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"I am the unhinged...and the world is my asylum". Thirteen-year old Harper is in therapy for the death of her mother. And that's saying nothing of the trafficking victim she rescued from her next door neighbor's cellar. As her father becomes embroiled in a criminal case that threatens to destroy their lives, the despondent teenager is left to confide in her detached and aloof therapist Charlotte. If the woman who she began seeing to cope with Nancy's suicide can't help her through these harrowing events, Harper's shattered family stands to be permanently damaged.

It's survival of the fittest, but first you have to fit in. Shae is sure the icy rage that claws at her is driving away her friends and pulling her closer to the wrong boy. After all, it’s Aiden she has always secretly wanted, not Callum, who has barely spoken to her in the last year. But, as her protected life unravels, she discovers the violent supernatural world that lurks in her quiet hometown and the ancient feuds that threaten to destroy both her friends and her family.

Emmy Ashford, the “New Girl” from Iowa, thinks she will never make a friend in California - until she meets Allie Cassidy, Evergreen’s other “New Girl.” The pair quickly become best friends and begin exchanging notes during class. Over the course of one semester, the girls share everything with each other from silly jokes to their most-guarded secrets. All the while, Allie and Emmy encourage one another to become the best versions of themselves.

When her nails were dry enough, Abby put the spinning tower and manicure accessories away and then returned to the living room where a mid-afternoon talk show was playing. She sat down, nudging the mute button, so if Randall watched the playback of her he would see the program unfolding in the background. As far as she knew, the room wasn't bugged. Not yet, anyhow. Sometimes all the noise became too much for her to bear. She liked to go into her own head. It was the last safe place. But acts like pausing a show to daydream made Randall nervous.

No longer victims at Fish Camp, Sara and Teodoro assume the role of helpers at Forensics Camp. Sara and her husband continue their education to become crime scene investigators at SUNY Oswego in Upstate New York. Will they take the opportunity to work in a top-secret operation to help save other young people?

Gabriel Torres thought his life after major league baseball would be simple and quiet - or at least quieter. However, as he takes over running the exclusive Players Club, he finds himself constantly embroiled in scandal and drama. Surely nothing or no one could make his life any crazier...right? Rachel Adler is a blast from Gabe's past who crashed back into his life with the finesse of a freight train. But she’s a welcome distraction. At least for a night.

After my sister and I lost our parents, life has been up in the air. The only thing we’ve been able to hold on to is our pact to spend every Christmas together, avoiding it like the plague. That’s exactly what I’m doing, when a deliciously dimpled man introduces himself the first day I arrive in Cringle Cove. There’s nothing wrong with making a friend, right?

Raised by her grandparents when her mother chooses drugs over her daughter, Erin knows she isn't like other kids. Then, her world is shaken a second time by her mother's reappearance. Being a teenager is never easy, but just when Erin thinks she has her life on track, her mother shows up and warms her way back into Erin's life. Can an addict really ever kick the addiction? How many lives will drugs destroy?

Think your mother can't haunt you from her grave? Think again because Grace McAllister's mother is meddling in her love life despite that fact that she's dead. Xander Stevens, the bad boy with a sensitive heart, rides into town on his motorcycle and awakens the need for Grace to walk the fine line between being responsible and doing things she has only dreamed of. They are thrown together in a manipulative situation by Grace’s dead mom. In order to collect the inheritance they need to work together and live together - or is there a loophole to be found?

After a failed rescue attempt, the Corvinus sisters, Sunny and Jo, are trapped in the Ettrian palace with the dark king. A king who is slowly but surely going mad and thinks Sunny is his long dead love, back from the afterworld. It’s a race against time for them to escape before the king performs a sinister ritual that could bind Sunny to him forever.

Seventeen-year-old Natasha Johnson is having a rough year. Her twin brother, Sean, died after a car crash, and her parents have decided to pack up and leave the only home she’d ever known. It's been a lot to take in, and Nat has decidedly given up on the world...until she moved to Stetson Valley and met the high school outcast Chace Owens.

It's the '90s! Not everyone's heard of Nirvana yet, and audiotapes are barely outdated. The live music scene is alive and well, and bands still make things like "demo tapes" and "albums." After missing her best opportunity to attend a prestigious art school, 17-year-old Salvador Dali devotee Zero begins dating Mike, a drummer in an up-and-coming punk band. As their tentative relationship blooms, Zero confronts a ton of baggage holding her back from her art career.

Leia Hamilton can move things and set them on fire with her mind. Leia's father and step-mother tried to hide their past: a time when they were part of a team of superheroes. But despite being disbanded for over 20 years following a series of tragedies, their problems were passed to their children, and Leia finds that her future collides with their past. In the diverse world of human and superhuman, heroes and villains, friends and enemies, some of Leia's choices have terrible consequences. For Leia, this leads to a personal crossroads and a search for redemption.

Sara needs to cross the US border illegally to help her Tía Elena after learning her parents and siblings were killed in an accident. She needs to elude kidnappers and FBI agents on her way to live with her criminal uncle. Survival depends on her successful trip from Baja to Oregon. Will she thrive or only survive? Will she meet the love of her life along the way?

With the unexpected death of the Siren king, Princess Serena finds herself next in line for the Adrellan crystal throne. But with a new ruler, comes a new agenda. Betrothal to the Land King's son was not what Serena had envisioned for herself, and now she must find a way to live without her vicious instincts. Serena faces love and death. Heartache and ruin. And when a scorned Marquess finds out that Serena had been betrothed to the prince, she stops at nothing to bring down the siren, even if it means taking her voice.

After losing the love of her life on an island of horrors, Margrete Wood opens a portal to the Underworld. She's claimed her full powers, becoming a powerful goddess, and she'll use her new magic to steal Bash's soul back from the realm of the dead.

Titania may be the only one capable of ending the evil stalking the fae, but staying alive long enough to do it may prove her biggest challenge yet. Hidden deep in fae lore lies a legend. It holds that there will be One granted the power to end all evil. Titania has come to realize she may be the prophesied One. An omen of three evils and being wooed by a pack of hungry suitors are only a few of Queen Titania’s stresses. Everything is piling up, and she’s determined to rise to each challenge.

Lacey Arachne has been cursed since she was a child to only speak lies and wants nothing more than to keep it unknown. As a common handmaiden, she’s learned how to navigate her twisted words fairly well. But that all changes when her mistress makes her switch places with her in the prince’s bride competition.

After losing her brothers, Titania studied and trained to rule Aubren. But she hadn’t planned on becoming Queen at fifteen. Now with her reign challenged from within the castle walls, she must decide what is best for her kingdom. Should another rule in her stead? Or has fate led her to this moment? Only she can decide a path that becomes littered with choices. Will a marriage shore up her reign? Could naming a successor be enough? And what of the creatures of the deep and a tale of one who can end all evil?

Tell Me One Thing is a portrait of two Americas, examining power, privilege, and the sacrifices one is willing to make to succeed. Traveling through the 1980s to present day, it delves into New York City's free-for-all grittiness while exposing a neglected slice of the struggling rust belt.