secrecy

When eleven-year-old Hank's mother does not come home after a week, he and his toddler sister, Boo, seek out the stranger listed as their emergency contact, even though it means social workers, a new school, and having to answer questions about his mom that he has been trying to keep secret.

Clara loves rules. Rules are what have kept her and her sister, Molly, alive -- or, rather, undead -- for over a century. Work their historic movie theater by day. Shift into an owl under the cover of night. Feed on men in secret. And never fall in love. Molly is in love. And she's tired of keeping her girlfriend, Anat, a secret. If Clara won't agree to bend their rules a little, then she will bend them herself. Boaz is cursed. He can't walk two city blocks without being cornered by something undead. At least at work at the theater, he gets to flirt with Clara, wishing she would like him back. When Anat vanishes, and New York's monstrous underworld emerges from the shadows, Clara suspects Boaz, their annoyingly cute box office attendant, might be behind it all. But if they are to find Anat, they will need to work together to face down demons and the hungers they would sooner bury. Clara will have to break all her rules -- of love, of life, and of death itself -- before her rules break everyone she loves.

The friends of a seemingly perfect socialite couple begin to see cracks in the fa(c)'ade when they realize that the husband and wife are never apart and that there are bars on one of the couple's upstairs windows.

Forced into the role of protector to his family after his older brother skips town, Joey is drawn into the world of addiction where his only hope for salvation rests on Aoife, his boss's daughter and his classmate, with whom he forms a tangled and complex friendship.

One year after her best friend, Audrey, went missing, Paige enters a world far darker than she ever could have imagined to find the truth after discovering a burner phone hidden in Audrey's old room that links her disappearance to that of another girl.

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.

Julie finds herself in possession of a deadly secret when one of her friends confesses to killing a much-hated classmate.

"A select group of students enter the Roca Negra academy, an elitist institution located in a cold and inhospitable area of Baqueira. This prestigious boarding school guarantees them becoming the leaders of tomorrow. In return, they just have to abide by the rules and maintain composure. But everything takes an unexpected turn when the snow leaves them incommunicado and a corpse with obvious signs of violence appears on the scene. It will be then that the police will begin an investigation that will put the spotlight on those privileged students, who until recently trusted each other. However, now they must assume that there is at least one murderer among them. How would you act if the only people you could trust could also betray you?"--Adapted from back cover.

Selly's plans to follow her father to the north seas are dashed when a handsome stranger with tell-tale magician's marks on his arm boards her ship and presents her with a dangerous mission--to sail to the Isles of the Gods so he can complete a mysterious ritual.

"Born by blood readers who prey on people's fears, Juva vows never to become one of them until her family is threatened by vardari, the eerie lasting ones who never age, drawing her into a desperate hunt for her legacy--one that could change the world"--Provided by publisher.