"An engaging read, particularly for cat lovers, and a promising debut." –Kirkus ReviewsWhen Soviet tanks shattered the streets of Budapest, one girl's desperate flight across a frozen continent would cost her everything she loved. Some secrets survive when nothing else does.Forced to flee and navigate a brutal Cold War landscape, Vivie endures loss upon unimaginable loss until she surfaces alone in a new world, carrying a truth she swore never to reveal. The displacement and exile that follow reshape her entirely, quietly trading the life she was born for one she must build from nothing. She pours her love into feral cats no one else wants and guards her past with everything she has.With the emotional depth of Kristin Hannah and the sweeping scope of Amor Towles, this is a story about what survival truly costs and who we become when we carry our history alone. Family trauma, grief, and a love too immense for ordinary life make every page ache with quiet, unforgettable beauty.If you are moved by stories of strong women who endure the unsurvivable and leave the world quietly better, this is the book you have been waiting for. Get your copy and buy today before the price changes.

Follow your passion. Reach for the sky. You hear those words at graduation. And sixteen-year-old Hawk Hanover knows better.Face it: no teenager can solve his parent’s problems. Make real money. Take control of his own life. The police call them minors for a reason. Worse still, the IRS calls them dependents.That means Hawk has to stand by and watch his single mom struggle to make ends meet. That means he has to ride out two long years in a new school with a hostile principal.No friends either. Unless you count Jeanine Tompkins, the constantly dumped-on queen of weird.The time has come for them to stop being minors and dependents. The time has come for them to attack their problems together. By any means necessary.Until they discover too late that sometimes crime overpays . . .And their troubles escalate from finishing high school to continuing life.An angsty, enemies-to-friends (and maybe more) young adult thriller, “Lunch Money” portrays the life-altering impact of the relationships we hold closest to us. Guaranteed to be a satisfying and riveting read.

A dreamy, sun-drenched summer YA novel about growing into the person you were always meant to be, even if it means mistakes, heartbreak, and letting go of the past. For fans of Jenny Han and Sarah Dessen.Augusta “Gus” Bowles and her friends get to spend one last summer together on the beaches of Cape Cod before college begins and everything changes forever.After a tumultuous senior year, blowing up her relationship with her loyal ex-boyfriend Fish and falling hard for Reed, Gus barely made it to the summer with her heart intact…well, mostly. She’s ready for her self-proclaimed “Summer of Independence,” a time of sundresses, late-night bonfires, and beach days with her best friends.When Reed throws a wrench in the plans and ends up on the Cape, Gus can’t deny their connection, and her newfound independence doesn’t stand a chance. As new friendships bloom, old loves die hard, and the strongest relationships fall apart, the girls are left to wonder who is meant to stay, who gets left behind, and who will be there forever?This summer Gus is one step closer to adulthood, as she starts to realize the hardest truth about growing up: just when you think you’ve got it figured out, there’s another lesson around the corner.Who knew heartbreak could be the very thing that heals you?

Dante Galand is young. Penniless. Alone. But devoted to learning the dark magic of his world.His quest will take him from the city gutters to a foreign land of sorcerers. To a war for independence. And finally, to another war—this time, for his people's very survival.A USA Today bestselling series, THE CYCLE OF ARAWN is a complete trilogy of 1600 pages—over half a million words of strife, civil war, friendships made and broken, and one man's obsession to become the greatest sorcerer since the days of the gods. Includes two illustrated maps.

"An intriguing story." —Kirkus Reviews"Satisfying YA thriller." —BookLife ReviewA teen’s dark and dangerous fight to find her sister will test the limits of love, loss, and loyalty.Ever since Laurel Greenleaf witnessed her father’s murder, she’s faked emotional stability, which is quite a feat, considering her mother is the world’s leading expert on adolescent trauma therapy.Tragedy strikes again when Laurel’s sister is presumed dead after an explosion. Refusing to accept or grieve Ollie’s death, Laurel rejects all evidence linked to the disaster . . . until the investigation ties her to arson, and she’s forced to solve the mystery of what happened that night.With only herself to trust, Laurel dodges family, paparazzi, and law enforcement in a brutal search for the truth. To prove her own innocence, Laurel must find her sister—alive.Dragonfly Down is an intriguing psychological thriller that questions what is most important when lives are at stake: following one’s intuition or facing facts? With gripping family secrets, heart-pounding suspense, and chilling twists, a teen’s dark and dangerous fight to find her sister will test the limits of love, loss, and loyalty.

Deadlines burn bright.The Arbiter heralds judgment.Countdowns signal death.Pierce the Veil.Everyone lives beneath a burning deadline. A clock of fire hangs over every head, counting toward the years, the days, and, for some, the final hours before they turn to ash.Juno Laval has spent his life at Helion Orphanage trying not to look too closely at the number above his own head. He tries not to look at the Veil either, a wall of living fog wrapped around the feet of the Arbiter. The towering stone giant waits at the edge of the world, where Juno’s brother vanished.But when the city’s countdowns begin to change and death starts coming faster, Juno is chosen for the Great Journey: a desperate mission to reach the Arbiter, pierce the Veil, and stop the deadlines before humanity is wiped out.Sent beyond the walls with Orphan 8, a squad of gifted young fighters as reckless as they are deadly, Juno must cross cursed biomes, battle monstrous Corruptions, and gather enough power to survive the Wilds. But survival means trusting allies he barely knows and questioning everything he thought he knew about the world. And with every step toward the Veil, one hope burns brighter than the rest: that beyond the fog, his lost brother may still be alive.The Great Journey is Book One of The Deadline Saga, a YA epic dark fantasy adventure about mortality, loyalty, and the cost of chasing the truth, with coming-of-age stakes and slow-burn romantic tension.