Blood Calling
by Joshua Grover-David Patterson
Available as: paperback, Kindle edition, ebook
Pages: 271 (Kindle edition)
Publisher: Red Iris Books
Publication date: January 2, 2013
Suggested tags: young adult, paranormal, vampires
First in the Blood Calling series. From Amazon:
"Lucy Leary's eighteen year old life is a wreck. Her parents divorced, she's earned a DUI, and her grandfather has died. He left her a single possession: A vampire slaying kit with a note that says, "They're real. Fight them."
Lucy finds answers in a place she never expected--the homeless shelter where she has to perform her community service. The Sundown Shelter is only open at night, and the man who runs it disappears during the day. But digging into the truth is dangerous. What Lucy learns will force her to abandon her life and confront an ancient vampire out to get her family."
Shadow Bound
by Angel Lawson
Available as: Kindle edition, ebook
Pages: 214 (Kindle edition)
Publisher: unknown
Publication date: December 10, 2012
Suggested tags: young adult, paranormal, ghosts
Second in the Wraith series. (Book 1, Wraith, is also currently free!) From Amazon:
(BEWARE OF POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD if you have not read the first book in the series!)
"After recovering from a horrific fire that took the lives of two people and released her best friend, Evan, to pass from this world to the next, Jane Watts finally has a chance to live a normal life.
If you consider seeing and guiding ghosts normal.
It’s summer and Jane and her friend, Ava, spend the hot, humid days working and hanging at the pool while Jane’s boyfriend, Connor, attends summer school. With the ghosts under control, things are going well until a friend from Connor’s past reconnects with him. Hours later she kills herself. Charlotte’s suicide throws Connor into a tailspin and her ghost latches on to Jane because, as they learned from Evan, ghosts only linger if they need something.
Unfortunately, Charlotte doesn’t need something. She wants something.
In Shadow Bound, Jane struggles with the fact that not every spirit is welcome and not all have good intentions. With Ava’s help, Jane stumbles into a decades-old murder, what her gift really means and how to save Connor from forces intent on destroying them all."
The Sun, the Moon, and Maybe the Trains
by Rodney Jones
Available as: paperback, Kindle edition, ebook
Pages: 253 (Kindle edition)
Publisher: Red Adept Publishing
Publication date: September 28, 2012
Suggested tags: young adult, time travel, romance
From Amazon:
"John Bartley’s days are filled with working in the mill or the garden, and he can’t wait to see Zella at the next barn dance. But when he stumbles through a hidden portal in the forest, everything he’s ever known falls behind him.
A hundred and thirty-four years behind, to be exact.
Tess can’t quite believe John’s tale of time travel. Does he really not know what a cell phone is? A car? Indoor plumbing? To convince the girl he’s swiftly falling for that he’s not crazy, John must delve into Tess’s history—his future—and solve the mystery of his hometown’s demise.
But when they learn its fate, each faces a wrenching choice. Save their love or save the past?"
Whispers from the Grave
by Leslie Rule
Available as: paperback, Kindle edition, ebook
Pages: 216 (Kindle edition)
Publisher: Andrews McMeel
Publication date: April 3, 2012
Suggested tags: young adult, science fiction, time travel
From Amazon:
"The similarities between Jenna and Rita were uncanny. They looked and acted exactly alike. Each was experiencing the thrill of first love. Each was empowered with a gift of the supernatural. And each harbored dark secrets. Jenna and Rita could have been sisters. Except for one thing . . . Rita was murdered over a century ago.Read my review of Whispers from the Grave.
Out of the yellowed pages of her diary, Rita's frightening legacy is reborn. But the more Jenna reads of Rita's spellbinding past--of murder, deception, and sinister experiments--the more she fears her own future. Because Rita's history is repeating itself, moment by horrifying moment. And Jenna has to live it."
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