To get the position he craves and keep a promise to a dying woman, he'll break his vow to go straight. One more harmless con that won't hurt anyone. She'll do whatever it takes to get her life back. A little lying, a lot of stealing. But weaving a web of deceit demands a price, and they're both about to pay. Jaxon has a mission. Retrieve a valuable emerald for an entry fee and join Maxime, the most prestigious club in the Secure States of America....

Trakaim and Luis are best friends who love sneakers. When they spot the new Air Jordans in the window of the Dr. Jays on Fordham Road their friendship turns into a rivalry when they make a bet on who will be the first to have the new kicks.Not wanting to look soft, the boys look for ways to hustle the cash to pay for their shoes. As their quest for the green takes them on two very different roads, the boys learn valuable life lessons worth more than...

This is a story about a set of twin brothers - one called Troy, the other nicknamed Brainy, who is a natural scientist - almost born to be a scientist, but not quite because he conducted his first scientific, airborne experiment while sitting in his high-chair using his cooked garden-peas soaked in gravy. After graduating, out of his high-chair, he becomes really interested in quantum mechanics when in the ninth-grade he builds himself a quantum elevator...

After a near fatal encounter with Death, Cedric wakes to find his castle abandoned, his people scattered, and enemies at his gates. The world he once knew has been turned upside down, and he is now hunted by the very outlaws he once hunted. But Cedric is a man of RoseThorn. Not only is he resourceful and a warrior of the first class, but also heir to the noble values of his ancestors. Determined to keep RoseThorn alive as the last hope for the weak...

"Best of the genre. A lot of reviews note that this series is part of the genre inhabited by The Hunger Games and Divergent. This series, though, is superior - with much better character development. " - Amazon reviewer The Recoil Trilogy boxed set includes 3 full-length books: RECOIL, REFUSE and REBEL!FROM RECOIL (BOOK 1):When a skilled gamer gets recruited as a sniper in the war against a terrorist-spread plague, she discovers there's more than...

Several months after the events of Z2135, Adam Lovecraft is once again following in his father's footsteps, this time as a contestant in the infamous Darwin Games. In The State's latest iteration, the odds of surviving the games are slimmer than ever, and Adam soon finds himself pairing up with an old friend of Jonah's. Meanwhile, Ana, Liam, and Katrina's escape from the Hydrangea base has not gone unnoticed, adding to their struggles to not only...

It is 2019 and the Global Conveyer Belt has shut down. We, the Human Species were about to find out what is to happen to us as that newly found shut down has occurred. Would we divide ourselves into camps and kill those who approached or would we band together as brothers and sisters and learn to live and love in harmony, despite our differences.As the years go by, humans learn to deal with the fall of their own kind, and the lack of nutrients to...

The revolution has begun, and 18-year-old Malaki Cheyenne is spying on the U.S. government. In the midst of training on a rebel military base, Malaki can't decide whether she wants to be in infantry or intelligence. She is also torn between her feelings for three girls, including Serenity Blackwater, who left on a refugee plane to The Nation of California Islands. Malaki is impatient at being low-ranked, but raises her status by creating a program...

This is Maya's Story! One quiet day in May… Enrique had just finished his junior year of college and had started taking a few summer classes.Maya was looking forward to a weekend at the beach and then high school graduation.Alexandra, an Army nurse, was only a few weeks away from being honorably discharged and thinking about her future. Spencer, a career Marine, was content with his place in the military. He liked his unit and the challenges of...

A dark, dystopian novel from the author of City of Ghosts. Four children live on an island that serves as the repository for all the world's garbage. Trash arrives, the children sort it, and then they feed it to a herd of insatiable pigs: a perfect system. But when a barrel washes ashore with a boy inside, the children must decide whether he is more of the world's detritus, meant to be fed to the pigs, or whether he is one of them. Written in exquisitely...