The Disappearing Girl

The Disappearing Girl

Heather Topham Wood

New Adult / Young Adult / Paranormal

Kayla Marlowe is slowly vanishing…Last year, Kayla’s world imploded. Her beloved father died, leaving her alone with a narcissistic mother who is quick to criticize her daughter’s appearance. During her winter break from college, Kayla’s dangerous obsession with losing weight begins.Kayla feels like her world changes for the better overnight. Being skinny seems to be the key to the happiness she has desperately been seeking. Her mother and friends shower her with compliments, telling her how fantastic she looks. Kayla is starving, but no one knows it.Cameron Bennett explodes into Kayla’s life. He’s sexy and kind—he has every quality she has been looking for in a guy. As Cameron grows closer to Kayla and learns of how far she’s willing to go to stay thin, he becomes desperate to save her.Kayla’s struggles with anorexia and bulimia reach a breaking point and she is forced to confront her body image issues in order to survive. She wonders if Cameron could be the one to help heal her from the pain of her past.New Adult Contemporary-Ages 17+ due to language and sexual situations.About the AuthorHeather Topham Wood’s obsession with novels began in childhood while growing up in a shore town in New Jersey. Writing since her teens, she recently returned to penning novels after a successful career as a freelance writer. In 2012, she published the first two novels in her Second Sight series: First Visions and New Revelations. Heather graduated from the College of New Jersey in 2005 and holds a bachelor's degree in English. Her freelance work has appeared in publications such as USA Today, Livestrong.com, Outlook by the Bay and Step in Style magazine. She resides in Trenton, New Jersey with her husband and two sons. Besides writing, Heather is a pop culture fanatic and has an obsession with supernatural novels and TV shows.
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Undercurrents

Undercurrents

Pamela Beason

Mystery & Thrillers / Romance / Young Adult

Scuba diving off the Galápagos Islands, wildlife biologist and freelance writer Summer "Sam" Westin is not only out of her element—she's plunged right into a dangerous conflict between fishermen and environmentalists...When Sam is hired to cover a marine survey expedition to the Galápagos, she jumps at the opportunity—though she has to fudge the truth about her diving expertise. But amidst the giant tortoises, marine iguanas, and schooling hammerheads of Darwin's enchanted islands, Sam gets caught up in deadly game of survival of the fittest, and her dream assignment turns into a nightmare.When her diving partner's air supply is contaminated with carbon monoxide on their very first dive, she wonders if someone is trying to sabotage the expedition. Sea cucumbers and shark fins are valuable commodities in the Asian market. How far will the poachers go? With no one watching their backs, Sam starts to suspect they may already be in...
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The Great Shelby Holmes and the Coldest Case

The Great Shelby Holmes and the Coldest Case

Elizabeth Eulberg

Young Adult / Children's / Mystery

Acclaimed author Elizabeth Eulberg continues her hilarious middle-grade twist on Sherlock Holmes as detective duo Shelby and Watson tackle their trickiest case yet—going undercover . . . as figure skaters!Being friends with a super sleuth isn't easy, especially when she's nine years old, four feet tall, and full of attitude. But for eleven-year-old John Watson, being friends with Shelby Holmes is just the adventure he's looking for.After Watson's online journal chronicling his and Shelby's case-closing abilities attracts the attention of a newspaper reporter, the pair becomes a small "media sensation" in their Harlem neighborhood. So it's no surprise (at least, to Shelby!) when the article lands them a new client—a figure skating coach whose star athlete, Jordan Nelson, is receiving strange, threatening messages, written entirely in code. There's no one better to crack the cipher than dynamic duo Shelby and...
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Garnet's Story

Garnet's Story

Amy Ewing

Fiction / Young Adult

In The Jewel and The White Rose, we follow Violet in her servitude under the Duchess of the Lake. Now we'll hear the Duchess's son, Garnet's, story in this digital novella—a companion story to the New York Times bestselling Lone City trilogy.Garnet, the son of the Duchess of the Lake, has always been a spoiled playboy. But now, for the first time, Garnet is beginning to realize the horrors that his family, and the ruling community, have perpetrated. And he just may be ready to do something about it.
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Falling Down

Falling Down

Anne Mercier

Romance / Contemporary / Young Adult

I was twelve when I started crushing on him.I was seventeen when I met him by chance and our connection was made.Now here I am, twenty-three, and I'm one of the two actresses in the video for his band's latest single.It ends up not being as simple as doing a job and going home. It can't be when he continually makes his presence known with his not-so-innocent touches and sexy words. I can make it through this shoot. No problem. It's only three days, right?Three days sounds pretty simple and it would be if he hadn't become a regular figure in my daily life. There is no avoiding him and spending so much time with him, I'm not so sure I want to. I should keep my distance for my self-preservation, to avoid heartache, because where I only do relationships, Jesse Kingston has made it clear he does not. At all. Ever.So, when he proposes a weekend together, knowing I should say no, I throw caution to the wind and instead I say yes. Whatever his reasons are for suggesting this, I'm definitely going to take advantage of the situation. We're talking fulfilling thirteen years of innocent to extremely X-rated fantasies in one glorious weekend.The only question is: Is one weekend going to be enough? Will our time end up changing this bad boy? Or will it end up changing me?
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