Showing results for "One Girl" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Locked away in her own home for 12 years by a mother hiding dark secrets, 17-year-old Sienna Nealon has never known the outside world. That changes when she wakes to two intruders in her house, forcing her to break every rule she's lived by.

Eighteen-year-old Blanca has lived a sheltered life. Her entire childhood has been spent at Tabula Rasa School where she's been protected from the internet. Blanca has never been online and doesn't even know how to text. Her lack of a virtual footprint has made her extremely valuable, and upon graduation Blanca - and those like her - are sold to the highest bidders. Blanca is purchased by Cal McNeal, who uses her to achieve personal gain. But the McNeals are soon horrified by just how obedient and non-defiant Blanca is. By the time Blanca is ready to think for herself, she is trapped.

A brand-new reimagining of the Buffy universe, this YA series by New York Times bestselling author Kendare Blake (Three Dark Crowns) features the next generation of Scoobies and Slayers who must defeat a powerful new evil. "A worthy successor to the Slayer stories." —Booklist (starred review...

Tessa McCaide has a unique talent for getting into trouble. Then again, it isn’t easy for a girl with psychic visions to ignore what she sees. Luckily Tessa and her family are leaving California and moving halfway across the country, giving her the perfect opportunity to leave her reputation as “Freaky Tessa” behind. But Tessa doesn’t realize that kissing the wrong guy in her new Texas town could land her in far more trouble than she ever imagined. Like being forced to attend St. Ailbe’s Academy, a secret boarding school for werewolves.

Jantsia Brittle is a liar. Her blue eyes mark her as Azure, the lowest caste in the Empire of Shariza, but she’s a fraud. If her best friend knew the truth of her parentage, it could put an end to their easy friendship. It could put an end to her life. When Jantsia’s world collides with a downtrodden family’s fight for freedom, and the undercover mission of a conflicted imperial agent, dangerous secrets come to light. Secrets capable of destroying friendships, families – and maybe even an empire.

Revised edition: This edition of The Casquette Girls includes editorial revisions.

After the mysterious death of their best friend, Ella, Yuki, and Rory are the talk of their elite school, Grimrose Académie. The police ruled Ariane’s death as a suicide, but the trio is determined to find out what really happened. When Nani Eszes arrives as their newest roommate, it sets into motion a series of events that no one could have predicted. As the girls retrace their friend’s final days, they discover a dark secret about Grimrose - Ariane wasn’t the first dead girl. They soon learn that all the past murders are connected to ancient fairy-tale curses....

I landet Arketta kan fattige piger få en ekstra chance i livet ved at blive optaget i et såkaldt glædeshus. Når de fylder 16 år bliver de Good Luck Girls, når de for første gang tilbringer natten med en mand: deres Lucky Night. Vi møder Clementine på hendes 16-årsfødselsdag, hun ser frem til sin Lucky Night med stor spænding. Hendes ældre søster, Aster, er dog mindre begejstret. Og da Clementine kommer til at slå sin første kunde ihjel, er gode råd dyre. Aster og Clementine flygter sammen med tre andre piger over hals og hoved ud i natten.

The story begins when the young teen who suffers a head injury emerges from a sailboat that ran aground during a hurricane. The trauma of discovering she is amnesic is soon dwarfed by the realization she is totally alone. Gradually, her expectation that people will return to the community they evacuated is replaced with the startling truth that everyone is gone. Vanished from the face of the Earth. Hindered by a selective memory that affords only brief glimpses of her past, Ivy and her new friend Tonka—a West Highland White Terrier—set off on a quest to find other people.

Her secret magical ability could put everyone she loves in danger. Jen, a human chameleon, can transform herself into any inanimate object she touches - an ability she’s hidden from everyone, especially her parents. That is, until she meets Ainsley, a handsome artist with paintings so beautiful that Jen wants to jump inside them and become one with the fantastical worlds. Which, for Jen, is actually a possibility... Jen senses there is something special about Ainsley, too: He has a secret...just like hers.

When the enemies of King Ragnar destroy Ladda's village, she'll do anything it takes to lead the survivors to safety - even agreeing to marry the king himself. But Ragnar and Ladda both quickly discover that there's more to her role than that of queen. As she assumes the burden of shield maiden and admiral of the Swanfleet, guiding her own ships among Ragnar's, her calling to battle becomes clear.

Mega-fan June Blue's whole life has been leading up to this moment: ZombieCon! The Ultimate in Undead Entertainment has finally come to her hometown. She and her two best friends - gorgeous, brilliant Imani and super-sweet, outrageously silly Siggy - plan on hitting all the panels and photo ops, and meeting the heartthrob lead of their favorite zombie apocalypse show, Human Wasteland. It's going to be the best time of their lives--and one of their last adventures before they all split up for college.

When 13-year-old orphan Penny Sinclair moves to the small town of Dogwood to live with her godmother, she expects her life to become very dull. She doesn't expect to find a strange talking fox roaming the countryside near her new home, a kindred spirit in her new friend Zoe, or the secret grove where they discover the long hidden magic of The Phoenix Girls. Learning to use magic isn't easy, though; Penny and Zoe get their magic wrong almost as often as they get it right. When something sinister threatens Dogwood, their often accidental magic may be the only thing that can stop it.

Persephones Rebellion gegen den Olymp – mit dem heißesten Gott der Unterwelt. Persephone wurde nicht geraubt, sie ist in die Unterwelt geflohen. Dort hat weder ihr Vater Zeus noch ihre Mutter Demeter Macht über sie. Um keinen Preis will sie an irgendeinen Gott verheiratet werden, der sich selbst mehr liebt als sie. Jetzt muss sie den abweisenden und unerwartet attraktiven Hades davon überzeugen, mit ihr gemeinsames Spiel zu machen. Persephone hat einen Plan, der den Olymp bis ins Mark erschüttern wird.

Minnie Kim blacks out during her first kiss, so she figures it must not have been a very good one. Shouldn’t she remember such a momentous occasion? And to make things worse, she thinks the jerk gave her the flu…but no. It’s vampirism.

Do you ever feel like you're not quite…normal? Like there's a secret part of you, a hidden purpose waiting to be unlocked? For Genesis, that feeling is a terrifying reality. One day she's a regular teenager, and the next, she wakes up with strange new symptoms and a horrifying truth: she's been engineered. She's a zombie. But not just any zombie. She's a weapon.

In this gripping follow-up to Melissa Marr’s lush Seven Black Diamonds, Lily and her friends are forced to reckon with the truth of their own lineage and to protect one of their own, no matter what—or who—comes between them. Now that Lilywhite Abernathy is the heir to the Hidden Lands...