Young Adult Thriller

Finding a dead body isn’t terribly unusual for Hailey Arquette. She’s a psychic private investigator. All bets are off when she discovers her partner’s classmate stuffed in a hollow tree, burned beyond recognition. When a second student disappears, Hailey and her partner follow the trail of a ruthless criminal mastermind intent on capturing seven other students from the Gifted Elite School. Things are never as they appear in this twisted tale of murder, mystery, betrayal, and romance. Spirits, psychics, and shifters join forces to protect psychic students from the clutches of the ...

After a string of brutal murders in Las Vegas, Cassie Hobbes and the Naturals are called in to investigate. But even with the team's unique profiling talents, these murders seem baffling: unlike many serial killers, this one uses different methods every time. All of the victims were killed in public, yet the killer does not show up on any security feed. And each victim has a string of numbers tattooed on their wrist. Hidden in the numbers is a code—and the closer the Naturals come to unraveling the mystery, the more perilous the case becomes.

When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder - much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing - not even a smear of blood - to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?

Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, the charming new recruit on her brother Levi’s hockey team. Yet even as Daunis falls for Jamie, she senses the dashing hockey star is hiding something. Everything comes to light when Daunis witnesses a shocking murder, thrusting her into an FBI investigation of a lethal new drug.

A genius sixteen-year-old. A terrorist’s twisted revenge. Can she stop a catastrophic cyberattack from bringing America to its knees? Anna Goode can’t wait to put her brilliant mind to work. Officially part of the CIA’s undercover unit of talented teenagers, the gifted inventor splits her time between tinkering and espionage instruction. And now she’s been tasked to protect a US congressional delegation from a cunning enemy’s destabilizing hack. Slipping into London under the guise of innocent spring-breakers to expose the hacker, Anna’s laser-focused hunt gets derailed when ...

Sienna Nealon has dedicated her life to keeping those with powers from breaking the law at will. After years of filling a prison for the powered called the Cube, a Supreme Court decision opens the floodgates and lets all of them out again. Now Sienna finds herself going from hunter to hunted as the US government turns a blind eye while the former inmates target her and her friends for death. With the attacks hitting closer and closer to home, will Sienna be able to fight back against the overwhelming odds before she – or someone she cares about – gets killed?

Chase curled into a ball as the dinosaur exploded from the muck in a shower of gooey slime. A heavy foot slammed into the ground beside him, so close the impact bounced him into the air. His spine struck the point of a rock when he came back down, shooting streaks of pain through him like waves of rusty nails. He cried out— “Aaaaahhh!” Trapped 140 million years in the past and desperately in need of water, fourteen-year-old Chase sets out to shadow a thirty-foot baryonyx. He knows that Baryonyx is a fish-eating dinosaur, and he’s certain the ferocious predator will lead him to a ...

Teenager Murray Keifer just doesn't fit in at school. And it doesn't help that his mother is too busy entertaining male friends to be involved in his life. His only friends are "Dearly" and "Beloved": dead people buried in the local cemetery. That's right, Murray talks to the dead. But Murray's peaceful and unusual world is torn asunder when he hears the voice of missing teen Nikki Parker, buried in someone else's grave.

When pets investigate, you can be sure the fur will fly. When two kids go missing on Hallowe’en, the task of finding them provokes a Buster versus Amber challenge. The dog can follow the scent, but the cat will use her brains. Who will find the children first? And where are they anyway? But Felicity’s pets aren’t the only ones trying to solve this case. Her niece, Mindy, is out in the dark too. There’s a mob forming outside a suspiciously derelict and overgrown house, but is the lady inside really a witch? In the ultimate test of feline against canine and pets against humans, who ...

“When you die people cry and beg for you to come back. But, when you do, there's the running and the screaming….” Ethan and Chloe leave their apartment in the city. To spend the weekend at Ethan’s family cabin in the mountains. It’s the first time his fiancé Chloe will meet his whole family. It's just a family reunion during a Total Eclipse. What could possibly go wrong. No one starts their day expecting the end of the world to be on that day. Maybe more people should. Even someone like Ethan, a former Army Ranger who owns a Private Security Firm with his friend John. Constantly ...

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Scary Stories-Volume 4 is a collection of 13 stories for readers who love horror and appreciate a good scare. The average Amazon review rating on all 22 books of Billy Wells Horror is 4.3!! If you are fans of Twilight Zone, Tales From the Crypt, Night Gallery, Outer Limits, One Step Beyond, and horror stories with a plot and a twist ending, look no further. Billy Wells Horror is your ticket to a journey into the macabre if you dare. Hark! If limbs being hacked off make you queasy, don't read this book. Otherwise, enjoy the horror!The nightmares include:CRAWLSPACE:Two reporters interview a ...

A collection of horror/thriller stories for readers who would enjoy a stroll through a graveyard after midnight. Hark! Don’t read this book if a deranged maniac has escaped from the local asylum. Otherwise, enjoy the horror.The creepers include: THE RANSOM OF ELVIS BOZO: After a tech billionaire is murdered in a staged kidnapping, his restless spirit seeks revenge. CAMP PINE HOLLOW: A father’s deal with the occult to bring his son back from the dead unleashes a bloodthirsty curse on a summer camp. FIRST DRAFT: A creative writing class turns deadly when students realize their horror ...

Maria Christine lives life at the fringes of society as one of the Were, a race of beings from which legends of Vampires and Werewolves have been born. She calls herself a Vampire but instead of drinking blood, she feasts on the souls of humans. Like others of her kind, she has the ability to shift her shape into other creatures. Most of her kind can only assume one form other than their own. Maria is different, she can assume many other forms, though her favorite is that of a wolf. Her kind calls themselves Feeders and Maria does her best to avoid contact with most of them, not wanting to ...

Peg Toland and her father think they’ve found the perfect vacation spot: a beautiful, uninhabited Mexican island in the sparkling Sea of Cortez. Unfortunately, the locals who live on the coast do not agree. “That is no place to go,” they tell the Tolands with alarm. They will not explain why. Peg and her father should have listened to these mysterious warnings. Shortly after they arrive on the island and set up camp, the untamed landscape and isolation turn into a terrifying and deadly trap.

When Lucy watched the brilliant lights in the sky with her friend she did not know that in two days the world would be plunged into darkness. Lucy’s life was a struggle. At 15 she had to become the adult in her household and she felt the weight of the world on her shoulders most days. Her mother was just not able to handle things, and she found ways to escape. Then Lucy was left to pick up the pieces. When a world-wide crisis strikes Lucy takes charge. She is overwhelmed when the safety of her family quickly changes. Her small-town life is thrust into chaos and savagery when desperate ...

To inherit billions, all Avery Kylie Grambs has to do is survive a few more weeks living in Hawthorne House. The paparazzi are dogging her every step. Financial pressures are building. Danger is a fact of life. And the only thing getting Avery through it all is the Hawthorne brothers. Her life is intertwined with theirs. She knows their secrets, and they know her. But as the clock ticks down to the moment when Avery will become the richest teenager on the planet, trouble arrives in the form of a visitor who needs her help—and whose presence in Hawthorne House could change everything.

She’s it. She’s the one that I want. I catch one glimpse of her and I know that I have to have her. She doesn’t know yet, but she will soon. Once I’ve stolen her away, she’ll see. I am the man she’s always been waiting for and I'll take her soon enough. A forgotten identity, amnesia, semi-stalker romance with a happy ending. The Curvy Girl Of The Month Club isn’t for the faint of heart. We’re talking filthy mouthes, first chance encounters, over-the-top alphas, and scenes so hot you just might blush. These aren’t your mama’s sweet beach reads. Grab a glass of wine and ...

London, April 1812. Eighteen-year-old Lady Helen Wrexhall is on the eve of her debut presentation to the Queen. Her life should be about gowns and dancing, and securing a suitable marriage. Instead, when one of her family's housemaids goes missing, Lady Helen is drawn to the shadows of Regency London. There, she finds William, the Earl of Carlston. He has noticed the disappearance, too, and is one of the few who can stop the perpetrators: a cabal of powerful demons that has infiltrated every level of society.

“Look out!” Before Chase could scramble away, the powerful jaws snapped down on his backpack, slamming together with a crack like a gunshot. He screamed— “Aaaaaiiigh!” —as the dinosaur lifted the pack and Chase with it high into the air. The animal whipped its head savagely back and forth, shredding the pack and flinging Chase head-over-heels into the brush … Fourteen-year-old Chase travels 66 million years back in time to see the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. With a chance to see tyrannosaurs, styracosaurs, and raptors—not to mention the most famous asteroid in ...