Kelly Andrew

The Raven Boys meets Ninth House in the most exciting debut of 2022 -- a dark, atmospheric fantasy about a Deaf college student with a peculiar connection to the afterlife. Delaney Meyers-Petrov is tired of being seen as fragile just because she's Deaf. So when she's accepted into a prestigious program at Godbole University that trains students to slip between parallel worlds, she's excited for the chance to prove herself. But her semester gets off to a rocky start as she faces professors who won't accommodate her disability, and a pretentious upperclassman fascinated by Delaney's unusual talents. Colton Price died when he was nine years old. Quite impossibly, he woke several weeks later at the feet of a green-eyed little girl. Now, twelve years later, Delaney Meyers-Petrov has stumbled back into his orbit, but Colton's been ordered to keep far away from the new girl... and the voices she hears calling to her from the shadows. Delaney wants to keep her distance from Colton -- she seems to be the only person on campus who finds him more arrogant than charming -- yet after a Godbole student turns up dead, she and Colton are forced to form a tenuous alliance, plummeting down a rabbit-hole of deeply buried university secrets. But Delaney and Colton discover the cost of opening the doors between worlds when they find themselves up against something old and nameless, an enemy they need to destroy before it tears them -- and their forbidden partnership -- apart.

The Whispering Dark

Elena M.

She wanted to be defined. Not by the silence between her ears or her fear of the dark, but by the sum of her achievements. Not by what she couldn’t do, but by what she could.

She’d been handled with white gloves all her life, kept high on a shelf, and it wouldn’t do to sit up there forever, collecting dust. Glass, she’d learned, was terribly easy to crack, but the pressure it could weather was immense. She wanted to parse out her limits, even if doing so earned her a few nicks. She wanted the chance to melt herself down and shape herself into something new.

She felt, as she often did in crowded spaces, trapped along the periphery. One foot in the waking world with everyone else, the other somewhere quiet. Somewhere strange. Somewhere limitless and lonely. Without context to act as an anchor, sound flitted between her ears like dandelion fluff.

Sophia 

She took a breath and she took a step. And the shadows followed.

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