Eight years after the world fell to the infected known as Rotters, survival is all Mary has ever known. Raised on an army base before the outbreak, she became a legend among survivors for one simple reason-people stay alive when Mary is around. When a desperate father named Rhett arrives at Camp Hills with his teenage daughter Marley, he brings more than trouble to their gates. He brings rumors of a cure hidden inside the heavily fortified Camp Phoenix... and a ticking clock neither of them can outrun. Mary doesn't believe in hope anymore. But after a devastating attack leaves members of her camp infected, she's forced to make an impossible choice: stay and watch the people she loves die... or risk everything crossing a world overrun by Rotters for a cure that may not even exist. In a brutal race against time, survival might not be enough anymore.

Asha Deshpande, at 18, is pursuing her dreams. She's the picture of happy. After all, she has everything that everyone wants. A scholarship, perfect clothes, social skills, friends. Everything about her screams happy. But no one sees the girl falling apart, the one who fights battles everyday and stays in bed way too long. Maybe no one ever will. Autumn Fredricksson, at 19, is the very girl society fears. Always the girl sitting at the corner of the classroom alone, everyone assumes she's the one who had terrible, tragic things happen to her. But in reality, Autumn is blooming. Her life couldn't be any better. She's learning how to take control of her parent's business, and her future is set doing something she loves. What happens when these two meet? --- yes the title is based off of hunger games TT

⚓︎-----------------* . • ☾ Nearie Castellano Vesper was the spirit of motion. To the elite of Silver-Aure, she was the "Moonlight Prodigy"-a celebrated ballerina who turned every stage into a celestial dream. To the athletes of the Philipaw continent, she was a ghost on the track, an elite runner whose paws never seemed to touch the dirt. But when the curtains fell on her final performance, the music didn't just stop. It turned into a cage. Stricken by the "Lead Soul"-a curse that turns fluid grace into granite-Nearie is now a prisoner of her own body. Her kinetic memory is as sharp as ever, but her limbs are stalling. Every step is a battle against the "Stall," a heavy, agonizing drag that makes her feel like she's wading through wet cement. To break the spell, she must flee the Spire and descend into the industrial shadows of the Murk-Docks to find the Metronome of the First Beat. The problem? She can't even outrun her own shadow anymore. Her only hope is an animan who lives in the places a Vesper shouldn't know exist. Enter Forest Velez. A 6'1" half-wolf animan with amber eyes and a cynical tongue, he is the city's premier "Anchor." He is a creature of the Neutrality Nexus-the skeletal remains of the Sulu-Moon Club, a forgotten "no-man's-land" on the Green Belt border where the laws of the elite crumble and the "mixed and the missed" find sanctuary. He has the camera to document her fall; she has the rhythm to survive it. As the "High-Sky" legacy of the Vespers collides with the "Deep-Earth" grit of a half-wolf mutt, they must track down three Vibration Keys before the lead in Nearie's soul becomes permanent. In a city of static and smoke, they're about to discover that the only rhythm worth catching is the one you can't find alone.

Meet Selene Fuller: A Nonbinary Fourteen Year Old Who Lives & Breathes Outer Space. When Their Mother's Divorce Uproots Them From Their Hometown Of Sequim, Washington To The Bustling City Of Houston, Texas, Selene Is Thrust Into The Unfamiliar World Of Being The New Kid At School While Grappling With Their Family Issues And Eventually, An Unexpected Crush.

ATTENTION: This is the SECOND book of my Vampire's Pet series and cannot be read as a stand alone book. ~~~ I thought that my life had ended the day I got purchased by a blood thirsty monster. I thought that the rest of my life was going to be nothing but constant fear and suffering. But I couldn't have been more wrong. What I found was something much different. Something that I didn't even know I was looking for let alone wanted. What I found was a new beginning. A new beginning with the one I cared most for. ~~~ Cover by: @aculeasis

Four years ago, Juliette Bennett walked away from Mason Brooks, the golden boy of college hockey and the only person she ever truly let in, and never looked back. She rebuilt her life in silence, burying heartbreak under long nights, hospital shifts, and the one secret she swore would never see the light again: her daughter, Maisey. Mason Brooks has spent years becoming everything he was supposed to be, star forward, team leader, the future of professional hockey, without knowing the biggest piece of his life was already missing. When fate drags Juliette back into his world, the past doesn't stay buried for long. Old sparks don't just flicker, they ignite. And the truth doesn't just hurt... it changes everything. Now there's a four-year-old girl with Mason's eyes, a love that never really died, and a history built on a misunderstanding neither of them knew they were living in. Juliette wants to protect the life she fought so hard to build. Mason refuses to walk away from the one thing he never knew he had. And when a daughter becomes the center of everything between them, one question remains- Do you forgive the past... or does it destroy the future you never got to live?

Struggling to sell a single painting and drowning in student debt, Marisol Reyes, a fiercely independent but lonely artist in modern-day Chicago, is just about ready to give up on her dreams. When a mysterious storm crashes through her studio, she's pulled-brushes and all-into a world of primal beauty, where men can transform at will to different animals, cities are carved from stone and bone, and technology is nothing more than a fantasy. In this untamed realm centered around women and powered by instinct, Marisol finds herself at the center of the beastmen tribes. With no phone, no way home, and no clue how to survive in a matriarchal society where women must take multiple male consorts to stay protected, Marisol must quickly adapt-or risk becoming prey. Thrust into the spotlight, she must navigate between aggressive females, obsessive men, and unexpected desire. Armed with nothing but her creativity, courage, and the heart she wears on her sleeve, Marisol begins to uncover her place in this wild world. Maybe she doesn't need to return home after all... maybe she was meant to paint a new life here.

Neriah Lancaster doesn't do emotions. She ignores them until they stop. Perceived as the genius, the rich meangirl, she maintains that image ever since that night. Nobody really sees girl under the mask. No one except for Lucien Devereux. The devil. Her enemy, bully and something more. They don't get along; Never really did. But there always was this tension... They shouldn't want each other. She knows better than to trust... Especially after the monster. Until they're stuck together in one apartment, one room, one bed for the next year. And she realises that she can't escape the devil. Because she is his after all. Excerpt "You were staring," he said. "I was not. There is nothing worth being looked at." "So you admit you looked?" "I- No!." "Sure." Neither of us moved after that. Which I noticed immediately and disliked even more. "You still think about our kiss, don't you?," he asked. "Absolutely not; It wasn't particularly... memorable." "Oh really? Then why is your skin flushing, your breath quickening?" "I just woke up. Naturally I'm flushed... and I'm breathing hard because... you're invading my personal space." "Personal space, is it? But you're mine. Always have been. So doesn't it make it my space?" "No. It makes me uncomfortable." "I didn't ask." "Goodness gracious! You're absolutely infuriating!!!." "I know. I try my best." "That's not something to be proud of." "That's not something for you to decide." He leaned forward against the counter, inching closer toward me, eyes darkening. My breath hitched. Was he going to kiss me again? #1 in real life situations #1 in parent issues #1 in antiheroine #1 in based on a true story #1 in goth girl #1 in life #1 in melancholy #2 in only one bed #4 in bad boy next door #4 in psychotic #10 in morally grey hero

This is not a story about what happens. It's about what almost does. At an Ivy League medical school, Isabelle Laurent is known as the Ice Queen-brilliant, distant, untouchable. No one gets close. No one stays. Alexander Whitmore was never supposed to be different. Charming, privileged, and infamous for never staying longer than a few weeks, he understands desire. What he doesn't understand, until Isabelle, is restraint. She believes he doesn't want her. He knows wanting her openly would destroy everything. So they choose the most dangerous thing instead: friendship. "The most dangerous thing about Alexander Whitmore was not his reputation, nor his charm, nor the power he would one day inherit. It was the fact that he never asked for anything from me, and somehow, without realizing it, I had begun to give him everything that mattered." Slow burn • Dual POV • Consent • Emotional intimacy

They locked her away for 528 days and called her crazy. She was never the one who was broken. To survive Arid Academy, Astraea Windrow becomes Finn: quiet, bound, invisible. One breath, one slip, and the school will discover what she really is. Theodore Hillmin notices everything. Top cadet. Cold as winter. His shadow has a mind of its own and it won't stop watching her. He should expose her. Instead, he keeps her secret. Because at Arid Academy, power is a sentence. And the truth? The truth will get you killed. Shadowbound Book One of the Windsworn Series Enemies to lovers Corrupt academies Powers that hurt If you love found family and broken boys who bleed for angry girls, this is your next obsession. Perfect for fans of Fourth Wing, Shatter Me, The Darkest Minds, and Mulan with superpowers.