Peter Gulgowski

In a society where life and death revolves around ratings from others, a sixteen-year-old boy learns he is being targeted by a government official who wants him silenced from exposing information which could lead to his downfall.

The Voting Game

A genetically altered teen learns that the sinister organ-ization behind his birth has plans to use him and his abilities for entertainment.

Primal Instincts

In a dystopian United States, civilians are sorted unevenly into two groups: desirables and undesirables. Seventeen-year-old Aria Hill was identified as an undesirable at birth. With little knowledge of the outside world, Aria lives within the walls of a government-run compound with her fellow undesirables. But when it is learned that the leader of the government, Gloria Chambers, wishes to begin the extermination of the undesirables, a government soldier, by the name of Jace, offers to lead Aria and her friends to safety in the form of the Resistance--the only group capable of taking out Chambers and her tyrannical government once and for all. As they begin to learn the magnitude of what Chambers has been able to achieve in her fifty-year rule, it quickly becomes a race against time to save what few are left of the human race from extinction.

The Government

High School is a vicious game in which the rules must be followed. Failure to follow those set rules, and you'll find yourself kicked from the game into the dreaded, obscure world of unpopularity. A Casual Silence is the story between seventeen-year-olds, Jack Wither and Sara Elliot. Jack is an outcast writer, seeking his literary big-break, while Sara is the princess at their high-school. According to the rulebook of high-school, these two should never cross paths, but during an assigned project, that unwritten rule changes. Jack has always loved Sara Elliot. She was his first crush in the fourth grade. Years would pass and finally, when their English teacher assigns them to work together, Jack gets his chance to meet the girl behind his boyhood crush. Sara Elliot has forever lived under the shadow of her overbearing mother. She's lived her life, in many ways, for her mother. Yet, there's always been this person inside her whom she's simply known as "Sara." Everyone knows Sara Elliot, but few, if any, have ever met "Sara." Winning at the game of high-school, popularity, success, and friends have always come easy for her. Sara knows she's lucky, but the version of herself, the version suppressed for years, wonders if there is something much larger out in the real-world than the world she and her friends live in. When she meets Jack Wither, she won't have to wonder. She'll know.

A Casual Silence

Perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera. After Sam Collier's first love, Pierce, dies tragically, it changes everything. The only person who knew Sam as he truly was is gone. From the outside, Sam lives a life of privilege, with a famous movie-star mother and great friends, but he's living a lie, and the façade he's built is crumbling fast. As his fears grow about what his sexuality will bring about for himself, his friends, and his family, Sam can't help but wonder if it would be easier to just continue playing the role he's written for himself? But still processing the loss of Pierce and learning to live in a world without him, Sam needs to decide how he's to move forward. Does he's sink back within himself, back into the safety of the walls he's so carefully crafted? Or does he confront his fears and live his truth openly in the hopes of letting go and starting over?

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