Below the pristine mountains of Portugal’s countryside, a war rages on in Rei Rosenquist’s “Friends.” Thrown together in a dismal war camp, imported refugees share nothing but their suffering. No common culture. No common tongue. But friendship can spring up even in the toughest of times. ~ ~ ~ “Friends” appears in The Golden Door,…
A young boy who dreams of emigrating to the U.S. to study at MIT comes across a pair of Soviet officers during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and learns there’s far more at stake than he’d ever dreamed in Tonya D. Price’s “Spy in the Sky.” ~ ~ ~ “Spy in the Sky” appears in The…
A wealthy actress in Hollywood in the 1920s takes on a pair of immigrant faeries as indentured servants in DeAnna Knippling’s “Myrna and the Thirteen-Year Witch,” but she didn’t realize just how high the cost would be to keep them safe. ~ ~ ~ “Myrna and the Thirteen-Year Witch” appears in The Golden Door, a…
Blanche, a young girl walking in a cobbled-up exoskeleton, spends hours watching the strange clouds dancing in the Phoenix sky. She soon realizes that their coordinated figures signals a threat. Alas, the adults are too busy to listen to her. Even her sister Lupianne worries more about the oxygen plant’s dropping quotas and her similarly…
Mia’s only friend is gone. Adults are acting weird – well, weirder than normal. A rash of strange disappearances around town is going all but unnoticed. When she finds some half-eaten human bones, her safe, suburban world is thrown upside down. Are they her friend’s bones? Three runaway boys seem to know what’s happening. But…
Sixteen year old Wendy never knew the world before the Starvation. She’s learned to put her trust in her knives and her confidence in her fighting ability. When the Skinnies attack her compound, she’s the lone survivor. Injured and near death, Wendy is rescued and nursed back to health by mysterious strangers. Her saviors offer…
Mira’s twin sister disappears. Taken to another world, possibly murdered. With no other choice, Mira must act. She can’t let her own failure at magic block the search for Amanda. The Black Opal is available for a limited time in The Young Adult Charity MegaBundle. Whether you’re looking for a pulse-pounding action in space, a…
Aravel stood at the bow of the Harmonious Song, studying the twin cities of Yuzuki and Masumi in Chinwendu. Halfway around the world from home, Aravel didn’t expect to find an old enemy stirring up the same stupid strife from home. But Delbhana Cahan had married into the Ito and turned them against Aravel’s cousins…
Hedi Framm Anton’s “La Despedida” shows two sides of a story of farewell. A young girl lives with her grandmother in Honduras; they wait for a check from her mother, who works in San Francisco, so they can pay the fee the gang members demand every month. ~ ~ ~ “La Despedida” appears in The…
Willow Vaughn grants wishes. She granted one just the other night. But now the world feels wrong. Willow knows her world has changed but how? Cynical and self-reliant, suddenly she feels out of her depth. Though she hates to admit it, she needs help. Willow is going to have to find someone who knows more…
