Young Adult Dystopian Romance

As a slave in the war-weary kingdom of Faelen, 17-year-old Nym isn’t merely devoid of rights, her Elemental kind are only born male and always killed at birth - meaning, she shouldn’t even exist. Standing on the auction block beneath smoke-drenched mountains, Nym faces her 15th sell. But when her hood is removed and her storm-summoning killing curse revealed, Nym is snatched up by a court advisor and given a choice: be trained as the weapon Faelen needs to win the war or be killed.

In The Island of Excess Love, Pen has lost her parents. She’s lost her eye. But she has fought Kronen; she has won back her fragile friends and her beloved brother. Now Pen, Hex, Ash, Ez, and Venice are living in the pink house by the sea, getting by on hard work, companionship, and dreams. Until the day a foreboding ship appears in the harbor across from their home. As soon as the ship arrives, they all start having strange visions of destruction and violence. Trance - like, they head for the ship and their new battles begin.

O mundo de Mare Barrow é dividido pelo sangue: vermelho ou prateado. Mare e sua família são vermelhos: plebeus, humildes, destinados a servir uma elite prateada cujos poderes sobrenaturais os tornam quase deuses. Mare rouba o que pode para ajudar sua família a sobreviver e não tem esperanças de escapar do vilarejo miserável onde mora. Entretanto, numa reviravolta do destino, ela consegue um emprego no palácio real, onde, em frente ao rei e a toda a nobreza, descobre que tem um poder misterioso… Mas como isso seria possível, se seu sangue é vermelho?

In 2460, eighteen-year-old Liv Newman dreams of a future beyond her lower-class life in the Metro. As a Proxy, she uses the neurochip in her brain to sell memories to wealthy clients. Maybe a few illegally, but money equals freedom. So when a customer offers her a ludicrous sum to go on an assignment in no-man’s-land, Liv accepts. Now she just has to survive.

Nach der großen Pandemie und einem erbitterten Krieg herrscht in Sestiby vollkommener Frieden. Eine allgegenwärtige KI sorgt für die Bevölkerung. Lügen gehören der Vergangenheit an, genau wie jene Emotionen, die Menschen unbedacht handeln lassen: Misstrauen, Eifersucht oder Wut. Nur Mae spürt diese verbotenen Gefühle – Gefühle, die sie ihr sicheres Leben kosten könnten. Als sie in das Partnerschaftsprogramm der Regierung gesteckt wird, steht sie unter strengster Beobachtung.

Larken is home, but everything feels wrong. She's happy to be back with Vallen and to explore her new friendship with Shadric, but she left her heart back in the Squad 19 Dorm. The war pulls her from both sides, but she's lost in the middle, torn between who she was and who she's called to be.

Kidnapped from their honeymoon resort, nothing is as it seems. Betrayal, intrigue, and secrets abound as Sadie works to free the captive women. Will she end up the savior or the next captive? With Patrick the only solid ground in a sea of uncertainty, the two of them must work to come together, or they'll fall apart. Pressure builds from all sides, and they must choose—to assume the royal mantle or the path of freedom and anonymity. Old friends and temporary allies abound, but only one thing is certain: someone's lying.

In Arcadia, being different is heresy. Heresy is death. To survive, citizens must live, dress, and even love according to the United Council’s will. Their power is absolute—until a rebel bomb ignites at a national ceremony and unites the lives of three unlikely people.

Die 14-jährige Ophelia Scale ist neu in Brighton. Sie hat durch die staatliche Abkehr von jeder Technologie alles verloren: ihre Zukunftsaussichten, ihre Familie und ihr Zuhause. Als jedoch die Widerstandsgruppe ReVerse an sie herantritt, eröffnet sich ihr eine neue Welt. Dort kann sie gegen all das aufbegehren, neue Freunde finden - und ihre erste große Liebe: Knox. Doch was sich zunächst wie ein einziges grandioses Abenteuer anfühlt, ist hochgefährlich und wird Ophelias Leben auf immer verändern.

Сначала их было тридцать пять. Теперь их осталось всего шесть. Это Элита. И битва за сердце принца Максона разгорается с еще большей силой. Но чем ближе Америка Сингер к тому, чтобы завоевать корону, тем чаще встает перед ней вопрос: кому в действительности принадлежит ее сердце — Максону или Аспену? Ведь каждая минута, проведенная с принцем, похожа на дивную сказку. Однако при встрече с Аспеном, ставшим королевским гвардейцем, девушка вспоминает о том, как они с любимым строили планы о совместной жизни.

In der Welt, in der Mare Barrow lebt, wird alles von der Farbe des Blutes bestimmt: Es gibt Menschen mit rotem und solche mit silbernem Blut. Mares Familie gehört zu den niederen Roten, deren Aufgabe es ist, der Silber-Elite zu dienen - denn die besitzen übernatürliche Kräfte, auf die sich ihre Herrschaft gründet. Als Mare entdeckt, dass sie trotz ihres roten Blutes silberne Fähigkeiten besitzt, beginnt ein neues Leben voller Gefahren, Intrigen und Revolution.

The end of everything is filled with beginnings in this surprising work of preapocalyptic fiction.

The world is spinning in the shadow of oncoming disaster. An asteroid is set to strike the Earth in just one week's time; catastrophe is unavoidable. The question isn't how to save the world - the question is what to do with the time that's left. Against this stark backdrop, three teens are swept up into intertwining stories of love,friendship, and family - all with the ultimate stakes at hand.

Die siebzehnjährige Aria kommt aus einer Welt ohne Schmerz, Hunger und Leid. Perry hingegen kommt aus der Wildnis, in der nur der Stärkere überlebt...

In der Welt, in der Mare Barrow lebt, wird alles von der Farbe des Blutes bestimmt: Es gibt Menschen mit rotem und solche mit silbernem Blut. Mares Familie gehört zu den niederen Reds, deren Aufgabe es ist, der Silver-Elite zu dienen - denn die besitzen übernatürliche Kräfte, auf die sich ihre Herrschaft gründet. Um einem Freund zu helfen, schleust Mare sich als Dienstmädchen in die Sommerresidenz des Königs ein. Und dort geschieht etwas Unerwartetes: Als sie bei einem Fest in Gefahr gerät, zeigt sich vor den Augen des versammelten Silver-Adels, dass auch sie eine besondere Fähigkeit besitzt - obwohl ihr Blut rot ist!

Ravaged by a plague known as Red Death, the planet Gabriel - a former colony of Earth - is a barren wasteland. Since being abandoned by Earth 500 years ago, resources are scarce and life is cheap. To stay alive, the survivors, the Citizens, scavenge the remains of a now dead city, trading for food with the resource-rich Curadores, the only other survivors on Gabriel. Every old computer, every piece of wire, every scrap of metal counts. To steal is the ultimate sin. So when tough-as-nails 17-year-old Leica is caught doing just that, she's exiled.

Avie Reveare has the normal life of a privileged teen growing up in LA, at least as normal as any girl's life is these days. After a synthetic hormone in beef killed 50 million American women 10 years ago, only young girls, old women, men, and boys are left to pick up the pieces. The death threat is past, but fathers still fear for their daughters' safety, and the Paternalist Movement, begun to "protect" young women, is taking over the choices they make.

Die Lena von früher gibt es nicht mehr - die glaubte, was man ihr sagte, und sich gegen die Liebe heilen lassen wollte...

In letzter Sekunde wurden Mare und Prinz Cal von der Scharlachroten Garde aus der Todesarena gerettet. Nun will Mare diejenigen aufspüren, die sind wie sie: Rote mit besonderen Silber-Fähigkeiten. Denn auch der neue König der Silbernen, ihr einstiger Verlobter, hat es auf diese Menschen abgesehen. Aber schnell wird klar, dass er eigentlich nur eins will: Mare für sich zurückgewinnen.

Set in a futuristic New York City after a catastrophic flood called the Wash Out, The Ward is the story of 16-year-old Renata Dane, a daredevil champion racer who will risk everything she has to take care of her sick foster sister, Aven. Ren's sister is suffering from the Blight, an incurable, deadly illness thought to be caused by years of pollution. The disease is ripping through the Ward - formerly known as downtown Manhattan - and since the region is home to the poor and the vagrant, little is being done to help the sick.

This - a sequel to Gated - is a nerve-fraying contemporary young adult thriller that will make listeners question loyalties as it twists truths. Her life was based on a lie. Lyla Hamilton almost died escaping the Community. In her new life, the outsiders call the Community a cult. They don’t understand how easy it was to believe. How good it felt to belong. “Normal” life - high school and dating - is harder than Lyla expected. Who should she love? Who should she hate? The Community is willing to do terrible things to bring her back to the fold.