TOUCH THIS SPACE FOR TRUE LOVE
YA Contemporary
Sixteen-year-old Janie has been filling a notebook with questions about her birth parents since she was old enough to know what the word adopted meant. But she's never seriously considered looking for them—until now.
Taking her search to social media, she reluctantly accepts help from Granville, a boy who’s had a crush on her forever. He’s just supposed to help with the technical aspects of the search. But he seems to understand her need for answers in a way that no one else does.
Right when she needs him most, she discovers that while they’ve been hunting down answers about her past, he’s been hiding the truth about his. Now she’ll have to confront the emotions she’s worked so hard to keep buried to salvage her family—both past and present—and keep from losing the boy who’s become a whole lot more than just tech support.
FORGETTING JESSE YOUNG
Dual POV contemporary YA novel in verse
There are three things Jesse Young will never forget. The flip in his chest the first time Ari Paladino turned her smile his way. The collapse in that same chest when she overheard him say something he’d forever regret but never be able to take back. And what it feels like to be forgotten.
Ari Paladino knows there are all kinds of ways to lose someone. Wet leaves on a dark road. The pit of depression and the medicine cabinet that promises oblivion. But when Jesse’s mother disappears without a word and she witnesses the effect on the boy she can’t seem to get over, she wonders if the worst kind of losing someone is not knowing how you lost them at all.
The effects of mental illness on their families have already driven Jesse and Ari apart. But living in the same apartment complex, circumstances continually throw them together. When they embark on a journey to bring his mother home, they’ll have to confront a painful past to accept an unimaginable future. And while they may not find what they’re looking for, as they get closer to the truth, they might find exactly what they need.
INTO THE WAITING SEA
YA Magical Realism
When sixteen-year-old Desi is sent to wilderness therapy on a remote island, it does more than spoil her summer. It jeopardizes the only relationship she’s had since the implosion of her parents’ marriage. But she’s not interested in rehabilitation, or therapy, or dredging up a past she’s worked hard to forget.
Then she comes face to face with Rosario.The island has been his sanctuary—and his prison for more than a century. He harbors secrets more disturbing than her own. He may be her deadliest mistake yet, but she’s willing to risk the possibility of another fatal regret to unlock the mystery of birds and boys who know how to cheat death.