Alison Ames

Debut voice Alison Ames delivers with a chilling, feminist thriller, perfect for fans of Wilder Girls and Sawkill Girls. Moon Basin has been haunted for as long as anyone can remember. It started when an explosion in the mine killed sixteen people. The disaster made it impossible to live in town, with underground fires spewing ash into the sky. But life in New Basin is just as fraught. The ex-mining town relies on its haunted reputation to bring in tourists, but there’s more truth to the rumors than most are willing to admit, and the mine still has a hold on everyone who lives there. Clem and Nina form a perfect loop—best friends forever, and perhaps something more. Their circle opens up for a strange girl named Lisey with a knack for training crows, and Piper, whose father is fascinated with the mine in a way that’s anything but ordinary. The people of New Basin start experiencing strange phenomena—sleepwalking, night terrors, voices that only they can hear. And no matter how many vans of ghost hunters roll through, nobody can get to the bottom of what’s really going on. Which is why the girls decide to enter the mine themselves.

To Break a Covenant

Victoria Station

Riley Kowalski is desperate to escape her life. So when she sees an advertisement seeking student volunteers for a research trip to Antarctica sponsored by eccentric tech billionaire Anton Rusk, she jumps at the opportunity. She joins five teens, a company-approved chaperone, and an impartial scientist to prove that environmental plastic pollution has reached all the way to Antarctica. It all sounds legit, but Riley soon has more questions than answers. Why is the station so big, and why is half of it closed off? Why are they testing the ice in an area already known to be polluted? Where does their chaperone keep disappearing to?

Riley dismisses her suspicions as a symptom of her anxiety – even when she starts to see things out on the ice. Even when she has a terrifying encounter with Greta, their scientist. It’s not like a person’s body can actually change like that. Riley has to be seeing things. Right?

And then Greta tries to kill her. Only … it isn’t Greta anymore. With no help, no way to call home, and a blizzard rolling in, Riley and the other teens have to work together if they want to survive. But how do you trust anyone when the thing you’re trying to escape could be one of them?

It Looks Like Us

When Adra Dantes’ half-brother Cameron attacks their father and robs him of a priceless treasure map, he leaves him a shell of the pirate captain he once was. Now Adra’s only aim in life is to kill Cameron, retrieve her father's map, and claim the treasure herself.

But her plans are thwarted. A sudden surplus of magic in the world is causing ancient sea monsters to awaken. Worse yet, Adra discovers that the ship she's been chasing for almost a year now is captained by a girl who’s been impersonating Cameron, while Cameron himself is missing.

The two pirate captains will have to work together if they are to find Cameron, but before they can do so, they must vanquish the beast―known as The Devourer―that is sinking ships and causing so much fear. Adra will have to descend leagues beneath the sea to the creature’s lair to strike a deal with her, but she’ll discover she isn’t the only one looking for her brother―and what he stole.

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