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The year is 2032, sixteen years after a deadly virus—and the vaccine intended to protect against it—wiped out most of the earth’s population. The night before eighteen-year-old Eve’s graduation from her all-girls school she discovers what really happens to new graduates, and the horrifying fate that awaits her.
Fleeing the only home she’s ever known, Eve sets off on a long, treacherous journey, searching for a place she can survive. Along the way she encounters Caleb, a rough, rebellious boy living in the wild. Separated from men her whole life, Eve has been taught to fear them, but Caleb slowly wins her trust...and her heart. He promises to protect her, but when soldiers begin hunting them, Eve must choose between true love and her life.
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In Ludania, everyone knows their place. Everyone knows to pledge allegiance to the Queen and to support her ordered public executions. Everyone knows when to keep their head down, because even acknowledging a member of a higher class in certain cases can warrant punishment by death. For most people, these are easy rules to follow, especially because classes are demarcated by which languages they are permitted to speak, but for Charlaina, it’s not that simple. She has the ability to understand all languages but has been forced to keep this a secret for fear of endangering herself and her family. Charlie is managing to blend pretty well until she meets an alluringly mysterious boy who speaks in a language she’s never heard before and another stranger who seems to know too much about her. Still concerned with keeping her secret and her family safe, Charlie lets herself be drawn into a deadly political struggle between the aging Queen and determined revolutionaries, not realizing that she might be the reason for this upheaval in the first place.
Keri prides herself on being prepared for every possibility, from broken bones to natural disasters. But nothing could have prepared her for her older brother Jake’s suicide. She doesn’t know what to do without her confidante and protector, especially now that his death is threatening to tear her family apart. So when her childhood friend suggests that Jake was murdered, Keri desperately wants to believe her. She knows Jake wouldn’t just leave without saying goodbye. Besides, now she knows that she’s not the only one to have an older brother commit suicide with no explanation or warning. There are others, like Janna and a tourist named Sione who know what she’s going through, so Keri decides to join their investigation to figure out what’s really going on. Their quest for information leads them to some surprising and disturbing discoveries and makes them question all that they knew about their home, or vacation home, in Summerton. Now, the only question is whether they can save the next victim in this plot, or if they’ll the victims themselves.
The last thing that Chelsea wants to do is spend yet another summer working at Essex Historical Colonial Village, like she’s done for basically as long as she can remember. That’s what happens when both your parents are colonial reenactors. But summer rolls around, and Chelsea finds herself back at Essex, because her best friend Fiona would rather hone her skills for the dramatic instead of relax in a cozy, air-conditioned job at the mall. To make matters worse, guess who else Chelsea gets to work with? Her ex-boyfriend Ezra, who Chelsea is not quite over even months after their breakup. Chelsea knows that obsessing about Ezra will lead to no good, so she distracts herself by focusing on the war between the Essex colonial reenactors and the civil war reenactors across the street. But when she finds herself falling for a guy on the wrong side of enemy lines, Chelsea knows she in a whole new world of trouble. 
Miranda wants the role of Juliet in the school play more than anything. But even though she’s sure she’s perfect for the part and that she has what it takes to be Juliet, she knows not everyone may think that way. So in order to bolster her chances, she casts a spell. Since she can’t really find any spell to ensure being cast as Juliet, she settles for the next best: a Fame spell. But something goes a little awry, and Miranda gets a little surprise in the form of Edmund Shakeshaft, also known as Edmund Shakespeare, as in William Shakespeare’s younger brother. Yes, Will’s younger brother is now living in the twenty first century as Miranda’s houseguest. So maybe it’s a little weird that Edmund is confused by televisions, not to mention modern plumbing, but it’s also kind of cool to be living and acting with a real Shakespearean player. But the more time Miranda spends with Edmund, the more she’s convinced that he’s the Romeo to her Juliet, and the more she fears what will happen when it’s time for him to go. 
Liza is just trying to get home. All she has to do is walk through the train underpass to meet her mom, but there’s a group of men in her way. They make her uncomfortable, but she decides to suck it up and make her way through. But moments later, everything goes wrong, and her mom is shot. And when Liza learns that she may have been the intended target, she knows nothing will ever be the same again. Still reeling from the tragedy of losing her mother, Liza is reluctant to leave everything behind to enter the witness protection program with her father, even though a new identity in a new place may be her only chance for safety. But even with moving from place to place, Liza knows that her mother’s killer is hot on her trail and that it’s only a matter of time before someone recognizes her and all hell breaks loose. How did she get in this mess in the first place? Liza desperately wants to know why she, of all people, is being forced to run, but in order to find out, she’ll need to stay alive.
Will and Asheley are siblings and best friends. They’ve grown up being the odd ones out, with no one to rely on except each other, since their dad left when they were young and their mom is the town drunk. Now, with summer approaching, things are starting to look up. Their mother has been sober for a few months for a change, Asheley has started to make friends with the other girls on her softball team, and Will is starting to relax. But of course, in Will’s and Asheley’s lives, things don’t stay good for long. First their mom gets carted off to rehab—again—and then things progress steadily downhill. How did their lives get so out of control? And what can they do to fix things—or can they?
Anne Green, a maidservant in 1650 England, was wrongly accused of infanticide. The punishment for her crime was death by hanging. Anne knows she dropped from the gallows, but now she exists in a strange darkness where she can’t move or speak. Left alone with only her thoughts of how she got to be at this point, she isn’t even sure if she’s dead or alive. But dead women can’t think, can they? Anne isn’t sure what this means, if she’s been buried alive or worse. What she doesn’t know is that her body is about to be used as a medical cadaver in a dissection. Nobody could ever think that a woman, already hanged, could still be alive, but one shy medical student notices the impossible—that the corpse just fluttered her eyelids. Could it be true? Could Anne Green really be alive?
Tess is an English ladies’ maid in 1912 who dreams of a life other than her own. No, she’s not silly enough to dream of rising above her station, per se. Dreams like those are sure to land a girl in a world of trouble. Tess’s dreams are just as simple as leaving the Lisles, the family she works for. And now, Tess finally has the perfect opportunity. She will accompany the Lisle family on a voyage to America, where she will then leave their employ and strike out on her own with the money she has saved up over the last few years. But if Tess thinks that this trip will merely be a test of her emotional endurance, then she is sorely mistaken. When she unintentionally becomes involved with the gorgeous first class passenger Alex, she finds herself in the midst of a potentially deadly power struggle—between werewolves. But these supernatural threats aren’t even the worst part—because Tess is on the first and last voyage of the RMS Titanic. 
Gaia Stone leaves the Enclave with her baby sister and as many supplies as she can carry, searching for a shelter that is only rumored to exist. Close to desperation and death, Gaia is rescued by the people of Sylum, an elusive society her grandmother had run away to years ago. But Sylum isn’t the safe haven Gaia hoped it would be; a rigid body of laws is strictly enforced by the women in charge and anyone who refuses to conform is ostracized or severely punished. Gaia can’t decide whether to submit for the wellbeing of herself and her sister or to stay true to what she believes in. But the longer Gaia stays in Sylum, the more she realizes that there is something seriously wrong with the new society she is forced to live in. Will Gaia have the strength to conquer the forces warring in her mind and heart and take a stand? 
Karou is the kind of girl that everyone constantly wonders about. Nobody believes her when she says she didn’t dye her bright blue hair, though it’s true. Nobody knows where she disappears to for days at a time, claiming to be on mysterious errands. Nobody could conceive that the extravagant creatures which populate her sketchbooks are actually part of her everyday life. And though Karou knows these things about herself to be true, she’s still an enigma to even herself. She may know who she is now, an art student in Prague with a connection to several magical monsters, but what she’s afraid she’ll never know is how she got to be this way, and who she was. This burning question of identity still haunts Karou even as she is hurled into the midst of an age old war of otherworldy proportions. As she fights for her life against monsters she’s never faced, Karou will have to ask herself how far she is willing to go to find out the trust of who she is—and set right the violent wrongs of a past to which she is inexplicably tied. 
Del used to have a normal life. Back when he was still fourteen, he played sports, hung out with his friends and girlfriend, and listened to his parents. But now, at seventeen, everything’s different. He keeps his head down at school and there’s really only one person that he can truly call his friend. He knows he’ll never be able to get a job other than the one he has digging graves. He knows that no college will ever accept him as a student. The dreams that he used to have of doing things and going places are long gone. And for what? All because of a stupid text and an innocently taken picture, Del is now considered a felon. Because of the cold eyes of the law, Del’s future has been taken away from him. But with the help of a new friend, a girl that Del thinks he could fall in love with, he’ll start to realize that no matter how hard his life gets to be, he still might be able to find a way to be happy.
