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When the darkness is too great, When the pain is too real, There is nothing but sharp edges, Razor slices, To remind me that I am alive. Seven years ago, an innocent act by Rowan Slone turned her life into a nightmare. Since the age of ten she’s lived with the burden of her baby brother’s death. Now she is seventeen and all she wants to do is graduate high school, go to college, and escape the loveless family she has endured all these years—the same family that holds her responsible for his death. But no one holds her responsible more than herself. When long-time crush Mike Anderson invites her to the Prom, suddenly her future looks brighter. Rowan’s younger sister, Trina, however, is determined to ruin her new-found happiness, no matter the cost. And when Rowan discovers her mother’s long-held secret, she finds herself teetering on the edge of an abyss. Can Rowan find the strength to move toward the future or is she doomed to dwell in the past?
"this book is dark, intense and hard to put down. It also puts a capital letter H in 'horror'" —YA Dude Books In this thrilling conclusion to the Blackthorn Peak duology, secrets and manipulations are revealed, and no one is who they seem. Six months after Shaun Treadway and his friends escaped Blackthorn Peak Asylum, they are hiding deep in the Appalachian Mountains where food is scarce, and help is even scarcer. There is no where they can go, and no one they can trust. Then everything changes one gray October day… When Shaun discovers that the Agency has returned to the asylum and activity has reignited with a vengeance, any hope he had, as fleeting as it was, comes crashing down. The ...
Rowan Slone has left her dysfunctional, violent past behind. College is looming on the horizon, she has a new job that she loves, and a safe place to call home. Rowan is close to achieving everything she’s ever wanted—a sense of family, a sense of purpose, and a sense of self. But there are cracks in Rowan’s life as relationship issues threaten to send her future crumbling to the ground. When her long-held secret is discovered, Rowan must find the courage to fight for the most important thing yet—herself.
An isolated Appalachian teen yearns to break free from her oppressive home life. When she meets a local boy, he gives her the courage to break free, but the sinister secrets her family hides just might cost Marli her life.
For seventeen-year-old Shaun Treadway, terror and rage are a way of life. Living with the fear that his abusive stepfather will one day kill his mother, Shaun decides to kill him first—by setting fire to his childhood home with his stepfather inside. Fleeing Baltimore to his mother’s hometown in West Virginia, he hides out in his family’s isolated cabin. Except the small town of Blackthorn Peak is anything but welcoming. The streets are deserted, there is no sign of life, and at the end of Main Street is the creepiest abandoned building he’s ever seen: Blackthorn Peak Lunatic Asylum. Investigating the grounds, Shaun meets the elusive and mysterious Cass. Thrilled to find someone his ...
Gritty, realistic, raw… Nine authors get real and dish up some of the best young adult fiction around. From family issues to teens struggling to find themselves, this collection offers a great escape while reminding us all that the best way to discover ourselves, is to embrace the hope we all have inside ourselves. Featuring critically acclaimed, award-winning, and up-and-coming authors. Stories in the collection: “Love in Death” by Emerald Barnes “A Sister’s Love” by Elise Manion “Tender is the Deception” by award-winning author Tracy Hewitt Meyer "And Then I Blinked” by award-winning author Caytlyn Brooke “Trial” by award-winning author Jean Booth “So, it Ends Here” by Sara Daniell “Twelve Months” by Landen West “Puppets” by Margaret Nerz Iribarne “The Paternal Order of Dominic” by John Darryl Winston.
Born and raised on an isolated Appalachian mountain, sixteen-year-old Marli Meade yearns to break free from her father’s tyranny and her oppressive home life. She’s tired of the rigid rules, tired of being under her father’s constant surveillance, and most of all, she’s tired of not having a life. Despite this, she’s terrified she’ll never be able to escape. When she meets local boy Nate Porter, though, all that changes. Suddenly, life is sweeter. She relishes the way he makes her feel. Cherishes his smile. And for the first time feels a sense of hope that the life she wants seems possible. As her two worlds collide, exposing buried secrets more sinister than she ever imagined and unknown facts about her mother’s death, Marli must make a choice: find the courage to fight for her life and the future she wants, or give in and let her family control her life forever.
A teen on a scholarship at college must contend with helping her best friend raise a newborn and the stress of dealing with her own dysfunctional family while struggling with self-injury impulses. Series finale in the Rowan Slone novels.