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Life is more than just breathing. Kylee doesn't expect to be happy. She just wants to feel some kind of purpose to her existence. Most days, she doesn't even know why she's alive. She doesn't expect to meet Price. And she certainly doesn't expect her entire life to change by just one touch. He shows her more than how to live. He shows her how to love.

Most students at Guardian Angel Academy lived a good, possibly boring life on Earth before their untimely deaths, which landed them at the academy, learning how to be good guardians for the hapless mortals still breathing. Not me. My time on Earth was spent as a servant of darkness, performing acts unmentionable to the undefiled ears of the angels at the academy.

The true story about seven ordinary women and one extraordinary event. Summer is coming, and the residents in Joplin, Missouri, anticipate the rush of freedom and activities that will follow: graduation, summer classes, vacations, overflowing gardens, family time, and plenty of photo opportunities.

Seventh grade will be so easy. Cassandra's got it all. A best friend, a guy she likes, a hobby, and the confidence she needs to start junior high. Finally, things are falling into place. Or, are they? Shortly after sixth grade graduation, soccer camp proves to her she may have more room for improvement than skill. And then, her friendship with Andrea begins to unravel. Even Miles hardly ever says hi at school.

As Cassie enters her last year at Walker Elementary, she's pretty sure she has it made. She has a best friend (finally!), excellent grades, and everything she needs to rule the school. Things unravel fast, however, when she forgets her homework the very first week of school. As if that weren't enough, her best friend soon ditches her, leaving Cassie feeling just as lost as when she moved in. And then she offends a boy in the neighboring class, and he turns the whole grade against her. Will Cassie make it through her sixth grade year?

It's all a lie: the thought that the future can be changed. Jayne knows. She's been cursed to watch how the people around her will die, and no matter what she does, she can't change it. That includes Aaron, the handsome English boy who transferred to her school mid-semester and has eyes only for her. But then a serial killer takes up residence in Jayne's town, and she's on his list. Finding a way to alter the future has never been more critical.

Jaci Rivera joins her best friends Callie, Sara, and Amanda for a night of pizza and shopping. But an evening at the mall turns into a terrifying twist of events that drive Jaci and her friends 2000 miles across the Canadian border. The girls find themselves alone and running from unknown enemies on all sides, and not even the police can be trusted.

The FBI promises Jacinta Rivera and her friends that they are safe. Jaci wants desperately to believe them but weeks of hiding from their kidnapper, alias "The Hand", have left her wary. Hidden from the public eye in an FBI safe house, Jaci must reconcile both her father's mysterious disappearance and the murder of her best friend. A betrayal lands Jaci back in the grasp of The Hand, shattering her ability to trust, and leaving her to wonder if she will ever piece together her broken life.

Arkansas. Solitude and nature. That's what Luce thinks she's getting when she returns home after her divorce. Instead, she meets Connor and falls, once again, in love. Connor blames his lying and cheating father for his mother's irresponsible behavior, leaving the burden of maintaining the family business squarely on Connor's shoulders. Luce is the unexpected variable that throws off his entire equation, the random X that sends his life into a delicious tilt-a-whirl. She's everything he ever wanted. Minus her divorce.

A secret computer file. An escaped convict. An illegal rendezvous. Two years earlier, Jaci was kidnapped and her best friend, murdered. Now she has the opportunity to set things right. It's a chance Jaci can't pass up. But is she ready to pay the costs? Dive into this gripping conclusion of the well-loved Perilous saga!

It’s been two years since Jaci and her friends were kidnapped by The Hand and ultimately escaped. Jaci has done her best to re-assimilate into high school society and to put that terrifying experience behind her. As a runner on the cross-country team and the almost-girlfriend of a popular football star, it seems as if her future is finally falling into place.

It was his mother who died, but Price feels like it was him. Everything he used to enjoy - baseball, comics, even girls - seems petty and pointless now. He wants nothing more than to forget his old life and start over somewhere new, where no one knows him and no one expects anything from him. So when his dad decides to move them to the country, he welcomes the change, even if it means cows and dirt roads and crazy neighbors.

What's special about Cassandra? Absolutely nothing. She's as ordinary as any other fifth grader. And yet her ordinary life is riddled with hilarious and sometimes heart-breaking mishaps as she guides herself through the world of pre-teens on the brink of adulthood. She's the new girl at school, uprooted from her beloved state of Texas and relocated to the hillbilly Ozarks of Springdale, Arkansas. She tries to hold it together as she weathers stubborn parents, vicious dog attacks, and petty cat fights.