Liv is a high school student on her spring break, participating in a competition in hopes to win an internship with her hero. She and other competitors design an AI, which must then complete a series of tasks. Each task becomes more advanced than the previous one. At first, her AI creation, which she named… Continue reading eMortal by Steve Schafer
Earth was destroyed hundreds of years ago and remaining humans live aboard a massive space station. The Nova-King Ressinimus rules all. Nobles still reap the benefits on the top of the social hierarchy, while commoners live in poverty. Synali Emilia Woster is a bastard who survived an assassination attempt that her father, Duke Farris Hauteclare, orchestrated against her and her mother. Her mother didn’t survive. So her final life’s mission is to destroy House Hauteclare and ruin the family name forever. After killing her father, she escapes capture by infiltrating the giant robot “steed” and competing in the next match. Once defeated and finally arrested, she wakes up in a hospital bed and a strange nobleman offering a deal. If she successfully competes in the Supernova Cup, he will help her in her mission to destroy House Hauteclare. But as she continues to win and bodies pile up, she also becomes more familiar with her steed – and the strange presence she feels inside the machine. Heavenbreaker by Sara Wolf is a sci-fi fantasy novel in which Synali must trust her instincts, her new allies, and the machine that is her only chance to achieve the impossible. Read more
Whitney Lancaster appears to be a typical high school senior with hobbies like dancing and visiting her grandma, or “Gams”, at her senior living facility. But Whitney has a particular gift – or curse, some might say. Whenever she sees dark, rippling clouds over someone’s head, she knows that death is coming for them. Despite the inability to really explain how she knows, she still tries to save the person’s life. That is, until a person she saves goes on to commit a horrific tragedy that ends eight young lives, injures others, and shatters an entire community. Since then, she’s desperately tried to move on and hide the role she played. But when she begins receiving ominous notes about the incident and her secret, she realizes that someone knows the truth and wants her to pay. The Darkness Rises by Stacy Stokes is a young adult thriller novel in which Whitney must stop her secret from being revealed, or else her worst nightmare becomes reality. Read more
