Rachel LeBlang
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Set against the backdrop of WWII, this achingly beautiful middle grade novel in verse based on American history presents the dual perspectives of Claire, a Midwestern girl who longs to enter high school and become a nurse even as she worries for her soldier brother, and Karl, a German POW who's processing the war as he works on Claire's family farm. This poignant and moving story of an unlikely connection will stay with readers long after
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Claire's efforts prevented the city from tumbling like an inverted Atlantis, but there's a much bigger world out there.
Drawn into a web of intrigue and lies, Claire and company find themselves drawn toward the Vampire Bastions by an old friend.
Once there, they find out that it's not just a new town but a new world, and a strange one at that. This world has got some bite to it!
While helping to keep the peace, Claire also has to do everything...
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In this heart-pumping sci-fi sequel to In the City of Time, two people have to work together to prevent the cataclysm that will soon break the laws of physics and render Earth uninhabitable.
Now in possession of the most dangerous book ever scribed, Willa and Saudade settle into the nineteenth century and start planning how to avert the cataclysm that will soon break the laws of physics and render Earth uninhabitable.
Faraz only wants his best friend,...
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A creature from another dimension disguised as someone you know and love. How will Francie and the gang catch a killer who's hiding in plain sight?
A mysterious portal has opened up in town . . . and for once, Francie isn't the one responsible. It's just a run-of-the-mill portal to an alternate dimension, right? Nothing to worry about. Except when a rare book dealer turns up dead and Lizzie is the number one suspect.
Despite an ironclad alibi, there's...
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Three science prodigies go on a time-traveling adventure to save the Earth-if they don't accidentally destroy it first.
In 1891, Willa Marconi's life falls apart when her mentor at the University of Bologna unexpectedly dies. She loses her laboratory access and her stipend, but she refuses to let anyone take her research away. While testing her prototype radio equipment, she detects a mysterious signal and pursues its origin.
In 2034, a cataclysmic...
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Gravitium, where the stakes are high and the danger is real.
In this tale of a city in the clouds, Adjudicator Anselm Horst will do whatever it takes to keep the floating metropolis of Summerland afloat.
But when he descends to the perilous surface in search of answers, he finds himself joined by Clare Voyhent, a fiercely capable survivor with a knack for unraveling mysteries.
As they navigate the treacherous landscape, facing assassination attempts...
8) The Coveted
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Held captive by the evil, illegitimate King of Aradia, Áine is forced to conceal her true magick or face certain death.
King Lucius shouldn't have allowed her to live. But blinded by paranoia and arrogance, he has big plans for Áine and her coveted, ineffable power. With her life hanging in the balance, Áine finds herself making hard and fast decisions about who to trust-especially when it comes to her former trainer and fierce protector Daelon....
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"You're not going to murder me in the night, are you?" Emily asks. "Hahaha. That's funny," I say. Of course, I'm not going to murder her in the night. I need my laptop back first. That's the whole point of making friends with Emily Harper, author of the hugely successful novel Diary of an Octopus. So I could get into her apartment and take back what's mine. Emily doesn't know who I really am. She thinks I'm her biggest fan, her new best friend who...
10) The Illuminated
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The borders between the dimensions are crumbling, yet all Lucius cares about is making Áine his Queen.
After surviving Nathaniel's violent plot, Áine is fiercely determined to travel to the Akashic Records and uncover the dark reality behind Lucius's unnatural rise to power. As she strives to fulfill her destiny to free the truth from its binds and restore the natural balance of the Universe, Lucius only grows more adamant that Áine is his-a gift...
11) The Discovered
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Her magick was hidden to keep her alive. When that power is unleashed, only one witch can protect her.
All Áine wants for her twenty-second birthday is a night out in New York City with her normal, human friends. But when her roommate stumbles into oncoming traffic, Áine breaks the bind on her extraordinary, witch-born power to save her. With Áine's magick now freed, her world shifts, and the voice of a male witch commands her to run.
Hunted...
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The treacherous blade cuts deep, no matter its size.
Claire learns that the hard way when she finds herself in the midst of a brutal street-to-street conflict in the city above the clouds.
Bitter rivalries make for cruel enemies, and Summerland is about to discover that the biggest threat was never vampires or Weres.
Claire will need all of her skill and luck to keep the city above the earth where it belongs.
If they can survive the onslaught,...
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When the sins of the past return to haunt the skies, can Claire stop the floating city's final descent before all is lost in the darkness below?
In the floating citadel of Summerland, Claire Voyhent thought her biggest challenge was keeping the city in the sky. But as she descends into the vampire metropolises below, she uncovers a threat that endangers not just her home among the clouds, but the entire Gravitium world.
Gene-spliced monstrosities,...
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Clare made it to the city in the sky, and she's not impressed.
The tech is impressive, but it's being woefully underutilized. For a tech wiz like her, it's almost painful to witness.
They're having trouble keeping Summerland in the sky, but that's why Anselm dragged Clare up there in the first place. Being the mechanical magician she is, it doesn't take Clare to figure out the obvious.
Summerland is broken.
Worse than waste and neglect, the city...
15) The Claimed
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Long live Áine, Queen of Aradia...
As uprisings and rebellions rage across the realm, Áine grapples with the consequences of her perilous decision. Drowning under the burden of grief, guilt, and shame, she wrestles with the shadows for control of her body and soul. Though her fierce protector, Daelon, has gone cold and unreadable, he remains in the castle, compelled to watch the love of his life get ever closer to his enemy.
When Lucius urges...
16) The Redeemed
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Betrayed, heartbroken, vengeful, and overflowing with power, Áine has one last chance to save the world from oblivion.
Lucius, the man Áine loved, is dead. The Shadow King is merely Angelina's puppet, her conduit for dark, sinister magick that's drawing the Void ever closer. Angelina doesn't want to rule the world; she wants to destroy it.
Free from the shadows and reunited with her coven and family, Áine has never been stronger. In claiming...
17) The Scorned
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With the fate of Aradia in Áine's hands, she must choose between letting the love of her life die or submitting to the Shadow King.
While rebellion against the Kingdom intensifies across the realm, Áine, Daelon, and the Icierans are drawn to Aurora Aurea, where witches are gathering to build an army. Áine and Daelon's relationship is put to the test when Daelon's body and mind are ravaged by poison. As the sickness draws out Daelon's dark side,...
18) The Hunted
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Áine and Daelon believe they've escaped to freedom, but Lucius has marked Áine as his and promises it's only a matter of time before he makes his claim.
Iciera is a land untouched by the Shadow King's evil reign, and Áine and Daelon must convince the witches who live there that joining the fight for Aradia's restoration is the only way it will remain protected. Despite being plagued by nightmares and worry for the allies and friends they left...
19) Truth or Dare
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"After her one attempt at commitment ends in the worst kind of betrayal, Maggie Lawson vows that the only people she'll love 'til death do they part will be her friends. Unfortunately, that means Maggie letting her bestie rope her into a year-long dating dare: score a new date each month or pay a penalty. It seems doable-until Maggie's date stands her up, leaving only one option: the sexy stud who just moved in upstairs. The problem? He and Maggie...
20) The Wrong Pitch
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I couldn't possibly have been more wrong the night I'd tackled Hunter Moore to the ground in the middle of the night. To be fair, the street was pitch-black, the wheel to my suitcase had popped off, and I found myself face to face with a stranger charging at me. My instincts had kicked in, and instead, I'd landed him straight on his back with my knee pressed to his chest. Turns out, the stranger I'd tackled to the ground was my brother's roommate......