secrecy

Charlie Hall works for magicians who are basically criminals. She has never found a lock she couldn't pick, a book she couldn't steal, and that makes her very valuable for the magicians who want to rob their fellow magicians. But when Charlie tries to distance herself from that life, she gets caught up in a maelstrom of murder and lies. Up against a cast of doppelgangers, mercurial billionaires, magicians, and the people she loves the most, Charlie is determined to survive.

"Iris takes her role as Unicorn Guardian very seriously. So when a local newspaper article talks about magical unicorn horns, she is extra careful about keeping the unicorns' secret. But then a news reporter comes to Magic Moon Stable. He insists there are real unicorns there. And he is determined to find a unicorn horn that he can sell for lots of money. Can Iris and her sister Ruby outsmart the reporter? Can they keep the unicorns safe?"--OCLC.

Told in alternating voices, teenagers Lucy and Audrey investigate a town full of secrets, a family full of mystery, and an abandoned amusement park where people keep turning up dead.

Seventeen-year-old Tara Maclay is at the center of a slew of unsolved murders in her new town and when the suspicion falls on her, she must find a way to reconnect with her absent magic and team up with the mysterious and distractingly cute, Daphne Frost who is hiding more than one secret.

"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.

Friends Finn, Liva, Maddy, Carter, and Ever begin a farewell round of the game they have played for three years, but each is hiding secrets and the game itself seems to turn against them.

High school seniors Ireland and Kal fall in love while collaborating on a school mural, but their happiness is jeopardized when Kal reveals Ireland's deepest 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.

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

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.