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Secrets never die

Each Halloween Sam, Harran, Elisha, Laureen, and Dom hold a funeral for their secrets in an abandoned hut, but when their ritual is disrupted and they start receiving threatening messages, the friends must uncover their blackmailer before all their secrets are told and their lives ruined.
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Sing me to sleep

2024
Saoirse Sorkova, a murderous siren whose very existence is illegal, is forced to work with the prince she hates to hunt a deadly killer--herself.
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We are hunted

2024
Expecting paradise on a remote island vacation, seventeen-year-old Femi and fellow guests are instead met with terror when the animals on the island turn feral.
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Secrets never die

2023
Each Halloween Sam, Harran, Elisha, Laureen, and Dom hold a funeral for their secrets in an abandoned hut, but when their ritual is disrupted and they start receiving threatening messages, the friends must uncover their blackmailer before all their secrets are told and their lives ruined.
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The showdown

2023
Abby is worried her unmasked blackmailer will expose the one secret she cannot risk getting out. To make matters worse, the drama is affecting her performance on Beau, putting her place on the team in jeopardy.

Margot Mertz for the win

2022
Margot faces senior year working on a campaign for local election while helping a fellow student run for class president, but when a mysterious blackmail plot emerges and a loathesome opponent rises in the class race, Margot might have to return to the cleanup job she thought she'd left behind.

The poison pen

"Archie, Betty, Jughead, Veronica, and the rest of the gang are getting ready for the life after high school--or, at least, they're trying to. But then, one by one, they all receive a mysterious letter from someone calling themselves the Poison Pen. The letter writer knows some of Riverdale's deepest, darkest secrets. The Poison Pen is threatening to reveal all unless Archie and his friends do exactly what they're told--from posting embarrassing videos of themselves to blowing up someone's marriage. The letters aren't stopping and the stakes are getting higher with each one. If they can't find the Poison Pen soon, Betty, Jughead, Veronica, Archie, Kevin, Cheryl, and Toni might not have a future left to protect"--Back cover.

Yo, Simon, homo sapiens

"Sixteen-year-old, not-so-openly-gay Simon Spier is blackmailed into playing wingman for his classmate or else his sexual identity--and that of his pen pal--will be revealed"--Provided by publisher.

Racing ransom

Cynthia Cyber has trapped two programmers in the video game Space Racers, which she invented but did not get credit for, and sends a monster racer to destroy them if she does not get a ten million dollar ransom--and it is up to 13-year-old Tyler Morant in his secret identity as The Gamer to rescue them before they are destroyed.

Room service

2021
"Four friends celebrate a birthday in a luxury hotel. But what starts as a fun weekend quickly turns into an outright nightmare. They receive messages at the door of their room, revealing more and more about what exactly happened a year ago. What the messenger wants is clear: revenge"--Provided by publisher.

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