Showing results by publisher "Bolinda Audio" in Thrillers & Suspense

Seventeen-year-old Eli has been in a near-fatal car crash. As the anniversary looms, his therapist and family struggle to help him deal with the fall out. The accident has left him emotionally numb, with no memory of the months following the crash. Desperate to feel something again, Eli winds up at an underground club called Traumaland. But this is no ordinary nightclub. Here he joins crowds of other emotionally numb people, all seeking to experience a new thrill by entering virtual reality simulations of nightmarish scenarios through the points of view of various characters.

From the internationally acclaimed best-selling author of Code Name Verity comes a stunning new story of pearls, love and murder. Sixteen-year-old Julie Beaufort-Stuart is returning to her family's ancestral home in Perthshire for one last summer. It is not an idyllic return to childhood. Her grandfather's death has forced the sale of the house and estate, and this will be a summer of good-byes. Not least to the McEwen family - Highland travellers who have been part of the landscape for as long as anyone can remember.

It’s Katie’s 17th birthday – the dancefloor is packed, the drink is flowing and Raven’s Hill School confession site is alight with gossip. Then a huge fight breaks out, sending guests fleeing. When Frankie, Jess and Sorcha go back to help Katie clear up her wrecked house before her parents get home, they find more than broken bottles… There’s a body on the living room floor.

Taylor Markham is now a senior at the Jellicoe School, and has been made leader of the boarders. She is responsible for keeping the upper hand in the territory wars with the townies, and the cadets who camp on the edge of the school's property over summer. She has to keep her students safe and the territories enforced and to deal with Jonah Griggs - the leader of the cadets and someone she'd rather forget. But what she needs to do, more than anything, is unravel the mystery of her past and find her mother.

Seven teens arrive for a school retreat—only to find an abandoned motel and a sinister text message waiting for them: "I know what you did a year ago." Each of the seven buried a guilty secret about their tragic school fire. And now someone is out for revenge. Every hour they must choose the guiltiest one among them to cross over the white line that circles the motel and be killed. Otherwise, they all die. But who deserves to live, and who to die? Because only one of them can survive.

In Regency England, Cascabel Gray disguises herself as her twin brother Pom to attend Oxford University, where she wishes to study medicine. Her plans are upended, however, when she receives a letter from Charles Lafleur, a member of infamous secret society the Rogues Club, blackmailing her to keep her deception secret. But when Lafleur is found dead, the plot thickens – and Cascabel becomes a prime murder suspect. She joins the Rogues Club to conduct an investigation of her own, and is quickly swept into a life of gambling and vandalism.

Nastia is no traitor. She is a fearless pilot, the daughter of revolutionaries, and now, as the Second World War descends on Russia, she must fight to defend the glorious Motherland. But all is not as it seems and when the battles begin, secrets are revealed and everything that Nastia once knew is challenged.

In 1982, two teenagers – serial killer survivor Emma Lewis and US Marshal candidate Travis Bell – are recruited by the FBI to interview convicted juvenile killers and provide insight and advice on cold cases. From the start, Emma and Travis develop a quick friendship, gaining information from juvenile murderers that even the FBI can't crack. But when the team is called in to give advice on an active case – a serial killer who exclusively hunts teenagers – things begin to unravel.

Jono, a city-born Indigenous teenager, is trying to figure out who he really is. Life in Brisbane hasn’t exactly made him feel connected to his Country or community. Luckily, he’s got his best friend, Jenny, who has been by his side through their hectic days at St Lucia Private. After graduating, Jono and Jenny score gigs at the Aboriginal Performing Arts Centre and an incredible opportunity comes knocking – interning with a documentary crew. Their mission? To promote a big government mining project in the wild western Queensland desert.

Number 3-1-5-5 is a good girl. She gets told that everyday when she is fed, moved to other rooms, given pills and examined. She doesn't remember much, but she can see every face she's come across as clearly as if they were in front of her. Her world is small, contained. But in a life where you know nothing but a sea of Janes and Johns, how will you know who is good and bad?

Sixteen-year-old Tamurlaine is approaching her coronation, the day when she will officially assume rule over the Kingdom of Balthasar, a magical land where teenagers have the power to turn dreams into reality. But an assassin is preparing to kill her at the ceremony, and no one can stop him because he is sneaking into Balthasar from another universe – ours.

I think the best number in the whole universe is eight. My friend, Asim, likes numbers about as much as me, but he likes them all - odd or even. Esmarelda, though, who lives across the street, isn't so fond of numbers and she hates math. Singing's more her thing. She's really good, too - nearly as good as my mum. Mum's a professional singer, or was, until we had to move. The worst number in the universe, though, is seven. For a start, it's an odd number, and it's thin and sharp and mean-looking, like a medieval scythe.