Category: YA Paranormal

California teen Sadie James thinks her life couldn’t get any better. She has great friends, an energetic mother she adores, and the beach practically in her own backyard. But her carefree life is turned upside down when she’s rescued by a mysterious and strangely familiar boy who won’t even tell her his name.

Each time the boy appears, Sadie’s unexplainable attraction to him deepens along with her need to unravel his secrets. The boy is there to protect her, but as wonderful and exciting as it might be to have an irresistible boy with crystal green eyes protecting her every move, every minute of the day . . . why does Sadie need one?

As Sadie finds answers, she realizes her life isn’t as perfect as she thought. Not only is she caught in a world of dangerous secret agents she never knew existed, but it turns out her true identity may be the greatest secret of all.

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Title: Deep Blue Secret

Author: Christie Anderson

Publisher: CreateSpace/Self

Release Date: April 14, 2012

ISBN: 978-1463768591

Size: 351 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, softcover

Genre: YA Paranormal

When a mysterious stranger interrupts Brianna’s mundane routine, her eyes are opened to the dark underbelly of reality—immortal rogues, ancient conspiracies, prophetic revelations, savage tribes, mammoth dragonflies.

She’s thrust into a race for her life when Kalen, a warrior from Ethos, discovers that she is harboring a secret… a secret that he’d give his life to protect. There’s just one little problem—they are tempted by a forbidden romance, which threatens to compromise a divinely appointed mission.

They are faced with a choice—love eternal, or the end of the world.

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Title: Ethos: Morning Star

Author: Desiree Finkbeiner

Publisher: Hydra Publications

Release Date: March 28, 2012

ASIN: B007PSUV2W

Size: 426 pages, eBook

Genre: YA Paranormal Romance

In twelve weeks, seventeen-year-old Paul Ledger will be dead.

At least he hopes so.

Paul is trapped in the worst cult the United States has ever seen. Infected with a zombie virus, symptoms culminate in a dead body but thriving mind over a course of twelve weeks. If he doesn’t earn the final death he longs for, he’ll be chained in a basement facility, moaning for human flesh for eternity.

Sent out to kidnap girls for food, toys, or whatever the boss wants, Paul nabs Heather McCain. He’s not a fan of humans as a general rule, but even his graying skin and insatiable hunger for her flesh don’t stop her from reaching out to him. Give him the second chance he doesn’t know he needs.

Overcome by his cravings, Paul bites her delectable skin. Amazingly, she doesn’t develop the zombie-like side effects. When the boss discovers Heather’s immunity, he gives Paul an ultimatum—deliver up Heather and her family to continue the research or watch as Paul’s brother suffers the zombie fate.

Paul has a chance to endure his short zombie existence knowing his brother is safe. But he’ll have to sacrifice Heather to do it.

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Title: Barely Alive

Author: Bonnie R. Paulson

Publisher: CreateSpace/Self

Release Date: March 26, 2012

ISBN: 978-1475078480

Size: 290 pages, 5×8, softcover

Genre: YA Paranormal

After her mother dies, Elowyn Challis would do anything to bury the pain, but being shipped off to boarding school isn’t what she had in mind.

Things could be worse. Wyn finds a place for herself in the academy and living in the capital is just sparkling. But under it all, her mother’s death still haunts her.

Then Wyn discovers a secret that changes everything she believes: the bedtime stories her mother told her as a child are real, the faerie realm exists, and she is the Binder—the one mortal on earth with the power to seal the gate to Fae. It’s a power Wyn’s not sure she wants or can even wield. But she must confront her nightmares and her grief, or two worlds will be torn apart.

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Title: Bound

Author: Annie Oldham

Publisher: Self

Release Date: March 13, 2012

ISBN: 978-1470154684

Size: 304 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, softcover

Genre: YA Paranormal

Violet, the fourth book of the Silver Series, is about a teenage girl who awakens to the harsh reality of life as a werewolf. Protected by a wild werewolf with golden eyes, Colleen finds solace in his forest and control over her rapidly changing life. But Colleen’s control is put to the ultimate test when her loved ones are in danger, forcing her to choose between freedom or returning to the source of her nightmares.

Violet is a story of love amid loss and courage in the face of overwhelming odds. It is a story of finding a kernel of hope within a life torn apart by an accident and a cruel twist of fate.

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Title:Violet (The Silver Series, book 4)

Author: Cheree Alsop

Publisher: Self

Release Date: March 8, 2012

ISBN: NA

Size: 161 pages, eBook

Genre: YA Paranormal

Series: Silver (bk 1), Black (bk 2), Crimson (bk 3)

Anna Kippling has collected the final fourth Token and now must quickly learn how to use them all. With the Red stone and the book “Dominion” now in his possession; the Chancellor only needs the “Sister” Blue stone to raise the undefeatable Serpentine Army.

Time is ticking and preperations are being made. More allies are joining their forces…but Anna and her friends must get to the Stones and destroy them or find themselves headed towards a horrific battle.

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Title: The Stones (Anna Kippling Book 3)

Author: A.D. Duling

Publisher: Self

Release Date: February 26, 2012

ASIN: B007EDMN2Y

Size: 169 pages, ebook

Genre: YA Paranormal Romance

Anna Kippling Series: The Key (bk 1), The Tokens (bk 2)

From the shadow of a tangled thorn bush, and soft, padding footsteps shuffled in the late afternoon gloom. My breathing went ragged with fear. Maybe it was a raccoon or an angry squirrel.

Athena.

Whipping around, I stared hard into the murk. A voice. It sounded gentle, but at the same time it sent chills down my arms. I glanced up through the hooded canopy of tree branches and tried to see heaven.

God?

There was a growl, and the terror I’d been holding at bay zipped up my spine into my skull. I was sure my long hair stood on end, like when kids touched the electrostatic generator at the science museum.

Something was coming for me, and it wasn’t something from the woods. It’d been following me all day. Maybe even my entire life.

Athena Gray lives vicariously through her sister because people in general avoid her. Whether it’s strange things like dead butterflies fluttering to life, or the time she saved her dying grandpapa just by willing him to live, Athena knows that she is different. The only person who doesn’t seem to think so is Dan, the most popular boy on Omega High School’s baseball team. But even Dan can’t understand the reason she acts haunted, until a spirit roaming the local historic burial mounds takes an interest in people Athena cares about.

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Title: Death Cheater

Author: Danielle Thorne

Publisher: Desert Breeze Publishing

Release Date: February 13, 2012

ISBN: NA

Size: 178 pages, eBook

Genre: YA Paranormal

Danielle and Ethan may have solved their problem with vampires, but other magical beings have taken interest in the ones who discovered the cure.

On the run trying to escape a gaggle of evil pixies, a clan of creepy werewolves, a coven or two of wicked witches, and a school of lovely but malicious mermaids, they fight to have a normal life. But that isn’t so easy when the only aid they have is from slightly dishonest fairies and flirtatious vampire bodyguards.

This is Danielle and Ethan’s happily forever after….

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Title: Forever

Author: Cheri Schmidt

Publisher: Self

Release Date: February 4, 2012

ISBN: 978-1469969367

Size: 300 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, softcover

Genre: YA Paranormal

Fateful Series: Fateful (bk 1), Fractured (bk 2)

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 a Vyken 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 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 Light

Author: Rachel McClellan

Publisher: Sweetwater/Cedar Fort

Release Date: February 7, 2012

ISBN: 978-1599559421

Size: 312 pages, 5.5×8, hardcover

Genre: Young Adult Paranormal

Crimson, the third book of the Silver Series, is about a teenage boy who dies in a car accident and awakens a werewolf. Burdened with heavy guilt over his sister’s death in the same accident, Kaynan escapes with a blind girl named Grace who gives him purpose and direction. They seek shelter with a pack of werewolves who brave dangerous odds to help them. Kaynan is given the ultimate chance to make up for his poor decisions, but dying again might be the only way to redeem himself.

Crimson is a story of love and redemption amid danger and violence, a story where acceptance of change may be the only way to survive.

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Title: Crimson (The Silver Series, book 3)

Author: Cheree Alsop

Publisher: Self

Release Date: January 30, 2012

ISBN: NA

Size: 178 pages, eBook

Genre: YA Paranormal

Series: Silver (bk 1), Black (bk 2)

 

Duskies are born in a dangerous world as servants of the lords of light and shadow, but when creatures known as the Sathen threaten all the races, a Duskie named Nexa finds herself caught in the middle of a perilous journey to save her people and unite the races as one.

Facing dangerous odds, prejudice, and violence, Nexa finds strength in those around her and, ultimately, love.

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Title: Shadows

Author: Cheree Alsop

Publisher: Self

Release Date: December 17, 2011

ISBN: NA

Size: 217 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: YA Paranormal

 

Black, the second book in The Silver Series, is about a werewolf raised through the atrocities of a werewolf fighting ring. He is rescued and given the chance at a new life, but haunting reminders of his past follow him as he tries to make a fresh start. He has to confront his dark history in order to protect the girl he loves, or let himself be swept away into the pain and humiliation of the arena once more.

The second book of a fresh new werewolf series, Black is fast paced, dark, and shows that love is something worth fighting for.

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Title: Black (The Silver Series, Book 2)

Author: Cheree Alsop

Publisher: Self

Release Date: December 16, 2011

ISBN: NA

Size: 196 pages, eBook

Genre: YA Paranormal

Series: Silver (bk 1)

Niahm (pronounced Neeve) Parker is thoroughly content with her life in the small town of Goshen. Her parents, who travel frequently for their work, have raised a headstrong, independent teen. While her peers can hardly wait for the opportunity to leave, Niahm plans to stay forever.

When Shane Coleman and his nephew Sam move into town, it’s the biggest event to happen in as long as anyone can remember. It’s quite remarkable for anyone to move into Goshen rather than out, but when it’s discovered that Sam is 17, it requires some serious burning of the phone lines. All the teen girls are thrilled to have a new hottie in town—all except Niahm. Sam Coleman represents a threat to her perfect way of life.

Sam is drawn to Niahm against his will. He’d prefer to not be bound to this angry, stubborn, unlikeable girl. Unfortunately, he has no choice. However, Sam didn’t plan on falling for Niahm. For Immortals, love is not only forbidden, but dangerous for her. He finds himself in a fight not only for Niahm’s heart, but to protect her from being harmed by those who seek to destroy Sam and those like him.

Niahm is attracted to the tall, copper-headed boy, who becomes her friend and then her support when tragedy strikes. Soon, she begins to realize that there may be more to Sam than she ever suspected… much more. But what he truly is, she can’t begin to imagine.

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Title: Immortal Mine

Author: Cindy C. Bennett

Publisher: CreateSpace

Release Date: December 4, 2011

ISBN: 978-1468031706

Size: 326 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: YA Paranormal

Werewolves and Vampires…

She’s feared them, hated them and loved them, all from the safety of her couch as she read from her fictional books.

But what if vampires and werewolves were real?

Evie Patterson has found out that they are. And now not only does she have to deal with what comes with knowing that, she must also decide what side she is on before she becomes…one of them.

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Title: One of Them

Author: A.D. Duling

Publisher: Self

Release Date: September 21, 2011

ASIN: B005P8BWJU

Size: 141 pages, ebook

Genre: YA Paranormal

The charming,handsome young man Anna just danced with turns out to be the Chancellor she had thought was defeated.

Now Anna must hurry and find a book called Dominion and the legendary Red Stone to remove a curse placed upon her dear Hayden by him.

She has also began to collect her “Tokens”. Symbols magically burned onto the flesh of her wrist by each guardian of the four elements- Fire, Wind, Water and Earth. The beholder of these tokens controls the elements….

As Anna learns to use them, she, Hayden and their friend Valencia (Val) must travel far to aquire the Chancellor’s requested items.they must tackle dangerous sink holes in the Dunes of Tundra, out wit a thief leader named Fallon and face wolf men in the Forests of Venier.
As they collect his required items, Anna is reminded how nothing is ever simple for her here in Tatania and the Chancellor’s fight is far from over, but it will take more than that to deter the determined Anna Kippling!

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Title: The Tokens (Anna Kippling Book 2)

Author: A.D. Duling

Publisher: Self

Release Date: August 22, 2011

ASIN: B005IJ744S

Size: 160 pages, ebook

Genre: YA Paranormal Romance

Anna Kippling Series: The Key (bk 1)

The Fateful Trilogy continues with Fractured.

No, it’s not called Fractured because Ethan and Danielle break up, because they don’t…in case you were wondering. They had thought they’d escaped most of the danger surrounding them, when in truth they’ve made it worse by unintentionally sparking a civil war amongst vampires.

Many vampires want to protect them for discovering the cure to the curse binding their kind. However many more want to destroy them for that same discovery. Ethan’s and Danielle’s struggle for survival intensifies while they sink deeper into the midst of this danger.

The romantic fairytale bliss they once had will soon fracture under the pressure of the curse….

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Title: Fractured

Author: Cheri Schmidt

Publisher: Self

Release Date: August 20, 2011

ISBN: 978-1466251502

Size: 318 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, softcover

Genre: YA Paranormal

Fateful Series: Fateful (bk 1)

Anna Kippling has found a skeleton key that ironically only opens one door and from the wrong side. On the other side of it awaits a world called Tatania. There Anna finds herself in battle with an evil Chancellor and also finds love in a grey eyed, blonde hunk named Hayden.

Anna also finds herself fighting large birds, magically hiding in tree trunks, eating magical beads as she tries to save an Empress. She does all this with just a necklace of invisibility, a time turning bracelet and a dagger. Even with her newly acquired Book of Answers, nothing is ever simple here for Anna Kippling. But Anna is slowly learning nothing is impossible, not even for her.
How far would you go to reach your potential? How much would you sacrifice for love? And is it possible to outwit death?

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Title: The Key (Anna Kippling Book 1)

Author: A.D. Duling

Publisher: Self

Release Date: July 21, 2011

ASIN: B005DURBW2

Size: 151 pages, ebook

Genre: YA Paranormal Romance

A huge fan of Jane Austen, Danielle hopes to find her own Mr. Darcy when she leaves Colorado to attend art school in London. Of course she knows it’s silly to wish for that, naive even. But she’s met enough males who lacked respect for women, a growing trend it seemed. And at nineteen…well….

However, on only her second night there she gets lost and is threatened by a stalker who proves to be immune to her martial arts training. Before she is completely overpowered, she is then saved by Ethan Deveroux.

While Danielle does find the romance she seeks in Ethan, he’s no Mr. Darcy. Her hero is held by a spell which fractures their chance at a happy ending. During the day Ethan is closer to mortal than immortal and can date her like any other man. Yet, as the sun sets, the powerful magic of an ancient curse returns and the evil of that spell is revealed. When that magic begins, Danielle’s fairytale romance ends because Ethan Deveroux is a vampire.

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Title: Fateful

Author: Cheri Schmidt

Publisher: Self

Release Date: April 7, 2011

ISBN: 978-1461103998

Size: 364 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, softcover

Genre: YA Paranormal

“This is the Arena, and here we live to die.”

These are the words carved into a holding cell where genetically-altered gladiators, the winged humans called Galdoni, are trained to fight. Kale, rescued by three high school students and nursed back from the brink of death, is given the chance to experience life as a human.

When the other Galdoni are threatened, he has to use what he learned in the world outside the Academy to face the Arena and return to the human girl he loves.

Dark and exciting, Galdoni pushes the boundaries of love in a world of violence.

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Title: Galdoni

Author: Cheree Alsop

Publisher: Self

Release Date: December 16, 2011

ISBN: NA

Size: 183 pages, eBook

Genre: YA Paranormal