Genre: Young Adult Speculative

Witch Ways by Kristy Tate

Witch Ways by Kristy Tate

Evelynn Marston didn’t mean to burn down the science room. A little anger, some flames, and an expulsion later, Evie finds herself destined to spend the rest of her high school years at Despaign Academy—named for Connecticut’s last convicted witch. Despite its shadowy past, Despaign has the same cliques as other schools, and Evie struggles to fit in and to be noticed by the handsome […]

August 14, 2015 / 0 Comments
Reawakened by Colleen Houck

Reawakened by Colleen Houck

When seventeen-year-old Lilliana Young enters the Metropolitan Museum of Art one morning during spring break, the last thing she expects to find is a live Egyptian prince with godlike powers, who has been reawakened after a thousand years of mummification. 
 And she really can’t imagine being chosen to aid him in an epic quest that will lead them across the globe.
 
 But fate […]

August 13, 2015 / 1 Comment
The Devil’s Angel by Rachel McClellan

The Devil’s Angel by Rachel McClellan

Lucien, a centuries old vampire, lives a solitary life with his mind and heart blocked to the past. But all that changes when he meets Eve, a witch who not only stirs an ancient power within him, but also teaches him to love again. This new life is threatened, however, when a powerful vampire who calls himself the Dark Prince vows to unleash a plague […]

August 12, 2015 / 0 Comments
Storm Moon by Teri Harman

Storm Moon by Teri Harman

After marrying her soul mate Simon Howard, Willa Fairfield prepares for the couple’s honeymoon. But, unbeknownst to her, it is not Simon who is sleeping beside her; it is Bartholomew the Dark, the legendary and dangerous witch. As Willa’s mother watches the couple leave for Europe, she has the inescapable feeling that something is terribly wrong, even as she tries to convince herself that she […]

August 12, 2015 / 1 Comment
Song of Locke by J Washburn

Song of Locke by J Washburn

Locke loves stories—they fill him with a longing he can never quite describe—but he’s not the sort of kid who actually lives adventures himself. That is, until a bloodthirsty band of marauders passes near his home and Picke, a musical sylfe, dares him to follow. In hopes of fulfilling his longing, Locke accepts the dare. This leads him on a quest where he must face […]

August 5, 2015 / 0 Comments
Beat by Jared Garrett

Beat by Jared Garrett

If your heart rate goes over 140 beats per minute, you die. Fifteen-year-old Nik Granjer hates the Bug. It was the Bug that destroyed the world when it wiped out over ninety percent of humanity a hundred years ago. Even now, the Bug kills anyone whose heart rate goes over 140 beats per minute. That s why the Prime Administrator gave everyone the Papas digital […]

July 22, 2015 / 0 Comments
Finding Gold: Once Upon an Assassin by Konstanz Silverbow

Finding Gold: Once Upon an Assassin by Konstanz Silverbow

Death ruined him—only love can save him. At nine years of age, Derrick watched as his father was murdered for defying the sinister Cordae and his ring of thugs. With no family remaining and unable to defend himself, Derrick is taken from his home by his father’s murderer and turned into a weapon, an assassin, the most feared warrior in all of Avonathia. Now as […]

July 22, 2015 / 0 Comments
Shadow in the Sea by Sheila A. Nielson

Shadow in the Sea by Sheila A. Nielson

When sixteen-year-old Sadelyn Hanson washes up on the shores of Windwaithe Island, her beauty and the strange marks on her wrist make superstitious locals suspect she is a mermaid. Feigning amnesia, Sade hides a far worse secret: she was sailing to her own murder trial when she was thrown overboard by the real killer, the cunning and cruel Captain Westwood. Sade’s quiet effort to rebuild […]

July 15, 2015 / 0 Comments
The Haunting of Springett Hall by E.B. Wheeler

The Haunting of Springett Hall by E.B. Wheeler

Eighteen-year-old Lucy doesn’t remember how she died or why she’s haunting Springett Hall in Victorian England. One thing is certain: she was trying to fix a terrible mistake—one she must set right before oblivion reclaims her. As she pieces together the mystery of her death, shadows try to drag her into a dark abyss, and she struggles against the commands of a disembodied voice. None […]

July 14, 2015 / 0 Comments
Holoquest: Boston’s Quest by Shanae Branham

Holoquest: Boston’s Quest by Shanae Branham

The external drive containing the information for building a hologram machine is stolen and sold on the black market. Now someone has connected a new hologram machine to the Internet, forcing people to fight for their lives in an online fantasy game. Trapped inside this deadly scenario, seventeen-year-old Boston Manning learns that her weakness for tolerating abuse is stopping her from unlocking her elven powers. […]

July 10, 2015 / 0 Comments