Category: YA Paranormal

There is no cure for being stung.

Fiona doesn’t remember going to sleep. But when she opens her eyes, she discovers her entire world has been altered-her house is abandoned and broken, and the entire neighborhood is barren and dead. Even stranger is the tattoo on her right wrist—a black oval with five marks on either side—that she doesn’t remember getting but somehow knows she must cover at any cost. She’s right.

When the honeybee population collapsed, a worldwide pandemic occurred and the government tried to bio-engineer a cure. Only the solution was deadlier than the original problem. Those bearing the tattoo have turned into mindless, violent beasts that roam the streets and sewers, preying upon the unbranded while a select few live protected inside a fortress-like wall, their lives devoted to rebuilding society and killing all who bear the mark.

But Fiona has awakened branded, alone—and on the wrong side of the wall.

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Title: Stung

Author: Bethany Wiggins

Publisher: Walker Childrens

Release Date: April 2, 2013

ISBN: 978-0802734181

Size: 304 pages, hardcover

Genre: Young Adult Paranormal

Seventeen-year-old Abigail Johnson is Gifted.

Blessed-or cursed-with Sight and Healing, Abby lives an unsettled life, moving from place to place and staying one step ahead of the darkness that hunts her. When she arrives in Jackson, Wyoming, she is desperate to maintain the illusion of normalcy, but she is plagued with visions of past lives mixed with frightening glimpses of her future. Then she meets Kye, a mysterious boy who seems so achingly familiar that Abby is drawn to him like he’s a missing piece of her own soul.

Before Abby can discover the reason for her feelings toward Kye, the darkness catches up to her and she is forced to flee again. But this time she’s not just running. She is fighting back with Kye at her side, and it’s not only Abby’s life at stake.

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Title: Descendant

Author: Nichole Giles

Publisher: Rhemalda

Release Date: May 1, 2013

ISBN: 978-1936850679

Size: 278 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, softcover

Genre: YA Paranormal Romance

Three girls…Three talents…And a 300 year old tragedy that follows them in the shadows.

Eighteen-year-old Kara is the best as what she does: Finding people with talents.

This time her target is a group of powerful people sailing toward The Bahamas, and her timing isn’t just important, it’s life or death.

But Kara’s given a new partner, a guy named Ocean. He doesn’t follow the rules on a video game, much less her black and white ideas of how people with talents should behave.

As the chase begins and she starts to warm up to him, everything changes. In formation about the Shadows come to light, and the more she learns about her mark, the less she knows who to trust.

Timing is still critical, but the misinformation fed to both Kara and the people on the sailboat could be devastating for everyone.

Told from the perspective of the “bad guys” Seeker is the last book in the Shadows trilogy.

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Title: Seeker (Shadows, Book 3)

Author: Jolene Perry

Publisher: Next Door Books

Release Date: March 25, 2013

ASIN: B00C18Y6S6

Size: __ pages, ebook (print version coming soon)

Genre: YA Paranormal

Shadows Series: Insight (bk 1), Manipulation (bk 2)

Thou shalt honor thy ancestors.
Unless they are trying to kill thee.

Moving to an old house in a tiny Wyoming town has made life miserable for 14-year-old Paul McCallister. The ancient toilet doesn’t work, two school bullies have singled him out as prey, and, worst of all, his mom has disappeared. The only thing that keeps Paul sane is the friendship of his Uncle Doc who, when not tending his gigantic junk shop, snoops around in their family’s strange past.

And in that past lurks a mystery: A vanished woman. A pool of blood. An old house that won’t stay quiet. As Paul comes closer to solving that mystery, a dark presence begins to haunt him. Paul will soon discover how long hatred burns, how deep blood runs, and what he’s willing to sacrifice for family.

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Title: The Hand of Glory (Harrowed Valley Hauntings, Book 1)

Author: Stephen Carter

Publisher: Leicester Bay Books

Release Date: March 8, 2013

ISBN: 1482021625

Size: 210 pages, 5.25 x 8, softcover

Genre: Young Adult Paranormal Suspense

The Desolation Diaries #1

A Desolation Novella

What happened after the story ended?

What do you do when your past comes back to bite you—with very sharp, pointy teeth?

James thought life was good—living in Paris with Miri, not a single bad guy in sight.

Until the goddess Hel came to reclaim him.

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Title: Personal Demons (Desolation Diaries #1)

Author: Ali Cross

Publisher: Novel Ninjutsu

Release Date: February 19, 2013

ASIN: B00BI7ZHNO

Size: 59 pages, ebook

Genre: YA Paranormal

Desolation Series: Become (bk 1), Desolate (bk 2), Destined (bk 3)

Seventeen-year-old Tayla will never forget Beast’s fiery-venom spreading through her body like an infection.

Now, with her best friend Chel’s help, she must find a human true love before the last petal falls from her enchanted rose or the full moon will transform her into a wolf forever. But Tayla never expected that her biggest obstacle would come from inside—a wolf presence threatening to take her very soul.

At every turn, the she-wolf exploits Tayla’s weaknesses and gains enough control to sabotage her dates. Tayla struggles to control her unruly wolf and her forbidden attraction to Beast. But can she resist his southern charm, the she-wolf’s attraction to his alluring scent, and still fall in love with a human?

Tangled in a web of wills, Tayla must risk everything to break the Curse of the Beast. With failure and possible death looming overhead, Tayla will do anything to find true love. But will one moon cycle be long enough to conquer her wolf and remain human? Or will she become a permanent member of Beast’s pack?

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Title: Star Cursed (book 2)

Author: Ashley Lavering

Publisher: Silvermist Publishing

Release Date: February 19, 2013

ISBN: 978-0985570330

Size: 276 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Young Adult Paranormal

Series: Curse of the Beast (bk 1)

I’m dying, I thought. This was unexpected and not at all how I envisioned my death. I was supposed to die gardening in a flowerbed as a hundred-year-old woman, not as a seventeen-year-old trapped in a lake beneath inches of ice.

Llona Reese is used to living on the run. After the Vykens killed her parents, she knew they would eventually come for her too. She can’t take any chances. But when she starts to make friends for the first time in her life, she gets careless and lets her guard down. Big mistake.

As an Aura, Llona can manipulate light and harness its energy. But if she wants to survive, Llona will have to defy the Auran Council and learn to use her power as a weapon against the Vyken whose sole desire is to take her light. Now she’s caught in something even bigger than she can understand, with a power she can’t wield, and no one she can trust, except, just maybe, a mysterious stranger.

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Title: Fractured Soul (Book 2)

Author: Rachel McClellan

Publisher: Sweetwater (CFI)

Release Date: February 12, 2013

ISBN: 978-1462111800

Size: 336 pages, 6×8, hardcover

Genre: Young Adult Paranormal

Series: Fractured Light (bk 1)

Three girls…Three talents…And a 300 year old tragedy that follows them in the shadows.

Addison Prince has almost always gotten what she wants.

Dean Courser only wants to find his brother, but it’s the one thing he’s failed at—even with his unusual ability.

Dean and Addison share the gift of Manipulation—a brief touch that forces others to do what they wish. But when they meet and realize their connection, they find more questions than answers.

Suddenly Dean is seeing moving shadows, and Addison is learning her father’s mysterious group may know more about her abilities than he’s ever let on. As Dean and Addison second-guess every decision about who they are and why they’re wanted, time is running out.

With shadows following their every move, they’re losing hope they’ll ever get to safety—if such a thing exists.

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Title: Manipulation (Shadows, Book 2)

Author: Jolene Perry

Publisher: Self

Release Date: February 14, 2013

ISBN: 978-1481851404

Size: 376 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: YA Paranormal

Shadows Series: Insight (bk 1)

King George and Queen Marit have lived sixteen years after the mysterious disappearance of their daughter Princess Ina. While they continue to look for her, they have adopted Dagmar as their heir and she is betrothed to Lord Morlieb, from a neighboring kingdom.

But the king’s horse and other animals have become wild and feral, attacking villagers, and there is a strange wolf in the forest near the castle who looks like he has lived for a thousand years.

Soon, the tolerance for animal magickers that King George has spent his whole reign to protect is gone and only Princess Dagmar can save it.

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Title: The Princess and the Wolf (Book 5)

Author: Mette Ivie Harrison

Publisher: Self

Release Date: January 31, 2013

ASIN: B00B9FXEDA

Size: 211 pages, ebook

Genre: YA Speculative Romance

Series: The Princess and the Hound (bk 1), The Princess and the Bear (bk 2), The Princess and the Snowbird (bk 3), The Princess and the Horse (bk 4)

Nikki Beckett could only watch as her boyfriend, Jack, sacrificed himself to save her, taking her place in the Tunnels of the Everneath for eternity—a debt that should’ve been hers. Now she is living a borrowed life, and she doesn’t know what to do with the guilt. And every night, Jack appears in her dreams, lost and confused and wasting away. No matter how she tries to reach for his hand, she can never find it.

Desperate for answers, Nikki turns to Cole, the immortal bad boy who wants to make her his queen—and the one person least likely to help. But his heart has been touched by everything about Nikki, and he agrees to help in the only way he can: by taking her to the Everneath himself.

Nikki and Cole, along with Cole’s bandmate Max, descend into the Everneath, only to discover that their journey will be more difficult than they’d anticipated—and more deadly. From a Lake of Blood and Guilt to Sirens’ alluring tricks to insurmountable walls of rock and flame, the trio is given every reason to turn back and give up. But Nikki vows to stop at nothing to save Jack—even if it means making an incredible sacrifice of her own.

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Title: Everbound (bk 2)

Author: Brodi Ashton

Publisher: Balzer + Bray

Release Date: January 22, 2013

ISBN: 978-0062071163

Size: 368 pages, 6×9, hardcover

Genre: YA Paranormal

Series: Everneath (bk 1)

Fourteen-year-old Darla has always been a little odd, from her love of horror movies to her obsession with mirrors. But she has no idea how different she really is until the day she finds herself wielding a power she never knew she had.

But having extraordinary ability is only the beginning. As Darla uncovers the secrets of her past, her world goes from dangerous to deadly.

Now she must decide which part of her she will allow to rule her heart—the evil from which she was born or the good by which she was raised.

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Title: Blud and Magick

Author: Preston Norton

Publisher: Sweetwater (CFI)

Release Date: January 8, 2013

ISBN: 978-1462110889

Size: 264 pages, 5.5 x 8, softcover

Genre: Young Adult Paranormal

Where darkness lives, all will become desolate.

It’s been two months since sixteen-year-old Desolation Black chose Earth over Hell and her friend Miri over her eternal love, Michael.

Desi goes through the motions of life: school, training, remaining vigilant against the forces of darkness, but her dreams are full of the choices she wishes she could change. When she’s injured by a strange demon, old temptations arise, and the lines between good and evil blur. Desi discovers those choices aren’t so final after all.

And this time, the power of love—for a friend, for a lover—may not be enough to save her from the darkness that lurks within.

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Title: Desolate (Book 2 of Desolation)

Author: Ali Cross

Publisher: Self

Release Date: July 3, 2012

ASIN: B008HJ2Z8Q

Size: 235 pages, ebook

Genre: YA Paranormal

Desolation Series: Become (bk 1)

With Kira injured and dying, Octavion’s last hope is to plead with the king of Panthera for a cure. But King Ramla’s magic isn’t free. The price he asks Octavion to pay goes against everything he’s fought so hard to protect and could destroy his bond with Kira.

Will Octavion trade his crown and swear allegiance to a kingdom feared by all, or will he sacrifice the woman he loves to remain faithful to his father and Xantara?

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Title: Broken (The Crystor, book 2)

Author: C.K. Bryant

Publisher: CreateSpace/Self

Release Date: June 7, 2012

ISBN: 978-1477603000

Size: 362 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: YA Paranormal Romance

The Crystor Series: Bound (bk 1)

Mira Johns is pretty much like any other teenage girl.

Except that she knows how to harness electro-magnetic energy to communicate without words.

And she’s really, really far from home.

Her assignment as an emissary to Earth sounds fairly simple: blend in, observe, and stay away from the planet’s primitive males. But after she finds one mysterious boy too irresistible for stupid rules, she realizes the real reason she’s supposed to keep her distance: mates from her world can die if separated.

A series of serious accidents make it clear that someone wants to force her return. Mira decides her only hope is to uncover the truth to why she, the most mediocre of candidates, was actually chosen for this assignment—before the agency discovers her secret and sends her back home.

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Title: ExtraNormal

Author: Suze Reese

Publisher: Valarian Press

Release Date: April 22, 2012

ISBN: 978-0985133504

Size: 332 pages, 5×8, softcover

Genre: YA Paranormal

The cold rain drummed the memory of the horrible crash into my mind—Mom dead, my hand ruined. Then a year later, coming out of a coma to realize my full-ride scholarship was gone and I’d never play the piano again. But the worst of it was nobody believed me—the voices, someone holding me in the mangled car, Mom being ripped away from me.

So here I am in Anderson, Wyoming, living with Uncle Connor while Dad’s on assignment in Europe. School started and I met Jonathan, amazingly handsome Jonathan. He made me feel like life was beginning again—until I discovered that Mom’s death wasn’t an accident, that a supernatural realm was trying to draw me into a coterie hundreds of years old, and that my friend Eric wanted to destroy me.

Not the easiest way to begin my senior year..

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Title: Étude

Author: Melinda R. Morgan

Publisher: Silverton House Publishing

Release Date: April 2, 2012

ISBN: 978-1600650109

Size: 456 pages, 5.5×8.5, softcover

Genre: YA Paranormal