"Believing that she is a carrier of the deadly disease they are calling the "Aberdeen flu," Shay has surrendered herself to the authorities and along with other survivors becomes an unwilling test subject in the effort to find a cure; but when the lab is attacked she and a few of the others with the strongest supernatural abilities escape, and her boyfriend Kai is determined to find her, while ghostly Callie, the true carrier, will atone for her deception"--Provided...

For the last several years teenager CeCe Ross has been in a serious relationship with her girlfriend Silvie, enjoying their career as social media influencers with thousands of fans, posting about fashion and relationship goals, and totally abandoning the liberal politics that were the subjects of her original social media profile; than suddenly in their senior year Silvie breaks up with her, and CeCe meets Josh, a new boy who is not interested in...

As the tomboy daughter of the town's preacher, Billie McCaffrey would rather wear sweats, build furniture, and get into trouble with her solid group of friends: Woods, Mash, Davey, Fifty, and Janie Lee. When Janie Lee confesses to Billie that she's in love with Woods, Billie realizes that she is also in love with Woods... and maybe with Janie Lee, too. She keeps her conflicting feelings to herself as she comes to terms with the gray areas of love,...

Tiny is pregnant. Her husband is delighted. "You think this baby is going to be like you, but it's not like you at all," she warns him. "This baby is an owl-baby." When Chouette is born small and broken-winged, Tiny works around the clock to meet her daughter's needs. Left on her own to care for a child who seems more predatory bird than baby, Tiny vows to raise Chouette to be her authentic self. Even in those times when Chouette's behaviors grow...

Raised to be her twin sister Rafia's body double and bodyguard, but now with new face and body Frey and her lover Col are determined to return to Shreve to rescue Boss X, a friend and ally in the rebellion of the free cities against people like Frey's father, ruthless ruler of Shreve; but Frey is troubled by things even beyond the dangers of her mission--confusion over her own identity, guilt over having killed her brother (even if he was trying to...

Ronan, Hennessy, and Bryde are dreamers; Ronan's dreams always seem to end in random destruction, using up the power of the ley lines he cannot even sense; Hennessy makes multiple copies of herself, dreaming them into reality in search of her own fragile identity, and Bryde dreams of power and reordering his companions and the world to his own specifications; their families and duplicates are the collateral damage of their dreams--and meanwhile they...

"In her therapist's waiting room in Damascus, Suleima meets the strange and reticent Nassim and soon the two begin a strained relationship. But when Nassim, a writer, flees Syria for Germany, he gives Suleima the manuscript for his most recent novel, whose protagonist's life bears discomforting similarities to her own. Whose story is it? What is fact and what is fiction? Narrated in alternating chapters by Suleima and the mysterious woman in Nassim's...

Carter Langston is murdered whilst salvaging a derelict vessel--a major inconvenience as he's downloaded into a brand-new body on the space station where he backed up, several weeks' journey away. But events quickly slip out of control when an assassin breaks into the medbay and tries to finish the job. Death no longer holds sway over a humanity that has spread across the solar system: consciousness can be placed in a new body, or coil, straight after...

"Frey has spent her life in a family of deceivers, a stand-in for her sister, manipulated at her father's command. Free from them at last, she is finding her own voice -- and using it to question everything her family stood for. Tally was once the most famous rebel in the world. But for over a decade, she's kept to the shadows, allowing her myth to grow even as she receded. Now she sees that the revolution she led has not created a stable world. Freedom,...

"I'd seen the Senator speak a few times before my life got caught up, however distantly, with his, but the first time I can remember paying real attention was when he delivered the speech announcing his run for the Presidency. When David first hears the Senator from Illinois speak, he feels deep ambivalence. Intrigued by the Senator's idealistic rhetoric, David also wonders how he'll balance the fervent belief and inevitable compromises it will take...