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Shade me

2016
"A teenage girl with special cognitive abilities becomes embroiled in a mystery surrounding the brutal attack of a high-profile classmate and a sexy yet dangerous relationship with a stranger"--.

Rivals in the city

2015
Hesitating to accept James' marriage proposal out of fear of losing her independence, Mary watches over a dying prisoner whose wife holds a grudge against James, at the same time a familiar Chinese prizefighter arrives in London.

Mapmaker

2015
Teenagers Tanya and Connor stumble on a deadly secret while working at the digital mapmaking company where Tanya's dead father once worked.

Exposure

Virals # 4
Fifteen-year-old Tory and her "viral" friends, who contracted heightened, wolflike senses during an experiment gone wrong, investigate an abduction case and make some troubling new discoveries about their powers.

As red as blood

Finding a pile of blood-stained money, Lumikki Andersson finds she is no longer able to stay under the social radar, swept up into a murder investigation and possible conspiracy involving dirty cops and a drug kingpin.

The mystery of hollow places

2016
A mystery writer's daughter sets out to find her missing father and, along the way, begins to understand the loneliness that has gripped them both since her mother abandoned them years before.

Liars, Inc.

2015
Seventeen-year-old Max, his girlfriend Parvati, and best friend Pres form Liars, Inc., expecting that forging notes and lying for their peers will lead to easy cash, but when Pres asks Max to cover for him, it may be a fatal mistake.

Get even

2014
Four very different girls attending an elite private school form "Don't Get Mad," a secret society that takes revenge on the school's bullies, and all is working according to plan until their latest target ends up dead and all clues point their way.

The rise of Lubchenko

2006
Suspecting that his father's business partner is selling smallpox virus to terrorists and murdering anyone who gets in his way, sixteen-year-old Evan Macalister once again travels to France with his friends, Ruben and Erika, to search for the mysterious Lubchenko, the elusive spymaster whose help they need to avert a major disaster.

Poached

2014
When Teddy Fitzroy is blamed for kidnapping Kazoo the Koala, Teddy realizes he must find and bring Kazoo back to FunJungle--or else Teddy will be sent to juvie as a koala-napper.

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