After 17-year-old Brooks agrees to be a stand-in Homecoming date for a friend's geeky but wealthy cousin, he realizes becoming a rent-a-date for the socially awkward could help him earn college money. What could be the harm?

June's life at home with her stepmother and stepsister is a dark one and a secret one. Not even her dad knows the truth, and she can't find the words to tell anyone else. She's trapped like a butterfly in a net. Then June meets Blister, a boy from a large, loving, chaotic family. In him, she finds a glimmer of hope that perhaps she can find a way to fly far, far away. Because she deserves her freedom. Doesn't she?

Why I was brought in to solve a mystery of people getting and staying healthy was a bit curious on its own. They were all terminally ill. And in quarantine. Yet one nurse and her student "angels of death" had been able to reverse this deadly disease that modern "medicine' had created through their own negligence. Most of the big city hospitals had these outbreaks, and had sent their worst cases out to live their lives in suburban hospices - often...

At the beginning was The Games. Because they were running out of people. The gangs were killing each other off too fast. And the city was running out of money to keep them all on free food and free medical. The Games put everyone in the city to work. They competed with each other for production bonuses. Citizens that didn't work, hardly ate. There was a Plan, and the Game was part of the Plan. In this plan, the cities were going to rise up into...

What You Don't Know CAN Hurt You. What You Don't Remember Can Get You Killed. He looked into her eyes - and forgot everything about himself. He'd done something that night, but couldn't remember. And she had left him like that. Until she returned as a Homeland Security agent to save him from two cops who wanted him for questioning. Now on the run, in disguise, his memory wasn't returning very fast. Josh depended on this mysterious Rosa to get...

Can the future be saved by returning a woman to affect the present? Peter was a perfect gentleman. When he showed up at an all-woman's club unannounced, the defenses came up. Mari met him, surrounded by women like herself who battled criminal men daily. There was no longer any need for physical sex, the war between sexes had already been won. Yet here was a white male in a three-piece suit asking for her help to save humankind. This one man, who...

A farmer out checking his cattle finds a newborn calf of many colors. Deep in fresh snow with no momma cow in sight. It is supposed to get well below freezing tonight and the sun is going down quickly. What choice does he have but to pick the newborn up and get her to where it's warm and dry for the night?...And then come back in the dark to find its mother. 40-pounds of calf a quarter of a mile from anywhere. So, he wraps her up in his coat, picks...

A minimalist tale of an Emperor who sought Truth that one of his student-scribes found - but then disappeared... Excerpt: One day, as court was held, the teacher was in a particularly foul mood. The weather was humid, hot, and everyone's robes stuck to their skin from sweat. The teacher strode up and down the ranks dispensing his cane strokes with rapidity. The one student was receiving more than his share, and the teacher found himself gravitating...

Sue returned to earth in what looked like a meteor to those watching. But it was an escape pod from the Moon colony. Where the cities had gone to escape Earth and its governments' leaving the rest of the planet to its new dark age. She had fallen unconscious when she popped the pod's hatch to get fresh air. And had been saved from the surrounding fire by the one witness who saw her land. A sentient, telepathic wolf. Now the dominant sentient...

"A worthy successor to the Slayer stories." -Booklist (starred review for In Every Generation) #1 New York Times best-selling author Kendare Blake returns to New Sunnydale in this sequel to In Every Generation, set in the world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Frankie Rosenberg is the world's first slayer-witch, but she doesn't have that slay-life balance figured out just yet. She's still reeling from the deadly explosion at the annual slayer retreat-and...