl’s misfit band of traveling companions and his own untested abilities at hand, the quest seems doomed to fail. But this is one job he can’t bear to lose. To save his family and the kingdom, he’ll have to live up to his princely legacy…

Forsaken Prince is the first book in a series of coming of age fantasy adventures. If you like original magic systems, imaginative monsters, and fast-paced action, then you’ll love Andrea Pearson’s series.

Buy Forsaken Prince today to join an epic quest fit for a prince.

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Ember Burning: Trinity Forest Book 1

By Vinny O'Hare

About Ember Burning: Trinity Forest Book 1:

When Ember Trouvé first ventures into Trinity Forest, she goes looking for escape. What she finds there is something much more dangerous than even the urban legends could have predicted. Once inside, the forest’s candy-coated wickedness draws her in like spider’s web, promising a new, exciting life…with just a few fatal strings attached.
What Ember chooses next will challenge her very notion of reality. In a series of events that will turn her and her friends’ lives upside down, Ember travels through the looking glass into a world of fame, wealth, and deadly vengeance. She will have to fight like hell to reclaim a life she once wished away in order to save the boy she loves and the family she only now realizes she’s always had.
Follow Ember’s journey in the haunting, acclaimed Trinity Forest trilogy (Ember Burning, Oshun Rising, and Venus Shining) and enter into a world a breath away from our own, filled with witchcraft, deception, and romance. Perfect for fans of Lauren Oliver’s Delirium trilogy and Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies series.

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Away From Here: A Young Adult Novel

By Vinny O'Hare

About Away From Here: A Young Adult Novel:

When I was seventeen years old there were only three things that I knew for certain: I was a mixed up mixed kid, with weird hair and an unhealthy love of comics; I wanted to forget I’d ever heard the words depression and anxiety; and I was hopelessly in love with a girl named Annalise who was, in every way that you can be, a goddess. What can I say about Anna? She wasn’t the prom queen or the perfect girl from the movies, she was my weird, funny, messed up goddess. The girl of my dreams. The reason I’m writing these words.

I’d loved Anna from a distance my junior year, afraid to actually talk to her, but then one day during lunch my best friend threw a french fry at my face and changed everything. The rest, as they say, is history. Our History. Our Story. Annalise helped make me the man I am today, and loving her saved my teenaged soul from drowning in the depths of a terrible Bleh, the worst kind of sadness that there is, a concept Anna taught me about a long time ago, when we were younger than young. So flip the book over, open up the cover and let me tell you Our Story, which is like Annalise, herself – complicated, beautiful, funny, and guaranteed to teach you something by the time you’re through. Maybe it’ll teach you the complexity of the word potato, something I never understood until the very last page.

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Evading The Dark

By Vinny O'Hare

About Evading The Dark:

High school sucks. It doesn’t matter who you ask; jock, cheerleader, computer nerd, or band geek, they will all say the same thing: It’s a nightmare. But Casey is still wondering how she got the short end of the stick. Just a Sophomore at the prestigious Luthos Academy for Magical Beings, Casey already knows more about heartache and fear than any almost-sixteen-year-old should. Orphaned and left to be raised by the Academy, she spends her days training to become a Guardian, but that dream is looking dimmer with every day that passes.Unlike the wand-waving heroines in all her favorite books, Witches in her world don’t cast spells, they are born wielding the power of nature: water, fire, earth, or air; powers Casey never developed. She’ll be lucky if they even allow her to take her final exams.

She is top of her training class, but that doesn’t keep her from being looked down upon by every other being at her school. All Casey wants is to be given a chance, instead she finds the only life she’s ever known targeted by an unfathomable evil. Thrust into the center of an age-old prophecy, a war is coming with Casey at the reins.

Will relying on her hard earned training be enough for her to make it out alive?

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The Fifth Sense

By Vinny O'Hare

About The Fifth Sense:

Fifteen-year-old Apple Peterson grows up in a society where people deliberately keep their eyes closed. Though friends, family, and a repressive government reinforce the idea that “Smooth eyes are beautiful,” Apple cannot help herself and repeatedly indulges in the confusion that results from opening her eyes. Because her society favors exceptional abilities related to sound and touch, her use of vestigial organs to exercise an unproven ability distracts her from what she should be doing. When a strange boy joins her remedial class, she discovers a world of rebels who, like her, believe there is something wrong with their society.

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On Holy Ground by Louise Cole

By Vinny O'Hare

About On Holy Ground by Louise Cole:

Fans of Cassandra Clare or Holly Black shouldn’t miss this sensational urban fantasy.
Everyone wants the heroine of The Devil’s Poetry.
They want her dead.
Callie, the only reader to have survived the magics of the Book, plans a wonderful future with the man she loves – only to have her life ripped apart by tragedy. Worse, a strange infection is passing through the population. An infection which leaves them white-eyed and terrifying. With the demonic Cadaveri increased a thousandfold, the world once again teeters on the brink of war.
Callie goes looking for answers, but since the Order of Sumer first recruited her to read its mysterious manuscript, the game has changed. As someone who understands the Book’s secrets, she is either a saviour or a curse to all who know her. Stranded in the US, hunted and penniless, she desperately needs allies. But the Order, the Cadaveri and the world’s intelligence services all have their own agendas – and all their spies are on her tail.
Callie must put aside love and grief, and re-evaluate everything she knows about the Reading. And to do that she must find that Book, and escape. Or die trying.
Enter the dangerous, twisty and frighteningly realistic world of The Devil’s Poetry series, where magic, romance and action collide and the monsters are all too human.
“This novel is PERFECT. There are twists that you feel like a punch to the gut.” CharlotteSomewhere

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Spiraling

By Vinny O'Hare

About Spiraling:

Tori Douglas hates her life. Struggling to make the people around her happy, she’s made herself miserable. Then she meets Devon Sharpe, a delinquent who does what he wants. Tori is drawn to Devon’s rebellious lifestyle, his charming smirk, and the sweet way he listens to every word she says. He makes her feel as if she’s the only other person in the world.

When Tori’s mom says she can’t see Devon until she gets her grades up, Tori and Devon recruit his best friend, Carter, to help. At the same time, rumor has it Devon has given in to old temptations, and Tori’s best friend Kennedy sees the opportunity to play on Devon’s insecurities.

Will they stay together? Or will rumors and lies tear them apart?

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Defects

By Vinny O'Hare

About Defects:

All is not what it appears in the seemingly perfect community of Austin Valley. A long-kept lie begins to unravel as an unsuspecting teenager named Em Fuller learns the sinister truth that lies beneath her town’s perfect façade. Em is a Defect–one of the unfortunate Dream Travelers not gifted with a psychic power. Desperate to do whatever it takes to earn her gift, she endures painful daily injections along with commands from her overbearing, loveless father. One of the few bright spots in her life is the return of a friend she had thought dead—but with his return comes the knowledge of a shocking, unforgivable truth.

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Scattered Links

By Vinny O'Hare

About Scattered Links:

FIRST-PLACE WINNER in the KINDLE BOOK PROMOS
GOLD Medal WINNER in the 2014 READERS’ FAVORITE INTERNATIONAL AWARDS
BRONZE Medal winner in Dan Poytner’s Global eBook Awards

CAPTIVATING!
SCATTERED LINKS takes you down the street of nearly any Eastern European town, arm-in-arm with the orphaned. Michelle has captured the beauty and horror millions of children live everyday. The attention to detail is impressive. Having lived in a post-Soviet country for a time, visiting orphaned children, this fictional account rings with truth, from the heart-wrenching pain of abandonment to the realization of self-worth, and the love family and faith brings. Thank you for such an uplifting book, appropriate for the young reader, as well as adult. May your heart be encouraged, as mine was.

Kim de Blecourt, speaker and award-winning author of “Until We All Come Home: A Harrowing Journey, a Mother’s Courage, a Race to Freedom”

“Scattered Links is a novel that pulls its characters from the gutters and, in the end, celebrates the tenacity of the human spirit.” A reviewer comment.

Thirteen-year-old Oksana lives on the streets of Russia with her pregnant mama and abusive aunt—both prostitutes. When Mama swells into labor, Oksana makes a decision to save herself from abandonment, a decision that torments her forever. But her plan fails when her aunt dumps her in an orphanage before she has the chance to say goodbye to her mama or tell her the secret that haunts her.

Scattered Links is a story of family and the consequences that come from never learning how to love. It’s a story of a girl’s inability to bond with her adopted family and the frustrations that follow.

How can a child understand the mechanics of forming a healthy relationship when she never had a mother who answered her cries, held her when she was frightened, fed her when she was hungry, or loved her unconditionally?

Only when the child meets a rescued abused horse, and recognizes the pain in his eyes, does she begin to trust again.

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Passage: Book I of The Akasha Series

By Vinny O'Hare

About Passage: Book I of The Akasha Series:

Exciting adventure, family squabbles, and fantasy world building aside, The Akasha Series is ultimately a love letter to science. It’s proof that the truth of science can be just as fantastic as the fantasy of fiction. It’s literary fantasy that crosses over many sub-genres on its way to its ten book completion.

Enjoy deciphering chapter title meanings as you weave your way through two minds and two timelines. Stop over for some family drama, only to be whisked away by an elemental battle or two. Trust your instincts, because you can’t always trust Charlie and Tirigan.

This is Passage, the first book in The Akasha Series.

On Day One, Charlie Damuzi and her mute twin brother, Tirigan, are blissfully unaware of the dangerous world they live in. They may be aliens living on Earth after the extinction of humans, but to Charlie, life is pretty mundane.

On Day Two, the Damuzi family is ripped apart by a secret that forces the twins to flee the only home they’ve ever known. Determined to reunite their family, Charlie and Tirigan travel to uncharted territory in search of their salvation.

But that’s just Charlie’s side of the story.

In the future, forty days from when we first meet the Damuzi twins, Tirigan is on the move. His destination is unknown, as are the people he’s surrounded himself with, but his mission is still the same. Keep his sister safe and reunite their family.

However, as Tirigan attempts to navigate the complex bonds he’s formed with his companions, he’s forced to confront the one thing in life he has yet to fully understand. Himself.

Family. Deception. Power. Destruction.

It all begins on Day One.

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Rogue Crystal by Jordan Elizabeth

By Vinny O'Hare

About Rogue Crystal by Jordan Elizabeth:

Avery loves the prospect of visiting Scarya with her cousin and boyfriend. Adventure and romance surely await in this exotic country. Instead, war breaks out, and Avery ends up with an ancient sword everyone is dying to possess.

Scarya isn’t just a foreign land – the more time Avery is trapped there, the more she learns about her past. Her ancestors originated in Scarya, and one of them brought an enchanted crystal with him to Scarya from space. She never expected an alien to ruin her vacation, but sometimes the past has a way of reappearing.

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