A Dangerous Family Secret

When she was a child, Callie watched her mother drown in the Pacific Ocean. Her father, unwilling to stay in the family's seafront home, moved inland with Callie, where, for nine years, she's experienced inexplicable and debilitating lung problems. That changes when her father takes a job on the Gulf Coast, and Callie finds herself breathing better and finally able to live a normal teenage life; her illness is no longer a barrier between forming friendships and taking part in school activities. 

Her mother's sister Nessa, a free-spirited surf instructor, visits and teaches her to swim, and Callie feels something awaken inside herself. Its voice is at times overpowering, impacting her worldview and decision-making.

 Is she suffering a break with reality or is there really something within her that's calling her into the ocean? Why can't she remember the attack on a classmate that she's accused of? The more answers the teen receives-including about her mother's death-the more questions arise. - Amanda Mastrull, Library Journal (c) Copyright 2014.

Life of a Ghost Hunter!

Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead.

So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. They follow legends and local lore, destroy the murderous dead, and keep pesky things like the future and friends at bay.

Searching for a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas expects the usual: track, hunt, kill. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he's never faced before. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her brutal murder in 1958: once white, now stained red and dripping with blood. Since her death, Anna has killed any and every person who has dared to step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home.

Yet she spares Cas's life.

Call # YA BLAKE, KENDARE

Hunger Games with Vampires?

The Trap

by Andrew Fukuda

Final Book in The Hunt Trilogy

 With the knowledge that they hold the key to reversing the dusker condition, Gene and Sissy find themselves back in the Palace, making an uneasy bargain with the Ruler, who is desperate to keep some secrets of his own. A dramatic confrontation with Ashley June, Gene's first love, who was left behind when they escaped The Dome and who subsequently turned into a dusker herself, sets up a reveal that turns the entire series on its head. 

The duskers are driven by a desire to eat the humans, which is as unfathomable as their methods are cruel, and each moment that Gene and Sissy can outlast them is a breathtaking victory!

Call # YA FUKUDA, ANDREW

Romance and Greek Mythology!

When Iris discovers her father is actually the 

god of dreams, her recurring nightmares follow her into reality, and she must navigate her way through both the dreamworld and the waking world 

to search for her mysterious dream man, 

Sebastian, 

who is surely Iris' soul mate.

But Sebastian is trapped in her dreamworld unless he's willing to risk his life to cross into the mortal world.

Will he do it for Iris?

In Dreams

by Erica Orloff

Call # YA ORLOFF, ERICA

If you are looking for something scary to read, look no further!

Caught in an unexpected spring squall, Corrine's first instinct is to protect her little sister Sophie after a nasty fall. However,  when Corrine reaches out to comfort her sister, the exact opposite occurs. Her touch, charged with an otherworldly force and bursting with blinding indigo color, surges violently from Corrine to her sister. In an instant, Sophie is dead. From that moment on, Corrine convinces herself that everyone would be better off if she simply withdrew from life.

When her family abruptly moves to New Orleans, Corrine's withdrawal is made all the easier. No friends. No connections. No chance of hurting anyone. But strange things continue to happen around her in this haunting, mystical city. Corrine realizes that her power cannot be ignored, especially when Rennick, a talented local artist with a bad-boy past, suggests another possibility: Corrine might have the touch. It's an ability to heal those around her. Knowing what happened to her sister, can Corrine trust her gift?

YA Linko, Gina NEW

Love Lost...Can You Get It Back?

Conclusion to the Elixir trilogy by Hilary Duff

 Just when she thought she had lost Sage forever, his soul found its way into another body and Clea was reunited with the love of her life.   Unfortunately, that body belongs to her best friend Rayna's boyfriend!

How can Clea tell Rayna that Nico is gone when it looks like he is still here?  And worse, Sage's soul has not taken well to this new body, and he is experiencing violent mood swings and memory lapses.  Clea is certain she will not be able to handle losing him again, yet staying with him in this state is almost too painful to bear.

Only Ben offers a possible solution and though Clea can't be sure he's really on her side, she'd ready to try anything to save the man she loves.

The journey that started with Elixir and Devoted comes to a powerful conclusion!

Would YOU want to be Immortal?

The immortal Seraphina is forced to face the darkness of her past—and risk losing the love of her life—in this second novel in the Incarnation series.

Seraphina has been living for centuries, thanks to a special method of alchemy, but only recently has she really felt alive. She’s finally broken free from her controlling boyfriend, Cyrus, and after years of swapping bodies to preserve her immortality, is happily settled into the body of Kailey Morgan, living in Berkeley with Kailey's family, hanging with Kailey's friends and attending Kailey's high school...a life worth sticking with. 

And there's Noah.

But Noah might not be as trustworthy as he seems. After he delivers an ominous message that could only come from Cyrus, Sera is worried that her new friends and family will find out her secret. And as her suspicions extend beyond Noah, Sera is forced to wonder about her new friends as well: Could her old coven be disguising themselves right under her nose?

Will Sera have to move to another body—and take another life—or can she find a way to keep what she’s got, forever?  And is is fair to stay in Kailey's body?


Call # YA WILLIAMS, AVERY  

With power comes enemies...lots of them!

Spirit: The Elemental Series

by

Brigid Kemmerer

Hunter Garrity wants to be left alone. He's learned the hard way that his unusual abilities come at a price and he can't seem to afford any allies!

 

I'm not a normal!

Never go against the family!

When seventeen-year-old Rosa Alcantara travels from her native Brooklyn to her ancestral home in Sicily, she falls head over heels for Alessandro Carnevare. Unfortunetly, his family is the sworn enemy of hers. Rosa must confront both of their families' criminal and paranormal pasts to make this love last.

Call #: YA Meyer, Kai NEW



Who will she embrace?

The sequel to Crave!

 

Sacrifice

by

Laura J. Burns

Gabriel and Shay are convinced that they can make their relationship work. Knowing that Shay is half-vampire, Gabriel thinks that his coven will embrace her as one of their own, but instead they view her as an abomination, a thing that doesn’t belong in either world. And they want her dead. Now Gabriel must make the ultimate decision - watch his love be killed by his coven or defy the people closest to him, the people he has spent centuries with to save her.

Call #: Burns, Laura  NEW