Young Herbert (Herbie) Lemon works as the Lost and Founder from his small, cluttered office in the Grand Nautilus Hotel in Eerie-on-Sea, a resort town shut down for the winter season. Having mysteriously washed up as a baby in a… Read More ›
Supernatural/Occult
The Bone Houses
Aderyn (or Ryn, as she prefers to be called) is a 17-year-old living in a Once-Upon-A-Time land and era, presumably medieval. Her mother is dead, her father went on a scouting trip into a magical forest and never returned, and… Read More ›
we speak in storms
Three high school students who barely know each other are wrestling with problems: Joshua, who defines himself as queer, at home lives with a religious stepfather who won’t accept it and at school goes from being bullied by classmates to… Read More ›
Reverie
Kane Montgomery was the last person at his school to find out he was gay. As other students at school gradually became aware of it (before he did), the sleepover and party invitations stopped coming and friends dropped off the… Read More ›
The Tenth Girl
Mavi is the teenage daughter of a South American political activist who is eventually rounded up by the police and hauled off to who-knows-where. Knowing that she herself is in danger and urged on by her mother just before the… Read More ›
The Undoing of Thistle Tate
Seventeen-year-old Thistle Tate is known as the author of runaway best-selling YA series LEMONADE SKIES, the story of a teenage girl who’s discovered a portal into the Afterworld that she hopes will lead to a reunion with her mother, who… Read More ›
Opposite of Always
Eighteen-year-old Jack King’s two best friends in the world are Jillian and Franny (Francisco). Unfortunately, Jack has been in love with Jillian since they met at the beginning of freshman year at Elytown High, though she is unaware of how… Read More ›
Love and Other Curses
Sam is about to turn 17. He lives with his father, grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great-grandmother in a small town in central New York. The people in his bloodline are cursed such that if they fall in love before the age… Read More ›
Enchantee
On the eve of the French Revolution in 1789, seventeen-year-old Camille Durbonne finds herself living in a garret with her fifteen-year-old sister Sophie and older brother Alain, so desperately poor that she turns to the magic taught her by her… Read More ›
The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried
Seventeen-year-old Dino DeLuca is helping out his parents by doing cosmetology work at the family funeral home, a job at which he excels. One of the bodies he must work on is that of July Cooper, his longtime but estranged… Read More ›
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